Week 9 English 10 B

Day	Class work	Homework
Monday Skills: Students should be able to craft a short, evidenced based editorial and be able to refute an Argument ☐ Use STEAL to complete a character analysis ☐	NMA Project Work Draft your first newspaper article. Recommend that you write your editorial first.	Finish Draft of first article Resources on Internet 1.     Structure of a news feature http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson249/pyramid.pdf 2.     Newspaper Story Format http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson249/format.pdf 3.      News stories http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/reader-idea-practicing-detective-skills-with-infamous-local-news-stories/#more-135147 4.     Science writing tips http://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/may/09/handy-tips-science-writers 5.     The News Manual Reporting Science and Technology http://www.thenewsmanual.net/Manuals%20Volume%202/volume2_31.htm 6.      Model of how to research and write a feature article http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/turn-down-the-volume-researching-the-science-of-sound-and-noise-induced-hearing-loss/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
Tuesday	Peer Review Article #1	Revise your article Submit  article at beginning of class Remember to ripple space so that you can edit.
Wednesday	Draft your second article Team captains- Make sure that you have a diversity of types of articles ( features, news stories, science articles, technology articles).	Revise your second article
Thursday	Peer review your second article Grade Window Opens today.	Submit article # 2  at beginning of class on Friday.
Friday	Preparation for ELA Exam Begin Review of Dust Bowl era in preparation for ELA Performance Assessment exam. Attributions: You need to introduce a Quote.  For example: The author writes, “…”. The author claimed… The author believes,” …” You can also conclude you quote with the attribution. Doc C claimed, “ Studying helps students retain information.” or “Studying helps students retain information”, claimed Doc C.	Review Attributions Test Prep  “ Evidence-based reading and writing… (Tests) will use as its source materials pieces of writing — from science articles to historical documents to literature excerpts — which research suggests are important for educated Americans to know and understand deeply. “The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Federalist Papers,” …“have managed to inspire an enduring great conversation about freedom, justice, human dignity in this country and the world” — therefore (tests) will contain a passage from either a founding document or from a text (like Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address) that is part of the “great global conversation” the founding documents inspired…” New York Times 3/9/14