May Lessons
Monday 5/2
Unit: Evaluating Literature
Objective: Analyze and evaluate a novel. Create and share a book review.
Learning Activity: Read and discuss notes from Giver. Share out vocabulary. Continue class reading.
Assessment: Instructor monitoring.
Differentiation: Read aloud/Pause and Reflect
Tuesday 5/3
Unit: Evaluating Literature
Objective: Analyze and evaluate a novel. Create and share a book review.
Learning Activity: Read and discuss notes from Giver. Share out vocabulary. Continue class reading.
Assessment: Instructor monitoring.
Differentiation: Read aloud/Pause and Reflect
Wednesday 5/4
Unit: Evaluating Literature
Objective: Analyze and evaluate a novel. Create and share a book review.
Learning Activity: Read and discuss notes from Giver. Share out vocabulary. Continue class reading.
Assessment: Instructor monitoring.
Differentiation: Read aloud/Pause and Reflect
Thursday 5/5
Unit: Evaluating Literature
Objective: Analyze and evaluate a novel. Create and share a book review.
Learning Activity: Read and discuss notes from Giver. Share out vocabulary. Continue class reading.
Assessment: Instructor monitoring.
Differentiation: Read aloud/Pause and Reflect
Friday 5/6
Unit: Evaluating Literature
Objective: Analyze and evaluate a novel. Create and share a book review.
Learning Activity: Read and discuss notes from Giver. Share out vocabulary. Continue class reading.
Assessment: Instructor monitoring.
Differentiation: Read aloud/Pause and Reflect
Monday 5/8-Tuesday 5/9
Unit: Evaluating Literature
Objective: Identify and apply new vocabulary correctly.
Learning Activity: In collaborative work groups, students will choose 10 vocabulary words for class to be responsible for from The Giver. We will compile list as a class.
Assessment: Instructor monitoring.
Differentiation: Student-created vocabulary list
Wednesday 5/10-Thursday 5/11
Unit: Evaluating Literature
Objective: Analyze and evaluate a novel. Create and share a book review.
Learning Activity: Read Chapters 21-23.
Assessment: Instructor monitoring.
Differentiation: Read aloud/Pause and Reflect
Friday 5/12
Unit: Evaluating Literature
Objective: Analyze and evaluate a novel. Create and share a book review.
Learning Activity: Vocabulary review (instructor led)
Assessment: Instructor monitoring.
Differentiation: Student-created vocabulary list
Monday 5/16
Unit: Literary Analysis The Giver
Objective—Read and comprehend a grade-level novella. Use the writing process to plan, and create a formal essay that answers a writing prompt using textual evidence to support main ideas.
Learning Activity: Giver vocabulary test. Distribute and discuss essay choices.
Assessment: Instructor monitoring
Differentiation: Class created vocabulary lists.
Tuesday 5/17
Unit: Literary Analysis The Giver
Objective—Read and comprehend a grade-level novella. Use the writing process to plan, and create a formal essay that answers a writing prompt using textual evidence to support main ideas.
Learning Activity: Drafting essays
Assessment: Instructor monitoring
Differentiation: collaborative group works. Class created vocabulary lists.
Wednesday 5/18
Unit: Literary Analysis The Giver
Objective—Read and comprehend a grade-level novella. Use the writing process to plan, and create a formal essay that answers a writing prompt using textual evidence to support main ideas.
Learning Activity: Drafting Essays. Instructor conferences.
Assessment: Instructor monitoring
Differentiation: collaborative group works. Class created vocabulary lists.
Thursday 5/19
Unit: Literary Analysis The Giver
Objective—Read and comprehend a grade-level novella. Use the writing process to plan, and create a formal essay that answers a writing prompt using textual evidence to support main ideas.
Learning Activity: Drafting Essays. Instructor conferences
Assessment: Instructor monitoring
Differentiation: collaborative group works. Class created vocabulary lists.
Friday 5/20
Unit: Literary Analysis The Giver
Objective—Read and comprehend a grade-level novella. Use the writing process to plan, and create a formal essay that answers a writing prompt using textual evidence to support main ideas.
Learning Activity: Drafting Essays. Instructor conferences
Assessment: Instructor monitoring
Differentiation: collaborative group work.
Monday 5/23
Unit: Final Exam--Summative Review
Objective: Identify sentences vs. fragments, subjects and predicates, classify sentences by purpose
Learning activity: Instructor-led review using chapter 10 diagnostic preview. Practice test
Assessment-Instructor monitoring. Practice test
Tuesday 5/24
Unit: Final Exam--Summative Review
Objective: Define and identify nouns, pronouns, adjectives
Learning activity: Instructor-led review using chapter 11 diagnostic preview. Practice test
Assessment-Instructor monitoring. Practice test
Wednesday 5/25
Unit: Final Exam--Summative Review
Objective: Define and identify verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunction, interjection
Learning activity: Instructor-led review using chapter 12 diagnostic preview. Practice test
Assessment-Instructor monitoring. Practice test
Thursday 5/26
Unit: Final Exam--Summative Review
Objective: apply correct capitalization, end marks, commas, semicolons and colons
Learning activity: Instructor-led review using chapter 23 diagnostic preview. Practice test
Assessment-Instructor monitoring. Practice test
Friday 5/27
Unit: Final Exam--Summative Review
Objective: Improve spelling using specific rules and recognizing commonly confused words
Learning activity: Instructor-led review using chapter 25
diagnostic preview. Practice test
Assessment-Instructor monitoring. Practice test
Tuesday 5/31
Final Exam. Turn in books
Wednesday 6/1
Test reflection. Summer reading lists.
Instructor Evaluations
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