Grade 11 Honors - September

  Integrated Project Syllabus 2008-2009; Integrated Project Assignment 1 Rubric; Integrated Project Assignment 2 Rubric; American Freedom Essay Contest   MLA Format; Thesis Ladder; Informational Essay Format; Informational Essay Rubric; Persuasive Essay Version 1 Format; Persuasive Essay Version 2 Format; Persuasive Essay Rubric; Verbs for Essays; Writing Don'ts

9-01

Labor Day 9-15 Monday Laptop Cart: Creating PPLNs (Professional/Personal Learning Networks); Create, verify, and link Edublogs student accounts

9-02 Tuesday

10th Grade Orientation 9-16  Tuesday Laptop Cart: IP Class: Introduce IP Project; review syllabus

9-03  Wed.

Opening Day Activities; Abridged Schedule; Honors English 11 Course Outline; PPLN Online Survey [complete by 9-19]; AM/PM Adjusted Schedule 9-17  Wed. Laptop Cart: Creating PPLNs: Finish creating, verifying, and linking Edublogs; customize blogs; Create an Edmodo account; join your class period; add class to your "locker"; create an Honors English 11 folder on H Drive; use Edmodo to transfer files/links into English 11 folder
9-04  Thurs. Laptop Cart: Discuss Social Media, PPLN Survey, and Building a Community of Learners; Create Skype accounts and develop class communities; Create Pageflakes accounts; Import widgets, customize home page, and add English 11 page 9-18  Thurs. Laptop Cart: Final completion assessments for Edublogs; set up English 11 Folder on H Drive using Edmodo: MLA Format; Thesis Ladder; Informational Essay Format; Informational Essay Rubric; Persuasive Essay Version 1 Format; Persuasive Essay Version 2 Format; Persuasive Essay Rubric; Verbs for Essays; Writing Don'ts; set up students' MLA  essay templates and rubrics (name changes); verify and link Edublogs accounts to Learning Curve;  PPLN Survey at end of the blog) due today--must be taken online; continue Grammar Review [Periods 1, 3, 4]; continue Grammar Review
9-05  Friday Laptop Cart: Complete Skype accounts/friend exchange; Complete  Pageflakes accounts; Import widgets, customize home page 9-19 Friday Laptop Cart: IP Class: (substitute); Verbals (Grammar Review) and IP team formation, pivitol moment selection; work on Assignment 1 due October 7; PPLN Online Survey due today; IP Lunch Meeting with The Twenties
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9-07   9-21  
9-08  Monday View/discuss Common Craft Social Media and Twitter, TwittEarth universe; Distribute and record Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies [video worth watching; click title]; Discuss roles for IP 9-22  Monday Picture Day--Classes Abridged:  Period 1 [8:05--8:15]; Period 3 [9:39--9:49]; Period 4 [10:15--10:25]; Period 7 [1:10--1:20]; Period 8 [2:15--2:25]; Computer Lab 2 IP Class: establish communication system and include teachers; discuss citation makers: Zotero, Citation Maker, EasyBib, and Sourceaid; IP Lunch Meeting with the Nixon Era/Watergate
9-09  Tuesday Revisit PPLN Survey [due 9-19] and Spreadsheet; Discuss Google Docs; Begin Grammar Curriculum Review: How can I respond personally and effectively?  How does my audience affect my writing? Grammar for More Effective Writing: Sentences According to Content; Sentence Classification Advance Organizer 9-23  Tuesday Computer Lab 2 IP Class: work on Assignment 1 due October 7 and script for October 2 Newseum Field Trip green screen event; take Virtual Tour and view 14 theaters to maximize your field trip research; see me to sign out 3 cameras in advance
9-10  Wed. Grammar Curriculum: How can I respond personally and effectively?  Grammar Review: Grammar for More Effective Writing: Sentences According to Form; Review Parts of Speech 9-24  Wed. Library: Reading Apprenticeship / Academic Literacy Curriculum: Reading / Literature Curriculum: What Lies Beneath?  What can I do to make sense of the text?  Review metacognition; establish climate; role modeling; interactive visual think-aloud; report out on RA strategies used; model talking to the text with students completing the activity; IP Lunch Meeting with Nixon--Watergate
9-11  Thurs. Grammar Review: Grammar for More Effective Writing: Punctuation [Comma, Semi-Colon, Colon; Hyphen, Dash]; connecting Grammar and Punctuation to Effective Writing 9-25  Thurs. Open House; Library: Academic Literacy: How do I make the invisible visible? Discuss and model 4 Kinds of Schema; explore schema via cartoons and headlines; complete a "Before and After" with a challenging text
9-12  Friday Guest Teacher Mrs. Toth: Understanding/Registering for the PSAT 9-26  Friday Library: Academic Literacy: What can I do to make sense of a text? Discuss reading strategies for understanding nonfiction / academic texts; baseline survey of RA strategies
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    9-29  Monday P/SAT/PSSA Curriculum: How can I respond personally and effectively?  Reading Comprehension Strategies for Critical Reading Test, Examples, and Sample Test; Homework: complete sample test; American Freedom Essay Contest assigned; due 10-14
  Blog Post Video 9-30  Tuesday Review / Collect Homework; PSAT: Reading Comprehension Strategies for Sentence Completion, Five-Steps, Examples, and Sample Test; Homework: complete sample test