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!)