Dr. George’s 9th Lit. Agenda 4/22/2019 – 4/26/2019 Dr. George’s 9th Lit. Agenda

Essential Questions for the week… How can context contribute to the understanding of a novel? How does a key scene from a novel contribute to the work as a whole?

REMEMBER: ALL WARM-UPS SHOULD BE AT LEAST ONE PARAGRAPH IN LENGTH MONDAY 4/22/19 Warm-up Grab an EOC review handout (pink) from the front table. Complete ALL pages SILENTLY. REMEMBER: ALL WARM-UPS SHOULD BE AT LEAST ONE PARAGRAPH IN LENGTH

Learning Targets: I can understand and correctly use English conventions. I can determine a theme and explain its development throughout the text using specific details. I can identify and analyze complex characters. MONday 4/22/2019 Agenda EOC Review: We will go over the warm- up questions as a class. Participation is a grade! TKAM Chapter Reading/Questions: We will continue reading TKAM and answering the reading questions for the remaining chapters of the book.

TECH TUESDAY 4/23/2019 Head to the computer lab for touchstone testing and your final Reading Inventory.

REMEMBER: ALL WARM-UPS SHOULD BE AT LEAST ONE PARAGRAPH IN LENGTH wednesday 4/23/19 Warm-up Grab an EOC review handout from the front table. Complete ALL pages SILENTLY. REMEMBER: ALL WARM-UPS SHOULD BE AT LEAST ONE PARAGRAPH IN LENGTH

Learning Targets: I can figure out the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in context. I can objectively summarize a text. I can determine a theme and explain its development throughout the text using specific details. I can identify and analyze complex characters. wednesday 4/23/2019 Agenda EOC Review: We will go over the warm- up questions as a class. Participation is a grade! TKAM Chapter Reading/Questions: We will continue reading TKAM and answering the reading questions for the remaining chapters of the book.

REMEMBER: ALL WARM-UPS SHOULD BE AT LEAST ONE PARAGRAPH IN LENGTH THURsday 4/25/19 Warm-up Grab an EOC review handout from the front table. Complete ALL pages SILENTLY. REMEMBER: ALL WARM-UPS SHOULD BE AT LEAST ONE PARAGRAPH IN LENGTH

Learning Targets: I can figure out the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in context. I can objectively summarize a text. I can determine a theme and explain its development throughout the text using specific details. I can identify and analyze complex characters. thursday 4/25/2019 Agenda EOC Review: We will go over the warm- up questions as a class. Participation is a grade! TKAM Chapter Reading/Questions: We will continue reading TKAM and answering the reading questions for the remaining chapters of the book.

THIS SERVES AS YOUR FINAL ASSESSMENT FOR TKAM FRIday 4/26/2019 Agenda Learning Targets: I can figure out the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in context. I can objectively summarize a text. I can determine a theme and explain its development throughout the text using specific details. I can identify and analyze complex characters. TIMED WRITING: Grab an essay guide from the front table. Take out your bright green CEI guide. Your task today is to type an essay in response to the following question/prompt: How do the literary elements (ex. symbolism) in To Kill a Mockingbird help develop a theme (ex. Innocence) of the novel? Note: Your essay should have… 1) An introduction paragraph that ENDS with a thesis statement responding to this question. 2) 2-3 CEI paragraphs in response to this question. 3) A conclusion paragraph. THIS SERVES AS YOUR FINAL ASSESSMENT FOR TKAM

This week’s standards… ELAGSE9-10SL4: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically (using appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation) such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning. ELAGSE9-10RL3: Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. ELAGSE9-10RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it and manipulate time create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise. ELAGSE9-10W3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. ELAGSE9-10W9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. CCRS L.9-10.6: Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words. CCRS L.0-10.5b: Analyze nuances in the meaning of words with similar denotations.

Unit Assessments… Formative EOC Review Warm-ups Summative EOC Prep Writing Timed Writing (TKAM)