Franklin Weekly Agenda Template (15-16)

Course Name:
6th
grade
language arts
Do Now:

Objective(s):

Activities:

Homework:

Monday the 14th

Tuesday the 15th

Wednesday the 16th

Thursday the 17th

Quickwrite: Have you

ever
had
the
opportunity to be extra
good
in
order
to
receive something in
return?
Using
descriptive
language,
explain the events of
your experience.

Vocabulary scavenger hunt.

Place three phrases and two
vocabulary words on the
board. Have the student find
those words and phrases in
the text. Have them copy
down the text with the page
number and quotations, and
then
underline
the
word/phrase.

Get
a
yellow
anthology and open it
to page 26.
What predictions can
you make about the
story by looking at
the title and pictures?
Bullet your ideas on
your Do Now paper.

Students will be able to

build
background
knowledge pertaining to
the short story, Drive-In
Movies and compare
and contrast life now
and life during Sotos
time, through viewing
pictures,
and
researching
autobiographies and the
author, Gary Soto.

Students will be able to

identify and define key
phrases and vocabulary
words in the short story,
Drive-In Movies, through
a vocabulary scavenger
hunt and context clues.

Students will be able

to analyze the story,
Drive-In
Movies,
through
actively
readingmaking
predictions,
identifying
key
details,
identifying
point of viewand
discussing the plots
details.

Get
out
you
vocabulary
words.
Now that you have
seen them in the text
and now that you
have
found
the
definitions for the
words, create four
sentences using your
vocabulary
words
(you must use each
word twice)
Students will be able
to
display
their
understanding of the
elements
of
an
effective summary by
developing
a
summary about the
theme of the short
story,
Drive-In
Movies

- DGP
- Who is Gary Soto? Learn
about the author
- View photos of Drive-Ins,
weeding, and washing a car
- What is an autobiography?
Compare and contrast to
biography using Venn Diagram
Exit
ticket:
T-chart
comparing Drive-in movies to
watching movies at a theater.

- DGP
- Partner work: Determine
the meaning of the phrases
and vocabulary words using
context clues.
Discussion
and
predications
on
words/phrases
- Chunking the Drive-In
Movies text.

- DGP
- Pre reading Strategies:
What can we predict from
the title and the pictures?
- Refer to vocabulary words
while reading
-Popcorn read the text
- Annotate the text
- Comprehension/discussion
questions

Have your parents come in

for conferences and get
No Homework
extra credit
Parent teacher conferences Wednesday, 9/16 4:30-8:30 and Friday, 9/18 1-4
No Homework

Upcoming

- Paragraph Structure
- Read a model paragraph
and a bad paragraph (What
do we notice about each?)
Provide
paragraph
skeleton for students to use.
- Have them write a
paragraph about the short
story

Finish your paragraph if

you did not finish it in class

Friday the 18th

Parent teacher conferences

1-4 pm
No School for students

Parent teacher conferences

1-4 pm
No School for students

Parent teacher conferences

1-4 pm
No School for students

No School for students

Dates:
Strategies
Implemented to
Meet ALL
Student Needs:

Think, pair, share

Cornell Notes
Visuals with
definitions
Compare/Contrast

Reading with a
focus

Reading with a
focus
Round-Robin
reading

Sentence starters/
Sentence Frames
Summarizing the
text