7-19-2010

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 * practice active reading techniques.
 * learn about the elements of drama.
 * learn to write effective sentences.

**Homework:**
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 * Finish reading and taking notes for pages 574-577
 * Complete the summary section of your Cornell Notes
 * The teacher is checking all today's work tomorrow.

Reminders:

 * ** Checking homework today: **
 * ** See the list on the white board. **
 * ** Summer School Planner (Due Each Friday) **
 * ** [|summer school planner 2010.pdf] **
 * ** Dialectical Journal: **
 * ** http://mrlemaster.com/sitefiles/dialectical_night.pdf **

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__Agenda__

 * Introductions and class expectations**: The Teacher will explain what you will be expected to do, classroom procedures, attendance and other information you will need to successfully complete this class for credit.
 * Keep Cornell Notes. (Always title your pages properly)
 * Review Cornell Notes.
 * Complete the Summary for homework.

Course Introduction: Last session focused on short stories, this section will focus on drama.


 * Reading Section: Review Active Reading Strategies**
 * Read pages 564-565 and keep Cornell Notes.
 * Review as a class.


 * Writing Section: Quick Write - Self Deception**
 * People often lie to themselves. They trick themselves into believing something that is not true.
 * Maybe they trick themselves into believing they are nice, when really they are mean.
 * Maybe they deceive themselves into thinking they are good looking, when they are extremely unattractive.
 * Do you agree that people practice self-deception? What kinds of things do people deceive themselves about?
 * Make a list of things people deceive themselves about with a brief explanation for each.


 * Reading Section: "The Inspector-General" page 566**
 * Setting a purpose: What is our purpose for reading?
 * Build Background
 * Choose students to read.
 * The teacher stops students to have them participate in the active reading prompts in the margins.
 * Students write their responses, Cornell Note style, in their notebooks.


 * Grammar Section: Effective Sentences**
 * Students keep Cornell Notes
 * Practice:
 * [|Sentences Classified by Function]
 * [|Sentence Combining]

Reading Section: Elements of Drama
 * Reading Section: "The Inspector-General" page 566**
 * **Students work in groups of 3 to 4.**
 * **Students answer 1-10 on page 572**
 * Students keep Cornell Notes during the presentation.
 * **[|ElementsofDrama.ppt]**

Grammar Section: Effective Sentences


 * [|Expanding Short Sentences, Shortening Long Sentences]
 * **[|Using Different Sentence Openers and Structures]**


 * Reading Section: Understanding Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama**
 * **students read page 574-577**