8/23 Set up Notebooks 8/24 Reading Requirements--see above files (2 books and projects per quarter) 8/25 STAR reading test Article of the Week--Drones article packet 9/1 8/29 Close Reading 8/30 Close Reading School essay--read and annotate 8/31 8/31 Close Reading Paraphrasing Activity 8/31 9/1 Article of the Week Olympic Tax 9/8 9/1 Types of Bullying Skits 9/2 9/2 Skits on types of bullying/take notes 9/6 Anticipation Guide and agree/disagree activity 9/7 Started The Shadow Club--prologue and started chapter 1 Conflict NotesCharacter ComparisionBullying Notes 9/8-9/9 Shadow Club ch. 1-2 and active reading packet 9/9 9/9 Article of the Week Volunteering 9/15 9/12-9/13 Shadow Club Ch. 3-4 Active Reading packet 9/14 (end of class) 9/15 Shadow Club Ch. 5-6 Active Reading Packet Article of the Week Cockroaches 9/23 9/19 Finish chapter 6 and turn in active reading log 9/20-9/21 Chapter 7 and chapter 8 and Active Reading 9/26 Shadow Club Chapters 9-10 9/27-28 Shadow Club Chapters 11-12 9/29 Shadow Club Chapters 13-14 10/3-10/4 Shadow Club Chapters 15-End 10/5 Shadow Club Essay test 10/11 Colonial Research and Vocabulary 10/12 Colonial silvermithing--videos 10/13 Background on Johnny Tremain and start Unit I Weekly article Shakespeare 10/17 Johnny Tremain ch. 1 and questions 10/18 Chapter 2 and questions 10/31-11/7 Unit III questions, Vocab, and vocab project 11/15 Vocab Quiz and Start Unit VI 11/17 Unit VI Salt Water Tea 11/21 Finish Unit VI Salt Water Tea and SSR 11/22 Start Unit VII Fiddler's Bill 11/29 Unit VII and Unit VIII Due Start Unit IX--three facts/event from each chapter 12/2 Unit VIII and IX Vocabulary--due Monday 12/5-12/6 In groups, write test for Units VIII and IX 12/7 Read Unit X 1/3 -1/12 Johnny Tremain movie and prep for Socratic Seminar 1/16-17 Prepare for Socratic Seminar and expectations 1/18 Socratic Seminar 1/19 SNOW DAY--READ!! Please finish your book projects. They will be due tomorrow no exceptions! 1/23 Article of the Week--fake news Due Friday 1/24 Sound experiment "Jabberwocky" 1/25 Iambic pentameter and Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 2/7 Read "The Raven" and analyze (questions) 2/8 Watch two versions of "The Raven" and write a comparison Paragraph one: Describe each of the three ways we experienced the poem. Which one helped you understand the poem the best? Why? Which one was most effective in showing the author’s meaning? Why? Paragraph two:Describe the mood in the different versions. How did it change? Which one was truest to the author’s intent? Why? 2/9 Read and Discuss "Tell Tale Heart" 2/10 Read and analyze "Anabel Lee" 2/14 Write a poem inspired by Maya Angelou's Human Family 2/15-17 Write a song parody in groups 3/6 Robert Frost "Two Roads Diverged in a Wood" questions Poet Lesson--Lesson plan due Wednesday--presentations Wed.-next Thursday