Tuesday, February 28

• Warm-up: Read and annotate "Pro/Con - Should Athletes Kneel?"
• Re-read "Terrible Things" and annotate
• Complete Graphic Organizer
• Watch "Child of the Holocaust" 
• Complete Graphic Organizer

HW: NONE

Monday, February 27

• Finish the Holocaust: Part I and II articles and questions
• Vocabulary - Allegory
• Read and annotate "Terrible Things: An Allegory"

HW: Finish the Holocaust articles/questions if you do not finish in class.

Friday, February 24

• Discuss what is cause and effect
• Identifying causes and effects in a historical text and understanding the impact of these causes and effects
• Read and analyze "The Holocaust: Part I and II"
• Answer questions

HW: NONE

Thursday, February 23

• Warm-up: Finish the Scope worksheet from Wednesday - Finding and Using Text Evidence
• Start writing a short constructed response for the Lou Gehrig speech and video (compare and contrast)

HW: NONE

Wednesday, February 22

• Warm-up: Fill in the chart for the Lou Gehrig speech
• Read a Scope article and complete the Text Evidence worksheet

HW: None

Tuesday, February 21

• Library - book return and check out
• Finish "Black Sunday" questions
• Read and discuss Lou Gehrig's speech - what was his tone and mood? How do you know? (Use text evidence to support your response)
• Watch the speech and discuss the impact it has after reading and viewing it.

HW: NONE

Wednesday, February 15

• Warm-up: Complete "The Flaming Sky" warm-up - Using descriptive language to create mood.
• Read Scope article - "Black Sunday" and respond to questions (Google Classroom)

HW: Enjoy your five day weekend! 

Tuesday, February 14

• Warm-up: "The Flaming Sky" - Identifying mood in a text
• Continue reading Lions of Little Rock
• Complete graphic organizer - DUE TODAY AT THE END OF CLASS

HW: NONE

Monday, February 13

• Warm-up: Read and analyze the Scope article "The Flaming Sky"
• Link is provided in Google Classroom
• Log in to Scope as a Student using the password: rtms8
• Click on Past Issues and go to October 2016
• Complete the Monday chart on the Google document
• Read Historical Account - Recalling Little Rock's Segregation Battle
• fill out your graphic organizer
• Read Lions of Little Rock
• fill out your graphic organizer 

HW: Finish reading The Flaming Sky and complete the graphic organizer if you did not finish it in class

Friday, February 10

• Warm-up: Discuss "Fly Girls..." article
• Read a historical account Lions of Little Rock Historical Account
• Continue reading Lions of Little Rock

HW: NONE

Thursday, February 9

Periods 1-6:

• Warm-up: Re-read WWII Fly Girls article; with a partner - answer and discuss Assessment and Discussion Questions
• Read historical account article for Lions of Little Rock Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site
• Begin reading Lions of Little Rock
• Fill out graphic organizer

HW: NONE

Period 7:

• Read Historical Account articles - Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site and Memoirs in Black and White: Growing Up in the Segregated South
• Fill out graphic organizers
• Begin reading Lions of Little Rock

HW: NONE

Wednesday, February 8

Periods 1-6:

• Warm-up: Read article "Female WWII Pilots..."
• Takes notes in your writer's notebook
• Read "Memoirs in Black and White: Growing Up in the Segregated South"
• Discuss and fill out graphic organizer
• Preview Lions of Little Rock novel

HW: NONE

Period 7:

• Finish writing reading response for Esperanza Rising - DUE TODAY

HW: Finish reading response

Tuesday, February 7

• Warm-up: Answer questions for the poem "To a Daughter Leaving Home"
• Finish typing reading response for Revolution

HW: Finish Reading Response

7th Period:

• Warm-up: Answer questions for the poem "To a Daughter Leaving Home"
• Start reading response for Esperanza Rising

HW: NONE

Monday, February 6

• Warm-up: Read and discuss poem - "To a Daughter Leaving Home"
• Review Revolution reading response requirements (rubric and outline)
• Work on reading response

HW: NONE

7th Period:

• Warm-up: Read and discuss poem - "To a Daughter Leaving Home"
• Read Esperanza Rising - complete graphic organizer
• Discuss reading response requirements (rubric and outline)
• Begin writing reading response

HW: NONE

Friday, February 3

• Read historical account
• Fill out graphic organizer
• Read chapters 55-56 (Revolution)
• Fill out graphic organizer
• Start reading response for Revolution

HW: NONE

7th Period:

• Read historical account
• Fill out graphic organizer
• Read Esperanza Rising
• Fill out graphic organizer

HW: NONE

Thursday, February 2

• Read two historical accounts
• Fill out graphic organizer
• Read chapters 53-54
• Fill out graphic organizer

HW: None