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Unit 1 Memoir Unit

 They Cage the Animals at Night/Grammar Project 

Week of 8/20/18

Week of 8/27/18

Week of 9/3/18

Monday 

 

  • Copy Homework

  • Rules PP 

  • Personal Rules/Procedures

  • Review Syllabus

HW:

  1. Complete Summer Reading Activity Due 8/27

  2. Digitally Sign Syllabus 

 

Tuesday-

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  • Review first 11 stems/roots

  • Create "I can statements"

  • Fix Your Grammar Video

  • Group Critique 

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HW:

  1. Complete Root Words Worksheet

  2. Complete Summer Reading Activity Due 8/27

  3. Sign up for Goodreads  (Arce Bookworms), Sign up for Remind, Join Google Classroom

 

 

Wednesday-

 

  • Re-watch "Fix your Grammar video" 

  • Review with Rubric

  • Introduce Grammar video Project 

  • Review "I can" statements 

 

 

 

  1. Complete Root Words Worksheet

  2. Complete Summer Reading Activity Due 8/27

  3. Sign up for Goodreads  (Arce Bookworms), Sign up for Remind, Join Google Classroom

 

Thursday-

 

  • Choose a partner for the grammar  project (Choose wisely) 

  • Choose a topic (randomly)

  • Review PPT for Project 

  • Start Research

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  1. Complete Summer Reading Activity Due 8/27

  2. Sign up for Goodreads  (Arce Bookworms), Sign up for Remind, Join Google Classroom

 

Friday-

  • SLO Pretest 

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  1. Complete Summer Reading Activity Due 8/27

  2. Sign up for Goodreads  (Arce Bookworms), Sign up for Remind, Join Google Classroom

 

Monday 

 

  • Copy Homework

  • Review Project 

  • Work on Project-Mrs. Arce rotates from group to group

HW:

  1. Complete Summer Reading Activity Due 8/27

  2. Work on Grammar Project Due 9/10 All direction located on Google Classroom

  3. Week 2 Stems Due Friday 

 

Tuesday-

 

  • Work on Grammar Project-Mrs. Arce rotates from group to group

  • Start choosing Independent Book in small groups 

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HW:

  1. Work on Grammar Project Due 9/10 All direction located on Google Classroom

  2. Week 2 Stems Due Friday 

 

Wednesday-

 

  • Organize Binder for ELA 

  • What are Cornell Notes?

  • Practice Doing Cornell notes using video on Tone

  • Work on Grammar Project-Mrs. Arce rotates from group to group

 

HW:

 

  1. Work on Grammar Project Due 9/10 All direction located on Google Classroom

  2. Week 2 Stems Due Friday 

 

Thursday-

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  • Work on Grammar Project-Mrs. Arce rotates from group to group

HW:

  1. Work on Grammar Project Due 9/10 All direction located on Google Classroom

  2. Week 2 Stems Due Friday 

 

Friday-

 

HW:

 

  1. Work on Grammar Project Due 9/10 All direction located on Google Classroom

Monday 

 

  • NO SCHOOL 

HW:

  1. Complete Summer Reading Activity 

  2. Work on Grammar Project Due 9/10 All direction located on Google Classroom

 

Tuesday-

 

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HW:

  1. Work on Grammar Project Due 9/10 All direction located on Google Classroom

  2. Week 3 Stems Due Friday 

 

Wednesday-

 

  • Warm-up Finish Allusion worksheet

  • Book Pass (literature circle books for the memoir unit)

  • Who is George Ella Lyons?

  • What is an "I am" Poem?

  • How can a poem help me get to know my peers?

 

HW:

 

  1. Work on Grammar Project Due 9/10 All direction located on Google Classroom

  2. Week 3 Stems Due Friday 

 

Thursday-

 

  • Work on "I am" poem

HW:

  1. Work on Grammar Project Due 9/10 All direction located on Google Classroom

  2. Week 3 Stems Due Friday 

 

Friday-

  • Work on "I am" poem

  • Last day to work on Grammar project. 

 

HW:

 

  1. Work on Grammar Project Due 9/10 All direction located on Google Classroom

Week of 9/10/18

Week of 9/17/18

Monday 

 

HW:

  1. Literature Circle Assignment due Friday, review reading schedule on the calendar. Due Friday

  2. Week 4 Stems Due Friday 

  3. Work on "I am" Poem

  4. STUDY FOR QUIZ TOMORROW ON UNIT 1 CONCEPTS

 

Tuesday-

  • SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) 10 minutes 

  • Quiz on unit 1 concepts 

  • Work on "I am" Poem

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HW:

  1. Literature Circle Assignment due Friday, review reading schedule on the calendar. Due Friday

  2. Week 4 Stems Due Friday

  3. Work on "I am" Poem

 

Wednesday-

 

  • SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) 10 minutes

  • What is a Memoir?

  • What are the elements of a memoir?

  • Take Cornell notes

  • If time allows work on "I am" poem

 

HW:

 

  1. Literature Circle Assignment due Friday, review reading schedule on the calendar. Due Friday

  2. Week 4 Stems Due Friday

  3. Work on "I am" Poem

 

Thursday-

 

  • Work on "I am" poem

  • Continue examining elements of a memoir

  • Cornell Notes

HW:

  1. Literature Circle Assignment due Friday, review reading schedule on the calendar. Due Friday

  2. Week 4 Stems Due Friday

 

Friday-

  • NO SCHOOL HURRICANE FORENCE

 

HW:

 

  1. Upload "I am" Poem to Google Classroom. 

 

Monday 

2-hour delay

  • Copy HW for the Week

  • Literature Circle Meeting 1 since there was no school on Friday

HW:

  1. Literature Circle Assignment due Friday, review reading schedule on the calendar. Due Friday

  2. Week 5 Stems Due Friday 

  3. Allusion flipped lesson on Google Classroom with form due Wednesday 

 

Tuesday-

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HW:

  1. Literature Circle Assignment due Friday, review reading schedule on the calendar. Due Friday

  2. Week 5 Stems Due Friday 

  3. Allusion flipped lesson on Google Classroom with form due Wednesday

 

Wednesday-

 

  • SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) 10 minutes

  • Cornell Notes, what is a memoir 

  • What are the elements and how do we make it personal?

  • Non-fiction article on Foster Care complete, complete article assignment 

 

HW:

 

  1. Literature Circle Assignment due Friday, review reading schedule on the calendar. Due Friday

  2. Week 5 Stems Due Friday 

  3. Tone flipped lesson on Google Classroom with form due Friday

 

Thursday-

  • SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) 10 minutes

  • Cornell Notes, what is a memoir 

  • Quick-write

  • Non-fiction article on Foster Care complete, complete article assignment 

HW:

  1. Literature Circle Assignment due Friday, review reading schedule on the calendar. Due Friday

  2. Week 5 Stems Due Friday

  3. Tone flipped lesson on Google Classroom with form due Friday

 

Friday-

  • 2nd Literature Circle (25-30 minutes)

  • Quick-write

  • Non-fiction article on orphanages

 

HW:

 

  1. Continue reading schedule for literature cirlces

Week of 9/24/18

 

Monday 

 

  • Copy HW for the Week

  • Cornell Notes on adding voice to a personal memoir & how to extend an ending on a memoir

  • Read the article entitled " From Foster Care to Cap and Gown, A Program helps High Schoolers"

  • Students annotate while reading the article

HW:

  1. Literature Circle Assignment due Friday, review reading schedule on the calendar. Due Friday

  2. Week 6 Stems Due Friday 

  3. Idiom & Sensory Imagery flipped lesson on Google Classroom with form due Wednesday 

 

Tuesday-

  • SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) 10 minutes 

  • Review article and begin the summary worksheet.

  • Explanation of what a 6-word memoir is. Who is Ernest Hemmingway?

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HW:

  1. Literature Circle Assignment due Friday, review reading schedule on the calendar. Due Friday

  2. Week 6 Stems Due Friday 

  3. Article Summary worksheet

 

Wednesday-

 

  • SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) 10 minutes

  • Work on 6-word memoir activity 

 

HW:

 

  1. Literature Circle Assignment due Friday, review reading schedule on the calendar. Due Friday

  2. Week 6 Stems Due Friday 

  3. Work on 6 word memoir

  4. Study for upcoming test 

 

Thursday-

  • SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) 10 minutes

  • Pre-reading Activity for "They Cage the Animals at Night"

  • Work on 6 word memoir if time allows 

HW:

  1. Literature Circle Assignment due Friday, review reading schedule on the calendar. Due Friday

  2. Week 6  Stems Due Friday

  3. work on a 6-word memoir

  4. Study for upcoming test

 

Friday-

  • 3rd Literature Circle (25-30 minutes)

  • What is a dialectical Journal?

  • How do we write one?

  • finish up a 6-word memoir

 

HW:

 

  1. Upload 6-word memoir to google classroom

  2. Study for test on unit 1 concepts and elements of a memoir. 

Week of 10/8/18

Week of 10/15/18

 

Monday 

 

  • Copy HW for the Week

  • What is an Appositive? 

  • What is a dialectical Journal? How do I write in one? Explanation on journal expectations on Google Classroom

  • Students Pair read Chapter 2 

HW:

  1. Literature Circle Assignment due Friday, review reading schedule on the calendar. Due Friday

  2. Week 8 Stems Due Friday 

  3. Appositives flipped lesson #1 on Google Classroom with form due Wednesday 

 

Tuesday-

  • SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) 10 in pairs  

  • Complete dialectical journal for chapters 1 &2 on google classroom

  • work on Chapter questions

  • Begin reading chapter 3

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HW:

  1. Literature Circle Assignment due Friday, review reading schedule on the calendar. Due Friday

  2. Week 8 Stems Due Friday 

  3. Appositives flipped lesson #1 on Google Classroom with form due Wednesday 

Wednesday-

  • PSAT 

  • Students not taking PSAT will work on a dialectical journal and finish up Chapter 3 on the audio link. 

  • Work on Worksheet. 

HW:

  1. Literature Circle Assignment due Friday, review reading schedule on the calendar. Due Friday

  2. Week 8 Stems Due Friday 

  3. Appositives flipped lesson #2 on Google Classroom with form due Friday

 

Thursday- (alternative schedule)

  • SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) 10 

  • Complete dialectical journal for chapters 3 on google classroom

  • work on Chapter questions

  • Begin reading chapter 4

 

HW:

  1. Literature Circle Assignment due Friday, review reading schedule on the calendar. Due Friday

  2. Week 8 Stems Due Friday 

  3. Appositives flipped lesson #2 on Google Classroom with form due Friday

 

Friday-

  • Literature Circle #5 

  • ACE Paragraph for unit goals

  • Quiz on the specific memoir from literature circles 

 

HW:

 

  1. TBD

 

Monday 

 

  • Copy HW for the Week

  • Review Chapters 1-5 with Powerpoint 

  • Finish Whooo's Reading Quiz on Individual Memoir

  • Work on Dialectical Journal for Chapters 3,4, & 5

HW:

 

  1. Week 9 Stems Due Friday 

  2. Work on Caged Animals Journal for Chapters 3,4, & 5

 

Tuesday-

  • Give out USATESTPREP usernames and passwords. 

  • Finish up Journals if necessary 

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  • Begin reading chapter 3

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HW:

 

  1. Week 9 Stems Due Friday 

  2. Appositives worksheet

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Wednesday-

  • Review Appositives 

  • Review Chapter 6 

  • Work on Journal 

  • Complete worksheet in pairs

  • Read Chapter 7 

HW:

 

  1. Week 9 Stems Due Friday 

  2. Appositives worksheet

 

Thursday- 

 

  • Benchmark Exam

  • Read Chapter 7 

 

HW:

  1. Chapter 7 Questions. 

  2. Week 8 Stems Due Friday 

 

Friday-

  • Finish working on Chapter 7 in pairs

  • Analyze the characters in the story

  • Journal for chapter 7 

  • Introduce project

 

HW:

  1. Listen to chapter 8, complete journal and chapter questions. 

 

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Week of 10/22/18

 

Monday 

 

NO SCHOOL, TEACHER WORK DAY

 

HW:

 

  1. Listen to Chapter 8 and complete chapter questions

 

Tuesday-

  • Copy HW for the Week

  • Review chapter 8 with Turn and Talk

  • Complete character traits worksheet & Figurative language

  • Read Chapter 9 

  • Chapter questions for 9 

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HW:

 

  1. Greek and Latin Roots test on Friday

  2. Chapter 5-9 quiz tomorrow

 

Wednesday-

  • Quiz for Chapters 5-9

  • What are prepositions and a prepositional phrase?

  • Read Chapter 10 

  • Work on Journals 

HW:

 

  1. Greek and Latin Roots test on Friday

  2. Prepositions Flipped Lesson on Google Classroom

  3. Listen to Chapter 11 Complete chapter questions

 

Thursday- 

  • Prepositional phrases practice

  • Review Chapter 11 

  • Partner read Chapter 12

  • Work on Chapter Questions 

  • Review Project 

 

HW:

  1. Greek and Latin Roots test on Friday

  2. Prepositions Flipped Lesson on Google Classroom

 

Friday-

  • Roots test 

  • Finish Chapter 12 partner read if need be.

 

HW:

  1. Listen to Chapter 13 & 14 and complete chapter questions. 

 

 

Week of 10/29/18

 

Monday 

 

  • Copy Homework

  • Review Chapters 12 & 13 

  • Complete Alphaboxes for 12 & 13 

  • Begin Reading 14

 

HW:

 

  1. Proposition worksheet Due Wednesday

  2. Continue to Listen to Chapter 14 and complete chapter questions

 

Tuesday-

  • Work on Journals for Chapters 8,9 & 10 

  • Finish Book 

  • Explain Project

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HW:

 

  1. Proposition worksheet Due Wednesday

  2. Chapter 15 questions

  3. Choose project, must circle which one they chose, no changes

 

Wednesday-

  • Work on Journals for "They Cage the Animals at Night"

  • Work on Project

HW:

 

  1. Work on Journal 

  2. Work on Project

 

Thursday- 

  • Work on Journals for "They Cage the Animals at Night"

  • Work on Project

 

HW:

  1. Greek and Latin Roots test on Friday

  2. Prepositions Flipped Lesson on Google Classroom

 

Friday-

  • Work on Journals for "They Cage the Animals at Night"

  • Work on Project

 

HW:

  1. Study for test on the novel 

  2. Project due on Monday

 

 

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