Mrs. Bennitt 2009-10 Term One Lesson Plans

1. Mrs. Bennitt 2009-10 Term One Lesson Plans

2. Tuesday, August 25, 2009 • Writing Notebook: Set up Section and Table of Contents • Activity #1: 8/25/09 What kind of reader are you? • Sequence Activity • Handout Questions • Contact Information

3. Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Collect Parent Contact Periods 1,2,5 Distribute Parent Contact Period 3,4 Collect Writing Activity #1 from periods 3 and 4 Folder Distribution • Begin first literature: • Sixth Grade Aesop’s Fables • Seventh Grade : Greek Creation Mythology • Eighth Grade: “Flowers for Algernon” • Notes: Meeting @ 8:00 • Cover Harris 3:35

4. Thursday, August 27, 2009 • Set Up folders: Periods 2-5 • Collect Parent Contact Letters Periods 3 &4 plus late ones • Sequencing Activity: MSS Book E page 8 • Seventh Grade: Edith Hamilton pages 63-74 “The Creation of the World and Mankind” and Prometheus p. 743 in the Red book; In the Writing Notebook: How does the Greek Creation myth resemble any other mythology you know? Answer the question “the Raa way”. • Sixth Grade: PowerPoint: Review the morals and assignment directions • Eighth Grade: Continue reading “Flowers for Algernon

5. Friday, August 28, 2009 • Collect Summer Reading from periods 1,2, and 5 • Collect late parent contact forms • Sequence MSS Book E Lesson 17 • Seventh Grade: Finish page 63 to 78 of Mythology book; watch Pandora’s Box; Distribute mythology test. • Sixth Grade: Paired reading assignment: Fables • Eighth Grade: Flowers for Algernon

6. Monday, August 31, 2009 • Chores: • Collect Summer Reading from periods 1,2, and 5 absent students; • Distribute extra dividers to seventh grade; • Collect late parent contact forms • Learning: • Sequence MSS Book F Lesson 8 • Seventh Grade: Finish page 63 to 78 of Mythology book; work on page one of mythology “test”. Work on Pantheon Posters. • Sixth Grade: Paired reading assignment: Fables; Work on Fractured Fables Poster • Eighth Grade: Flowers for Algernon

7. Pantheon Posters • Pick a partner. Choose your role: artist or writer • Choose your deity from the list at the right • Read everything in both books about your deity • Discuss what should be in the summary. • Writer: Write the summary on lined paper; trim neatly and glue onto the poster. • Artist: Draw your deity. Use the description in the book for inspiration. • Choose a modern-day celebrity to play the part of your deity in a movie. Find a picture of that celebrity and add it to the poster. • Present your poster to the class. Defend your celebrity choice. • Zeus • Hera • Demeter • Hestia • Hephaestus • Poseidon • Apollo • Athena • Artemis • Ares • Persephone • Prometheus • Pandora • Dionysus

8. Tuesday, September 1, 2009 • Chores: Collect missing parent contact forms • Seventh Grade: • Work in pairs on Pantheon Posters • Sixth Grade: • Work in pairs on Fabulous Fables Storyboard • Eighth Grade: • Finish reading “Flowers for Algernon”. Read the news article about the mistreatment of mentally disabled students at a Corpus Christi Texas school.

9. Wednesday, September 2, 2009 • Chores: • Collect Parent Contact Forms. • All classes: Sequencing Drill: MSS Book F-3 Lesson 17 • Sixth Grade: • Complete and present Fabulous Fables storyboards. • Complete Sequence LAP activities A and C. • Seventh Grade: • Complete and present Pantheon Posters. • Complete Sequence LAP activities A and C. • Eighth Grade: • Complete Flowers for Algernon Assessment. • Complete Sequence LAP activities A and C.

10. Thursday, September 3, 2009 • Chores: Collect Parent Contact forms • Sequence Activities • Sixth: • Share some storyboards • Allegory Thesaurus Search • Seventh: • Share some Pantheon Posters • www.mythweb.com • Eighth: • Turn in completed “Flowers for Algernon” assessments to Completed Work folder • Cliques vs Gangs • Character Discussion: Respect

11. The Olympians • Zeus • Poseidon • Hades • Hera • Hestia • Demeter Athena Apollo Aphrodite Ares Hephaestus Persephone

12. Allegory: A story in which animals have human characteristics • Donkey: stubborn • Horse: noble • Fox: dishonest • Tortoise: slow • Hare fast • Serpent: mischievous • Ant: careful • Monkey: smart • Peacock: pride • Wolf: mean • Dog: faithful • Use the thesaurus to look up synonyms for each characteristic. You have fifteen minutes to get at least three for each.

13. Sentence Beginnings • When the circus started, the audience exploded in a burst of loud applause. • When the lady who had disappeared suddenly reappeared, the audience exploded in a burst of loud applause. • After the piano recital, the audience exploded in a burst of loud applause. • After the baseball player hit a home run, the audience exploded in a burst of loud applause.

14. Sequencing: LAP Dr. Peterson said to the student, “Steven, please be careful. This mixture could explode. Please read the instructions before you begin.”

15. HOWEVER, Steven did not have a chance to read the instructions before he began his work. Steven placed the full test tube in the holder. After the test tube was in the holder, Steven was concerned. The material in the test tube was bubbling, even though he had not yet applied heat with the gas flame. Soon, someone knocked at the door and said, “ Is everything all right in here? I heard a loud noise.” Luckily, everyone was safe, but the test tube had cracked, and the experiment had to be stopped for that day.

16. Friday, September 4, 2009 • Complete the Sequencing Unit. Staple and turn in all sequencing activities from your notebook. Turn in late Parent Contact forms, Pantheon Posters, Fable Storyboards, etc. • Sixth Grade: • 1. Finish the Thesaurus Hunt; 2. From Fables to Fairy Tales: “The Tinder Box” Read-Aloud • Comparison: What do fairy tales have in common with fables? • Seventh Grade: • Second Period: Finish taking notes on the Olympians • Nature Myths: Blue Books pages 77-94 Orpheus and Narcissus • Compare these two very different men • Eighth Grade: • Finish the LAP • Character Discussion: Respect Choose and complete one of the writing activities.

17. Tuesday, 9/8/09 • Set up folders; file graded papers • Sixth Grade: • Present Storyboards • Write original fable • Seventh Grade: • Five Sentence Summaries: The Greek Gods • Narcissus and Echo • Eighth Grade: • Persuade your peers to act respectfully toward one another • The Treasure of Lemon Brown

18. Respect • Treating people with whom you disagree with respect and tolerance is essential in the classroom and in society. • Write to explain why treating people with whom you disagree respectfully is very important in the classroom and society. Include examples of what can happen to the classroom environment when respect is not shown to all people and all ideas.

19. 9/9/09 • Set up folders; file graded papers • Sixth Grade: • Present Storyboards • Write original fable • Seventh Grade: • Five Sentence Summaries: The Greek Gods • Narcissus and Echo • Eighth Grade: • Persuade your peers to act respectfully toward one another • The Treasure of Lemon Brown p. 5-13 • “That which is worth most is often valued least”

20. 9/10/09 • Set up folders; file graded papers • RFU Reading Center: • Sixth Grade: • Finish original fable; Read aloud • Seventh Grade: • Narcissus and Echo • Compare Narcissus and Orpheus • Eighth Grade: • Turn in late “Respect” essays • Literature terms PowerPoint/vocabulary • The Treasure of Lemon Brown p. 5-13 • Create Plot Outline • How does the story illustrate the following theme: • “That which is worth most is often valued least”

21. 9/11-15/09 • RFU Reading Warm-up • Sixth Grade: Write an original fable • Seventh Grade: Cupid and Psyche Black book page 96 • Eighth Grade: Plot Chart: Lemon Brown

22. Wednesday 9/16/09 Seventh Grade: • Last chance to turn in Orpheus/Narcissus writing • Cupid & Psyche video • Lit notes/chart Cupid (Use black myth book page 96) • Sixth Grade Reading: • Finish Fabulous Fables • Take Literary Terms notes • Chart The Tinder Box • Eighth Grade: • Finish Literary Terms notes • Chart Lemon Brown • Read “Homeless”

23. Thursday, 9/17/09 • Seventh Grade: • LAST CHANCE to turn in plot diagram for “Cupid and Psyche” • Lit Book: Atalanta’s Race p. 714 • Identify types of conflict in the story • Sixth Grade: • Notes on Story Structure, Characterization, and Conflict • Twenty Minute Free Read in the Literature Book: Fables and Folklore Genre • Eighth Grade: • Green Book; Twenty Minute Free Read: Unit One: No Place Like Home • Personal Response page 94 • Introduce the novel: The Outsiders

24. Friday, 9/18/2009 • Sixth Grade: • Work in fable groups to create a plot chart • Friday Read-Aloud: Thumbelina • Seventh Grade: Begin watching PBS In Search of: Jason and read about him on www.mythweb.com • Eighth Grade: • The Outsiders; Chapters 1-5 • Character Chart • Plot Chart

25. The Outsiders: Character Sketches • Ponyboy Curtis • Sodapop Curtis • Darry Curtis • “Dally” Winston • Johnny Cade • Steve Randle • Two-Bit Matthews • Cherry Valance • Marcia • Bob • Randy

26. Monday, 9/21/09 • Volleyball today at Ft. Braden; Good luck, Lady Rams. • ALL CLASSES: RFU #34 • Sixth Grade Reading: • Create plot chart for your story • Remove fables from outside wall and share with the class • Seventh Grade: • Complete PBS In Search of: Jason and the Argonauts • Read about Jason at www.mythweb.com • Use book to complete notes • Eighth Grade: • Complete chapter 1 and 2 of The Outsiders • Complete character sketches • Write a paragraph summarizing the exposition of the novel to include the characters, the conflict, and the backstory

27. Tuesday, 9/22/09 • RAA football vs Griffin @ Chiles 6:30 Go Rams! • Seventh Grade: • Reading Textbook: Page 205-219 • Complete PBS: In Search of Jason and www.mythweb.com • Note check • Sixth Grade: • RFU #34 • Fable plot chart • Study Skills: Essential questions survey • Eighth Grade: • Reading Textbook: Page 176-192 • Outsiders Chapter 2 from page 23 • Write a paragraph explicating the exposition of the novel • (See next slide)

28. Last Kiss • What is the setting? • Who are the characters? • Put the events of the plot on the chart. • What is the mood of the story? • What is the theme of the story?

29. The OutsidersWriting Assignment #1 • The conflicts that Ponyboy Curtis and the greasers have with their general condition and with the Socs are clearly shown in the first two chapters of The Outsiders. • Write a paragraph explaining the conflicts that the greasers have to face. Cite specific events or incidents referred to in the first two chapters to support your explanation.

30. One Paragraph Organizer • Topic: Conflicts in The Outsiders • Lead Sentence: • Conflict #1: • Something that happened that shows this conflict • Conflict #2 • Something that happened that shows this conflict • Conflict #3 • Something that happened that shows this conflict • Concluding Sentence

31. Wednesday, 9/23/09 • Lady Rams volleyball HERE vs Swift Creek; Go Rams! • Seventh Grade: • Reading Textbook: finish Persephone Plot Chart • Read and Answer: pages 220-225 • Jason’s Voyage continued • Sixth Grade: • Finish fable plot chart • SRA Red • Study Skills Unit: Distribute and discuss “Personal Learning Styles” • Eighth Grade: • Reading Textbook: Finish “First Kiss” Plot Chart • Read and Answer pages 193-205 • The Outsiders: Chapter 2: from middle of page 26

32. Thursday, 9/24/09 • Seventh Grade: • Reading Book: Finish Chapter 8 pages 226-234 • Collect Chapter 8 work and Persephone questions and plot chart • Sixth Grade: • Finally finish the fable plot chart • Finish SRA card • Study Skills Unit: What is your learning style • Eighth Grade: • Reading Textbook: Complete Chapter 8 pages 207-214 • Collect Chapter 8 and “Last Kiss” plot chart

33. Friday, 9/25/09 • Seventh Grade: • Turn in Reading Textbook Chapter Eight • Media Center Orientation and book check-out • Sixth Grade: • Finally finish the fable plot chart • Finish SRA card • Eighth Grade: • If you have work from chapter eight of the Reading Textbook, turn it in. • Media Center Orientation and book check-out

34. Monday, 9/28/09 • All Classes: RFU #41 • Writes Upon Request tomorrow first period • Seventh Grade: Return papers; review plot chart; continue Jason WITH NOTES • Sixth Grade: Fables Plot Chart • Eighth Grade: Return papers; review plot chart; continue The Outsiders

35. Tuesday, 9/29/09 • HOMEROOM: WUR #1 No First Period • Seventh Grade Period Two: • Read Jason in the black mythology book • Sixth Grade: • Present fables and tell stories • Finish SRA lesson • Eighth Grade: • Grammar Warm-up: Double Negatives • Outsiders Chapter 2

36. Wednesday, 9/30/09 • RFU #42 • Grammar Warm-up: Adjective Clauses • Seventh Grade: The Quest for the Golden Fleece p. 123 – 127 and www.mythweb.com; In Search of Jason: the final segment • Sixth Grade: Present Plot Charts for the paired readings completed last week (Fourth Period: Complete original fable presentations • Eighth Grade: Choose sides: Greaser or Soc; complete Chapter One and Two Study Guide in pairs

37. Thursday, 10/01/09 • RFU #42 • Grammar Warm-up: Adjective Clauses • Seventh Grade: The Quest for the Golden Fleece p. 123 – 127 and www.mythweb.com; In Search of Jason: the final segment • Sixth Grade: Present Plot Charts for the paired readings completed last week (Fourth Period: Complete original fable presentations • Eighth Grade: Choose sides: Greaser or Soc; complete Chapter One and Two Study Guide in pairs

38. Friday, 10/02/09 • Grammar Warm-up: Adjective Clauses • Seventh Grade: The Quest for the Golden Fleece p. 123 – 127 and www.mythweb.com; In Search of Jason: the final segment • Sixth Grade: Present Plot Charts for the paired readings completed yesterday; Friday Read-Aloud • Eighth Grade: Sit on your sides: Greaser or Soc; complete Chapter Three Study Guide in pairs

39. Monday, 10/5/09Volleyball VS Nims @ Nims GO RAMS!! • Reading Center: RFU #43 • Grammar Mini-Lesson: Hyphens, Dashes, and Parentheses • Seventh Grade: The Quest for the Golden Fleece p. 126-130 and review at www.mythweb.com; In Search of Jason: the final segment; Complete plot chart and test questions • Sixth Grade: Finish presenting plot charts for the paired readings completed yesterday; Friday Read-Aloud on Monday: Gifted Hands • Eighth Grade: Sit on your sides: Greaser or Soc; Discuss the death of Bob; did Johnny have other options? Why? Why not? Why not go to the police? Finish reading Chapter Four; Complete Study Guide; View part one of the movie

40. Tuesday, October 6, 2009Football VS Cobb at Cox Stadium 7:30 • Seventh Grade: Use plot chart to answer test questions on Jason;Finish your Jason plot chart; ( If you do not finish, take it home and use www.mythweb.com to finish; it MUST be turned in by Wednesday!!; Writing activity with single paragraph plan/organizer; Begin Love and Adventure myths assignment. • Sixth Grade: Finish presenting plot charts for the paired readings; Sometimes I Scare Myself poetry. • Eighth Grade: Sit on your sides: Greaser or Soc; Discuss the death of Bob; did Johnny have other options? Why? Why not? Why not go to the police? Finish reading Chapter Four; Complete Study Guide; Begin “I Am an Outsider” poem.

41. Wednesday, October 7, 2009 • Seventh Grade: Copy revised paragraph, staple to yesterday’s work and turn in Jason plot chart; Jason Character Flaw paragraph with graphic organizer; Complete Love Story notes to present to class; Complete and turn-in RFU #44 and Blue Sheet • Sixth Grade: Complete Scary Poem; RFU #44 • Eighth Grade: Read Chapter 5: The Outsiders (Chapter 1-5 Test tomorrow); Complete extended response items for Chapter 3,4 Study Guide

42. Paragraph Graphic Organizer • Jason • Jason destroyed by ambition • Betrayed Medea • She gave up everything for him • Caused Medea’s revenge • Married another for greed • Medea killed princess • Cloak on fire • Abandoned children • They would be slaves • Medea killed them • Jason left with no kingdom, family, respect because of ambition

43. Jason: A Hero destroyed by Ambition • Jason was one of the most respected Greek heroes until his ambition, out of control, caused him to lose everything. After Medea gave up everything for Jason, including her father, her family, and her country, to help him get the Golden Fleece, he betrayed her to marry a rich and powerful princess. Because of his betrayal, Medea became wild with rage and took revenge. When he married the princess, Medea caused her to die in a flaming cloak. When he abandoned their children, leaving them to become slaves to the king, Medea killed them. In the end, because of his ambition, Jason was left with no wife, no children, no power, and no respect from the Greeks. He lost everything because he tried to get too much.

44. Nothing Gold Can Stay • Nothing Gold Can Stay   by Robert Frost Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

45. The Road Not Taken And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,

46. The Outsiders Chapter 2,3 Extended Response Question #1 • Johnny reacted violently to the Soc’s attack in the park and ended up killing Bob, the handsome Soc he and Ponyboy confronted while walking Cherry and Marcia home. Johnny is a victim of abuse at home. His father gets drunk and beats him. Once he beat him with a two by four. He’s been jumped by Soc’s, too, plenty of times, but once he was jumped by a group of them and was beaten and cut up really badly by the rings one of them is wearing. When he recognizes the rings on Bob’s hand, it brings back all the fear and the rage of that other beating. He loses control because of his fear that Ponyboy will be hurt like he was, or even killed.

47. The Outsiders Chapter 2,3 Extended Response Question #2 Chapter Four ends with Ponyboy safe and Bob lying dead in a pool of blood because Johnny has stabbed him. Johnny did not see any other options, but there are other ways the chapter could have ended. There is a good chance that Bob would have stopped before Ponyboy died. The Soc’s are too smart to commit murder. Bob wanted to terrorize Pony, not kill him. Johnny could have run for help or screamed bloody murder, or jumped into the fountain to push Pony up out of the water, but he didn’t think…he reacted out of fear and rage.

48. The Outsiders Chapter 2,3 Extended Response Question #3 • Walking home from the movies with Cherry and Marcia, Ponyboy grasps the reality of how unfair the greasers lives were. He realizes that so many things that happen to them are not their fault. It’s not his fault that his parents died and that Darry has to work two jobs to support them. It’s not Johnny’s fault that his Mom is a drunk and his father is a violent bully. But he also realizes that whether it’s their fault or not, it is still their problem, and it’s not going away just because it’s not fair.

49. Thursday, October 8, 2009 • Seventh Grade: • Capitalizing Proper Nouns and Adjectives; Take Jason Quiz and turn in plot chart; Finish Love Stories: Present to the class; • Sixth Grade: Complete Scary Poem; Finish Love Myths Mythology page 92 or 96 • Eighth Grade: Turn in Chapter 1,2 and 3,4 Study Guides; Take Test on Chapter 1-5 of The Outsiders; Create Outsider Poem; Capitalizing Proper Nouns and Adjectives

50. SGA Meeting10/08/09 • 8:15: breakfast and fellowship • 8:34 Come to order and initial attendance roster • 8:40: Work Session • Color flyers • Make ribbons • Veteran’s Day Door team draw plan for the office door and make a list of all materials you will need. • 9:20 Adjourn • Next Meeting: October 15, 4:00