October 20-24

MONDAY

PERIODS 1, 4, 6, 7, AND 8

CLASS TIME:

ENGLISH ROAD MAP

TPCASTT-“Annabell Lee” by E.A. Poe

Hw:  I.R. which is due Thursday

5^th period only

Class Time:

“The Landlady” compare to episode of Twilight zone

Hw:  none

Tuesday

Periods 1, 4, 6, 7. And 8

Roald Dahl “The Landlady”

Irony, foreshadow, tone, 

Vocabulary Review for Bio, cap,
Poetry and figurative language

Hw: I.R. which is due Thursday

5^th period only

Class Time

Finish Venn Diagram for “The Landlady” and Twilight Zone episode

Compound, complex, simple sentences

Personal Narrative
Poetry and figurative language

Hw:  none

Wednesday

ALL Periods

Irony

Compound, complex, simple sentences

Personal Narrative

Hw: I.R. (periods 1, 4, 6, 7, and 8)

Thursday

Periods 1, 4, 6, 7, and 8

Finish Personal narrative

Venn Diagram for “The Landlady”

Grammar
Poetry and figurative language

Hw:  Foreshadowing poster

Period 5

Finish personal narrative

“The Lamb to Slaughter”

Grammar cont’d

Hw:  none

Friday

Periods 1, 4, 6, 7, and 8

“The Landlady” cont’d

Foreshadowing

Quiz

Hw:  poster on foreshadowing

5^th period

“The Lamb to Slaughter”

Grammar

Hw:  none

OCTOBER 13-17

October 13, 2014

Periods 1, 4, 6, 7, and 8 ONLY

Class Time: Vocabulary Roots #2 quiz

Hw:  I.R.; Halloween tale

5^th Period ONLY!

Class Time:

“The Landlady” quiz

Foreshadowing Poster assigned

Hw:  Read library book; Halloween tale

Tuesday

Periods 1, 4, 6, 7, and 8

New Root List

E.A. Poe

Introduction to Mystery genre

“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”

Grammar

Hw:  See Above

5^th Period

Foreshadowing Review

Foreshadowing Poster

Grammar

Root Quiz

Hw:  Halloween Tale; library book

Wednesday

Periods 1, 4, 6, 7, 8

E.A. POE cont'd

Hw:  Root list #3, I.R. book, and Halloween tale

5^th period

Twilight Zone episode

Venn Diagram

Hw:  library book; Halloween tale, Venn Diagram

ALL CLASSES

Thursday

STAAR practice

FRIDAY

TBD

October 6-10 Let's Go

Parent Night is coming up!  It will be held November 6.  We will have student-led conferences that night AND..wait for it...student vs faculty/parent basketball game.  Dinner will be served to all student-led conference participants.  The game is open to all students, but only the first 40 who hand in their permission slips will be allowed to play.  Have an awesome week!

Please note this is a tentative list of items I hope to cover this week.  The BEST way to know exactly what is happening in English is by checking your student's planner nightly.

Sincerely,

Monday

October 6

Period s 1, 4, 6, 7, and 8

Class Time:

Ironic Lyrics and review irony

Go over vocab roots from last week

Read “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto
Writing STAAR editing/revision practice

Hw:  Write compound and complex sentences with vocab words, Due Wed. 
I.R. PARENT SIGNATURES ARE DUE TOMORROW! 

5^th Period

Class Time:

Read “Oranges” by Gary Soto

Venn Diagram comparing “Seventh Grade” to “Oranges”

Writing STAAR editing and revision practice

Finish Personal Narrative

Hw:  Finish root vocabulary

Tuesday

October 7

Diagram the plot of “Seventh Grade”

Brief reading quiz on short story

Read poem and Venn Diagram

RAFT
New I.R. parent signatures are DUE TODAY

Hw:  vocab sentences

5^th Period

-Inferences

“The Landlady”
Grammar:  compound, complex sentences

Hw:  Root vocabulary

Wednesday

October 8

“The Landlady”
Quiz on Compound, complex, simple, dependent and independent clauses, conjunctions, and subject and predicate AND...
FANBOYS, FANBOYS, WHATCHA GONNA DO, WHATCH GONNA DO WHEN THEY COME FOR YOU!

Irony

Watch “Twilight Zone” version of short story

Venn Diagram compare and contrast the two

Hw:  Write an ending to the story due Friday

5^th Period

Con’t “The Landlady”

Hw:  read I.R. book

Thursday

Class time

Con’t “The Landlady”

Reading Quiz

Hw:  Finish ending, due Friday

5th Period

"The Landlady"

Reading and Grammar Quiz

Hw:  Read your library book

Friday

collect ending to "The Landlady"

ALL Classes STAAR practice

Assign Halloween tale due October 17

Hw:  Halloween tale due October 17 

September 22-27

MONDAY

September 22

Periods 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8

Class Time:

1.     Thesis statement

2.    Vocabulary quiz on root words

3.    Venn Diagram for Gilligan’s Island

Hw:  Finish Thesis statement handout and Read

5^th Period

Class Time:

1.Venn Diagram

2.  Clauses

Hw:  read library book

Tuesday

Periods 1, 4, 6, 7, and8

Class time:

1.     Collect/Share Hw

2.    Go over literary Elements Fill-in-the-blank notes

3.    “Charles”

4.    Tone

5.    Hw:  Break up letter and I.R. reading/project

Period 5

1.     Go over literary elements notes

2.    “Charles” audio

3.    Tone

4.    Break up letter

5.    Hw:  Finish Break up letter

Wednesday

Periods 1, 4, 6, 7, and 8

Class time:

1.     Share Break up letter “tone”

2.    Finish “Charles”

3.    Literary elements

4.    Clauses

Period 5

Class Time:

1.     Collect/share break up letters “tone”

2.    Finish “Charles”

3.    Literary Elements

4.    “Cheques by Ordeal” making inferences

5.    Clauses

6.    Hw:  Read

Thursday

Periods 1, 4, 6, 7, and 8

1.     Making Inferences

2.    “Charles” quiz

3.    Hw:  Read I.R. Book for project due Tuesday

Period 5

Class Time:

1.     “Charles” quiz

2.    Making inferences

3.    Hw:  read library book

Friday

All Classes:

Library Day!!

Revisit Personal Narrative from last week!

September 15-19

Friday is picture day.  Pictures will be taken during English.  Students have to wear their school uniform; it is not a free dress day.

Monday

1.        go over roots and check parent signatures of I.R. sci-fi book

2.       Personal Narrative Essay-decisions, decisions (finish for Hw)

3.    Finish reading "TMDG"

4.       Hw:  "TMDG" ending due Wednesday.  Personal Narrative due tomorrow

Period 5

1.    What is a thesis statement?

2.    Personal Narrative Essay-decisions, decisions

3.    Go over new root

4.    Hw:  Finish Personal Narrative due tomorrow

Tuesday

1.        Collect essays
TThesis statements introducted

2.       “The Most Dangerous Game”

3.       Class Discussion

4.       “TMDG” Body Metaphor Groups

5.       Hw:  Write an ending to “TMDG due tomorrow,” Study Roots, and I.R.(due Sept 30)  Finish Thesis statement 

Period 5

1.        Collect essay (personal narrative)

2.       Finish “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” 

3.       Class discussion

4.       “RTT” one-pager

5.       Hw:  Write an ending to “RTT,” study new root for Friday quiz, and read for Independent Reading project

Wednesday

1.       Collect story ending

2.       Reading quiz “TMDG”

3.       Body Metaphor Groups

4.       Bloom’s questions for “TMDG”

5.       Hw:  Diagram the plot of  your personal narrative, Study roots and work on I.R.

Period 5

1.        Collect Story end to “RTT”

2.       Crossword Puzzle for new root

3.       One-Pager for “RTT”

4.       Hw:  Diagram the plot of "RTT," study root and read

Thursday

1.        Body Metaphor Group PROJECT due Friday
Diagram the plot of "TMDG" in class

Hw:  study roots

Period 5

1.        One-Pager for “RTT”

2.       Reading quiz for short story
BioPoem-Due Friday

3.       Review roots for tomorrow’s quiz

4.       Hw:  study

Friday (PICTURE DAY)

1.        Roots Quiz

2.       Share Body Metaphors

R"TMDG" short movie/Venn Diagram

3.       Hw:  I.R. due September 30

Period 5 (PICTURE DAY)

1.        Root Quiz

2.       Share one pager for “RTT”/ Movie-cartoon and Venn Diagram

3.       Read silently in I.R. (independent reading book)

4.       Hw:  none

September 8-12

Hi All,

This will be a busy week, so plan accordingly!

Periods 1, 4, 6, 7, and 8

Monday

Class Time:

1.    Distribute root lists (6 roots in total)

2.   Introduce Personal Narrative using PPT; students will take Cornell notes

3.   Finish fill-in-the-blank-notes

4.   DGP

5.   Hw:  Root List

Tuesday

Class Time:

1.    Assign Root word poster-due Friday

2.   Assign Personal narrative

3.   File “Letter of Intro” in writing folder

4.   Irony, Foreshadow, Ironic song

5.   “The Most Dangerous Game”

Hw:  Parent signatures for I.R. due Monday, September 15, Root List (Due tomorrow 9-10)

Wednesday

Class Time:

1.    Check Root list Hw
Thesis statement

2.   Cont’d Personal narrative

3.   “The Most Dangerous Game” Diagram the Plot

4.   DGP

5.   Hw:  Diagram plot of “The Most Dangerous Gamer”

Thursday

1.    Discussion of “The Most Dangerous Game”

2.   Discussion Questions

3.   Cont’d Personal Narrative
4.   DGP

5.   Hw:  Poster

Friday

1.    Share posters

2.   Watch episode of “Gilligan’s Island” and compare to short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”

3.   Hw:  review root lists (quiz Monday!)

5^th Period

Monday:

1.    Distribute root word:  Mal-bad, evil

Malnutrition

Malevolent

Malice

Malady

Dismal

2.    Introduce Personal narrative with Cornell Notes

3.   Fill-in-the-blank-notes for literary elements

Hw:  Find 5 other words that contain the root, “Mal”

Tuesday

1.    Personal narrative cont’d

2.   DGP

3.   “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” short story

4.   Hw:  find 5 words associated with the root “Mal”

Wednesday

1.    Check HW

2.   Finish “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”

3.   Finish Personal Narrative

4.   Hw:  none

Thursday

1.    Discuss “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”

2.   Bloom’s Discussion Question and story map

3.   Plot Diagram

4.   Hw:  none

Friday

1.    Quiz on short story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”

2.   Watch quick cartoon version of short story

3.   Create a Venn Diagram

September 2-5

Tuesday

“The Dinner Party” by Mona Gardner

DGP (daily grammar practice)

Discussed stereotypes

Hw:  Diagram the plot

Wednesday

Class time: 

-Quiz over parent letter home

-Check plot diagram FOR periods (4-8)

-DGP (daily grammar practice)

-“The Dinner Party” handout

Hw:  1.  Complete a close reading of the article by annotating it.
2.  Write a response to the article on gender after you have found research that supports your position on the topic you've chose to agree with or disagree with. (Due Friday)

Thursday

Class Time:

-Finish elements of fiction handout

-Collect Hw

-Daily Grammar Practice (DGP)

-send home contracts to be signed

Hw:  See above

Friday

-Quiz on “The Dinner Party”
-Write a letter from another character's point of view (POV)

-Introduce Irony
-Go over HW

Hw:  none