MONDAY:
- Warm Up:
- Students will practice vocabulary usage using scaffolded worksheet.
- Activator
- Students will write what they know about the words via sentence creation practice.
- Work Session
- Students will write their Journal 9 entry for the day, utlizing the vocab, with 5 or more words chosen. They will discuss their current status in class[es] using effective usage of commas, previous weeks review to illustrate mastery.
- Closer
- Students will read out loud their finished products.
- TUESDAY:
- Warm Up:
- Students will practice using semicolons from worksheet assigned.
- They will write 3 sentences making use of a semicolon to be reviewed by class.
- Activator
- Why are semicolons? Should they be used with commas always? Explain.
- Work Session
- Students through scaffolded breakdown will, in Springboard, use 3.2 to critically reevaluate the terminalogy of the writing of the 1st amendment as to better understand it and its langauge clarity.
- In pairs, they will verbally explain to one another what each part means.
- They will rewrite the amendment as to make it clear to a fellow student in terms that are more adept to everyday speech, current vernacular.
- Closer
Students, partners will share their revised version to the class and highlight their most critical adaptations.
WEDNESDAY:
- Warm Up: Vocabulary intro
- Activator
- Will write 5 sentences, original, using the terms in contextual sentences that illustrate effectively their meaning.
Work Session
What role does the Media play in our society today?[Springboard, p205]
SWBAT to write a short piece, as if a reporter, about a critical issue that is facing our country/state that needs to be resolved.
What “voice” ought we use?
How can we be more convincing?
Closer:
Exit ticket, submission of their argument for review and discussion in following class.
THURSDAY:
- Warm Up:
- Partner up, share out their main issue from previous lesson. Annotate what they learn, 2 items or more.
- Activator
- When can media be detrimental or cause harm in everday life? Explain.
- Work Session
- p.210, How can one make an excellent argument in their writing and use the proper tone?
- SWBAT to analyze their group,3 people, from this weeks work and make, via critical feedback, their writing more engaging and thoughtful to convince one of their main argument.
- Closer
- They will submit the revised version, along with the original version for exit ticket to show that they made improvement or modification.FRIDAY :
- Warm Up: They will choose a major issue that they learned or read about this week.
- Activator
- Students will look over an article from the current events periodical provided.
Work Session
- SWBAT
- Write an effective article, outling their main argument and present to the class
- Closer
Students, separately will all, provide to each of the classmates feedback for improvement on their pieces. The feedback will used to create a 2nd draft due on Monday for submission.
