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

Aug 25-29 Elements of Fiction

Monday:
Bell Work:  Grammar:  Noun, pronoun and adjective review--SMART Notebook lesson

Objective:

• Students will analyze the thoughts, words, and actions of a character to provoke a decision or impacts the development of the plot.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how differences in points of view of the characters and the audience create effects as suspense, drama, or horror.

Lesson:

• Go over Usage Demon Quiz.
• Elements of Fiction Ppt and take notes on handout
• HONORS:  Pass out SAT vocab list #1.  Definition and description part of speech, word forms of first 8 words.  Show cartoons
• Read aloud "False Prince"

Tuesday:
Bell Work: Warriners pg 24 1-10.


Lesson:

• Go over bell work
• Put analyze and summarize in vocabulary notebooks
• Read aloud "False Prince"

Wednesday: 
Bell Work: Grammar:  Finish Warriners pg 24 1-10  Honors:

Lesson:

• Go over bell work
• Go over the vocab "Analyze"
• Finish Elements of fiction notes
• Create list of  vocab from "Superman and Me"
• Add 1 word to their vocab 
• Honors:  Look at Padlet Wall

Thursday:
Bell Work: Grammar: Show
Boom goes the Dynamite

Lesson:

• Mrs Doubrava and MAP scores
• Honors:  Choose a book or movie and write a paragraph on each of the following:
• Character
• Protagonist
• Antagonist
• Setting
• Plot
• Conflict
• Climax
• Resolution
• Point of View (may not remember)
• Mood
• Theme
• Elements of Fiction video 
• Plot and do Activity 1 (roadrunner)
• Setting
• Character and do Character Study (Shawshank Redemption)
• Theme and activity 2

Friday:
Bell Work:  Read Library book 10 minutes


Lesson:

• Respect Lottery Drawing (student selector)
• If they have their library book
• If they have not signed out for the restroom
• From time to time:  binder on the ground, have their english folder, no head on the desk.
• Honors:  Finish yesterday's assignment
• Write summary of False Prince as a class.
• Write summary of the book they are reading in their Journals.