Grade 11 Honors - October

  Period 3 Sample Essay; Lauren DeSieno's IP How to Make Great Slides Keynote       
  GGS: The Prologue and Yali's Question Deconstructed; Diamond and the Metacognitive Conversation   Integrated Project Assignment 1 Scoring Rubric; Integrated Project Assignment 2 Scoring Rubric; American Freedom Essay Contest

10-01 Wed.

Review / Collect Homework; PSAT: Reading Comprehension Strategies for Sentence Completion, Five-Steps, Examples, and Sample Test; Homework: complete sample test 10-17  Friday Review P/SAT Comprehensive Test

10-02 Thurs.

Newseum Field Trip: DC; Meet at SHS 5:45 AM, Depart 6:00 AM; return SHS 9:30 PM 10-18 Sat. PSAT Tests

10-03  Friday

Mid-Marking Q1; Review / Collect Homework; PSAT; Reading Comprehension Strategies for Multiple Choice Questions, Examples, and Sample Test; Homework: complete sample test 10-19   

 

10-04

 

10-20  Monday Sample Informational Essays due; Writing Lab; IP Class
10-05

 

10-21  Tuesday Discuss deconstruction; review Guns, Germs, and Steel: Yali's Question Deconstructed
10-06  Monday

Laptop Cart: Review PSAT Practice Test; collect for assessment; Think Ahead: IP Assignment 1 due October 7; all initializing for individual accountability should be completed by October 6 for Tuesday's deadline; view IP Slide Show: How to construct great IP Slides

10-22  Wed. Work on Guns, Germs, and Steel: Yali's Question Deconstructed
10-07  Tuesday Laptop Cart: Integrated Project Assignment 1 due today; PSAT / PSSA Curriculum: How can I simplify complex informational writing?  Introduction to informational essay writing (use Informational Essay Template); Homework: read Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (GGS), Prologue; download and complete Yali's Question Deconstructed 10-23 Senator for a Day; work on Guns, Germs, and Steel: Yali's Question Deconstructed or IP Class
10-08 Wed. Model UN (substitute); Laptop Cart: IP Class 10-24 Friday High School Musical 7:30 PM; work on Guns, Germs, and Steel: Yali's Question Deconstructed or IP Class; GGS due 10-27
10-09 Thurs.

Laptop Cart: PSAT / PSSA Curriculum; Writing Curriculum: How personal is personal? Continue Informational Essay Writing using Informational Essay Template (if time needed)

10-25  Sat. High School Musical 7:30 PM
10-10  Friday

Laptop Cart: Continue Informational Essay Writing using Informational Essay Template (if time needed)

10-26  Sunday High School Musical 2:00 PM
10-11

 

10-27  Monday Reading / Literature Curriculum and Literary Criticism Curriculum: How does deconstructing text create meaning? Discuss Deconstruction: Guns, Germs, and Steel: Yali's Question Deconstructed; create CoverItLive accounts
10-12

 

10-28  Tuesday Homeroom Extension: AM Compressed Schedule; IP Assignment 2 due today; Continue to discuss deconstruction: Guns, Germs, and Steel: Yali's Question Deconstructed; return Advance Organizer
10-13  Monday Schools Closed: Professional Development Day 10-29  Wed. Continue to discuss deconstruction: Guns, Germs, and Steel: Yali's Question Deconstructed; Reading Apprenticeship: 4 Levels of Text and Schema
10-14 Tuesday American Freedom Essay Contest due today; discuss IP slides, interactive documentary concept, and construction of factual and counterfactual timeline 10-30 Continue and conclude discussion of Guns, Germs, and Steel: Yali's Question Deconstructed; test CoverItLive
10-15 Wed. English Department Meeting (all-day substitute); IP Class: work on Assignment 2 due October 28

10-31  Friday

Homecoming Weekend; Early Dismissal 12:15; Critique documentary with interactive online discussion using CoverItLive
10-16 Thurs. Laptop Cart: Height, Weight, Vision Screenings; IP Class; return all P/SAT evaluated assignments