January 27-31

Hi All,

This week will be another busy one, and it is important you are keeping up with your assignments.  We will be writing two essays this week, a personal narrative and an expository piece that connects to our current novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

Monday

1.      Text Structure Foldable

2.     Mini-quiz chapters 7, 8, and 9 ROTHMY

3.     Expository Essay (Staar writing prompt from 2012)
Word "referents" to prevent redundancy-

Hw:  finish novel by Monday, bring a cookbook to class or a copy of a favorite recipe, tic-tac-toe #2 due Friday

Tuesday

1.     Finish Essay
 Prom Night in Miss.

2.     Character Recipe

3.     Create a character recipe

4.     New Vocabulary list distributed

Hw:  Finish character recipe; work on vocabulary; tic-tac-toe #2 due Friday

Wednesday

1.      STAAR practice
Frederick Douglass's Fourth-of-July Speech (compare to the novel)

2.     Character Recipe

Hw:  Finish novel, tic-tac-toe #2 due Friday

Thursday

1.     1930s prices (book setting) as compared to today's prices http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1930s.html

 Go over vocabulary; Quiz Monday!

2.     Personal Narrative Review

3.     P.N. prompt:  Think about a time when you broke the rules whether you were caught or not.  Write about the circumstances and the people involved and the consequences of your actions.

4.     STAAR practice

Hw:  See above

Friday

1.      Tic-tac-toe #2 due; volunteers will share

2.     Finish Personal narrative

3.     Poetry Friday

Hw:  Finish novel

Next Week:  Group Body Biographies