Monday, October 31

• Warm-up: Movie anticipation worksheet
• Watch The Giver or the Outsiders

HW: NONE

Friday, October 28

• Enter Data in a Google Form
• Warm-up: Compare/Contrast a written poem to its audio and visual performance - a written response in your writer's notebook
• Finish novels, chapter questions, and graphic organizer

HW: Complete novels and assignments

Thursday, October 27

• Warm-up: Read and annotate "And Still I Rise"; write an objective summary
• Read novels, answer questions, complete graphic organizer

HW: Catch up on reading your novel and assignments

Wednesday, October 26

• Warm-up: Maya Angelou questions
• Read novels, answer chapter questions, complete graphic organizer

HW: Catch up on reading

Tuesday, October 25

• Warm-up: Read and annotate background article on Maya Angelou
• Identity chart - on book Google Classroom
• Read novel, answer questions, fill out graphic organizer

HW: Catch up on reading (The Giver/The Outsiders), chapter questions, graphic organizer

Monday. October 24

• Warm-up: Vocabulary - Compare
• Finish Nelson Mandela response from Friday
• Read, answer chapter questions, graphic organizer

HW: Finish any work you didn't get done in class because of the WiFi outage

Friday, October 21

• Warm-up: "Heartbeat" question
• Type final constructed response for Nelson Mandela text
• Read novel - finish this week's chapter questions; work on graphic organizer

HW: NONE

Thursday, October 20

• Warm-up: "Heartbeat" question
• Plan constructed response to the "from Long Walk to Freedom"
• Read novels - book group, questions, and graphic organizer

HW: Finish reading and annotating Nelson Mandela text

Wednesday, October 19

• Warm-up: "Heartbeat" question
• Small group discussions
• Read novel

HW: Finish reading and annotating Nelson Mandela text

Tuesday, October 18

• Library for book checkout
• Warm-up: Identify adjectives and words to describe the character's feeling in "Heartbeat"
• Read novels
• Book group discussion

HW: 

-Periods 1, 2, and 6 - Read and annotate "from Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela - DO NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION AT THE END!

-Period 7 - Read and annotate "Nelson Mandela's Address on his Release from Prison" - DO NOT ANSWER THE QUESTIONS AT THE END!

Monday, October 17

• Warm-up: Read and annotate "Heartbeat"
• Finish and turn in chapter questions from last week - DUE TODAY
• Read novels, answer chapter questions, fill out graphic organizer

HW: NONE

Thursday, October 13

• Warm-up: Revise your constructed response from yesterday
• Book Groups - discussions
• Read novels - chapter questions are due today! Work on graphic organizer

HW: NONE

Wednesday, October 12

• Warm-up: Write a constructed response to the short story "Fish Cheeks" and "My Mother Tells the Story of Her Alabama Childhood"
• Book Fair preview
• Read novels

HW: NONE

Tuesday, October 11

• Warm-up: Read and annotate "Fish Cheeks" and "My Mother Tells the Story of Her Alabama Childhood"
• Read novels - chapter questions, graphic organizer
• Book group/conference w/ Ms. Baca

HW: NONE

Monday, October 10

• Warm-up: Make definition booklets
• Read novels, work on chapter questions and graphic organizer

HW: NONE

Friday, October 7

• Warm-up: Finish questions for "Python Invasion!" 
• Read novels, work on chapter questions, and graphic organizer

HW: NONE

Thursday, October 6

• Warm-up
• Answer Identity Questions in novel Google Classroom
• Read, answer chapter questions, and work on graphic organizer

HW: NONE

Wednesday, October 5

• Warm-up: 1st-6th, Read "Kudzu..." in Google Classroom
• Warm-up: 7th, Re-read "Python Invasion!" and annotate
• Read novels and work on assignments

HW: NONE

Tuesday, October 4

• Warm-up: Read "The Invaders" and answer questions 1-2.
• Short group discussion about novels
• Read novels and work on assignments.

HW: NONE

Monday, October 3

• Warm-up: Vocabulary - Objective Summary
• Begin reading novels (The Outsiders or The Giver)
• Work on novel Graphic Organizer and Chapter Questions (in novel Google Classroom

HW: NONE