Thursday, Sept. 17 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Go to your craft lesson section!!

}Collect homework (?3, what is the climax?, and dynamic character TIQA para)

}Precise adjectives- word choice

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

◦Share Show don’t Tell writing with partner

}Character description in Writer’s Notebook

◦Start a story where you show a character (like the beginning of “Pancakes”) through the traits we talked about in the glossary section as well as the idea of Show Don’t Tell.

◦Put the character into a situation (action) and SHOW them

◦Minimum 2 longer paragraphs (most likely need more to do a good job)

}Read own book if finish before we switch activities Reminder: SSR letter due tomorrow!!

}In writer’s notebook: How have the two stories we’ve read so far shown the human experience? USE TEXTUAL EVIDENCE TO ANSWER QUESTION (TIQA paragraph[s])

Wednesday, Sept. 16 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Roots

}TIQA Paragraph Notes (example in craft lesson section)

}Perfectionism Discussion

}Take out T-chart from yesterday (reader’s notebook)

}“Pancakes” in Lit book

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

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

◦questions 3, 5, and what is the climax

–For #5: don’t make a new chart, refer to the chart made while reading.  Instead write a TIQA paragraph to show that Jill either is or is not a dynamic char. Make sure you have a piece of textual evidence to support your claim (the Q portion of TIQA)

◦If you finish before we move on, read your choice book

Tuesday, Sept. 15 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: ACT Prep

}Review of Compound and Simple Sent.

}New Endings

◦Read partner’s story and highlight or underline any simple sentences (independent clause as own sentence) in one color and compound sentences in the other

}Character Motivation, Character Traits, in glossary: pg 188 and 190 (both on C page), Definition of Dynamic/Complex Character (D page)

}In writer’s notebook: Perfectionism: 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?

}SSR Reading –need to keep reading for the next letter (due Friday)

Monday, Sept. 14 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Compound Sentences

•Discussion and creation of baseline writing expectations.

•As a group, create a document on Google Drive and share it with me.

}Discuss with your neighbor your ideas about “Sound of Thunder” esp. the end: Did you like it? How else could it have ended?

}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, your complete version, full version due tomorrow, at least a paragraph due by end of block)

Make sure to be reading your book, there is an SSR letter due on Friday!

Friday, Sept. 11 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Prefixes: ir-, il-, for-, un-, in-

}“Sound of Thunder” pg 36

◦Fill out plot chart while reading and after reading –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, read book (SSR letter due next Friday) or work on reflection: ** Reminder, AoW Reflection due on Monday

•Share Poems

•In your editing section, answer this question: What should we all know and do while writing? Sentence or list format: brainstorm as many ideas as possible.

Thursday, Sept. 10 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Independent Clauses(in editing section)

}AoW Discussion

}How to: AoW Reflection

}Short Stories: Focus #1: Plot and Sequencing

}Short Story Words: report to group, write down details of terms as peers talk

}“Sound of Thunder” pg 34

◦Fill out plot chart while reading and after reading 

I Am From poem due TOMORROW!!!  Make sure it SHOWS you as well as has words about you.

Tuesday, Sept. 8 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Collect SSR Letter

}Close Reading reminder and AoW (close read due Thursday)

}Writer’s Workshop Time

•Creatively ‘presented’ poem due Friday

•Show who you are with what your poem looks like

◦Work on adding sensory images to your draft, organizing your stanzas, giving your poem a title, coming up with how to make it LOOK good as well as sound good: today is last class time to work on it

◦If your final is done, you can read your AoW and don’t forget to MARK UP THE TEXT!

}What is “the human experience”? Brainstorm in writer’s notebook/glossary

}Add to glossary.  Define Inference, Explicit, Analysis/Analyze

}Intro first unit: Short Stories

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

Friday, Sept. 4 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: SSR Letter reminder and questions

}I Am From Poem

oExample

oPutting your info into poem format

oWork time

oWrite your first draft: show to me as soon as you are finished

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

}Word Choice and Sensory Images

◦Notes in the Craft Lesson section

}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

Thursday, Sept. 3 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Prefixes –go to your prefix/roots/suffix section (if you don’t have sections yet, take out a blank sheet of paper)

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

}Close Reading Definition and Example

}Textual Evidence Definition

•Integrating Ideas Pre-test –when done, turn it in to the fourth block folder in the green crate on the table and read your book

}SSR Letter Example and beginning (remember, letter due Tuesday): click the link for the example I showed in class today!

}Writer’s Workshop (check brainstorming)

Wednesday, Sept. 2 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: What are your worries of this semester/English? What are things you are confident about?

üWrite in paragraph format on a piece paper for the entire time you are given (about 7 minutes)

üWe may share after the 7 minutes

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

•Put writing from earlier into writer’s notebook section

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

•SSR Letter expectations and set up (SSR LETTER DUE Tuesday)

•Syllabus

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

•Brainstorming about self… at least three in each category due tomorrow

By tomorrow, make sure you have read some of your book so that you can begin your SSR letter tomorrow.