1. ENGLISH 11A THANK YOU FOR COMING BACK Please sit in same seat from yesterday. Please also set out your name card.

2. Agenda O Textbook Introduction – O Reading Strategies and Practice O Policy review O Grammar Packs – some assembly required O Review Parts of Speech O Pledge of Allegiance O Journals O Learning Targets: O I will use a reading strategy to improve my ability to understand and retain information. O I will know where important elements are in my textbook.

3. Textbook Overview O What? O Where? O How? O Work through the Textbook overview.

4. English 11A: Thursday, Sept. 5 O Agenda O Openings O Inferences O Reading Strategy O Grammar Introduction and Overview O Openings (Class starters) – put into Journal – O May be a journal – please number and put date at top. O May be a grammar item – to copy down and correct. O May be a discussion point

5. Opening O Compose a sentence about one of your classes. The sentence must be at least 10 words long.

6. Opening Continued O Compose a sentence about one of your classes. The sentence must be at least 10 words long. O For this sentence, underline and label any phrase you recognize and label its type. O Prepositional (starts with a preposition) O Infinitive (start with “to” plus a verb – to sing) O Gerund (ing form of a verb used as a noun) O Participial (ing or past participial form of a verb used as an adjective) O Appositive (used to rename or describe a noun) O For examples, look at pages 4-6. O Learning Target: To review phrase types and to determine which come most naturally in your writing.

7. INFERENCES O YESwhat is basis? O Red Wings O Music O To read O Teacher?? O Organized - O Works Hard O Stuffed animals O Motivated O Teaches upper classmen O CMU/WMU O Motherly O Prepared O NO - what is basis? O Cooking O Divorced O New glasses O Smelly markers O Gorilla O Fans

8. Class Policies and Norms O Review the page of policies on the table O What does each mean for this class? O What questions do you have? O Norms – expectations O What should be expected of each person in the room during class? O What should be expected of the teacher during class?

9. Reading O Reading Strategies: O Chart – what are the implications? O Why do some people “dislike” or “struggle with” reading? O What do people who say they are good readers do? O Practice Strategy O Learning Target – I will use a specific reading strategy to improve my ability to read efficiently and retain what I have read.

10. Strategy – Close Reading O Divide article in thirds O For each section O Read through it O Underline 3-4 words/phrases/sentences that seem important to you. O Circle any word/phrase you do not understand. O At end of each section O look at what you underlined and on right side – write a 1 sentence summary of that section. O On left side – make a comment about the material, connect it to your own experience, or ask a question about what was said. O Discuss

11. Grammar O Units 1-4 O Insert pages for Unit 1 O Review what you have O Review Parts of Speech O Nouns – What are they? What do they “do” in a sentence? Why does recognizing the noun matter? O Prepositional and appositive phrases O Page 4-5

12. Friday, Sept. 6 O Debrief Reading Article O Journal 1 O Grammar Pages 1-4 O Intro to Tragic Hero O Overview of Oedipus