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