Agenda, October 2

Do Every Day: Read 30 (15 in class and 15 or more at home). Be sure to mark your reading on your bookmark as you finish.

Due Thursday: Bookmark 2

Due Friday: Short Story (we'll work on it all week)  

Still confused about the parenthetical comma? Go here for a different explanation and go here for more practice.

Today's learning targets:

I can use a plot pyramid to organize ideas for a short story.

I can practice what good readers do.

I can correctly use a comma in direct address

1. Personal Reading
2. A Model Question
3. Comma Rule #3: Add the comma
4. How to begin?
5. Build your own plot pyramid / Begin drafting. Plot Pyramid due by the end of class today.

Agenda, October 1

Do Every Day: Read 30 (15 in class and 15 or more at home). Be sure to mark your reading on your bookmark as you finish.

Due Last Friday: Corrections on your Comma and Vocab Quizzes

Due Now: Comma Rule #2 Handout / Bookmark Check 

Due Thursday: Bookmark 2

Due Friday: Short Story (we'll work on it all week)
Still confused about the parenthetical comma? Go here for a different explanation and go here for more practice.

Today's learning targets:

I can use a plot pyramid to organize ideas for a short story.

I can practice what good readers do.

I can state the rule for commas in direct address.

1. It's seating chart time!
2. Personal Reading
3. A Model Connection
4. Comma Rule #3: Commas in Direct Address
5. Can you plot "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"?
6. Build your own plot pyramid / Begin drafting

Agenda, September 28

Do Every Day: Read 30 (15 in class and 15 or more at home). Be sure to mark your reading on your bookmark as you finish.

Due Now: Corrections on your Comma and Vocab Quizzes

Due Thursday: 9/27 - 10/3

Today's learning targets:

I can use freewriting to generate ideas for a short story.

I can practice what good readers do.

I can correct errors with the parenthetical comma.

1. Freewrite #5: Write about a daydream or a daydreamer.
2. Read "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" independently. Stop frequently to question, predict, connect, summarize, and evaluate.
3. Comma Rule #2: Is it correct?

Agenda, September 27

Do Every Day: Read 30 (15 in class and 15 or more at home). Be sure to mark your reading on your bookmark as you finish.

Due Now: Bookmark 1. Don't forget your Wondrous Words. 

Week 2: 9/27 - 10/3

Today's learning targets:

I can correct errors with the parenthetical comma.

I can compare and contrast videos made in different time periods.

I can make predictions based on videos. 

I can use the grammar decoder to correct my own errors.

I can read for pleasure.

1. Personal Reading
2. Comma Rule #2: The Parenthetical Comma 
3. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" Preview #1
4. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" Preview #2
5. Venn Diagram and Prediction Paragraph
6. Read "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" 
7. Grammar Decoder Practice

Agenda, September 26

Comma Quiz #1 make ups / re-takes will be Wednesday at 2 pm in B108. You will need to arrange your own transportation. You may also arrange to take the quiz with me during either lunch, but you need to do so before Wednesday.
Do Every Day: Read 30 (15 in class and 15 or more at home). Be sure to mark your reading on your bookmark as you finish.

Due Tomorrow: Bookmark 1. Don't forget your Wondrous Words. 

Today's learning targets:

I can analyze a short story for foreshadowing, symbolism, and theme. I can support my answers with evidence from the text.

I can correct errors with the parenthetical comma

I can read for pleasure.

1. Personal Reading. Look for wondrous words. 
2. Review Comma Rule #1
3. Comma Rule #2: The Parenthetical Comma
4. Foreshadowing, Symbolism, and Theme in "Initiation," by Sylvia Plath

Agenda, September 25

Quiz make ups / re-takes will be Wednesday at 2 pm in B107. You will need to arrange your own transportation. You may also arrange to take the quiz with me during either lunch, but you need to do so before Wednesday.
Do Every Day: Read 30 (15 in class and 15 or more at home). Be sure to mark your reading on your bookmark as you finish.

Due Now: Test on Vocab List 1

Due Thursday, September 27: Bookmark 1. Don't forget your Wondrous Words.

Today's learning targets:

I can show what I know on a quiz.

I can analyze a short story for foreshadowing, symbolism, and theme. I can support my answers with evidence from the text.

I can state the rule for the Parenthetical Comma.

I can identify examples of correctly used Parenthetical Commas.

I can read for pleasure.

1. Vocab Quiz 1
2. Personal Reading. Look for wondrous words. 
3. Freewrite #4: "Life is not a matter of  milestones but of moments." Write about a little moment that meant a lot.
4. Review Comma Rule #1
5. Comma Rule #2: The Parenthetical Comma
6. Foreshadowing, Symbolism, and Theme in "Initiation," by Sylvia Plath

Agenda, September 24

Quiz make ups / re-takes will be Wednesday at 2 pm in B107. You will need to arrange your own transportation. You may also arrange to take the quiz with me during either lunch, but you need to do so before Wednesday.
Due Now: Read 30 minutes on Saturday and Sunday. Be sure to mark your reading on your bookmark as you finish.

Due Tomorrow: Test on Vocab List 1

Due Thursday, September 27: Bookmark 1

Today's learning targets:

I can connect real life examples to my vocabulary words.

I can analyze a short story for foreshadowing, symbolism, and theme. I can support my answers with evidence from the text.

I can state the rule for the Parenthetical Comma.

I can read for pleasure.

1. Personal Reading. Look for wondrous words. 
2. Freewrite #4: "Life is not a matter of milestones but of moments."
3. Vocab Task 3: Identify a real life example of a person or thing that fits each vocab word.
4. Comma Rule #2: The Parenthetical Comma
5. Foreshadowing, Symbolism, and Theme in "Initiation," by Sylvia Plath

Agenda, September 21

Due Now: Read 15 minutes or more. Be sure to mark it on your bookmark.
Due Monday: Read 30 minutes on Saturday and Sunday. Be sure to mark your reading on your bookmark as you finish.

Due Tuesday: Test on Vocab List 1 and Elements of Literature

Due Thursday, September 27: Bookmark 1

Today's learning targets:

I can show my knowledge on a quiz.

I can analyze a short story for foreshadowing, symbolism, and theme. I can support my answers with evidence from the text.

I can use a graphic organizer to apply the elements of literature to an unconventional short story. 

I can read for pleasure.

1. Serial Comma Quiz
2. Personal Reading
3. Foreshadowing, Symbolism, and Theme
4. What good readers do ...
5. "Initiation," by Sylvia Plath
6. Freewrite #4: "Life is not a matter of milestones but of moments."

Agenda, September 20

Do Tonight: Read 15 minutes or more. Be sure to mark it on your bookmark.
Due Thursday, September 27: Bookmark 1

Due Tuesday, September 25: Test on Vocab List 1 and Elements of Literature

Today's learning targets:

I can fix errors with the serial comma (C-8)

I can analyze a short story for foreshadowing, symbolism, and theme. I can support my answers with evidence from the text.

I can use a graphic organizer to apply the elements of literature to an unconventional short story. 

I can read for pleasure.

1. To the Library!
2. Personal Reading
3. The Serial Comma: Fix it!
4. Foreshadowing, Symbolism, and Theme
5. What good readers do ...
6. "Initiation," by Sylvia Plath

Agenda, September 19

Coming Thursday: We're going to the library to check out personal reading books.

Due Tuesday, September 25: Test on Vocab List 1 and Elements of Literature

Today's learning targets:

I can use vocabulary words to predict the plot of a short story.

I can define foreshadowing, symbolism, and theme.

I can use a graphic organizer to apply the elements of literature to an unconventional short story.

1. Foreshadowing, Symbolism, and Theme
2. Vocab Prediction Stories
3. What good readers do ...
4. "Initiation," by Sylvia Plath