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!