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Days English 9 |
Classwork/Homework |
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1 Wednesday September 7 |
*Nametags *Seating Chart *Class Expectations *Phone and texting info/permission *Class folder with Pass *Colored folder *Planners *Composition books *Personal interview and share out *Quickwrite: What do you see yourself doing in 10 years? What do you want to do? What is your dream? Go crazy. Forget about limitations. *Share out quick writes |
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2 Friday September 9 |
*Introduce myself *Personal Interview share out Warm-up: Grammar and Language-using sensory details(adjectives) *Autobiographical Poem |
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3 Tuesday September 13 |
Warm up: Vocabulary-words that
describe people *Work on/finish autobiographical poem *Decorate Autobiographical poem *Grammar/writing pre-assessment |
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4 Thursday September 15 |
Warm up: Grammar and
Language-coordinating conjunction activity *Short Stories: Elements of a short story *Plot Mountain introduction *Watch "Mean Girls" |
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5 Monday September 19 |
Warm up: Vocabulary-Review story
elements (plot) and "Mean Girls" examples *Watch "Mean Girls" *Plot the narrative of the movie, reviewing elements *Fiction Coming-of-Age Literature Circles/Book talks and choices *A short, short story HW-Complete your plotting of a film |
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6 Wednesday, Sept 21 |
*Plot
out a film-homework due Warm up: Vocabulary: Jeopardy-story elements *Pick up lit circle books 1st: 8:40 5th: 11:00 7th: 12:25 *What are your first impressions of your new book? How do you think you will like it? What is one thing that you think will happen in the story based on what you have already read? *Lit Circle Group meets-Review calendar(Please don't read ahead!) |
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7 Friay, Sept 23 |
Warm up: Quickwrite: Make a list of
times that you have gotten in trouble whether you deserved to or not.
This may have been at home or at school. It may have been recent or
when you were very young. *Read "Outlaws" by Frank McCourt *Go over Elements of Fiction and scoring rubric *Meet in Lit Circle groups for an activity-Share out first impressions and predictions from last class quickwrite |
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8 Tuesday September 27 |
Warm up: SSR *Write your personal narrative using Google Docs |
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9 Thursday September 29 |
Warm up: Character Resume *Lit Circle-Share out character resumes *Tell your story to a partner *Continue writing your story *Pass out grades and progress reports |
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10 Monday October 3 |
Warm Up: Grammar Assessment *Lit Circle Groups-levels of questions *Highlighting your narrative *Rewriting your narrative Comp Books due Wed 10/5
Graded draft due Friday 10/7
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11 Wednesday October 5 |
Warm up: Get your comp books together
and turn in *Choice short stories and/or work on narratives (Last day for class time for narratives) HW-Narratives due Friday |
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12 Friday October 7 |
Warm up: Lady or Tiger vocabulary *Lit Circle Activity-Notes *Read "The Lady or the Tiger?" *Write a resolution to the story HW-Narratives need to be complete by Saturday morning/Prefix quiz |
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13 Tuesday October 11 |
Warm up: Prefixes *Lit Circle Activity-Save the Last Word *Read "Raymond's Run" in groups *Writing assignment *Pass back papaers/Get progress reports |
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14 Thursday October 13 |
Warm up: Prefixes quiz *Lit Circle activity- *Read short story choice *Plot the narrative of your story |
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15 Tuesday October 18 |
Warm up: Write down common
errors/Read conjunction handout *Comma rules *Go over character narrative writing assignment *Pass back papers *Plot out narrative *Begin typing in Google Docs or writing |
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16 Thursday October 20 |
Computers:
Work on character narratives |
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17 Monday October 24 |
*Character
narrative presentation in small groups *"Why you should/shouldn't read this book" to large group |
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18 Wednesday October 26 |
Celebrating Teen
Read Week
*SSR for the whole class period-Bring something that you want to read |
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19 Friday October 28 |
*Complete
first draft of your character narrative *Begin rewriting |
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20 Tuesday November 1 |
Warm
Up: Adding to your rewriting handout *Notice what you have included from your highlighting and make corrections and additions HW-Complete papers/Papers should be ready for grading by November 4th |
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21 Thursday November 3 |
Warm up: What is
important to you? What do you value? *Values Essay-Assignment and "What you should know about writing essays" *Values cards *Values frame *Values fill in essay sheet HW-Comp books due Monday, 11/7/Character narratives-first and second drafts, due 11/7 (must be printed up, stapled together and turned in) |
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22 Monday November 7 |
Warm
up: Review info on values from last class *Model essay *Values Essay-Type up |
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23* Wednesday November 9 |
Values Essay: peer review and rewriting completed copy due on the 15th HW-Complete values essay |
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24 Tuesday November 15 |
*Catcher
in the Rye-Pick up books *What's in the blue pocket folder? Warm up: Catcher vocabulary #1 *Catcher in the Rye Unit Organizer *Catcher in the Rye-Dead Poets' Society and Anthropological Wheel |
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25 Thursday November 17 |
*Continue Dead Poets' Society and Anthropological Wheel *Begin reading and tracking Holden's values-chapters 1-3 HW-Read chapters 4-9 (pages 26-66)/ Quiz on the reading on Monday, 11/28 |
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26 Monday November 28 |
Warm up: Review for
quiz on chapters 4-9 *Take quiz and grade and review homework pages HW-Read CR Chapters 10 and 11 |
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27 Wednesday November 30 |
Warm up: Write down
4 values and passages that show them from chapters 1-11 Meet in values groups and brainstorm a value with a passage that shows that value on big sticky notes |
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28 Friday December 2 |
Warm up:
Dialogue/Interior Monologue conversation Read CR chp 12 and 13 *"I Love" Poem HW-Chapters 14-16 |
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29 Tuesday December 6 |
Warm
up: How are teens perceived? Write and discuss Do image summary for chapters 14-16 Share out a few image summaries Read chapters 17 and 18 in class HW-chapter 19 |
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30 Thursday December 8 |
Warm
up: Quiz on 17-19 Grade quiz and review Finish "I Love" Poem and decorate Read chapters 20-21 on your own HW-Read chapters 20-21 |
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31 Monday December 12 |
Warm up: Folder
check in Values groups/symbols groups-chapters 12-21 Read chapter 22 in class Read chapter 23 and 24 on your own/Meet with honors students about story |
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32 Wednesday December 14 |
Warm up: Review
chapters 23 and 24 Finish CR chapters 25 and 26 Paper assignments-Begin brainstorm |
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33 Friday December 16 |
Dead Poets' Society |
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34 Wednesday January 4 |
Warm up: Folder
review Common errors-values essay I Love Poem rewrites and decorate poems Holden Values essay outline |
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35 Friday January 6 |
Catcher
in the Rye Index Begin work on Holden values essay HW-Completed first draft due Tuesday |
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36 Tuesday January 10 |
Rewriting
using your checklists Holden values essay |
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37 Thursday January 12 |
Holden
values essay due Holden and the Hero's Journey The Odyssey Tea Party "Where in the World Did Odysseus Go?" video Read "The Cyclops" |
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38 Tuesday January 17 |
The
Odyssey-the movie |
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39 Thursday January 19 |
The
Odyssey-the movie |
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40 Monday January 23 |
Finish
The Odyssey Semester Study Guide |
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41 Wednesday January 25 |
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42 Friday January 27 |
Jeopardy
final review |