Date of Class

 Welcome!!- Unit One

Homework: 1) Get syllabus signed Due 8/28

2) Get class supplies Due 8/28

3) Complete "Lamb to the Slaugther" Elements Chart Due 8/28

4) Writer's Notebook/Journal Entry #1 (18 events from my Life) Due 9/2

5) Summer Reading Assignment Due 9/18

Hope everyone had a great first day!

*** Here is the RUBRIC for Summer Reading!!***

RUBRIC

 Kaplan Testing in class

The Catcher in the Rye reading assignment #1 assigned.

Keep working on your Lamb Chart if you did not finish it. 

 Continue with the 5 homeworks from last class. 

Catcher Reading Assignment:

Read Pages 1-53

Keep at least 35 post it notes in your reading book: This includes: vocabulary, questions, summaries, connections, discriptions, discoveries, predictions, thinking through a moment, explanations, etc.

7 Journal Entries on pages 1-53: Write at least 7 one page entries about Catcher.  This can be extended responses based on your post it notes or any other writing you wish to keep about your memories with this novel. 

 Elements of a Short Story Lesson

Catcher Catch Up Lesson/Intro.

 Catcher Reading Task due next class!

 Vocabulary Quiz in class

Complete previous lesson on Characterization

Presentations in class

Discussion of CD project (Fun!)

No homework

Catcher Catch Up - Class discussion of novel

Complete presentations, etc.

Catcher Final Lesson- Motifs, themes, tone, etc.

Review for Exam- Multiple Choice Questions, Vocabulary, Characters

 Catcher Test

After exam, students were given a copy of our new novel, Speak. 

 Exam was moved from Monday to Wednesday in order to review in class.

Homework: On a sheet of loose-leaf paper, write one developed paragraph predicting what you believe the novel will be about. 

Begin reading novel.  Please do not read past Marking Period One. 

 Unit Two: Speak

Peer Pressure KWL/Figurative Language

Lesson One

 HW: Speak Journals

Read all of Marking Period 1 of Speak

Marking Period One 

Popular Song Evaluation in class.

Lesson One (#2): Language: Simile and Metaphor

Begin class tree in class.

Figurative Language Con't: Simile, Metaphor, and Personification

Lesson Two: Allusion

Work on class tree: Study guide questions, vocabulary, similes, metaphors, etc. 

 HW: Read Marking Period 2

Marking Period Two

Lesson Three: Best Lost HW Excuse Ever Writing Prompt

Figurative Language: Figurative Language Con't: Simile, Metaphor, and Personification worksheet in class.

 Marking Period Three

Lesson Five: Flashback, Foreshadowing, Anecdote

 HW: Complete RAFT activity essay from class.  Final drafts due next class. 

Raising Awareness Projects distributed today. 

 Lesson Six: Symbolism

Hair Essay began in class. 

First groups will go out for Speak Video Project today. 

HW: Have whole novel read for next class.

Final Hair Essay due next class.

 Speak Evaluation Essay

What is MLA format?

What do upper level questions look like?