ESL C Period A + B will be following the Massachusetts state curriculum guidelines.Your grade in ESL-C depends upon a score.  Mr. Hennessey conducts frequent (daily/weekly) assessments of your performance in this course.  In simple terms, your grade depends  on three broad categories: 1. Performance  2. Participation 

3. Effort

 1. Performance

 Quizzes- usually we will have a quiz on Fridays.  There will be about 20-25 questions: Multiple choice, fill-ins, match-up, open responses and an n essay.  Quizzes will focus on Vocabulary, pronunciation, spelling, grammar, idioms and those readings we have studied that week*

 Tests-same as above but are longer and count for two quiz grades

 Projects-are either Individual projects (example: Poster) or Team collaborations where each team member receives the same grade (example: Jeopardy)

 * Note: Mr. Hennessey encourages students to return to Rm 213 on Thursday afternoons at 2:30 to preview tomorrow’s tests and quizzes

 2.Participation

 ESL students need to Speak, Listen, Read and Write and we will be doing all of these things in class.  You need to volunteer answers and to participate fully in every in-class task the teacher assigns

 Attendance counts!  If you are not here or you are tardy, you cannot score a grade.

 Classroom Behavior and willingness to follow instructions count towards your Participation grade

 3. Effort

 Come back for extra help any day after school.  Thursday is Mr. Hennessey’s long after school session but any time after school, you are encouraged and welcomed.

 Homework four (4) levels of scoring

            1. do you know what the HW is? (25 pt)

            2. Do you have your homework with you or in your folder? (25 pt)

            3. Did you complete your homework? (25 pt)

            4. Did you complete your homework well? (25 pts)

 Folders: Every student has a folder containing his/her work( quizzes, personal dictionary of new vocabulary, idioms and expressions, completed Homework0, completed in-class worksheets and writing samples.  Mr H takes these home on weekends and reads (and scores!0 what is in there

My Class rules are :

Attendance  (Seven unexcused absences will result in an automatic F)

NO CELL PHONES ANYTIME IN CLASS OR HALLWAY

Effort (Try to do your best.  Give your time and attention to your studies.

Do not sleep in class.  Ask for help.  Make up missed tests and homework.)

Classroom participation (Raise your hand.  Try to answer  questions.  Listen when others speak.)

Behavior (Follow school rules.  Be serious and respectful.  Don’t eat, chew gum, of do personal grooming in the class.  Put away cell IPods.  Dress appropriately.)

Attitude (Come to class prepared.  Don’t be mean to others.  Co-operate when the class does group work.  Keep your hands to yourself.)

Introductions

 

Rules/expectations/Seating plans

 

 

MCAS Workshop — Part of each long block is to be dedicated to reading an MCAS selection and going over the multiple choice and open response questions. Reading and questions may be assigned for homework, but the material must be reviewed and discussed in class.

Quarter 2

Literature

Nonfiction – Read and analyze at least 2 selections from among the following types of expository writing. — articles, essays, memoir, excerpts, biography,

columns, letters, content texts. All the Benchmarks and Outcomes of the ELPBO, (English Language Proficiency Benchmarks and Outcomes) pp. 62-66 and 58 -62 must be addressed with special attention to author’s purpose, main idea and details in each paragraph.

Drama — Choose an appropriate selection from the ESL library or from the level’s edition of Timeless Voices Timeless Themes with the approval of the department head. All the Benchmarks and Outcomes of the ELPBO document in R. 4 on Dramatic Literature on pages 55, 57, 58, and 60 must be addressed.

Vocabulary —Vocabulary is generated from the literature, but common Greek and

Latin prefixes and roots must be used to generate additional lists of words which should be kept in a personal dictionary section of the students’ notebooks and tested at intervals at your discretion based on the ability of the students in the class.

Grammar — Concentrate on parts of the sentence, types of phrases and clauses, simple and compound sentences, punctuating dialogue.

Writing — Assign a Collins 5 paragraph essay for each piece of literature read using the pertinent Benchmarks and Outcomes in W. 1 — Prewriting, W. 2 — Writing, W.3 — Revising, and W.4 — Editing, W.5 – Media sections of the ELPBO pp.

93. 71-

MCAS Workshop — Part of each long block is to be dedicated to reading an MCAS selection and going over the multiple choice and open response questions. Reading and questions may be assigned for homework, but the material must be reviewed and discussed in class.

SYLLABUS FOR ESL-C AND D

 

Our week by week, and our day by day schedule will follow the Curriculum Map which was written in 2010.  Note that the Curriculum Map is topheavy inReadingand Writing.  This leaves the other two important strands of ESL (Speaking and Listening) unaddressed. We will tailor each lesson to include those strands.

 

Week1

 Seating arrangement

Class Rules and expectations

 

Introductions/ pronunciation

 

Writing exercise “Bargains”

 

HW “In 10 Years”

 

Week 2

Book distribution

discussion; Personal responsibility

Vocabulary; introduce 6 new words/

Idioms

Writing; “I Remember…” (memoir)

Reading Comprehension “Polar Bears”

Main ides

 

ESL-D Finish “Dark Tide”  Discuss Main Ideas

Intro Non Fiction Memoir

Begin “Baseball” p688 by Garcis

Intro Prefixes

 

“HW “Influential People” T-1 writing

 

Week 3

T-3 wWrite Reflective essay based on HW

HW Punctuation

Intro 10 new vocab+5 new idioms

Intro Non-Fiction Autobiography

Intro humorous anecdote

Read “Was Tarzan a three Bandage man?” aloud and discuss

HW “Context Clues”

Reading Comprehension (Multiple Choice 1-25)

Discuss ‘Humor’ tell a Knock-knock joke

Grammar Baseball activity; team building

 

 

Week 4

Eight parts of speech 1-25 HW

write a snappy beginning

two new idioms

personal pronouns

suffixes

From texts(Garcia, Cosby identify

            7xadverbs

            7xadjectives

            7xnouns

            7xverbs

+ worksheets

Point of view 1st,2nd,third worksheet + text

Spanglish quiz+character organizer

 

week 5

Stand and deliver

Collins writing/ message in a bottle

begin Cat…dog/ figurative vs literal

moral of a story

preview vocab

ESL-D Beowulf essays/vocab

Main Idea #1

pronunciation gw/gua

new idioms/new vocab into personal dictionaries

2 truths and a lit/oral+ predicting/inferring

 

Week 6

 

ESL D “I know why the Caged bird sings” + Beowulf+Spanglish

ESL C Joy Luck Club + Mother Tongue + Spanglish (compare/contrast mothers)

Main Ideas #2+3