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*All missing work due by TUESDAY to qualify for Friday's incentive. *This is the final week for retakes for this nine weeks! Please complete all retake work, fill out retake form, and have signed tomorrow morning. This is the retake work for the short story test: 1. Read Mark Twain's "A Ghost Story." http://www.tor.com/2012/10/25/a-ghost-story/ 2. Complete the story analysis sheet found in IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS on my website. 3. Complete a retake ticket form. 4. Turn the completed form into the office. *All students need a copy of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks when we return from fall break. It is inexpensive on Amazon right now ($7.56) OR you may check it out from the public library. You may use Post-It notes to annotate if you borrow your copy. The week's plans: MONDAY: Read Act II of 12 Angry Men; Homework: Bill of Rights defense response; Act II study guide TUESDAY: Complete Act II & begin Act III; "Bill of Rights" quiz (open notes); Act III study guide WEDNESDAY: Act III; ethos/pathos/logos practice & notes THURSDAY: Tech day: Researching court cases concerning the "Bill of Rights" FRIDAY: Look at treatment of a story through two different formats: teleplay of 12 Angry Men vs. Oscar-nominated film version. HAPPY FALL BREAK! YOU'VE EARNED IT!
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*Short story final drafts due Thursday. You must have the rough draft, a completed peer review sheet, and a clean copy stapled on the top. *Unit 3 vocab test FRIDAY *Unit 3 vocab packet due FRIDAY *All missing work is due by September 27. We have an 8th grade incentive planned for September 30. IXL and all other homework count! Email when past-due IXL assignments are completed. The Week's Plans: MONDAY: The US Bill of Rights; basic drama terms; go over short story unit tests TUESDAY: Begin reading Act I of 12 Angry Men; making inferences through stage directions; legal terminology notes; HW: the CSI effect article WEDNESDAY: 12 Angry Men, Act I; CSI effect discussion THURSDAY: Finish 12 Angry Men Act I; Tech Thursday: quotations; main idea FRIDAY: Unit 3 vocabulary test; Act II *Rough drafts should be 5-10 pages. No shorter, no longer. *Peer edits will be completed Friday. If your story is not finished before class meets, I cannot guarantee a peer edit. *Below is the rubric I will use to grade your essays. This is the same rubric the state uses to grade writing assessments: *Final drafts are due Wednesday, September 21.
Reminders: *Unit 3 spelling test FRIDAY *Head progress reports go home Wednesday. All work is due by Monday afternoon in order to reflect on the progress report. *Short story unit test THURSDAY *English screening test for intervention planning MONDAY in English classes (math screening is Tuesday) *IXL due before class Thursday: FF.2, FF.3, XX.1, WW.2 *Short story map due MONDAY *Rough drafts due FRIDAY The week's plans: MONDAY: English aReading screening test for baselines; feedback for story maps; intro to Unit 3 vocabulary TUESDAY: groups work through short story "The Lottery" to complete STEAL, tone, theme, and mood analysis WEDNESDAY: short story discussion; integrating dialogue/using quotation marks THURSDAY: short story unit test; continue practice punctuating dialogue & writing interesting conversations FRIDAY: Unit 3 spelling test; rough drafts due for peer review Reminders:
*Progress reports go home Wednesday Plans for the week: WEDNESDAY: finish "Lather and Nothing Else," literary terms: Point of View & Tone; Homework: POV & tone practice THURSDAY: Tech day: tone & POV practice; story mapping: use setting and characters to develop a story map FRIDAY: Intro to Shirley Jackson; short story assignment. |
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