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Extra Credit Alert: If you bring in appropriate books for the Stoga book swap, you can earn up to 5 extra credit points. For each book you bring in, earn .5 bonus. Remember: for each book you bring in, you receive a ticket that enables you to choose from the swap's books next week. Don't miss out on this opportunity!

**Week of May 28** -

Monday - Memorial Day - no school

Tuesday - Study sessions for //A Hope in the Unseen.//

Wednesday - //A Hope in the Unseen// exam.

Thursday - TBD

Friday - please turn in ALL books. Portfolio maintenance. Share day. **Week of May 21** - //Hope in the Unseen// Test NEXT week Monday - SSR Day - Tuesday - **College essay draft due**. You may write about any topic, but make sure to look over the College Essay page for ideas, tips, etc. Peer editing session. Discussion: //A Hope in the Unseen.// Wednesday - Revision day - choose an essay to revise according to the rubric. Thursday - Bring revisions to class for a **FINAL PEER EDIT.** Friday - Final Draft of last essay due. Your choice: college essay, This I Believe essay, commencement speech. Please revise according to the RUBRICS! Print out your rubric and hand in final draft with original draft, any peer editing sheet and your specific rubric.
 * Week of May 14 - **

Monday - Quiz. Discuss the book.

Tuesday - SSR Day.

Wednesday - //A Hope in the Unseen// research assignment. Thursday - Share A Hope in the Unseen research findings. Intro to college essays. Watch Cedric:

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Friday - Intro to College Essays. Monday and Tuesday -Begin //**This I Believe**// - look at examples, site, hear examples. Homework: read at least two of the essays from the power point assignment. Annotate another essay of your choice. Power Point is here: Tuesday - Annotations due. A Hope in the Unseen reading - SSR. Watch Cedric: []

Wednesday - Drafting day of "This I Believe Speech" - rough draft due FRIDAY. Thursday - Peer editing of This I Believe essay. Please print out guidelines for editing. Friday - SSR day. Possible video on Affirmative Action on [|youtube.] // All assignments below are subject to revision: preliminary information only // **Week of April 30** - **Thank you/Speeches/A Hope in the Unseen**

Monday- Speeches DUE. All classes. Meet in room 268 - will be reading commencement speeches out loud.

Tuesday -The art of thank you. Power point. Also read some more speeches, if time.

Wednesday - Drafting day : 1. A thank you note: please bring stationery if you have it, if not you may "fancy up" your computer generated note. 2. Pre-reading: //A Hope in the Unseen.// Go to the page to the left for your assignment. Be sure to familiarize yourself with the concepts and vocabulary from the book; you will be responsible for knowing the terms.

Seniors: your note is due THURSDAY and yours is different from the rest of the classes'.

Thursday - Intro to //Hope in the Unseen// with reading assignment. Thank you notes due. Share in class.

Friday - Goodbye, seniors! Reading assignment: //A Hope in the Unseen// - SSR. Look to this page for your reading assignments. Pace yourselves and don't get behind! **Week of April 23** - Writing and Editing Monday: Speech peer editing periods 6 and 7. Make sure you bring your speech to class- no speech, no credit. Speech assignment:

Tuesday: ** Period 4 - PSSAs. ** Peer editing of Synthesis paper for periods 6 and 7. Wednesday: ** Period 6 - PSSAs. ** ** Synthesis paper due! No exceptions! ** P 6 due Thu. Periods 4 and 7: web poetry activity. Assignment is here:
 * Thursday: ** Period 4 only: speech peer editing. Periods 6 - work on poetry assignment. Period 7 - syntax activity.
 * Friday: ** Celebration of poetry. Poetry assignment due for all classes.





Anthology project calendar of due dates/working days in library:

Helpful link: How to Annotate:

Miscellany: you may use 10 point font to save paper. If there are sections of articles that you didn't need - say the last ten pages of a 30 page article, you do not have to include it. Just note that you are using an EXCERPT not the full article and indicate the section/pages.

**Week of April 16** - ** Speeches ** Monday: Watch commencement speeches. Homework: find one from site on Commencement Speeches page. Assignment: Writing your own speech. Click here: Tuesday: Hand in annotation of speech. Read a couple speeches in class. ** Period 4 - PSSAs. ** Wednesday: Writing day - compose your own speech. ** Period 6 - PSSAs. ** Thursday: Peer edit in your writing groups. You are peer editing your SYNTHESIS PAPERS. No completed draft, no credit, no exceptions. Homework: revise for Tuesday. ** Period 7 - PSSAs. ** Friday: Last regular vocabulary quiz - #20. Vocabulary group assignments.

**__Week of April 9__-** //If you have not done so yet, please blog on NING about your anthology topic.// Monday: Paper Assignment - synthesis of anthology material. Due ** Wednesday April 25 .** Will go over parameters and show samples. Read a sample/look at a student sample. Begin your outlining of your paper. Link to Anthology Project and Synthesis Paper page.

Tuesday: One Poem, One 'Stoga assignment. Due Wednesday at end of class. Link to Kinnell reading poem:

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Wednesday: Meet in room 245. Type up poems. Work on your synthesis paper.

Thursday: Library time to work on your synthesis paper.

Friday: Vocabulary quiz #19. Share poems. __Week of March 19__ - Subject to change with the exception of the annotation material.

Monday: Library Day. Work on anthology project. At the end of the period essays/articles (summaries and annotations) three and four are due.

Tuesday: Acceptable use with blog. Assignment: blog about your topic on NING. Give an overview of what you have learned thus far and what surprised you, interested you, etc.

Wednesday: Meet in library. Work on anthology project. Third set of Articles due: annotated with typed summary. (articles 5/6 - summary and annotation)

Thursday: Good writing "catch-ups" - look at blogs on Ning. Language activities.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday: Vocabulary quiz #18. Good Writing. Fourth set of articles due: annotated with typed summary. **Last chance for Good Writing!**

__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Week of March 26 - TBA __

<span style="color: #a800ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">//Spring Break begins Friday March 30 - Enjoy!// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">__Week of March 12__ - //Please read through the week VERY CAREUFLLY. Thank you.// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**Monday:** Meet in library. First set of articles due by the end of class. READ CAREFULLY for homework. Articles/essays should be lengthy - at least three or more pages. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**Tuesday**: PSSAs: Period 4. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**//Periods 6 and 7://** Bring your MODELS FOR WRITERS to class as well as your first two articles. You will work with them in class. Make sure you have read them. I suggest you read them TWICE. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**Wednesday**: PSSAs: Periods 4 & 6. Period 7 to library. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**//Period 7 only//:** Your first annotated and summarized set of articles are due. Please hand in to the sub, Mrs. Waterman. Work on the second set when you are in the library. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**Thursday**: PSSAs: Period 7. **//Periods 4 and 6 only//:** //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Your first annotated and summarized set of articles are due. I will check them in class - we will meet in the library. //

//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Period 4 only: **// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Bring your MODELS FOR WRITERS to class as well as your first two articles. You will work with them in class. Make sure you have read them. I suggest you read them TWICE.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**Friday**: Vocabulary quiz #17. Good Writing. Second set of articles due.

__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Week of March 5: __ Monday: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Observation paper due! Read aloud in class. ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. formulate a guiding question regarding the anthology assignment. For example, if your topic is ice hockey, you may want to formulate a question that you want answered - a question that has some significance - like: //Why does ice hockey have such a reputation as a violent sport?// Or if your topic is Valley Forge Park, y0u may want to ask yourself //Why is Valley Forge so significant to the Revolutionary War?// I will collect your questions on Tuesday. 5 points. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Fill out your anthology assignment contract and sign it. No points. **BUT** you may not get credit for any of the anthology assignments unless I have the signed contract. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Tuesday: Finish up reading Observation Essays. Work on reading strategies in preparation for the PSSA and anthology assignment. Anthology "contract" due along with guiding question. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Wednesday: Anthology Assignment work. Meet in library or 245. At end of period, formal typed proposal is due. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Thursday: Meet in library. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Friday: Vocabulary quiz #16. Good writing. Song, if scheduled. __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Week of February 27: (this week is subject to change!) - No Vocabulary quiz this week! __ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday: Review for Unit Test. Continue with Good Writing from Friday. Homework: Book talk assignment due Thursday. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday: **Unit Test on Media Literacy.** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday: Report to computer lab. Writing Assignment: TBA Assignment: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday: Book Talks. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday: NO School - In service day. **Period 6 only: Please respond to the following questions and hand in on Monday.** **1. How valuable was the opportunity to read a novel of your own choice?** **2. Did you finish your book? (Be honest) If not, do you plan to?** **3. Did you appreciate being able to choose your book rather than have me choose it? Why or why not?** **4. Did you recognize why your novel is so highly regarded? How so? OR Why not?** **5. Please comment on the time allotment: (assigned prior to winter break) a. too much time b. just right c. not enough time** <span style="color: #ff00e1; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Helpful hints for the Observation Essay: [|personality profile] <span style="color: #f000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Some personality pieces from The New York Times: [|Personlity Piece - Orthodox Rapper] [|Snooki's Time] __<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Week of February 20: __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday: No School <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday: **Observation Essay** assigned. **Documentary**: __Frontline's__ "Is Wal-Mart Good for America//?"// __Take notes during documentary.__ Fill out the question sheet as you go. Be prepared to share your thoughts with the class. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Wednesday: Continue documentary: //Is Wal-Mart Good for America?// Discuss questions. HW: find a political cartoon to share with the class. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Thursday: Political cartoons, photojournalism. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Friday: Vocabulary quiz #15. Good writing presentations. Song. Analogy Assignment. __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Week of February 13 __ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday: Go over writing common errors from returned essays. Please use this document next time you revise an essay. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">//SSR. Bring your novel to class! Go over assignment for novel. Due Friday.// ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday: B egin journalism unit. Power Point <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;"> - take notes.

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">Homework: DUE WED. **Find on the last two slides of the power point.**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday: Discuss articles. Bring assignment to class. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday: Spoke Activity. [] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday: Vocabulary quiz #14. Good writing presentations. Song. If time, next writing assignment parameters. Independent novel assignment due. __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Week of January 30 - <span style="color: #ff003b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">YOUR TYPE ESSAY IS DUE TUESDAY! __

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday: Tone activity. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday: "type" essay due. Begin advertising unit. Watch presentation. Homework is last slide of presentation. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday: No computer lab. Continue with advertising power point if needed. When finished, SSR time. <span style="color: #ff003b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">BRING YOUR NOVEL TO CLASS. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday: Share ads. In class deconstructing an ad activity. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday: Vocabulary quiz #12. First three Good Writing presentations. Samples are on the Good Writing page to the left. Song. __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Week of January 23 __

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday: Begin Media Literacy Unit. **Homework:** a one to two paragraph response of whether or not you agree TV coming to Bhutan was a good idea or not and why. Base your response on the video. View Power Point. Several homework assignments are on this presentation; access it as needed. **The presentation lists homework details.**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday: Continue with Contemporary Issues presentation. Homework: 1. Read article on brain differences and respond to one of the discussion questions in a typed document. Due Wed. 2. Interview a parent/grandparent regarding generation gap. Type up. Due Thu.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday: "Type" essay revisions. Bring in your draft and work on revisions ACCORDING TO THE RUBRIC and the feedback you received from your writing group. Final draft of essay is due Tuesday, January 31.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday: Group discussion. Bring in your interview results.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday: Vocabulary Quiz, Song Lyric Friday, Modeling of "Good Writing" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Revised essay (Persuasive, Informative, or Belief) is due Friday January 13.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">YOU MUST HAND IN:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">1. Rough draft, revision (if you have one) and the final draft with your rubric paperclipped to the top. Remember to boldface all rhetorical devices. Essay rubrics are the __**RUBRICS**__ page to the left.\

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Please note: the "Type" essay is not due until __**after**__ midterms.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Due Tuesday: index cards with vocabulary and the Discussion Questions that followed the essay you chose to read.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Please refer to this calendar for a visual glance at all due dates:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">MIDTERM REVIEW SHEET:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Date: Wednesday January 18, rooms 132 (p4), 134 (p6), 138 (p7)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**__Week of January 9, 2012__**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday - Rhetorical Devices presentations. First four.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday - Rhetorical Devices presentations. Next four. Go over review power point about essays. New assignmet at end of power point.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework for this evening: By tomorrow you should have read one of the essays in Models for Writers and responded to the questions I asked in a typed paragraph. Make sure to answer the Questions for Discussion at the end of the selection. Tomorrow you should be ready to draft an essay that models the "type" of essay you read. Exceptions to the essays you can read:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">"Pop A Shot", "On Dumpster Diving", "The Story of an Hour", "Supersize Me", "Simplicity", "Salvation", "Me Talk Pretty One Day" and "I Have a Dream"

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday - Finish drafting "type" essay in room 245. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: large;">Draft must be finished by Thursday! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Final touches to persuasive/belief/informative essay which is due FRIDAY.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday - Peer editing. If you don't have your draft, you will not receive points. No exceptions! Last rhetorical devices presentation. Some review, if time.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday - Free Song Friday - Review for midterm. Hand in persuasive/belief/informative essay //WITH DOWNLOADED RUBRIC ATTACHED.//

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**__Week of January 17, 2012 - Remember: no school on Monday.__**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday- Review for midterm. Last essay of the semester is due along with all work.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Do NOT expect all essays to be graded and returned before the end of the month. Both grades will be on the third marking period; there is a slight chance, however, that one of the essays will be returned before the end of the semester.**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday - Midterm Exam - location TBA. (second exam of the morning)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">PERMISSION SLIP FOR NOVEL: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">THIS MUST BE SIGNED AND RETURNED TO ME BY **FRIDAY JANUARY 6, 2012.**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday - Endings and beginnings: writer's notebook entry. Start with a poem: [] by Richard Wilbur. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Respond in your writer's notebook. What do you notice about the diction? What is Wilbur saying about endings? What kinds of devices does Wilbur employ in his writing? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Rhetorical Terms Assignment - due Monday <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday - Writing Day - work on your essay revisions from December as well as your rhetorical devices assignment. You only have 15 minutes to work on the rhetorical devices assignment; the rest of the time should be spent on revising your persuasive, informative or belief essay. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday -Go over review power point about essays. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">New assignmet at end of power point. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday - Free song Friday - vocabulary review game - PERMISSION SLIPS FOR NOVELS DUE!!! Begin reading your novel on your own time. Should be finished by early February. Assignment TBA after the midterm. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday - Rhetorical Devices. Look at the file for terms and definitions. Find a current event that deals with privacy issues, censorship, the media, or soemthing that can relate to //1984// and bring into class. DO NOT ANNOTATE until directed to do so. Vocabulary quilt assignment. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday - Vocabulary Diagnostic. Hand in annotations. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday -Writing Day: Two step process for today. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Go over the independent novel lists. Write down five on a word document and search the internet for information on each. Next to each choice, indicate what you found out about the book and whether or not you feel it will interest you. Print out and hand in on Thursday for points. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Choose one of your drafts: informative, persuasive, belief statement to revise. Make sure to use the essay helpers links - - to help you plan your essay. Also look over the rubrics VERY carefully. Those will guide your revision process. Begin your revision process. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">ESSAY RUBRICS: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday - Read some informative essays. Bring your book to class! (Models for Writers) Vocabulary quilt words due. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday - Share writing and quilt words. __**Please note:**__ each set of questions is worth 15 points. I will dock late work 10% per day. Please respond in sentences that are thoughtful and accurate. I am looking for legitimate reponses that demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the book. Responses must be typed!!!! Questions:
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Week of January 3, 2012 __**
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Week of December 19, 2011 __**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Please note: YOUR REVISIONS ARE NOT DUE UNTIL AFTER BREAK! **

**__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week of December 12 __**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Monday - Discussion/History of English language part I. Power Point may be viewed here.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Questions Part II due. Quiz on Book III.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Tuesday - History of English language, part II.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Wednesday - Writing - room 101 assignment. Click  for assignment.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Thursday - Share Room 101 drafts. Some peer editing. Continue with History of English.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Friday - Free Song Friday. Finish History of English. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday -Current events discussion. No annotation due, but please read the following article:[|Pinker Article] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">By tomorrow you should be up to page 224. Homework: read up to page 224, end of Book Two. Complete the questions and hand in on Friday. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday - Homework: read up to page 239. Bill of Rights Activity. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday -Discussion and SSR. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday -Finish the book. (up to page 297.) Editorial about "Big Brother" situation at Kansas. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday -Vocabulary review. Free write song Friday. Looking at rhetorical strategies in 1984. Part One questions due. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday - No School - Parent/teacher conferences. No Annotations this week! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday - Class discussion on //1984//. Work on principles of Newspeak. Should be up to page 126 today. Homework: Read up to page 146 Chapter V, Book II. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday - Newspeak assignment. Click on the Word document for instructions: Be prepared to share on Thursday! Homework: Read up to page 167 to Chapter VIII. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday - Review principles of Newspeak. Come to conclusions about language//.// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Homework: Read up to page 179 to Chapter IX. 1984 questions assigned. **Due Friday December 9.** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday - Vocabulary quiz #10, free write song Friday, discussion/activity. Homework: By Tuesday read up to page 224. **Bring your book to class for SSR!** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Due November 21: All //1984// materials: word document and final product. Possible 1984 quiz. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Share in class. Reading homework: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">November 22: Share projects/SSR. __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Reading Homework: Up to page **126** by the end of Thanksgiving break. __ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday: Annotations. Make 10 notes on anything on the test: brush strokes, sentence types, rhetorical devices. Homework: go to 1984 Webquest site and read over Final Project page. Please begin working on your project. **It is due next Monday**. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday: Begin reading. By Thursday up to page 37. Review some concepts in Orwell's writing. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday: Finish up //1984// Web Quest - meet in room 245. Work on Step 2 on Process page. Due Monday 11/21. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday: SSR Day. Bring //1984// to read in class. By Monday up to page 75. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday: Vocabulary Quiz #9. Song lyric Friday! Bring //1984// to read in class
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Week of December 5 - Changes made due to lack of reading: __**
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Week of November 28 __**
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Week of November 21 __**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Happy Thanksgiving break! **
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Week of November 14 __**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday: Annotations. Make 10 notes on anything on the test: brush strokes, sentence types, rhetorical devices. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday: Bring your DRAFT of your Buy It, Bypass It, Burn It essay. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Some peer editing. Be prepared to talk about the memoir you read. Homework: Read [|Politics and the English Language.] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Read Wednesday: Meet in room 245. Begin //1984//Web Quest ( http://1984webquest.wikispaces.com/Home.++) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">. Be prepared to write a belief essay based on the survey on the Process - Step One page. HW: finish your draft from today! Go over Politics and the English Language and be prepared to discuss!!!! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday: Introduce George Orwell. Read Orwell in class. Discuss Politics in the English Language and Beliefs from your survey. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday: Vocabulary Quiz #8. Song lyric Friday! Writing in writer's notebook. Assigned reading and response. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">End of marking period unit test on **THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3.** Click here for your study guide: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">You will be tested on: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Terminology, sentence types, brush strokes, diction and tone. Click on the page to the left, Resources, for handouts you may have misplaced. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**To study:** review your brush strokes handout and the chapters in //Models for Writers//.
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Week of November 7 __**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Annotations are due Monday November 7.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">We will have a special activity on Halloween. So **NO** annotations for 10/31. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday - Scary Bingo <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday - talk about your memoirs/test review/SSR <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday - begin next essay. Meet in room 245. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Your Assignment:** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday - Unit Test <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday - Vocabulary Quiz #7, Free Song Friday, Visual Essay
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Week of October 31 __**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday - Annotations. Go over rhetorical terms. DEFINE by end of the week. SSR rest of class - bring your books! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday - Diction and tone. **BRING //MODELS FOR WRITERS// TO CLASS!** In-class quiz. You may use your book! Go over BRUSH STROKES. Bring your handout. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday - Write an informative essay. Draft due by Thursday. Bring to class. Have final draft finished by November 1. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday - writer's workshop on informative essay. **Part III, section C of annotations NOT due. CANCELLED. Instead, you need to practice and study: brushstrokes, sentence variety, diction and tone.** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday - Vocabulary quiz #6. Song Free-write Friday. General vocabulary review. SSR if time.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday - Annotations <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday - Informational Essays. Go over REVISIONS to memoir assignment: Click here for <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday - Begin research for informational essay. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">TURN IN FINAL REVISION FOR MEMOIR. SUBMIT TO TURNITIN.COM. INFORMATION AT BOTTOM OF PAGE. Must be uploaded by Friday. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday - Tone activity <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday - Vocabulary quiz #5, Free Song Friday Freewrite, TBA <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday - No School <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday - Image grammar. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday - Draft of memoir due, Part One of independent memoir book project due: "Choosing a memoir to read" Click on the file for full assignment: Remember: there is a sample on the other side of your handout. Follow that! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday - peer editing, BRING //MODELS FOR WRITERS// TO CLASS! Part Two of independent memoir book project due: "Find a Review". **Read pages 239-244 in Models for Writers.** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday - Vocabulary quiz #4. Bring your writer's notebook to class for Freewrite Song Friday. Part Three of independent memoir book project due: Annotation #1. Watch video: Language as insight to human behavior. History of <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">English: [] [] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday - Annotations. Must look for sentence variety and note at least three types. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday - memoir due. Have for class. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday - begin drafting memoir <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday - sentences quiz, rhetorical devices list. **BRING TEXT TO CLASS!** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday - vocabulary quiz #3, bring your memoir to class - reading time after class. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__ Week of September 26 __** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Annotation Monday. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday - memoir reading. Homework due: Sentence types. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday - memoir assignment - more idea generation <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday - No school <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday - Vocabulary quiz. Choose a memoir - library trip. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__ Week of September 19 __** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Read Chapter 9 for homework on Tuesday. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">// You will have a quiz on sentences next week. // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Please bring a baby/toddler picture of yourself to class on Tuesday. You will need it for your first writing assignment on WEDNESDAY. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Annotations Due on Monday. See Resources link to the left if you lost your assignment sheet. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">First vocabulary quiz is FRIDAY. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__ Week of September 12 __** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**//Outliers// Test Format: Multiple Choice, Short Answer, Essay (one) and a bonus question. Please know basic concepts from EACH chapter as well as Gladwell's overriding message.** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Found Poem is DUE Tuesday. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday night homework: Outliers Chapter Summaries - main points and Gladwell's argument. //Do not worry about the response about your perpective of success or the one sentence book jacket.// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">//Outliers// class work T/W. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">//Outliers// Test is THURSDAY! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">//Homework:// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">//1. Have your writer's notebook decorated to reflect who you are by FRIDAY.// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">//2. Write a sentence about a place that you are VERY familiar with that paints a picture with words. Decide first if it will be a positive or negative sentence. Choose your diction accordingly. Engage at least one sense - sight, scent, touch, hearing, taste//
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