1.  Scholars will master content at or above 85% proficiency.  The bottom line: If you meet our goal, you will be ready to be successful at the AP/college level. Our Goal

2.  Scholars will master content at or above 85% proficiency.  What does this mean in practice in our classroom? Our Goal

3.  Attendance: You should be here every day.  Participation: You should find ways to exceed my minimum expectations every week.  Vocabulary: You should at least know 26/30 words each week (and demonstrate that on the quizzes).  Assignments: You should be earning a + (which reflect meeting the goal)  Tests: You should earn an 85% or higher. Our Goal

4.  Tell your neighbor: What is our class goal? Our Goal

5. Daily Oral Language

6.  Daily—Our warm up each day of class  Oral—Done through verbal explanations  Language—Review and application of English syntax, mechanics, and vocabulary from class

7. Daily Oral Language  5 mistakes per sentence  Find the mistakes  Correct the mistakes  Change the sentence as little as possible  Do not change the meaning of the sentence if possible  Rewrite the sentence in your notebook

8. Daily Oral Language  have you reads Henry David Thoreau’s famously book civil disobedience. 1. Capitalize the h in have. 2. Change reads to read. 3. Change famously to famous. 4. Capitalize the c and d in Civil Disobedience. 5. Change the period to a question mark.

9. Daily Oral Language  You try! Correct the errors and be prepared to justify your choices orally.  Jane marcet writes many textbook about science and economics in the early 1800s  She books made Subjects understandable to person without a traditional educations?

10. Homework

11.  Exchange homework with a neighbor and check for excellent quality of work  Journal  Heading  Lined paper (or typed)  Full sheet of paper  Looks clean and professional  At least one full page  Flashcards  At least 30  Look clean and professional

12. Homework  Due next class  30 Completed vocabulary cards  All required materials for the class  Inference worksheet

13. Homework  Due in 1 week  Journal 2: Summer Reading Reflection  What was your experience like reading the summer novels?  Which novel did you like better? Why?  What connections did you make between the experiences of the characters in the novel and your own experience?  Review summer readings  Vocab Quiz 1 09/12

14. Vocabulary Cards

15. Vocabulary Cards: Front # Part of Speech Name Vocabulary Word List Date

16. Vocabulary Cards: Front 1 n Jeryl Hewey 黑夏 龙 aberration September 5, 2014

17. Vocabulary Cards: Back Teacher DefinitionStudent Definition Fill-in-the-blank- sentence Illustration (no letters words or characters!)

18. Vocabulary Cards: Back a deviation from what is normal and/or correct Something abnormal or anomalous The one failing grade was an _____ on the test.

19. Vocabulary Cards  You try! Get a head start on making your vocabulary cards for this week.

20. Vocabulary Cards  How can we use these to study?  By yourself: look at the front of the card and try to recall the definition.  With a partner: Have a partner show you one section of the back of the card and try to recall the vocabulary word.  What is mastery?  When you can use these words correctly in an original sentence.

21. Who Are You?

22. Henry David Thoreau American author, philosopher, and naturalist 1817-1862 I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Walden, 1854

23. Henry David Thoreau  Loved nature  Anti-slavery activist  Author of Civil Disobedience

24. Henry David Thoreau  Major figure in transcendentalism  People and nature are fundamentally good  True understanding of the self and independence allow us to be our best  Politics and religion can corrupt us if we do not know how to act as individuals

25. What can we improve ourselves as scholars and people based on Marcet’s example?

26. Jane Marcet Swiss science writer and feminist 1769-1858 As…there are but few women who have access to [learning about chemistry]; and as the author was not acquainted with any book that could prove a substitute for it, she thought that it might be useful for beginners, as well as satisfactory to herself, to trace the steps by which she had acquired her little stock of chemical knowledge, and to record, in the form of dialogue, those ideas which she had first derived from conversation. Conversations on Chemistry, 1854

27. Jane Marcet  Wrote some of the earliest accessible texts on science and economics  Influenced later scientific education writers  Advocated for the expansion of access to education, especially for women

28. Jane Marcet  Increased access to science education for women and uneducated men through her textbooks  Instrumental in popularizing the fields of chemistry and economics (which were new at the time)

29. What can we improve ourselves as scholars and people based on Marcet’s example?

30. Inference Why does the man in this photograph have an umbrella?

31. Inference  Inference— the process of creating meaning by combining facts and prior knowledge Factual Evidence (from the text) + Prior Knowledge Inference

32.  When do we make inferences?  To make predictions  To answer questions  To make connections between a text and personal experiences  To draw conclusions  To analyze

33. Inference  Make sure your inferences are based on observable facts.  The woman is stressed.  X The woman’s boss gives her too much work.

34. Inference  What inferences can we make about this photo?

35. Inference  What inferences can we make about this photo?

36. Inference  Why does the driver want to have his Obama bumper sticker removed?  How does the artist feel about President Obama?

37. Inference  What effect did 9/11 have on the CIA (US Central Intelligence Agency)?  What kind of behavior is typical of the CIA?

38. Inference  Let’s try it with text!  Homework  Inference Worksheet, questions 1-7 (8-10 optional)