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Sept 5

1) Attendance

2) About Me

Sept 6

1) Attendance

2) Course Outline

3) Student Info Sheet

4) Start Short Story Notes (Handout

Sept 7

1) Attendance

2) Get Short Story Books

4) Short Story Notes (Handout

Sept 10

1) Attendance

2) Get Silent Reading Books

3) Silent Reading

4) Finish Short Story Notes (Handout

5) Kahoot

Sept 11

1) Attendance

2) Silent reading

3) Watch 'Partly Cloudy'  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix13P9NqBjo

4) Discuss 'Partly Cloudy'

5) Pre-reading for 'North End Faust'

Sept 12

1) Attendance

2) Silent reading

3) Term Review

4) Read 'North End Faust'

Sept 13

1) Attendance

2) Silent Reading

3) Discuss 'North End Faust'

4) 'North End Faust' Questions

5)  Start Writing Assignment:

- Take a passage from ‘North End Faust’ that is written using direct presentation and re-write it using indirect presentation.

Sept 14

1) Attendance

2) Silent Reading

3) Notes on Formatting Dialogue (PowerPoint) (Handout)

4) Work on Writing Assignment:  Due Tuesday

Sept 17

1) Attendance

2) Silent Reading/Homework Check - 'North End Faust' Questions

3) Go Over Questions

4) Go Over Rating Scale

Sept 18

1) Attendance

2) Silent Reading/Work on Writing Assignment

3) Edit Writing Assignment

4) Paragraph Expectations (Handout) (Notes)

Sept 19

1) Attendance

2) Silent Reading

3) Notes About Quotes (Handout) (Notes)

4) Incorporating Quotes Assignment

Sept 20

1) Attendance

2) Finish Quotes Activity

3) Read "Harrison Bergeron"

Sept 21

1) Attendance

2) Homework Check - Quotes Assignment

3) Discuss "Harrisson Bergeron"

4) Brainstorm for Paragraph

5) Watch Video

Sept 24

1) Attendance

2) More Brainstorm

3) Write Paragraphs

Sept 25

1) Attendance

2) Finish Paragraphs

3) Look at Satirical Cartoons

4) Caption Contest

Sept 26

1) Attendance

2) Hand Back

3) Pre-Reading for 'Ashes For The Wind'

4) Read 'Ashes for the Wind'

Sept 27

1) Attendance

2) 'Ashes for the Wind' Questions

3) Brainstorm for Simple Act Poem

Oct 1

1) Attendance

2) Community Poem

3) Read Michiko Dead

4) Write Simple Act Poems

Oct 2

1) Attendance

2) Finish Poems

3) Kahoot

4) Read 'Curlew's Cry'

Oct 3

1) Attendance

2) Write Break-up Letters

Oct 4

1) Attendance

2) Finish Breakup Letters

3) Stand up Hand up

Oct 5

1) Attendance

2) Whiteboard Brainstorm

3) Read Letter

Oct 9

1) Attendance

2) Finish Reading Letters

3) Read 'To Set Our House in Order'

Oct 10

1) Attendance

2) Finish 'To Set Our House in Order'

3) 'To Set Our House in Order' Questions 1-6 (in short story book)

Oct 11

1) Attendance

2) Go Over 'To Set Our House in Order' Questions 1-6 (in short story book)

3) Stand Up/Hand Up

4) Introduce Writing Assignment 

Oct 12

1) Attendance

2) Quiz:  Short Story Terms

3) Work on Writing Assignment

Oct 15

1) Attendance

2) Work on Writing Assignments

Oct 16

1) Attendance

2) Finish Writing Assignments

3) 'Lamp at Noon' Pre-Reading

4) Srart Reading 'Lamp at Noon'

Oct 17

1) Attendance

2) Finish 'Lamp at Noon'

Oct 18

1) Attendance

2) 'Lamp at Noon' Questions

3) Discuss Questions

Oct 22

1) Attendance

2)Read 'Fragility'

3) Discuss

Oct 23

1) Attendance

2)'Fragility' Questions

3) Caption Contest

Oct 24

1) Attendance

2)Contest Results

3) Go over Fragility Questions

3) Setting/Travel Writing Assignment

Oct 25

1) Silent Reading

2) Work on Setting/Travel Writing Assignment

Oct 26

1) Silent Reading

2) Finish Setting/Travel Writing Assignment

3) Connotation/Denotation Activity

Oct 29

1) Silent Reading

2) Finish Connotation/Denotation Activity

3) Imagery Notes and Activity (Notes Sheet) (Power Point)

Oct 30

1) Silent Reading

2) Finish Imagery Activity

3) Look at Writing Assignment

Oct 31

1) Silent Reading

2) Halloween Activities

Nov 1

1) Silent Reading

2) Start Writing Assignment

Nov 2

1) Silent Reading

2) Writing Assignment - Finish Rough Draft

Nov 5

1) Silent Reading

2) Writing Assignment 

Nov 6

1) Silent Reading

2) Writing Assignment 

Nov 7

1) Silent Reading

2) Writing Assignment 

Nov 8

1) Silent Reading

2) Guess the grade

Nov 9

1) Silent Reading

2) Grammar work

Nov 13

1) Silent Reading

2) Crossword

3) Imagery Brainstorm

Nov 14

1) Silent Reading

2) Start Silent Reading Assignment

3) Writing Prompt Brainstorm

Nov 14

1) In-class write

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