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Classes have separate agendas this week so please be certain that you are correctly checking by your CLASS!  Papers are due on Wednesday in Periods D&F.  Papers are due on Friday in Periods C&E.


Periods C & F

Sept 16th *Grammar*   Get laptops: Log-in to schoology:   QuickWrite: Poem from The Simple Truth by Philip Levine What does it mean? What line seems important to you and why?  Is there any connection b/w this poem and your ideas for This I Believe?   Mini-conferences  & progress check   HW: Complete pre-reading questions for Zoo Island (on the back)

Sept 17th    Zoo Island read & model active reading strategies   HW:   Period C: Schoology post   Period F: *Papers due rough draft & final copy with rubric*

Sept 18th *Half -day* *Grammar* *Papers due*   Complete notes on Zoo Island   HW:   Period C: Consider Unit Essential Question: How do we determine and achieve our goals and dreams? 4-6 sentences   Period F: Schoology Post

- Sept 19th *QW: Goal*   Introductory video on time period Of Mice and Men   HW:   Period C: *Papers due rough draft & final copy with rubric*   Period F:Consider Unit Essential Question: How do we determine and achieve our goals and dreams? 4-6 sentences

-Sept 20th Activating Thinking: Of Mice and Men Anticipation Guide   Reading Guide bookmark   Four Corners Graded Discussion     HW: Complete first reading checkpoint & post

Period D

Sept 16th *Grammar*   Get laptops: Log-in to schoology:   QuickWrite: Poem from The Simple Truth by Philip Levine What does it mean? What line seems important to you and why?  Is there any connection b/w this poem and your ideas for This I Believe?   Mini-conferences  & progress check   HW: Read “The Scarlet Ibis”

Sept 17th    The Scarlet Ibis in class – notes on character development & dreams   HW: Schoology Post about the writing process   *Papers due rough draft & final copy with rubric*

Sept 18th *Half -day* *Grammar* *Papers due*   QW/ discussion: Make a list of situations that might make someone feel proud. Is pride positive or negative – can it be both? How can excessive pride lead to misery? Should pride come in the way of love? Explain.   Complete notes on “The Scarlet Ibis”

- Sept 19th *QW: Goal*   Consider Unit Essential Question: How do we determine and achieve our goals and dreams?   Introductory video on time period Of Mice and Men   HW: Schoology post

-Sept 20th Activating Thinking: Of Mice and Men Anticipation Guide   Reading Guide bookmark   Four Corners Graded Discussion     HW: Complete first reading checkpoint & post

Period E

Sept 16th *Grammar*   Get laptops: Log-in to schoology:   QuickWrite: Poem from The Simple Truth by Philip Levine What does it mean? What line seems important to you and why?  Is there any connection b/w this poem and your ideas for This I Believe?   Mini-conferences  & progress check   HW: Revise hooks

Sept 17th Laptops – editing continued   Mini-conferences   HW: Schoology Post about the writing process

Sept 18th *Half -day* *Grammar*   QW/ discussion: Make a list of situations that might make someone feel proud. Is pride positive or negative – can it be both? How can excessive pride lead to misery? Should pride come in the way of love? Explain.   Begin reading The Scarlet Ibis in class – take active reading notes on character development & dreams

- Sept 19th *QW: Goal*   Continue reading The Scarlet Ibis in class – take active reading notes on character development & dreams   Consider Unit Essential Question: How do we determine and achieve our goals and dreams?   HW: Papers due rough draft & final copy with rubric

-Sept 20th *Papers due*   Activating Thinking: Of Mice and Men Anticipation Guide   Four Corners Graded Discussion