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Instructors name: Devin Ayers Week of: 01/13 01/17 Course/Grade: Grade 9 English I Unit Name: Writing Intensive

Common Core/ NM Content Standards: RL.9-10.1 RL9-10.9; RI9-10.1 RI9-10.6; W9-10.1W9-10.2; W9-10.4 Essential Question(s): What makes quality essay writing? What are the standards and expectations for Standard Written English? Other considerations (modifications, accommodations, acceleration, etc.): Students who require it will receive extended deadlines for writing assignments and/or shortened reading. Connections (prior learning/prior knowledge): Students will reference their previous experiences in essay writing and expand upon them. Students will also generate essay prompts based on their own experience. Resources/Materials Teacher: Students: Night

Assessment (How will you monitor progress and know students have successfully met outcomes?) Daily: direct observation/timed essay writing This Week: direct observation/timed essay writing/reading quiz Unit: direct observation/timed essay writing/reading quiz

Time allotted MONDAY Learning TargetStudents will learn their areas of strength and areas of deficit in English. They will show their learning by reviewing their Discovery test scores and discussing them in class. Besides the above activity, students will be introduced to the novel Night, and assigned reading.

Lesson activities for instructor and students Assignment(s) DueReading: for Wednesday prologue through page 26

TUESDAY Learning TargetStudents will improved their skills in writing, including organization, syntax, rules of grammar, spelling, and word choice. They will show their learning by completing an FRQ timed essay based on a student-generated prompt. WEDNESDAY Learning TargetStudents will improved their skills in writing, including organization, syntax, rules of grammar, spelling, and word choice. They will show their learning by completing an FRQ timed essay based on a student-generated prompt.

Assignment(s) DueFRQ timed writing

Assignment(s) DueFRQ timed writing Reading: prologue through page 26 Reading quiz

THURSDAY Learning TargetStudents will improved their skills in writing, including organization, syntax, rules of grammar, spelling, and word choice. They will show their learning by completing an FRQ timed essay based on a student-generated prompt.

Assignment(s) DueFRQ timed writing

FRIDAY Learning TargetStudents will improved their skills in writing, including organization, syntax, rules of grammar, spelling, and word choice. They will show their learning by completing an FRQ timed essay based on a student-generated prompt. Having completed four timed essays, students will choose one (the one that they think represents their best work) and revise it for Wednesday, 01/22. On Wednesday, they will turn in a first draft with revisions and a second draft.

Assignment(s) DueReading: page 26 through 37 Reading quiz FRQ timed writing For next week: read pages 37 through 54 for Monday