THANKS FOR A GREAT SUMMER, EVERYONE!
SEE YOU IN THE FALL!
On tap for week of July 30:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - complete unit 3, make sure 6 portfolio pieces are typed
Thursday - End of semester test, submit portfolio
Day 24: Friday, July 27, 2018
Objective:
- Students will work on grade appropriate unit activities and will revise pieces of writing.
Agenda:
- Work on unit 2 activities
- tutorials
- mastery test
- discussion
- unit activity
- post-test
Announcements:
- Unit 3 - complete on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesdays
- Thursday, 8.2.2018 - End of Semester Test
Days 20-23: Monday, July 23, 2018 - Thursday, July 26, 2018
Weekly Objective:
- Students will work on grade appropriate unit activities and will revise pieces of writing.
Agenda:
- Work on unit 2 activities
- tutorial
- mastery test
- discussion
- unit activity
- post test
- Goal: Finish this by Thusday, July 26
Days 16-19: Tuesday, July 17-Friday, July 20
Weekly Objective:
- Students will work on grade appropriate unit activities and will revise pieces of writing.
Weekly Agenda:
- Complete all Unit 1 modules, including unit activity and post-test
Day 15: Monday, July 16, 2018
Today's Objective:
- Students will work on grade appropriate unit activies and will revise pieces of writing.
Today's Agenda:
- Work on Unit 1 Activity
- Grade 9 - "Windstorm in the Forest," John Muir
- Grade 10 - "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," Mark Twain - Read and analyze this with Mr. Ambrose
- Grade 11 - Age of Reason Research Paper
- Type 3 Polished Pieces of Writing
- Be sure to place in Google Drive folder
Day 14: Friday, July 13, 2018
Today's Objective:
- Students will complete a grade appropriate tutorial and revise a piece of writing.
Today's Agenda:
- Complete at least one tutorial
- Type at least one piece of writing
Day 13: Thursday, July 12, 2018
Today's Objective:
- Students will complete a grade appropriate tutorial, revise a piece of writing, and do a free write.
Today's Agenda:
- Complete at least one tutorial
- Type at least one piece of writing
- Common application essay prompt writing
Day 12: Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Today's Objective:
- Students will complete a grade appropriate tutorial, revise a piece of writing, and do a free write.
Today's Agenda:
- Complete at least one tutorial
- Type at least one piece of writing
- Common application essay prompt writing
- Share and workshop and submit
Day 11: Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Today's Objective:
- Students will work on open responses on Plato and will map out a story using Freytag's Pyramid.
Today's Agenda:
- Hour 1
- Plato - goal - 36% completed, work on at least one open response in tutorial
- Hour 2
- Review graphic organizers from yesterday with class
- Use graphic organizer to write an 8-10 sentence open response paragraph - turn in for classwork credit
- sample topic sentence: "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare follows a typical five-part plot structure."
Day 10: Monday, July 9, 2018
Today's Objective:
- Students will work on open responses on Plato and will map out a story using Freytag's Pyramid.
Today's Agenda:
- Hour 1
- Plato - goal - 33% completed, work on at least one open response in tutorial
- Hour 2
Day 9: Friday, July 6, 2018
Today's Objective:
- Students will be able to identify certain parts of speech and complete grade appropriate work on Plato.
Today's Agenda:
- Grammar Test (parts of speech)
- Type at least one piece of writing for your portfolio
- Plato - 30%
- Assembly with Ms. Khan (9:30 and 11:30)
Day 8: Thursday, July 5, 2018
Today's Objective:
- Students will be able to identify certain parts of speech and complete grade appropriate work on Plato.
Today's Agenda:
- Hour 1: Grammar
- Conjunctions and Interjections
- Page 95, Exercise 18
- Page 96, Exercise 19
- Test Review
- Page 97, Exercise 21
- Page 99, Exercise A
- Hour 2: Online
Day 7: Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Today's Objective:
- Students will be able to identify certain parts of speech and complete grade appropriate work on Plato.
Today's Agenda:
- Hour 1: Grammar
- Adverbs
- Page 89 - review
- Page 90 - exercises 11 and 12
- Prepositions
- Page 93 - review
- Page 94 - exercises 16 and 17
- Hour 2: Online
- Goal: 23% completed
- Individual conferences with students to provide progress updates
Upcoming:
- Grammar (parts of speech) test on Friday, 7.6.2018
- No School - Wednesday, 7.4.2018
Day 6: Monday, July 2, 2018
Today's Objective:
- Students will be able to identify certain parts of speech and complete grade appropriate work on Plato.
Today's Agenda:
- Hour 1: Grammar
- Review verbs - page 83
- Page 84 - Exercise 6 - all together
- Page 84 - Exercise 7 - with partner
- Page 85 - Exercise B - on your own
- Review adjectives - page 87
- Page 88 - Exercise 9
- Submit completed exercises for classwork grade
- Hour 2: Online
Day 5: Friday, June 29, 2018
Today's Objectives:
- Students will revise an open response and complete online work.
Today's Agenda:
- Hour 1
- Open response samples - review and discuss 3 concrete elements that you'd like to incorporate in your own writing
- Evaluate your own writing and revise keeping the 3 class tips in mind
- Share with partner
- Create a Google Drive folder (i.e. "Summer School 2018 - Eleni") and share with me - dambrose@medford.k12.ma.us
- Type up final draft of open response in your shared Google Drive folder
- Hour 2
- online learning - goal: 16 or 17% on progress bar
Day 4: Thursday, June 28, 2018
Today's Objectives:
- Students will review parts of speech (noun and pronoun) and complete online learning.
Today's Agenda:
- Hour 1
- Nouns - review notes and complete practice exercise in book
- Pronouns - review notes
- Complete page 85, Exercise A, 1-10
- Review and submit Exercise A
- Hour 2
- online learning - goal: 13% on progress bar
Day 3: Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Today's Objectives:
- Students will write a create narrative inspired by photos and complete grade appropriate assignments in PLATO.
Today's Agenda:
- Hour 1
- Hour 2
- Plato - goal: 10% on status bar
Day 2: Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Today's Objectives:
- Students will write a letter to someone who impacted their lives and will begin to complete their first online module.
Today's Agenda:
- View "Lollipop Moment" Ted Talk video (6 min.)
- Write a letter to a mentor who created a lollipop moment for you (2 paragraphs)
- Share letter with a classmate, then with class for extra credit
- Online Learning
- Login
- Orientation
- Syllabus
- Unit 1 Pre-Test
- Unit 1, Module 1
Day 1: Monday, June 25, 2018
Today's Objectives:
- Students will complete a diagnostic exercise to showcase their ELA skills.
Today's Agenda:
Creative & Critical Thinkers
Nat Whalen, Medford High Summer Program Student of the Week, 7.6.2018
