8/31/15

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.

8/28/15

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

8/26/15

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

8/25/15

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.

8/24/15

Monday, August 24th

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

*OBJECTIVE:  Read & comprehend grade-level texts.

8/21/15

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