Tuesday, September 1st

*Avatar Leftovers & Make-up Quizzes
*Info.:  Attaching and Punctuating Quotations
*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:  Read "Boarding House"

---Quiz Thursday

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

Monday, August 31st

*Plickers Leftovers
*Quiz:  "Race" & "Gallants"
---Discuss
*Vocabulary:  Words 9-12
*Effort:  The Game
---Details
---Avatar Choice (Google Classroom--phone or Chromebook)
*Community Cards

*OBJECTIVE: Determine and clarify the meaning of unknown words

Thursday, August 27th

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

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

Wednesday, August 26th

*Vocabulary (Words 5-8)
*Work-time on "Eveline"
---GR Answers Due TOMORROW

*OBJECTIVE: Determine and clarify the meaning of unknown words

Tuesday, August 25th

*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 24th

*ARLI ("Chaser") Review
---Return, review levels
---Re-Collect "Chaser"
*HW:  "Araby" Answers (ALL) due TOMORROW

*OBJECTIVE:  Read & comprehend grade-level texts.

Friday, August 21st

*Finish Discussing "Encounter".
*Chromebooks:  Sign-in & Google Classroom
*Google Login: [regular school login] @ g.fhsdschools.org
*Google Password: Fhsd + [student ID#]
*becker12.blogspot.com > classroom.google.com
*Enroll
---2nd hr:  ejnypt---------4bc hr:  71yxqk3

---6th hr:  quhd7m-------7th hr:  yae64jq

*Find your first assignment in the stream & complete it.

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

Thursday, August 20th

*Check GR's
*Small Groups
--- -/+, be specific
---Discuss
*Below your answers, write one (confusing, interesting, important) line from ____________ that you think we should discuss as a class.
*Review "Sisters" GR's
*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 19th

*Vocabulary in Dubliners
---Vocab. Notes
---First 4 of 15 words
*Chromebook Contract
*Chromebook Handout
*Google Login: [regular school login] @ g.fhsdschools.org
*Google Password: Fhsd + [student ID#]
*HW:  GR's over "Sisters" & "Encounter" due TOMORROW

*OBJECTIVE:  Determine and clarify the meaning of unknown words.

Tuesday, August 18th

*Community Card
*Work Day
*HW: Read "Sisters" & "Encounter"
---GR Questions Due THURSDAY

*OBJECTIVE: Read and comprehend grade-level, literary texts.

Monday, August 16th

*Check/Collect
---Supplies
---Syllabus Signature Page
*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 grade-level, literary texts.

Friday, August 14th

*"Chaser" Leftovers
*5 min:  Write about a time when you were "stuck" . . . when you were held back, prevented from getting or doing the thing you wanted.
---Share
*Setup Dubliners
---Notes
*Community Cards

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

Thursday, August 13th

*Syllabus Signature Pages?
*Community Card
*Finish "The Chaser"
*HW:  Class Supplies & Syllabus Signature Page Due MONDAY.

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

Wednesday, August 12th

*Focus Question:  When a person loves too much, too passionately, what are the consequences?
*Community Card
*Discus Focus Question
*Analytical Reading Level Inventory
---Finish tomorrow, if necessary
*HW:  Signature page & class materials by Monday = 10pts

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

Tuesday, August 11th

*Code of Conduct
*Course Syllabus
---Contact Info. & Website

---Manifesto
------Which is most important?
---Signature page & class materials by Monday = 10pts
*Parents/Guardians: Sign COC online by 8/18
*Community Cards

*Objectives: setting expectations, getting to know each other a bit