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Unit 1 Break Down 

Here is a breakdown of what we will be doing for this unit on Memiors. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. 

Week of 8/20/2018

Monday 

 

  • Copy Homework

  • Rules PP 

  • Personal Rules/Procedures

  • Review Syllabus

HW:

  1. Complete Summer Reading Activity Due 8/27

  2. Digitally Sign Syllabus 

 

Tuesday-

 

  • Review first 11 stems/roots

  • Create "I can statements"

  • Fix Your Grammar Video

  • Group Critique 

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

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Wednesday-

 

  • Re-watch "Fix your Grammar video" 

  • Review with Rubric

  • Introduce Grammar video Project 

  • Review "I can" statements 

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  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-

 

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

  • Begin discussing "I am" Poem, Students can start working on it in class and continue it for HW. 

  • Start choosing Independent Book in small groups 

 

HW:

 

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

  2. Week 2 Stems Due Friday 

  3. Start "I am" Poem 

 

Thursday-

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

  • Continue working on "I am" Poem, Students can start working on it in class and continue it for HW. 

  • Start choosing Independent Book in small groups 

HW:

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

  2. Week 2 Stems Due Friday 

  3. Start "I am" Poem 

 

Friday-

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

  • Continue working on "I am" Poem, Students can start working on it in class and continue it for HW. 

  • Start choosing Independent Book in small groups 

 

HW:

 

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

  2. Work on "I am" Poem 

Week of 8/27/2018
Week of 9/3/2018

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

  • 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 9/10/2018

Monday 

 

  • Copy HW for the Week

  • ​Work on "I am" Poem

  • What is a memoir?

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

  • Work on "I am" Poem

  • Elements of a Memoir (Cornell Notes) 

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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-

  • First Literature Circle (25-30 minutes)

  • Continue examining elements of a memoir

  • Cornell Notes

 

HW:

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

Week of 9/17/2018

Monday 

2 hour delay

 

  • Copy HW for the Week

  • Literature Circle #1 make up meeting 

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 and form due Wednesday

 

Tuesday-

  • SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) 10 minutes 

  • Quick-write

  • Finish Elements of a memoir 

  • If time allows begin reading "Blue Nines, Red "Words"

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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 and form due Wednesday

 

Wednesday-

 

  • SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) 10 minutes

  • Continue close reading "Blue Nines, Red Words" 

  • What elements of a memoir do you see in it, complete worksheet

 

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 and form due Wednesday

Thursday-

 

  • SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) 10 minutes

  • Close reading "Before Hip hop was Hip Hop"

  • What elements of a memoir do you see in it, complete worksheet

 

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 and form due Wednesday

 

Friday-

  • First Literature Circle (25-30 minutes)

  • Continue close reading "Before Hip hop was Hip Hop"

  • What elements of a memoir do you see in it, complete worksheet

 

HW:

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  1. Keep up with assigned reading for literature circles

Week of 9/24/2018

Monday 

 

 

  • Copy HW for the Week

  • Quickwrite and share 

  • Read "Before Hip-Hop was Hip-Hop"

  • Jot elements of a memoir seen in the essay 

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 and form due Wednesday

 

Tuesday-

  • SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) 10 minutes 

  • Quick-write

  • Finish "Before Hip-Hop..." Activity 

  • Review Memoir assignment

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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. Essay Worksheet 

 

Wednesday-

 

  • SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) 10 minutes

  • Review MLA formatting 

  • begin writing the personal memoir

  • Mrs. Arce holds writing conferences with students. 

 

HW:

 

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

  2. Week 5 Stems Due Friday

  3. Work on personal memoir

  4. Study for the test next week. 

 

Thursday-

 

  • SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) 10 minutes

  • writing the personal memoir

  • Mrs. Arce holds writing conferences with students.

 

HW:

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

  • Week 5 Stems Due Friday

  • Work on personal memoir

  • Study for the test next week. 

 

Friday-

  • First Literature Circle (25-30 minutes)

  • writing the personal memoir

  • Mrs. Arce holds writing conferences with students.

 

HW:

 

  1. upload personal memoir

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

Week of 10/1/2018

Monday 

 

 

  • Copy HW for the Week

  • Review for the test tomorrow 

  • Peer Editing activity for Memoir 

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HW:

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

  2. Week 7 Stems Due Friday 

  3. Study for unit 1 test tomorrow

 

Tuesday-

  • Unit 1 Test on Google Classroom

  • SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) 10 minutes 

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HW:

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

  2. Week 7 Stems Due Friday

 

Wednesday-

 

  • SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) 10 minutes

  • Begin reading "Thank You Ma'am" by Langston Hughes

 

HW:

 

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

  2. Week 7 Stems Due Friday

 

Thursday-

 

  • SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) 10 minutes

  • Quickwrite 

  • Continue reading and analyzing the text of "Thank You, Ma'am" 

 

HW:

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

  • Week 7 Stems Due Friday

 

Friday-

  • First Literature Circle (25-30 minutes)

  • Finish up "Thank You Ma'am"

 

HW:

 

  1. No Homework

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