1. Student Objectives
Students will determine the meaning of unknown words using context clues.
Students will utilize various English ACT strategies to enhance grammar skills.
Students will use HOTS such as inferences and generalizations while reading a short story.
Students will write for a variety of purposes and audiences using the Standard English conventions of grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.

2. Weekly Agenda
Grammar Practice Review: Stop/Go, Go Short Introduction to Look Left Review Test Strategies: QAR, POE, Pick-a-Lane Quick Writes Read “ Cup of Tea” and “The Duchess and the Jeweller” Homework

3. Warm-up Exercise
Finish your sample ACT questions. 10 minutes on the clock.

4. ACT Format English Assessment 15 questions, 9 minutes Content /Skills
Usage/Mechanics: Grammar and usage, punctuation, sentence structure
Rhetorical Skills: Strategy, organization, and style
Reading Assessment
10 questions, 8 ½ minutes
Strategy: POE, Back –to –Front, Pick –a- lane

5. Before Reading Quick Write
Although class distinctions based on wealth are not as pronounced in the United States as they once were, they still exist. Make three lists, noting what seems to you to be (1) typically upper class, (2) typically middle class, and (3) typically lower-class places, events, and institutions. Note: In your response, one of your sentences must reflect Stop/Go and Go Short. Underline or highlight the sentences.

6. Before Reading Words to Know
Arrogance Astute Forge Lissome Obsequiously

7. ACT Format Reading Test 40 items, 35 minutes Prose Fiction Humanities
Social Studies
Natural Sciences

8. Often the key to understanding the story
During Reading
Character :
Often the key to understanding the story
Action:
pay attention to the character’s feelings, thoughts, and actions
Motivation (infer):
the driving force behind the character’s thoughts, feelings, and actions.

9. After Reading Comprehension Questions Vocabulary Activity
English grammar practice
Summarization