Lesson

We will 

• review argumentative techniques with the purpose of persuading an audience. 

I will 

• create a group of five

• select a “strange law” with my group

• create a notes page that focuses on identifying how to develop my argument for or against the defendant

• prepare for my role in the trial

• participate in a mock trial using argumentative techniques such as rhetorical appeals, devices, and logical fallacies in order to advance the argument and appeal to the jury 

Strategies

Argumentative techniques

Rhetorical appeals

Rhetorical devices

Logical fallacies

Tone of voice

Questioning strategies 

Readings

Various depending on law

Activities

#71 - Strange Laws Trial Preparation & Proceedings

Quote of the Week

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Lesson

We will 

I will 

Strategy

Readings

Activity

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Lesson

We will 

• identify each author’s message, explain how genre characteristics and author’s craft reveal each author’s message about the topic, and determine similarities and differences in the authors’ messages/perspectives about the topic through notes and class presentations.

I will 

• label or outline my notes for each text, complete an analysis for each text with either my graphic organizer or notes, choose at least three unique features of each text that best exemplify the characteristics of the genre to share during video discussion, and compare and contrast each text in a short video presentation.

Strategy

Genre Characteristics

Making Connections

Contributing to the Discussion

Readings

"Minimum Wage Rises in Some States as Workers Struggle with Basic Cost" by Audra D. S. Burch

"The Case for a Higher Minimum Wage" by The Editorial Board

"Thomas Sowell on the Differential Impact of the Minimum Wage" by Mark J. Perry

Activity

#58 - Bell Work 

#59 - Podcast: Connecting Messages 

Lesson

We will... 

• read each of the three poems and annotate using organizations strategies to compare and contrast themes, structures, and genre characteristics.

I will... 

• complete my CBA using all the strategies necessary to be successful.

• identify and compare how each poet treats the ideas of mourning, remembrance, and what happens after death.

• analyze the use of structure (especially dialogue vs. monologue), irony, and tone.

• support claims with textual evidence in discussion and short writing.

Strategies

Read x3

Summary

Figurative Language

Themes 

Cross-Textual Understanding

Readings

Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?  –  by Thomas Hardy

Is My Team Ploughing – by A. E. Housman

When I am dead, my dearest - by Christina Rossetti

Activities

#60 - Bell Work

#61 - Respond: Informational Text

Quote of the Week

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

— Sun Tzu

Lesson

We will 

• analyze connotation and denotation, examine multiple genres and text structures, and revise drafts for clarity, development, organization, style, diction, and sentence effectiveness through various revision task card stations.

I will 

• identify how connotation and denotation shape meaning, compare genres and text structures, and revise my own writing to improve clarity, development, organization, style, diction, and sentence effectiveness.

Strategies

Connotation vs Denotation

Positive, Neutral, or Negative Language

Contextual Meaning

Text Structures

Revision Strategies

Readingies

Various readings at each station

Activities

#62 - Stations: STAAR Review

#63 - Progress Monitoring

Quote of the Week

"A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went."

— Dave Ramsey

Lesson

We will 

• research our dream lifestyle and career path, calculate real-life expenses, and use our findings to create a realistic monthly budget that balances needs, wants, and savings.

I will 

• identify a career I want to pursue, research its education and salary requirements, compare my dream expenses to real costs, and create a realistic budget that includes saving 10% of my income for retirement.

Strategies

Organizing Research

Citation Skills

Citation Tools within Google Docs

Annotated Bibliography 

Readings

Researching various sites

Activities

#64 - Bell Work: Discussion Board

#65 - Dream vs Reality Financial Research 

Quote of the Week

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Lessons

We will 

• research our dream lifestyle and career path, calculate real-life expenses, and use our findings to create a realistic monthly budget that balances needs, wants, and savings.

I will 

• identify a career I want to pursue, research its education and salary requirements, compare my dream expenses to real costs, and create a realistic budget that includes saving 10% of my income for retirement.

Strategies

Organizing Research

Citation Skills

Citation Tools within Google Docs

Annotated Bibliography 

Readings

Researching various sites

Activities

#66 - Discussion Board 

#65 - Dream vs Reality Financial Budget

Quote of the Week

"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity."

— William Wordsworth

Lesson

We will 

• review poetry vocabulary and analyze poetry for tone, imagery, and personal connection.

I will 

• create a visual board representing mood and imagery, including quotes and explanations, for a poem of my choice.

Strategies

Read poem three times: gist, understanding, and analysis 

Readings

Self-selected Poem

Activities

#67 - Discussion Board

#68 - Poetry Board

Quote of the Week

"The more conscious a man becomes, the less capable he is of happiness."

— Fyodor Dostoevshy

Lesson

We will 

• examine essential scenes within a text in order to entice an audience to want to read more.

I will 

• analyze literary text and recreate scenes in order to create an enticing movie trailer for the short story that was selected by the group.

Strategies

Plot diagram 

Characterization

Suspense

Subject Verb Agreement

Pronoun Antecedents Agreement

Modifiers

Fragments & Run-ons

Parallelism

Verb Tense Agreement

Readings

Various readings from different authors.

Activities

#69 - Discussion Board

#70 - Short Story Movie Trailer