26th Week March 1-5, 2010

English IIB
Lesson Plan #26 Week #26
March 1-5, 2010

Selection: Night by Elie Wiesel, pages 64-88
- Focus on: character, characterization, setting, plot, details, figurative language, irony, grammar concepts

- For imagery: sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste
- For details: concrete details
- For language: metaphor, simile, allusions, rhetorical devices (logical-logos, ethical-ethos, emotional-pathos, and others
- For syntax: sentence structure, punctuation, parallelism, anaphora, epistrophe

Homework:
Prepare for reading TAKS, March 3
Vocabulary (Farewell to Manzanar)TBA

Activities
On Monday, we will go over your essays. Then, you will finish the revising and editing part of your TAKS packet. We will review grammar and mechannics, capitalization, and sentence construction. ON Tuesday, we will review imagery, voice, and details. I will give you time to practice. On Wednesday, you will take the reading TAKS test. After the test, we will go over Night guide questions. On Thursday, we will continue discussing the guide questions and I will give you a reading check based on the novel and study guide questions. We will then finish the Night reading check on Friday. I will give a long test on Night the following Monday if we finish discussion.

25th Week Feb 22-26, 2010

This week, we will continue with our TAKS lessons. Last week, we finished the literary part of the lesson. We will continue with expository and crossover as well as the writing and revising and editing part.

Make yourself familiar with ACE- ANSWER the question, provide text EVIDENCE to support your response, and provide a COMMENTARY in the form of an insightful or analytical overarching statement that binds makes a clear connection between the answer and support. After we finish all TAKS preparation, we will go back to Night and the study questions.

A vocabulary #s 51-60 quiz will be given on Monday, March 1. A test on Night and vocabulary will be given on Monday next week.

24th Week Feb 16-19, 2010

TAKS! TAKS! TAKS!!! TAKS is all we are doing this week. We'll start with the essay you wrote last time and have you write a new one with a different topic. Then we'll look at samples so you'll have an idea what each score looks like. We will look at samples of narratives with specific voice, theme, etc.
After we have exhausted everything you can learn for the essay writing, we'll look at the open ended response part of your practice TAKS.

23rd Week Feb. 8-12, 2010

Due to my absences last week, we will discuss all activities you accomplished then. On Monday, I will give you the regular vocabulary quiz and discuss the TAKS multiple choice answers. ON Tuesday and Wednesday, you will work on activities in the GUM book. ON Thursday, we will go over the open ended response questions and answers. On Friday, we'll go over Night study questions and answers.