7-20-2010

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Students will:

 * ===**monitor comprehension while reading.**===
 * ===**learn to write effective sentences.**===
 * ===**learn new vocabulary words.**===

**Homework:**
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 * Finish your scene summaries.
 * Summaries of 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] **

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__Agenda__

 * Reading Section: Media Connection, page 578**
 * Read the newspaper article, then answer the two questions at the end.


 * Grammar Section: Effective Sentences**
 * [|Recognizing Fragments]
 * [|Correcting Fragments]


 * Writing Section: Demands Chart**
 * page 579
 * Complete the chart in your notebook.
 * Choose students to share with the class.


 * Reading Section: Before you Read page 579**
 * Students volunteer to read.
 * Keep Cornell Notes:
 * Setting
 * Parents and Marriage
 * Astrology
 * Family Feuds


 * Grammar Section: Effective Sentences**
 * [|Recognizing Run-ons]
 * [|Correcting Run-ons]
 * [|Misplaced Modifiers]
 * [|Dangling Modifiers]


 * Notes on Author William Shakespeare**
 * [[file:Introduction to Shakespeare.ppt]]

Reading Section: Front loading Elizabethan Era
 * Review the notes from yesterday.
 * Watch the opening of Shakespeare in Love. Show the first 7 minutes and 7 seconds.
 * Explain and answer questions.


 * Reading Section: Dissecting the Chorus**
 * Listen/Read through the Chorus.
 * Teachers/students read through the Chorus.
 * Explain the purpose of a chorus.
 * Explain the meaning of a chorus.
 * Watch and read the chorus again.


 * Reading Section: Act I, sc. i**
 * Each scene will have a one page scene summary in your notebook:
 * ** Make a 3 column chart. Identify each character and his/her role and his/her attitude/behavior.
 * Capulets
 * Montagues
 * Other
 * Below the characters, write a one paragraph summary of what happens in the scene.
 * Students listen along with the play.
 * Students then read parts--contemporary version or Elizabethan version.
 * Begin working on your scene summaries.