This Assignment is ONLY For the people working with Ms. Thomas:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5zApGYVcTrdbFJqejVVZk8xTG8/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5zApGYVcTrdajlLblN1Y1lGM0E/view?usp=sharing

DI for the week of Feb 17 -

Teacher Led-  President Obama's address on Solitary Confinement and Author's structure   (worksheet ;  you must be in class to get credit for this!)

Activity 2:  Flocabulary - Pre-Fix
Click for the instructions:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VYxiDvpGoQcNArIBrMbAWTaM7rYPVW0K0INq4agbRR4/edit?usp=sharing

Activity 3:  No Red Ink -  www.noredink.com   (Lists)

Activity 4:  Begin work on a 5 paragraph essay on Macbeth.  This will be your most important grade of the quarter.  The essay is due on March 2 and 3rd (depending on your class period).

1) Pick a topic from the following options:

• Who is ultimately responsible for Macbeth's downfall?  
• Is Lady Macbeth an evil character?  Why or why not? 
• How does Macbeth's trajectory, ending in irony reveal the theme of "The Tragedy of Macbeth"?

By the end of today,  you should have a strong thesis statement written.  When you complete the thesis, collect any evidence you would need to support your claim out of the play. 

Macbeth work for February 1 and 2

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1io06PXJl7R97Sx9N7EBkaC1rkds_J_tUtX6mWTL3nhU/edit?usp=sharing

Below is the DI for the week of February 1st!  Lets go....


Teacher Led: 

DATA CHAT  - Last year's scores and Midyear results


Activity 2:  Speaking and Listening

The audio file can be accessed here  IF YOU ARE IN GOOGLE CHROME ONLY.
You will need to log into your gmail in a separate tab.  Make a copy of this worksheet and then answer the following questions

James Shapiro, a Shakespeare scholar at Columbia, argues that Shakespeare behaved more like a chemist than a writer: by smashing words together--words like eye and ball--he created new words, and new ways of seeing the world.

Activity 3:  FLOCABULARY - Roots

You can find your directions for this assignment here!

Activity 4:  No Red Ink -  Parallel Structure

www.noredink.com

January 25, 2016

New DI!   This week we are focusing in informational texts.

Activity 1 is Teacher Led:    https://www.newsela.com/articles/soft-socialskills/id/13855/  

Activity 2 is Vocabulary: Use the current vocabulary words from our Macbeth Tracker to write a short story. 300 words required! Use googledocs and send it to delicata10ela@gmail.comwhen complete.

Activity 3 is Writing about the text:  -  Rage-C Paragraph: Explanatory

First read this text:  https://www.newsela.com/articles/teens-exercise/id/13432/   (read on 1070)

Write one body paragraph (always RAGE-C form!) of an argumentative essay answering the following question:

Should schools eliminate gym class or keep it?

I will specifically be looking at your elaboration.  So be sure to explain how the evidence you found in the article connects to your claim.   Write it to me in a Googledoc and email it to me at delicata10ela@gmail.com.

Activity 4 is Grammar: No Red Ink - Grammar

Subject Verb Agreement - Part 2 (Identifying Collective Nouns and Collective Nouns)

www.noredink.com

QUIZ for 5th and 7th

Homework 1/4 and 1/5

Read the CONTEMPORARY version of the following:

Act 1, Scene 1:   http://nfs.sparknotes.com/macbeth/page_2.html

Act 1, Scene 2:  http://nfs.sparknotes.com/macbeth/page_4.html