Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Tuesday - March 25, 2014

I was home sick today, so I will post the lesson plans I sent in for my sub.  Sorry I didn't get this posted yesterday!


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.