Sept 28- Oct 2

Monday:  Grammar 1.4

• Give back grammar an underline Subject and Verb -- pick up ALL tomorrow.
• Honors:  go over NA test  (Video is due October 9)
• Honors:  Talk about how they can characterize on their video---how can they create mood (give out mood word handout)?
• Go over Tom Sawyer characterization  with this Coggle
• Read blogs for book ideas
• Library

Tuesday:

• Pick up all Grammar
• Animal Dialogue  (on the English blog)

Wednesday:  

•  Definition of Indirect and DirectCharacterization
•   Twighlight -- Direct Characterization
•   Mean Girls---Direct Characterization
• Honors -- instead of worksheet they will work on their video
• Do Characterization ws on Landlady and Billy
• Read Library Book

Thursday:  Grammar Work

• Go over submitting to Google Classroom
• Finish and turn in Characterization
• Discuss Foreshadowing in "The Landlady: as a class
• Begin a Google Doc (in classroom) the ending to "The Landlady" using worksheet

Friday:

• Review Landlady
• Landlady quiz
• Work on Ending -- submit in classroom

Sept 21-25

Monday:  Bell Work:  A ft W quiz

• Grade the quiz
• Go over Blog with examples
• Give out the A ft W:  Soccer's Corrupt Soul -- annotations due Friday
• Read "The Landlady"

FLEX ROOM TOMORROW

Tuesday

• Pick up re-dos
• Flexroom WeVideo
• Download:  WeVideo and Snagit
• Choose 3 pictures from the blog to create a video with a one word sentence for voice over.

Wednesday:  SUB HERE  Bell Work:  Grammar 1.2

• • Bell work is Elements of a Complete Sentence 1.2.  They will keep it and we will grade it tomorrow
  • Ask if there are any Native American article re-dos.  Today at the beginning of class is the last day to turn them in
  • Give students the Punctuating Dialogue and Direct Quotations handout. Go over it with the students pointing out the various ways to punctuate dialogue. They may take notes on this handout and they will KEEP it in their English folder FOREVER!
  • Students complete Quotation Mark Practice ½ sheet.  
  • Read their library book

Thursday:  Grammar 1.3

• Grade Grammar 1.2 and 1.3
• Grade dialogue lesson
• Discuss Landlady using short answer in Socrative
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Friday:  Grammar 1.4

• Pick up A ft Week Annotations
• Go over Tom Sawyer
• Book Blog:  Characterization

Sept 14-18

Monday:  Bell Work: A ft W quiz

• Go over Grammar bell work
• Go over Superman quiz---who was absent?
• Introduce Mrs. Barker
• Library -- read book

Tomorrow meet in flex room.


Tuesday:

Flex Room--- take dry erase markers
Put Paulsen, Alexie and Carson up on each screen.  Students will rotate around the room.

• Write an answer to the question together as a class.  "Sherman Alexie, Gary Paulsen and Ben Carson all have a common theme; what is the theme and how can you apply it to your life? 
• Use RACE blog post to help them answer the question. 
• Put students in groups:
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Wednesday: SUB today

• Tom Sawyer -- Read and discuss 
• Read Library book

Thursday:  Montgomery has Chromes  Grammar Bell Work

• Go over Bell Work
• Go over Race article
• Honors:  talk about project
• Pass back Article for the Week 
• One student reads article aloud and other students make comments using paraphrase plus
• Quiz over 4 questions --they will need an article for question 1
• Corrections due Tuesday after Power Hours

Friday:  Montgomery has Chromes. Grammar Bell Work

• Grammar bell work
• Tom Sawyer characterization

Sept 15-19

Objective:

Monday:
Bell Work:  Read Characterization Papers


Lesson:

• Go over Characterization papers.  Final Copy due Thursday.
• Pronoun Lesson:  
• Go over pg 31 and do pg 32 orally
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Tuesday:
Bell Work:

• Pronoun Lesson:  Put definition of pronouns in grammar notebook from Ppt

Lesson:

• School House Rock Pronoun and go over rules again
• 2nd and 5th go over quotation marks
• Read and discuss the poem The Listeners (old Lit book pg 180)
• Listen to the YouTube song "The Listeners"
• In groups create a T-chart comparing the characters, setting and mood of The Landlady and The Listeners
• Present charts

Wednesday:
Bell Work: Pronoun worksheet

Lesson:

• Write a dialogue on the ending of The Landlady

Thursday:  Library
Bell Work:


Lesson:

• Pick up Characterization Final Draft
• Give out the poetry packet and talk about:  Tanka, Cinquain, or Limerick
• Look at other examples
• Write a poem
• Poem due tomorrow

Friday:
Bell Work:


Lesson:

• Go over Landlady/Listeners chart
• Work on Poem:  Due Tuesday

Sept 8-12 test

Monday:   Discuss where to go if a fire
Bell Work:  Find one piece of dialogue in the story that creates

Objective:

• Recognize how an author develops the points of view of characters by revealing thoughts, feelings, actions and spoken words
• Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience create suspense.  

Lesson:

• Discuss Fire routes
• Go over Landlady worksheet
• 1st - 3rd Hours:  go over questions as a class and examples of correct answers.  Students may re-write answers for points (due tomorrow)
• 5th-7th Hours:  Students who received 19 or 20 will help others with their answers.  They may re-write answers for points. (due tomorrow)
• Go over the Landlady test
• Characterization worksheet.  2 people do Billy and 2 do Landlady then share answers

Tuesday:  Firedrill at 9:00
Bell Work:

Objective:

Lesson:

• Pick up answer re-writes
• As a class write thesis statement for each character.

• Billy Weaver was innocent and not observant of his surroundings.
• The landlady seemed friendly by showed a side of insanity

• Do characterization worksheet

Wednesday:

Bell Work: vocab "narrate"

Objective:

Lesson:

• Quotation lesson:  
• Look at direct quotes in The Landlady.  Share a quotation rule that you notice.
• Quotation rules -- put them in grammar notebook
• Vocab "narrate"

Thursday:  Library Lab

Bell Work:

Lesson:

• Students log into google/chrome
• go to blogger.com
• blog title is  NPSlastname2019 (add number if more than 1 person with last name NPS2berg2019
• Post Six Word Memoir Ppt.  (Save as a GIF first)
• Layout:  Links
• Blackboard
• Mrs. Berg's blog

Friday:

Bell Work:

Objective:

Lesson:

Sept 2-6

Monday:  NO SCHOOL

Tuesday:  Library
Bell Work:  Honors:  finish book and movie elements of Fiction.  Finish book summary from Friday.  Pick up all bell work.

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:

• Honors:  SAT Quiz 
• Read Aloud "The Landlady" 
• Go to library last 20 min

Wednesday:
Bell Work:  Read Silently and 6 word summary in writing journal


Lesson:

• Do vocab for vocab Facade
• Begin 2nd read of The Landlady and take 2 column notes on unfamiliar words, foreshadowing and characterization
• Test over story Friday

Thursday:  
Bell Work:  Complete 2nd read of Landlady and notes

Lesson:

• Review the story as a class
• Do Worksheet on Landlady

Friday:
Bell Work:  Read Silently and summarize in writing journal


Lesson:

• Pick up Questions and character analysis paper
• Take Landlady quiz