Welcome to Mr Barker's Website

1) Attendance

2) About Me

1) Attendance

2) Course Outline

3) Student Info Sheet

4) Start Short Story Notes (Handout) 

1) Attendance

2) Get Short Story Books

4) Short Story Notes (Handout) 

1) Attendance

2) Get Silent Reading Books

3) Silent Reading

4) Finish Short Story Notes (Handout) 

5) Kahoot

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'

1) Attendance

2) Silent reading

3) Term Review

4) Read 'North End Faust'

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.

1) Attendance

2) Silent Reading

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

4) Work on Writing Assignment:  Due Tuesday

1) Attendance

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

3) Go Over Questions

4) Go Over Rating Scale

1) Attendance

2) Silent Reading/Work on Writing Assignment

3) Edit Writing Assignment

4) Paragraph Expectations (Handout) (Notes)

1) Attendance

2) Silent Reading

3) Notes About Quotes (Handout) (Notes)

4) Incorporating Quotes Assignment

1) Attendance

2) Finish Quotes Activity

3) Read "Harrison Bergeron"

1) Attendance

2) Homework Check - Quotes Assignment

3) Discuss "Harrisson Bergeron"

4) Brainstorm for Paragraph

5) Watch Video

1) Attendance

2) More Brainstorm

3) Write Paragraphs

1) Attendance

2) Finish Paragraphs

3) Look at Satirical Cartoons

4) Caption Contest

1) Attendance

2) Hand Back

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

4) Read 'Ashes for the Wind'

1) Attendance

2) 'Ashes for the Wind' Questions

3) Brainstorm for Simple Act Poem

1) Attendance

2) Community Poem

3) Read Michiko Dead

4) Write Simple Act Poems

1) Attendance

2) Finish Poems

3) Kahoot

4) Read 'Curlew's Cry'

1) Attendance

2) Write Break-up Letters

1) Attendance

2) Finish Breakup Letters

3) Stand up Hand up

1) Attendance

2) Whiteboard Brainstorm

3) Read Letter

1) Attendance

2) Finish Reading Letters

3) Read 'To Set Our House in Order'

1) Attendance

2) Finish 'To Set Our House in Order'

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

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 

1) Attendance

2) Quiz:  Short Story Terms

3) Work on Writing Assignment

1) Attendance

2) Work on Writing Assignments

1) Attendance

2) Finish Writing Assignments

3) 'Lamp at Noon' Pre-Reading

4) Srart Reading 'Lamp at Noon'

1) Attendance

2) Finish 'Lamp at Noon'

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1) Attendance

2) 'Lamp at Noon' Questions

3) Discuss Questions

1) Attendance

2)Read 'Fragility'

3) Discuss

1) Attendance

2)'Fragility' Questions

3) Caption Contest

1) Attendance

2)Contest Results

3) Go over Fragility Questions

3) Setting/Travel Writing Assignment

1) Silent Reading

2) Work on Setting/Travel Writing Assignment

1) Silent Reading

2) Finish Setting/Travel Writing Assignment

3) Connotation/Denotation Activity

1) Silent Reading

2) Finish Connotation/Denotation Activity

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

1) Silent Reading

2) Finish Imagery Activity

3) Look at Writing Assignment

1) Silent Reading

2) Halloween Activities

1) Silent Reading

2) Start Writing Assignment

1) Silent Reading

2) Writing Assignment - Finish Rough Draft

1) Silent Reading

2) Writing Assignment 

1) Silent Reading

2) Writing Assignment 

1) Silent Reading

2) Writing Assignment 

1) Silent Reading

2) Guess the grade

1) Silent Reading

2) Grammar work

1) Silent Reading

2) Crossword

3) Imagery Brainstorm

1) Silent Reading

2) Start Silent Reading Assignment

3) Writing Prompt Brainstorm

1) In-class write