Agenda, December 19

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can win a poetry game.
• I can win a snowball fight.

Today's Agenda:

1. Haiku Cards
2. Snowball Quiz

Agenda, December 18

• Due Now: Optional Honors Agreement
• Do Before the end of second lunch tomorrow: Students who have signed an Honors Agreement need to meet with me before school, after school, or during second lunch to discuss the contract. 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can plot like a pyramid.
• I can craft a thematic statement.
• I can support my opinion with evidence.

Today's Agenda:

1. Plot review
2. Thematic Statements
3. Thematic Paragraph

Agenda, December 17

• Due 12/18: Optional Honors Agreement
• Do Before 12/19: Students who have signed an Honors Agreement need to meet with me before school, after school, or during second lunch to discuss the contract. 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can brag.
• I can read closely and carefully.

Today's Agenda:

1. Who had the best weekend?
2. Choose your own adventure: "Jump Away" OR "Initiation"

Agenda, December 14

• Due Now: "The Follower" Notes
• Due 12/18: Optional Honors Agreement
• Do Before 12/19: Students who have signed an Honors Agreement need to meet with me before school, after school, or during second lunch to discuss the contract. 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can organize my belongings.
• I can play with words.

Today's Agenda:

1. Organization Friday!
2. "Initiation" Vocab

Agenda, December 12

• Due Now: "An American Childhood" Story Board
• Due 12/18: Optional Honors Agreement
• Do Before 12/19: Students who have signed an Honors Agreement need to meet with me before school, after school, or during second lunch to discuss the contract. 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can correct my own grammar errors.
• I can take useful notes.
• I can compare and contrast to make a connection.

Today's Agenda:

1. The Grammar Decoder
2. Humor / Figurative Language in "The Follower," by Jack Gantos
3. Compare & Contrast Venn Diagram

Agenda, December 12

• Due Now: "An American Childhood" Story Board
• Due 12/18: Optional Honors Agreement

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can participate in a one-on-one conversation.
• I can use a freewrite to generate ideas.
• I can read closely and carefully.

Today's Agenda:

1. Freewrite #1: Tell us about a friend
2. "The Follower," by Jack Gantos

Agenda, December 10

• Late: Parent /guardian signature on class guidelines
• Late: Completed Name Tag (with at least three symbols and color)
• Late: Typed Writing from the Center 
• Due 12/18: Optional Honors Agreement

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can use a graphic organizer to analyze a story.
• I can capture the main ideas of a story.
• I can infer the theme of a story.

Today's Agenda:

1. Skills good readers use
2. "An American Childhood" and the plot pyramid
3. Inferring the theme
4. "An American Childhood" Storyboard

Agenda, December 10

• Late: Parent /guardian signature on class guidelines
• Late: Completed Name Tag (with at least three symbols and color)
• Due 12/18: Optional Honors Agreement

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can take useful notes.
• I can read closely and carefully.
• I can practice the skills good readers use. 

Today's Agenda:

1. How was your weekend?
2. What do you do well?
3. Skills good readers use
4. "An American Childhood," by Annie Dillard

Agenda, December 6

• Due Friday: Parent /guardian signature on class guidelines
• Due Friday: Completed Name Tag (with at least three symbols and color)
• Due 12/18: Optional Honors Agreement

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can use a freewrite to generate ideas.
• I can use symbols to communicate ideas.
• I can share my writing with my classmates. 

Today's Agenda:

1. Writing From the Center / Name Tag Work Time
2. Hits and Questions Fishbowl
3. Hits and Questions
4. Revision Time

Name Tag Directions:

• Fold your name tag like a book cover.
• Write your name large enough for me to see it from across the room.
• Include at least three symbols that represent your personality.
• Use color.

Agenda, December 5

• Due Friday: Parent /guardian signature on class guidelines
• Due 12/18: Optional Honors Agreement

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can use a freewrite to generate ideas.
• I can use symbols to communicate ideas.
• I can share my writing with my classmates. 

Today's Agenda:

1. The Honors Agreement
2. Writing From the Center
3. Name Tag Brainstorm
4. Name Tag Work Time

Name Tag Directions:

• Fold your name tag like a book cover.
• Write your name large enough for me to see it from across the room.
• Include at least three symbols that represent your personality.
• Use color.

Agenda, December 4

Due Friday: Parent /guardian signature on class guidelines.
  Today's Learning Targets:

• I can use a freewrite to generate ideas.
• I can practice close reading skills.
• I can use symbols to communicate ideas.
• I can write a properly punctuated sentence. 

Today's Agenda:

1. Class Rules! Read with a partner / Read with a pencil
2. Writing From the Center
3. Name Tag Brainstorm
4. Name Tag Work Time
5. Exit Ticket #1: Write the name you want us to use on the blank side of the index card. Make sure it's large, clear, and easy to read. On the lined side, write one interesting fact about yourself. Be sure to start with a capital letter and end with a period.

Name Tag Directions:

• Fold your name tag like a book cover.
• Write your name large enough for me to see it from across the room.
• Include at least three symbols that represent your personality.
• Use color.

Agenda, November 29

• Do Now: If you checked out a book from the classroom library, put it in my hands.

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can support my opinion with evidence.
• I can actively participate in a whole class discussion.
• I can take useful notes.

Today's Agenda:

1. Discussion final, written portion
2. Discussion final, spoken portion

Agenda, November 27

• Do as soon as possible: If you checked out a book from the classroom library, put it in my hands.

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can write well-developed paragraph.
• I can accurately and thoroughly analyze a character.
• I can type using MLA format.
• I can use a checklist to assess my own work.

Today's Agenda:

1. Character Analysis Paragraph Typing Time

Agenda, November 26

• Do as soon as possible: If you checked out a book from the classroom library, put it in my hands.

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can review basic parts of speech.
• I can write well-developed paragraph.

Today's Agenda:

1. Scylla and Charybdis Mad Libs
2. Character Analysis Paragraph

Agenda, November 20

• Do as soon as possible: If you checked out a book from the classroom library, put it in my hands.
• Do by 11/20: Meet with me before school, during lunch, or after school to review progress on your Honors Agreement. 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read closely and carefully.
• I can take useful notes.
• I can express gratitude

Today's Agenda:

1. "The Sirens"
2. Everyone leaves for Thanksgiving

Agenda, November 19

• Do as soon as possible: If you checked out a book from the classroom library, put it in my hands.
• Do by 11/20: Meet with me before school, during lunch, or after school to review progress on your Honors Agreement. 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read closely and carefully.
• I can take useful notes.

Today's Agenda:

1. "The Cyclops" Review
2. "The Sirens"

Agenda, November 16

• Due Every Day: Bring a personal reading book to class.
• Do This Weekend: Read for 30 minutes each day.
• Do by 11/20: Meet with me before school, during lunch, or after school to review progress on your Honors Agreement. 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read closely and carefully.
• I can take useful notes.

Today's Agenda:

1. "The Cyclops"

Agenda, November 15

• Due Every Day: Bring a personal reading book to class.
• Do Tonight: Read for 15 minutes.
• Late: Second Honors Agreement Assignment 
• Do by 11/20: Meet with me before school, during lunch, or after school to review progress on your Honors Agreement. 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read closely and carefully.
• I can take useful notes.
• I can actively participate in a whole class discussion.

Today's Agenda:

1. Odysseus v. Percy Jackson
2. "The Cyclops"

Agenda, November 14

• Due Every Day: Bring a personal reading book to class.
• Do Tonight: Read for 15 minutes.
• Due Now: Second Honors Agreement Assignment 
• Do by 11/20: Meet with me before school, during lunch, or after school to review progress on your Honors Agreement. 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read closely and carefully.
• I can take useful notes.
• I can compare an ancient text and a modern film.

Today's Agenda:

1. "The Land of the Lotus Eaters"
2. Odysseus v. Percy Jackson

Agenda, November 13

• Due Every Day: Bring a personal reading book to class.
• Do Tonight: Read for 15 minutes e.
• Due Tomorrow: Second Honors Agreement Assignment 
• Do by 11/20: Meet with me before school, during lunch, or after school to review progress on your Honors Agreement. 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read closely and carefully.
• I can reflect on my reading.
• I can take useful notes.
• I can correct my own grammar errors.

Today's Agenda:

1. Reading Journals / Independent Reading
2. Decoder Time
3. The First 8 Books of The Odyssey
4. The Odyssey: Book 9

Agenda, October 9

• Due Every Day: Bring a personal reading book to class.
• Do This Weekend: Read for 30 minutes each day. Pay attention to your reading rate.
• Due November 14 (or sooner): Second Honors Agreement Assignment 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read closely and carefully.
• I can take useful notes.
• I can write a very concise summary
• I can correct my own grammar errors.

Today's Agenda:

1. Reading Journals / Independent Reading
2. The First 8 Books of The Odyssey
3. Decoder Time

Agenda, November 8

• Due Every Day: Bring a personal reading book to class.
• Do Tonight: Read for 15 minutes. Pay attention to elements of style and interesting language.
• Due November 14 (or sooner): Second Honors Agreement Assignment 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read closely and carefully.
• I can work with a partner to decode complex language.
• I can correct my own grammar errors.

Today's Agenda:

1. Reading Journals / Independent Reading
2. "The Invocation of the Muse"
3. Decoder Time

Agenda, November 7

• Due Every Day: Bring a personal reading book to class.
• Do Tonight: Read for 15 minutes. Pay attention to elements of style and interesting language.
• Due Now: Typed Mango Street Journal + Rough Drafts
• Due November 14 (or sooner): Second Honors Agreement Assignment 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read closely and carefully.
• I can take useful notes.
• I can work with a partner to decode complex language.

Today's Agenda:

1. Reading Journals / Independent Reading
2. The Odyssey Background Notes
3. "The Invocation of the Muse"

Agenda, November 6

• Due Every Day: Bring a personal reading book to class.
• Do Tonight: Read for 15 minutes. Pay attention to elements of style and interesting language.
• Due Now: Typed Mango Street Journal + Rough Drafts
• Due November 14 (or sooner): Second Honors Agreement Assignment 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read closely and carefully.
• I can work with my classmates to gather information.
• I can take useful notes.
• I can work with a partner to decode complex language.

Today's Agenda:

1. Reading Journals / Independent Reading
2. To the Library
3. Character Cards
4. The Odyssey Background Notes
5. "The Invocation of the Muse"

Agenda, November 5

• Due Every Day: Bring a personal reading book to class.
• Do Tonight: Read for 15 minutes. Pay attention to elements of style and interesting language.

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can read closely and carefully.
• I can type a clear, well-developed paragraph.

Today's Agenda:

1. Reading Jornals / Independent Reading
2. Typing Time