Thursday, March 19

You should be going to Google Classroom for all your assignments now.

Send me an email if you need help.

Monday, March 16

Please check your email and accept your invitation to Google Classroom.

I will have Office Hours every day Monday- Friday from 12-2 pm.
I will be available to email, talk on the phone or work with you on
Google Hangout using your school email address. I will also be able
to work with you at other times throughout the day. Please email me
to set up a time: aspicer@lakeplacidcsd.net

Read in your IR books 20 minutes each day.

I will introduce Resumes on Tuesday, and we will start working on them.

I will post your Flipgrid Halfway assignment on Wednesday; it will be great to “see” you all! 

More information to come….

HW- read in your IR books, wash your hands and practice
social distancing

March 13

Read in IR books- Halfway due 3/18

Fragment quiz

Practice fixing run-on sentences

 Conflict Poem

label poem with five poetic devices, 

paragraph narrative- What is it about? 

print and hand in

Move the following to Monday, March 16

Resume-What is a resume?

Purpose from Cornell University

Sample Resume

begin drafting yours

March 12

Read in IR books

Fragment practice #3

Grammar mini lesson-  introduce run ons and practice:

https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/fragments-and-run-ons/
Go to Khan Academy to practice:
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/syntax-conventions-of-standard-english/fragments-and-run-ons/e/recognizing-run-ons-and-comma-splices

Type up poems

use MLA heading,

identify and label alliteration, repetition, simile, metaphor and personification.

Look at your capitalization, punctuation and enjambment- 

Does everything look the way it should? 

Hand in

HW- study for fragment quiz tomorrow, type up your poem,
IR book halfway due 3/18

March 11

Read in IR books

Grammar mini lesson- fragment recap and practice

Conflict poem work-
write complete draft for class tomorrow using alliteration, repetition,
simile, metaphor and personification.

HW- finish poem draft, IR halfway due 3/18

March 10

Read in IR books

Grammar mini lesson- sentence fragments

practice
Conflict poem work- check topics
review examples of metaphor and personification
begin drafting ideas    

HW- IR book halfway due 3/18

March 9

Read in IR books

War Poem Essay-

get out rubrics, read your essay and honestly assess your writing/skills,

explain why you gave yourself the grade you did

staple and hand in

Conflict Poem Writing-

follow directions and brainstorm ideas

HW- IR halfway due 3/18, narrow down topic for Tuesday

March 6

Review elements of Text Analysis Regents Essay using War Poem
        cite using lines i.e. (line 2) or (lines 13-14)
        three paragraph structure
        use graphic organizer
        print and hand in

Read in IR book if you finish early

HW- Finish essay over the weekend if you do not
finish it in class today
     IR book halfway due 3/18

March 5

Read for 10 minutes- 

Handout Text Analysis Essay from Regents Exam

explain and analyze

Handout graphic organizer

model basic theme statements and elements of graphic organizer; 

HW- finish graphic organizer, be ready to write on Friday

3/4

Read for 10 minutes

Finish annotating “Anthem for Doomed Youth”

Handout Regents Assignment

Analyze, discuss, model

How would you set this up?

Handout graphic organizer

Model graphic organizer

Students fill in

(write essay on Thursday or Friday) 

HW- IR Halfway due 3/18

3/3

Read for 10 minutes

Finish “Dulce”

Explain formative assessment Skill Check: “Anthem for Doomed Youth”

meter, rhyme scheme, similes, personification, alliteration, meaning

check work

discuss 

What does the poem mean?

HW- IR book halfway due by 3/18

3/2

Read for 10 minutes- check-in IR books

Finish annotating and discussing “Dulce et Decorum Est”

poetic devices

meaning

type of poem

HW- IR Halfway due 3/18