Monday
1. Journal: 15 minute open
write
2. Turn in Enrichment #2; onliners should email me their sites and update
logs.
3. Post Break Workshop
a. Grammar of the Day Quiz, Lessons 23-31
tomorrow. Brief review.
b. Personal
Experience SRD due tomorrow – ready to proofread; FC due Wednesday.
c. Work on Personal Experience Essay as
needed.
1) Have
“late” RDs and Peer Reads checked.
2) Peer read, draft, and revise as
needed.
1. Journal: none
2. Grammar of the Day Quiz 23-31
3. Writer Workshop: Proofreading
a. Have your paper proofread for commas by
our panel of experts.
b. Somany, Chris, Marc, Erin, CJ
c. Polish your work; prepare for final
copy.
d. Have
“late” RDs, PRs, or SRDs checked.
4. Reminder: Personal Experience Essay FCs due tomorrow.
5. Be sure to bring all your grammar notes to class tomorrow!
No Class – NHS Assembly
1. Journal: On a separate
piece of paper, discuss your satisfaction with your Personal Experience Essay
and mention the one most important thing you want me to comment on when I grade
it. Underline that area of focus. This
will be turned in with your final copy.
2. Turn in Personal Experience Essay final copy with self-reflection
(today’s journal) on top. Turn in SRD as well.
3. Grammar Workshop
a. Review the
first 31 Language of the Day lessons
we have covered.
b. Categorize the various lessons according
similarities. You can and should do this in
your own way.
1) Example: Commas, Spelling, Word
Usage, etc . . .
2) Example: Sentences, Transitions,
Spelling, Phrasing, etc . . .
c. Once you have your categories,
reorganize your notes to match your way of seeing the grammar lessons.
1) You can simply write the error name
under each category and leave your notes separate but connected. (most
efficient)
OR 2) You can rewrite all of your notes under
each category. (time consuming but most effective)
OR 3) You can cut and paste your notes under
each category. (the best of all worlds)
OR 4) You can combine all of these
electronically in a document your print out and put into your portfolio. (cool
but dangerous to learning if you simply copy and paste but don’t read and
study)
d. Work on categories and organization today.
1) If
you do option 1, 3, or 4 in c. above, this is due tomorrow.
2) If
you do option 2, yours is due Monday.
Friday
1. Journal: Explain the
categories you chose for the Grammar of
the Day lessons. Why did you separate
them the way you did? Do you tend to
understand the rules better if you have them organized and grouped in your own
way? Why or why not? In what other ways did you think of
organizing them? Why did you choose the
way you finally used over those other ways?
Conclude by explaining why I am having you do this to the grammar
lessons.
2. Cognitive Workshop & Language of the Day # 32
a. Discuss journal: Why classify? How pattern recognition and creation is the
typical measure of and perhaps most useful skill in your intellectual arsenal.
b. One way we all are tested (yes, I face
one of these tests in a year or so too!) is through the completion of analogies
– great tools for honing your ability to recognize how ideas are related. You’ll need a couple skills though, skills
related to what we do in this class.
1) The
ability to classify, form patterns, and relationships. In short, the ability to organize.
a) We’ll do this one first because
it’s more fun and because it will reveal to you why you need to improve
vocabulary.
b) Now, let’s go look at some
analogies, how they work, and how we are tested on them: Analogy Practice.
2) A sophisticated vocabulary
a) Words determine how you see the
world, the more sophisticated your vocabulary, the greater your understanding
of the world, and your ability to tell others what you want and need and feel
and organize, etc. The classic example:
the x number of words Eskimos have for snow.
b) A look at the Visual Thesaurus to show you how
words mix and meander in meaning.
c) The SAT tends to favor certain words, so
we’ll make our study of vocabulary for now more useful by studying it.
d) A typical SAT study game. And another,
if time.
3. Be sure your reorganized grammar notes are in your portfolio. Those who went for option 2, be sure it’s in
there by Monday.
4. HW: Read Classification Essay chapter 9 by next Tuesday.