9/30/15

Wednesday, September 30th

*Plickers Cup!
*Info.: First Draft Requirements
*Finished with outline? Draft!
*Coming Soon:
---turnitin.com
*HW: Typed, completed first draft due TOMORROW (hard-copy)

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

9/29/15

Tuesday, September 29th

*Info.: MLA / Works Cited
*Topic Outlines
---Outline & Conference: Mandatory, 10pts
*Finished with outline? Draft!
*Coming Soon:
---first draft requirements
---turnitin.com
*HW: Typed, completed first draft due Thursday, 10/1 (hard-copy)

*OBJECTIVE: Using a topic outline, we will organize our ideas before writing.

9/28/15

Monday, September 28th

*Info.:  Basic Organization
*Topic Outlines
---Outline & Conference: Mandatory, 10pts
*Finished with outline? Draft!
*Coming Soon:
---MLA/Works Cited
---turnitin.com
*HW: Typed, completed first draft due Thursday, 10/1

*OBJECTIVE: Using a topic outline, we will organize our ideas before writing.

9/25/15

Friday, September 25th

*Topic Outlines
---Bubbles: Optional
---Outline & Conference: Mandatory, 10pts
*Finished with outline? Draft!
*Coming Soon:
---Basic Organization
---MLA/Works Cited
---turnitin.com
*HW: Typed, completed first draft due Thursday, 10/1

*OBJECTIVE: Using a topic outline, we will organize our ideas before writing.

9/23/15

Thursday, September 24th

*Info.:  Lit. Analysis Essay
*Topic Outlines
---Bubbles:  Optional
---Outline & Conference:  Mandatory, 10pts
*Finished with outline?  Draft!
*Coming Soon:
---Basic Organization
---MLA/Works Cited
---turnitin.com
*HW:  Typed, completed first draft due Thursday, 10/1

*OBJECTIVE:  Using a topic outline, we will organize our ideas before writing.

9/22/15

Wednesday, September 23rd

*Collect Vocabulary Notes
*Vocabulary Quiz
*Complete Topics
*Public Life in Dubliners

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

9/21/15

Tuesday, September 22nd (minus 2nd hour)

*Check "The Dead" HW
---Discuss/Review
---Collect

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

Monday, September 21st

*5min:  Finalize skits
*Perform Vocab Skits
---Audience, take notes on organizer
*HW
---Read "The Dead" & Complete written work by Tuesday.
---Vocab quiz and notes due Wednesday

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

9/16/15

Thursday, September 17th

*1/2-time:  Read/Work on "The Dead"
*1/2-time:  Finish Planning & REHEARSE Vocab Skit
---Monday:  5min prep, then present

*HW:  Read "The Dead" & Complete written work by Tuesday.

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

9/15/15

Wednesday, September 16th

*Plickers
*Vocabulary Skits
---Today:  Prepare, compose, practice
---Tomorrow:  1/2 class period work-time
---Monday:  Present.
---Tuesday:  [CHANGE] "The Dead" Due

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

9/14/15

Tuesday, September 15th

*Quiz:  "Mother" & "Grace"
*Thoughts From a Disc
---10min:  Discuss, jot notes, 1 speaker prepare to respond
---Share/Discuss

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

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

9/13/15

Monday, September 14th

*Read "A Mother" & "Grace"
---10 EP
---Due tomorrow.

9/10/15

Friday, September 11th

*Plickers & the Plickers Cup
*Maturity in Dubliners
*Remaining Vocabulary
*HW: Read "A Mother" & "Grace" by Tuesday

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

9/9/15

Thursday, September 10th

*Quiz:  "Clay" & "Painful Case"
*Childhood, Adolescence, & Maturity in Dubliners
---Brainstorm
---Discussion
*"Ivy Day In the Committee Room"
*HW:  Read "A Mother" & "Grace" by Tuesday

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

Wednesday, September 9th--sub

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

9/7/15

Tuesday, September 8th

*Plickers Review
*Fair Game List
*Comparison/Contrast Response
---MAY work alongside ONE partner
------Everyone writes
---Fair Game List
---Due by hour's end
*Finish 7 Sentences?

*HW:  Read "Clay" & "A Painful Case" by Thursday
---Reading Day Tomorrow, 10EP

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

9/3/15

Friday, September 4th

*Brainstorming Topics
---Individually
---Pollinators 
---Review
*Finish 7 Sentences
*HW:  Read "Little Cloud" & "Counterparts" by Tuesday

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

9/2/15

Thursday, September 3rd

*"Boarding House" Quiz
*Finish: 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, "Little Cloud" & "Counterparts" by Tuesday

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

Wednesday, September 2nd

*Avatar Leftovers
*Today:  Independent Practice & Reading
---10 E-points
*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.