- Please review the homework policy in the student handbook. Students have the same number of days to complete make-up work as they were absent. Make-up work will be posted daily on this classroom website and is YOUR responsibility. I will NOT ask for make-up work. Be responsible for completing and submitting all work on time. Late work is not accepted and will receive no grade. When you are on school business, make-up work must be obtained in advance. If a test is given following a business absence, students are required to take the test as scheduled. Tests and work due during unexcused absences receive no credit. This is school policy.
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Bellwork: Sentence one DGPS and Skillbuilder
Agenda:
- Distribute agenda and discuss. Please return signed page by Friday.
- Discuss supplies needed for success. Please have the supplies by Friday if possible. See me if you need assistance making a purchase.
- Overview of the year ahead
- Get acquainted activity
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Bellwork: Sentence 2, DGPS and Skill builder
Agenda:
- Discuss "Soundtrack of My Life" Assignment
- Show examples
Homework: Complete the pre-planning sheet
Friday, August 17, 2018
Bellwork: Sentence 3, DGPS and Skill builder
Agenda:
- View additional Screencast example
- Illustrate the Screencastify extension
- Students add the Screencastify extension to their Google Chrome toolbar and do a practice recording.
- Students join Google Classroom.
- Set up Google Slides to meet the assignment requirements
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Monday, August 20, 2018
Bellwork: Sentence 4, DGPS and Skill builder
Agenda:
- Click here to review commas and quotation marks in quoted material.
Examples:
- In the song "Daddy," Beyonce sings, "You've given me such security. No matter what mistakes I make, you're there for me."
- Beyonce's song "Daddy" has the lines "You've given me such security. No matter what mistakes I make, you're there for me."
- In the song "Daddy," Beyonce sings these lines: You've given me such security. No matter what mistakes I make, you're there for me."
Writing tips:
- Omit I think and I believe
- Omit contractions
- Even though this is a narrative about your life, limit the use of personal pronouns.
Begin Daily Reading Practice if time allows
Homework:
- Revise essay to include correct usage of punctuation and quoted material, and revise essay to reflect MLA format
- Create first five slides for "Soundtrack" assignment
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Bellwork: Sentence 5 Skillbuilder; Tuesday's Daily Reading Practice
Agenda:
- Reading skills Pre-test
- Take survey
- Introduce Daily Reading Practice
Homework:
- Create slides 6 - 10 for "Soundtrack" assignment
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Bellwork: Finish Monday and Tuesday's Daily Reading Practice and complete Wednesday's DRP
Agenda:
- 3rd Period assembly
- All other classes use the period as a workday to use the Chromebooks to work on essay, slides, and screencast for "Soundtrack of My Life" assignment. All three must be submitted in Google Classroom at the beginning of the class on Thursday. Class time will not be allotted to submit work. Submit work in advance!
- Students who do not need to screencast or work on the project will work on an alternate assignment.
Homework:
- Essay, slides, and screencast for "The Soundtrack of My Life" are due at the beginning of each class period. Submit the work before you come to class. Class time will not be allotted for submission. Be sure to return the set of instructions and rubric!
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Bellwork: Thursday's Daily Reading Practice
Agenda:
- Discuss leveled questions.
- Leveled questions activity in preparation for Anthem.
- Anthem assigned
Homework:
- Continue work on Article of the Week "Our Plastic Oceans" and submit in Google Classroom or submit a handwritten copy in class by Monday. August 27.
- Read chapter 1 and complete dialectical journal.
Friday, August 24, 2018
Bellwork: Friday's Daily Reading Practice
Agenda:
- Check DRP
- Submit bellwork and DRP
- Quiz over Anthem, Chapter 1
Homework:
- Finish AoW. Due Monday.
- Read Chapter 2 in Anthem
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Monday, August 27, 2018
Bellwork: Week 2, Sentence 1 DGPS, Skillbuilder, and DRP
Agenda:
Homework:
- Read chapters 3, 4, and 5 in Anthem
- Anthem Tone assignment
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Bellwork: Week 2, Sentence 2 DGPS, Skillbuilder, and DRP
Agenda:
- Tone and mood in an excerpt from "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket"
Homework:
Read chapters 6, 7, and 8 in Anthem and complete dialectical journal
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Bellwork: Week 2, Sentence 3 DGPS, Skillbuilder, and DRP
Agenda:
- Students will analyze a photograph in terms of its composition, detail, and purpose while addressing its overall tone, mood, or effect.
- Students will write an analytical response
- Provide textual evidence to support inferences about the character traits of the protagonist using an excerpt from The Shipping News
- Analyze diction and figurative language
Homework:
- Read chapter 9 in Anthem and complete dialectical journal.
Thursday, August 30, 2018
Bellwork: Week 2, Sentence 4 DGPS, Skillbuilder, and DRP
Agenda:
- Finish writing analytical response
- Provide textual evidence to support inferences about the character traits of the protagonist using an excerpt from The Shipping News
- Analyze diction and figurative language
Homework:
Read chapters 10, and 11 in Anthem and complete dialectical journal. Continue Tone journal and begin character journal.
Friday, August 31, 2018
Bellwork: Week 2, Sentence 5 DRP and Skillbuilder
Agenda:
- Bellwork Quiz
- Students take the STAR test.
Homework: Finish Anthem and the dialectical journal. Be prepared to participate in inner circle/outer circle on Tuesday
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Monday, September 3, 2018
No school
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Bell work: Set 3, DGPS, Skill builder, and DRP (Complete Monday's work for all three. We will be one day behind with this set).
Agenda:
- Inner Circle/Outer Circle graded discussion
- Identifying and analyzing syntax in Anthem: Poetry of Phrases. Write a character poem about The Golden One using the following: One independent clause, an appositive phrase, and five participial phrases. Use the Equality 7-2521 character poem from Anthem as an example.
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Bell work: PSAT Reading practice test From Mark Slouka, Brewster Reading passage and nine questions
Agenda:
- Identifying and analyzing syntax in Anthem: Antimetabole. View the example of antimetabole as found on pages 19 and 38 in Anthem. Groups write a compound sentence on the topic of individualism using antimetabole.
- Identifying and analyzing syntax in Anthem: Epistrophe. Groups write a compound sentence on the topic of Individualism using epistrophe.
- Identifying and analyzing syntax in Anthem: Anaphora and parallel structure. Groups analyze and discuss assigned passage on page 95.
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Agenda: Identifying and analyzing syntax in Anthem: juxtaposition and antithesis.
(See "Analyzing Grammar and Syntax in Any Rand's Anthem" handout)
- Use examples of antithesis on pages 82-83 to analyze what this opposition reveals about Equality's character.
- Why does the author use this antithetical sentence structure when comparing two items?
- What does this antithetical structure reveal about The Golden One? What is ironic about this given the context of the novel?
- Compare two superheroes and consider how they are each other's antithesis.
- Choose two people, places, ideas, or things to contrast and list their opposing characteristics.
- Write a paragraph in which you use an antithetical sentence structure to reveal important characteristics of a friend, family member, role model, pet, etc. Model the structure of your paragraph on The Golden One's speech in the handout. Choose words and comparisons that reflect your positive or negative feelings or attitudes about your subject.
- What is the tone of your paragraph?
Friday, September 7, 2018
Agenda:
- Discuss PSAT
- PSAT practice books distributed and explained
- The Kindness Revolution
- Continue analyzing syntax in Anthem
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Monday, September 10, 2018
Bell work: Set 3 DGPS, Skill builder, and DRP. Sentence 1.
Agenda:
- Sophomore Pictures
- Continue analyzing syntax in Anthem if time allows
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Bell work: Set 3, DGPS, Skill builder, and DRP. Sentence 2.
Agenda:
- Finish analyzing syntax in Anthem. Students write a response using an antithetical structure (Activity 5)
- Test Wednesday. Return Anthem book.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Bell work: Set 3, DGPS, Skill builder, and DRP, Sentence 3
Agenda:
- Submit antithetical response
- Anthem test
- Take counselor's survey
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Bell work: Set 4, DGPS, Skill builder, and DRP, Sentence 4
Agenda:
- Return Anthem test and review
- Short Story notes in Google Classroom
Friday, September 14, 2018
Bell work: Set 4, Skill builder and DRP, Sentence 5
Agenda:
- 2nd-period assembly
- Unwind and first set of critical analysis assigned. Read to page 50 by Friday, September 21.
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Monday, September 17, 2018
Bell work: Sentence 1, Set 4, DGPS, Skill Builder, and DRP
Agenda:
- Review numbers, page 658 in Write Source
- Week 3 bell work quiz
- Analyzing visuals, page 39 for "Harrison Bergeron"
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Bell work: Sentence 2, Set 4, DGPS, Skill Builder, and DRP
Agenda:
- Read "Harrison Bergeron"
- Test over short story notes and "Harrison Bergeron" on Thursday.
Homework:
- Read to page 50 in Unwind. Due Friday.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Bell work: Sentence 3, Set 4, DGPS,Skill Builder, and DRP
Agenda:
- Analyze plot, irony, author's purpose, and writing techniques in "Harrison Bergeron."
- "Harrison Bergeron" in Nearpod
- Test over short story notes and "Harrison Bergeron" Thursday
Homework:
- Read to page 50 in Unwind. Due Friday.
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Bell work: Sentence 4, Set 4, DGPS, Skill Builder, and DRP
Agenda:
- Short Story Notes and "Harrison Bergeron" test
Homework:
- Read to page 50 in Unwind. Due Friday.
Friday, September 30, 2018
Bell work: Sentence 5 Skill Builder, and DRP
Agenda:
- Return "Harrison Bergeron" test
- Unwind Friday
- Discuss and assign Lit jobs
- Read to page 117 in Unwind by Friday, September 28, and complete assigned lit Lit job. Read 9.5 pages a day.
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September 24, 2018
Bell work: Sentence 1 for DGPS, Skill Builder, and DRP
Agenda:
- Satire
- AoW "Board Overlooks Spider Possibilities
Homework:
- Read to page 117 in Unwind by Friday, September 28, and complete assigned Lit job. Read 9.5 pages a day.
September 25, 2018
Bell work: Sentence 2 DGPS, Skill Builder, and DRP
Agenda:
- Return papers
- Clever
- Copy and paste "Soundtrack" into PEG. Make corrections and submit.
- Read to page 117 in Unwind by Friday, September 28, and complete assigned Lit job. Read 9.5 pages a day.
September 26 - September 28
Map testing in Langauge and in Reading
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Monday, October 1, 2018
Bell work: Sentence 3 DGPS, Skill Builder, and DRP
Agenda:
- Students continue to finish MAP testing
- Students who are finished with the MAP test will begin working on the Unwind research assignment. Due Friday. If you are absent, check in with your group for your assigned job.
- Unwind Lit Circles tomorrow.
Homework:
- Read to page 194 in Unwind by Friday (11 pages per day). Begin Unwind research
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Bell work: Sentence 4 DGPS, Skill Builder, and DRP
Agenda:
- Students continue to finish MAP testing
- Unwind Lit Circles
- Unwind Quiz
Homework:
- Read to page 194 in Unwind by Friday (11 pages per day). Continue Unwind research.
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Bell work: Sentence 5 Skill Builder and DRP. Submit
Agenda:
- Students finish MAP testing
- Motif
- Irony and how the author structures a text
- Begin reading "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
Homework: Read to page 194 in Unwind by Friday (11 pages per day). Continue Unwind research.
Thursday, October 4, 2018
All classes complete the PSAT preadministration.
Homework
- Read to page 194 in Unwind by Friday (11 pages per day). Continue Unwind research.
- Finish "The Lottery" and answer the analysis questions. Be prepared to use your knowledge in a Nearpod presentation on Friday.
Friday, October 5, 2018
- Students respond to discussion questions using Nearpod to include the use of irony, foreshadowing, and main idea for "The Lottery." Students write a literary analysis thesis statement.
Homework:
- Complete research assignment. Presentations begin on Monday
- Read to page 261 in Unwind (9.5 pages per day). If you are behind, get caught up!
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Monday, October 8, 2018
Bell work: Set 6, Sentence 1, DGPS, Skill Builder, and DRP
Agenda:
- Unwind presentations
- Book in a Bag assignment distributed and discussed. A bag will be given to each student.
Homework:
- Read to page 261 in Unwind (9.5 pages per day).
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Bell work: Set 6, Sentence 2, DGPS, Skill Builder, and DRP
- Finish Unwind presentations
- Examples of Book in a Bag shown
- Example presentation for Book in a Bag shown
- Morning classes read "On the Morning of July 28th
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
All morning classes take the PSAT
Afternoon classes finish presentations and read "On the Morning After July 28"
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Bell work: Set 6, Sentence 3 DGPS, Skill Builder, and DRP
Agenda:
- Review irony
- Begin "Lamb to the Slaughter"
Homework:
- Read to page 261 in Unwind (9.5 pages per day).
Friday, October 12, 2018
Bell work: Set 6, Sentence 4 DGPS, Skill Builder, and DRP
Agenda:
- Finish "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roal Dahl
- Review requirements for Book in a Bag presentation
Homework:
- Finish reading Unwind by Friday.
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Monday, October 15, 2018
Agenda:
- Jobs (time keeper, recorder, tabulator) for Book in a Bag assigned for each group. S
- Book in a Bag presentations.
Homework:
- Study for Short Story Test I
- Finish reading Unwind by Friday
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Agenda:
Homework:
- Finish reading Unwind by Friday
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Bell work: Finish Set 6 DGPS,Skill Builder, and DRP
Agenda:
- Window notes and "Salvador Late or Early"
Homework: Finish reading Unwind by Friday
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Bell work will be posted in Google Classroom
Agenda:
- "Eleven"
- Discuss Sphero coding project for Unwind
- Students choose scene to code from Unwind
Friday, October 19, 2018
No School.
Upcoming Dates:
Tuesday, October 16: Parent/Teacher conferences
Thursday, October 18: Parent/Teacher conferences
October 25: Picture retakes
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