Date Assigned
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Assignment
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9/9 |
Bring a folder, pen and notebook to class |
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9/12 |
Brainstorm and
outline for your favorite movie
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9/13 |
Main idea and supporting
details worksheet |
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9/16 |
Brainstorm & Outline for
The Most Important Person in Your Life |
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9/17 |
Rough Draft and Peer
Edit Most Imp. Person Paragraph |
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9/18 |
Final Draft and Self
Edit Sheet |
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9/19 |
Turn in all of the steps
of the writing process for essay #1
Point of View notes
The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty vocabulary |
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9/23 |
Begin Secret Life of
Walter Mitty |
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9/24 |
Continue Mitty |
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9/25 |
Vocab quiz
Finish Mitty
pg 304-305:
Reader's Response/ Critical Thinking # 1,3,4/ Reading for Success# 2&3
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9/26 |
Subject verb recog. quiz |
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9/27 |
1st 3 steps of the
writing process on capital punishment |
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9/30 |
Review subj/verb
recognition
Continue unity in the paragraph group work
Limiting a topic
wksht |
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10/1 |
Retake quiz
irrelevant ideas in a
paragraph |
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10/2 |
Ordering information
within a paragraph |
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10/3 |
computer lab |
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10/4 |
Writing practice #3
abortion |
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10/7 |
Essay #3 your choice:
Describe the best day
you ever had.
Describe your dream
house.
List the most
important qualities in a leader.
First three steps due
tomorrow |
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10/8 |
Microsoft practice in
the Computer Lab |
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10/9 |
Peer Edit and Final
Draft for essay #2 |
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10/10 |
Making predictions notes
Begin Cold War notes
Vocabulary for Golden
Kite and the Silver Wind (quiz Wednesday) |
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10/11 |
Writing practice #4
Marijuana Essay
#2 due today |
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10/15 |
Finish Cold War notes
Review predicting
Begin Golden Kite and
predicting wksht |
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10/16 |
Continue Golden Kite |
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10/17 |
Finish The Golden Kite,
the Silver Wind
Reader's Response
Literary Focus #1-2 (156-157) |
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10/18 |
Writing journal #5 Peer
Pressure |
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10/21 |
Interloper's Vocabulary
(quiz Wednesday) |
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10/22 |
Begin the Interlopers
Conflict notes |
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10/23 |
Finish Interlopers
Hmwk: Explain the
external and two internal conflicts in this story.
Pg. 267 Thematic
Focus
Bonus: Who are
the two interlopers in the story?
Be ready for a quiz
on the story |
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10/24 |
Quiz on Interlopers
Notes on Interlopers |
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10/25 |
Peer Pressure |
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10/28 |
Begin essay #3
1st 2 steps due tomorrow
Notebooks due Friday |
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10/29 |
continue essay #3 |
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10/30 |
Free Day |
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10/31 |
Setting notes
Sensory impressions of
your favorite movie |
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11/1 |
Pictionary Review |
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11/4 |
Too, two,to
Background notes for
Cask of Amontillado |
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11/5 |
Begin Amontillado |
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11/6 |
Advisory meeting |
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11/7 |
Continue Amontillado |
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11/8 |
Continue Amontillado |
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11/12 |
Finish Amontillado |
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11/13 |
Cask Quiz |
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11/14 |
Career Day |
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11/15 |
Sensory Impressions
Mood of story
Literary Focus #2
Idea Bank #1 |
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11/18 |
Review homework
Grammar quiz Wednesday |
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11/19 |
Begin definitions for
Animal Farm
Government discussion |
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11/20 |
Finish Vocab
Finish government
discussion |
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11/21 |
Begin Animal Farm
Read chapter 1 |
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11/22 |
Grammar quiz on word
usage Silent
reading of chapter 2
Discussion of 1&2
will be on Monday |
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11/25 |
Quiz on chapters 1-2
Review Ch. 1-2
Begin chapter 3 |
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11/26 |
Chapter 3 quiz
Review Ch. 3
Begin Ch. 4 |
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11/27 |
Story pictionary |
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12/2 |
Discuss Ch. 4
Notebook Assignment:
How is life different
on the farm now that the animals are in control?
Read Ch. 5 for Hmwk.
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12/3 |
Discuss Ch. 5
Begin Ch. 6 |
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12/4 |
Discuss Ch.6
Begin Ch. 7 |
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12/5 |
Discuss Ch. 7
Begin Ch. 8 |
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12/6 |
Ch. 8 quiz
Discuss Ch. 8
Begin Ch. 9 |
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12/9 |
Ch. 9 extra credit quiz
Discuss irony in Animal
Farm |
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12/10 |
Discuss Ch. 9
Begin Ch. 10 |
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12/11 |
Review for Animal Farm
Test |
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12/13 |
Animal Farm Test |
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12/16 |
Make-up test and review
test |
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12/17 |
TABE Test |
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12/18 |
Begin Animal Farm movie |
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12/19 |
Animal Farm |
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12/20 |
Animal Farm |
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