10-25-12

Previous Next Homework due Today: //Copy the following Learning Objectives in the **Listening** section of your Notebook: 10/25/12 Daily Cornell Notes P# // . media type="custom" key="10346416"
 * You have 3 things to accomplish. What you do not finish, will be your homework tonight!

Whole Class: 10 min

Independent Work: 40 min

media type="custom" key="10346382" Task:10/22/12 Tracking Writing Progress Learning Objective: learn the steps to make a writing goal and track weekly progress on that writing goal. Explanation: The teacher will guide you through the process of creating writing goals and action steps to meet those goals. Use the Reflective Learning tracker from LiteracyTA.com to track your weekly progress on Analyzing Prompts assessments.

Common problems from last week:

1. The reader needs to know what your focus is. For that reason, use key words from the directions in your thesis, topic sentence, concluding sentence, rephrased thesis. For example: The buildings at Balboa Park have character due to their charm and appeal.

2. Part of learning a language is knowing how certain words are commonly used. A character is a person in a story. Another use of the word character is to say something has charm or appeal. So I would not say, Balboa Park has a character. This means it has a person in a story. We have count nouns and noncount nouns. Look at learnersdictionary.com to know if a noun is a count noun or a noncount noun. Here is the link for character: []. Articles a, an, and the often come before a count noun. Do not use them before a noncount noun. So I wouldn't say: Balboa Park has a lot of a character.

3. There were a lot of problems with simple grammar rules like capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

//Task: **Writing** section: 10/25/12 Practice Analyzing Prompts Week 4- Group Contest P# // LO://Learn to mark the prompt// Explain: Using a prompt, practice the steps to mark the prompt and make the plan. Create and complete a "DO/What" Chart inside the plan.

Task: //**Reading** section: 10/24/12 // //Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket// Summary Part 1 // p.118-121 P# // LO: //identify main ideas in the text//

Explain: Read with a small group using your scan for vocabulary list. Use a chart to record: pg. # and par #, unknown words, parts of speech, and definitions. Then, use the summary [|chart] to help you summarize.

Rephrase the explanation in your own words:

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Today's Agenda:

 * 1) agenda
 * 2) debrief

Copy the Homework in your Planners:
Copy the Daily Cornell Notes for tomorrow