1. In this PowerPoint… Announcements (Focus and Seating Chart Challenge)
Contemporary (Oscar Wilde)
Grammar Patterns and Rules
Writer Paragraph Editing and Revising
Social Issues Persuasive Writing Task Work
Matrix Time

2. Advanced English 6 March 26-27
6.2 The student will create multimodal presentations that effectively communicate ideas.
a) Use effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to deliver multimodal presentations.
b) Use language and vocabulary appropriate to audience, topic, and purpose.
c) Give collaborative and individual formal and informal interactive presentations.
d) Paraphrase and summarize key ideas of a presentation.
6.3 The student will determine the purpose of media messages and examine how they are constructed.
a) Compare and contrast techniques used in a variety of media messages.
b) Identify the characteristics and effectiveness of a variety of media messages.
c) Interpret information presented in diverse media formats and explain how it contributes to the topic.
d) Craft and publish audience-specific media messages.
6.4 The student will read and determine the meanings of unfamiliar words and phrases within authentic texts.
a) Identify word origins and derivations.
b) Use roots, affixes, synonyms, and antonyms to expand vocabulary.
c) Use context and sentence structure to determine meanings and differentiate among multiple meanings of words.
d) Identify and analyze the construction and impact of figurative language.
e) Use word-reference materials.
f) Extend general and cross-curricular vocabulary through speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
6.5 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of fictional texts, literary nonfiction, and poetry.
a) Identify the elements of narrative structure, including setting, character, plot, conflict, and theme.
b) Describe cause-and-effect relationships and their impact on plot.
c) Explain how an author uses character development to drive conflict and resolution.
d) Differentiate between first and third person point of view.
e) Describe how word choice and imagery contribute to the meaning of a text.
f) Draw conclusions and make inferences using the text for support.
g) Identify the characteristics of a variety of genres.
h) Identify and analyze the author’s use of figurative language.
i) Compare/contrast details in literary and informational nonfiction texts.
j) Identify transitional words and phrases that signal an author’s organizational pattern.
k) Use reading strategies to monitor comprehension throughout the reading process.
6.6 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of nonfiction texts.
a) Skim materials using text features such as type, headings, and graphics to predict and categorize information.
b) Identify main idea.
c) Summarize supporting details.
d) Create an objective summary including main idea and supporting details.
e) Draw conclusions and make inferences based on explicit and implied information.
f) Identify the author’s organizational pattern(s).
g) Identify transitional words and phrases that signal an author’s organizational pattern.
h) Differentiate between fact and opinion.
i) Identify cause-and-effect relationships.
j) Analyze ideas within and between selections, providing textual evidence.
6.7 The student will write in a variety of forms, to include narrative, expository, persuasive, and reflective, with an emphasis on narrative and reflective writing.
a) Engage in writing as a recursive process.
b) Choose audience and purpose.
c) Use a variety of prewriting strategies to generate and organize ideas.
d) Organize writing to fit mode or topic.
e) Write narratives to include characters, plot, setting, and point of view.
f) Establish a central idea, incorporating evidence and maintaining an organized structure.
g) Compose a thesis statement for expository and persuasive writing.
h) Write multiparagraph compositions with elaboration and unity.
i) Use transition words and phrases.
j) Select vocabulary and information to enhance the central idea, tone, and voice.
k) Expand and embed ideas by using modifiers, standard coordination, and subordination in complete sentences.
l) Revise writing for clarity of content including specific vocabulary and information.
6.8 The student will self- and peer-edit writing for capitalization, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, paragraphing, and Standard English.
a) Use subject-verb agreement with intervening phrases and clauses.
b) Use pronoun-antecedent agreement to include indefinite pronouns.
c) Maintain consistent verb tense across paragraphs.
d) Eliminate double negatives.
e) Use quotation marks with dialogue.
f) Choose adverbs to describe verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.
g) Use correct spelling for frequently used words.
h) Use subordinating and coordinating conjunctions.
6.9 The student will find, evaluate, and select appropriate resources to create a research product.
a) Formulate and revise questions about a research topic.
b) Collect and organize information from multiple sources.
c) Evaluate and analyze the validity and credibility of sources.
d) Cite primary and secondary sources.
e) Avoid plagiarism by using own words and follow ethical and legal guidelines for gathering and using information.
f) Demonstrate ethical use of the Internet.
March 26-27

3. To Do Today: You need: Discuss a contemporary and grammar.
Edit and revise your Writer paragraph.
Work on social issues persuasive writing task.
Have matrix time.
You need:
your Chromebook,
a pencil,
your journal,
Oliver Twist,
your planner, and
your purple portfolio.

4. Focus and Seating Chart Challenge
A 7/8 today: You may not leave anything in my classroom during lunch.
Seating Chart Challenge:
Turn in seating chart to Mrs. Fritzinger if you participated in the challenge.
Perhaps yours will be chosen!

5. Oscar Wilde Born October 16, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland
Died of meningitis on November 30, 1900, in France
Playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet
Father, William, was a doctor who built a hospital to treat poor people for free at his own expense
Mother, Jane, was a published poet and translated a novel into several European languages
Excellent student who won awards and earned high grades; he earned several scholarships, eventually one for Oxford University
Published his first collection of poetry in 1881-Poems
Went to the U. S. in 1881; spoke in different places and met Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Walt Whitman
Married Constance Lloyd in 1884 and had two sons
The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband

6. Grammar Patterns and Rules
“The young lady, making an effort to recover her cheerfulness, strove to play some livelier tune, but her fingers dropped powerless on the keys”
(Dickens 288).

7. Writer Paragraph Editing and Revising
Open your Writer paragraph on Schoology.
Then go to your digital portfolio (students.weebly.com).
Copy and paste your Writer paragraph onto your Weebly, however you are doing that.
Revise and edit your Writer paragraph.
Indent!
Italicize and capitalize book titles/series.
Capitalize author’s names/I.
Check punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Check for run-ons and fragments.

8. Social Issues Persuasive Writing Task
You will be finding evidence for both your Oliver Twist paragraph and your current events paragraph today.
Your goal is to find at least 3 to 4 solid pieces of evidence per paragraph.
Write your evidence on your planning organizer.
You may begin writing your paragraphs on the Social Issues Persuasive Task final on Schoology.
Be sure to cite your sources: MLA for Oliver Twist and APA for current events.
Put your graphic organizer in your class bin when you are finished.

9. Citing Your Sources Oliver Twist-MLA in-text citations need:
(Author last name page or chapter number).-The FIRST time you cite the source
(page or chapter number). -Every other time you cite the source.
Oliver Twist-Works Cited information
Author last name, first name.
Title of book.
Publisher, Year of publication.
Current Event Articles-APA in-text citations need:
(Author last name, year of publication).
Current Event Articles-APA References need:
Author last name, first initial.
(Year of publication).
Title of article.
Title of website.
Retrieved from URL
Review MLA and APA format for in-text citations and why we need to cite (avoid plagiarism). Cite Oliver Twist using MLA (Works Cited). Cite current event articles using APA. We will talk about citing the current event paragraphs on the References page next week
Find other examples from the text to support the Oliver Twist paragraph.

10. Matrix Turn in ALL missing assignments ASAP!
Read and take notes on Oliver Twist chapters by Tuesday, April 2 (A Day) and Wednesday, April 3 (B Day). Be ready for a comprehension check!
Add to the Vivid Vocab. and/or Social Issues Board (find text evidence to support the social issues listed on the chart).
6 new Vocabulary.com activities due on April 11 for all Marlins
Continue brainstorming and planning for the social issues task by finding evidence from OT and from current events articles for your paragraphs. CITE YOUR SOURCES!
Digital Portfolio
“Where I’m From” poem-6th grade page
“Where I’m From” reflection-6th grade page
Reader paragraph-Home page
Writer paragraph-Home page
Personal Narrative-6th grade page
Personal Narrative reflection-6th grade page
Character Analysis-6th grade page
Character Analysis reflection-6th grade page
Eminent Person Page
Eminent Person Research Paper
Eminent Person Research Paper Reflection
ONLY if you finish everything else, you may
Work on anything in Schoology under the Grammar Resources folder.
Make and play a Vocabulary Jam on vocabulary.com.
Record your “Where I’m From” poem on Seesaw.