RICKS INSTITUTE – Lesson Plan for Language Arts, 2009/2010

First Semester, Grades 10 & 12

SECOND PERIOD WEEKLY PLAN – GRADE 12

Activities for Week 1 (October 12-16, 2009)

A) Review First Period test questions

Objectives: 1. To answer test questions for clarity and objectivity;

2. To identify errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar and content.

Activities/Procedure: Ask students to identify errors, and then make comments on one

another’s first period test papers.

B) Visual/Descriptive Writing

Objectives: 1. To describe visible structures or objects (for example, the

classroom);

2. To use phrases and clauses as modifiers in descriptive writing;

3. To use the present simple tense in visual/descriptive writing (for

example, a school campus).

Activities/Procedure: Ask students to describe the physical appearance of their

classroom; Ask students to identify things that make their classroom a good place for

learning.

Main Activities for Week One

 1. To identify all errors on another student’s first period test paper (Lang. Arts) and

make comments on the paper;

2. To write a paragraph describing a visible structure (a classroom, as a place for

learning).

NOTE: Spelling, dictation, discussion, and reading will also form part of the

activities.

Activities for Week 2 (October 19-23)

Visual/Descriptive Writing

Objectives: To use connectives to:

1. Compare things (similarities);

2. Contrast things (differences);

3. Make a conclusion (summary);

4. Add information and clarification.

Activities/Procedure: Ask students to make an oral description of things (objects) or

structures they see by making:

comparison;

similarity;

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 conclusion/summary; and

clarification.

Main Activities for Week Two

1. To compare and contrast two structures or objects (Ricks Media Center and

Washington chapel) in two paragraphs;

2. To summarize a piece of writing (a paragraph).

NOTE: Spelling, dictation, discussion, and reading will also form part of the

activities.

Textbook Ref. :Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition (5th Course)

SECOND PERIOD WEEKLY PLAN – GRADE 10

Activities for Week 1 (October 12-16, 2009)

A) Review test questions for first period

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 Objectives: 1. To answer test questions for clarity and objectivity;

2. To identify errors made in spelling, punctuation, and

grammar.

Activities/Procedure: Ask students to rewrite the first period test in their English

copybooks as Assignment 1.

B) Writing sentences according to use or purpose

Objectives: a. To name the kinds of sentences according to use or purpose:

b. To identify the uses or purposes;

c. To identify end marks for each kind of sentence;

d. To write sentences as class activity.

Activities/Procedure: Ask students to make sentence, and then identify each kind of

sentence according to use; tell students every group of words (that make a complete sense)
falls within one of the names sentences; ask students to write sentences for each kind of

sentences.

B) Writing sentences according to structure or form

Objectives: a. To name sentences according to structure or form;

b. To tell what a clause is, and differentiate between a clause and a phrase

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 (or group of words);

c. To name and identify the kinds of clauses, and the kinds of

subordinate

clauses;

d. To identify words (relative pronouns) that introduce clauses;

e. To identify an adjective clause in a sentence, and write sentences

having an adjective clause.

Activities/Procedure: Ask students to identify relative pronouns from textbooks, and

use these to make sentences; Ask students to identify the subjects and predicates (verbs) in

each sentences, and main clauses and subordinate clauses; Tell students that an adjective

clause is introduced by relative pronouns.

Main Activities for Week One

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 1. To write two or more sentences for each kind of sentences according to use or

purpose, using one of the words: dormitory, library, Ricks Institute, science, English, rainy

season, internet, principal;

2. To identify a main clause and a subordinate clause in a given sentence.

NOTE: Spelling, dictation, discussion (debate) and reading will also form part of

the activities.

Text Reference: Grammar & Composition Handbook, High School 2 (pp. 161-162;

pp. 371-388)

Activities for Week 2 (October 19-23)

A) Naming, identifying, and writing sentences with subordinate clauses (Cont.)

Objectives: 1. To name the kinds of subordinate clauses;

2. To identify words (subordinating conjunctions) that introduce adverb clauses;

3. To identify an adverb clause in a sentence;

4. To write sentences with an adverb clause.

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 Activities/Procedure: Ask students to identify subordinating conjunctions from

textbook, and use these to make sentences; help students to identify which part of each

sentence makes sense and which does not (main clause and subordinate clause); tell students

an adverb clause is introduced by subordinating conjunction

B) Sentences according to structure

Objectives: 1. To name and identify sentences according to structure or form;

2. To combine two or more sentences to form one sentence;

3. To use pronouns and conjunctions to form compound sentences and complex

sentences.

Actvities/Procedure: Ask students to name sentences according to form, and to

identify the subjects and verbs (predicates) in given sentences; tell students that parts of

sentences introduced by relative pronouns and subordinating conjunctions are subordinate

clauses (adverbs and adjectives); assists students to identify sentence parts joined by
coordinating conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs as compound sentences, that each part can

stand alone as a sentences (main clauses).

Main Activities for Week Two

To combine two or more sentences to form one sentence.

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 NOTE: Spelling, dictation, discussion (debate) and reading will also form part of the activities.

Text Reference: Grammar & Composition Handbook, High School 2 (pp. 161-175; pp. 371-388)

SECOND PERIOD WEEKLY PLAN – GRADE 12

Activities for Week 3 (October 26-30, 2009)

Visual/Descriptive Writing (Continued from Week 2)

Objectives: To use connectives to:

1. Compare things (similarities);

2. Contrast things (differences);

3. Make a conclusion (summary);

4. Add information and clarification.

Activities/Procedure: Ask students to make an oral description of things (objects) or

structures they see by making:

comparison;

similarity;

conclusion/summary; and

clarification.

Main Activities for Week Three

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 1. To compare and contrast two structures or objects (Ricks Media Center and

Washington chapel) in two paragraphs;

2. To summarize a piece of writing (a paragraph).

NOTE: Spelling, dictation, discussion, and reading will also form part of the

activities.

Textbook Ref. :Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition (5th Course)

Handbook for Writers (Sixth Edition); Lynn Quitman Troyka

SECOND PERIOD WEEKLY PLAN – GRADE 10

Activities for Week 3 (October 26-30, 2009)

A) Combining sentences using

Objectives: Combining sentences using:

1. Coordinating conjunctions;

2. Relative pronouns;

3. Subordinating conjunctions (and other connectives).

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 B) Using vocabulary words in sente

Objectives: 1. To use selected words in sentences; to use the antonym of same

Word in a sentence.

2. Use a group of sentences to describe an object (visual

description).

Activities/Procedure: a. Ask students to use textbook to do

Pretest/Exercise

On pp. -----
b. Do a sit work (quiz) on writing sentences with subordinate

clauses

c. Ask students to describe objects/structures they see.

Text Reference: Grammar & Composition Handbook, High School 2 (pp. 161-175; pp. 371-388)

SECOND PERIOD WEEKLY PLAN – GRADE 12

Activities for Week 4 (November 2-6, 2009)

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 RICKS INSTITUTE – Lesson Plan for Language Arts, 2009/2010
First Semester, Grades 10 & 12

SECOND PERIOD WEEKLY PLAN – GRADE 12

Activities for Week 1 (October 12-16, 2009)

A) Review First Period test questions

Objectives: 1. To answer test questions for clarity and objectivity;

2. To identify errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar

and content.

Activities/Procedure: Ask students to identify errors, and then make

comments on one another’s first period test papers.

B) Visual/Descriptive Writing

Objectives: 1. To describe visible structures or objects (for example,

the classroom);

2. To use phrases and clauses as modifiers in descriptive

writing;

3. To use the present simple tense in visual/descriptive

writing (for example, a school campus).

Activities/Procedure: Ask students to describe the physical appearance of

their classroom; Ask students to identify things that make their classroom a good

place for learning.

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 RICKS INSTITUTE – Lesson Plan for Language Arts, 2009/2010
First Semester, Grades 10 & 12

Main Activities for Week One

1. To identify all errors on another student’s first period test paper (Lang. Arts)

and make comments on the paper;

2. To write a paragraph describing a visible structure (a classroom, as a place

for learning).

NOTE: Spelling, dictation, discussion, and reading will also form part of

the activities.

Activities for Week 2 (October 19-23)

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 RICKS INSTITUTE – Lesson Plan for Language Arts, 2009/2010
First Semester, Grades 10 & 12

Visual/Descriptive Writing

Objectives: To use connectives to:

1. Compare things (similarities);

2. Contrast things (differences);

3. Make a conclusion (summary);

4. Add information and clarification.

Activities/Procedure: Ask students to make an oral description of things

(objects) or structures they see by making:

comparison;

similarity;

conclusion/summary; and

clarification.

Main Activities for Week Two

1. To compare and contrast two structures or objects (Ricks Media Center and

Washington chapel) in two paragraphs;

2. To summarize a piece of writing (a paragraph).

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 RICKS INSTITUTE – Lesson Plan for Language Arts, 2009/2010
First Semester, Grades 10 & 12

NOTE: Spelling, dictation, discussion, and reading will also form part of the

activities.

Textbook Ref. :Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition (5th Course)

Activities for Week 3 (October 26-30, 2009)

Visual/Descriptive Writing (Continued from Week 2)

Objectives: To use connectives to:

1. Compare things (similarities);

2. Contrast things (differences);

3. Make a conclusion (summary);

4. Add information and clarification.

Activities/Procedure: Ask students to make an oral description of things

(objects) or structures they see by making:

comparison;

similarity;

conclusion/summary; and

clarification.

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 RICKS INSTITUTE – Lesson Plan for Language Arts, 2009/2010
First Semester, Grades 10 & 12

Main Activities for Week Three

1. To compare and contrast two structures or objects (Ricks Media Center and

Washington chapel) in two paragraphs;

2. To summarize a piece of writing (a paragraph).

NOTE: Spelling, dictation, discussion, and reading will also form part of

the activities.

Textbook Ref. :Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition (5th Course)

Handbook for Writers (Sixth Edition); Lynn Quitman Troyka

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RICKS INSTITUTE – Lesson Plan for Language Arts, 2009/2010
First Semester, Grades 10 & 12

SECOND PERIOD WEEKLY PLAN – GRADE 10

Activities for Week 1 (October 12-16, 2009)

A) Review test questions for first period

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 RICKS INSTITUTE – Lesson Plan for Language Arts, 2009/2010
First Semester, Grades 10 & 12

Objectives: 1. To answer test questions for clarity and objectivity;

2. To identify errors made in spelling, punctuation, and

grammar.

Activities/Procedure: Ask students to rewrite the first period test in their

English copybooks as Assignment 1.

B) Writing sentences according to use or purpose

Objectives: a. To name the kinds of sentences according to use

or purpose: b. To identify the uses or purposes;

c. To identify end marks for each kind of sentence;

d. To write sentences as class activity.

Activities/Procedure: Ask students to make sentence, and then identify each

kind of sentence according to use; tell students every group of words (that make a

complete sense) falls within one of the names sentences; ask students to write

sentences for each kind of sentences.

B) Writing sentences according to structure or form

Objectives: a. To name sentences according to structure or form;

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First Semester, Grades 10 & 12

b. To tell what a clause is, and differentiate between a clause

and a phrase

(or group of words);

c. To name and identify the kinds of clauses, and the kinds

of subordinate

clauses;

d. To identify words (relative pronouns) that introduce

clauses;

e. To identify an adjective clause in a sentence, and write

sentences having an adjective clause.

Activities/Procedure: Ask students to identify relative pronouns from

textbooks, and use these to make sentences; Ask students to identify the subjects and

predicates (verbs) in each sentences, and main clauses and subordinate clauses; Tell

students that an adjective clause is introduced by relative pronouns.

Main Activities for Week One

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 RICKS INSTITUTE – Lesson Plan for Language Arts, 2009/2010
First Semester, Grades 10 & 12

1. To write two or more sentences for each kind of sentences according to use

or purpose, using one of the words: dormitory, library, Ricks Institute, science,

English, rainy season, internet, principal;

2. To identify a main clause and a subordinate clause in a given sentence.

NOTE: Spelling, dictation, discussion (debate) and reading will also

form part of the activities.

Text Reference: Grammar & Composition Handbook, High School 2 (pp. 161-

162; pp. 371-388)

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