Friday, September 30

• Warm-up: "Finding Your Everest" - Video and question
• Finish the Scope article and Central Idea/Details worksheet
• Book Groups

HW: NONE

Thursday, September 29

• Warm-up: "Finding Your Everest" - answer question #2
• "Names/Nombre" - answer question
• Read Scope article and answer questions - Central Ideas and Text Evidence

HW: NONE

Wednesday, September 28

• Warm-up: Finding Your Everest - Identifying the Central Ideas ONLY
• Read/Annotate "Names/Nombres"

HW: 1st-6th period only - Finish reading and annotating "Names/Nombres" - DO NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION!
7th Period- NO HOMEWORK

Tuesday, September 27

• Library - Book check-out
• Warm-up: Read and annotate "Finding Your Everest" essay (Google Classroom)

HW: None (periods 1-6)
Period 7 - Finish alternate ending narrative - DUE TONIGHT

Monday, September 26

• Warm-up: Vocabulary - Central (or Main) Idea
• Peer Revise and Edit alternate ending narrative
• Start typing final copy of alternate ending narrative

HW: Finish typing final narrative ending - DUE TOMORROW BEFORE CLASS (Periods 1-6 only).

Friday, September 23

• Mini-lesson: Using descriptive language
• Start writing your rough draft in your Writer's Notebook

HW: None

Thursday, September 22

• Warm-up: Answer questions to "The Prince and the Pauper" (in GC under Black Sunday)
• What is a narrative? 
• Start planning your alternate ending narrative

HW: Finish your plan on the Google Document on GC (Narrative Assessment Overview)

Wednesday, September 21

• Warm-up: Read and annotate the "Prince and the Pauper" (this is on the Black Sunday document in GC)
• Discuss the plot diagrams
• Start your plot diagram for your alternate ending ONLY to one of the stories - "Amigo Brothers" or "Thank You M'am". Just focus on the Resolution (end of the plot diagram).

HW: Finish your alternate ending plot diagram (Resolution only)

Tuesday, September 20

• Complete "Amigo Brothers" questions (Google Classroom)
• Fill out Plot Map for "Amigo Brothers"
• Start Plot Map for "Thank You M'am"

HW: Complete "Amigo Brothers" questions
           Complete a Plot Map for "Amigo Brothers"
           Complete a Plot Map for "Thank You M'am"

Monday, September 19

• Warm-up: Read "Black Sunday" and answer the three questions (Google Classroom)
• Continue reading and annotating "Amigo Brothers"

HW: Finish reading and annotating "Amigo Brothers" EXCEPT 7th PERIOD

Friday, September 16

• Warm-up: Quick Write in writer's notebook
• Story Elements - defining each (in writer's notebook)
• Start reading and analyzing "Amigo Brothers"

HW: NONE

Thursday, September 15

• Warm-up: Read and annotate City Autumn (poem in Google Classroom); answer questions 1-4
• Continue typing Doing the Right Thing Final essay

HW: Finish essay and turn it in - DUE TONIGHT

Wednesday, September 14

• Typing and writing expectations for final essay
• Hand back rubrics
• Start typing final copy of Doing the Right Thing Essay

HW: NONE

Tuesday, September 13

• Warm-up: Read, annotate, and answer guiding question for Amish Health Care article (Google Classroom)
• What is revising? What is editing?
• Peer revision and editing

HW: Finish revising and editing your rough draft

Monday, September 12

• Warm-up: Vocabulary - Inference (Google Classroom)
• Finish body paragraph #3
• Start writing the conclusion paragraph

HW: Finish Conclusion paragraph - ALL paragraphs (Introduction, 3 body paragraphs, and conclusion) must be completed by tomorrow.

Friday, September 9

• Warm-up: Quick Write
• Work on body paragraph #3
• Writing conferences

HW: Have a great weekend!

Thursday, September 8

• Warm-up: Answer questions 1-3 from "After Much Mental Gymnastics..." article
• Discuss body paragraph #1
• Write body paragraph #2

HW: Finish body paragraph #2

Wednesday, September 7

• Warm-up: Simone Biles article - Read and annotate (Google Classroom)
• Review Intro Paragraph
• Discuss and start Body Paragraph #1

HW: Finish Body Paragraph #1 (EXCEPT 2ND PERIOD)

Tuesday, September 6

• Library
• Warm-up: Vocabulary - Evidence
• What is an essay?
• Work on an Introduction paragraph

HW: Finish your introduction paragraph (green packet)

Friday, September 2

• Warm-up: "The Substitute" - answer questions 1-3
• Read "Zebra" - make inferences and identify the theme

HW: NONE

Thursday, September 1

• Warm-up: "The Substitute" - Read and annotate (Google Classroom)
• Answer "Seventh Grade" questions 0n Google Classroom)
• Discuss the structure of an essay

HW: NONE

7th Period:

• Warm-up: "The Substitute" Read and annotate
• Socratic Seminar

HW: NONE