1st Week August 24-28, 2009

English IA Advanced Academic Bellaire High School
Lesson Plan #1 Week #1
August 24-29, 2009

Topic: Summer Reading Assignment
First Day Procedures
Tone Vocabulary Words: apprehensive, awe, bitter, clinical, compassionate, condescending, contentious, derisive, detached, elated, facetious, flippant, haughty, indignant, insolent, irreverent, jovial, mournful, nostalgic, obsequious, pessimistic, petty, pretentious, ridiculing, sarcastic, shocked, somber, taunting, urgent, wrathful
Parts of Speech review


Objectives: The students will
1. Grammar: be able to tell the definition of, identify, and provide their own examples of the parts of speech (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions) and parts of a sentence (subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nominatives, predicate adjectives, and prepositional phrases.)
2. Vocabulary: learn several ways to learn vocabulary words, including pantomime, drawing pictures, graphic organizers, writing sentences, defining in their own words, and using flashcards. They will learn to use context clues from a text and to glean the thread of meaning of a word from a dictionary entry.
3. Reading for and Writing about Conflicts: be able to identify several kinds of conflict and to develop compositions in which they discuss conflict using evidence from the text to support their thinking.
4. Reading for and Writing about Theme: use inductive reading to abstract subjects and theme statements from poems, short, stories, and longer works such as plays and novels. They will formulate their thinking in compositions and use evidence from the text to support their thinking.

Homework: Summer Reading Assignment- DUE- August 31, 2009
Academics students should choose one (1) assignment and College Prep students should choose two (2) from the list of activities below:
- Character sketch
- A rewritten ending or part of the book
- Book jacket
- Advertisement poster
- Comic strip (6-8 slides) show the plot elements: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Colored pictures/illustration.

Activities
Monday
First Day Procedures
- Distribute enrollment packet.
- Have students fill out student profile sheets.
- Explain course description and requirements.
Explain web links that are important.
Explain summer reading assignments and due dates.
Provide a list of tone words and have students choose 20 words out of 30.
· HOMEWORK: Instruct students to bring their summer novel to class on Tuesday, August 25, 2008

Tuesday
Teach Cornell note taking and work on vocabulary words in class using the format. Work on vocabulary tone words.
Group work: Word Interpretation and Presentation- tone words. Use novel and find an example of a passage represented by a tone word.
Present in class as a group. Explain the tone word as it applies to the passage.

Wednesday
Continue with group presentation: Word Interpretation- tone words.
Diagnostic Test on grammar

Thursday
Diagnostic Test on grammar.
Review conflict. Create a chart of conflict based on the summer novel of choice.
Discuss the conflicts in class. Identify the kind of conflict for each one.
Distribute list of literary terms.
· HOMEWORK: Find a photo of a favorite character, author, object, book, poetry, or music (lyric) that represents character (student’s). Due: August 28, 2009

Friday
Create a name card. Write the name in big letters.
Remind students of due date for summer reading assignment.