Tuesday, September 30th

*Check Hamlet's Themes
---Discuss
*"Wordles, Wordles, Wordles"

*Final copy due via turnitin.com:
---Wednesday, 10/1 before 11:59pm
------Conferencing & Revision after school:  Last Day
---------Seminar, tomorrow, too

*OBJECTIVE:  Continue exploring the big ideas of Hamelt in preparation for reading the play.

Monday, September 29th

*Turnitin.com stragglers?
*TODAY:
---Effort Wins!
---Fair Game:  Formatting Titles
---Ctrl + F
---KEEP GOING!

*Final copy due via turnitin.com:
---Wednesday, 10/1 before 11:59pm
------Conferencing & Revision after school:  Today, Monday, & Tuesday

Friday, September 26th

*Themes Discussion
---4:00 talk time, 2:00 write time
---Everyone writes
------Agree/Disagree and to what extent (fully, partially, not at all, etc.)
------Why?  Explain using examples (personal experience, historical precedent, today's news, etc.)
*ONE MORE LAB DAY on essay Monday:  Mechanics Day, ctrl+F
---BRING YOUR FILE!!!

*Final copy due via turnitin.com:
---Wednesday, 10/1 before 11:59pm
------Conferencing & Revision after school:  Today, Monday, & Tuesday

*OBJECTIVE:  Introduce and explore some of Hamlet's themes.

Thursday, September 25th

*Turnitin.com
---Create Account (if necessary)
---Enroll in class
---Submit Sample Document
*Finish Peer-Revision Experts
*After School, #151?

*OBJECTIVE:  Develop and strengthen our writing.

Wednesday, September 24th

*Check first drafts
*Peer-revision experts
*No draft? Write!
*Tomorrow: Meet in 151
---Revise Essay

*Final copy due via turnitin.com:
---Wednesday, 10/1 before 11:59pm

Tuesday, September 23rd

*Plagiarism:  Defined
*Works Cited
*First Draft Expectations

*FINAL LAB DAY: Draft Dubliners Essay
*Coming Soon . . .
---turnitin.com

*Typed, Completed First Draft Due TOMORROW
---hard-copy

*OBJECTIVE: Write explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas.

Monday, September 22nd

*MLA, Works Cited
*Draft Dubliners Essay
*Coming Soon . . . 
---turnitin.com 

*Typed, Completed First Draft Due Wednesday, 9/24
---hard-copy

*OBJECTIVE: Write explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas.

Thursday, September 18th

*Topic Outlines
---Bubbles: Optional
---Outline: Mandatory 
---Must check with me, 10pts
*Finished with all that? Draft!
*Coming Soon . . . 
---MLA, Works Cited
---turnitin.com 

*Typed, Completed First Draft Due Wednesday, 9/24
---hard-copy

*OBJECTIVE: Use a topic outline to organize your ideas before writing.

Wednesday, September 17th

*Reminders:  Organization
*Topic Outlines
---Bubbles: Optional
---Outline: Mandatory
---Must check with me, 10pts
*Finished with all that? Draft!
*Coming Soon . . .
---MLA, Works Cited
---Basic Organization
---turnitin.com
*CHANGE:  Typed, Completed First Draft Due Wednesday, 9/24
---hard-copy

*OBJECTIVE: Use a topic outline to organize your ideas before writing.

Tuesday, September 16th

*Vocab. Notes & Test

*Info.:  Literary Analysis Essay

*Topic Outlines
---Bubbles:  Optional
---Outline:  Mandatory 
---Must check with me, 10pts
*Finished with all that?  Draft!
*Coming Soon . . . 
---MLA, Works Cited
---Basic Organization
---turnitin.com 
*Typed, Completed First Draft Due Tuesday, 9/23
---hard-copy

*OBJECTIVE:  Use a topic outline to organize your ideas before writing.

Monday, September 14th

*5 mins:  Last chance to organize
*Watchers:  Complete Organizer
*Present!
*Vote (for a group other than your own)
---Which performance was the most memorable
*Tomorrow:
---1)  Vocabulary Notes Due
---2)  Vocabulary Test

*OBJECTIVE: Determine and clarify the meaning of unknown words

Friday, September 12th

*Check "The Dead" HW
---Discuss/Review
---Collect
*Continue preparing your vocabulary skit
---Monday:  5 mins to organize, then present
*Tuesday
---Vocabulary Notes Due
---Vocabulary Test

*OBJECTIVE: Analyze the central ideas in a text and track how they develop over the course of the reading.

Thursday, September 11th

*Read "The Dead"
---HW:  Prepare GR's & Written Response by TOMORROW
*Vocabulary ...Project
---Create/Compose Today
---Present Monday
*Vocabulary Test TUESDAY
---Notes due before the test that day.

*OBJECTIVE:  Determine and clarify the meaning of unknown words

Wednesday, September 10th

*Pictograms for "Mother" & "Grace"
*Review Paralysis Questions
*Read "The Dead" and answer GR's (and written response)
---Due Friday

*OBJECTIVE: Read and comprehend grade-level texts.

Tuesday, September 9th

*Quiz:  "A Mother" & "Grace"
*Written Response
---small groups
------everyone writes

*HW:  Read "The Dead" & Answer GR's by Friday

*OBJECTIVE:  Use relevant evidence and valid reasoning to support your claims in writing.

Monday, September 8th--sub

*Read "A Mother" & "Grace" for tomorrow.

Friday, August 5fth

*6th & 7th: Maturity in Dubliners
*Remaining Vocabulary
*Pictograms: "Clay" & "A Painful Case"
*Favorite? Why?

*HW: Read "A Mother" & "Grace" by Tuesday

*OBJECTIVE: Determine and clarify the meaning of unknown words

Thursday, September 4th

*"Clay" & "Painful Case" Quiz
*Childhood, Adolescence, & Maturity in Dubliners
---Brainstorm
---Discussion

*"Ivy Day In the Committee Room"

*HW:  Read "A Mother" & "Grace" by Tuesday

*OBJECTIVE:  Analyze the central ideas in a text and track how they develop over the course of the reading.

Wednesday, September 3rd

*6th & 7th:  Pictograms for "Cloud" & "Counterparts"?

*Read "Clay" & "A Painful Case" by TOMORROW
---Reading-check Quiz

*OBJECTIVE:  Read and comprehend grade-level texts.

Tuesday, September 2nd

*Pictograms?
*Comparison/Contrast Response
---May work with ONE partner
------Everyone writes
---Fair Game List
---Due by hour's end
*Finish 7 Sentences

*HW:  Read "Clay" & "A Painful Case" by Thursday

*OBJECTIVE:  Use relevant evidence and valid reasoning to support your claims in writing.