April 27th Daily Plan

9th Grade - Freshmen continued through Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet, and we completed Scene 4 and Scene 5 in class today. We did have a specific method/structure to the reading in class, where we read Scene 4 and worked on the comprehension as a class, but students read Scene 5 in small groups.

The small group assignment attached to Scene 5 was a short handout that I provided the students. Students had to read through the scene with their classmates, and then create a brief (3-4 sentence) summary of the scene.

Each group was then assigned a certain number of lines that their group had to translate into modern-day English. We will put together their modern translations tomorrow and see how well the classes could interpret what they have read.

10th Grade - Sophomores continued on with the next project for the Critical Thinking unit, specifically looking at the purpose and methodology of education. We watched an excerpt from a TED Talk video about multiple means of assessing intelligence, and discussed how there is not really a "one-size-fits-all" education system.

The project for this week - Design a Class. Students were given a template to fill out, creating an additional class to add to a high school curriculum.

Requirements -

• Create a Course Name and Description
• List the skills (Academic? Social? Physical?) that will be developed
• List the factual knowledge needed (for example, a class on American History NEEDS certain facts - cause of the Civil War, etc)
• Connections Beyond School - How does this class help students once they graduate?

We will have some time in the library tomorrow to type up a final draft of this project.

Homework - Complete Template (If not completed in class)