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English 7

Week/

Month

Content

Skills for Student Achievement

Assessment

Performance Standards Addressed

Essential Questions
January

Week 1

· Vocabulary 1

· Daybook

· Note taking

· Fiction stories –

"Last Cover" "A Day’s Wait" "Luke Baldwin’s Vow" "Rikki Tikki Tavi" "Tiger’s Heart" "Erne From the Coast" "A Ribbon for Baldy"

· Recognize word meanings

· 5 minute writing practice

· Prepare for writing standard

· Prepare for Read View Listen

· Correct the workbook and test every third lesson

· I collect books at end of quarter

· Quiz

· Quiz

· Contextual Word meaning

· Writing practice

· Writing Standard

· Read View Listen

Fiction

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January

Week 2

· Vocabulary 2

· Daybook

· Finish Fiction stories + test

· 10 rules of commas

· Recognize word meanings

· 5 minute writing exercises

· Note taking

· Grammar

· Correct the workbook

· Hand book on designated date

· Test over stories using notes

· Contextual Word meanings

· Writing practice

· Read View Listen

· None

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February

Week 3

· Vocabulary 3 + test

· Daybook

· Begin note taking from novel Queen of Hearts

· Finish up Commas

· Recognize word meanings

· Writing practice

· Read View Listen

· Grammar

· Correct the lesson and test

· Hand book in

· Quiz over book and notes

· Test over commas

· Contextual word meanings

· Writing practice

· Read View Listen

Fiction

·1 None

·

February

Week 4

· Vocabulary 4

· Daybook

· Queen of Hearts

· Begin internet project with

Iditarod

· Recognize word meanings

· Writing practice

· Fiction novel study RVL

· Internet reading and skimming

· Correct the lesson

· Hand book in

· Quizzes over novel and notes

· Correct worksheets

· Contextual word meaning

· Writing practice

· Read View Listen

Fiction

·1 None

·

February

Week 5

· Vocabulary 5

· Daybook

· Finish Queen of Hearts +test

· Internet project Iditarod

· Begin grammar

Nouns/ Pronouns

· Recognize word meanings

· Writing practice

· Note taking / Test taking

Comprehension

·1 Internet reading and skimming

·2 Learn parts of speech

· Correct the lesson

· Hand book in when asked

· Test over novel and notes

· Correct worksheets

· Test over nouns and pronouns

· Contextual word meaning

· Writing practice

· Read View Listen

Fiction

·1 None

·2 None

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February

Week 6

· Vocabulary 6 + test

· Finish Iditarod project

· Adjectives + test

· Novel study - Pigman

· Recognize word meanings

· Skimming and Teamwork

· Learn parts of speech

· Prepare for Read View Listen standard - fiction

· Correct the lesson and test

· Correct worksheets

· Test over Nouns/Pronouns/Adj

· Quiz over notes

· Contextual word meaning

· None

· None

· Read View Listen - Fiction

·

March

Week 7

· Pigman

· Vocabulary 7

· Prepositions

· Note taking Read View Listen – fiction

· Recognize word meanings

· Parts of speech

· Quiz over notes

· Correct lesson

· Test over parts of speech

· Read View Listen

· Contextual word meanings

· None

·

March

Week 8

· Vocabulary 8

· Finish Pigman

· Begin quotation marks

· Recognize word meanings

· Note taking – Read View Listen – fiction

· Dialogue writing

· Correct lesson

· Test over notes and book

· Test over quotations

· None

· Read View Listen

· Writing standard

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March

Week 9

· Finish quotation marks

· Paragraph structure

· Watch Fiction tape

· Watch Fiction movie

· Vocabulary 9 + test

· Dialogue writing

· Writing skills

· Listening skills

· Listening skills

· Recognize word meanings

· Test over dialogue writing

· Read through paragraphs

· Answer questions while watching and listening

· Correct lesson and take test

· Writing standard

· Writing standard

· Read View Listen

· Contextual word meanings

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March

Week 10

· Daybook

· Vocabulary 10

· Non Fiction stories

"Mama and the Graduation Gift" "Story of an Eyewitness" "Mind over Water" "Dogs That Have Known Me" "Rattlesnake Hunt"

"Owls in the Family" "Two Faces of Nature"

· Non fiction story-self written

· Writing skills

· Recognize word meanings

· Prepare for non fiction

performance package

 

 

 

 

·1 Writing standard / performance package

· Hand in book at end of quarter

· Correct lesson

· Test over stories using notes

 

 

 

 

 

· Write out true story using dialogue writing

· Writing practice

· Contextual word meanings

· Read View Listen

Non fiction part

 

 

 

 

·1 Writing performance package

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March –

April

Week 11

· Daybook

· Vocabulary 11

· Finish Non fiction stories +test

· Verb Tense

· Writing skills

· Recognize word meanings

· Non fiction performance package

· Grammar

· Hand in book at end of quarter

· Correct lesson

· Test over stories using notes

· Test over verb tense and usage

· Writing skills

· Contextual word meanings

· Read View Listen

Non fiction part

·1 None

·

April

Week 12

· Daybook

· Vocabulary 12 + test

· Non fiction novel

· Finish up verb tense

· Writing skills

· Recognize word meanings

· Read View Listen

· Grammar

· Hand in book at end of quarter

· Correct lesson and test

· Test using Reading Counts

· Test over verb tense

· Writing skills

· Contextual word meanings

· Read View Listen

Non fiction part

·1 None

·

April

Week 13

· Daybook

· Vocabulary 13

· Watch Non fiction tape

· Non fiction movie

· Reaction paragraphs

· Writing skills

· Recognize word meanings

· Listen for answers to questions on work sheet

· Organize ideas

· Hand in book at required date

· Correct lesson

· Correct worksheets

· Collect and correct

· Writing standard

· Contextual word meaning

· Read View Listen

Non Fiction part

·1 Prepare for Writing Basic Skills Test

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April

Week 14

· Daybook

· Vocabulary 14

· Paragraph practice

· Verbs + test

· Writing skills

· Recognize word meanings

· Organizing ideas

· Grammar

· Collect at given date

· Correct lesson

· Go through as a class

· Test parts of speech

· Writing standard

· Contextual word meanings

· Prep for Writing BST

· None

·

April-May

Week 15

· Daybook

· Vocabulary 15 + test

· Capital letters + test

· Begin lesson on Reading

· Writing skills

· Recognize word meanings

· Grammar

· Preview to Basic Skills

· Collect book at given date

· Correct lesson and test

· Test usage

· Correct lesson

· Writing standard

· Contextual word meaning

· None

· Prep for Reading BST

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May

Week 16

· Research person

· Reading lesson

· Read plays

· Reading, note taking, organizing in to a report

· Preview to Basic skills

· Listening and reading skills

· Correct looking for correct research form

· Correct the lesson

· Listen to others w/o criticizing

Pronouncing correctly

Enunciating correctly

· Research Paper Standard

· Prep for Reading BST

· Read View Listen

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May

Week 17

· Review all year’s work

· Reading lesson

· Scrabble tournament or Monopoly

· Listening and discussing

· Preparation for Basic Skills

· Word usage and knowledge of money

· Quizzes – Practice sheets

· Correct lesson

· Have fun!

· None

· Prep for Reading BST

· None

·

May

Week 18

· Review all grammar

· Reading lesson

· Final exam (2 days)

· Listening, note taking, discussing

· Preparation for Basic Skills

· Culmination of all skills

· Possible quizzes

· Correct the lesson

· FINAL EXAM

· None

· Prep for Reading BST

· Culmination of whole year

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English 8

Week/

Month

 Content

Skills for Student Achievement

Assessment

Performance Standards Addressed

Essential Questions
September Week 1

· Vocabulary 16

 

· Daybook

· Notes from Paragraphs

· Verbs – Action, Linking, Helping

· Recognize word meanings

 

· 5 minute writing practice

· How to take notes

· Picking out verb part of speech

· Correct the workbook and every third lesson a meaning test

· I collect books at end of quarter

· Quizzes using notes

· Test over verb and all types

· Contextual word meaning

· Writing practice

· Read, view, listen

· none

·

September

Week 2

· Vocabulary 17

 

· Daybook

· Short Stories from Literature book

"Sea Devil" "A Cap for Steve" "Retrieved Reformation" "The No Talent Kid" "The Apprentice"

"Weep No More My Lady"

"My Friend Flicka"

· Verb – finish A, L, and H types

· Recognize word meanings

 

· 5 minute writing practice

· Note taking

 

 

 

 

· Picking out three types of Verbs

· Correct the workbook and every third lesson a meaning test

· I collect books at end of quarter

· Test over stories using notes

 

 

 

 

· Test over verb and all types

· Contextual word meaning

· Writing practice

· Read, View, Listen

 

 

 

 

· none

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September

Week 3

· Vocabulary 18 + test

 

· Daybook

· Finish Short Stories Unit

· Subject and Verb (sentence structure)

· Recognize word meanings

 

· 5 minute writing practice

· Note taking/ test taking

· What makes sentences

· Correct the workbook and every third lesson a meaning test

· I collect books at end of quarter

· Test over stories using notes

· Test over s, vb, and sent str

· Contextual word meaning

· Writing practice

· Read, View, Listen

· none

·

September

Week 4

· Vocabulary 19

 

· Daybook

· Freak the Mighty

· Capitals

· Recognize word meanings

 

· 5 minute writing practice

· Character sensitivity

Note taking Comprehension

· Grammar

· Correct the workbook and every third lesson a meaning test

· I collect books at end of quarter

· Quiz on the book

· Contextual word meaning

· None

· Read, View, Listen

· None

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September-October

Week 5

· Vocabulary 20

· Timed Reading

· Freak the Mighty

· Adverbs

· Recognize word meanings

· Comprehension skills

· Character sensitivity

· Note taking

·1 Part of Speech

· Correct workbook

· Correct the lessons assigned

· Writing exercises, role playing

· Use notes on test

· Test over parts of speech

· Contextual word meaning

· None

· None

· Writing Standard

· None

·

October

Week 6

· Vocabulary 21 + test

· Three paragraph essay + The Mighty movie

· Review of all parts of speech

· Timed Reading

· Recognize word meanings

· Taking notes

Organizing ideas/opinions

·1 Beginning to recognize

·2 Comprehension skills

· Correct lesson and test 19,20,21

· Possible quiz using notes

 

· Small quiz over all parts of speech

· Correct the lesson

· Contextual word meaning

· Prepare for Writing standard plus Writing

Basic Skills

·1 None

·2 Prepare for MBST

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October

Week 7

(EM)

 

· Vocabulary 22

· Timed Reading

· Tie up all loose ends!

· Recognize word meanings

· Prepare for the MBST

· Correct the assignment

· Correct the lessons

· Contextual meanings

· MBST

·

October

Week 8

· Vocabulary 23

· Timed Reading

 

 

· Outsiders

· + projects

· Review Quotations for paper

· Recognize word meanings

· Comprehension skills

 

 

· Read fiction

· Prepare for Performance package standard

· Correct the lesson

· Correct the lessons (by now should know weaknesses of some and may have to add more)

· Quizzes, check notes

Fulfill standard requirements

· Fulfill standard requirement

· Contextual meaning

· Prepare for MBST

 

 

· Read, View, Listen

Fiction package

·1 Writing Standard

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October

Week 9

· Vocabulary 24 + test

· Timed Reading

· Outsiders

· + projects

· + movie

· + paper

· Recognize word meanings

· Prepare for MBST

· Read fiction

· Pick out literary terms

· Travel Guide

· Write 5 paragraph essay

· Correct the lesson

· Correct the lessons

· Quiz over the novel

· Standard

· Standard

· Preparation for MWBST

· Contextual meaning

· Prepare for MBST

· Read, View, Listen

· Read, View, Listen

· Read, View, Listen

· None

·

November

Week 10

· Vocabulary 25

· Daybook

· Timed Reading

· Non Fiction stories

"Elizabeth Blackwell" "My Family and Other Animals" "A Running Brook of Horror" "Forest Fire"

"The Coyotes" "The Oklahoma Land Run" "The Dog That Bit People"

· Be A Better Reader

· Recognize word meanings

· Practice writing skills

· Comprehension skills

· Prepare for the non fiction performance package

 

 

 

· Skills for BST

· Correct the lesson

· Collect the book at the end of the quarter

· Correct the lessons

· Quiz at the end using notes

 

 

 

 

· Correct the lesson

· Contextual Meaning

· None

· Prepare for MBST

· Read, View, Listen

Non fiction

 

 

 

·1 None

·

November

Week 11

· Vocabulary 26

· Daybook

· Timed Reading

· Finish Non Fiction + test

· Be a Better Reader

· Written Non Fiction story

· Recognize words meanings

· Practice writing skills

· Prepare for MBST

· Prepare for performance package

· Work with reading and Graphs

· Performance package requirements

· Correct the workbook

· Hand in at end of quarter

· Correct the lesson

· Test using notes

· Correct lesson

· Conversational writing, makes sense, has a plot

· Contextual meaning

· Writing standard

· None

· Read View Listen

· None

· Writing package

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November

Week 12

Thanksgiving

· Vocabulary 27 + test

· Timed Reading

· Be a Better Reader

· Daybook

· Tie up any loose ends

· Recognize word meanings

· Practice comprehension skills

· Practice reading skills

· 5 minute writing practice

· correct workbook and test

· correct the lessons

· correct the lessons

· Hand in book on given date

· Contextual meaning

· Reading Basic Skills

· Reading Basic Skills

· None

·

November

Week 13

· Vocabulary 28

· Daybook

· Timed Reading

· Non Fiction Novel

· Be A Better Reader or

"Wild Stories"

· Recognize word meanings

· Practice writing skills

· Prepare for the MBST

· Performance package standard

· Comprehension skills

· Correct the lesson

· Hand in when directed

· Correct lessons

· Reading Counts testing

· Correct the lessons

· Contextual meaning

· Writing standard

· Reading Basic Skills

· Read, View Listen

Non fiction

·1 Reading Basic Skills

·

December

Week 14

· Vocabulary 29

· Daybook

· Timed Reading

· Verb Tense

· Recognize word meanings

· Practice writing skills

· Prepare for MBST

· Writing and grammar skills

· Correct the lesson

· Hand in when directed

· Correct lessons

· Practice and test on

· Contextual meaning

· Reading Basic Skills

· Reading basic skills

· None

·

December

Week 15

· Vocabulary 30 + test

· Finish Timed Reading Book

· Practice Basic Skills tests

· Recognize word meanings

· Prepare for MBST

· Prepare for MBST

· Correct the lesson + take test

· Correct the lessons

· Correct and see weaknesses

· Contextual meaning

· Reading basic skills

· Reading Basic Skills

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December

Week 16

· Practice Basic Skills tests

· Be a Better Reader

· "Wild Stories"

· Reading skills

· Prepare for MBST

· Comprehension skills

· Correct for weaknesses

· Correct

· Correct lesson

· Reading Basic Skills

· Reading Basic Skills

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January

Week 17

· Practice Basic Skills Tests

· "Wild Stories"

· Review for final

· Relaxation exercises

· Prepare for MBST

· Comprehension skills

· Prepare for final exam

· Prepare for testing

· Correct to find weaknesses

· Correct lesson

· Prepare for final

· Reading Basic Skills

· Reading Basic Skills

· None

· Reading Basic Skills

·

January

Week 18

 

· Review for Basic Skills Tests

· Practice Basic Skills Tests

· Be a Better Reader

· Relaxation exercises

· Final exam

· Last week of preparation before MBST

· Prepare for testing

· No real assessment only preparation for MBST

· Take FINAL EXAM

· Reading Basic Skills

 

· NONE

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English 9

Month

Content

Skills for Student Achievement

Assessment

Performance Standards Addressed

Essential Questions
January -May

§ Writing --Structural Analysis

§ Identify subjects

§ Identify verbs

§ Identify prepositional phrases

§ Oral recitation

§ Written identification

§ Basic Writing Test

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January - May

§ Writing/Speaking/Listening

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§ Daily sentence and paragraph proofreading and editing practice

 		Identify and correct errors with a focus on

§ Punctuation

§ Capitalization and sentence fragments

§ Capitalization and comma splices

§ Plurals, numbers, and abbreviations

§ Rambling and run-on sentences

§ Pronoun problems

§ Verb problems

§ Adjective/adverb problems

§ Usage problems

§ Oral recitation

§ Tests

§ Informal observation

§ Basic Writing Test

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Ongoing

§ Writing

§ Write paragraphs consisting of a topic sentence, three supporting details, and a concluding sentence.

§ Write an introductory paragraph using an attention-getter /general statement, three topic announcements, and a forcasting thesis sentence.

§ Write a conclusion paragraph which restates the thesis, has three topic referral sentences and a final statement.

§ Write five –paragraph essays consisting of an introduction, three supporting body paragraphs, and a conclusion

§ Correct spelling, usage, punctuation, and grammar errors in final draft.

 

§ Written paragraphs

§ Written essays

§ Basic Writing Test

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January & ongoing

§ Reading

§ Read a novel as a whole class activity

§ Individual fiction and non-fiction book reading

§ Discussion

§ Written notes

§ Comprehension questions

§ Quizzes and Test

§ Computer test points

§ Literature –Analysis and Interpretation

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Ongoing

§ Language

§ Increase vocabulary

§ Recognize word derivation

§ Pronounce words correctly

§ Use various forms of words (noun, verb, adverb)

§ Use vocabulary in appropriate context

§ Write vocabulary in context while practicing the use of simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences and compound/complex sentences

§ Workbook exercises

§ Tests

§ Informal conversation

§ Written work

§ Reading

§ Writing

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April

§ Writing/Reading

§ Research a Greek mythological character

§ Locate a present day connection to the character using primary research

§ Describe the character and its origin

§ Retell a myth involving that character

§ Explain three connections of the character to today’s world

§ Explain research results in a Five-paragraph essay

§ Research notes

§ List of present-day connections

§ E-mail response to primary source

§ Written essay of results

§ Inquiry—Research Process (HS)

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Ongoing

§ Listening fiction/nonfiction

§ Take notes

§ Connect content of quotation to appropriate news story

§ Analyze news stories

§ Channel One notes

§ Class discussion

§ Reading MCAs

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English 10

Week/

Month

Content

Skills for Student Achievement

Assessment

Performance Standards Addressed

Essential Questions
1-2

· Ice breaker (Coat of Arms)

· Present orally your Coat of Arms

 		 

 

 

 

 

 

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1-2

· Ice breaker (Big Lie Contest)

 

 

 

· The communication Process

· Hearing and listening

 

· Present a 2-3 minute Big Lie (using speech outline)

· Write a 5x5 written response choosing the first, second, and third place winners

· Recognize and use the communication process

· Identify difference between hearing and listening

· Demonstrate appropriate listening techniques (ongoing)

 		Peer evaluation and teacher evaluation

Teacher evaluation for content, structure, and usage

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2-3

· Organizational patterns to inform (cause-effect, compare/contrast, topical, chronological, and technical pattern)

· Read and discuss informational packet.

· Read the five magazine articles. Then decide the article’s organizational pattern

· Teacher lead group discussion and correcting

 

 

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2-3

· Demonstration speeches

· Process

· Visual aids

· Research

· Rehearsal

 

 

 

 

MUGS (Sets 1-5)

· Organization of speech

· Introduction-attention devices, review of main points, thesis statement

· Body-main ideas, supporting details

· Conclusion-recap, concluding devices, tie back to attention device

· Rehearsal and delivery (ongoing)

· Develop a speech that conveys ideas in a logical fashion (ongoing)

· Develop a speech that conveys ideas in a logical fashion (ongoing)

· Demonstrate effective delivery techniques (ongoing)

· Listen to evaluate purpose (0ngoing)

· Review grammatical usage

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· Evaluation of students’ outline

· Evaluation of students’ speaking

 

 

· Test on sets

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3

· Speech to inform

· Internet source decision flowchart (valid sources)

· Ongoing organization skills

· Use research tools and develop strategies for finding and recording information

· Develop visual aids to support speech

· Develop a speech that conveys ideas in a logical fashion (ongoing)

· Demonstrate effective delivery techniques (ongoing)

· Listen to evaluate purpose (0ngoing)

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· Evaluation of students’ speaking

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4-5

 

 

 

 

 

5

 

 

 

5-6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

· Watch movie West Side Story for comparison/contrast to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

 

 

· Assign the reading of a personally chosen biography or autobiography

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· Speech to entertain

· Ongoing organization skills

· Peer critiquing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MUGS (sets 6-10)

· Note taking for literary terms, plot analysis, cause-effect/chain linking and elements of tragedy

· Read aloud to help understanding, and lyrical sounds

· Define the purpose of note taking to obtain information to use for documentation within the research paper.

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· Develop a speech that conveys ideas in a logical fashion (ongoing)

· Demonstrate effective delivery techniques (ongoing)

· Listen to evaluate purpose (0ngoing)

· Convey criticism in a respectful and supportive way

· Video tape for evaluation

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· (ongoing)

· Review grammatical usage

 		Essay test on Romeo/Juliet

Written essay comparing West Side Story to Romeo/Juliet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evaluation of students’ speaking (self, peer, and teacher)

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· Test on sets

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7-8

· Persuasive organization patterns (Problem/solution, thesis/proof, opinion/reason)

 

· Persuasion in advertising

 

· MUGS (sets 11-15)

· Interpersonal communication problem solving

 

 

· Read and discuss informational packet.

· Read the five magazine articles. Then decide the article’s organizational pattern

· Create a 30-second commercial selling something useless in your bedroom

· Review grammatical usage (ongoing)

· Discus problem solving techniques

· Recognize problem solving skill for everyday life

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· Teacher lead group discussion and correcting

 

 

 

· Peer response to persuasiveness

· Test on sets

· Teacher observation of small group-large group problem solving skills

· Student self-evaluation of problem solving skills

· Peer observation of problem solving skills

· Peer journaling of problem solving skills

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8-9

 

 

 

 

10

 

 

 

10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14

15

 

 

10-16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17

· Types of persuasion

· Logical reasoning

· Emotional appeals

· Credibility

· Audience analysis

· Research

· Reading goals

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· Speech to persuade

 

 

 

 

· MUGS 16-20

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· Written research project

· Title page

· Outline page

· Author background

· Literary techniques

· Documentation and works cited page

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· MUGS (sets 21-25)

Research rough draft due

 

Final Copy of research project due

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· Read Mark Twain’s Huck Finn

· Develop analytical thinking

· Understand dialect through oral reading

· Review of literary terms utilized by Mark Twain in his works

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· An oral presentation showing the student’s understanding of theme by using a symbolic object

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· MUGS (sets 26-30)

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Impromptu speaking

Organizing a presentation quickly

Decide topic quickly

· Consideration of topic to

· audience

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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· FINAL MUGS TEST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

· Use research tools and develop strategies for finding and recording information using (PALBEG) strategies

· Chose either a biography of autobiography to read and take chapter notes (for use for your research project later)

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Develop a speech that conveys ideas in a logical fashion (ongoing)

· Demonstrate effective delivery techniques (ongoing)

· Listen to evaluate purpose (0ngoing)

· Review grammatical usage (ongoing)

 

 

· Review grammatical usage (ongoing)

· Use research tools and develop strategies for finding and recording information

· Develop a research paper that conveys ideas in a logical fashion (ongoing)

· Use MLA