ENGLISH 11A Agenda

Opening JournalsReview PhrasesGo over Unit 1 TestReview Clauses

JOURNAL 7 – PLEDGE PROMPT School districts were mandated last spring to

provide an opportunity for all students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and to put a flag in every classroom. Some people felt that schools needed to make sure students knew the pledge and were taught respect for our nation and its flag. Others felt because of the wording it should not be required and with all the other mandates on what schools should teach that this was a matter best left to parents. You have been asked to voice your opinion to our state legislature. Please write a response on your position directed at the people who made the laws. Take a clear position and back up with specific reasons. You have 15 minutes to write as much as you can.

PLEDGE Should have

pledge in school Important to honor

our country Honor flag Show pride/respect

for country and the flag and for all people in our country and for soldiers

Freedom

Should not have pledge in school Parents’ responsibility to

teach to honor one’s country

Separation of church and state – past court case

Religious – cannot pledge to anything

Isolating children – make stand out

Cost to schools Part of sporting events –

does not need to be part of school day.

PHRASES Prepositional Participial Infinitive Gerund Appositive

Look at your essay. Identify 1 of each type of phrase in your essay. If unsure, ask your table for help.

If you do not have a particular type, write a sentence at the bottom of your essay on your topic that uses that type.

FRIDAY Opening grammarWrite a sentence about Homecoming or something from this week that contains a participial phrases and an infinitive phrase. Underline both. Agenda

Go over Unit 1 TestComplete Analysis sheet – Collect Grammar Homework from

Unit 1Clauses – Unit 2

UNIT 1 TEST Corrections and Scantron Test Analysis Sheet

Required for retakeMay use on retakeAll may use on next test.

Retake options

MONDAY Journal 8

Pick a topic – your weekend, a Friday or Saturday sporting event, a class you are doing well in, your family, an upcoming event/celebration or a recent past one.

When I say go – write on it until I say stop. If you have to repeat yourself do so, but the idea is to get as much written as you can. No one else will read this one besides me.

ASSIGNMENT Complete p. 37 – Correct. Complete p. 38 – Correct – time permitting.

Tomorrow – and rest of week, you will need your textbook.

Retakes – Tuesday after school, Wednesday during lunch – if you work that fast, Thursday before school or after school. Before – start at 6:50 – must be done for 1st hour. Or suggest an alternative.

TUESDAY Opening – please get out pages 3, 11,

21 for me to check – grammar. Opening – Get out your assignment

page 38.Clause activity

Sentence Types – page 39, 40. Reading about Taoism

Pages 413, 360, 414.

CLAUSES - INTRODUCTION Why do we need to learn about Phrases

and Clauses? How can it help improve my writing?

CLAUSES - purple sheet How are clauses different from phrases

Contain a verb and its subjectSome, if you removed the clause word could

be a sentence Adjective Clauses (start with who,

whom, -

CLAUSES Adverb – start with after, although, as,

as if, because, before, even, though, if, since, than, unless…. – see sheet for more complete list

Tell where, when, why something happened

If they start a sentence put comma at end – if in middle – no comma.

NOUN CLAUSES Function as Subjects, Objects, and

Object of Preposition Start with how, that, which, who,

whoever, whom, whomever, what, whatever, when, where, whether, whose, why.

Beginning of sentence – Subject After Action verb – object After Preposition – object of preposition Learning target – I can use clauses in my

writing to enhance variety in my writing.

SENTENCE PATTERNS Learning Target

I can identify the patterns of sentences. I can decide if a verb is action or linking.

SENTENCE PATTERNS Linking Verbs Is, was, are, be,

were, am, seems, smell, taste, appear, become

S + LV + PA S + LV + PN

Action Verbs Look, jump, run,

sit, think, hit, read, swing

S + AV + DO S + AV + IO +

DO

TAOISMLEARNING TARGET: I CAN READ AND PICK OUT THE SIGNIFICANT PARTS OF MY READING.

Read p. 349, “Philosophy and Religion” Read and take notes on Taoism – define

it - its concepts, origins, people involved with its development. (Pages 413 “Background” and page 412 – about the Taoist Writers.)

WEDNESDAY Opening – As a table – come up with a

pattern 2 sentence that uses “ridiculous” as a predicate adjective (PA).

Correct Sentence patternsDo page 40. Read Taoist Writing #2 and #8Read and Journal on Taoist Writing #29

THURSDAY OPENING Opening – Please review your definition.

On the back, rewrite it in your own words. Write it without using the following words:

contemplate, desires, devote, or unity. Be sure to include all that you meant with

your definition. Job – Blue Peanut M&M

TAOIST WRITINGS Read Taoist writing #2 – page 414. Journal – Will be ongoing through all the Taoist writings.

Paraphrase it Respond to the ideas in it. What principles of Taoism are present in it – compare it to

your definition – how does it fit? What parts does it address?

Learning Target: I can explain in my own words what others say through paraphrase.

TAOIST WRITINGS You will be assigned one of the remaining Taoist

readings. For that one – you may work as a group, but all need to have this in your journal Paraphrase it Respond to the ideas in it. What principles of Taoism are present in it –

compare it to your definition – how does it fit? What parts does it address?

How can these ideas fit with the modern world?

Learning Target: I can explain in my own words what others say through paraphrase

PREPARING TO PRESENT Job – retrieve supplies - Apple Green Jolly Rancher Job – Scribe - Yellow Gummi Bear When you have finished the journal, get a piece of paper and

write up in bullet points the answers to what is in purple above. You will be sharing this with the class. You will have a piece of paper to do bullet points on to guide your explanation. The three in purple will need to go on the paper.

JOB – ALL - Practice ENGAGEMENT – even if you are not writing – help, watch, read over to be sure it is what you understand.

Presenter - Sour Red Cherry Starburst and Apple Green Jolly Rancher

Reader - Blue Peanut M&M

Learning Target: I can explain in my own words what others say through paraphrase

FRIDAY - PRESENTATIONS Please get with your group – get your

poster – get your book out and your journal.

As groups present, you are responsible for taking notes on the following thingsWhich number or title writing is it?What is it about? From their paraphrase.What Taoism values does it reveal and how?

PRESENTATIONS You will be responsible for all

presentations – Important that you listen and take notes

on each one in your journal. Presentations

Read your assigned item aloudGo through your paraphrase – may share as

bulleted pointsExplain what parts of Taoism are in this

selection

HOMEWORK Prepare for Quiz – read over the writings

– all of them. Look at questions at end of readings – see if you can answer them.

I will address questions on Monday prior to quiz.

Review Taoism and Paradox. Do page 42 grammar packet.

SENTENCE TYPES Turn to page 42

Look through Sentence – look for “compound” signals. (, conjunction or ;compound adjective or ;) Highlight in a color on all sentences.

Look through Sentence – look for “complex” clue – words that start clauses (who, which, that, because, if, since, after, while, whom). Highlight in a different color on all sentences

SS – no colorsCom – first colorCx – second colorC-C – both colors

Do page 42 for homework.

MONDAY – OCT. 21 Quiz Correct Sentence Types Introduce Pronoun Case.