Sept 7-11

Monday:  NO School

Tuesday: SUB tomorrow

• Hand out Native American Article and go over info for Article for the Week
• Go over Article of the Week Exemplar
• Ben Carson ---first 2 pages
• Write confusion, questions, thoughts

Wednesday:

• Read for 10 minutes
• Formative Assessment
• Elements of Fiction Notes 

Thursday:  Bell work:  Read book

• CPS
• Go over Article for the Week
• HONORS:  Elements of Fiction Project -- show videos and find partner.  Begin thinking of book or movie made from book. (2 weeks)
• Elements of Fiction:  
• As groups use 2 Elements of Fiction notes to fill out the worksheet.  10 participation points

Friday: Read Book  Bell Work:  Pickup Article for the week

• Watch article of the week on Annotating Article  Pass back article.  Due Monday.
• Book Blog:  
• Write a 2-4 paragraph summary of your book.  Use at least 4 of the Elements of Literature terms and bold or underline the terms.  (Please don't just use character, setting and plot....use some of the more advanced terms)
• Fill out Literary elements handout

August 31-Sept 4

Monday:  Bell Work: Go over Fire Drill routes

•  Show how to open drive and print
• MAP - Counselor
• Fire Drill 2nd hour
• Library -- print top 10

Tuesday:  Bell Work: Read book

• HONORS:  Vocab:  abyss and accolade
• The Way Stories Dance -- 
• Teacher - Read out loud to students stopping to discuss
• Groups read aloud and discuss using discussion stems (one per person per group)
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Wednesday:

• The Way Stories Dance -- Read out loud to students stopping to discuss 
• On Blackboard answer one of the 3 questions and respond to one other person
• What did you learn about the writing process from Gary Paulsen's piece "The Way Stories Dance"?
• Why do you think Gary Paulsen cares so deeply about what he writes?
• How have you changed as a reader and/or writer from reading this piece?
• HONORS:  Read stories in groups with sentence stems in Flex Room

Thursday:

• Answer 1 Bb question on "The Way Stories Dance" and respond to 1 person.
• Introduce a Hook 
• Assign each student to read 1 other student blog and comment an idea for a hook
• Add a Hook and conclusion to their Top 10 Claim--due to be graded
• Read 1 person's blog and comment
• Show Blog Grading Rubric
• Read library book

Friday

• Pep assembly - shortened schedule
• Write comments on partners blog
• Get blog ready to be graded
• 5th Hour: