1. 4 th and 5 th Hours-- MONDAY DECEMBER 2, 2013 CO: SWD understanding of comma rules by expressing answers. LO: SW write a quick response including appropriate commas.  8 minutes--Bell Work: Look at your grade sheet. Complete the following sentences on your bell work paper.  My current grade is __________.  This is my grade because __________________________.  I can do __________ to improve my grade.

2. 4 th and 5 th Hours-- MONDAY DECEMBER 2, 2013 CO: SWD understanding of comma rules by expressing answers. LO: SW write a quick response including appropriate commas.  [5 minutes] ACT Grammar—HOW TO USE A COMMA  Read handout silently and place it in the writing resources section of your binder  Draw a star next to rules that you do not understand/did not realize were rules  [10 minutes] ACT Grammar---SHOW THAT YOU KNOW  Complete next handout to show that you know how to use commas  Check work as a class. Each person will read the sentence and share the letter of the correct answer. The teacher and class will correct any response that needs to be changed.

3. 4 th and 5 th Hours--MONDAY DECEMBER 2, 2013 CO: SWD understanding of comma rules by expressing answers. LO: SW write a quick response including appropriate commas.  [ 12 minutes] Quick Write---Relationships  Use the sentence below as your first sentence. Add to the story focusing on idea development. Look at the rubric for IDEAS if you need a refresher on what they are (in the writing resources section).  Remember: quick write time is silent writing, no distractions, no stopping, no “I’m done,” you keep your pen/pencil on the paper until the timer goes off, if you can’t think, write: “I don’t know what to say…”  Over Thanksgiving break, I logged on to Facebook and realized that I was very close to having 700 online “friends.”

4. 6 th HOUR--MONDAY DECEMBER 2, 2013 CO: SWD LO: SW  [5 minutes] Bell Work  Write the letter answer on your bell work paper. Choose the best revision for the underlined portion. 1. The potter took the assorted greenware down to the kiln, it is a brick structure designed to bake pottery to a hardness that drying alone cannot produce. A. NO CHANGEB. the brick structure isC. a brick structureD. brick 2. The magician, for one of his many tricks, mysteriously pulled a rabbit from his hat. F. NO CHANGEG. with great mystery from his hat pulled a rabbit H. pulled from mysteriously his hat a rabbitJ. mysterious from his hat pulled a rabbit 3. The paddler pulls one end through the water of the paddle on alternating sides of the boat. The best placement for the underlined portion would be: A. where it is nowB. after the word paddlerC. after the word pullsD. after the word paddle

5. 6 th HOUR- -MONDAY DECEMBER 2, 2013 CO: SWD LO: SW  [ 25 minutes] Circle Map---Transcendentalism  Guiding question: What do you know about transcendentalism?  Frame of reference: Where are you getting your information?  FIRST—draw map, frame, and guiding question on printer paper.  SECOND-write down IN the circle anything you think you know about transcendentalism.  THIRD- read the article handed out.  FOURTH- add information that you NOW know about transcendentalism. Cross out any information that you wrote before that is WRONG.

6. 6 th HOUR- -MONDAY DECEMBER 2, 2013 CO: SWD LO: SW  [ 15 minutes] Quick Write—Transcendentalism—Respond to questions below:  FIRST, turn your circle map paper over and write on the back. How are you affected by nature? Do you find comfort in it? Do you reflect the moods of nature? What is the role of nature in your life? What is meant by an individual's spiritual side? How to you define it? Is there a connection between the individual's spirit and nature? If so, what is that connection? What does it mean to know something intuitively? For example, has a parent or a sibling ever known something was wrong with you without having talked with or seen you? What do we mean when we say "I just know it"? How do you demonstrate that you are an individual? Do you think independently of others or do you follow the crowd?