Sept 5 - First day
Sept 6 - Make a meme / Sit alphabetically / Three favorite movies / Intro quiz / Self Metaphor - I am a ... / Free write "How did you do last year in English? What are your favorite parts of English class?"
Sept 7 - Icebreaker activity / Tell a story - Beginning, middle, and end / My favorite story / Gift of the Magi
Sept 8 - Aesop's fables
Sept 11 - Term Gallery Poetry / Examples / Definitions
Sept 12 - Library to research device
Sept 13 - Library to research device
Sept 14 - Song Analysis / Present devices - Meet the teacher
Sept 15 - Device Quiz - What is poetry?
Sept 18 - Pro - D
Sept 19 - Haiku / Limerick - Poetry Types Notes
Sept 20 - Acrostic / Sonnet - Assign Project
Sept 21 - Poetry analysis overview / How to read a poem - 21 Pilots Stressed Out - Midnight
Sept 22 - C4C Assembly - Poem - Midnight
Sept 25 - Poem - Chronology
Sept 26 - Poem - Personification Game
Sept 27 - Poem - Rose's Mother was Not Good at Keeping House
Sept 28 - Titles Exercise - Discuss poem answers
Sept 29 - Writing prompt - "What is the importance of raising awareness? How does a symbolic act affect change?"
Oct 2 - Present Projects - Project Due (Annika/ Franka/ Emma/ Christine/ Julia/ Lynora/ Serena/ Kaitlyn) - (Nicole/Celina/Alex/Alex/Paul/Julia/River)
Oct 3 - Present Projects
Oct 4 - Review Day
Oct 5 - Poetry Test
Oct 6 - Writing prompt - "Is it okay to kneel during the anthem? Is respect more important than the freedom of expression? Where does freedom end?"
Oct 10 - Pick up TKAM - Give back tests - Prereading for TKAM -
Oct 11 - CH1 and 2 - Social Class / The N Word - The Great Depression One Two
Oct 12 - CH3 and 4
Oct 13 - CH 5 and 6
Oct 16 - CH 7 and 8 - Boo as a metaphor
Oct 17 - CH 9 and 10 - Quiz - What the fire represents - Show the dog scene, what does it mean?
Oct 18 - CH 11 and 12 - What it is to act like a "Lady" for scout - Assign in-class composition
Oct 19 - CH 13 and 14 - Paragraph review
Oct 20 - Pro - D
Oct 23 - Protest songs through the years - Music through the years Billie Holiday Sam Cooke Muddy Waters James Brown Tupac Kendrick Lamar - CH 15 and 16
Oct 24 (Collaboration Schedule) - In-class composition
Oct 25 (Half Class due to assembly) - Finish in-class composition - CH 17 and 18
Oct 26 - 16th Street Bombing - CH 15 and 16
Oct 27 - CH 17 and 18 - Assign Presentations - Math Puzzle Brain Break
Oct 30 - CH 19 and 20 - Assign Research Essay and PPT
Oct 31 - Chromecart
Nov 1 - Chromecart - CH 21 and 22
Nov 2 - Chromecart - CH 23 and 24 - Evidence for thoughts
Nov 3 - Rough Draft Due
Nov 6 - Where are we now? - CH catch up - 25
Nov 7 - Peer Editing - CH26 - CH27
Nov 8 - Work on PPT - CH28 - CH29
Nov 9 - TKAM Presentation day
Nov 10 - Finish Documentary
Nov 14 - Essay Due - Book Done - Presentation day
Nov 15 - Wrap Up - Reflect on how Lee uses symbol and archetypes to discuss the themes in TKAM - Finish Thirteenth
Nov 16 - The Help
Nov 17 - The Help
Nov 20 - Help discussion / Review / Finish questions
Nov 21 - TKAM Test
Nov 22 - Integrating Quotes - Finish the Help
Nov 23 - Compare and Contrast Lesson -
Nov 24 - Pro - D
Nov 27 - Assign and develop reviews
Nov 28 - Work on essays
Nov 29 - Hand back test / Time to work
Nov 30 - Finish Essays / Reviews / Finish the Help
Dec 1 - Verbal movie reviews
Dec 4 - Short Stories begins / Devices /
Dec 5 - Characters Lecture / Tell-Tale Heart
Dec 6 - HB - TTH Video
Dec 7 - Conflict
Dec 8 - Assign oral story - POV Lecture - Story Arc Lecture
Dec 12 - Time to work to Qs - SS Grid
Dec 13 - HB and TTH Qs - Grid - Story
Dec 14 - Secret life of Water Mitty
Dec 15 - Yin Yang
Dec 18 - Report Yin Yang / Go over Grid for TTH / Time to work
Dec 19 - Two brothers - Day and Night
Dec 20 - Oral story
Dec 21 - Final Grid Day
Dec 22 - Final day before break
Jan 8 - TOC - Welcome back
Jan 9 - Focus on project
Jan 10 - Time to work on Project, check in
Jan 11 - Time to work on Project
Jan 12 - Time to work on Project
Jan 15 - Time to work on Project
Jan 16 - Time to work on Project
Jan 17 - Time to work on Project
Jan 18 - Time to work on Project
Jan 19 - Time to work on Project
Jan 22 - Project Due - Gallery Walk
Jan 23/24 - CC day / Final marks
Sept 6 - Make a meme / Sit alphabetically / Three favorite movies / Intro quiz / Self Metaphor - I am a ... / Free write "How did you do last year in English? What are your favorite parts of English class?"
Sept 7 - Icebreaker activity / Tell a story - Beginning, middle, and end / My favorite story / Gift of the Magi
Sept 8 - Aesop's fables
Sept 11 - Term Gallery Poetry / Examples / Definitions
Sept 12 - Library to research device
Sept 13 - Library to research device
Sept 14 - Song Analysis / Present devices - Meet the teacher
Sept 15 - Device Quiz - What is poetry?
Sept 18 - Pro - D
Sept 19 - Haiku / Limerick - Poetry Types Notes
Sept 20 - Acrostic / Sonnet - Assign Project
Sept 21 - Poetry analysis overview / How to read a poem - 21 Pilots Stressed Out - Midnight
Sept 22 - C4C Assembly - Poem - Midnight
Sept 25 - Poem - Chronology
Sept 26 - Poem - Personification Game
Sept 27 - Poem - Rose's Mother was Not Good at Keeping House
Sept 28 - Titles Exercise - Discuss poem answers
Sept 29 - Writing prompt - "What is the importance of raising awareness? How does a symbolic act affect change?"
Oct 2 - Present Projects - Project Due (Annika/ Franka/ Emma/ Christine/ Julia/ Lynora/ Serena/ Kaitlyn) - (Nicole/Celina/Alex/Alex/Paul/Julia/River)
Oct 3 - Present Projects
Oct 4 - Review Day
Oct 5 - Poetry Test
Oct 6 - Writing prompt - "Is it okay to kneel during the anthem? Is respect more important than the freedom of expression? Where does freedom end?"
Oct 10 - Pick up TKAM - Give back tests - Prereading for TKAM -
Oct 11 - CH1 and 2 - Social Class / The N Word - The Great Depression One Two
Oct 12 - CH3 and 4
Oct 13 - CH 5 and 6
Oct 16 - CH 7 and 8 - Boo as a metaphor
Oct 17 - CH 9 and 10 - Quiz - What the fire represents - Show the dog scene, what does it mean?
Oct 18 - CH 11 and 12 - What it is to act like a "Lady" for scout - Assign in-class composition
Oct 19 - CH 13 and 14 - Paragraph review
Oct 20 - Pro - D
Oct 23 - Protest songs through the years - Music through the years Billie Holiday Sam Cooke Muddy Waters James Brown Tupac Kendrick Lamar - CH 15 and 16
Oct 24 (Collaboration Schedule) - In-class composition
Oct 25 (Half Class due to assembly) - Finish in-class composition - CH 17 and 18
Oct 26 - 16th Street Bombing - CH 15 and 16
Oct 27 - CH 17 and 18 - Assign Presentations - Math Puzzle Brain Break
Oct 30 - CH 19 and 20 - Assign Research Essay and PPT
Oct 31 - Chromecart
Nov 1 - Chromecart - CH 21 and 22
Nov 2 - Chromecart - CH 23 and 24 - Evidence for thoughts
Nov 3 - Rough Draft Due
Nov 6 - Where are we now? - CH catch up - 25
Nov 7 - Peer Editing - CH26 - CH27
Nov 8 - Work on PPT - CH28 - CH29
Nov 9 - TKAM Presentation day
Nov 10 - Finish Documentary
Nov 14 - Essay Due - Book Done - Presentation day
Nov 15 - Wrap Up - Reflect on how Lee uses symbol and archetypes to discuss the themes in TKAM - Finish Thirteenth
Nov 16 - The Help
Nov 17 - The Help
Nov 20 - Help discussion / Review / Finish questions
Nov 21 - TKAM Test
Nov 22 - Integrating Quotes - Finish the Help
Nov 23 - Compare and Contrast Lesson -
Nov 24 - Pro - D
Nov 27 - Assign and develop reviews
Nov 28 - Work on essays
Nov 29 - Hand back test / Time to work
Nov 30 - Finish Essays / Reviews / Finish the Help
Dec 1 - Verbal movie reviews
Dec 4 - Short Stories begins / Devices /
Dec 5 - Characters Lecture / Tell-Tale Heart
Dec 6 - HB - TTH Video
Dec 7 - Conflict
Dec 8 - Assign oral story - POV Lecture - Story Arc Lecture
Dec 12 - Time to work to Qs - SS Grid
Dec 13 - HB and TTH Qs - Grid - Story
Dec 14 - Secret life of Water Mitty
Dec 15 - Yin Yang
Dec 18 - Report Yin Yang / Go over Grid for TTH / Time to work
Dec 19 - Two brothers - Day and Night
Dec 20 - Oral story
Dec 21 - Final Grid Day
Dec 22 - Final day before break
Jan 8 - TOC - Welcome back
Jan 9 - Focus on project
Jan 10 - Time to work on Project, check in
Jan 11 - Time to work on Project
Jan 12 - Time to work on Project
Jan 15 - Time to work on Project
Jan 16 - Time to work on Project
Jan 17 - Time to work on Project
Jan 18 - Time to work on Project
Jan 19 - Time to work on Project
Jan 22 - Project Due - Gallery Walk
Jan 23/24 - CC day / Final marks