4th Quarter Book Project DUE!!

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1. Puns- a play on words
2. Metaphors- comparing 2 unlike things
3. Oxymorons- two contradictory/opposite words put together (ex: Jumbo Shrimp)
4. Similes- comparing 2 unlike things using "like" or "as"
5. Personification- giving human-like qualities to inanimate objects
6. Irony- 1. verbal (sarcasm)  2. dramatic (audience know what's happening; characters don't)  3. situational (opposite of what's expected happens)
7. Alliteration- repetition initial consonant sounds (Ex: Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore)
8. Foil- characters intentioned to contrast with each other (they're opposite personalities)

• SSR/hw check
• Review 4th Quarter Book Project
• Finish character chart
• Find the prologue in the textbook; explain HW

1. Books: tell me which one you're going to read for the rest of the semester
2. SSR/ HW check
3. Finish setting up R+J flip book
4. Shakespeare intro- notes
5. Start character chart in flip book

1. Find your textbook and bring it to class Monday
2. Revise your Shakespeare notes: summary, highlighting, questions on the side, and annotations (in a different colored ink, add questions, comments, concerns, curiosities into your notes) 
3. Read 4th Quarter Book Project directions and write 3 questions you have about it on the back of your calendar

• Hello again and catch up

2nd Quarter Book Project:

• Finish your summary for Ch. 14
• Read Ch.15 and complete the summary for it (check Shmoop if you need help)
•  Don't forget to read your SSR book! 2nd Quarter Book Project is due Dec. 7

• Discuss HW over break
• Finish Ch. 14
• Donuts and hot coco

• WN (thankfulness)/ hw check
• Finish Ch. 13; start Ch. 14

• Finish Ch. 12 together/hw check
  • Discuss Scout characterization and Cal
• Start Ch. 13 together

• Quiz: Chapters 10 and 11
• SSR/hw check
• Start Ch. 12 together

• Finish Chapter 8 and 9 presentations 
• Add Integrity and Righteous to the back of your flip book
• Start Ch.10- 
  • write the important quote down about "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird"

• Read the rest of Ch. 10 and 11 on Shmoop- look at the post below for more info and the Shmoop directions on the right to create an account. 

• Chapter Presentations (ch. 5-7)

• Finish your Chapter Poster
• Practice presentation

• November HW calendar; add important dates on the back
  • Talk about finals and the schedule
• Continue chapter project

• WN
• Chapters 5-9 group project begins (read chapter together)

• TKAM Chapters 1-4 QUIZ!
• Grade quiz
• HW check
• Collect October calendars

• SSR/hw check
• Review Ch.3 and what you should have wrote as a summary (most important parts of the chapter)
  • what else did we get out of Ch.3?
• Start Ch. 4

• Finish WNs from the past couple weeks (spooky story or 100 things you love)/ hw check
• Continue reading Ch. 3 
  • Calpurnia characterization
  • Scout characterization

• SSR/HW check
• Review 2nd Quarter Book Project directions/ questions together
• Finish reading Ch. 2
• Add growing up theme evidence and thematic statements into flip book

• WN/hw check
• Review how to write characterization types in flip book
• Continue reading Ch. 2

• WN/hw check
• Pass back Book Assessment and discuss
• Continue reading TKAM- review Chapter 1 and start Ch. 2

• SSR/hw check
• Continue reading Ch. 1 TKAM
  • stop and set up theme page
  • mini lesson on theme

• Continue Ch. 1 (TKAM)
• Set up Characterization pages in flip book
• Set up the 1st Chapter Summary page in your flip book

• SSR/hw check
• Finish the character chart in your flip book for TKAM
• Review research HW together; add notes into your WN (Civil Rights Movement, Scottsboro Trial, Harper Lee, Jim Crow Laws)
•  Start Ch. 1 of TKAM

• WN (gross fridge items list/description)
• Review how to complete To Kill a Mockingbird research assignment
• Create TKAM flip book
• Start Character Chart in flip book 

Memoir Test is TODAY!

• What is a memoir?
• What are the memoir author's craft elements? 
• You need to know what each memoir was about (background information too)
  • Big Boy
  • The Girl of My Dreams
  • Ramiro

• Memoir Test
• SSR

• Pick new SSR books/hw check/return WNs
• WN grade explained
• Explain how to check turnitin.com comments again
• Start writing a practice paragraph together on Internment

• Check out To Kill a Mockingbird from the library
• 2nd Quarter Book Talk
• Review Mme. Loisel paragraph and why you received the grade that you got
  • Redos are due Friday
• Review information that will be on the Memoir Test: Thursday

• What you'll have to do:
  • You'll have an in-class assessment on your SSR book to show what you've learned. I might ask you to complete a characterization chart, tell me information on the theme(s), you might have to complete a plot chart. Be prepared to tell me everything about your book using only your book and any notes you have taken while reading it.

• Book Assessment 

Your typed and printed memoir is due TODAY! 

College Kick-Off Day!!

• SSR
• Read another memoir: "Ramiro" together
  • find author's craft ON YOUR OWN and double check with a partner
  • circle words you don't know
  • annotate (add cognitive strategies in the margins)
  • find the lesson learned and write your own ideas (just like we've done as a class before) in the blank area provided on the back

• HW check
• Finish rough drafts
• Continue typing your final draft in Office 365
  • 12 point font
  • Times New Roman
  • Double-spaced
  • Title (centered)
  • NO NAME

• Review what it means to revise and edit (go through and add/change things in a different colored ink)
  • Revise: adding to make better 
    • better vocabulary
    • changing sentence variety
    • adding memoir author's craft ideas
  • Edit: check for spelling and grammar errors
• Start final draft of your memoir (in your Office 365 account) on a laptop
  • make sure it's Times New Roman, 12 point font, and double-spaced, but DON'T put your name on it if you want to remain anonymous
  • make sure you add a creative title too  

• Short Story test review/hw check
• Continue "The Girl of My Dreams"
  • annotate 
  • find and label author's craft

• Follow the Turnitin.com Directions, which can be found under files on this website (on the right)
• Upload your Mme. Loisel Paragraph to Turnitin.com so I can grade it

• SSR
• Continue "The Girl of My Dreams"
  • annotate: circle words you don't know and add cognitive strategies to your margins
  • find author's craft for memoirs and label them

• SSR/hw check
• Collect August/Sept calendar
• How to use Turnitin.com overview 
• Start: "Girl of my Dreams" aka Chapter 21 from Farewell to Manzanar
  • background information notes on Manzanar and Japanese internment camps
  • Start reading the memoir 

• WN/ HW check
• Read our first memoir: Big Boy
  • Annotate while reading (circle words you don't know, write cognitive strategies in the margins, write any reactions you have)
  • Also find and label any author's craft you find in the memoir (look at your notes and find examples of this while reading)
  • Discuss and record the lessons learned

• SSR/hw check
• Update about due dates and upcoming Progress Reports 
• Start Memoir Unit
  • Notes:
    • EQ=What is a memoir and how are they written?

• MLA format overview
• Basic Microsoft Word review/how to use
• Work on paragraphs and study for tomorrow's test

• Start in class with laptops; realize they all don't work and move to the library.
• Start typing your Mme. Loisel paragraph in Office 365 by opening a new Word document (go to EHS website, click "Resources," click "Login to 365")

• Review How to Write a Paragraph (notes)
• Revise and Edit your Mme. Loisel paragraph or listen to the example paragraph with Mrs. Bremer (see the attached document for reference)

• WN (get the prompt from me)/HW check
• Review characterization vs character types
• Review characterization chart and complete examples from Raj and Dwayne
• Start new notes on the Writing Process

• SSR or finish your Common Assessment on the iPad from yesterday/HW check
• Review "What's Happening?" plot chart (HW review)

• Common Assessment (CAASPP practice on the iPads)

• SSR/Hw check
• Watch "What's Happening: The Birthday Present"
  • take notes as the video is on so you can remember the sequence of events
  • after the show is over, try to figure out the climax FIRST, so that you know where everything else goes on the plot chart

• SSR/HW check
• Review HW together
• Add more to your characterization chart
• Go over how you complete your HW for tonight

• Finish The Necklace
• Finish the plot chart and add information to the characters under "exposition"
• HW check

• Sign into computer, get all notes out
• Start page 2 of The Necklace notes:
  • Plot chart- begin
  • Add exposition: characters (add their types too) and setting (time and place)
• Continue reading The Necklace
  • annotate while reading

• Writer's Notebook entry: 9/11 and what is patriotism
• Review characterization direct/indirect; fix HW

• SSR/HW check
• New seats
• Go to computer lab and work on "The Necklace"
  • review indirect/direct characterization
  • review annotations/cognitive strategies

• Set up computers/check HW
• Review Cognitive Strategy worksheet:
  • Cognitive means thinking; therefore these are thinking strategies for when you read to help you with your annotations
• Continue reading The Necklace
  • stop to practice cognitive strategies
  • stop to practice direct and indirect characterization

• WN/hw check
• Pass out Cognitive Strategies worksheet (this will help with annotations while you're reading)
• Try to go to computer lab; come back because too many log in issues
• SSR

• Continue reading The Necklace in the computer lab and begin annotations 

• SSR/HW check
• Go to computer lab
  • learn how to login
  • login into textbook and start reading "The Necklace" 
  • Begin taking notes on "The Necklace"

• Directions: 
  • Go to EHS website
  • Click on "resources"
  • Select "Office 365"
  • Login using your email and password (just like today in class)
    • [email protected] (fill in the blank with your student ID)
    • password: 8 digit birthday (ex: 05/22/2003)
  • Once you're signed in- click on the "Outlook" icon
  • Click on the plus sign/NEW button to create a new email
  • Type in my email address: [email protected] in the "To" section
  • Title your subject: "Email for HW from _______) *add your name in the blank
  • Click in the box below that to start your email:
    • Compose an email with your BEST email etiquette that you know or have learned and answer the following questions: 
      • Tell me what you think of the school year so far and what you think of your classes.
      • Tell me your favorite thing to do that's random (ex: don't tell me that watch YouTube videos- that's boring and everyone does that)
      • Tell me your favorite ice cream flavor
      • Tell me anything else you want to add about yourself OR ask me a questions OR both!
      • Sign your email creatively 

• Writer's Notebook
  • How to complete
  • Expectations
  • When it's due
• Write first Writer's Notebook: 
  • Topic: comfort zones
• Write names on textbooks

• SSR/HW check (I stamped for the syllabus agreement and last night's HW, so 2 stamps)
• Continue Short Story notes: start Character Types (powerpoint is located to the right on this page)

• Write an in-class essay on one of the following topics:
  • Write about a role model in your life. Why do they inspire you and what made you start looking up to them?
  • What is a role model? Why is it important to have role models?
  • What is the American Dream? Can it be achieved? Why/why not?
  • How has social media effected schools? Provide examples from your experiences.
• When you're finished with your essay, read your book.

Due by Friday, August 31 before midnight:

After reading and reviewing the course syllabus (located on the right side of your screen, under "files") with a parent/guardian, fill out the Syllabus Agreement (virtual signature page) by clicking on this LINK  

• Finish Book Talk
• Pick Books
• Start Short Story Unit: notes on plot and plot chart