August: First Week

Objective:

Monday:  No School

Tuesday:  No School


Wednesday:  First Day

• Schedule:
  7:40-9:30
  • Advisory Rules
  • Lockers
  • Bus Tickets
  • Handbook
• 9:40-10:00 Team meeting in auditorium


• 10:00-10:40 - Get to know you activity 
• 10:40-11:28 5th Hour  
• Would you rather worksheet
• 11:32-11:54 Lunch


All Classes:

• Syllabus
• 8 English
• 8 Honors
• Go over "Remind" paper
• Red Team Expectations

Thursday:

• Seating Chart
• Pencil/Pen rule --- if they borrow, leave their ID ---NO EXCEPTIONS
• Rules and Activity
• Show Ppt questions
• As a group discuss each question
• Everyone answer questions on sticky note and add to poster.
• Place group in front of each poster and they discuss and choose the answer (1-2) they liked the best.  Share with class.
• Book Talk:  Waterfall

Friday:

• Season's Test
• Reasonable Story -- due Thursday
• Go over elements of a short story
• Worth 10 points:  Beginning, Middle, End and written in paragraphs

Aug 18-22 Close Reading

Monday:
Bell Work:

Objective:

• Understand how to close read an article.
• Understand words that are often confused and use them correctly.

Lesson:

• Get English folders ready by putting in paper 
• Start a Table of Contents
• Take notes on Too and To
• Read article on close reading on SMART board and model annotating for 1st read.  Vocabulary, main idea, questions?
• Do Notebook Practice to practice Seasons
• Read Aloud False Prince

Tuesday:
Bell Work: Take notes on There and Were slides 3-4

Lesson:

• Go over bell work
• Library Time
• Read Silently

Wednesday:
Bell Work: Take notes on slides 5-6

Lesson:

• Go over bell work
• Re-take season's quiz
• Pass out handout on Close Reading steps to put in their English folder.
• Students read "Superman" using close reading 1st read ONLY:  vocabulary, main idea and questions
• Stop and discuss after each step

Thursday: 
Bell Work: write sentences from slide 7 and 8  Test Friday

Lesson:

• Go over bell work
• Write one question on sticky note from assigned paragraph and put on the board.
• Class discuss what they annotated in "Superman" 
• What is the main idea?  Write it down, share and then write a group main idea.  
• Discuss Structure, Figurative language, parallelism, literal
• Read Aloud "False Prince"

Friday:
Bell Work: Read silently 10 minutes Need Library Book

Lesson:

• Take Usage Demon Quiz 
• Seasons quiz
• Read Aloud False Prince