1. Dr. Harper’s Lesson Plan Agendas: Language Arts, Social Studies, and Study Skills
February 19-22, 2013

2. Social Studies Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Target Learning: I can review chapter 4 key terms, people, and concepts in preparing for the Chapter 4 test.
Standards Review worksheet, pp
Review Activity: A New Pharaoh, p. 24 of Standards Review worksheet. Use steps on “How to Create Help Wanted Ad.”
Check/discuss when complete.

3. Social Studies Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Individuals finishing early may work on creating a review on one of the chapter 4 sections to present to the class:
Create a lesson plan for teaching to class.
Identify target learning for lesson.
Use diagrams and pictures to illustrate most important information.
Develop questions to check for understanding>
Period 1 (Maritza, Ahmad, Victoria, Denise, Yazmin) = Section 1
Period 6
Tables 1 and 2 = Section 1
Tables 3 and 4 = Section 2
Tables 5 and 6 = Section 3
Tables 7 and 8 = Section 4

4. Study Skills Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Target Learning: I can demonstrate understanding of the main events from Part One of HOLES by answering comprehensive questions and writing a chronological summary of three character’s stories.
Making Meanings: Part One, worksheet, p. 16.
Reading Strategies: Part One Summarizing, worksheet, p. 17.
Elya Yelnats story.
Kissin’ Kate Barlow’s Story.
Stanley Yelnat’s Story.

5. Language Art Friday, February 21, 2013
Target Learning: I can define how tone or meaning is conveyed in poetry through word choice, figurative language, sentence structure, line length, punctuation, rhythm, repetition, and rhyme. RD 3.4.
Word of the Day: (5 minutes)
Imagery – figurative description or illustration used in a story.
Context Clues Sentence: The poem Daffodils by William Wordsworth uses imagery to paint a picture that helps the reader picture them in the breeze. (See poem on next slide.
Previous Literary Devices Words: Metaphor, simile, personification, allegory, satire, and imagery.

6. Daffodils by William Wordsworth
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way.
Activity: Create a picture for an imagery sentence. (Sentences are provided).

7. Imagery Sentences He fumed and charged like an angry bull.
He fell down like an old tree falling down in a storm.
He felt like the flowers were waving him a hello.
The eerie silence was shattered by her scream.
He could hear his world crashing down when he heard the news about her.
The F-16 swooped down like an eagle after its prey.
The word spread like leaves in a storm.
The lake was left shivering by the touch of morning wind.
Her face blossomed when she caught a glance of him.
He could never escape from the iron grip of desire.
He could hear the footsteps of doom nearing.
She was like a breath of fresh air infusing life back into him.
The pot was a red as a tongue after eating a cherry flavored ring pop.
Though I was on the sheer face of a mountain, the feeling of swinging through the air was euphoric, almost like flying without wings.
Her blue eyes were as bright as the Sun, blue as the sky, but soft as silk.
The music coursed through us, shaking our bodies as if it came from within us.
The giant tree was ablaze with the orange, red, and yellow leaves that were beginning to make their decent to the ground.

8. Language Arts Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Writing Prompt:
On this day in 1968, “Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood” debuted. This popular children’s television show shared many lessons with its viewers. If you could create your own television show for kids, what type of show would you have and what would the show be called?
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9. Language Arts Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Target Learning Instruction:
1. Target Learning Instruction:
1. Read Poem and Motto, by Langston Hughes on pp
2. Create a Tone Web for each poem:
Tone
Title
Description of Rhythm or Other Forms of Repetition
Examples of Unusual Word Choice
Examples of Figurative Language
Examples of Rhyme

10. Social Studies Wednesday, February 21, 2013
Target Learning: I can

11. Language Arts Target Learning Instruction:
1. Complete the Selection Test for Poem and Motto, by Langston Hughes, worksheet pp
2. Written Response to the Standard (test p. 151):
Use the Tone Webs created on Friday to compare and contrast the tones of the two poems before writing the paragraph. Tone must be related to elements of poetry: word choice, figurative language, sentence structure, line length, punctuation, rhythm, repetition, and rhyme.
Before You Read the Poem, p. 404…
Read Literary Focus then summarize.
Complete Make the Connection Man vs Machine chart.

12. Language Arts Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Target Learning: I can define how tone or meaning is conveyed in poetry through repetition. RD 3.4.
Period 1: Intervention Day.
Word of the Day:

13. Language Arts Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Writing Prompt:
On February 20, 1962, John Glenn orbited the Earth in the Friendship 7 space capsule. He was the first person to orbit the Earth. What do you think it must have been like for John Glenn during this orbit? What did he see? How or what was he feeling?
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14. Language Arts Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Target Learning Instruction:
1. Read/discuss John Henry, pp —audio CD; disc 9.
2. Create a Text Reformulation Pyramid:
Headline & Dateline
Lead: The essential facts of the story. What happened? When did it happen? Whom did it happen to? Why and how did it happen?
Details expanding on the lead.

15. Language Arts Thursday, February 21, 2013
Target Learning:

16. Language Arts Thursday, February 21, 2013
Writing Prompt:
Today is “Love Your Pet Day.” If you could have any type of pet, what would you want and why?
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17. Language Arts Friday, February 22, 2013
Writing Prompt:
On this day in 1732, George Washington, our first President, was born. What do you think were the advantages and/or disadvantages to being our country’s first President?
Prompt created by: © 2007
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