Mr. Davis
Week of 2/27-3/3
Monday
- No bell assignment
- Example of presentation here (the only section completed is the first section - use same sort of structure for rest of presentation)
- Continue revising formal outline: Final Draft is due THURSDAY!
- Work on developing powerpoint presentation - presentations begin next Thursday!
Tuesday
- No bell assignment
- Continue revising formal outline: Final Draft is due THURSDAY!
- Work on developing powerpoint presentation - presentations begin next Thursday!
Wednesday
- No bell assignment
- Continue revising formal outline: Final Draft is due FRIDAY!
- Work on developing powerpoint presentation - presentations begin next Thursday!
Thursday
- No bell assignment
Friday
- No bell assignment
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Week of 2/20-2/24
Monday
NO SCHOOL: President's Day
Tuesday
- No bell assignment
- continue working on works cited: due Wednesday!
- continue working on rough draft formal outline: due Friday!
Wednesday
- No bell assignment
- Works Cited: Due today!
- continue working on rough draft formal outline: due Friday!
Thursday
- No bell assignment
- continue working on rough draft formal outline: due Friday!
Friday
- No bell assignment
- Rough draft formal outline due Today!
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Week of 2/13-2/17
Monday
- No bell assignment
- Continue working on facts!
- 5 sources and 50 facts due tomorrow!
- Working outline due Thursday!
Tuesday
- No bell assignment
- 5 sources and 50 facts due!
Wednesday
- No bell assignment
- Finish up facts for any who are behind
- Work to complete working outline: due tomorrow!
- Information and examples of working outline (pages 1 and 2) here
Thursday
- No bell assignment
- Working outline due today!
- Information and examples of working bibliography (works cited)
Friday
NO SCHOOL: Teacher's Institute
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Week of 2/6-2/10
Monday
- No bell assignment
- Check for 1st source printed
- Continue to work with thesis statements and working outline
- Cornell Notes available here
- Cornell Notes google docs (have to "make a copy") available here
Tuesday
- No bell assignment
- Show how to use google docs for cornell notes
1. Download word file from website
2. Upload to google drive
3. Click on file and “open with google docs”
4. Change name of file to “John Smith: cornell notes freshman”
5. Share document with “ddavis@ecusd7.org”
- Continue pulling facts from your article(s)
- DUE Tomorrow: 1 source, 10 facts (using google docs)
Wednesday
- No bell assignment
- Continue pulling facts from your article(s)
- Set your google drive and google docs set up! See steps from yesterday
- DUE TODAY: 1 source, 10 facts (using google docs)
Thursday
- No bell assignment
- Continue pulling facts from your article(s)
- Have you set-up your google drive and google docs?
- DUE Yesterday: 1 source, 10 facts (using google docs)
- Due tomorrow: 3 sources, 30 facts! (will have tablets)
Friday
- No bell assignment
- DUE today: 3 sources, 30 facts!
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Week of 1/30-2/3
Monday
- No bell assignment
- Check practice from Friday
- Continue practice with note-taking
1. Read article on sport specialization - link here
2. Complete the tasks on the Cornell Notes sheet - Due tomorrow!
Tuesday
- No bell assignment
- Finish practice with cornell notes practice from yesterday
- Check for completion
- Finalize topics today: research proposal due tomorrow! (last page of research packet)
Wednesday
- No bell assignment
- Check for complete research proposal
- Tablets in-class to find first source
- 1st source must come from databases found at Glen Carbon Library website (log-in information can be found in your research packet on page labeled "accessing databases"
Thursday
- No bell assignment
- Tablets in-class to continue finding sources: printed 1st source due by Monday!
Friday
- No bell assignment
- Work with thesis statements and working outline: sheet found here
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Week of 1/23-1/27
Monday
- No bell assignment
- Continue introducing research unit by going over class-specific packet (look at Friday 1/20 on schedule)
Tuesday
- No bell assignment
- Introduce evidence-based argument
- "The Case of the Dead Musician" assignment (use only page 1). Evidence sheet is here (use instead of page 2 of of Dead Musician assignment)
- Begin recording evidence and writing rules/warrants
Wednesday
- No Bell assignment
- Finish recording evidence and writing rules/warrants
- Begin drafting the report: rough draft due tomorrow!
- "Write the report" document here
Thursday
- No Bell Assignment
- Review rough draft with a partner in class
- As a class, review two student examples: Student 1, Student 2
Friday
- No Bell Assignment
- Final draft of Case of the Dead Musician report due today
- Introduce Purdue OWL information on quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
- Assignment: practice with quoting quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing here. Due Monday!
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Week of 1/16-1/20
Monday
NO SCHOOL: MLK day
Tuesday
- Bell Assignment: Free Write
- Recap phrases: all 6 types
- Phrase writing activity. Document here. DUE TOMORROW!
- Introduce clauses tomorrow
Wednesday
- No bell assignment
- Check phrase writing activity
- Introduce clauses: dependent vs. independent
- Take a practice quiz (just 1st page). Quiz here.
Thursday
- No bell assignment
- Continue work with clauses
- Take practice 2 (page 2 of quiz posted yesterday)
- Discuss punctuation in regards to clauses
- Assignment: write 5 sentences using phrases and clauses. Form and examples here.
Friday
- No Bell Assignment
- Quiz over phrases and clauses
- Introduce research unit. Packet of class-specific information here. EHS research packet grades 9-10 is here.
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Week of 1/9-1/13
Monday
- Bell Assignment:
Read the following quote:
“A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.” - William R. Gerler
What does the quote mean? What do you think of New Year’s resolutions? Are you able to keep them? Why/why not?
- Recap quiz: will hand back tomorrow - talk about common errors
- Will introduce participial phrases and infinitive phrases tomorrow
- Write poetry with grammar! (focusing on prepositional phrases and gerund phrases) Must write 2 poems, 1 of each form. Form and examples are here.
Tuesday
- No bell assignment
- Check poems for points
- Share poems with a partner. Share collectively.
- Introduce participial phrases and infinitive phrases
- No homework
Wednesday
- Bell assignment:
Continue the story starter:
“Squawking loudly, the radio made a weather announcement. ‘This just in, a major ice storm is expected to move into the area in the next 48 hours and could result in power outages. Proper precautions…’ I allowed the radio to trail off. 48 hours? That wasn’t enough time…”
- Continue to cover participial phrases and infinitive phrases
- Assign a new poem! Due tomorrow! Form and example here.
Thursday
- No Bell Assignment
- check poems from yesterday
- Introduce absolute phrase
- Homework: write 5 sets of: 2 simple sentences and 1 sentence that combines the simple sentences using an absolute phrase. Examples here.
Friday
- NO SCHOOL: Inclement weather
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Week of 1/3-1/6
Monday
- Last day of Holiday Break: NO SCHOOL!
Tuesday
- Bell Assignment: Welcome back! Pick one of the best things from your Christmas break and tell me about it in about 5 sentences.
- Talk about instructional design for next 4 weeks:
1. Short grammar unit focusing on applying concepts learned 1st semester
2. Begin research unit (6 weeks total)
- Recap parts of speech, phrases, clauses
- Assignment: Develop a simple sentence with an article (a, an, the), a subject, and a verb. Rewrite the sentence again adding another part of speech (keep it simple, one or two words at a time). Repeat to incorporate examples of all 8 parts of speech. Do a total of 3 sentences. Will be checked tomorrow! Example here.
Wednesday
- Bell Assignment: Continue the story starter:
“The snow began to fall, the cold air bit at my skin, but I couldn’t stop now; I was so close to my goal…”
- Check for 3 sentence progressions incorporating all 8 parts of speech
- Handout: The phrase resource drawer. Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6
- Cover prepositional phrases: no homework
Thursday
- No Bell Assignment
- Recap prepositional phrases
- Cover appositive and gerund phrases
- Write 3 sentences in the following format:
gerund phrase, appositive phrase, verb/verb phrase + adjective
- Quiz tomorrow over phrases and parts of speech!
Friday
- Bell Assignment: Free Write Friday
- Recap phrases
- Quiz over parts of speech and phrases