Monday, 3-9 Magic Steps ½ Bellringer : Compound-Complex Sentences Oral reading poetry—assign presentation days Homework: Practice your Poem or Podcast
Tuesday, 3-10 No School: Voting Day!
Wednesday, 3-11 Intro to Glory Road The Movie Poetry reading practice Homework: Practice your Poem or Podcast. Presentations begin tomorrow
Thursday, 3-12 Poetry Oral Interpretation Presentations begin Glory Road: Watch movie and take notes
Friday, 3-13 Poetry Oral Interpretation Presentations begin Glory Road: Watch movie and take notes
Ball Hawk by Joseph Bruchac
"Indians invented baseball.” That’s what Uncle Tommy Fox said on the day I was ready to throw in my glove and quit the Long Pond High School team for good.It was one of his typically cryptic remarks and, as usual, it started me thinking. Quite frankly, if Uncle Tommy hadn’t come into my life when he did, I probably would have ended up dyeing my hair purple and going goth.(I would, I might add, have been the first to do that in Long Pond High School, which is barely big enough to have cliques.My high school’s size is one of the reasons why I was still, pathetic as I was with a glove and a bat, a regular member of the varsity nine.There just weren’t that many eligible candidates.)
Uncle Tommy, though, saved me from turning my back on being a skin.I’d been hanging around Uncle Tommy ever since he moved up here to work in the Indian Village and my mom introduced him to me in her German accent. “Mitchell, it vould be gut for you to meet anudder real Indianishe mann und he vas ein freund of you vater.” It wasn’t just that Uncle Tommy was, indeed, a real Indian, albeit of a different tribe than my father.Or that this broadshouldered old Indian guy with long gray braids and a friendly face really did seem to like me and enjoy taking on that role of being an uncle.Or that he knew more about being Indian, really being Indian, than anyone else I’d ever met.He also had a sense of humor and we both needed it when it came to me and baseball.For some reason, everyone thought I should be playing it.True, I’d always been good at other sports like football and wrestling, but baseball had me buffaloed.My mother had gotten it into her head that being an Indian I should of course not just play baseball but excel at it.Even striking out in nineteen consecutive at-bats had failed to disabuse her of that certainty.
Why baseball? Well, as little as my mom knew about American sports, she had heard of the Cleveland Indians and the Atlanta Braves.So she figured it was a game that honored Indians and thus I should be part of it.Yeah, I know.But try to explain to an eager German immigrant mother about stereotyping and American Indians being used as mascots. Plus my dad had been a really great baseball player.He’d been playing armed forces ball when Mom met him in Germany. He was the best baseball player in the history of our family.He was even better than his grandfather, who’d played baseball at the Carlisle Indian School and in the summer Carolina semipro leagues with Jim Thorpe.On the ball field, my Dad was unstoppable.He could hit almost any pitch.If he’d had the right breaks, and hadn’t gotten his right knee ruined when he was in the service, he could have gone pro. We played pitch and catch together almost every day during the seven years we shared before his truck was hit head-on by a drunk driver, leaving his half-Indian son to be raised in the sticks by the wife he had brought back with him at the end of his tour of duty with the marines, which had concluded in der Vaterland.
Anyhow, going back to that day when I was ready to pack it all in, it was a game we were sure to win.But even though we were leading the Hurleytown Hornets by a score of 6–0 and it was the bottom of the seventh inning, I still had to take at least one more turn at bat.When there’s only twelve guys on your whole team and you’re the center fielder, you can’t avoid it. I wiped my hands on my knees, knocked imaginary dirt off my cleats.Nineteen, I thought. The Hurleytown pitcher smiled when he saw me come up to the plate.All the pitchers in the Northern league did that.Then he mouthed the words.Easy out.I hate it when they do that. I looked over toward the stands.My mom was smiling and nodding at me, even though she had both fists clenched around her soda can so hard that it looked like an hourglass.Uncle Tommy, who was next to her, just kept his face blank.I was grateful for that.
The pitcher wound up, kicked high just to show off, and let it go.Fastball, high and outside just where I like it.I took a cut that would have knocked down a wall if I’d been holding a sledgehammer.Unfortunately all I had was a bat.WHIFFF! Strike one. I don’t have to tell you what happened with the next two pitches.Just the usual.Twenty in a row. Mercifully, we finished the game without my coming around in the batting order again and us winning 7–1.I took my time in the locker room, soaped my long black hair and rinsed it out twice.Half of me hoped everybody would be gone by the time I came out.But the other half of me desperately wanted to not be alone, wanted somebody to be there waiting for me.
That’s what I was thinking as I shuffled out of the gym, my duffel bag in one hand and my towel in the other.Then I saw Uncle Tommy still sitting there, all alone in the bleachers.He raised a hand, gesturing for me to join him. It might have been my mom who encouraged Uncle Tommy to stay around and wait for me.But maybe not.After all, Uncle Tommy had been faithfully watching in the stands each time I whiffed out.He came to all my games, not just football in the the fall, where I’d found my groove in my sophomore year at both tight and D-end.Tackling other ballplayers, blocking and snagging the occasional pass were right up my alley.Unlike trying to tag that white little pill with either glove or bat. “Indians invented baseball,” Uncle Tommy said again.We were sitting at the very top of the stands where we had a great view of the high peaks that were beginning to turn red in the setting April sun.I knew he had to get back to his place and check on the hawks before dark, but he wasn’t making a move to stand up, so I stayed put.My uniform was in my bag, but I had pulled my glove out and I was punching my left fist into it.
I looked up at him, ready to smile if I saw him grinning.But his face was serious. “You know what I mean,” he said. Well, I did.I’d heard the whole rap before.There were no team sports in Europe before those early explorers stumbled into the new world and found Indians playing all kinds of team games—from lacrosse to basketball.Rubber balls were invented by Indians. But I didn’t say anything.I just pounded my glove a little harder. Uncle Tommy looked up and nodded his head.I followed his gaze.There was a distant speck getting closer.A very big bird, the circle of its soaring flight carrying it closer to us.It wasn’t Hawk or any of the other birds that Uncle Tommy was nursing back to health.It was bigger.An eagle.Pretty soon it was right overhead.I wondered how Uncle Tommy could do that.Call a great bird like that to us. Folks around here knew that whenever anyone came across a big bird that had been hurt, maybe tangled with a power line or sideswiped by a truck, a hawk or an owl or even an eagle like the one above us, they could bring it to Uncle Tommy.He didn’t have one of those federal licenses to care for birds of prey, but whenever game wardens came out to check on him, they never found anything.Uncle Tommy never caged or tied down any of his birds.He let them fly free.If they were too hurt to fly he kept them somewhere safe that the federal people couldn’t find. Sometimes Uncle Tommy made it all seem so easy. “Mitchell,” he said, “things that are supposed to come easy aren’t always that easy to do.” Uncle Tommy, the mind-reading Zen master. “Meaning what?” I said, like I was supposed to do. “Do you like playing baseball?” Uncle Tommy asked.Of course he was not answering my question. “Baseball is great,” I said.“It’s just me.I stink.” “Hmm,” Uncle Tommy said.Not a question, not a comment, but a lot more than both. “Okay, so I’m good at running bases.Better than most, I guess.And when I do finally get the ball I can throw it hard and straight.But half the time I go out to shag a fly ball, I miss it.You ever notice how when I yell ‘I’ve got it,’ all the other fielders start praying?” “Hmm,” Uncle Tommy said again.He really wasn’t going to let go of this, was he? “Well, what about my batting?” I asked.“The only way I could ever get a hit was if the ball was as big as a watermelon and you set it up on a tee.” “And painted a bull’s-eye on it?” Uncle Tommy said. I couldn’t help it.I had to laugh.For a while.Then I stopped, feeling empty inside. “I quit!” I yelled, standing up and throwing my glove out onto the field.“I’m done with it.”
Uncle Tommy didn’t bat an eye at my temper tantrum.He just kept looking out at the mountains.So I stood there, not sure whether I should climb out of the stands and stomp off or go down on the field and pick up my glove. “Why’d you say that?” Uncle Tommy finally asked in a soft voice. “I hate this game!” Uncle Tommy shook his head.“Why did you keep playing it so long?” “Because the other guys won’t let me quit.No . . . because my mom wants so bad for me to play baseball.” “And why is that?” “Because she’s got some idea that Indians should play baseball.” “Why?” “Because there are teams with Indian names.Right?”
I looked over at Uncle Tommy and he shook his head. “Mitchell,” he said, “I knew your dad when he played ball at Haskell Indian School.My playing days were way behind me then, but I was there teaching in the crafts program.He was good enough to have pro scouts looking at him until he decided to go with the military instead.But even then he was a star on those armed forces teams.” I started crying then.Uncle Tommy was right.My mom wanted me to play baseball because she knew how much Dad loved the game.She’d met him when she came to one of his games on the base in Germany.She fell in love with the way he ran like a deer after hitting the ball over the fence.Then she fell in love with him. But he’d never be here in the bleachers to watch me play the game he loved best of all.I wanted so badly to connect with him that—even though I knew it was impossible—my mind was twisted against itself whenever I went out onto the field.
Uncle Tommy’s hand was on my shoulder.He stayed silent until I’d cried myself out.Then he climbed down out of the stands with me when I went to pick up my glove—which had landed far out in left field. “Time to check on the hawks,” he said. Uncle Tommy never drove.Instead he’d let me take him places in the old beater truck I’d bought with the money I’d earned working summers with him at the Indian Village, teaching the tourists about real Native people.Neither one of us said anything until we were almost at his place. “Mitchell, maybe your mind is getting clear now, but you still need to train your eye,” he said as we pulled in the drive.“We’ll start tomorrow morning.” I came back at dawn.Of course he was already up and waiting for me with his own glove, a beautiful old Louisville Slugger, and a whole box of baseballs.All stuff that he’d stored in that little attic of his, which somehow seemed to have more storage space than a cargo ship.He’d never let me go up there, but he was always producing unexpected things from it.Like that time he brought down two saddles and blankets and all the gear for riding and roping calves.But that’s another story.
Uncle Tommy’s hand was on my shoulder.He stayed silent until I’d cried myself out.Then he climbed down out of the stands with me when I went to pick up my glove—which had landed far out in left field. “Time to check on the hawks,” he said. Uncle Tommy never drove.Instead he’d let me take him places in the old beater truck I’d bought with the money I’d earned working summers with him at the Indian Village, teaching the tourists about real Native people.Neither one of us said anything until we were almost at his place. “Mitchell, maybe your mind is getting clear now, but you still need to train your eye,” he said as we pulled in the drive.“We’ll start tomorrow morning.” I came back at dawn.Of course he was already up and waiting for me with his own glove, a beautiful old Louisville Slugger, and a whole box of baseballs.All stuff that he’d stored in that little attic of his, which somehow seemed to have more storage space than a cargo ship.He’d never let me go up there, but he was always producing unexpected things from it.Like that time he brought down two saddles and blankets and all the gear for riding and roping calves.But that’s another story. “Batting practice,” he said, pointing at the home plate he had set up against the side of his house. Uncle Tommy had been a pitcher when he was in Indian school and it turned out he could still bring it—fastball, slider, even a tricky little curve. “Focus,” he’d say.“Don’t see anything except that ball getting bigger.Connect.”Then he would whiz another one past me.But by Sunday afternoon I started making contact. “Are you slowing the pitches down?” I said. “Nope.”Uncle Tommy smiled.“You are.”He got ready to throw again.“Relax with power,” he said.“Hard and easy.” He had another trick up his sleeve.“The way we always used to learn,” he said, “was by watching nature.I got another teacher for you here.” He wrapped a deerskin around his arm and we walked out back. “Hawk,” he called, holding up his arm.Uncle Tommy never gave names to wild animals more than that.A deer was just “Deer,” a bear was just “Bear.”But when he called out the word “Hawk,” the one hawk he was calling to was always the one that would come.This time it was the big red-tail.It dove down out of the tree, braked with its wings, and reached out its big talons to grasp his arm.
“How can this hawk catch a bird in flight at ninety miles an hour?” Uncle Tommy said. “Because he sees it?” I asked. Uncle Tommy shook his head.He wanted me to think. “Because he sees where it’s going to be,” I said. “Go ahead,” Uncle Tommy said.He lifted his arm and the hawk took flight.It whistled as it rose and then began circling overhead.I cut a piece of meat from the flank of the road-killed doe we’d picked up from the main road that morning.It was a piece about the size of a baseball.I cocked my left arm and heaved it. Before it could hit the ground, that red-tail caught it out of midair with its claws. Our next game was Wednesday afternoon.Instead of the usual heavy feeling of hopeless despair, I was feeling sick to my stomach.I felt like I might even throw up.And that wasn’t a bad thing.Whenever I threw up in the locker room before I went out on the mat to wrestle, I usually ended up doing good.In another couple of minutes we’d be heading out on the field.My gut roiled.
“Excuse me, guys,” I said, heading for the john. “Hey,” Robby Mills, our shortstop said, “Sabattis is about to lose his lunch.” “Cool,” Zach Branch said.He was on the wrestling team with me. It wasn’t that big a game that day for most of us.It was the Carrier Falls Cougars we were playing and we’d beaten them already a few weeks ago by a score of 4–1, despite my striking out three times.But it was big enough for me.It started in the top of the third inning when I called for a fly ball and not only caught it, but threw it back in quick and hard enough to catch the Cougars runner who’d been on base between second and third.My first double play! Robbie almost cracked my ribs when he came running out from shortstop to hug me. Bottom of the third, I was the second batter up.I looked up just before the pitch and thought I saw a bird circling above the field.Then the pitcher reared back and let it fly.It was a curveball.I saw that clearly as it came toward me.I swear I could even see that there was a smudge of green from the turf on the ball’s lacing as it rotated toward me.My swing was strong, but relaxed at the same time.Hard and easy.And I connected. The ball hit the sweet spot on the bat.It was a sound half crack and half chunk, a sound I had heard before, just plain music.And the ball was rising, heading up and out, and I knew it was going far past any of the fielders, way out beyond the fence.People were yelling at me to run, but I was just standing there, watching it go, flying toward the sun.
And that was when the yelling stopped.It stopped as that hawk dove.It caught the ball in its claws, banked, flapped its wings, and floated off toward the distant mountains, taking what should have been my first home run with it. “You got it, Dad,” I whispered.Don’t ask me why I said that or if it makes any sense.I mean, I knew it was just Uncle Tommy’s red-tail. I turned to the umpire, whose mouth was open as he watched the big bird disappear. “Hey,” I said in a soft voice, “I think I know what you should call it.”Then I told him. A big grin came to his face and he pointed off in the direction the hawk had gone. He yelled it out and everybody in the park went wild. The pitcher was so rattled by what had happened that he threw me an easy one on his next pitch that I stroked over the third baseman’s head for a double. I ended up that day with two more doubles and a sacrifice bunt to my credit.We won 5–2.And I played out the rest of that season with a batting average of .285 and a reputation as a better than average fielder.I even had a grand slam home run the last game of the season.But the best moment I ever had in baseball came that day against the Cougars.It came to me because of what Uncle Tommy taught me about letting go of anger and putting my heart in the game.It allowed me to have my best hit ever, even if it ended up being a foul ball.
Monday, 1-27 Turn in Extra Credit Clauses and Phrases: Notebook #15 Intro to Ballhawk--Quickwrite HOMEWORK: Commonly confused words
Tuesday, 1-28 Ball Hawk: Vocab. Practice/ commonly confused words(sentences on notecard) Clauses and Phrases: Grammar coloring 1-5 Ball Hawk Part 1: Model Annotation with audio until paragraph 18.
Wednesday, 1-29 Clauses and Phrases: Grammar coloring 6-10 Part 2: Partner read with N&N annotations paragraphs 19-55. Class share out
Thursday, 1-30 Grammar Coloring 11-15 Part 3: Whole Class read to end with annotations. Check for Understanding Homework: Grammar coloring due Friday
Friday, 1-31 Partner Quiz on BallHawk with grammar Respond to essential question in Workbook
_____________________________________________ Tuesday, 1-21 Semester 2 Begins New Jobs and Seats Expectations and Goal Setting Notebook: Interjections and Conjunctions Notes Homework: Parent Signature by Thursday
Wednesday, 1-22 Finish Notebook: Conjunctions/ Interjections Personal Narrative Group Revision Final Copy with changes Due Monday
Thursday, 1-23 Collect goal sheets/ signature Vocabulary assessment practice Revise and Print Final Draft--Narrative Homework: Narrative final draft due Monday—see teacher for lunch
Monday, March 18, 2019 Practice PPT Presentation Clauses and Phrases Review
Homework: Read and turn in Raffle Tix Week 8: 3rd Quarter Monday, March 25, 2019 CERC Essay Quiz Script Challenge Practice--Posttest Practice
Homework: Read and turn in Raffle Tix--All tix due Friday
Tuesday, March 26, 2019 Turn in Script Practice Bellringer Practice Group Simple Compound Quiz--Know Fanboys Unit Test Cross Word
Homework: Read and turn in Raffle Tix--All tix due Friday
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Review Script Answers Complex Notes Read and T4 Passage for Test—TURN IN! Socrative Practice if finished
Begin Complex Notes
Homework: Read and turn in Raffle Tix--All tix due Friday
Thursday, March 28, 2019 3rd Quarter Post Test Homework: Read and turn in Raffle Tix--All tix due tomorrow
Friday, March 29, 2019 Marble Reward--3rd, 5th hour 3rd hour: Complex Sentence Challenge Last Day to turn in Raffle Tix
Monday, March 18, 2019 Practice PPT Presentation Clauses and Phrases Review
Homework: Read and turn in Raffle Tix
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 Presentations (3) Simple and Compound Sentences cookies and notes
Homework: READ Read Off book--Turn in Raffle Tix
Wednesday, March 20, 2019Presentations (3) Simple Compound Practice Sheet
Homework: READ Read Off book--Turn in Raffle Tix Thursday, March 21, 2019 Presentations (3) Paragraph on Strengths and weaknesses from PPT project Simple/ Compound practiceColoring Sheet Simple- Compound Quiz tomorrow.
Homework: Bring Read OFF book tomorrow.
Friday, March 22, 2019 Presentations (3) If I were.. Quiz practice Simple and Compound Quiz
Posttest Review: List of Terms
Homework: READ your READ OFF book and complete a raffle ticket
Week 7: 3rd Quarter
Monday, March 11, 2019 PowerPoint Directions/ Handout Go over Haskins PPT Model Divide work in Groups
One person logs on to open and share with partners and teacher. Homework: Read and turn in Raffle Tix
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 PPT work day
Homework: READ Read Off book--Turn in Raffle Tix
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 PPT work day
Homework: READ Read Off book--Turn in Raffle Tix Thursday, March 14, 2019 Parent-Teacher Conferences Presentation skills
Finalize and Print PPT (copy for each person and teacher—3 per page)
Rehearse Research Presentation Homework: Bring Read OFF book tomorrow.
Friday, March 15, 2019 Presentation Rehearsal No Red Ink Remember to turn in Raffle Tickets
Homework: READ your READ OFF book and complete a raffle ticket
Week 6: 3rd Quarter
Monday, March 4, 2019 Set Groups for Research Project Prezi Intro with ½ sheet note taking Topic Selection Homework: T4 Don Haskins Article-- 3 Strategies that span the article--no highlighting.
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 Progress Reports
Model Don Haskins Highlight Review directions checklist Read and T4 article #1- 5 Strategies that span the article. Begin Group Highlights
Homework: READ Read Off book--Complete T4 on Research topic
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 Finish Group Highlights --Turn in first article T4s and highlights Introduce Research- and checklist Take Research Notes with Prezi (Use NEW research notes)
Thursday, March 7, 2019
SURF Research—Find 2nd article and print Homework: READ Read Off book--Complete T4 on Research topic
Friday, March 8, 2019 SURF Highlight Article Remember to turn in Raffle Tickets _____________________________________________________________________ Week 5: 3rd Quarter
Monday, February 25, 2019 Fill in organizer for CERC Write CERC essay Library Checkout-- Launch read off! Tuesday, February 26, 20019 Drama Notes Finish CERC Essay Homework: CERC Essay Due tomorrow
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Movie Scene Watch, read, watch Reader’s Theater CCR
Thursday, March 1, 2019 Finish CCR from Movie scene Vocabulary challenge Assign Parts for Reader’s Theater Homework: CCR Due Friday
Friday, March 2, 2019 Vocabulary Practice (10 questions) quiz? Readers Theater (frogging) and T4—watch extra scene Homework: Finish Questions Week 2: 3rd Quarter
Monday, February 11, 2019 NWEA Tuesday, February 12, 20019 Snow Day
Thursday, February 14, 2019 Glory Road movie and notes
Friday, February 15, 2019 Glory Road movie and notes
Week 1: 3rd Quarter
Monday, February 4, 2019 New Seats and Jobs Review Semester Guidelines Vocab Victor Challenge Tuesday, February 5, 20019 Vocab Context Clues Checkpoint Ted Talk: Sam www.ted.com/talks/sam_berns_my_philosophy_for_a_happy_life?language=en Homework: List Obstacles with ways to overcome on NWEA goal, Parent Signature Required
Wednesday, February 6, 2019 Ice Day
Thursday, February 7, 2019 NWEA Testing Homework: List Obstacles with ways to overcome on NWEA goal, Parent Signature Required
Friday, February 8, 2019 NWEA Testing
Monday, 4-8 Turn in Grammar Extra Credit Breakfast Qualifiers Review Simple. Compound, complex—Entrance Slip Sentence practice with coloring (large flower) Homework: Complete Coloring and Sentences
Tuesday, 4-9 4th Hour Only--Lunch C Compound-Complex Notes with Cookies Create magical card Bellringer 1 Compound-Complex Homework: Socrative Practice/ Graded (due Friday at 8am)
Wednesday, 4-10 2nd Hour Pancake Breakfast Bellringer 2 Picture posters with student created sentences Homework: Socrative Practice/ Graded (due Friday at 8am)
Thursday, 4-11 Finish sentences/ partner share and repair Practice grammar quiz Homework: Socrative Practice/ Graded (due Friday at 8am)
Friday, 4-12 Grammar Posttest on 4 Sentence Structures
English 3rd Quarter Daily Calendar Monday, 3-26 Battle Review Posttest Partner Challenge- Practice reading selections and questions Homework: Study PowerPoint and Quizlets to Prepare for Posttest tomorrow
Tuesday, 3-27 ELA 3rd Quarter Posttest Homework: Turn in all Raffles for Read of by tomorrow
Wednesday, 3-28 All Raffles Due today Complex Notes/ Bellringer 1 Determine sentence type -Cards with Sentences in-class Socrative
Thursday, 3-29 Complex Bellringer Exit Slip—Draw the cookies and label parts Memoir Video with Snack Enjoy your Break
Monday, 3-19 Complete PowerPoint Checklist Print PowerPoint Practice with Group Homework: Practice Presentation at home. Continue reading book and complete a raffle ticket for Read Off Tuesday, 3-20 Powerpoint Presentations Barbara Johns, Michael Jordan, Greensboro Four Simple and Compound Sentence Notes Homework: Continue reading book and complete a raffle ticket for Read Off
Wednesday, 3-21 Powerpoint Presentations Michaela DePrince, Bessie Coleman, JK Rowling Simple and Compound Sentence Practice Homework: Continue reading book and complete a raffle ticket for Read Off
Thursday, 3-22 Powerpoint Presentations Freedom Riders, Marta Viera Da Silva, Ray Charles Simple and Compound Sentence Practice Homework: Simple and Compound Quiz
Friday, 3-23 Powerpoint Presentations Wangari Muta Maathai, Malala Yousafzai, Jackie Robinson Simple and Compound Quiz Homework: Continue reading book and complete a raffle ticket for Read Off _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Monday, 3-12 T4 Article and Highlight with 4 colored highlighters Turn in completed article at end of hour Homework: Continue reading book and complete a raffle ticket for Read Off
Tuesday, 3-13 Powerpoint Directions/Handout Go over Haskins PPT Model (see options for templates) Divide work One person logs on to open and share with partners and teacher. Homework: Continue reading book and complete a raffle ticket for Read Off
Wednesday, 3-14 PowerPoint Presentation Work Day Homework: Continue reading book and complete a raffle ticket for Read Off
Thursday, 3-15 PowerPoint Presentation Work Day Homework: Continue reading book and complete a raffle ticket for Read Off
Friday, 3-16 Presentation skills Finalize and Print PPT (2 copies--one for group and one for teacher—2 boxes per page) Rehearsal Presentations begin Monday Homework: Continue reading book and complete a raffle ticket for Read Off --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, 2-26 Drama Notes Assign Parts for Reader’s Theater for Glory Road
Tuesday, 2-27 Perform Reader's Theater Watch movie clip to contrast differences Homework: Complete CCR for Movie Script
Wednesday, 2-28 Complete CCR Glory Road Begin Constructed Response organizer Homework: Prepare for Constructed Response Quiz on the theme of Persistence in Glory Road
Friday, 3-2 Final Kahoot Vocab Challenge Vocabulary Practice (10 questions) quiz
_______________________________________________________________________________________________ Monday, 2-12 Continue working on Book Cover Designs All papers and Book Covers Due at end of Hour All Finished Books must include final copies of: Homework: 3rd Quarter Reflections and Video Reflection on Persistence (One handout front and back)--Watch video using link below Due Thursday Persistence Definition: Persistence is being determined and sticking at something despite all obstacles or difficulties in your path
Tuesday, 2-13 Organize Final books to turn-in Prezi Notes Presentation on Glory Road Introduction to Persistence notes during movie Homework: 3rd Quarter Reflections and Video Reflection on Persistence--Watch video using link below Due Thursday
Wednesday, 2-14 Watch Glory Road and take notes on Persistence examples during movie Homework: 3rd Quarter Reflections and Video Reflection on Persistence--Watch video using link below Due Thursday
Thursday, 2-15 Turn in Homework Watch Glory Road and take notes on Persistence examples during movie
Friday, 2-16 Watch Glory Road and take notes on Persistence examples during movie Complete notes to prepare for Constructed Response
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Monday, 2-5 Jobs Group Revisions Personal Narrative Make Changes and Print Final Draft
Tuesday, 2-6 Introduce Memoir Book and Rubric Revision Day—Flashback/ Tradition Create Goal Sheets Revise and update any unfinished pieces!
Wednesday, 2-7 Traditions Revision and PowerPoint Book Creations Book Creations
Thursday, 2-8 Book Stations Homework: Book Due at End of Class Friday
Friday, 2-9 Book Stations--due at end of Hour
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Monday, 1-29 New Seats Book Binder Letter Home—Money Due Thursday Video/Powerpoint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9vFWA1rnWc Read Teacher’s Narrative Web Ideas on blank paper—with theme and person. Homework:Complete web--$ due Thursday Tuesday, 1-30 Event share Model Personal Narrative Complete: Event Boxes Complete: relationship/ background boxes Homework: Begin Rough Draft- Complete 4 event boxes and lead $ for book binding Due Thursday
Wednesday, 1-31 Review Dialogue Rules—Bellringer Lead model and share Personal Narrative Drafting (Intro and body paragraphs- color code with highlighters/ add stems) Homework: Finish RD and $ for book binding Due Thursday
Thursday, 2-1 Turn in money for book binding Conclusion Type Personal Narrative—if finished (laptops)
Friday, 2-2 Type narrative—due at end of class Begin Traditions Revisions _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Monday, 3-27 ½ Madame and the Rent Man:Exam Practice ½ class- Finish Typing- in class with ELA Think Pads Homework: Typed narrative dueTuesday Socractive.com- #1 Unit Test Wednesday-- study session tomorrow!
Tuesday, 3-28 Study Session after school Book binder letter Posttest Review Partner-- Kahoot Individual Socrative #2- Homework: $ for book binding Due Thursday EC-- Redo Socrative as homework Unit Test Tomorrow
Wednesday, 3-29 3rd Quarter Unit Test Homework: $ for book binding Due Thursday
Thursday, 3-30 Partner Revisions for Traditions Paper Partner Revisions with “Spice it Up” Sheet ½ hour ½ Fix and Print using laptops in classroom. Homework: Final Copy of Traditions Paper Due by end of hour
Friday, 3-31 Group Revision for Personal Narrative Collect Narratives to revise and print final copy after break. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Monday, 3-13 Review Memoir concepts Last Lecture Speech Heart Map Rough Draft and Create your Heart Map Homework: Heart Map Due Thursday www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1CEhH5gnvg Tuesday, 3-14 Study Session after school Dialogue Notes Lesson- writing dialogue with Comic strip Homework: Comic practice extra credit, Work on Heart Map
Wednesday, 3-15 Read Teacher’s Narrative Web Ideas Model Personal Narrative (Brainstorm): Event and lead Complete relationship/ background boxes Homework: Begin Rough Draft- Complete 4 events, Heart Map due Tomorrow
Thursday, 3-16 Collect Final Draft Heart Map Event Share Write lead for Personal Narrative Homework: Finish Rough Draft of Personal Narrative
Friday, 3-17 Type Personal Narrative in Library Homework: Typed Personal Narrative due at end of Hour Use Checklist to complete Bad Boy Audio Chapters www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfQspOxwr-4&index=2&list=PLHlcwv4ZZvPDieXAU5Za7K8wLOdnIlxla Monday, 3-13 Grammar Review: Phrases Biographical Poem Modeling and Brainstorm Homework: Write your Biographical Poem
Tuesday, 3-14 Study Session after school Turn in Draft of Poem Grammar Review: 2 Read Thank You, Ma'am Begin CCR House Homework: Complete Vocab Garden on CCR House; Quiz on Phrases and Thank You, Ma'am is Friday
Wednesday, 3-15 Grammar Bellringer Review: 3 Vocab Victor Challenge Continue on Thank You', Ma'am CCR House Homework: Finish Thank You, Ma'am House; Quiz tomorrow
Thursday, 3-16 CCR House Due at beginning of Hour Vocab Victor Challenge Group E: Socratic Circle: Thank You, Ma'am
Friday, 3-17 Type Autobiographical Poem Use Checklist to complete
Monday, 3-6 Verb Phrases- Bell practice 1 and 2/Vote on Pimp my Sentence Listen to “Mason Dixon Memory” and T4 14:29 Predictions with vocabulary and complete vocabulary garden boxes.
Homework: Vocabulary Garden Boxes, Traditions Picture and Bad Boy Extra Credit Due Tomorrow
Tuesday, 3-7 Study Session after school Collect Bad Boy Extra Credit Complete MDM Reading and T4 CCR House: Text-Text of “Glory” Homework: Complete CCR House Leveled Questions and Quiz tomorrow
Wednesday, 3-8 Award Sentence Winner Complete CCR Questions and Connection Quiz on Mason-Dixon Memory
Thursday, 3-9 No School--Electrical Outage
Friday, 3-10 Vocab Victor Challenge Group D Socratic Circle: Mason Dixon Memory ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Monday, 2-13 Spice up my Sentence Contest--Group Assignment 1. Give Copy of Dead Words List to Each Group 2. Complete draft using T-chart dissection of sentence (include snapshot and explode a moment) 3. Glue boring sentence with letter to top of poster 4. Write New Sentence Find a Fish Cheeks 5. Decorate with color and images
Tuesday, 2-14 Study Session after school Grammar Bellringer- Verb Phrase Review Complete Spice my Sentence Contest
Wednesday, 15 Begin Cultural/ Tradition Brainstorm senses boxes Intro and Conclusion of Traditions writing Homework: Finish conclusion Begin final draft of traditions picture (colored)- Due Friday.
Thursday, 2-16 Grammar Bellringer- Verb Phrase Review Work on body paragraph of traditions writing. * Pick three items to develop and zoom in on. Poster voting for different class. * Add figurative language. Homework: Finish cultural traditions writing.
Friday, 2-17 Grammar Bellringer- Verb Phrase Review and prepositional phrase Type Traditions Draft: Use Checklist Save in OneDrive Collect at end of hour Collect traditions draft/ final draft of picture
Have a Restful Midwinter Break!
Monday, 2-6 Group 1: Socratic Circle for Bad Boy pages 7-34 Outer Circle takes notes Bad Boy 35-47 Begin CCR/ Costa’s House for reading
Tuesday, 2-7 Study Session after school Read Bad Boy 48-64 Continue with CCR House
Wednesday, 2-8 Read Bad Boy 65-77 Complete CCR/ Costa’s House for reading Vocab Victor Challenge (Kahoot) Homework: Complete CCR House Quiz Tomorrow
Thursday, 2-9 Quiz- Chapters 2-7 Group 2: Socratic Circle for Bad Boy pages 35-77 Outer Circle takes notes
Friday, 2-10 Memoir Notes Complete your 6-word memoir
_______________________ Monday, 1-30 Powerpoint- Socratic Circles/ questioning Last 15-20 minutes- Volunteers complete a Socratic Circle. Outer Circle Critique Vocab Victors Challenge Homework: Common Core Bellringer 1 Tuesday, 1-31 Common Core Bellringer 2 Pass out BB books and SC schedule-- Bad Boy Video of Walter Dean Meyers Notes: Introduction with background Power Point and questions
Wednesday, 2-1 Read Bad Boy Read pages 7-16 Begin Bad Boy House CCR Read 17-21 (continue house) Homework:
Thursday, 2-2 Show Cab Calloway Jumpin Jive youtube video Read 21-34 Homework: CCR House Due
Friday, 2-3 CCR wrap up-- independently. Collect outer circle’s CCR’s Group 1: Socratic Circle for Bad Boy pages 7-34 Outer Circle takes notes _____________________________________________________________________________________ Monday, 1-23 Movie Organizer: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Tuesday, 1-24 Movie Organizer: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Wednesday, 1-25 Movie Organizer: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Homework: Movie Organizer Due
Thursday, 1-26 Costa's House Leveled Question Notes and Object Activity Begin CCR House for Lemony Snickers
Friday, 1-27 Complete Costa's House for CCR Homework: Complete entire Organizer--except for roof
3rd Quarter: Monday, March 28, 2016 Turn in $4 to bind Memoir book Go over Grammar Quizzes Pass back Revisions for Traditions Paper Partner Revisions with “Spice it Up” and Dead words list Revise for ½ hour Fix and Print in Library Homework: Turn in Revised copy of Traditions
Tuesday, March 29, 2016 Afterschool Study Session: 3-3:50 Introduce Storyboardthat.com for 6-word memoir Using Directions, save pic into teacher folder (load students’ names into website) Extra Credit: Briefly Discuss Precepts Homework: Complete Storyboard and Print Due @ the end of class. Turn in $4 to bind Memoir book
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Turn in $4 to bind Memoir book Pass back Revisions for Flashback Paper Partner Revisions with “Spice it Up” and Dead words list Revise for ½ hour Fix and Print in Library Extra Credit: Briefly Discuss Precepts Homework: Turn in Revised copy of Flashback
Thursday, March 31, 2016 Group Revision for Personal Narrative Homework: Turn in Revised copy of Flashback
Friday, April 1, 2016 Library: Revision and Editing Changes on Personal Narrative Turn in Revised copy of Personal Narrative Begin Extra Credit Precept Paper
Have a wonderful Spring Break ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Monday, March21, 2016 Introduce Personal Narrative Share Personal Narrative of Grandma Complete relationship boxes of Rough Draft Homework: Complete Final Copy of Heart Map and Relationship boxes
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 Dialogue Notes and Practice Complete Event and Lead on Organizer Homework: Heart Map Due Tomorrow and Extra Credit
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 After school Study Session 3-3:50 Turn in Heart Map Draft Narrative in Class Homework: Grammar Quiz on Phrases
Thursday, March 24, 2016 Grammar Phrases Quiz Type Personal Narrative in Library--Save in One Drive Due Wednesday-3-30
Friday, March 25, 2016 No School __________________________________________ Monday, March 14, 2016 NPR Audio: A Victim treats his Mugger Right http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=89164759&m=89176753/ story First Scene of Thank You Ma’am http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHyhYa9CQcQ Play until 1 minute- write a prediction Listen to “Thank You M’am” Book Fair at End of Hour Homework: Type Final Copy of Flashback due Tuesday
Tuesday, March 15 After school Study Session Turn in Typed Flashback paper Grammar Bellringer- Appositives Finish Thank You, Ma'am Begin CCR House Homework: Complete Vocab Garden
Wednesday, March 16 Complete CCR House for "Thank You, Ma'am" Socratic Circle
Thursday, March 10 Last Lecture Speech Heart Map Lesson- writing dialogue with Comic strip—Model first ½ with students Comic Practice Homework: Comic practice extra credit
Friday, March 11 Grammar Practice Design and Color Heart Map Homework: Heart Map due Monday
Monday, March 7, 2016 Turn in Typed Copy of Cultural Traditions Complete reading of Mason Dixon Memory Homework: Complete Author's craft, Theme, and Vocab Garden of CCR
Tuesday, March 8 No School
Wednesday, March 9 Grammar: Appositives Complete CCR Mason Dixon Memory Begin Flashback Organizer Homework: Complete Flashback Organizer
Thursday, March 10 Grammar: Appositives Socratic Circle for Mason Dixon Memory Homework: Complete Draft of Flashback
Friday, March 11 Grammar Bellringer- Appositives NPR Audio: A Victim treats his Mugger Right http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=89164759&m=89176753/ story
First Scene of Thank You Ma’am http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHyhYa9CQcQ Play until 1 minute- write a prediction Listen to “Thank You M’am” Homework: Type Final Copy of Flashback due Tuesday, Complete Vocabulary Garden of Thank You Ma'am CCR House
Monday, February 29, 2016 Continue Fish Cheeks CCR House Completed Picture of Traditions Writing
Tuesday, March 1 Partner Quiz Socratic Circle Fish Cheeks with debriefing Homework: Complete Brainstorm of Traditions
Wednesday, March 2 Grammar: Verb Phrases 1 and 2 Model and Complete Intro and Conclusion of Traditions Writing Design Traditions Final Copy Picture
Thursday, March 3 Complete body of Cultural Traditions piece Use 3 pieces of figurative Language and imagery Homework: Complete Vocab and 1st two boxes of CCR and Draft of Traditions piece
Friday, March 4 Grammar Bellringer- Verb Phrase Review Mason Dixon Memory Background Read Story Homework: Type Final Copy of Traditions
Monday, February 22, 2016 Grammar Notes with Bellringer 1- prepositional phrase review—sing song Pimp Up My Sentence: Spice up Your Writing Activity In Groups of 3
Complete draft using T-chart dissection of sentence (include snapshot and explode a moment)
Glue boring sentence with letter to top of poster
Write New Sentence
Find a Bad Boy sentence to copy to your poster.
Decorate with color and images.
Homework: Final Copy of 6-word memoir due Wed
Tuesday, February 23--Study Session After School Finish Pimp my sentence final copy (decorated) Post in Hallway Complete Vocab for “Fish Cheeks” Vote on BEST Spiced up Sentence Homework: Complete 6-word memoir
Wednesday, February 24 2nd Hour Assembly Turn in Designed 6-word memoir 1/2 sheet Bellringer 2: Prepositions Fish Cheeks Predictions Read “Fish Cheeks” and revisit predictions Exit Card: Complete 6-word memoir for Amy Tan (consider her story as a writer) Homework: Complete Venn Diagram
Thursday, February 25 Turn in Completed Venn Diagram Handout Complete Entire CCR House Homework: Complete Remainder of House; Quiz on Fish Cheeks
Friday, February 26 Bellringer: Prepositions Fish Cheeks Quiz Constructed Response Writing __________________________________________ Monday, February 8, 2016 Common Core Bell Practice Bad Boy 35-47 Begin CCR/ Costa’s House for reading Homework: Vocab Garden, #1-#2 in summary, #1 author's craft
Tuesday, February 9--Study Session After School Common Core Bell Practice Read Bad Boy 48-64 Continue with CCR Homework: Quiz on Chapters 2-7 Tomorrow
Wednesday, February 10 Read Bad Boy 65-77 Complete CCR/ Costa’s House for reading Quiz- Chapters 2-7 Homework: Complete CCR House; Quiz on Chapters 2-7 Tomorrow
Thursday, February 11 Group 2: Socratic Circle for Bad Boy pages 35-77 Outer Circle takes notes Quiz on Bad Boy Video on 6-word memoir Write 6 word memoir for Walter Bad Boy EC Log sheet—Due March 14
Friday, February 12-Adjusted Schedule Discuss and brainstorm 6 word memoir Homework: 6 word memoir draft due Monday Midwinter Break Begins
Monday, February 1, 2016 Memoir Notes Writing Constructed Response: Quickwrite of a character trait—Use Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events Homework: Complete Organizer
Tuesday, February 2--Study Session After School Writing: Complete Quickwrite in Writer’s Notebook Pass out BB books and SC schedule--Bad Boy Video of Walter Dean Meyers Introduction with background Power Point Homework: Common Core Bellringer
Wednesday, February 3 Turn in Common Core Homework Bad Boy Read pages 7-16 Bad Boy House CCR Homework: Read Chapter 3- complete 2 sections on CCR
Thursday, February 4 Common Core Bellringer 2 Read 21-34 Homework: Entire Bad Boy CCR House Due
Friday, February 5 Collect outer circle’s CCR’s Group 1: Socratic Circle for Bad Boy pages 7-34 Outer Circle completes Role Sheet _________________________________________ Monday, January 25, 2016 Adjusted Schedule
8:10 – 8:30, 1st hour, 1st semester class – watch the hallway behavior video (10-15 minutes in length) discuss with students what they saw, and pass out 2nd semester schedules 8:36 – 9:24, 1st hour, 2nd semester class 9:30 – 10:18, 2nd hour, 2nd semester class 10:24 – 11:12, 3rd hour, 2nd semester class New Seats and Jobs Pass back Argument Writing and complete a reflection Explain Graphic Organizer Begin Surprise Movie! Homework: Complete 1/2 of movie organizer
Tuesday, January 26 Series of Unfortunate Events- Movie 10 minutes to work on Graphic Organizer
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Finish Movie and organizer
Thursday, January 28, 2016 Model CCR/ Costa’s House with movie.
Friday, January 29, 2016 Finish CCR Powerpoint- Socratic Circles/ questioning Last 15-20 minutes- Volunteers complete a Socratic Circle. Outer Circle Critique
___________________________________________________________________________________ Week 10 Monday, March 30 Complete Memoir Book Cover Page and Extra Credit Complete Revisions for Personal Narrative Homework: Complete and parts of memoir book not completed; $4 for Memoir Book
Tuesday, March 31 After school Study Session 3-3:50 Complete and turn in Memoir Book Last day to purchase binding Wednesday, April 1 3rd Quarter Reflections Review of M-Step Tools Homework: Post-Test Socrative.com Practice Thursday, April 2 M-Step Practice
Friday, April 8 No School Have a wonderful Spring Break!
Week 9 Monday, March 23 Memoir Book Timeline and Extra Credit Complete Revisions for Personal Narrative Homework: Personal Narrative Final copy; $4 for Memoir Book
Tuesday, March 24 After school Study Session 3-3:50 Complete Revisions for Traditions Homework: $4 for Memoir Book Wednesday, March 25 Revisions for Traditions Due Homework: Last day for $4 for Memoir Book, Bring pics for 6-word memoir on flashdrive
Thursday, March 26 Begin Glog of 6-word memoir Homework: $Bring pics for 6-word memoir on flashdrive
Week 8 Monday, March 16 Complete Organizer for Personal Narrative Book Fair Homework: Main Event
Tuesday, March 17 Lead-Conclusion Homework: Complete rough draft of personal narrative; skip lines on looseleaf or in Writer's Notebook
Wednesday, March 18 Personal Narrative Revisions
Thursday, March 19 Randy Pausch Speech Heartmap Homework: Design your Heart Map
Friday, March 20 Writing Revision Timeline for Memoir books Homework: Heart Map due Monday
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Week 7 Monday, March 9 Read and T4 Thank You maam Homework: Complete Summary of CCR House for "Thank You, Ma'am" Finish typing Penny Essay during lunch a,b, or c
Tuesday, March 10 Bellringer: Phrases Homework: Complete CCR House "Thank You, Ma'am"
Wednesday, March 11 Parent-Teacher Conferences Socrative Circle: Group 5-Thank You Ma'am Quiz on "Thank You, Ma'am" Homework: Grammar Quiz on Phrases
Thursday, March 12 Morning Kahoot Study Session Grammar Quiz Dialogue Lesson Homework: Comic Strip Practice
Friday, March 13 Intro and Brainstorm of Personal Narrative _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Week 6 Monday, March 2 Bellringer: Prepositional and Verb Phrase Review
Begin Flashback brainstorm and Draft Homework: Complete Rough Draft of Flashback
Tuesday, March 3
Turn in Flashback Paper Prepositional and Verb Phrase Review Common Core Practices
Wednesday, March 4 Prepositional and Verb Phrase Review Begin M-STEP- Argumentative Writing Performance Task Homework: Complete Rough Draft
Thursday, March 5 M-STEP- Performance Task Type M-Step Paper and Flashback in Library
Friday, March 6 Grammar Quiz Complete Typing of M-Step Argument Paper and Flashback
Tuesday, February 24 Verb Phrase Practice Cultural Tradition Brainstorm and Rough Draft Homework: Complete Cultural Tradition Rough Draft Due Thurs Wednesday, February 25 Verb Phrase Practice Read Mason-Dixon Memory Begin CCR House for Mason-Dixon Homework: Complete 1/2 of CCR House Thursday, February 26 Verb Phrase Practice Finish Mason-Dixon Homework: Complete CCR House due tomorrow Friday, February 27 Mason-Dixon Memory Socratic Circle Mason-Dixon Memory Quiz
Begin Flashback brainstorm
Week 4 Monday, February 9 Bellringer: Preposition Review "Fish Cheeks" Pre-reading Read "Fish Cheeks" Homework: Complete 1/2 of CCR House for "Fish Cheeks"
Tuesday, February 10 Bellringer: Common Core Complete CCR House Homework: CCR House Due
Wednesday, February 11
Bellringer: Preposition Review
Spice Up my Sentence Activity
Homework: Draw or Tape Cultural Tradition Picture
Thursday, February 12 Bellringer: Common Core Socrative Circle: Fish Cheeks
Friday, February 13 Bellringer: Preposition Review FishCheeks Partner Quiz Begin Brainstorm of Cultural Tradition
Week 3 Monday, February 2 Snow Day
Tuesday, February 3 Snow Day
Wednesday, February 4 Bad Boy Begin CCR House Homework: Read pp. 35-47 and Complete 1/2 CCR--Quiz Tomorrow
Thursday, February 5 CCR Homework: Complete BadBoy CCR Quiz Homework: CCR due Tomorrow
Friday, February 6 Badboy Socratic Circle 6-word memoir brainstorm _______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Week 2 Monday, 1-26 Memoir Notes Quickwrite in Writer's Notebook
Tuesday, 1-27 Bellringer: Common Core Family Tree Notes Bad Boy Notes and Reading pages 1-6
Wednesday, 1-28 Schedule for Socrative Circles (beginning Friday) Read pages 7-16 from Bad Boy Begin CCR
Thursday, 1-29 Bellringer: Common Core Read 21-34 Homework: Complete CCR
Friday, 1-30 Group 1: Socratic Circle for Bad Boy pages/Outer Circle takes notes Read pp. 7-34 Work on Literary Terms activity pages 7-16
Week 1
Monday, 1-19 No School: Martin Luther King Day
Tuesday, 1-20 Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events Fill in graphic organizer
Wednesday, 1-21
Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events Fill in graphic organizer
Thursday, 1-22 Complete Costa's House CCR for Lemony Snickets Homework: Complete Text Connection
Friday, 1-23 Create Level 1, 2, 3 Questions Practice Socratic Circle
Week 9 Monday, 3-24 Revise and Edit Memoir Books in Library Homework: Bring $4 for book binding and printed copy of personal narrative
Tuesday, 3-25 Revise and Edit Memoir Books in Library Homework: Make Changes to Narrative and save on Flashdrive
Wednesday, 3-26 Revise and Edit Memoir Books in Library
Thursday, 3-27 Revise and Edit Memoir Books in Library
Friday, 3-28 Memoir Books Due by end of Hour
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Week 8 Monday, 3-17 Happy St. Patrick's Day Type Rough Draft of Personal Narrative Homework: Bring $4 for book binding and printed copy of personal narrative
Tuesday, 3-18 Group Revisions of Personal Narrative Homework: Make Changes to Narrative and save on Flashdrive
Wednesday, 3-19 Last Lecture Speech and Heart Map Homework: Heart Map Due Friday
Thursday, 3-20 Design Heart Map Introduction to Writing Portfolio Cultural Tradition Revisions Homework: Heart Map Due
Friday, 3-21 Library Day 1: Cultural Traditions Money Due for Book Binding
Week 7 Monday, 3-10 Grammar Bellringer: Verb Phrases and Prepositional Phrases Brainstorm Personal Narrative Topic Homework: Crossword Puzzle (4th and 5th hour only) and Money for Book Binding
Tuesday, 3-11 Begin Drafting Essay Homework: Brainstorm and Event 1 and 2
Wednesday, 3-12Dialogue Practice Writing a Lead Homework: Comic Strip
Thursday, 3-13 Continue Personal Narrative Draft
Friday, 3-14 Money Due for Book Binding Group Revisions for Personal Narrative ______________________________________________________________________________________ Week 6 Monday, 3-3 Grammar Bellringer: Verb Phrases and Prepositional Phrases Flashback Writing Homework: Type Rough Draft of Flashback(Print copy and save to flashdrive) Due Wednesday
Tuesday, 3-4 Vocab Homework: Type Rough Draft of Flashback(Print copy and save to flashdrive) Due tomorrow
Thursday, 3-6 Grammar Bellringer: Verb Phrases Revisions to Cultural Traditions Paper Rd "Thankyou, Ma'am"
Homework: CCR due for Group E
Friday, 3-7 Group E Socratic Circle Dialogue Practice
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Week 5 Monday, 2-24 Grammar Bellringer: Verb Phrases Complete Rough Draft of "Cultural Traditions" Writing Homework: Mason-Dixon Line Extra Credit and Typed Rough Draft
Tuesday, 2-25 Grammar Bellringer: Verb Phrases Vocab Rd "Mason-Dixon Memory" Homework: Complete Typed Rough Draft of Cultural Traditions Piece due tomorrow Wednesday, 2-26 Rd "Mason-Dixon-Dixon Memory" Story Board for Mason-Dixon Memory Homework: Storyboard and CCR due for Group D
Thursday, 2-27 Grammar Bellringer: Verb Phrases Begin "Flashback" Writing
Friday, 2-28 Group D Socratic Circle "Flashback" Writing
_______________________________________________________________________________________ Week 4 Monday, 2-10 Turn in Guided Reading Socrative Circle Homework: Complete 6-word memoir