Oct 20-24

Objective:

1. Analyze the thoughts, words, and actions of a character to provoke a decision or impacts the development of the plot.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of how differences in points of view of the characters and the audience create effects as suspense, drama, or horror.
3. Identify parallel plot and subplot; explain how these are used to move the story along.

Monday: Get out Chrome and finish typing Personal Narrative (10 Min)  Be sure to look at scoring guide in Bb

Lesson:

• Add vocab to blog:  detect 
• Anticipation:  Question Form
• Flowers for Algernon Ppt

Tuesday:
Bell Work:  Type personal narrative


Lesson:

• 5 min of typing personal narrative
• preposition song --bonus
• Look at the survey results from yesterday
• Listen to first part of "Flowers for Algernon" from CD (pg 55-59 --25 min)

Wednesday:  
Bell Work:  Close read paragraph on pg 53 "Literary Analysis"


Lesson:

• Begin sub-plot and parallel plot organinzer and fill in about taking a test twice
• Listen to the story on the CD (pg 59-64 25 min)

Thursday:  
Bell Work:  Peer Edit Narrative


Lesson:

• Share Narrative with me 
• Peer edit and revise
• Do Discussion board (15 Min)

Friday: 
Bell Work:


Lesson:

• Add racing Algernon to parallel episode page (10 Min)
• Preposition on the board
• Preposition worksheet.

Oct 13-Oct 17

Objective:

Monday:
Bell Work:  Finish bell work from Friday.  Warriner's pg 44 Exercise 11.

• Pass out preposition notes to put in notebook
• Preposition song
• Discuss Personal Narrative pg 126-128 in Lit book
• Analyze Mentor text for Personal Narrative ws.
• Go over the Unit 1 test

Lesson:

Tuesday:   Library:  Book Fair Last 15 min
Bell Work:


Lesson:

• Preposition song
• Preposition ws homework
• Introduce  "Creepy" personal narrative using Notebook lesson

Wednesday:  Dr. Wilson observing 6th hour
Bell Work:


Lesson:

• Prepositional Phrases:  Students partner with person who has a board or a marker.  Have them finish the prepositional phrase.  I put my book.....  then I went.   (Notebook lesson)
• Give students the personal narrative writing prompt
• Students put ideas on Answer Garden of scary topics
• Fill out a paper to organize their writing -- due tomorrow

Thursday:
Bell Work:

• Open a Google Doc and title their personal narrative
• Share it with a partner
• Link their doc to their blog
• Begin typing their personal narrative
• Show the rubric (also on Bb)

Lesson:



Friday:  NO School
Bell Work:


Lesson: