Calendar

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
8/22 Starter - Goals Turn in brochure Disclosure, Expectations, Class Rules - Partner Worksheet Web Site Extra Credit Travels Hero’s Journey groups	8/23 Starter - Teacher Talk Correct Rules WS Absences, Helpers, Getting to Know You Travels Journey groups - Presentations	8/24 Disclosure Return - 25 points SLANT video Evacuation Route Rules Review 9th Grade Assembly - 2nd period - Kiva	8/25 Warrior Time - Handbook Disclosure Return - 15 points Annotation Text - Article of the Week Usually Mondays) Back to School Night 6:00 - 7:15 PM	8/26 Disclosure Return - 5 points Reading Record 1 Assignment Sheet 1 Rules Test Bring Outside Reading Book Web Site extra credit due
8/29 Starter-Calendar AW Practice Paragraph Hero’s Journey discussion Article of the Week-Internet Spying 6 Traits Review - Ideas - Uses for Language-Venn diagram Rules Test	8/30 Ideas - continued Character Sketch - Prewrite and 1st draftt	8/31 CRT Pretest Greek and Latin Word Parts Pretest-Part 1 Worksheet	9/1 Article of the Week - Internet Spying - Correct and discuss Annotations Character Sketch 1st drafts due Response-Revise into 2nd drafts	9/2 Reading Record 2 Assignment Sheet 2 Web Site extra credit due
5/ Labor Day No School	6/Fall SRI testing - Be present Article of the Week group discussion and paragraph (if time)	7/ Character Sketch 2nd drafts due-edit Character Sketch grade sheet 6 Traits Review - Organization (Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge) Graphic Organizer Organizing Patterns (notebook item)	8/ Character Sketch final drafts due Travels essay response Memory paper - prewrite - free write memory of emotion Get parent signature on personal reading record	9/ Reading Record 3- due at beginning of class Assignment Sheet 3 Bring silent reading book
12/ Reality Town Introduction - Counselors Article of the Week- Should You Be Snuggling with Your Cell Phone? Reading with Your Pen Notations	13/ Childhood Memory My Access in LMC - Improvement on at least three drafts required, so keep trying-Make this up at home if necessary	14/ Literary Terms Pretest Academic Vocabulary Travels essay response Homework - Childhood Memory on My Access	15/ Article of the Week Discussion and Paragraph Homework - Childhood Memory on My Access Get parent signature on personal reading record	16/ Reading Record 4- due at beginning of class Assignment Sheet 4 Constitution Day Activities Bring silent reading book Memory Paper due online
19/ Starter - Calendar AoW - McDonald’s Annotations Correct Word Parts 1 Review Academic Terminology 1 Create 3 examples of each: situational, verbal, dramatic irony	20/ “Morituri Salutamus”- Allusion, Carpe Diem, Irony Morituri Worksheet Motto Assignment Word Parts 1 and Academic Terminology 1 Test	21/ AoW Discussion Confusing Words review - Worksheet Finish “Morituri” assignments	22/ SEOPs - Counselors in classes Parents encouraged to attend	23/ Assgn Sheet 2 AoW paragraph due Bring silent reading book Memory Paper due online with evidence of 3 improvements from 1st draft and hard copy with 3 specific changes
26/ EBL Day No School for Students	27/ Assignment Sheet 5 for 4th & 5th periods Article of the Week annotations - “Facebook” - due Thursday Review “Morituri Salutamus” Group discussion - What does a poem written by some old guy have to say to me?	28/ Academic Terminology 2 Sensory Writing - Peach and Blue, “To Look at Anything,” The Joy Luck Club and “The Sound of Thunder” excerpts “Morituri Salutamus” test Morituri motto assignment due	29/ Article of the Week Discussion and Paragraph Sensory Writing - Read “Crystal Moment” Vocabulary and Study Questions Crystal Moment first drafts Make sure you know the memorization for tomorrow’s test!	30/ Assignment Sheet 6 AoW paragraph due Bring silent reading book Memorization Test