Thursday, August 28th

*"Boarding House" Quiz
*Vocabulary #3
*Finish 7 Sentences
*HW:  Read "Little Cloud" & "Counterparts" by Tuesday

*OBJECTIVE: Determine and clarify the meaning of unknown words

Wednesday, August 27th

*Finish:  7 Sentences
*HW: Read "The Boarding House" by Thursday
---Reading-check Quiz

*OBJECTIVE: Learn to attach &, especially, to embed quotations in your writing.

Tuesday, August 26th

*Quiz:  "Race" & "Gallants"
---Discuss
*Practice:  Attaching Quotations
*HW:  Read "The Boarding House" by Thursday
---Reading-check Quiz

*OBJECTIVE: Learn to attach &, especially, to embed quotations in your writing.

Monday, August 25th

* . . . on plagiarism.
*Return "Araby" Answers
*Info: Embedding Quotes
*Practice: 7 sentences
---MUST check with me before week's end
---MUST be PERFECT to receive ANY credit
---Once it's perfect, 10 / 10pts.
---Perfect the FIRST time, 13 / 10pts
*HW:  Finish reading "After the Race" & "Two Gallants"
---Reading-check quiz tomorrow

*OBJECTIVE:  Learn to attach &, especially, to embed quotations in your writing.

Friday, August 22nd

*FINISH Community Cards
*HW: Read "After the Race" & "Two Gallants"
---No GR's
---Reading-check Quiz
---CHANGE:  Due TUESDAY

*OBJECTIVE: Read and comprehend grade-level texts.

Thursday, August 21st

*Check "Eveline" GR's
---Review
*Should she stay or should she go?
---Small Groups:  Pros & Cons
------Discuss
*Community Cards?
*HW:  Read "After the Race" & "Two Gallants"
---No GR's
---Reading-check Quiz
---Due Monday

*OBJECTIVE:  Respond thoughtfully to diverse perspectives; synthesize comments, claims, and evidence made on all sides of an issue

Wednesday, August 20th

*Vocabulary
*Work-time on "Eveline"
---GR Answers Due TOMORROW

*OBJECTIVE:  Determine and clarify the meaning of unknown words

Tuesday, August 19th

*Check "Araby" GR's
---Review
*Small-Groups: Discuss extra question
*Collect "Araby" GR's
*Community Cards?
*HW:  Read "Eveline" and Answer GR's
---Due Thursday

*OBJECTIVE:  Determine the central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text.

Monday, August 18th

*ARLI ("Chaser") Review
---Return, review levels
---Next time, graded
---Re-Collect "Chaser"

*HW:  "Araby" answers due TOMORROW

---Look over questions together.

*OBJECTIVE:  Read and comprehend grade-level texts.

Friday, August 15th

*Finish Discussing "Encounter"
*Vocabulary in Dubliners
---Vocab. Notes
---First 4 of 15 words
*HW: Read "Araby" & Complete GR's
---Due Tuesday

*OBJECTIVE:  Determine and clarify the meaning of unknown words

Thursday, August 14th

*Check HW
*Small groups
---+/-, be specific
---Discuss
*Review GR's
---Below your answers, pick one (confusing, interesting, important) line from ___________ that you think we should discuss as a class.
*Collect HW
*HW:  Read "Araby" & Complete GR's
---Due Tuesday

*OBJECTIVE:  Analyze how Joyce's choices (setting, character, tone, etc.) help to develop a theme in Dubliners.

Wednesday, August 13th

*Community Card
*Read "Sisters" & "Encounter"
---GR answers due TOMORROW

*OBJECTIVE: Read and comprehend literature.

Tuesday, August 12th

*Check-out Books
---Bring DAILY
---NO loaners
*Community Cards (galore!)
*HW:  Read "Sisters" & "Encounter"
---GR Questions Due Thursday
---Work-Day Tomorrow

*OBJECTIVE:  Read and comprehend literature.

Monday, August 11th

*Check/Collect:  Class Materials/Syllabus Signature Page
*5 min:  Write about a time when you were "stuck" . . . you were held back, prevented from getting or doing the thing you wanted to do.
*Setup Dubliners
---Notes
*Community Cards

*OBJECTIVE:  Get to know the author and setting of James Joyce's Dubliners.

Friday, August 8th

*Finish "The Chaser"
*Community Cards

*HW:  Class Supplies & Syllabus Signature Page Due MONDAY

*OBJECTIVE:  Cite strong and thorough evidence to explain and interpret literature.

Thursday, August 7th

*Focus Question:  When a person loves too much, too passionately, what are the consequences?
*Community Card
*Discuss Focus Question
*Analytical Reading Level Inventory
*HW:  Supplies & Signature Page by Monday

*OBJECTIVE:  Cite strong and thorough evidence to explain and interpret literature.