Scholars will master content at or above 85% proficiency.

The bottom line: If you meet our goal, you will be ready to be successful at the AP/college level.

Our Goal

Scholars will master content at or above 85% proficiency.

What does this mean in practice in our classroom?

Our Goal

Attendance: You should be here every day. Participation: You should find ways to exceed my

minimum expectations every week. Vocabulary: You should at least know 26/30 words

each week (and demonstrate that on the quizzes).

Assignments: You should be earning a + (which reflect meeting the goal)

Tests: You should earn an 85% or higher.

Our Goal

Tell your neighbor: What is our class goal?

Our Goal

85% Proficiency

On ALL Skills

Daily Oral Language

Daily Oral Language

Daily—Our warm up each day of class Oral—Done through verbal explanations Language—Review and application of English

syntax, mechanics, and vocabulary from class

Daily Oral Language

5 mistakes per sentence Find the mistakes Correct the mistakes Change the sentence as little as possible Do not change the meaning of the sentence if

possible Rewrite the sentence in your notebook

Daily Oral Language

have you reads Henry David Thoreau’s famously book civil disobedience.

1. Capitalize the h in have.

2. Change reads to read.

3. Change famously to famous.

4. Capitalize the c and d in Civil Disobedience.

5. Change the period to a question mark.

Daily Oral Language

You try! Correct the errors and be prepared to justify your choices orally.

Jane marcet writes many textbook about science and economics in the early 1800s

She books made Subjects understandable to person without a traditional educations?

Homework

Homework

Exchange homework with a neighbor and check for excellent quality of work

Journal Heading

Lined paper (or typed)

Full sheet of paper

Looks clean and professional

At least one full page

Flashcards At least 30

Look clean and professional

Homework

Due next class 30 Completed vocabulary cards

All required materials for the class

Inference worksheet

Homework

Due in 1 week Journal 2: Summer Reading Reflection

What was your experience like reading the summer novels?

Which novel did you like better? Why?

What connections did you make between the experiences of the characters in the novel and your own experience?

Review summer readings

Vocab Quiz 1 09/12

Vocabulary Cards

Vocabulary Cards: Front

#

Part of Speech

Name

Vocabulary Word

List Date

Vocabulary Cards: Front

1

n

Jeryl Hewey黑夏龙

aberration

September 5, 2014

Vocabulary Cards: Back

Teacher Definition

Student Definition

Fill-in-the-blank-sentence

Illustration (no letters words or characters!)

Vocabulary Cards: Back

a deviation from what is normal and/or correct

Something abnormal or anomalous

The one failing grade was an _____ on the test.

Vocabulary Cards

You try! Get a head start on making your vocabulary cards for this week.

Vocabulary Cards

How can we use these to study? By yourself: look at the front

of the card and try to recall the definition.

With a partner: Have a partner show you one section of the back of the card and try to recall the vocabulary word.

What is mastery? When you can use these

words correctly in an original sentence.

Who Are You?

Henry David ThoreauAmerican author, philosopher, and naturalist

1817-1862

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Walden, 1854

Henry David Thoreau

Loved nature Anti-slavery

activist Author of Civil

Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Major figure in transcendentalism People and nature are

fundamentally good

True understanding of the self and independence allow us to be our best

Politics and religion can corrupt us if we do not know how to act as individuals

What can we improve ourselves as scholars and people based on Marcet’s example?

Jane MarcetSwiss science writer and feminist

1769-1858

As…there are but few women who have access to [learning about chemistry]; and as the author was not acquainted with any book that could prove a substitute for it, she thought that it might be useful for beginners, as well as satisfactory to herself, to trace the steps by which she had acquired her little stock of chemical knowledge, and to record, in the form of dialogue, those ideas which she had first derived from conversation.

Conversations on Chemistry, 1854

Jane Marcet

Wrote some of the earliest accessible texts on science and economics

Influenced later scientific education writers

Advocated for the expansion of access to education, especially for women

Jane Marcet

Increased access to science education for women and uneducated men through her textbooks

Instrumental in popularizing the fields of chemistry and economics (which were new at the time)

What can we improve ourselves as scholars and people based on Marcet’s example?

InferenceWhy does the man in this photograph have an umbrella?

Inference

Inference—the process of creating meaning by combining facts and prior knowledge

Factual Evidence (from the text)

+

Prior Knowledge

Inference

Inference

When do we make inferences? To make predictions

To answer questions

To make connections between a text and personal experiences

To draw conclusions

To analyze

Inference

Make sure your inferences are based on observable facts.

The woman is stressed.

X The woman’s boss gives her too much work.

Inference

What inferences can we make about this photo?

Inference

What inferences can we make about this photo?

Inference

Why does the driver want to have his Obama bumper sticker removed?

How does the artist feel about President Obama?

Inference

What effect did 9/11 have on the CIA (US Central Intelligence Agency)?

What kind of behavior is typical of the CIA?

Inference

Let’s try it with text! Homework

Inference Worksheet, questions 1-7 (8-10 optional)