Week of October 17-21

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This week promises to be rewarding and challenging for all involved.  Please make sure that you are keeping up with all assigned readings this week.  You should be working on your Halloween short story nightly!  It is due 10-27-11.  Have a blessed week!

Mondayay

Periods 2, 4, 6, and 7

EOGish assessment
E.A. Poe video intro
mood/tone

Hw:  Essay due tomorrow (include outline and rubric too!); short story due 10-27; Part III F451 quiz tomorrow. EOG assessment due tomorrow if you didn't finish in class.  Bring Declaration of Independence work for SS tomorrow too!

Tuesday

·         Bring Declaration of Independence work

·         Poe Video

·         Collect essays

·         Hw:  Halloween short story;

Wednesday -Friday(2, 4, 6, and 7)

·         Learning stations begin (Students will be rotating through 5 or 6 learning stations for E.A. Poe short stories.  Daily and nightly work will be assigned and it will vary from group to group.  The rotation is independent and not teacher facilitated, though I will monitor noise levels, etc.)

·         Short stories and poems to be read (“The Mask of the Red Death,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “Hop Frog,” “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher” “Bells, Bells, Bells,” “The Raven,” )

Hw:  Learning station work that wasn’t completed during class- -Read the short story or poem that your group was assigned for the day; short story due 10-27; Poe Vocabulary due Friday 10-21

                                          5 period

Monday

EOGish assessment
The Pearl
E.A. POE video intro.
mood/tone

Hw:  finish the novel by Friday; Declaration of Independence work; bring colored pencils/markers;   EOG ASSESSMENT DUE TOMORROW, IF YOU DIDN'T FINISH IN CLASS.

Tuesday

·         Bring declaration of Independence work

·         Kino before/Kino After (small group work-Body Biography)

·         Poe Video

·         Poe vocabulary

                                                Wednesday-Friday

·         Work on finishing Kino before/after (due at the end of Wednesday)

·         Learning stations begin (Students will be rotating through 5 or 6 learning stations for E.A. Poe short stories.  Daily and nightly work will be assigned and it will vary from group to group.  The rotation is independent and not teacher facilitated, though I will monitor noise levels, etc.)

·         Short stories and poems to be read (“The Tell-tale Heart”  “The Black Cat” “The Raven” “The Bells” “Hop Frog” )

Hw:  Learning stations work that wasn’t completed during class.  Finish reading the story and completing the work that goes with it.  Poe Vocabulary due Friday (Write sentences using the words correctly.) short story (Halloween 10-27)