MONDAY:
Warm-Up: None
Class work: Discuss and collect written work for Act 2 of The Diary of Anne Frank (436). Then watch a short Dateline clip of an interview with Miep Gies.
Homework: Study for quiz over Act 2.
TUESDAY:
Warm-Up: None
Class work: Take quiz over Act 2 of The Diary of Anne Frank. Then read aloud “The Last Days of Anne Frank” (4-13) in the READ magazine.
Homework: None
WEDNESDAY:
Warm-Up: None
Class work: Begin watching and taking notes on One Survivor Remembers: Gerda Weissmann.
Homework: None
THURSDAY:
Warm-Up: None
Class work: Finish watching and taking notes on One Survivor Remembers: Gerda Weissmann. Group and class discussion to follow.
Homework: None
FRIDAY:
No classes due to Career Day
MONDAY:
Warm-Up: None
Class work: Introduce vocabulary #5 words and explain the following related written assignment:
Your written assignment must include the specific details of a crime. Perhaps it’s a newspaper article relaying the details of a crime that’s already been committed. Perhaps it’s a letter written from one of the criminals to his/her partner which outline the specifics of the crime they’re about to commit. Perhaps it’s a detailed confession. Perhaps it’s simply a story. Use your imagination. Be creative! Use specific DETAILS. Remember final form and the minimum page length. Follow the general guidelines you were given with the vocabulary lists.
Introduce adverb clauses and students take notes. Read (447-450) then do exercises 8 in the red textbook. Follow the directions as written.
Homework: Vocabulary #5 written assignment due Thursday.
TUESDAY:
Warm-Up: None
Class work: Take final Think Link test. Continue working on adverb clauses.
Homework: Vocabulary #5 written assignment due Thursday.
WEDNESDAY:
Warm-Up: Complete “Editor-in-Chief” #26
Class work:
Homework: Vocabulary #5 written assignment due Thursday.
THURSDAY:
Warm-Up: Complete “Editor-in-Chief” #27.
Class work:
Homework: Study for vocabulary #5 quiz on Friday.
FRIDAY:
Warm-Up: Return grades papers.
Class work: Take the vocabulary #5 quiz.
Homework: None
MONDAY:
Warm-Up: Complete “Editor-in-Chief” #23.
Class work: Introduce vocabulary #4 words and explain the following related written assignment:
You are on vacation!! Use one of three forms to describe where you are vacationing and what you’re seeing and doing. The three forms are as follows: post cards, travel journal entries, or a letter(s) to a friend or family member. Tell your reader what’s been going on since your arrival. This vacation might be a real vacation or a completely made up vacation. It might be a “dream” vacation or a “nightmare” vacation. Use your imagination. Be creative! Use specific DETAILS. Remember final form and the minimum page length. Follow the general guidelines you were given with the vocabulary lists.
Begin working on vocabulary #1 written assignment.
Homework: Vocabulary #4 written assignment due Thursday.
TUESDAY:
Warm-Up: Complete “Editor-in-Chief” #24.
Class work: Review phrases and clauses. Copy notes on “Types of Clauses.” Take “Diagnostic Preview” (438-439) in Elements of Language. Then do exercises 1, 2, & 3 (440-443).
Homework: Vocabulary #4 written assignment due Thursday.
WEDNESDAY:
Warm-Up: Complete “Editor-in-Chief” #25.
Class work: Check ex. 1 & 2 from Tuesday. Take notes on adjective clauses. Then complete (85-88) in your brown grammar workbook. Follow the directions as written.
Homework: Vocabulary #4 written assignment due Thursday.
THURSDAY:
Warm-Up: Complete “Editor-in-Chief” #26.
Class work:
Homework: Vocabulary #4 quiz on Friday.
FRIDAY:
Warm-Up: Return grades papers.
Class work:
Homework: None
MONDAY:
Warm-Up: None
Class work: Finish reading “The Most Dangerous Game.” Students were pulled out in small groups for 9th grade registration.
Homework: None
TUESDAY:
Warm-Up: None
Class work: Review and discuss the story’s end (80). Then on notebook paper, answer “The Most Dangerous Game” questions 1 - 22 (handout) in CRS. Turn in by period’s end.
Homework: None
WEDNESDAY:
Warm-Up: None
Class work: Orally review the 22 story questions from Tuesday’s handout. Then in pairs, complete the plot peak activity for “The Most Dangerous Game.”
Homework: Story quiz over “The Most Dangerous Game.”
THURSDAY:
Warm-Up: Return grades papers.
Class work: Take story quiz over “The Most Dangerous Game.” Begin watching the original 1938 film The Most Dangerous Game.
Homework: None
FRIDAY:
Warm-Up: Return grades papers.
Class work: Finish watching the original 1938 film The Most Dangerous Game.
Homework: None
MONDAY:
Warm-Up: None. Collect any late work or make up work.
Class work: Take story quiz over “Raymond’s Run.” Introduce vocabulary #3 words and related written assignment. See specific assignment below. Homework: Work on vocabulary #3 written assignment (Due Wednesday, 2/27).
Be imaginative and use specific details. Your story should be told from third-person point of view, written in a simple dialect, and contain exaggeration. Your tale’s hero or protagonist should be “larger than life.” DUE WEDNESDAY. FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES IN YOUR BINDER.
TUESDAY:
Warm-Up: We’re going to begin reading a story entitled “The Most Dangerous Game.” What do you consider to be the most dangerous game and why? Explain.
Class work: Begin reading “The Most Dangerous Game” (64-80).
Homework: Work on vocabulary #3 written assignment (Due Wednesday, 2/27).
WEDNESDAY:
Warm-Up: None
Class work: In small groups, review the vocabulary #3 words using the related written assignment. Continue reading “The Most Dangerous Game” (64-80).
Homework: Vocabulary #3 quiz tomorrow.
THURSDAY:
Warm-Up: Return grades papers.
Class work: Take Vocabulary #3 quiz. Finish reading “The Most Dangerous Game” (64-80).
Homework: None
FRIDAY:
G.M.S. International Day Celebration all day! No language arts classes on Friday.
MONDAY:
Warm-Up: Complete and check “Editor-in-Chief” #14.
Class work: Review week verb pattern: passive voice. Continue work on “Letting Verbs Do the Work” in the On Target workbooks. Complete exercises 2 & 3 (16-17).
Homework: None
TUESDAY:
Warm-Up: Complete and check “Editor-in-Chief” #15.
Class work: Review week verb pattern: linking verbs. Continue work on “Letting Verbs Do the Work” in the On Target workbooks. Complete exercises 4-5 (18-19).
Homework: None
WEDNESDAY:
Warm-Up: Are secrets harmless or harmful? How do you know? Are children’s secrets different from the secrets adults might keep? If you think so, provide and example of how they differ. Write about any personal experiences you’ve had with sharing or keeping a secret. (1/2 page minimum)
Class work: Assign parts and introduce play. The read aloud “Secrets to Keep” (16-25) in READ magazine. If time allows, read “Confidences and Betrayals” (4-7).
Homework: None
THURSDAY:
Warm-Up: Return grades papers.
Class work: Finish “Letting Verbs Do the Work” in the On Target workbook: warm up T-chart and exercises 1-10 (15-22). Make sure exercises are clearly identified, correctly ordered, and stapled. Turn in on wall by period’s end.
Homework: Finish identifying the verbs in your “Best Friend” essay, either by highlighting them or listing them on a separate sheet of paper. Remember that “to + a verb” is NOT a verb. Also look carefully at words ending in -ing. Although these words looks as if they may be verbs, they often are not. Once this has bee done, count the number of times you used linking verbs and the number of times you used a passive voice verb. Write these totals on the top of your planning sheet. These will be collected on Friday.
FRIDAY:
Warm-Up: Collect “Best Friend” essays.
Class work: Write a thirty-five minute timed expository essay using the following prompt:
Writing Situation: Imagine that you can travel to any place in time. You could return to the past, remain in the present, or journey into the future. Where would you like to go? Why would you choose to visit there?
Directions for Writing: Before you write think about the past, the present, and the future. Consider all the places that have existed in the past, still exist today, and may exist in the future.
Now write an essay to tell the reader where you would go in time and why you would wish to visit there. Support your ideas with examples and details.
Homework: None
MONDAY:
HOLIDAY!!!
TUESDAY:
Warm-Up: Complete and check “Editor-in-Chief” #7 & #8.
Class work: Take Vocabulary #2 quiz.
Homework: (Due tomorrow) - Complete ONE of the 2 assignments that follow:
CHOICE A: TAKE NOTES on the rules of capitalization and complete ALL exercises (189-200) in your brown grammar workbook.
CHOICE B: TAKE NOTES on the rules of capitalization and complete ALL exercises (638-650) in your grammar textbook.
WEDNESDAY:
Warm-Up: Complete and check “Editor-in-Chief” #9 & #10.
Class work: Collect capitalization assignment from yesterday. Then complete (127-135) in Language Handbook. Follow the directions but instead of using circles, simply write the words which need to be capitalized. Turn in on wall by period’s end.
Homework: QUIZ over capitalization tomorrow. You may wish to review rules and examples in you grammar textbook (638-650).
THURSDAY:
Warm-Up: Complete and check “Editor-in-Chief” #11 & #12.
Class work: Take quiz over capitalization. Copy lists of linking verbs and helping verbs (334-338) in your grammar textbook. Then return “Best Friends” essay.
Homework: Create a T-chart with “Subjects” on the left and “Verbs/Verb Phrases” on the right. Then identify the subject and verb of every sentence of your essay.
FRIDAY:
Warm-Up: Return grades papers.
Class work: Homework:
MONDAY:
Warm-Up: None
Class work: Review what we’ve learned about writing essays. Then write a timed expository essay using the following prompt:
Writing Situation: People young and old have friends that they enjoy. Who is your best friend?
Directions for Writing: Before you write think about your best friend. What qualities does this friend have? Why are these qualities important?
Now write an essay telling who your best friend is and explaining why he or she is your best friend. Support you reasons with examples and details.
Homework: Work on vocabulary #2 written assignment (Due Thursday, 1/17). This assignment was initially explained last Friday. Vocabulary #2 written assignment:
Yarns and tall tales: Stories told in common language about impossible happenings. Select a theme from one of the following or create a tall tale topic of your own and stretch it into an outrageous and unbelievable yarn:
* How an elephant’s trunk became the first fire truck.
* How a dinosaur’s sneeze started breezes.
* How a grandfather’s clock became the first wristwatch.
* How an anteater invented the first trumpet.
* How a tickle bone was discovered.
* How a spider became a spider monkey.
* How a hole became the Grand Canyon.
Be imaginative and use specific details. Your tall tale should be told from third-person point of view, written in a simple dialect, and contain exaggeration. Your tale’s hero or protagonist should be “larger than life.” DUE THURSDAY. FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES IN YOUR BINDER.
TUESDAY:
Warm-Up: Complete and check “Editor-in-Chief” #4 & #5.
Class work: Review use of specific verbs. Complete “Gotitus: A Deadly Disease” (handout) and “Verb Variety” chart activity. Turn in on wall by the period’s end or finish for homework. (Due tomorrow)
Homework: Work on vocabulary #2 written assignment (Due Thursday).
WEDNESDAY:
Warm-Up: Discuss “Gotitus” handout.
Class work: Collect verb assignment from yesterday. Introduce active and passive voice. Complete the following: Ex. 5 (521) in Ms. Allen’s red book and Ex. A & B (37-38) in Ms. Allen’s red workbook.
Homework: Work on vocabulary #2 written assignment (NOTE CHANGE: DUE FRIDAY).
THURSDAY:
Warm-Up: None
Class work: Take Think Link test. Finish yesterday’s active & passive voice assignment.
Homework: Work on vocabulary #2 written assignment (NOTE CHANGE: DUE FRIDAY).
FRIDAY:
Warm-Up: Return grades papers.
Class work: Review vocabulary #2 words using tall tale written assignments. Then watch a tall tale. List at least 10 examples of hyperbole and/or “firsts.”
Homework: Study for vocabulary #2 quiz.
MONDAY:
Warm-Up: Complete word puzzle on overhead. Distribute “Editor-in-Chief” packets.
Class work: Distribute, introduce, and explain vocabulary units and weekly procedures. Guidelines and word lists were also distributed in class. The vocabulary #1 written assignment is as follows:
Your parents have sent you to a boarding school far, far away. This boarding school could be any kind of boarding school: military school, wizardry school, fine arts school, athletic training school, etc. After having been there for 2 weeks, you write your parent(s) a letter in which you describe the school, your classes, and the people you’ve met. Tell them what’s been going on since your arrival. Use your imagination. Be creative! Use specific details. Remember the minimum page length. Follow the format of a friendly letter (763). Be sure to include the heading for the letter. DUE THURSDAY.
Begin working on vocabulary #1 written assignment.
Homework: Work on vocabulary #1 written assignment (due Thursday).
TUESDAY:
Warm-Up: Complete “Quick Write” (16) in your literature book. (1/2 page minimum). Then read the remainder of page 16.
Class work: Introduce and read “Broken Chain” (17-24). Then answer ?’s 1-6 in CRS and complete the “Writing” activity on page 26. Turn in on wall by the period’s end.
Homework: Work on vocabulary #1 written assignment (due Thursday).
WEDNESDAY:
Warm-Up: Complete and check “Editor-in-Chief” #1 & #2.
Class work: Complete the following pages in your Holt Reader: Pages 6-18. Due by period’s end.
Homework: Work on vocabulary #1 written assignment (due Thursday).
THURSDAY:
Warm-Up: Complete and check “Editor-in-Chief” #3 & #4.
Class work: Take story quiz over “Broken Chain.” Then review vocabulary #1 in groups using written assignments.
Homework: Study for vocabulary #1 quiz.
FRIDAY:
Warm-Up: Return grades papers/Prepare paper for vocabulary #1 quiz.
Class work: Take vocabulary #1 quiz. Introduce vocabulary #2 words and its related written assignment:
Yarns and tall tales: Stories told in common language about impossible happenings. Select a theme from one of the following or create a tall tale topic of your own and stretch it into an outrageous and unbelievable yarn:
* How an elephant’s trunk became the first fire truck.
* How a dinosaur’s sneeze started breezes.
* How a grandfather’s clock became the first wristwatch.
* How an anteater invented the first trumpet.
* How a tickle bone was discovered.
* How a spider became a spider monkey.
* How a hole became the Grand Canyon.
Be imaginative and use specific details. Your tall tale should be told from third-person point of view, written in a simple dialect, and contain exaggeration. Your tale’s hero or protagonist should be “larger than life.” DUE THURSDAY. FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES IN YOUR BINDER.
Homework: Work on vocabulary #2 written assignment (due Thursday, 1/17).
MONDAY
Warm-Up: None
Class work: Take story quiz over “The Medicine Bag.” Show & Tell: Share the single item you would pass down to your child and read your written description. (See homework assigned on Friday December 14th.)
Homework: None
TUESDAY:
Warm-Up: none
Class work: Begin watching film, Christmas on Division Street.
Homework: None
WEDNESDAY:
Warm-Up: None
Class work: Finish watching film, Christmas on Division Street. Discussion to follow as time permits.
Homework: None
THURSDAY:
Warm-Up: None
Class work: Complete holiday puzzles and participate in holiday activities.
Homework: None
FRIDAY:
Happy Holidays!!!!!!!!!!
