Circle (after career activity): What's your favorite Halloween candy?
Intro to the Day
Target practice
Collect college fair sheets
Vocabulary Practice
This year, we will be learning the 100 words that every high school graduate should know.
1) Click here to access the list.
2) We will select three words each week to study and learn.
3) You will be assessed every Friday.
5/6 Words: juxtaposition, pedantic, mnemonic
7/8 Words: divergent, conundrum, soliloquy
Reading Practice
We will read for 15 minutes each class to get better at reading.
Unit: Fall of Rome
Learning Target: I can make explain the connections between historical events and the present.
1) Looking back at the 8 reasons the Roman empire fell, what is your level of concern that the same thing that is happening in the US?
2) As a class, identify the three most pressing concerns for the United States based on the list of 8.
3) Pass out Fall of Rome DBQ.
4) Review the DBQ reasons that the US is failing, then place the three biggest on the list (p.35).
Cast Away: Preparation & Sequence
Learning Target: I can watch a film and explain how the theme is developed through characterization.
Learning Target: I can watch a film and explain how the theme is developed through characterization.
2) Based on the trailer, what is the problem the main character has to overcome?
3) What is the film going to put the character through in order for him to solve the problem?
4) How do you think the character will have changed by the end of the film?
5) Predictions: You're the director -- characterize the main character in the beginning and the end.
Future:
-Rhetorical Triangle & Techniques
-Teaching Routines
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