2. Agenda How does the usage of language affect/effect our lives? EQ
Objectives
Teachers will sample reinforcement activities in Category 2 to use with students.
Teachers will devise questions in C2 which relate to their unit of study.
Teachers will leave with three activities to implement with their students to reinforce C2.

3. This is what 2009 looked like…………
Grade 9
Grade 10
Retakers

4. Results from the Formative

5. Category Two Results #7
Historically, this is where the majority of questions fall on the high stakes testing

6. Category Two Results # 14 KEY WORDS: author creates suspense
TERRIFIC
KEY WORDS: author creates suspense
Great strategy: Incorporate TV summaries 

7. KEY WORDS “method of persuasion” Great strategy: Commercials
Category Two Results # 17
NICE!!!
KEY WORDS “method of persuasion”
Great strategy: Commercials

8. Category Two Results # 18 KEY WORDS: events = details
WOW
KEY WORDS: events = details
Great strategy: Time Lines- Charting

9. How Much Reading????

10. Types of Passages
70% %

11. Hyperbole
“Hype” : exaggerations

12. Simile
ABC is easy as 1-2-3

13. The most prevalent place to find metaphors is in music, why not use it?♫♫

14. Examples of Metaphors Stairway to Heaven Dust in the Wind
Bridge Over Troubled Waters
I’m Already There
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Come Sail Away
Hazy Shade of Winter

15. Resources for C2 Newspapers, Magazines, et al
Music, TV, Plays & Movies
facts
relevant details
devices of persuasion
main idea: implied and stated
figurative language author’s purpose analyzing plot methods of appeal essential message

16. More sources…….. Content Area Text Novels, Poems, Essays
major events organizational text conflicts resolution
Descriptive language
Tone
Mood
Point of View

17. For Best Results
Activities should be motivating & inviting:, it is a given most students DO NOT want to read for main ideas.
Always model and guide prior to independent practice
Reading ANYTHING is good practice as long as you ask the right questions. Try to make the practice fun.

18. Your Turn Food Nutrition Activity Football Equipment safety
Broadway Playbill
Task Cards – Questioning Story Snapshot Questions
Current Events

19. Assign Roles Select a Recorder (writer) Select a Manager (keeps focus)
Select a Task Director (organizes)
Select a Presenter (recaps for all)
Assistants (works the task)

20. Exit Slip
Write it on the Post-it.
Devise one Category Two question using the given stems (relevant to what you are currently studying).
Put on the Chart Paper on your way out.
Thank you!