Monday, Sept. 24 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Dialogue format mini-lesson (editing section)

}Finish “Cask of Amontillado” pg 349 –finish story and questions for HW

◦While reading, take notes in reader’s notebook of details that identify and describe setting and mood (sensory details, repetition, descriptions)

◦**Question based on active reading: “What is the mood and what 2-3 details of setting most help establish that mood?”

◦**Question 8: Consider whether Montresor is a reliable or unreliable narrator. Is the reader to believe, as Montresor does, that his revenge is justified? Is Montresor more sane or crazy? Give details from the story to support your opinion.

◦https://www.pinterest.com/pin/528258231266349049/

}Writer’s Workshop Time

◦What my comments mean

–Dialogue (natural), Show don’t Tell/more showing, development of aspects of a short story (exposition, rising actions, climax, falling actions, resolution), character details (backstory)

–First Draft Evaluation: Exemplary, Accomplished, Promising, Developing, Beginning

–Answer: How does your story demonstrate/reflect the human experience? What aspects? In what way?

–Meet with me (if your draft has comments on it, you have written how it demonstrates the human experience, and you have done what the white board says)

–Revise from first draft to second if you have Comments from me and have figured out where to start with those comments (or second to third if you self-revise a bit more)

–Revising: working to make the ideas of your story stronger, adding more showing/details, removing parts that don’t work, adding more character detail, move ideas and sentences around, substitute words (stronger descriptions, details, etc)

–Final Draft due TUESDAY the 2nd: we’ll have some workshop time the next few days

◦Work Time Choices:

–Finish first draft, upload to Turnitin if you haven’t yet

–You MUST meet with me today

Friday, Sept. 21 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Collect AoW Reflection

}Finish “Cask of Amontillado” pg 344

◦While reading, take notes in reader’s notebook of details that identify and describe setting and mood (sensory details, repetition, descriptions)

◦**Question based on active reading: “What is the mood and what 2-3 details of setting most help establish that mood?”

◦**Question 8: Consider whether Montresor is a reliable or unreliable narrator. Is the reader to believe, as Montresor does, that his revenge is justified? Is Montresor more sane or crazy? Give details from the story to support your opinion.

◦https://www.pinterest.com/pin/528258231266349049/

Writer’s Workshop Time: You need to have a draft uploaded to Turnitin by 6pm Sunday AT THE LATEST!!

Thursday, Sept. 20 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: 10 Minutes Reading

}Illustration Discussion and Self-Evaluation

◦Rate your ‘showing’ on a scale of 1-10 (10 being best).  Did you give enough detail in your writing to assist your reader in seeing exactly what you wanted them to see?  Explain after your numerical rating what you did well with and what could be improved

◦3 hole punch the illustration and put both that and your description in the WN section

}PoV, Setting, Mood (Tone and Mood words in craft lesson section)

}“Cask of Amontillado” pg 344-345

◦While reading, take notes in reader’s notebook of details that identify and describe setting and mood (sensory details, repetition, descriptions)

}Writing your own Short Story

}Your short story: story map/plot chart outline

◦Get it checked before beginning First Draft –bring it to me as soon as you are done

◦Story map/Plot chart due, at the latest, beginning of class tomorrow

}**Drafting Time –Share document with me NOW, first draft submitted to Turnitin by Sunday at 6 (LATEST), {typed, double spaced}, Second draft due Tuesday at 8PM

}You must share your draft with me on Google Docs

◦I will be checking in on your progress throughout class

}If you do need a break, read your book rather than cause a distraction (also, don’t go to sites other than those being used for music or research for your story)

Wednesday, Sept. 19 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: If you have colored pencils/markers, grab them before class starts

}AoW Discussion and Reflection How-To

◦3 paragraphs

◦Responding/Reacting to article and discussion

◦Can use textual evidence, or research, or connections

}Evaluating Showing:

◦Share Show don’t Tell writing with partner

◦Character Writing Illustration

–When you finish, keep sheets and write “Revenge” WN entry

}In Writer’s Notebook: Is revenge ever justified? Is revenge necessary at times to right a wrong? Can acts of revenge resolve conflicts? If you think no, write why people still commit acts of revenge.  If you think yes, explain how or why. –read your book when you finish this prompt

Tuesday, Sept. 18 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: ACT Prep/Editing Section (slide 1)

}TIQA Notes

}Dynamic Character: go to the end of “Pancakes,” question 5

}Don’t make a new chart, refer to the chart made while reading.  Write a TIQA paragraph to show that Jill either is or is not a dynamic character based on the traits you wrote while reading. Make sure you have a piece of textual evidence to support your claim (the Q portion of TIQA)

}Read your AoW (close read) when you finish; if done with that, read your independent book

}Precise adjectives- word choice

◦Show Don’t Tell –notes in the craft lesson section

}Homework: AoW Close Read

Monday, Sept. 17 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Go to Class Notes section

◦Close Reading and AoWs (Close Read due Wednesday)

}Schoology Discussion

◦With person next to you, discuss these ideas: What are the pros and cons of having everything perfect in order to be happy (perfectionism)? Is striving for perfection ever helpful or necessary? When would it be difficult to be a perfectionist?

–come up with at least two solid pros and two cons, post these on Schoology

◦Then, grab a literature book and read through definitions (and details) for Character Traits, Character Motivation, and Dynamic Character (p188, 190, maroon glossary)

}In Reader’s Notebook/Class Notes (Short Story) section: Character Guided Notes

}Take out a blank sheet of paper from the Reader’s Notebook section and turn to page 194

}“Pancakes” in Lit book: story #2 focus: Character Development

◦T-chart on character traits and what we infer from them

◦While reading, notes in Reader’s Notebook (traits and inferences)

◦Answer:

◦Question 3  What does Jill fear will happen when Allen Feinman shows up at the restaurant? Why does Allen’s behavior surprise her?

◦and “what is the climax?” (keep the sheet of paper when you are done)

Friday, Sept. 14 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Roots

}New Endings:

◦Read through, answer three questions at the end of their story

–1) What was your favorite phrase/sentence/image? Why?

–2) What could they have done to make their writing stronger?

–3) What was the biggest similarity OR difference between their story and yours?

–Hand it back to them, answer the following prompt in your WN, and then read your book for a bit

}(In writer’s notebook) Perfectionism WN Entry: What are the pros and cons of having everything perfect in order to be happy (perfectionism)? Is striving for perfection ever helpful or necessary? When would it be difficult to be a perfectionist?

}Set up Turnitin (Feedback Studio)

◦Class ID: 18842518  Enrollment key:F2018eng9

}Create English Class Blog: Go to: Edublogs.org, follow directions shared with you in Drive

}Setting up Schoology and Discussion: Access Code: XHBM8-W82T6

Thursday, Sept. 13 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Go to your Editing Section (independent clauses)

}Collect Independent Book Writing

}Discuss with your neighbor your ideas about “Sound of Thunder” esp. the end: What could the end mean? (safety off, sound of thunder) How else could it have ended?

◦Collect Plot Chart

}Another author’s version - Did this version make the changes you would have?

◦What source details?

◦How interpreted/transformed?

}Discuss the new version

}Write new version of ending (one page minimum, first sentence or two textual evidence, your complete/full version due tomorrow

}Think of how you want to change or add on to the end of the story

}As you plan, you want to find a place in the story to start.  The only requirement is that the butterfly must be stepped on and the future must change; other than that, you can change what you’d like.

}The first sentence or two need to be textual evidence.  A few suggestions would be pg 45 ”Just ran off the Path, that’s all…” or pg 47 “Embedded in the mud, glistening green…” –Italicize (if typing) or Underline (if handwriting) your textual evidence

}Your new end/changed story needs to be at least a page in length (if typing, set it to 12 font and 1.5 spaced)

◦Due Tomorrow: One Page New Ending SoT

Wednesday, Sept. 12 Agenda

}Respect Retreat

◦If you are here, use the time to

–Read/finish “Sound of Thunder”, filling out the plot chart while reading

–Write your independent reading letter (make sure to consult the requirements in your Reader’s Notebook section)

–Read your independent reading book

Tuesday, Sept. 11 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Prefixes

}How to write the Independent reading letter

}“Sound of Thunder”

◦–predict what will happen based on foreshadowing so far.  What do you think the sound of thunder is?

◦Finish reading and filling out plot chart on own (when done, keep in Reader’s Notebook section –if you don’t finish in class, finish for homework). 

   I stopped reading to the class at line 222 (when they see the T-Rex -this should be where you start filling out your plot chart on your own as well)

◦Finish plot chart if not done

}Read book/write letter when done -letter due on Thursday (Respect Retreat tomorrow)

Monday, Sept. 10 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Go to the notes we were taking on Friday (Readers/Class notes section).  Write the phrase “Human Experience” as the next term.  Then brainstorm in writing under that: What is “the human experience”?

}Present “I Am From” poems

}Grab an orange and black Literature book

}Intro to Short Story Unit: Vocab

◦Orange book, pg 24 as well as maroon glossary in back of book: take notes

◦Reading time when words are defined

}Short Stories: Focus #1: Plot and Sequencing

◦Short Story Words: create group note sheet while discussing terms (print out, put in your Reader’s Notebook/Class Notes section)

}“Sound of Thunder” pg 34

◦Fill out plot chart while reading 

READ YOUR INDEPENDENT BOOK TONIGHT SO YOU HAVE STUFF TO WRITE ABOUT TOMORROW!!

Friday, Sept. 7 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: In your craft lesson section, list the five senses.

}Word Choice and Sensory Images

◦Notes in the Craft Lesson section

◦Writing the Senses activity in WN

}Writer’s Workshop

•Editing the I Am From Poem

–Add descriptions or words that make readers hear/see/feel/smell/taste what you are writing about (SENSORY IMAGES!)

–Line breaks

–Work Time

–Final Version of poem (creatively put together –show who you are with how you ‘present’ the poem) due Monday

•Rubric

•At least five stanzas of all poems will be read aloud Monday

}Terms for English

◦Go to READER’S NOTEBOOK:  Define Inference, Explicit, Analysis/Analyze, Textual Evidence

Thursday, Sept. 6 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Prefixes – take out a blank sheet of paper, write the phrase Word Part (prefix/suffix/root) Section in top margin

◦What are word parts? Why study/memorize them?

}Independent Book Time (Read or find a book if you haven’t)

}Independent Reading Letter Expectations

◦First letter due Wednesday

}Brainstorming about Self

}I Am From Poem

oExample

oPutting your info into poem format

oWriter’s Workshop (check brainstorming)

oWork time

oWrite your first draft: due tomorrow

oIf you finish before the end of the block, show me the draft, then either work on making it stronger or reading your book

oMinimum of five stanzas that are at least 3 lines long; each stanza starts with “I am from…”

Wednesday, Sept. 5 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: What are things you feel comfortable with related to reading, writing, speaking, and listening? What are things related to these ideas that you struggle with?

◦Write in paragraph format on a sheet of paper for the entire time you are given (about 5-7 minutes)

üI will be walking around checking for length and effort

üWe may share a few ideas after the 7 minutes

 •Expectations and Procedures- English Binder Set Up (start)

•Put writing from earlier into writer’s notebook section

•Syllabus

•Bring the bottom part signed ASAP! DUE Next Wednesday!

•Library- 10 min- You NEED a book by Friday! (at the latest) If you have a book, read for a bit

•     Pre-test –when done, turn it in to the fourth block folder in the green crate on the table and read your book or find a book if you don’t have one!!!

Tuesday, Sept. 4 Agenda

}FIRST, check the seating chart on the stool!! (then sit in that assigned seat)

}Things you need for English (Make sure to have these things ASAP!!)

◦Writing utensil

◦A book (if you have one you are reading or want to read –we will have time to check the school and class library tomorrow)

–You WILL be reading choice books in class and out of class.  I expect you to be reading your book at least 20 minutes 3 days a week.

◦A Three Ring Binder (or you can buy one from me for $2)

◦At least one pack of loose leaf paper **This is an important one (you can also take paper out of a notebook, or use a notebook and loose leaf)

◦Section Dividers (I have some of these to sell for $.50)

◦Folder?

}Reminders as to what is needed tomorrow

}Overview of how class starts/what to do

}About You Questions

◦Turn these in to me by the end of the time