Analyzing+Messages

=January 6, 2010= =Bellwork: Write a 5-10 line poem in which each line is a lie.=


 * Activities**
 * Bellwork
 * SAT Vocabulary
 * Read and annotate "Teen Driving"
 * Answer questions


 * Goals**
 * Use elements of text to defend your responses
 * Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understanding.



January 5, 2010 Bellwork: If there were no such thing as age, how should it be determined that someone were ready to get a driver's license?


 * Activities**
 * Bellwork
 * Fire Drill (6th only)
 * Inspirational Nature Hike (20 minutes)
 * Prewriting
 * Spend five minutes drawing a picture of something that inspired you on your hike.
 * Freewrite about something from your hike for 10 minutes.

1/4/10 Bellwork: Put a check next to each statement you agree with under "You"


 * Activities**
 * Bellwork
 * Read "The Man He Killed"
 * Put a check next to each statement the author would agree with under "Poet"
 * Explain how you know on the back.
 * Answer this question on the back:


 * Which line shows that the author is questioning the rationality of killing in war?
 * I shot at him as he at me.
 * Because he was my foe.
 * By some old ancient inn.
 * Yes; quaint and curious war is.


 * Read "Hood"


 * Goals**
 * Use elements of text to defend your responses
 * Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understanding.



12/18: 7th period meet in room 652 at 8:50, final in room 907 at 10:30, lunch at 12:25, early release at 2:30

12/17: 6th period final in room 907

12/16: no class

12/15/09 Bellwork: Answer these questions on a sheet of paper.
 * What is the product being sold in this ad?
 * How does the picture persuade a potential customer?
 * What kind of magazine might you see this ad in?
 * What kind of magazine would you never see this ad in?
 * What action does the ad want you to take?

Activities

 * Bellwork
 * Annotate
 * Six-Word Memoirs
 * Context Clues
 * [|On the Media]

Goals

 * draw inferences such as conclusions, generalizations, and predictions and support them from text;analyze characters and identify time and point of view
 * ====analyze relationships, ideas, and cultures as represented in various media====

12/14/09 Bellwork: How can you tell something is significant about something you are reading? Make a list.

Activities

 * Bellwork
 * Annotate Benchmark

Goals

 * draw inferences such as conclusions, generalizations, and predictions and support them from text;analyze characters and identify time and point of view
 * ====analyze relationships, ideas, and cultures as represented in various media====

12/11/09 Bellwork, on your own.
 * Get out a fresh sheet of paper. Write your name and class period.
 * Write this at the top: **significance** =**importance**
 * Now write it again, in some decorative way, like bubble letters.
 * Now answer this: What is the significance of each of the three symbols on the sign?
 * Now answer this: Which is the most significant piece of information for a family to know?
 * Dinner is almost ready.
 * The phone is ringing.
 * The house is on fire.
 * Who is the most significant person in your life?
 * Now freewrite for 3 minutes: What is the most significant thing about you?
 * Now create a symbol that means significance. Draw it.
 * Explain how your symbol means significant, in 2-3 sentences.

12/10/09 Bellwork, on your own: How are these ads similar? How are they different? Look at content, not just design.


 * Activities**
 * Bellwork
 * Analyze ads
 * Create ad swipe file


 * Goals**
 * draw inferences such as conclusions, generalizations, and predictions and support them from text;analyze characters and identify time and point of view
 * ====evaluate the credibility of information sources and determine the writer's motives====
 * ====analyze relationships, ideas, and cultures as represented in various media====
 * media to get the main idea of the message's content
 * analyze text structures such as compare & contrast, cause & effect, and chronological ordering

12/9/09 Bellwork, on your own: What do you think this man is about to do? Explain why you think that. Be specific. (Remember Answer... Explain... Corroborate)
 * Activities**
 * Bellwork
 * Finish Character Map Presentations
 * Analyze ad


 * Goals**
 * ====draw inferences such as conclusions, generalizations, and predictions and support them from text;analyze characters and identify time and point of view====
 * ====evaluate the credibility of information sources and determine the writer's motives====
 * ====analyze relationships, ideas, and cultures as represented in various media====
 * media to get the main idea of the message's content


 * Resources**