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ELA GT Drills. Mrs. Demos 2012-2013 Quarter One. Drill 9/4 Basket Items!. Homework: Complete presentation due 9/6 Objective: The students will demonstrate the ability to apply concepts of word, phrase, clause, and sentence in order to write effective sentences.
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ELA GT Drills Mrs. Demos 2012-2013 Quarter One
Drill 9/4 Basket Items! • Homework: Complete presentation due 9/6 • Objective:The students will demonstrate the ability to apply concepts of word, phrase, clause, and sentence in order to write effective sentences. • Drill: Look at the photo on the next slide, and compose a compound sentence describing the action.
Drill 9/5 • Homework: Complete presentation due 9/6 • Objective:The students will demonstrate the ability to apply concepts of word, phrase, clause, and sentence in order to write effective sentences. • Drill: Add an appositive phrase to the following sentence. • Example: The Terrapins, the football team, will have a tough year. • Your Sentence: If Ray Rice and Joe Flaco have a good year, the Ravens will do well.
Drill 9/6 • Homework: Grammar Quiz 9/10 • Objective: Students will demonstrate the ability to listen effectively in order to construct meaning. • Drill: Take out all materials for your presentation. Go over final preparations with your group for the presentations. Clear your desk of everything but a writing instrument and paper.
Drill 9/7 • Homework: Grammar Quiz 9/10 • Objective: Students will demonstrate the ability to listen effectively in order to construct meaning. • Drill: Take out all materials for your presentation. Go over final preparations with your group for the presentations. Clear your desk of everything but a writing instrument and paper.
Drill 9/10 • Homework: Go Ravens! Game at 7:00pm • Objective: Students will demonstrate knowledge of basic grammar concepts in order to improve their writing. • Drill: Take out your notes and review for the quiz.
Drill 9/11 • Homework: Figurative Language sentences • Objective: The student will be able to analyze and evaluate how specific language choices contribute to meaning in order to interpret the text. • Drill: Identify each of the following. Give an example if you can. • Metaphor Hyperbole Personification • Simile Onomatopoeia Alliteration
Drill 9/12 • Take out the figurative language sentences • Homework: Hunter/Hunted Paragraph due 9/14 • Objective: Students will develop prior knowledge of the author and text in order to be prepared to read. • Drill: View the painting “The Hungry Lion” by Henry Rousseau. • Describe the emotions of the hunter and of the hunted.
9/13 • Homework: hunter/Hunted Paragraph • Objective: Homework: Hunter Hunted Paragraph • Objective: Students will annotate story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell in order to understand theme. • Drill: Identify the figurative language and explain what it is trying to tell the reader. • “The door opened then--opened as suddenly as if it were on a spring--and Rainsford stood blinking in the river of glaring gold light that poured out” (Connell).
Drill 9/14 • Take out the Hunter/Hunted paragraph. • Homework: Review for figurative language quiz on Wednesday 9/19. • Objective: Students will annotate story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell in order to understand theme. • Drill: What is theme?
Drill 9/18 • Homework: Review for figurative language quiz on Wednesday 9/19. • Objective: Students will annotate story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell in order to understand theme. • Drill: With your team define all the terms on the hand-out. Staple the vocabulary into your planner for study.
Drill 9/19 • Homework: Sentence Combining • Objective: Students will interpret figures of speech in context in order to understand the author’s message. • Drill: Identify the type of figurative language. Explain what Shakespeare is saying. • All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances.William Shakespeare
Drill 9/20 • Take out sentence combining homework • Homework: Review notes • Objective: Students will cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. • Drill: Theme is the message the author is trying to share with the reader. Based on yesterday’s discussion and textual evidence, what is one possible theme of the story “The Most Dangerous Game”? (Reread page 74 for text evidence)
Drill 9/21 Homework: Complete writing assignment if not done in class. • Objective: Students will analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. • Drill: Write down the homework. • Get a computer. • Log on. • Open a word document.
Drill 9/24 • Homework: MDG Test on 9/28 • Bring in a white T-shirt • Objective: Students will cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. • Drill: • 1. Pick at least three character traits for General Zaroff. And two for Sanger Rainsford. • 2. Cite evidence from the text to support your answer. 3.Record your answer on the character traits chart.
Drill 9/25 • Homework: MDG Test on 9/28 • Bring in a white T-shirt • Objective: Students will determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text. • Drill: With your team complete the “Most Dangerous Game” plot chart.
Drill 9/27 • Homework: MDG Test on 9/28 • Bring in a white T-shirt • Objective :Students will review characterization, plot, theme, imagery, and figurative language in order to prepare for the “Most Dangerous Game” test. • Drill: With your team start completing the “Most Dangerous Game” review guide.
Drill 9/28 • Homework: Bring in a white T-shirt • Objective: Students will demonstrate knowledge of characterization, theme, plot, and vocabulary of the “Most Dangerous Game.” • Drill: Take out your characterization chart, plot chart and review sheet. Review for the test.