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F451 Dialectical Journals Assignment
August 13th- Class introduction
Letter to students- Assignment: Write a 3 paragraph letter in response to my letter. Due Friday
August 14th- WNB: Write one paragraph about some current event from this summer include your opinion of the event.
Class Syllabus- Due signed Monday August 17th
Homework: Summer Reading Test Monday
August 17th- Summer Reading test
August 18th- WNB: What is one lesson you think everyone can learn from the summer reading novel you read? Why is this an important issue?
Group summer reading assignment
August 19th- Continue working in groups on the summer reading group assignment.
August 20th- Group presentations
Gave out Rhetorical Terms - Examples for 1-25 due August 27th test August 28th
August 21st- ACT reading pre-test
August 24th- WNB: How do writers use the strategies of definition to define a concept?
What is the American dream?
Preview the embedded assessment- Definition essay
Springboard activity 1.1
August 25th- Read and annotate "A Cause Greater than Self" answer all of the key details and ideas. #3 on the first essay and #2-3 on the second essay. Fill out a soapstone and write a paragraph about the more effective essay.
Finish for homework
August 25th- Everyday Edits Zuckerburg
ACT reading rationales. Choose 5 of the answers you got incorrect and write rationales explaining why the correct answer is correct.
August 26th- WNB: Did you try on your ACT Reading test?? What are your goals for the ACT this year. .How will you accomplish these goals?
August 27th- Springboard 1.3 - Annotate the 50th anniversary of the statue of liberty speech.
(1st period TPCAST poem New Colossus)
Vocab
August 28th- Vocab quiz. SSR. WNB:Choose 2 of the reading thinking stem boxes to react to your reading.
August 31st- ACT English Pretest.
Writer's notebooks due
NEW WRITER'S NOTEBOOKS START HERE! _____________________________________________________________________________
September 1st- WNB: Should the confederate flag be banned on public and governmental property? Why or Why not?
Read and annotate "The History of the Confederate Flag"
September 2nd and 3rd- Read and Annotate "Confederate Flag" and the Editorials. Write a paragraph reaction to the article and the editorials
Vocab due Sept. 3rd
September 4th- Vocab quiz SSR Thinking and reading stems in WNB
September 8th- Argument organizer and quote organizer for confederate flag essay
September 9th- Write the essay with support and a counter argument
Should the confederate flag be banned on public and governmental property? Why or Why not?
September 10th- WNB: Connotation of words: fat/ overweight: cheap/ thrifty: arrogant/
Tone and diction power point
Annotate for tone and diction in America and I chunk 1&2
September 11th- Vocab quiz: Rhetorical terms p-z
SSR Thinking and reading stems in WNB
September 14th- Everyday Edits- Muppets
Peer review of Confederate flag essay
September 15th- WNB Are students in your school being worked too hard? Do you feel the pressure? Why? What are some examples of this you are seeing at your school?
America Poems Springboard 1.4- Annotate poems for tone, imagery and literary devices. Answer all key ideas and detail questions. After reading chart and # 5. Choose one of the two writing prompts. Write a paragraph response.
September 17th- WNB: Who is the person you look up to or respect the most? Why?
Vocab unit 4 due
Read They Live the Dream answer the following questions for each of the 6 people introduced in the essay.
1. What did the American Dream look like to each person?
2. What obstacles did each person face?
3. How did each person gain access to the American dream?
4. Who/What do the people credit for their success?
5. Only answer this question after reading about all of the people: Which story did you most identify with? Why?
Vocab unit 1 due
September 18th- Vocab quiz unit 1 and SSR Thinking and reading Stems
September 21- WNB: Free Write
Subject verb agreement ex 1 (1-10) ChompChomp.com
ACT strategy powerpoint
September 22. Subject verb agreement ex 1 (11-25) ChompChomp.com
ACT strategy exercise When in Doubt, Take it Out
September 23rd- Subject Verb agreement ex 2 (1-10) ChompChomp.com