September 19-23

This week promises to be fun, engaging, and challenging for all.  I enjoyed meeting the parents who made it to open house last week.  If we didn't have a chance to meet last week, please know that I'm committed to helping your child be successful this school year.  Please contact me if you feel the need. 

Period 5

Monday

Class Time:

1.      

Collect POV homework

2.       Volunteers share homework

3.       Why are journals used as the medium to tell Charlie’s story?  How effective are they?

4.       Exit slip:  Predicting and confirming (Why is the story called “Flowers for Algernon?”  Make a prediction about the story.  Explain your prediction.  We’ll see if it comes true in the end.

5.       Inferences (Reading between the lines…)  This is what a good police detective will do, analyze the facts, evaluate the situation and the suspects involved (if any) and then make some good guesses, develop some hunches, utilize some inferences

6.       Editorial cartoons for inferences

7.       “It says, I say, and so” for inferences

8.       Exit slips

Hw:  Write 3 questions for “I say, it says, so” and fill in the chart in the correct areas.

Tuesday

Class Time:

1.      

Go over homework in pairs, then in a group

2.       Finish “Flowers for Algernon”

3.       FBI agents (facts + background=inferences)

4.       Group riddles; solve them using “It says, I say, and so…”

5.       Read “Flowers for Algernon”

Hw:  political cartoon

Wednesday

Class time:

1.      

 Go over homework

2.       “Finish Flowers for Algernon”

Hw:  Foldable and moral continuum

Thursday

Class Time:
Context Clues
Inferencing
"Flowers for Algernon" review   

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2.   

Hw:  crossword puzzle

Friday:

1.      

 Good and Evil

2.       BD assessment

3.      

Hw:  study for "FFA" test

Monday 2, 4, 6, and 7

Class Time:

1.      

Reading quiz “the Most Dangerous Game” (grade in class)

2.       Good and Evil

3.       POV (point of view) slides

4.       POV excerpts from classical novels.  students will determine the POVs of the excerpts

5.       Check novels (F451)

Write about your weekend from your point of view.  Then, rewrite from another point of view.

Hw:  diagram the plots of “The Possibility of Evil” and “the Most Dangerous Game”  grammar; POV writing

Tuesday

Class time:

1.      

 Go over homework

2.      

Character Analysis “Show, not Tell” in pairs

3.       Essay assigned, due Friday (rough draft-THURSDAY), typed and double-spaced

4.       Essay Topic:  Think about the term theme.  Select a short story that we’ve read thus far.  Select a theme for that short story.  Put your theme into a strong, crystal clear, and concise thesis statement.  Prove your thesis statement to be true with ample examples from the text.  Avoid vague terms like “good” and “suspenseful,” to name a few.  If you have trouble formulating your thesis, then think of one word to sum up your selected short story.  Put that word into your thesis statement.  Prove it…

5.       Rubric for essay goes home.

Hw:  Final Essay due Friday; Rough Draft due Thursday; grammar;

Wednesday

Class time:

1.      

 Blue Diamond/diagnostic assessment

2.       BANNED BOOK WEEK SEPTEMBER 24-OCTOBER 1

3.       Book trailer

4.       Book burnings (photographs)

5.       Latimer and Ridley (quoted in F451)

6.       Historic impact of censorship

7.       Bradbury, a psychic?

8.       1950s culture; family life; technology

Hw:  technology opinionnaire; Essay Rough Draft due (Electronic copy in e-mail); final draft due Friday; grammar;  What book would you save?; outline due TOMORROW!

Thursday

Class time:

1.         F451
            discuss the text
           discuss context clues
           new vocabulary assignment:  due Monday with context clues identified for each sentence
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2.       Track topics (not themes until you make them into statements)  throughout the reading of F451:  These are political correctness, disintegration of the family, censorship, importance of entertainment, desire to return to nature, necessities for happiness, effects of technology, and effects of mass media.

3.       This book has tons of allusions in it.  Monday, you’ll get an allusion project (meeting of the minds, allusion project)

4.       Begin reading F451 in class (How does this anti-utopian state maintain power?); vocabulary; going over grammar sentence for the week

Hw:  Finish reading pages assigned for homework; grammar

Friday

Class time:

1.      

 Essay DRAFTS are due ELECTRONICALLY

2.       Discuss reading
         grammar

3.      

Hw:  Read in novel; grammar