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English 10, week 15 Wrapping up unit two and introducing MCAS

English 10, week 15 Wrapping up unit two and introducing MCAS. 12/13/10-12/17/10.

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English 10, week 15 Wrapping up unit two and introducing MCAS

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  1. English 10, week 15Wrapping up unit two and introducing MCAS 12/13/10-12/17/10

  2. Monday, 12.13.10Learning Goals: SWBAT1. Assemble the unit two essay portfolio and review a partner’s portfolio. 2. Restate the main idea of an essay on Slumdog Millionaire by completing an extra credit assignment. Do Now: Agenda: Do Now What are the learning goals? Preview the week Last day to wrap up unit two essay portfolios! Portfolio share Students who are done can complete a challenge assignment for extra credit! Essay Portfolios due today by 3:15! • Take out your essay portfolios!

  3. Portfolio Exchange!Directions: When you finish your project, trade portfolio’s with a partner and complete the following feedback form. Your Name: ________________ Your Partner’s Name: _____________________ • What did you learn about your partner from reading through his/her portfolio? Explain. • What do you think your partner learned about writing from completing this project? • What do you think is the strongest part of the writer’s portfolio and why? • How is the work in your partner’s portfolio similar to and/or different from your own?

  4. Unit Two Challenge Assignment (Extra Credit) LG/SWBAT: Assemble the unit two essay portfolio and review a partner’s portfolio. Directions: Read the essay “Slumdog Millionaire and Epistemologies of the City” and mark-up the text (complete margin summary notes after every third paragraph). Then, answer the following questions in the form of a letter to the authors of the essay: • Epistemology: This is a discipline within philosophy concerned with the nature and limitations of knowledge. It addresses the questions: • What is knowledge? • How is knowledge acquired? • How do we know what we know? • What is the thesis, or main idea of the essay? • What is the author’s purpose? Why did UlkaAnjaria and Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria write this essay? • What did you learn about the movie? About India from reading this essay? • Choose one important quote from the essay and explain what you think the quote means and why you think it is important/interesting. • What questions do you have about this article for the writers?

  5. Tuesday 12/14/10Learning Goals: SWBAT1. Summarize the different sections/tasks on the MCAS exam. 2. Explain the significance of the MCAS exam and how their performance on this exam will impact their future. 3. Identify specific test-taking strategies for answering vocabulary questions in relation to a reading passage on the MCAS exam. Do Now: Agenda: Do Now and share/review MCAS overview– what is it? When is it? What are the parts? What will I have to do? How will this test affect my future? Test-taking strategies for vocabulary questions. Practice together Practice with a partner Practice on your own (hw if you don’t finish in class) • What do you do when you take a standardized test to stay focused? • What test-taking strategies did you learn in past years? • How have these test-taking strategies helped you?

  6. General Information about the English MCAS Exam LG/SWBAT: Summarize the different sections/tasks on the MCAS exam. • MCAS= Massachusetts Comprehension Assessment System • All 10th graders across the state will take the exact same exam at the same time, under the same testing conditions. • Your test is not scored by your teachers– exams are sent away to be scored • Your test scores are used to evaluate the level of instruction of our school and your promotion to the next grade. • Your test scores become a part of your transcript, which means the colleges you apply to will see your scores. • Your test scores also determine your eligibility for the John and Abigail Adams scholarship which is a merit based scholarship based on the top 25% of the school district and gets you free tuition at any Umass school for four years. • The test includes reading passages, multiple choice questions, open response questions (one-two paragraphs) and a long-comp. (5 paragraph essay). • The test is untimed– you have as much time as you need to finish the test and none of the sections are timed (unlike the IOWA). The test is administered over the course of three testing days. • You will not have regular classes during MCAS testing. • The date for this year’s MCAS exam is March 22nd(long comp.) 23rd (reading comprehension and open respons) and March 24th (also reading comprehension and multiple choice). • You will taking a practice MCAS exam this week in English and Social Studies to see which areas we need to most focus on during MCAS prep instruction. Some of you will be placed in mandatory MCAS prep classes after school based on your practice score.

  7. More info. on the structure of the test! LG/SWBAT: Summarize the different sections/tasks on the MCAS exam. • You will be given 36 multiple choice questions in relation to 4 or 5 reading passages (poetry, non-fiction and fiction). • You will write 4 open response paragraphs specifically in relation to a prompt and one of the reading passages. • You will write 1 long comp. (essay) in response to a prompt and one of the books you have read either in 9th or 10th grade. You are required to write a rough draft and a final draft. You are expected to also complete an outline before your rough draft.

  8. LG/SWBAT: Summarize the different sections/tasks on the MCAS exam. What Kinds of Reading Passages Might be on the Test?

  9. LG/SWBAT Identify specific test-taking strategies for answering vocabulary questions in relation to a reading passage on the MCAS exam. Vocabulary and Language Questions on the MCAS exam • You will be asked vocabulary questions on the MCAS in relation to a passage. • You can often figure out the meaning of the word by looking at the word’s context– the words and sentences around the word (before and after). Practice: Kirk was a huge hunk of a dog. When standing upright on his hind legs, he could easily rest his front paws on a man’s shoulders. His enormous presence scared most passersby when Kirk strolled in the park on his daily walk on the leash. Other dogs, too, shunned Kirk, fearing death or severe injury should Kirk decide to clamp down on their flesh with his crushing jaws. No one had reason to worry, however. Terrified of squirrels and distrustful of robins and butterflies, Kirk was the most docile dog in the world. Use the context of this passage to determine the meaning of the word docile. Write the meaning of the word on the line below: ______________________________________________________________________

  10. LG/SWBAT Identify specific test-taking strategies for answering vocabulary questions in relation to a reading passage on the MCAS exam. Vocabulary and Language Questions on the MCAS exam • Some questions will ask you about words with multiple meanings and you will have to determine which meaning matches the word based on the context of the passage. • Some questions will ask you about words used as idioms– expressions that are natural to people from a particular area or part of the world. Example, “backseat driver” does not literally mean someone who drives from the backseat. Or “Go back to square one.” • Some questions might ask you to identify words in a passage that are jargon– that is, words related to a particular field. Ex: mouse, keyboard, drive, printer. • Some MCAS questions might ask you to identify a word’s part of speech. Many words can be used as different parts of speech depending on the context of the word (ex: buckle can be both a noun as in your belt buckle, or a verb as in buckle your belt.)

  11. LG/SWBAT Identify specific test-taking strategies for answering vocabulary questions in relation to a reading passage on the MCAS exam. Test-taking Strategies for answering multiple choice question and reading passages • Preview the questions before you read so you have a reading focus. • Read actively– annotate the text by taking margin summary notes– this will help you go back and answer questions. • If the passage is short, re-read it– often it takes more than one reading to understand what the passage is about– this is especially true of poems. • Read the directions carefully for each section. • Underline key words in the directions. • Read all possible answer choices for multiple choice questions. • Use process of elimination to answer multiple choice • Look back at the text to find answers.

  12. Writing the Long Comp. on the MCAS Exam • Read the prompt! • Turn the prompt into a question! • Example: In literature, a character often has major flaws that lead to his/her downfall. • Which character has such big problems that they fall apart, or go downhill? 4. Answer your own question: In The Tempest, Prospero is a proud, vengeful man and these character flaws lead to his downfall. Your answer to your own question becomes your thesis statement! 5. Write an outline! Be sure to include three specific examples from the text that support your thesis!

  13. 6. Write a rough draft! Make sure your intro. Includes a hook, a lead-in (with the title and author of the book you’re going to write about) and your thesis statement. You need to have three body paragraphs (each paragraph needs to be at least 5 sentences long) and a conclusion where you re-visit your thesis and summarize the main points of your body paragraphs. 7. Proof-read your essay! 8. RE-write your final draft!

  14. Wednesday 12.15.10Learning Goals: SWBAT1. explain the purpose of the mock MCAS. 2. complete the long composition section of the mock MCAS exam. Do Now: Agenda: Do Now Collect hw (practice mcas passages) Review long comp. steps and expectations Mock MCAS! • Review your notes from yesterday. • Summarize the steps you need to take to complete the long composition (essay section) section of the mock MCAS.

  15. 12/16/10 (Thursday) Learning Goals: SWBAT1. Complete the long composition section on the Mock MCAS Exam. 2. Review their answers to the practice exercises for vocabulary and language questions. Do Now: Agenda: Do Now /share Preview learning goals and agenda for today. Students finish long comp from yesterday Students work on practice passages Go over vocabulary/language passages (HW from Monday night). Homework: Complete the Vocabulary and Language Practice part two exercises. • What was most difficult about the mock MCAS yesterday? • What was easy about it? • How is the long comp. section of the MCAS similar to the essays you write for English class? • How is this kind of task different than writing an essay for English class?

  16. Friday 12/17/10Learning Goals: SWBAT1. summarize the unit three essential questions. 2. compose a response and support their position on various statements relating to the themes and big ideas in unit three on a unit three anticipation guide. Do Now: Agenda: Do Now (HW check: test prep packet #2) Pass back test prep packet #1 and go over. Go over test prep packet #2 Anticipation guide and “Take a Stand” activity. Introduce new unit (cover page and essential questions). Ask students how they think the • Read the statements on the anticipation guide and write either “agree” or “disagree” next to each statement. • Choose one statement that you feel the most strongly about and copy the statement onto the top of your next Do Now page in your notebook. Under the statement, explain why you either agree or disagree with it in at least three complete sentences. Homework: Write a response to three more statements from the anticipation guide (in addition to the one you wrote about for your Do Now)

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