Author Archives: Amanda Lichocki

Nov3

SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #6, read and annotate for Subject and Tone.
- Highlight textual evidence using your green highlighter
- Label your evidence and explain through annotation
  - SAT Practice
    - Part A – Summarize the article in one sentence.
    - Part B –
      - Which choice best summarizes the article?
        a)This article reveals that intrinsic motivation leads to higher grades.
        
        b)This article states that popularity has no effect on your pay as an adult.
        
        c)This article reveals that there is a direct correlation between high school GPA and how much money you will earn as an adult.
        
        d)This article shows that girls will make more money than boys as long as they have a high GPA.
SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes. Be sure to read at home each night!
- Honors – Work on dialectical journal
  - 10 entries due by end of CM #2
Personal Narrative-Mentor Text #1
- Sequence of Events
- Setting
- Characterization

Nov2

SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #6, read and annotate for Audience and Purpose.
- Highlight textual evidence using your orange highlighter
- Label your evidence and explain through annotation
  - SAT Practice
    - Using the clues from the text, figure out what the words “innate smarts” as used in line 9 mean.
      - Using your PINK highlighter, highlight the words, and any other words, that helped you to come to your conclusion.
      - Give your definition in the margin next to the highlighted text.
    - As used in line 9, “innate smarts” most nearly means
      A)Ethical character
      
      B)Learned abilities
      
      C)Natural abilities
      
      D)Powerful influence
SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes. Be sure to read at home each night!
- Book talks have begun. Don’t forget the date you signed up for!
  - Honors – Work on dialectical journal entries
    - 10 entries due by the end of CM #2 – December 2nd
Personal Narrative – Read and annotate the mentor text for POV and Theme/Central Idea using your YELLOW highlighter.
- LA 1 – Mentor Text #1 – The Talk
- Honors – Mentor Text #1 – Santaland Diaries

Nov1

SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #6, read and annotate for Speaker and Occasion.
- Highlight textual evidence using your blue highlighter
- Label your evidence and explain through annotation
SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes. Make sure you read at home each night! Book talks begin.
- Honors – Work on your dialectical journal entries. I will begin conferring with you today!
- LA 1 – Complete “One Pager” using your SSR novel
  - one-pagers

Oct31

Oct28

SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #5, respond to the following prompt in 2 paragraphs:
- Do you agree or disagree with parents who lie on the home language survey?
  - Paragraph #1 – Intro and claim (underline claim)
  - Paragraph #2 – Correctly embedded textual evidence to support your claim. Highlight evidence using your pink highlighter.
SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes. Read novel at home each night!
- Honors – Continue working on your dialectical journal
“The Scarlet Ibis”-Character Analysis/Analytical paragraph
- characteranalysis-scarletibis
Reminder – The quiz covering “The Scarlet Ibis” is Monday!!

Oct27

SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #5, read and annotate for Subject and Tone.
- Highlight textual evidence using your green highlighter
- Label your evidence and explain through annotation
SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes. Be sure to read at home each night!
- Honors – Continue working on your dialectical journal
“The Scarlet Ibis”-Theme Analysis
- analysisoftheme-scarletibis
- Reminder – “The Scarlet Ibis” quiz is Monday!

Oct26

SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #5, read and annotate for Audience and Purpose.
- Highlight textual evidence using your orange highlighter
- Label your evidence and explain through annotation
  - Remember, this week’s article is a summative assessment of your ability to ready for connections, the elements of SOAPSTone, and to write argumentatively (claim, evidence, reasoning)
SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes. Make sure you are reading at home each night as well!
- Honors – Continue working on your dialectical journals
“The Scarlet Ibis” – Theme/Central Idea
- Prepare for Monday’s Quiz!

Oct25

SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #5, read and annotate for Speaker and Occasion.
- Highlight textual evidence using your blue highlighter
- Label evidence and explain through annotation
SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes
- Honors – Continue working on dialectical journal
“The Scarlet Ibis”-Author’s Craft
- Whose voice did the author choose as the narrator and why?
- What is the mood of the text?
- What word choice, imagery and figures of speech (simile, metaphor, alliteration, irony, repetition, personification, etc.) does the author use?

Oct24

SLOT-Read and Annotate Article of the Week #5 for Connections. Remember, this week’s article will be counted as a summative assessment of your ability to read and annotate for connections, SOAPSTone, and successful completion of Friday’s micro-argument!
aow-5-home-language
- Highlight textual evidence using your yellow highlighter
- Label each connection and explain through annotation
  - Text to Text
  - Text to Self
  - Text to World
SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes
- Book Talk Sign-Up! If you are absent today, make sure to see Mrs. Lichocki tomorrow to sign-up for Semester 1 Book Talk and to get a copy of the rubric!
  - Honors – Continue working on Dialectical Journal entries
“The Scarlet Ibis” – Close and Critical Reading-Narrative Text
- Summarize “The Scarlet Ibis” in 8-10 sentences. Focus on main points only, making sure to exclude details!

Oct21

SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #4, respond to the following prompt in 2 paragraphs:
- Would this article make someone rethink their diet?
  - Paragraph #1 – Intro and Claim (underline claim)
  - Paragraph #2 – Your correctly embedded, quoted, textual evidence, highlighted in pink
    - Introduce your quote
    - Copy quote
    - Include parenthetical citation (Carroll 1).
    - Give your reasoning
SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes
- Honors – Work on Dialectical Journal entries
“The Scarlet Ibis”– Finish reading the short story in preparation for Monday. While you are reading you should continue to look up words you don’t know and give a 1-2 sentence summary for each chunk of text.
- the-scarlet-ibis-text

Mrs. Lichocki's Language Arts Class