1st & 2nd Periods: English 10. We are just
finishing up act I in Merchant of Venice. Have the students spend the
first 3 - 5 minutes of class reviewing spelling and lit terms. Then have
them make a quiz for act I. We were supposed to take a quiz on it today,
but they will have to produce their own instead. Have them create 5
questions for each of the three scenes in Act I. These questions should
be a mixture of true/false, fill in the blank, multiple choice, Short answer,
and one of their own choosing. They should include the answers to their
questions. If they finish early, they may start reading Act II, scene I
on their own for tomorrow.
3rd and 6th Periods: 8th grade. Meet students at
the door and make sure they have their history text books with them, or send
them to their lockers to get them if needed.
Again, have the students spend the first 3 - 5 minutes reviewing
the spelling words from this week with a partner. Call for the Chapter
review of Chapter 9 that was due today. Then, look at the intro to
chapter 10 in the history textbook (Mine is on the shelf behind my desk chair.
It is Yellow. The kids can show you what it looks like.) Read
Chapter 10, section 1 together as a class. That should take about 15 - 20
minutes. After you finish, the students can go across the hall to the lab
to work on finding research for their debates.
4th Period: English 7. The students are in the
middle of research papers. Have them spend their first 5 minutes of class
studying spelling words with partners, then take them down to the library for
research time. Remind them to bring jump drives, or use Google Drive to save
their work. They should spend the period working quietly there. If
needed, remind them that if they can't work quietly, or stay on focus, they
will not get future time for research, and will have to do that part on their
own out of class. (Jacob Cook may need a lot of support for this.
His computer skills are fairly low, and that tends to show up as goofing
off, since he doesn't always know how to find what he is looking for.)
5th Period - Prep
7th Period - Learning Lab. Students need to be quietly
working through this period on something of their choice.
8th Period: 8th Grade all together again. Have
them bring their Watsons books to class for this. Continue reading this
book together as a class. They are about 2 pages into chapter 2. Feel
free to stop and discuss anything you or they notice. We are really
focusing on the issues of race and how people treat each other with this book.
