October 26-30

Monday:

• Assignment written in the English Blog
• English Blog

Tuesday:

• The students need to go to the English Blog for their assignment.  It tells them everything to do.  They know how to do this.  It is english8red.blogspot.com   
• Students will read and annotate 2-3 comments per page.  (Mrs. Mac will bring you the copies for this)  They know how to do this.  (20 min)
• The students have been writing an news article about Haiti.  The articles are in Google Docs.  The students will need to "share" the article with someone in the class other than the first partner they had in this project.  (20 Min)

• Read "I Never Saw Another Butterfly"
• Discuss meaning and who wrote it.
• Read pg 101-103 from poem book
• Show the book to the students
• Students read poems and choose a poem -- Poems
• They will create a butterfly Thursday.  Bring in any materials they want for their butterfly
• Work on their Article - compare it to the rubric 
• Share article with person who is same color in another group

Wednesday: 

• Bell Work:  Blog a reflection about the Butterfly poem they are reading.
• mood, tone, connotation of words, child who wrote it
• Go to Padlet and watch Intro to WWII and Anne Frank Bio.  Write words and phrases that are important.
• Anne Frank Ppt

Thursday:

• Discuss the AoftW
• Share how to double space article.
• Proofread articles
• Create a butterfly

Friday:

• Turn in the article they wrote into classroom
• Write the reflection of their article on the same page as their annotation

Oct 19-23

Monday: Bell Work:

• Library Book Fair
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• Haiti News Project-  Informational Essay
• Article
• Watch a news report
• Find Partner through ????
• Choose a big question to drive the Essay/Article
• write 3 related questions that will need to be answered. One to ask Mr. L, one for each student to research.  
• Will you video any of the interview?
• Which question will you ask Mr. Lesperance and which will you research?

Tuesday:

• Put Summative in CPS
• One partner create padlet for notes.  Each student link to their blog.
• Add links to cite where information is found
• Begin research and notes.  Model padlet notes.
• 1/2 the class will interview

Wednesday:

• Begin research and notes.  Model padlet notes.
• 1/2 the class will interview

Thursday:

• Students link their padlet the the teacher padlet found on the blog.  They can use each other's notes
• Model writing an informational essay
• Put list on objectives covered on the board

Friday:  NO SCHOOL

Oct 12-16

Monday:

• New Seating Chart
• Tell Tale Review:
• Go over Irony worksheet
• Socrative
• Tell Tale Test with CPS
• Library -- get book because there is time to read while testing this week.

Tuesday:

• Go over Tell Tale Test
• Those 3 Wishes Review with Kahoot.it

Wednesday

• Summative Test
• Read Library book or Poe graphic novel

Thursday:

• Summative Test
• Read Library book or Poe graphic novel

Friday:

• Test Make-ups
• Tell Tale heart movie (25 minutes)
• Read

October 5-9

Monday:  Bell Work:  Landlady Ending

• Go over Soccer A of the W.
• Go over Landlady Test
• Tell Tale Heart Ppt Holt Online

Tuesday:

• Posted on Blog: (20 min)
• Students go through Poe Ppt on Chromes
• Listen to Tell Tale Heart  students follow along pg 376 (15 min)
• Question over Tell Tale Heart

Wednesday:  Go over Grammar sheet

• Irony Ppt
• Irony Activity
• Honors:  Link video to Blog

Thursday

• Questions over Tell Tale
• Honors:  Flex Room for vidoe

Friday

• Kahoot.it

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