Mrs. Seeker – AP English Language

Lesson Plans for January 5-9

Monday – January 5

Objective:  Students will be able to use vocabulary correctly and be able to recognize literary terms.

Resource:  Teacher handout

Teacher Activity:   Hand out terms.  Pronounce and go over them.  Then give them the writing assignment.

Student Activity:    Using the vocabulary words, write a creative story in which you utilize your knowledge of grammar.  Include a compound/complex sentence, an imperative sentence, a sentence with a gerund phrase, a sentence with an infinitive phrase, a simple sentence, and a compound sentence.  Underline these elements and identify them in the margin.

HOMEWORK:  Each student is to bring in three different political cartoons by Thursday.

Strategies:     Transference of knowledge

Assessment/Evaluation:   completion of the assignment with correct use of the grammar elements

Tuesday – January 6

Objective:  Students will understand critical analysis and research

Resource:  Novels chosen by the teacher

Teacher Activity:  Go over the Research assignment.  Hand out books to the groups.  Give them the dates that elements are due.

Student Activity:    Choose your groups and begin reading the novel

Strategies:     Deep Reading

Assessment/Evaluation:   none

Wednesday – January 7

Objective: Students will be able to decipher meanings of words by recognizing root words

Students will be able to employ deep reading techniques

Resource:  Teacher handout

Teacher Activity: Hand out the Latin and Greek Prefix sheets and go over them in class. Hand out the Deep Reading assignment.  Hand out the Strategies for Answering Multiple Choice Questions.

Student Activity:  Go through the process of annotating a Close Reading.  You can do this in groups.  You will be turning in your work today.

Strategies:  Collaborative Annotation

Assessment/Evaluation:  Completion of assignment.  Effective Collaboration

Thursday, January 8

Objective:  Students will be able to use their close reading skills to answer multiple choice questions.

Students will be able to analyze visual pieces and present them to their peers.

Resource:  Student provided political cartoons

Student Activity: The first 15 minutes of the period will be used to take the Close Reading quiz.  We will grade these in class. Analyze the political cartoons that you brought.  Do this is pairs.  Then be ready to share these with the rest of the class.

Strategies:  Think/ Pair/ Share

Assessment/Evaluation:  Were they able to think deeply and decipher what the artist was trying to portray.  Were they able to present this information to the class?

Friday, January 9

Objective: 

Students will be able to utilize their knowledge of SAT Vocabulary words

Resource:    Teacher handout

Teacher Activity:  Administer the test

Student Activity:    Take the spelling and vocabulary test

Strategies: Recall

Assessment/Evaluation:  Did they spell the word correctly?  Were they able to identify the correct part of speech?  Did they recognize the correct definition? Did the use the word correctly in the sentences?

Mrs. Seeker - English

Lesson Plans for December 8-12

1^st Period English 3Regular

Monday – December 8

Objective: 

Students will be able to develop vocabulary and use it correctly

Resource:  Teacher handout – Vocab 16

Teacher Activity:  Pronounce the words and go over the definitions

Student Activity:  Copy the words, definitions and sentences.  In small groups, write a story using at least seven of the words correctly.  Then provide an illustration of that story.  Strategy:  Visualizing; Group work

Assessment/Evaluation:  grade for completion, and understanding of the word (illustration)

Tuesday – December 9

Objectives:

Students will be able to recognize the elements of a Gothic as seen in Edgar Allan Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher”

Resource:  Literature book and notes from last week

Teacher Activities: Hand back the notes.  Review elements of a gothic.  Read with them in class the rest of the story.  Work on inference and drawing conclusions.  Look at Cause and Effect as well

Student Activities:  Read the story in class, stopping to look at inference.  Predict what may come next and decide what the cause and effect of the story are.

Strategy:   Inference, Cause/Effect, Drawing Conclusions

Assessment/Evaluation:  Listen to student responses.  Are they able to understand the inferences?  Can they make predictions?

Wednesday – December 10

Objective:   Students will be able to recognize the elements of a Gothic as seen in Edgar Allan Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher”

Resource:  Literature book

Teacher activities:   Review the reading from yesterday.  Ask what the students can infer from the description of the house and the characters.  Predict what will happen next

Student activities:   Continue reading the story.  Consider the character development in the story.  Do a sequence of drawings that illustrate Roderick at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end.  Share your drawings with the rest of the class and see if everyone is seeing the same development

Strategy:    Think, Pair, Share

Assessment/Evaluation:  Participation

Thursday – December 11   

Objectives:

Students will be able use grammar correctly.

Students will be able to differentiate between complete sentences and fragments.

Students will be able to identify a subject and a predicate

Resource:  Grammar Workbooks  

Teacher activities:  Review complete sentences and their parts.

Student activities:   Do pages 23-28 in the grammar workbooks.  Then we will grade them in class

Strategy:    Reteach and Review

Assessment/Evaluation:   Are they able to tell the difference between sentences and fragments.  Can they differentiate between a subject and a predicate?

Friday – December 12

Objective:  Students will be able to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the vocabulary.

Resource:  Teacher handout

Teacher activity:  Pronounce the words for a spelling test.  Grade in class.  Allow time to look over the words for the vocab test.  Give the test.   

Student activity:  Take two tests – one over spelling and one over vocabulary.  Write a paragraph over The Fall of the House of Usher using 5-7 of the words.

Strategy: recall; transfer of information

Assessment/Evaluation:  Grade for accuracy of spelling. Grade for correct use of the words in sentences as well as correct matching of definitions to the words.

Mrs. Seeker - English

Lesson Plans for December 1-5

1^st Period English 3Regular

Monday – December 1

Objective: 

Students will be able to develop vocabulary and use it correctly

Resource:  Teacher handout – Vocab 16

Teacher Activity:  Pronounce the words and go over the definitions

Student Activity:  Copy the words, definitions and sentences.  In small groups, write a story using at least seven of the words correctly.  Then provide an illustration of that story.  Strategy:  Visualizing; Group work

Assessment/Evaluation:  grade for completion, and understanding of the word (illustration)

Tuesday – December 2

Objectives:

Students will be able to recognize the elements of a Gothic as seen in Edgar Allan Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher”

Resource:  Literature book and notes from last week

Teacher Activities: Hand back the notes.  Review elements of a gothic.  Read with them in class the rest of the story.  Work on inference and drawing conclusions.  Look at Cause and Effect as well

Student Activities:  Read the story in class, stopping to look at inference.  Predict what may come next and decide what the cause and effect of the story are.

Strategy:   Inference, Cause/Effect, Drawing Conclusions

Assessment/Evaluation:  Listen to student responses.  Are they able to understand the inferences?  Can they make predictions?

Wednesday – November 19

Objective:   

Students will be able to recognize and write aphorisms

Resource:  Literature book

Teacher activities:   Go over the aphorisms from Benjamin Franklin’s “Poor Richard’s Almanac”  Then ask students if they can write their own.

Student activities:  In pairs, think about what is involved in an aphorism.  Write five aphorisms.  Then share those with the rest of the class.

Strategy:    Think, Pair, Share

Assessment/Evaluation:  Participation

Thursday – December 4   

Objectives:

Students will be able use grammar correctly.

Students will be able to differentiate between complete sentences and fragments.

Students will be able to identify a subject and a predicate

Resource:  Grammar Workbooks  

Teacher activities:  Review complete sentences and their parts.

Student activities:   Do pages 23-28 in the grammar workbooks.  Then we will grade them in class

Strategy:    Reteach and Review

Assessment/Evaluation:   Are they able to tell the difference between sentences and fragments.  Can they differentiate between a subject and a predicate?

Friday – December 5

Objective:  Students will be able to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the vocabulary.

Resource:  Teacher handout

Teacher activity:  Pronounce the words for a spelling test.  Grade in class.  Allow time to look over the words for the vocab test.  Give the test.   

Student activity:  Take two tests – one over spelling and one over vocabulary.  Strategy: recall

Assessment/Evaluation:  Grade for accuracy of spelling. Grade for correct use of the words in sentences as well as correct matching of definitions to the words.

Mrs. Seeker - English

Lesson Plans for November 17-21

1^st Period English 3Regular

Monday – November 17

Objective: 

Students will be able to develop vocabulary and use it correctly

Resource:  Teacher handout – Vocab 15

Teacher Activity:  Pronounce the words and go over the definitions

Student Activity:  Copy the words, definitions and sentences.  In small groups, write a story using at least seven of the words correctly.  Then provide an illustration of that story.  Strategy:  Visualizing; Group work

Assessment/Evaluation:  grade for completion, and understanding of the word (illustration)

Tuesday – November 18

Objectives:

Students will be able to write a comparison/contrast essay using a graphic organizer

Resource:  Literature book and notes from last week

Teacher Activities: Hand back the notes, graphic organizer and outline from last week.  Model an essay for the students.

Student Activities:  In pairs, write a comparison/contrast essay over the two speeches “Speech to the Convention” and “Speech to the Virginia Convention.”

Strategy:   Compare/Contrast; Graphic Organizer; Think, Pair Share

Assessment/Evaluation:  Grade the essay for mechanics, accuracy of thought, ability to compare and contrast, ability to write a good thesis statement, supporting details and a conclusion

Wednesday – November 19

Objective:   

Students will be able to recognize symbols in a piece of literature.

Students will be able to identify the common pieces of  Poe’s writing (gothic)

Students will be able to create a graphic organizer of the elements of literature

Students will be able to take Cornell Notes

Resource:  Literature book

Teacher activities:   Discuss the elements of Poe’s literature

Student activities:  Take Cornell Notes over Poe.  Keep a graphic organizer of the elements in a Poe piece of literature.  Begin reading “Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe

Strategy:    Close Reading, Cornell Notes

Assessment/Evaluation:  Grade for completion as well as accurately identifying the elements of a gothic.  Question and answer as we read the story

Thursday – November 20   

Objectives:

Students will be able to recognize symbols in a piece of literature.

Students will be able to identify the common pieces of  Poe’s writing (gothic)

Students will be able to create a graphic organizer of the elements of literature

Resource:  Literature book  

Teacher activities:  Review what we have read so far as well as the elements of a Gothic

Student activities:   Continue reading the piece and adding information to the graphic organizer

Strategy:    Graphic Organizer; Close Reading

Assessment/Evaluation:   Did they use the graphic organizer? Were they listening for close detail of the story

Friday – November 21

Objective:  Students will be able to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the vocabulary.

Resource:  Teacher handout

Teacher activity:  Pronounce the words for a spelling test.  Grade in class.  Allow time to look over the words for the vocab test.  Give the test.   

Student activity:  Take two tests – one over spelling and one over vocabulary.  Strategy: recall

Assessment/Evaluation:  Grade for accuracy of spelling. Grade for correct use of the words in sentences as well as correct matching of definitions to the words.

Mrs. Seeker - English

Lesson Plans for November 10-14

1^st Period English 3Regular

Monday – November 10

Objective: 

Students will develop vocabulary and be able to use them in an everyday setting

Resource:  Teacher handout – Vocab 14

Teacher Activity:  Pronounce the words and go over the definitions

Student Activity:  Copy the words, definitions and sentences.  Look up the parts of speech and illustrate at least five of the words.  Strategy:  Visualizing

Assessment/Evaluation:  grade for completion, and understanding of the word (illustration)

Tuesday – November 11

Objectives:

Students will be able to use TPCASTT to analyze poetry

Resource:  Teacher lecture and Literature book

Teacher Activities: Give notes over TPCASTT

Student Activities:  Students  will take Cornell Notes over TPCASTT.  Read the Phyllis Wheatley poem and do a TPCASTT over the poem.  Provide an illustration of the poem

Strategy:   Cornell Notes, TPCASTT, and Transformation of text

Assessment/Evaluation:  Completion of the assignment

Wednesday – November 12

Objective:   

Students will be able to  recognize the three appeals in an argument  and translate that to the Revolutionary Speeches

Students will be able to write a précis

Students will be able to teach the other students about an argument

Resource:  Literature book

Teacher activities:   Assign the two pieces of revolutionary speech to two different groups.  Choose the groups by 1,2 method

Student activities:  In small groups, read the speech, do a précis over the piece and find five  examples of pathos and two examples of logos in the piece.  Be prepared to teach this piece to the other group.

Strategy:    Close Reading, Think Pair Share

Assessment/Evaluation:  Grade for completion as well as accurately identifying the appeals….a separate grade over presentation of the piece to the other part of the class

Thursday – November 10   

Objectives:

Students will be able to recognize the three appeals in a speech

Students will become familiar with the Revolutionary speeches

Students will be able to do a comparison/contrast over the two speeches

Resource:  Literature book “Speech to the Convention” and “Speech to the Virginia Convention”

Teacher activities:  On the board, do a graphic organizer for comparing and contrasting the two speeches

Student activities:   In pairs, write a comparison/contrast essay over the two speeches

Strategy:    Collaboration, Compare/Contrast

Assessment/Evaluation:   Did they use the graphic organizer?  Did they effectively write a comparison/contrast essay over the two pieces..

Friday – October 11

Objective:  Students will be able to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the vocabulary.

Resource:  Teacher handout

Teacher activity:  Pronounce the words for a spelling test.  Grade in class.  Allow time to look over the words for the vocab test.  Give the test.   

Student activity:  Take two tests – one over spelling and one over vocabulary.  Strategy: recall

Assessment/Evaluation:  Grade for accuracy of spelling. Grade for correct use of the words in sentences as well as correct matching of definitions to the words.

Mrs. Seeker - English

Lesson Plans for November 3-7

1^st Period English 3Regular

Monday – November 3

Objective: 

Students will develop vocabulary and be able to use them in an everyday setting

Resource:  Teacher handout – Vocab 13

Teacher Activity:  Pronounce the words and go over the definitions

Student Activity:  Copy the words, definitions and sentences.  Look up the parts of speech and illustrate at least five of the words.  Strategy:  Visualizing

Assessment/Evaluation:  grade for completion, and understanding of the word (illustration)

Tuesday – November 4  

Objectives:

Students will be able to recognize the three appeals in an argument  and translate that to the Revolutionary Speeches

Resource:  Teacher lecture and Literature book

Teacher Activities: Give notes over the three appeals

Student Activities:  Students  will take Cornell Notes over the three appeals.  Read the Declaration of Independence, noting the use of charged words and the three appeals.  Memorize the most famous section of the speech.

Strategy:   Cornell Notes, Memory Recall

Assessment/Evaluation:  Completion of the assignment

Wednesday – November 5

Objective:   

Students will be able to  recognize the three appeals in an argument  and translate that to the Revolutionary Speeches

Students will be able to write a precis

Resource:  Literature book

1. Teacher activities:   Work through “The Crisis, Number 1” with the class, then discuss “What is a précis?”.

Student activities:  Identify three examples of pathos and two examples of logos in the piece.  Then write a précis over the piece.  They can do this groups.

Strategy:    Close Reading

Assessment/Evaluation:  Grade for completion as well as accurately identifying the appeals

Thursday – November 6 – Short Day –  

Objectives:

Students will be able to recognize the three appeals in a speech

Students will become familiar with the Revolutionary speeches

Students will be able to recognize root words and ascertain the meaning of words based on the root

Resource:  Literature Workbooks

Teacher activities:  Review the three appeals

Student activities:   Do pages 41, 42, 43 in the workbook

Strategy:    Collaboration

Assessment/Evaluation:    

Grade for completion.

Friday – October 31

Objective:  Students will be able to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the vocabulary.

Resource:  Teacher handout

Teacher activity:  Pronounce the words for a spelling test.  Grade in class.  Allow time to look over the words for the vocab test.  Give the test.   

Student activity:  Take two tests – one over spelling and one over vocabulary.  Strategy: recall

Assessment/Evaluation:  Grade for accuracy of spelling. Grade for correct use of the words in sentences as well as correct matching of definitions to the words.

Mrs. Seeker - English

Lesson Plans for October 27-31

1^st Period English 3Regular

Monday – October 27

Objective: 

Students will develop vocabulary and be able to use them in an everyday setting

Resource:  Teacher handout – Vocab 12

Teacher Activity:  Pronounce the words and go over the definitions

Student Activity:  Copy the words, definitions and sentences.  Look up the parts of speech and illustrate at least five of the words.  Strategy:  Visualizing

Assessment/Evaluation:  grade for completion, and understanding of the word (illustration)

Tuesday – October 28-  

Objectives:

Students will be able to recognize character in The Crucible

Students will develop an understanding the times and cultural elements of the Salem Witch Trials

Resource:  Literature book

Teacher Activities: Administer the test

Student Activities:  Students  will complete the unit test over The Crucible

Strategy:   Recall

Assessment/Evaluation:  Unit test over the play

Wednesday – October 20

Objective:   

Students will be able to recognize character in The Crucible

Students will develop an understanding the times and cultural elements of the Salem Witch Trials

Resource:  Literature book

Teacher activities:  Assign the character project.  Students will choose one of the characters in the play and complete the assignment.

1. Choose a character
2. Illustrate the character
3. Choose 3 articles that represent that character
4. Create a prestige license plate that represents that character
5. Find three quotes in the play that illustrate the character and his/her traits.

Student activities:  Students will complete the above assignment.

Strategy:   Sociogram

Assessment/Evaluation:  Did they understand the character development?  Is it clear that they understand what role this character played?

Thursday – October 29 – We may have to complete the assignment from yesterday.  If not, we will proceed with the following.

Objectives:

Students will be able to recognize the three appeals in a speech

Students will become familiar with the Revolutionary speeches

Resource:  Literature book

Teacher activities:  Give notes over the three appeals.  Then help the students read “The Declaration of Independence.”

Student activities:   Take Cornell Notes over the three appeals.  Read the”Declaration of Independence” and begin memorization

Strategy:    Cornell Notes

Assessment/Evaluation:    

Did they complete the Cornell Notes?  Are they able to memorize the short segment from the “Declaration of Independence?”

Friday – October 31

Objective:  Students will be able to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the vocabulary.

Resource:  Teacher handout

Teacher activity:  Pronounce the words for a spelling test.  Grade in class.  Allow time to look over the words for the vocab test.  Give the test.   

Student activity:  Take two tests – one over spelling and one over vocabulary.  Strategy: recall

Assessment/Evaluation:  Grade for accuracy of spelling. Grade for correct use of the words in sentences as well as correct matching of definitions to the words.