Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Day 25 - Periods 1, 2, 5, & 6 Wednesday, 3/5 AND Period 4 Thursday, 3/6

Objective: Apply reading strategies + prior knowledge of literary terms to a quiz


  1. Bellwork: Trade Act 4, Scenes 4-5 Question with a peer and answer it. Return to peer. Peer adds own thoughts. Turn in. (Per 4 & 5, finish asking questions).
  2. View http://english9today.blogspot.com/ on your phone.
  3. Review short answer response to Quiz 3
  4. Act 4 Quiz: Absent students, you must ask me for this!
  5. Read Act 5, Scenes 1 & 2 (This link takes you to an online script that you can print. Absent students can read online or get a copy from the cart under the flag upon return to class.)

Common Core Standard addressed in this lesson: 
  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.5a Interpret figures of speech (e.g., euphemism, oxymoron) in context and analyze their role in the text.
  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.10 By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.