ESL 6Quarter 4 Week 5 May 12-16, 2014Blue Days – 5/ 12, 14-16/2014

L. NABULSI

●The entire WMS community will provide a positive school climate through which all students can mature academically, socially, emotionally, and physically while developing a lifelong love of learning.

Wiesbaden Middle School Purpose Statement

●The entire WMS community strives to provide a positive school climate through which all students can mature socially, academically, and physically, while developing a lifelong love of learning.Wiesbaden Middle School Goal

Statement

●#1 All students will increase reading comprehension scores in analyzing text and reading/writing strategies.

● #2 All students will increase scores in math computation, word problems, and problem solving.

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CSI GOALS

●Reading comprehension○ Marking the text○ Charting the text

●Math○ USA○ Math journaling

CSI Interventions

6E1c.1: Identify different types (genres) of fiction and describe the major characteristics of each form.

6E2a.2: Choose the form of writing that best suits the intended purpose.

Standards covered this week

●Every day – read●Due dates for Reading Logs due 5/14, 5/28●Due 6/7 – vocabulary notebook

Put in planner

“I has heard many stories about Isabella Stewart Gardner,” said Adamma my Friend. +3

● GRAMMAR:Commas● IDIOM: The Labors of Hercules

• What’s the relationship?

• POEM : STANZA :: play : acts• BOOK : ______: Pie: ____• It’s still Part and Whole, but this time the whole comes

first. We could call it Whole and Part.• In-class –Finish epic and put into book form

to write a student epic

OVERVIEW OF WEEK 32

Vocabulary 32Language Arts

Math Social Studies Science

1.OED 1.expression 1.martyr 1.descriptive research

2. guide word 2.face (related to math)

2.mercenary 2.diaphragm

3.hyperbole 3.equivalent fractions

3.inflaction 3.diffraction

DAILY LESSON PLANS

●Take roll Correct the sentence: “I has heard many stories about Isabella

Stewart Gardner,” said Adamma my Friend. +3

● Vocabulary: Vocabulary 32● Edit-It – #57● In class: Go through the How to Write the Epic and

use the epic template to write your book.

Lesson Plans – May 12, 2014

Finish the epic book.

Lesson Plans – May 16, 2014

● Long narrative poem● Fate of the nation depends on the hero● Long descriptions of battles and armor● Journey to the underworld● Patronymics● Epithets● Epic similes● Opens in the middle of things● Appeal to the muses● Setting covers the universe (many nations)● Divine intervention● Long speeches

What is an epic?

Rules for Commas

MODIFY NOUN, TELLING WHICH ONE, WHAT KIND, HOW MANY, WHOSE

Rules for Commas \

● An epic hero is a larger than life figure from a history or legend, usually favored by or even partially descended from deities, but aligned more closely with mortal figures in popular portrayals. The hero participates in a cyclical journey or quest, faces adversaries that try to defeat him in his journey, gathers allies along his journey, and returns home significantly transformed by his journey. The epic hero illustrates traits, performs deeds, and exemplifies certain morals that are valued by the society from which the epic originates. They usually embody cultural and religious beliefs of the people. Many epic heroes are recurring characters in the legends of their native culture. Epic heroes are superhuman in that they are smarter, stronger, and braver than average humans. An epic hero can also be a warrior of some sort who performs extraordinary tasks that most find difficult. This hero is strong, smart, and brave.

What is an epic hero

●Take roll●Edit It 58● GRAMMAR : Comma Worksheet● IDIOM: THE LABORS OF HERCULES• ANALOGY: POEM : STANZA :: play : acts• BOOK : ______: Pie: ____• It’s still Part and Whole, but this time the whole comes

first. We could call it Whole and ParA gift can cause joy; tears are an effect of sadness.

• In-class: Create your own epic; Go to Hero Quest PP

May 14, 2014

●The entire WMS community will provide a positive school climate through which all students can mature academically, socially, emotionally, and physically while developing a lifelong love of learning.

Wiesbaden Middle School Purpose Statement

●The entire WMS community strives to provide a positive school climate through which all students can mature socially, academically, and physically, while developing a lifelong love of learning.Wiesbaden Middle School Goal

Statement

●#1 All students will increase reading comprehension scores in analyzing text and reading/writing strategies.

● #2 All students will increase scores in math computation, word problems, and problem solving.

● 

CSI GOALS

●Reading comprehension○ Marking the text○ Charting the text

●Math○ USA○ Math journaling

CSI Interventions

6E1c.1: Identify different types (genres) of fiction and describe the major characteristics of each form.

6E2a.2: Choose the form of writing that best suits the intended purpose.

Standards covered this week

●Every day – read●Due dates for Reading Logs due 5/14, 5/28●Due 6/7 – vocabulary notebook

Put in planner

●#57-9Edit It

● Correct this sentence

“I has heard many stories about Isabella Stewart Gardner,” said Adamma my Friend. +3

“I have heard many stories about Isabella Stewart Gardner,” said Adamma, my friend.

Correct this sentence

. Anyone facing an array of insurmountable obstacles can identify with this one, although we wouldn’t want the kind of divine obstruction that Hercules faced. Luckily for him, at least one deity was on his side. The myth sources are variable but the great hero Hercules (Herakles in Greek) was hated by Juno (Hera in Greek) partly because he was not her son but

Idiom – The Labors of Hercules 

 

instead the offspring of her philandering husband Zeus (Roman Jove). In a rage of madness brought by Hera (Juno), Herakles either killed his wife and/or children. His punishment was a set of twelve (although sometimes limited to ten) daunting ordeals or labors mandated by Hera. Hera’s intent is indeed either to destroy the hero or bring even more hubris upon him. Any of these ordeals would likely be impossible tasks, especially without the help of Athena, patron goddess of heroes. Yet, the hero Hercules not only accomplished the tasks but in doing so rids the world of more than a few monsters and tyrants or accomplishes labors that would have destroyed anyone else.

In usual order, the Labors or Ordeals of Hercules were generally accepted as killing the Nemean Lion, killing the Lernean Hydra, capturing and obtaining the golden horns of the Keryneian Hind, destroying the Erymanthian Boar, ridding Greece of the Stymphalian Birds, cleaning the Augean Stables in a day, capturing the Cretan Bull, stealing the Mares of Diomedes (and killing the tyrant himself), getting the girdle of the Amazon Queen Hippolyta, stealing the cattle of monstrous Geryon, bringing Hera the Apples of the Hesperides and capturing Kerberos the guardian dog of Hell. In Hesiod’s Theogony c. 310 ff, one of the oldest Greek sources, Kerberos was said to be fifty-headed and have a voice like ringing bronze but most depictions show him three-headed. The first tasks took place mostly in the Peloponnesus of southern Greece, the next few broadened out to outer Greece, Thessaly and beyond, while the last ones extended to the limits of the world. Although many of these ordeals required immense strength and courage, the last two actually required more brains than brawn, and Athena’s help was especially vital in these final labors. The Classical tradition finally distilled all of these Herculean labors together in one source, the Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus in mid-first century BCE.

monster in the Italian cliffs who had a girl’s upper body and dogs and snakes below, feared for plucking men out of passing ships and devouring them. Charybdis was the giant whirlpool on the opposite Sicilian coast that would catch and sink whole ships. In Odyssey XII.234-59, following the instructions of Circe, Odysseus chose to lose six men to Scylla as a lesser risk rather than losing the whole ship and crew to Charybdis. In Latin, the aphorism Incidit in scyllam cupiens vitare charybdim, “He runs on Scylla wishing to avoid Charybdis” is often credited to Virgil but his Aeneid 3.320 ff about this event does not include this line, nor do Ovid’s works.  I’ve sailed this passage in a boat coming with a stiff wind from the west around Sicily’s Cape Peloro – the Italian town of Scilla is even named directly across from the cape – turning south and southwest toward Messina and seen firsthand the danger of the “Scyllan” rocks where the wind could drive a boat as well as many swirls of water turbulence where two seas, Tyrrhenian and Ionian, mix in this narrow strait, making oceanographic wind and current vectors the real monsters. [1]

● IDIOM: The Labors of Hercules• What’s the relationship?

• POEM : STANZA :: play : acts• BOOK : ______: Pie: ____• It’s still Part and Whole, but this time the whole comes

first. We could call it Whole and Part.

Analogy

●Reading Log 14 – Due May 13●Vocabulary Notebook due June 10

Reading/Writing Activities for this week

What Students Need To Do

● Number each paragraph● Have a purpose in reading for specific kinds of

details and use post-its for notes or mark notes in the margin

● Reading comprehension○ Who, what, when, where, how, why, vocabulary

● Reading for author’s purpose○ Pay attention to verbs. The basic purposes are to teach,

entertain, influence our opinion.● Reading for historical information

○ Look for names, places, dates, cause and effect, chronology, comparison/contrast

● Reading for literary analysis○ Look for characters, setting, point of view, theme, important

quotes, conflicts, dramatic structure, symbols; characteristics of a particular genre.

How to mark the text

● Do and prepare as if marking the text.● Re-read each paragraph now and underline the claim ( we

call it the controlling purpose) of the author.● Circle any numbers or math terms.● Decide what the purpose of the numerical details are:

support, clarification, comparison/contrast, cause and effect● Look for connecting(transitional) words; do these words

introduce additional information, comparison/contrast, cause/effect, definitions

● Chart the information: If it helps, use a graphic organizer or mind map to decipher the information

● Take Cornell notes: Take Cornell notes using the post-its to set up questions and answers

● Outline – Write thesis and use the information to either write summary or use as a source for research paper

● Write a paper

How to chart the text

●Open a blank WORD document●Go to INSERT●Click on SMART ART●A new window appears: click on PROCESS●New window: go to last item in the second line-

basic timeline. Click●The template appears on your document. Begin

to fill it in with information. ●Try to place information with the date close to

line, not on outside.●Save in your H-drive, ESL folder with page

numberslastblock#

How to Make a Timeline on Word

● Download the MLA template OR go to the student’s H-drive/ESL folder/MLA template

● Open the template● Immediately save as to the H-drive, ESL folder naming

the file with the name of the assignment and last and period. DO THIS. FOLLOW DIRECTIONS. For example, TLOTMC#_#MCDOWELL3.

● On the document, change the date and the title.● Begin on the line under the title, but make sure that this

line is aligned left, not centered, and indented.● Center the Chapter #● Write the summary telling who, what, when, where, how,

and why.Save in the ADB in gaggle in the folder that says TLOTM

final chapter summaries . If you do not name the file correctly and place it in the correct folder, you do not receive credit. Do things correctly.

How To Use the MLA Template