Lesson Plans English I Pre-AP Johnson/Hahn First Nine Weeks August 27-October 26 Week 1 Monday, August 27 1. Policies/procedures program 3. Summer reading assignments/questions/due dates 4. Example of what the annotated book notes should like in spirals HW-supplies need to be brought to class by Friday Tuesday, August 28 1. Summer reading spirals due! 2. Poster/photo story projects of The House on Mango Street due! 3. Present in class Wednesday, August 29 1. Group review over Mango Street 2. Students teach others what they learned 3. HW-explain vignette/students write their own mirroring My Name -due by Friday Thursday, August 30 1. Mango Street test HW-Bring book for SSR Friday, August 31 1. Hand out nine weeks SSR project Week 2 Monday, September 3-no school Tuesday, September 4
1. Fahrenheit 451 essay due 2. Share with class 3. Read The Veldt 4. If time, short video of Ray Bradbury and how he came to write 451 Wednesday, September 5 1. Compare/contrast the two readings 2. Assign dialectical journal for 451(text-to-text/world/self connections) 3. Give review sheet Thursday, September 6 1. Work with partners on review Friday, September 7 1. Test over 451 when done 3. IR Book sheet 1 due Week 3 Monday, September 10 Short stories Warm-up: journal over writing appetizer 1. Short story notes on power point Tuesday, September 11 Warm-up (do together) look at dictionary and hand out dictionary scavenger hunt 1. SAT vocabulary-copy 10 words and definitions/part of speech into spiral 2. Write own sentence for each and turn in 3. Begin A Sound of Thunder Wednesday, September 12 Warm-up prefixes/suffixes 1. Finish A Sound of Thunder 2. Discuss plot, symbolism 3. Short story film 2081 4. Viewing questions
5. How does it relate to 451 and A Sound of Thunder Thursday, September 13 Warm-up-Daily oral language 1. Discuss symbolism/non-linear plot/theme 2. Intro into The Scarlet Ibis what it is? Setting and time period 3. Begin reading Friday, September 14 Week 4 1. SSR Monday, September 17 Warm-up-Journal writing appetizer 1. Finish The Scarlet Ibis 2. Assign group project over symbolism/theme 3. Share with class Tuesday, September 18 1. SAT vocab test 1 2. SAT unit 2 words copy words/definition/part of speech 3. Write a sentence for homework 4. Short answer questions over The Scarlet Ibis Wednesday, September 19 EOC Benchmark-writing Thursday, September 20 Friday, September 21 EOC Benchmark-reading 1. IR Book book sheet 2 due Week 5 Monday, September 22
1. Read The Most Dangerous Game 2. Plot diagram 3. Linear plot 4. Characterization between Rainsford/General Zaroff Tuesday, September 23 1. Vocab test 2 2. SAT vocab 3/definitions and parts of speech 3. Homework-sentences 4. Finish reading The Most Dangerous Game 5. Open-ended questions Wednesday, September 24 Warm-up-Grammar lesson parts of speech inventory test 1. Edgar Allan Poe bio-kwl 2. Background of The Cask of the Amontillado 3. Read story, discuss vocabulary, use of formal language 4. Youtube short video clip-parsons project song Thursday, September 25 Warm-up-Daily oral language 1. Irony 2. Read The Necklace or The Gift of the Magi Friday, September 26 1. IR Book Sheet 3 due Week 6 Monday, October 1 Warm-up analogies/and or journal 1. Flocabulary-these are the 5 things 2. Handout 3. Students will construct a short story on lines STAAR paper Tuesday, October 2 1. SAT vocab test 3
2. SAT vocab words unit 4/definitions/part of speech 3. Homework-sentences 4. Peer edit short story Wednesday, October 3 Warm-up- Grammar exercise 1. Type final copy of short story Thursday, October 4 Warm-up Daily Oral Language 1. Compare non-fiction/fiction 2. Read non-fiction essay or except from Hiroshima 3. Go over non-fiction vocabulary Friday, October 5 1. IR Book Sheet #4 due Week 7 Monday, October 8 Warm-up-Look at picture and journal/how does perspective change looking at it? Specifically addressing WWII 1. Notes over William Golding 2. Notes over characters, setting, themes of Lord of the Flies 3. Pass out study questions for each chapter Tuesday, October 9 1. SAT vocab test #4 2. SAT words unit 5/definitions/part of speech 3. Homework-sentences 4. Read chapter 1 Lord of the Flies Wednesday, October 10 Warm-up-grammar exercise 1. Chapter 2 of LOTF 2. Study questions 3. Quiz 1/2
Thursday, October 11 Warm-up Daily Oral Language 1. Chapter 3-5 by Monday Friday, October 12 1. IR Book Sheet #5-last one of 9 weeks -LOTF Week 8 Monday, October 15 Warm up-journal 1. Chapter 6 2. Discuss symbolism in Simon s death 3. Allegory(Garden of Eden) Tuesday, October 16 1. SA T vocab test 5 2. Watch 1960 s film over LOTF chapters 1-6 3. Test review Wednesday, October 17 1. LOTF test chapters 1-6 Thursday, October 18 Warm-up Daily Oral Language 1. Chapter 7-9 by Monday 2. Study Guide questions Friday, October 19 Week 9 1. SSR-LOTF read thru chapter 9 Monday, October 22 Warm-up-Journal 1. Chapter 10
2. Assign character analysis assignment 3. Find quotes to support background, appearance, personality, traits of characters from book due- Tuesday, October 23 1. Chapter 11 Wednesday, October 24 1. Finish book 2. Test, study questions won t be due until next week due to SSR projects Thursday, October 25 SSR projects due-present in class Friday, October 26(end of nine weeks) 1. SSR projects if needed to finish 2. If not, LOTF movie 2 nd nine weeks Week 1 Monday, October 29 1. Unit test over Lord of the Flies 2. Study questions due 3. Assign dialectical journal? Tuesday, October 3 1. SAT vocab unit 6 words/definitions/part of speech 2. Homework-sentences 3. Begin poetry