Agenda, October 30

Due Dates   

• Do tonight: Read for 15 minutes AND record your reading on your bookmark.
• Due Now: Bring your personal reading book.
• Due Now: Bring your Collections Textbook. If you don't have one, go to the library to check one out. 
• Late: Bookmark #5, front and back 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read for pleasure. 
• I can interpret a book through someone else's eyes.
• I can work with my classmates to explore the nature of heroism.
• I can take useful notes.

Agenda

1. Hero Google Slide Presentation

Agenda, October 29

Due Dates   

• Do tonight: Read for 15 minutes AND record your reading on your bookmark.
• Due Now: Bring your personal reading book.
• Due Now: Bring your CollectionsTextbook. If you don't have one, go to the library to check one out. 
• Due Now: Bookmark #5, front and back 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read for pleasure. 
• I can interpret a book through someone else's eyes.
• I can define the elements of the Hero's Journey.
• I can work with my classmates to gather basic facts about an epic poem.
• I can take useful notes

Agenda

1. Independent Reading
2. Characters in The Odyssey
3. The Odyssey Notes

Agenda, October 28

Due Dates  

• Do tonight: Read for 15 minutes AND record your reading on your bookmark.
• Due Now: Bring your personal reading book. 
• Late: Typed Sanctuary Essay in MLA format, with drafting materials attached. Last chance to turn it in for full credit is Wednesday by 2 pm. 
• Due Thursday: Bookmark #5, front and back 
• Due Tomorrow: Bring your Collections Textbook. If you don't have one, go to the library to check one out.

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read for pleasure.
• I can make inferences about my characters and support those inferences with direct quotations.
• I can define the elements of the Hero's Journey
• I can analyze a short video using the Hero's Journey

Agenda

1. Independent Reading
2. Ask Kline one question about college.
3. The Hero's Journey
4. Big Buck Bunny (Twice)

Agenda, October 27

Due Dates  

• Do tonight: Read for 15 minutes AND record your reading on your bookmark.
• Due Now: Bring your personal reading book. 
• Late: Typed Sanctuary Essay in MLA format, with drafting materials attached. Last chance to turn it in for full credit is Wednesday by 2 pm. 
• Due Thursday: Bookmark #5, front and back 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read for pleasure.
• I can make inferences about my characters and support those inferences with direct quotations.
• I can define the elements of the Hero's Journey 

Agenda

1. Independent Reading
2. One more question about Isaiah Bird
3. The Hero's Journey
4. Big Buck Bunny

Agenda, October 22

Due Dates 

• Do tonight: Read for 15 minutes AND record your reading on your bookmark.
• Due Now: Bring your personal reading book. 
• Late: Typed Sanctuary Essay in MLA format, with drafting materials attached 
• Due Now: Bookmark #4, front and back 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read for pleasure.
• I can make inferences about my characters and support those inferences with direct quotations.
• I can use technology to improve my writing.
• I can express my ideas in a variety of forms.

Agenda

1. Independent Reading
2. Option 1: Finish typing your essay. When you're done, move on to Option 2 or 3.
3. Option 2: Sanctuary Drawing Poster - Find three great descriptions in your Sanctuary Essay. Word process them and turn your quotes and your Sanctuary Drawing into a poster.
4. Option 3: Megaword Poster. Make a poster that includes your megaword, its definition, and an appropriate image. You may word process or hand write (neatness counts!). Color is recommended. If you've already made one poster, there's no reason not to do another!

Agenda, October 21

Due Dates 

• Do tonight: Read for 15 minutes AND record your reading on your bookmark.
• Due Now: Bring your personal reading book. 
• Due today at the end of class: Typed Sanctuary Essay in MLA format, with drafting materials attached 
• Due tomorrow: Bookmark #4, front and back 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read for pleasure.
• I can make inferences about my characters and support those inferences with direct quotations.
• I can use technology to improve my writing.

Agenda

1. Show, Don't Tell
2. Type like the wind

Agenda, October 20

Due Dates 

• Do tonight: Read for 15 minutes AND record your reading on your bookmark.
• Due Now: Bring your personal reading book. 
• Late: Rough Draft of Sanctuary Essay
• Due Wednesday at the end of class: Typed Sanctuary Essay in MLA format, with drafting materials attached 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read for pleasure.
• I can make inferences about my characters and support those inferences with direct quotations.
• I can use technology to improve my writing.

Agenda

1. Type like the wind

Agenda, October 19

Due Dates 

• Do tonight: Read for 15 minutes AND record your reading on your bookmark.
• Due Now: Bring your personal reading book. 
• Due Now: Rough Draft of Sanctuary Essay

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read for pleasure.
• I can make inferences about my characters and support those inferences with direct quotations.
• I can take good writing and make it better.

Agenda

1. Independent Reading
2. Common Interrupters
3. Fixing Fragments
4. Show, Don't Tell
5. Sentence Fluency Chart (if time allows)

Agenda, October 15

Due Dates 

• Do tonight: Drag your parents to conferences.
• Do every day this weekend: Read for 30 minutes AND record your reading on your bookmark.
• Due Now: Bring your personal reading book. 
• Late: Bookmark #3, front and back
• Late: Affix Exercise #5: Combine as many affixes as you can into the longest possible single megaword. Define it.  
• Due Monday, 10/19: Rough Draft of Sanctuary Essay

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read for pleasure.
• I can make inferences about my characters and support those inferences with direct quotations.
• I can organize and develop quickwrites into a rough draft of an essay.

Agenda

1. Independent Reading
2. Drafting Time
3. Common Interrupters

Agenda, October 14

Due Dates 

• Do tomorrow: Drag your parents to conferences.
• Due Now: Bookmark #3, front and back 
• Due Monday, 10/19: Rough Draft of Sanctuary Essay

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can use parts of words to create new words.

Agenda

1. Affix Exercise #5: Combine as many affixes as you can into the longest possible single megaword. Define it. Write the word neatly and colorfully on blank paper. Make it pretty.

Agenda, October 13

Due Dates 

• Do tonight: Drag your parents to conferences.
• Do tomorrow: Catch your bus three hours later, unless you're taking the PSAT.
• DO Tonight: Read for 15 minutes AND record it on your bookmark as you finish.

• Due Now: Bring your personal reading book to class.
• Due Tomorrow: Bookmark #3, front and back 
• Due Monday, 10/19: Rough Draft of Sanctuary Essay

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read for pleasure.
• I can predict, connect, and question as I read.
• I can use parts of words to create new words.
• I can use similes, metaphors, and personification to give my writing a sense of style.
• I can organize ideas into an essay.

Agenda

1. Independent Reading
2. Similes, Metaphors, and Personification
3. Writing Time
4. Affix Exercise #5

Agenda, October 12

Due Dates 

• DO Tonight: Read for 15 minutes AND record it on your bookmark as you finish.

• Due Now: Bring your personal reading book to class. 
• Due Monday, 10/19: Rough Draft of Sanctuary Essay
• Late: Bookmark #2, front and back.
• Late: Three sentences

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read for pleasure.
• I can predict, connect, and question as I read.
• I can analyze the structure of a non-fiction text.
• I can organize ideas into an essay

Agenda

1. Independent Reading
2. Lynda Barry's Structure
3. Writing Time

Agenda, October 7

Due Dates 

• DO Every Day This Weekend: Read for 30 minutes AND record it on your bookmark as you finish.

• Due Now: Bring your personal reading book to class.  
• Test Re-takes (if you want to raise your grade): Today after school in B105. You will need to arrange your own transportation.
• Due Now: Bookmark #2, front and back

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read for pleasure.
• I can predict, connect, and question as I read.
• I can write three different types of sentences: AWUBIS, First Word Comma, and Interrupter. 
• I can analyze the structure of a non-fiction text. 

Agenda

1. Independent Reading
2. Three sentences about your sanctuary.
3. Lynda Barry's Structure
4. Writing Time

Agenda, October 6

Due Dates

• DO Tonight: Read for 15 minutes AND record it on your bookmark as you finish.

• Due Now: Bring your personal reading book to class.  
• Test Re-takes (if you want to raise your grade): Tomorrow after school in B105. You will need to arrange your own transportation.
• Due Tomorrow: Bookmark #2, front and back

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read for pleasure.
• I can infer the meanings of unfamiliar words and appreciate good writing.
• I can write three different types of sentences: AWUBIS, First Word Comma, and Interrupter.
• I can use a quick write to generate ideas. 

Agenda

1. Independent Reading
2. Quickwrite #8: What have you learned (about yourself or the world) from your sanctuary?
3. Interrupter Sentences 
   
   

Sanctuary Drawing Directions

Make a drawing or map or advertisement for your sanctuary.

·      Your work should help the viewer see what your sanctuary looks like to you.

·      Your work does not need to be representational.

·      You may mix words and images.

·      You may use color.

·      Your work might suggest a theme.

·      Your work should show care, thought, and effort.

Agenda, October 5

Due Dates  

• DO Tonight: Read for 15 minutes AND record it on your bookmark as you finish.

• Due Now: Bring your personal reading book to class.  
• Test Re-takes (if you want to raise your grade): Wednesday, 10/7, after school in B105. You will need to arrange your own transportation.
• Due Now: Sanctuary Drawings
• Due Wednesday: Bookmark #2

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read for pleasure.
• I can infer the meanings of unfamiliar words and appreciate good writing.
• I can use parts of words to understand unfamiliar words. 
• I can use a quick write to generate ideas. 

Agenda

1. What are complications?
2. Independent Reading / Bookmark Check
3. Complications in your independent reading
4. Affix Exercise #4
5. Quickwrite #7: How did you discover your sanctuary?

Agenda, October 2

Due Dates 

• DO this weekend: Read for 30 minutes each day AND record it on your bookmark as you finish. Expect a bookmark check on Monday.

• Due Now: Bring your personal reading book to class.  
• Test Re-takes (if you want to raise your grade): Wednesday, 10/7, after school in B105. You will need to arrange your own transportation. 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read for pleasure.
• I can infer the meanings of unfamiliar words and appreciate good writing.
• I can read an image.
• I can use an image to generate ideas.

Agenda

1. Independent Reading
2. An image from "Sanctuary"
3. Create a drawing, map, or advertisement for your sanctuary.

Agenda, October 1

Due Dates 

• Late: Bookmark #1, front and back completed

• DO tonight: Read for 15 minutes AND record it on your bookmark as you finish.

• Due Now: Bring your personal reading book to class.  
• Last Chance for Full Credit: Final Draft of short story, plus drafting materials (original freewrite, rough draft, plot pyramid, three openings, mood paragraph). Thursday is your last chance to turn this in for full credit.
• Test Re-takes (if you want to raise your grade): Wednesday, 10/7, after school in B105. You will need to arrange your own transportation. 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read for pleasure.
• I can infer the meanings of unfamiliar words and appreciate good writing.
• I can use prefixes, suffixes, and roots to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words.
• I can correctly punctuate TOE sentences.
• I can reflect on my own work.
• I can read an image.
• I can use a quickwrite to generate ideas.

Agenda

1. Independent Reading
2. Elements of Literature Quiz Reflection
3. Affix Exercise #2
4. An image from "Sanctuary"
5. Quickwrite #7: How did you discover your sanctuary?