Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 12/18/15

Agenda:
1) Conflict Notes

2) Open Response Prompt - Choose one of the three prompts to apply to the book Chains.  Due at the end of class Monday. (We will be in the computer lab Monday!)

One writer described courage as: “When you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway, and you see it through no matter what.” From our reading this trimester, choose one character who, according to this definition, displayed courage. Give two specific examples from our reading to support your answer and explain why each example fits this definition of courage.

Similar themes, morals, or messages can be idntified in completely separate works of literature. Choose a theme, moral or message which appears in the book Chains. State what the teme, moral or message is and use textual evidence from each literary work to explain how that message is communicated. Two examples are what you should aim for.

Authors employ symbols for any number of reasons. From the book Chains explain two symbols and what they represent. Then explain their importance to the book with specific references and textual evidence.

3) Today's Options
    *Work on open response
    *work on characterization sheet
    * finish figurative language WS (in your NB)

Homework:
Make sure your Interactive NB is complete, DUE MONDAY!!!
work on your draft of the open response in preparation to type in on Monday!

Chains TEST TUESDAY!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 12/17/15

Agenda:
1)Homework Check

2)Finish Chains!! :)

3) Theme notes

Homework:

Finish reading if you did finish in class.
If you finished reading in class, make sure your characterization sheet is complete, as well as double check the blog posts to make sure your Interactive NB is complete.

Due Dates:  I.N.B. due on Monday!!

                   Open response due end of class Monday (will be given this tomorrow in class!)

                  Chains Test Tuesday!!!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 12/16/15

Agenda:

1) Homework Check - table activity to construct a group exemplar on one of the characters from last nights homework.

2) Today's Reading - Ch. 40-42, pgs 256-278

3) Agenda Book

Homework : Symbolism WS

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 12/15/15

Agenda:
1) Homework Check

2) Today's Reading - Chapters 37-39, pgs. 232-255

3) Character activity on Liberty (to be completed on pages 27, 28, 29 of your I.N.B.)

 Draw a large speech bubble for each of the following characters - Elihu Lockton (pg 27), Curzon (pg28), and Isabel (pg29). Including enough room to write a paragraph. Write the words, “The real meaning of liberty is . . .” at the top of each speech bubble. Then, do the following:

• Finish the opening sentence from the perspective of the character. (1a)
  
• Support your claim with examples or evidence from the text. (Note: You may want to
  reread pgs. 89-90, 267-269, and the primary source quotes on pgs. 48 + 270). (1b, 1c, 1d,
  4)
  
• Provide a concluding statement that summarizes your position. (1e)
  
  

Homework: 

1) Finish the Character activity from class.

2) Got It? 

    *What was the real reason that Isabel wanted to go to the Tea Water Pump?

    *What did Isabel give to the people in the burned over district? Why?

    *What was inside the bread? Who did Isabel give the bread to?

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 12/14/15

Agenda:
1) 20 minute Journal - Role models may be found in real life and in stories.  How is Isabel's momma her role model to be brave?  Who is your role model?  Reflect on a moment when your role model impacted your life.

2) Got It? Check-In questions  - covers Ch.29-32, to be answered on pg.19 of your I.N.B
    *What did folks call the British?
    * Who did Isabel go up to?  Why?
    * Who was with the British that surprised Isabel?

3) Today's Reading - Ch.33-36 pgs.200-231

4) Agenda Book


Homework - 

Got It? Questions for Chapters 33-36, to be completed on pg. 21 of your I.N.B
     * Who did Isabel miss more that she thought was possible?
     * The author said the guards shoved the last of the prisoners into the jail, including the boy with
         the red-brown hat.  Who was she referring to?
     * Madam ordered Isabel to throw a dinner party to celebrate what event?
     *Where did Madam hire a cook from?
     * Where did Madam Lockton try to send Lady Seymour?  Why did Madam want her to go there?
     *Who knows about Isabel bringing food for the prisoners?
    

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 12/11/15

Agenda:
1) Comprehension Quiz Check-In Part I

2) Homework Check

3) "River Jordan" Discussion

4)Today's Reading - Ch.29-32 pgs. 177-199

Homework - Make sure your reading is done for Monday's Class!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 12/10/15

Agenda:

1) Homework Check

2) Vocab to be written and defined on page 17 of your Interactive Journal: vermin, repugnant, melancholy, riled

3) Interactive Game - For Crown of Colony

4) Today's Reading - Chapters 24-28 pgs.149-176

Homework:
To be completed on pg.18 of your Interactive NB
1) Just before Isabel is branded she thinks of Rhode Island, the height of corn, the lambs and goats.  Why do you think Isabel thought of this at such a scary time?

2) Lord Dunmore of Virginia offered Freedom to slaves in November of 1775.  Watch this video to learn more about it.  How many indentured servants and slaves joined Dunmore?  How many slaves do historians estimate attempted to leave their masters to join Lord Dunmore?

3) The British defeated the rebels in their first large battle.  It is known as both the Battle of Brooklyn and the Battle of Long Island.  Go to this site and read the first section about the battle.  What date was the battle fought?  How many years ago was that? What pivotal decision did Congress make based on the battle?  What does the Statue of Liberty face?

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 12/9/15

Agenda:
1) Homework Check
2) Reading Thoughts up to this point!
3)Today's Reading - Chapters 19-23 (pgs.117-148)

Homework:
To be completed on pg. 15-16
1)Colonel Regan was obeying the law by turning Isabel over to Madam.  Do you think he was right in doing so?  Is it ever okay to break the law?
2)Isabel's punishment for her "insolence" is to be branded.  Add the word insolence and its definition to your vocab words.  Have you ever been insolent?  What punishment did you receive?

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 12/8/15

Agenda -

1) Homework Check - Class collection of figurative language/discussion

2) Indirect Characterization Mini-Lesson

3) On page 13 of your interactive notebook please define the following words: steely, fervor, tranquility, treason

4) Reading Ch. 12-18 (pgs. 75-116)

5) Agenda Book

Homework -
1) Finish reading to page 116

2)Read this list of laws affecting slaves in Manhattan. Which laws would affect Isabel?  About which law is she most worried?

3)Just like the Patriots, we use Latin phrases frequently, Go to this list and skim through the phrases.  Choose 3-4 of your favorites, or ones you recognize.  Write the phrases and their definitions in your notebook on page 14.

Interesting FACT - Because there was no indoor plumbing in Colonial times and it was difficult to get to the privy or outhouse at night, people had "chamber pots" or large bowls under their beds used when they needed to "go to the bathroom" during the night.

Lines to LOVE - "The air was hot and dripping, as if the city were wrapped in a wool blanket."

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework

Agenda:
1) Warm-Up: Answer the following questions on pgs7-8 of your Interactive NB
     a) What does the quote at the beginning of Chpater I mean? What is the "seed time" of something?
     b) What do you think it means that Ruth has a "peculiar manner of being" and is "simple"?
     c) What's the difference between an indentured servant and a slave?

2)Read on - Chapters 7-11, pgs.36-75

HW -  Please complete the following in your Interactive NB:
  **Make sure the following Characters are listed on your Character page with a brief character  
  description: Isabel, Ruth, Miss Mary Finch, Mr. Robert Finch, Curzon, Master Elihu Lockton,
  Madam Anne Lockton, Lady Seymour, Becky, Bellingham

  **Go back into your reading and find 4 examples of figurative language (ex: personification, simile, metaphor) and begin noting these on pg.1 in your NB

One of my simile favs!- "My eyes were as starved for words as the rest of me was for dinner." Isabel
   

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 12/4/15

Agenda:
1) 20 minutes to pull together your mini-project

2) Begin "Chains" by: Laurie Halse Anderson

Set up Interactive NB in your Journal to use during the reading of the book.  If absent, this can be set up in homeroom when you return to school

Receive a copy of the book

To be completed for Monday!!! - Read to page 35 of the book and define the words below including their part of speech:
Chapter 1-3
peculiar, kin, mourn, bold, procure, insolence, impudence

Chapter 4-5
brackish, wailing, somber, vexing

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 12/3/15

Objective - To continue with yesterday's activity where you show me how well you have mastered comma usage and your understanding of the 13 rules.

Agenda:
1) Quick check in as a class

2) Work on project.


We will visit the Book Fair for a small portion of class today!!


HW- work on mini-project

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 12/2/15

Objective: To show our knowledge of comma usage through the completion of a choice mini-project.

Agenda:
1) Correct HW

2) Any ?'s

3) Comma Mini-Project explanation and choice

4) Time to work on mini-project

5) Agenda Book

HW - work on mini-project

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 12/1/15

I will be absent to today due to a sick baby boy :-(  Below is what was completed in class today!

Objective: To discover the comma rules and create a useful reference page about commas.

Agenda:
1) Fill In Comma Notes - Borrow a Master Copy of notes, copy the information onto YOUR copy. (If absent, please see me for a filled-in copy)

2) Comma WS - to be completed for HW if not completed in class.  (Beware - there is a Part 2 at the bottom of the page to be completed on the back!)

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 11/30/15

Objective: To get acquainted with the comma and how it's used.

Agenda:
1) 20 minute journal time - Define the word thankful (what it means to you) and how it played a role in your holiday weekend. (RELIVE a moment!)
2) Intro to the comma activity
3) Discuss comma activity
4)Agenda Books

Homework: Read over "The 15 Punctuation Marks" handout!

The Week of November 16-20

All week we are working on our culminating assessment for the Poe unit by choosing a work we read in class, modernizing it, and recording it.
Student groups can choose from the following Poe pieces - Annabel Lee, The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart or The Masque of the Red Death.
 The following literary elements need to be represented - theme, mood, tone, setting, symbolism.

Projects are due in class on Tuesday, November 24 where we will watch your work in action!!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 11/12/15

Obejctive:  To dialogue and disucuss "The Masque of the Red Death" focusing on color symbolism, main idea and theme. 

Agenda:

1.) Independent Reading

2.) "Tweet About It" Activity

3.) Masque Accountable Talk - address questions from your dialoging

4.) Symbolism Chart for Masque

Homework:  NONE!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 11/10/15

Agenda:

1) Check Paraphrase Vocab HW

2) Read and listen to the audio of "The Masque of the Red Death" by: Edgar Allan Poe

3) Dialogue with your text (DUE THURSDAY!)

Homework: All due THURSDAY!

a.) Finish dialoging with The Masque of the Red Death
b.) Word Word 7
c.) Extra Credit assignment (optional)

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 11/9/15

Objective: To read and dialogie with "The Masque of The Red Death" by: Edgar Allan Poe, focusing on color symbolism, main idea, theme and making connections.

Agenda:
1) 20 minute journal - If I could change one thing about my life it would be ______________ because...

2) Last Tell Tale Heart Thoughts - reference the Guided Reading questions

3) mini-lesson on color symbolism

4) The Masque of The Red Death Vocab list and Paraphrasing WS


Homework:
Finish your Paraphrasing WS

REMINDERS - Word Word 7 is due THURSDAY
                           Extra Credit is due THURSDAY
                          
NO SCHOOL WEDNESDAY FOR VETERANS DAY!!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 11/6/15

Objective: To discuss the deeper meaning of The Tell-Tale Heart and grasp the theme and symbolism.

Agenda:
1.) Correct Vocab HW

2.) Dialogue Table Activity/ Accountable Talk

3.) Visualization Activity (if there is time)

4.) Extra Credit Option #1, #2 (DUE NEXT THURSDAY November 12)



Homework:
Extra Credit
Word Word Due Tuesday!!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 11/5/15

Agenda: 

1.) 5 minute Test review

2.) Poe Poetry Test

3.) "Take One" Guided Reading Questions for The Tell-Tale Heart

Homework:

1.) Make sure your Tell-Tale Heart vocab worksheet is finished for tomorrow
2.) Guided Reading Questions due tomorrow in class (textbook link to the right can be used to finish them if not finished in class)

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 11/4/15

Agenda:

1.) Question and Answer - questions, comments, concerns about Annabel Lee and The Raven
   (TEST TOMORROW!)

2.) The Tell-Tale Heart by: Edgar Allan Poe
      a) vocab activity - define words and complete sentences

      b) reading of the short story(pg. 203 in textbook, link found to the left of this page) /listen to the
          short story

3.) Agenda Books

Homework:  STUDY STUDY STUDY for Poe Poetry Test, finish sentences from vocab activity if not completed in class.

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 11/3/15

Objective: To finish clicking and clunking with The Raven as well as having an accountable talk discussion about it.

Agenda:
1) Correct Raven Comprehension Packet HW from last night

2) Raven Hunt - Group work

3)Agenda Book

Homework: Finish Comprehension Packet, Review Annabel Lee and The Raven, bring your Word Work in tomorrow!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 11/2/15

Objective: To finish clicking and clunking with "The Raven" as well as having an accountable talk discussion about it.

Agenda:

1) Take-One Warm-Up: Fold a piece of computer paper in half, Label the left side "First Chunk of The Raven", the right side "Second Chunk of The Raven", illustrate what's going on in those two chunks

2) Finish "The Raven"

3) Agenda Book

Homework: "The Raven" comprehension packet - Complete Section 1 and questions 1, 2, 3, 7, 8

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 10/30/15

Objective: To click and clunk with "The Raven" by: Edgar Allan Poe.

Agenda:
1) Correct Vocab Homework

2) Let's Talk About Symbols - Discuss Google Search HW

3) Continue "The Raven"


Homework - NONE! 

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 10/29/15

Objective: To reread, click and clunk with "The Raven" by: Edgar Allan Poe

Agenda:

1) Poe Vocab Sheet - Define words on the back, complete worksheet on the front

2) Raven Video

3) "The Raven" by: Edgar Allan Poe - click and clunk stanzas 1-6

Homework:
1) Finish Vocab Sheet
2) Complete Google Symbol Search - located on back of the poem

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 10/27/15

Objective: To understand perspective by responding to Annabel Lee from the narrator's point of view.

Agenda:

1) Warm-Up: Table Talk about your chosen quote and illustration from last night's HW

2) Review the "Clunks" from the remaining three stanzas of "Annabel Lee" by: Edgar Allan Poe

3) "A Response to Annabel"

HW - continue working on response, will be finished in class tomorrow

REMINDER - Half day tomorrow!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 10/26/15

Objective: To learn how to "click" and "clunk" with a poem to maximize understanding.

Agenda:
1) Journal Reflection:  Revisit the "Mirror" journal entry, write a last thought

2) Turn + Talk:  What image does the word "clink" create? The word clunk? What do you think we are doing with these words in ELA today?

3) Literary Terms: Glossary Handout (focus terms in RED)

4) Annabel Lee by: Edgar Allan Poe
    Click and Clunk

5)Agenda Books


HW: What is the overall meaning of this poem? Illustrate it and include either a summary in your own words or a line from the poem that wraps it all up.

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 10/20/15

Objective:  To understand the life of Edgar Allan Poe in order to fully understand his work.  Over the next two weeks, we will be evaluating the influence that an author's life has in their work.

Agenda:
1) Poe Rubric

2) Webquest Day Two

3) Got Poe? Project directions

Homework:
1.) Finish whatever work your group assigns you.
2.) If you feel you need to conduct more research, please do so.


Reminder: 
Project due at the END Of class Thursday

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 10/19/15

Objective: To understand the life of Edgar Allan Poe in order to fully understand his work.  Over the next two weeks we will be evaluating the influence that an author's life has on their work.

Agenda:
1) K(now)W(ant to know)L(earned) activity

2) Webquest - 4 day activity with a culminating group project to show knowledge about Poe in a creative way!  DUE at the end of class on Thursday!

3) Agenda Books

Homework: Continue your research component of your webquest.  Make sure you have enough info for your group where your topics are concerned.

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 10/16/15

Objective: To work with 2 editing partners on perfecting our rough drafts of an irony open response. One partner will focus on correcting conventions while the other will hone in on word choice.

Agenda:
Phase One
1) Tear It Up! Peer Edit Sheet - Use the left side of the page to do a self edit.  Someone then needs to complete the right side of the page as your peer editor, focusing on writing conventions.

Phase Two
2) Pass your edit sheet and open response to a second member of your editing team to edit for WORD CHOICE only.  Zero in on weak words that could be substituted with colorful, sparkly words!! You, as the editor, can leave word suggestions OR simply make note to your writer that they need to revisit a word(s) in their paragraph.

Homework:
Final typed/written Irony Open Response is DUE MONDAY at the start of class.
Typed - double spaced, heading, font size 12
Written - skip lines, heading, written in pen.

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 10/14/15

Objective: Using your irony reference sheet and the three texts you dialoged with, you will write a cohesive, well-organized open response making sure to focus on powerful word choice.

Agenda:
1) "Deleting Very Chart" activity

2) Apply It!! - choose 5 words you fall victim of pairing with very and write sentences with them using a better word choice.

3)Agenda Books

Homework: If sentences are not completed in class, complete them tonight for homework!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 10/13/15

Objective: To strengthen our word choice in our writing by choosing more colorful and sophisticated words.

Agenda:
1) New Seats

2) 20 minute free-write journaling

3) Quick write/Write around - Word Choice-Very WS

4) Agenda Books

Homework:
Monthly Word Word Due Tomorrow (Wednesday)!!!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 10/9/15

Repeat of Thursdays Class!

1) Warm-up - Copy your irony examples from yesterday's story onto the same sheet you copied your Sniper examples.

2) Irony Ninja Reading Day 3

3) Choose your 10 words for the Monthly Word Work Assignment (Due next WEDNESDAY)

Have a great long weekend and don't forget.....next week is SPIRIT WEEK!!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 10/8/15

Objective: To continue to demonstrate your knowledge of irony by identifying it and explaining it in three different pieces of literature.

Agenda:
Warm-Up - At the start of class, revisit your "The Sniper" dialoging and collect evidence of irony from the story.  Transcribe this information  onto a new piece of paper...this is where you will collect your irony references/evidence for the three stories you read this week!

Collect the 4 Square homework assignment.

1) Irony Ninja Reading Assignment: Day 2

2) Independent Reading

3) Agenda Books

Homework: Finish dialoging with your chosen short story.

**Reminder** Monthly Word Work Assignment due next Wednesday!
                         Progress Reports go home tomorrow!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 10/7/15

Objective: To continue to demonstrate your knowledge of irony by identifying it and explaining it in three different pieces of literature.

Agenda:
1) Irony Warm-up

2) Word Work Table Share

3) Monthly Word Work Assignment explanation:  This activity will be done once a month in order to apply the words you have collected into something more meaningful.  This first monthly assignment will be due Wednesday, October 14!  This replaces the normal word work assignment for this week.

4)  Irony Ninja Reading: Day 1
     Links to the stories being read can be found here to finish your homework!!

5) Agenda Books

Homework:
Finish reading and dialoging with "The Sniper" by: Liam O'Flaherty - dialogue with a focus on irony!

Monthly Word Work Assignment: Due Wednesday, October 14

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 10/6/15

Objective: To be able to understand the four types of irony and be able to prove comprehension through examples.

Agenda:
1) Irony Discussion

2) Irony Videos - If you were absent, please watch the following videos #1, #2, #3

3) Irony Reference Guide (Fill- In-The-Blank Notes)

Homework:  Show What You Know!! DUE THURSDAY 10/8/15
Provide an example of each type of irony from your own reading experiences.  You may do this as a four square, labeling each box with a type of irony and providing a picture with a caption.  Make sure you use your irony reference sheet!

REMINDER - Word Work Due Tomorrow!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 10/5/15

Objective: To finish constructing an open response and successfully edit with a partner.

Agenda:
1) Second peer edit (optional)

2) Type final draft using google docs


Homework : Word Work due Wednesday

**Reminder** Trimester 1 Progress Reports go home Friday, October 9

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 10/2/15

Objective: To continue writing a cohesive well-written and well-structured "Perfect Paragraph" response to a prompt about "The Landlady" by: Roald Dahl.  In addition to that we will be working on perfecting our conventions and word choice during a peer-editing session.

Agenda:
1) Out on your desk: short story, directions sheet, graphic organizer, rough draft

2) Begin the editing session -
      ~ take 20 minutes to complete the left side of the edit sheet
      ~ take 20 minutes to work with a fellow student and peer edit their paragraph using the right side
         of the sheet.

Absent?? - Please have a family member complete the left side of the peer edit sheet and have your edit work with you on Monday!

Homework: NONE!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 10/1/15

Objective: To craft a well-written cohesive "Perfect Paragraph" that includes all of the qualities of good writing structure and of good writing content.

Agenda:
1) Graphic organizer ticket in!

2) Rough Draft Transformation - revisit your organizer from last night....do your points/defense relate directly back to your topic sentence?...is your closing sentence a rewording (not a copying!) of your topic sentence?
        construct your rough draft on lined paper, skipping lines to allow for peer editing tomorrow!

3) Independent Reading

Homework:  Finish writing rough draft if not completed in class

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 9/30/15

Because of the SRI Test in class yesterday we did not get to a few items on our agenda.  You'll see some repeat agenda items today!

Objective: To write a cohesive, well-organized and well-defended response to an open ended prompt from "The Landlady" by: Roald Dahl

Agenda:
1) Word Word Due - discuss your word with your table

2) Review Perfect Paragraph Graphic Organizer

3) Begin the writing process with "The Landlady" prompt

Homework: Finish Landlady graphic organizer if it was not completed in class.

**Reminder** Tomorrow is Independent Reading!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 9/29/15

Objective: To review and comprehend the four components of a Perfect Paragraph and to see and understand the open response grading rubric.

Agenda:
1) SRI Test

2) Journal (20 minutes) Either last nights homework prompt OR the given prompt on the board today.

3) Perfect Paragraph Review

4) Open Response Grading Rubric Review

5) Open Response Questions - read all 3 prompts and decide which one you want to answer.

Homework:
1) Choose the Open Response question you would like to answer.  You need to put the question in your own words to show your understanding and mastery of what it's asking you to do.

2)Word Word DUE tomorrow!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 9/27/2015

Objective: To demonstrate understanding of "The Landlady" by: Roald Dahl by participating in an accountable talk discussion as well as teaching peers about a particular element of the story.

Agenda:
1) Warm-Up: Brainstory 1-3 questions or comments to bring up in our whole class discussion
2) Accountable Talk discussion about "The Landlady" by: Roald Dahl
3) Jigsaw into expert groups to discuss your specific role and make a visual for your group.
4)Jigsaw into home groups to teach your table about your story element.

Homework:

1) Go outside and do something worth writing about for tomorrow's journal.
                                     OR
2)Scene Picture - Draw a fully detailed picture of a scene in the story that sticks out the most to you.  Your picture MUST be accompanied by a quote from the story. (Use the quoting info below!)



In the Important Links to the write you will find a wonderful resource for you, a citing guide!!  For the sake of tonight's homework please follow the rules below.

"Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah," (Dahl 173).

STEPS:
1.) Put the borrowed words in quotation marks
2.) Replace the end period with a comma (if the end mark is a question mark or an exclamation point, leave it there and do not make it a comma).
3.) End your quotation marks
4.) Add parentheses and put the author's name and the page number from the textbook
5.) Put a period after the parentheses.

OR

If you are taking dialogue for your quote, you need to write your quote differently.
"'Blah blah blah blah blah,' said Billy Weaver," (Dahl 173).

STEPS:
1.) Start with your opening quotation mark.
2.) Then add an apostrophe (one mark of the quotation mark) to show that someone is speaking.
3.) Write the quote.  Where they end their quotation marks add an apostrophe and continue copying the words from the text.
4.)  Replace the end period with a comma (if the end mark is a question mark or an exclamation point, leave it there and do not make it a comma).
5.) End your quotation marks
6.) Add parentheses and put the author's name and the page number from the textbook
7.) Put a period after the parentheses.

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 9/24/15

Agenda:
1) Independent Reading (20 minutes)
2) Complete Literary Elements Notes
3)Activity Prep for tomorrow's activity

Homework:  Read over your literary element notes packet.

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 9/21/15

Objective: To use appropriate defense to support your viewpoint in a debate.

Agenda:
1) Last minute debate prep work.

2) DEBATE!  What came out of the door?  The Lady? or the Tiger?

3) Word Work/Journaling

4) Agenda Books


Homework: Word Work Word representation is due tomorrow! (Choose your favorite word of the week, create/find a visual representation of the word's meaning and the word itself.)

**Reminder** Open House Thursday, September, 24 6:30-8

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 9/18/15

Objective: Students will prepare a debate for who came out of the door - the Lady or the Tiger - and defend their point of view with textual evidence.

Agenda:
1) Warm-Up: Review your points from homework last night and make sure you can pinpoint exactly where in the text backs up your point of view.
2) Prep for Debate: work with team to put together the most convincing argument for your case.  We're debating on MONDAY!

3) Agenda Books

Homework:
1) Type or write your role in the debate for practice at the start of class on Monday
2) Word Work due TUESDAY!

ABSENT??
Please write a 1 paragraph Open Response to the following question.  Make sure you include 3 text points to defend your stance!

Who came out of the door - the Lady or the Tiger?


**Reminders**
OPEN HOUSE - Thursday, September 25 6:30-8

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 9/17/15

Agenda:
1) Warm-up: On the brown table paper, write your Showing sentence from last nights homework and share with your table.

2) Finish Dialoging with "The Lady Or The Tiger" by: Frank Stockton (needs to be done for class tomorrow!)

3) Independent Reading (20 min)


Homework: On a piece of paper in your Notes section, write if you think the Lady or the Tiger came out of the door.  You also need to include 3 bullets, each one with a solid, textual reason why you think what you think.

Today's Class and Tonight's Homeword 9/16/15

Agenda:
1) Warm-up: 5 Word Work Words on your desk along with the Word Work instruction sheet.
2) Today you will be given time in class to create your first word representation.  Choose one word from your group of 5 to work with and create a visual representation for it (Step 3 on the instruction sheet)  This work is to be done on a piece of computer paper and handed in before the end of class.
3) If your Word Work is completed you may continue dialoging with your short story "The Lady Or The Tiger" by: Frank Stockton
4) Mini-Lesson! Showing vs. Telling sentences: In order to work on our writing and to improve the impact it has on our reader, we need to address the difference between a telling sentence ( not as exciting) and a showing sentence (where a reader can experience something). A handout was given in class and can be found here for the homework tonight.


Homework: Complete Telling worksheet (do not do the illustration, simply write your showing sentence on the bottom of the paper.)
                    Dialogue the next two pages of "The Lady Or The Tiger" for class tomorrow.

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 9/15/15

Agenda: 1) Warm-Up - Please write a response in your JOURNAL to the prompt below: You’re walking through the woods and you’re stopped by a little leprechaun. He tells you that it’s your lucky day because since you found him in the woods you’re entitled to his entire pot of gold worth one million dollars. You’re ecstatic; you’re jumping all around;you can’t help bu think how awesome you truly are. And then it happens – the leprechaun tells you you can either have it but you are to give it awat to family and friends and cannot reap any benefits from it OR you can burn the money so no one can have it but everyone will know you chose not to share the money with them. What would you do? 2) Conflict Notes 3) Short Story - "The Lady or the Tiger" by: Frank Stockton. Today we will begin our first short story together. As a class, we will read it once through and then it is your responsibility to go back and dialogue with the text. The dialoging will take a few days with an accountable talk activity at the end of it! Enjoy the story...it's one of my favorites!! Homework: Reminder! Word work words due tomorrow (5 words and original definitions written in the WW section of your binder) The one word representation (Step 3 on the direction sheet) will be done in class tomorrow! Also, Finish Dialoging the front of the first page of "The Lady Or The Tiger" for class tomorrow

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 9/14/15

Objective: To familiarize ourselves with the comprehension strategy "Dialoging With the Text" and attempt to start trying it out on our own. Agenda: 1) Journal (10 min) Good Deed/Discuss 2) "Thoughts While Reading" Video (Dead Poets Society) 3) Accountable Talk: "The Open Window" by:Saki Homework: REMINDER! Word Work! 5 words due by Wednesday, time will be given in class to create your one word representation!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 9/11/15

Objective: To familiarize ourselves with the comprehension strategy known as "Dialoging With The Text" and attempt to start trying it on our own. Agenda: 1.) Take One - Apostrophe WS 2.) Dialoging With The Text Activity - Over the course of the school year Mrs. Leahy and I will be co-teaching specific learning concepts. We will teach the dialoging concept using the short story "The Open Window" by: Saki Homework: Finish dialoging with "The Open Window" by: Saki Do ONE GOOD DEED over the weekend, be prepared to journal about it on Monday!!

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 9/10/15

AGENDA: OBJECTIVE: To master the two uses of an apostrophe 1.) Take One! Accountable Talk Reflection 2.) Plot Review/Notes 3.) Apostrophe rules (put this sheet in the grammar section of your binder!) 3.) Let's practice together Apostrophe Worksheet's 4.) Independent Reading HOMEWORK: 1.) Apostrophe worksheet (only do the odds) 2.) Journal Notebook and Post-it notes due on Friday, September 11

Today's Class and Tonight's Homework 9/9/15

AGENDA: OBJECTIVE: To understand the purpose of conversation in the classroom, how talk can be used as a tool! 1.) reflect on Superhero prompt from yesterday 2.) Accountable Talk yarn activity 3.) Word Work Instructions (Handout) 4.) "ABC'S" of Me Journal Entry HOMEWORK: 1.) Finish ABC's 2.) Independent Reading book for class tomorrow 3.) Journal NB/Post-It Notes due by Friday

Labor Day Activity

The "Symbol of Me" Activity was given at the end of class today. Please complete this and have it with you on Tuesday in class. Reminders** Please have your binder, a notebook to be used for journal writing (will be kept in the classroom) and sticky notes with you next week!!

First week of school 2015!!

Welcome back! This week students will be introduced to class expectations and the syllabus. The second page of the syllabus needs to be signed and returned to ELA class by Thursday. On Wednesday and Thursday students will be working on a summer reading open response. The rough draft will be written in class on Wednesday with the final draft being written and handed in by the end of class Thursday. Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend!