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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
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
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: 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
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.
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
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
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)
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
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?