Agenda, February 1

Due Now: Your WW and Comp list from your first essay
Due Thursday: Bookmark 4, front and back
Due Thursday: Cubist Extra Credit
Due tomorrow: If you don't like your score on your 5 Sentences Assignment, fix your conventions. You may simply edit sentences 1-3; however, you will need to write two new However Statements.

1. Quick Vocab Review
2. Personal Reading - find a wondrous word
3. Wondrous Words
4. Everyday Edits
5. Final Drafting Time. Drafts due at the end of class tomorrow.

Cubist Extra Credit

Here's what you need to do:

1. Find an example of cubism on the internet.
2. Post a link to the artwork in the comments of this post.
3. In your comment, tell us a little bit about the art. Who made it? When? Why did the artist choose cubism as a style? What's your opinion? (It doesn't  hurt my feelings or your grade if you don't like, but be sure to dislike it thoughtfully.)
4. Be sure to include your name in your comment. This is a public forum, so conventions matter. Use capital letters and correct spelling.

Agenda, January 31

Due Thursday: Bookmark 4

1. Personal Reading
2. Wondrous Words
3. Vocab 4
4. Everyday Edits
5. Four Sentence Types
6. WW and Comp
7. Final Draft Time

Agenda, January 27

Due Now: Bookmark 3, front and back
Week 4: 1/27 - 2/3
Due at the end of class: Monster Essay Rough Drafts
Due at the end of class: All Reading Responses and Personal Choice assignments

Today's Learning Targets:

1) I can explore the meaning of unfamiliar words in my personal reading.
2) I can write a satisfying conclusion to an essay.

1. Collect bookmarks
2. Wondrous Words
3. Personal Reading
4. Wondrous Words check
5. In conclusion ...
6. Drafting time: drafts due at the end of class
7. Work Time
8. Poetry Out Loud, anyone?

Agenda, January 26

Due Thursday: Bookmark 3, front and back
Due Thursday: All Reading Responses and Personal Choice assignments
Due Now: 13 Sentence Types Binder Paper

Period 3: We have SECOND LUNCH tomorrow. If you are not here at the beginning of class, your bookmark will be late.

If you need to make up or would like to retake Vocab Quiz 3, it will be available in B-107 on Wednesday after school. You will need to arrange your own transportation.

1. Poetry Out Loud, anyone?
2. Introductions
3. Monster Essay drafting time: Your draft should be finished by the end of writing time tomorrow
4. Work Time

Agenda, January 25

Due Thursday: Bookmark 3, front and back
Due Thursday: All Reading Responses and Personal Choice assignments
Due Wednesday: 13 Sentence Types Binder Paper

If you need to make up or would like to retake Vocab Quiz 3, it will be available in B-107 on Wednesday after school. You will need to arrange your own transportation.

1. Personal Reading
2. Introductions
3. Monster Essay drafting time
4. Work Time

Agenda, January 24

Due Thursday: Bookmark 3, front and back
Due Thursday: All Reading Responses and Personal Choice assignments
Due Wednesday: 13 Sentence Types Binder Paper

If you need to make up or would like to retake Vocab Quiz 3, it will be available in B-107 on Wednesday after school. You will need to arrange your own transportation.

1. Personal Reading
2. My character appears ...
3. Monster Essay drafting time
4. Work Time

Agenda, January 21

Due Next Thursday: All Reading Responses and Personal Choice Assignments

1. Vocab Quiz / Personal Reading
2. Monster Essay Drafting Time
3. Work Time

Agenda, January 20

Due Now: Bookmark 2, front and back (the back is homework, not classwork)
Week 3: 1/20 - 1/27
Due Tomorrow: Vocab Quiz, 1-3
Due Thursday, 1/27: All reading responses and personal choice assignments. Are you doing what you ought to do?

1. Personal Reading
2. A well-developed paragraph
3. Monster Essay writing time
4. Vocab Groups
5. Work Time

Agenda, January 19

Due Tomorrow: Bookmark 2, front and back (the back is homework, not classwork)
Due Friday: Vocab Quiz, 1-3
Due Thursday, 1/27: All reading responses and personal choice assignments. Are you doing what you ought to do?

1. Monster Thesis Development
2. Vocab Group Assignment (in groups!)
3. Work Time

Agenda, January 18

Due Now: Bookmark Check. If you're filling it out now, it's late.
Due Thursday: Bookmark 2, Front and Back
Due Friday: Vocab Quiz 1-3

1. Personal Reading
2. Bookmark Back
3. Quick Vocab Review
4. Parallelism Practice
5. Thesis Development / Outlining
6. Work Time

Agenda, January 14

Due Thursday: Bookmark 2, front and back
Due Friday, 1/21: Vocab Quiz 3

1. Personal Reading
2. Monster Thesis
3. 13 Sentence Types: Prepositional Phrases
4. Work Time

Agenda, January 13

Due Now: Bookmark 1
Due Now: Vocab Cartoons
Bookmark Week 2: 1/13 - 1/20
Vocab Quiz 3 Postponed until 1/21!

1. Collect Bookmarks
2. Personal Reading
3. Monster Thesis Sentence
4. Work Time

Agenda, January 12

Due Now: Typed Character Analysis Paragraph
Due Thursday: Bookmark 1, front and back. Read 30 minutes at home tonight.
Due Friday: Vocab Quiz 3
Due Yesterday: Go to Student Assist and print a grade report from this class. 

If you were absent on Friday, you need to make up Vocab Quiz 2 after school in B-107. You will need to arrange your own transportation. 

1. Vocab Cartoons: Four words, use color
2. Work Time

Agenda, January 11

Due Now: Thesis Handout, page one
Due Wednesday: Typed Character Analysis Paragraph
Due Thursday: Bookmark 1, front and back
Due Friday: Vocab Quiz 3
Due at the end of class Today: Go to Student Assist and print a grade report from this class.

If you were absent on Friday, you need to make up Vocab Quiz 2 after school in B-107. You will need to arrange your own transportation.

1. Personal Reading
2. Everyday Edits
3. 13 Sentence Types: Occasion-Position
4. Excellent People Change Examples
5. Work Time

Agenda, January 10

Due Now: Character Analysis Paragraph Worksheet
Tonight: Read for 15 minutes
Due Friday: Vocab Quiz 3
Due Tomorrow: Thesis Sentence, Page 1
Due Wednesday: Typed Character Analysis Paragraph

If you were absent on Friday, you need to make up Vocab Quiz 2 after school in B-107. You will need to arrange your own transportation.

1. Personal Reading
2. Bookmark Back
3. Vocab 3
4. What's a Thesis?
5. Short Story Independent Study 
6. Work Time

Agenda, January 7

Due Now: Bookmark Check & Character Analysis Paragraph, Parts 1 - 6

Read 30 Minutes on Saturday and Sunday!

1. Vocab Quiz / Personal Reading
2. Character Analysis Paragraph
3. What is a Thesis Sentence?

Agenda, January 6

Due Now: Did you finish your paragraph yesterday?
Due Now: Personal reading book
Due Tomorrow: Vocab Quiz 1 and 2
Tonight: Read 15 minutes and record it on your bookmark.

1. Personal Reading
2. Everyday Edits
3. Return of the Essays
4. Character Analysis Paragraph
5. What's a Thesis Sentence?

Agenda, January 5

Due Wednesday: If you haven't finished your narrative, report to B107 after school today to finish. You will need to arrange your own transportation.
Due Thursday: Bring a personal reading book to class. If you want to check one out from me, you need to check it out before the end of the day on Wednesday in order to earn credit.
Due Thursday: Make sure you have a copy of the four short stories we've read: "They're Made Out of Meat", "The Follower", "Bigfoot Stole My Wife", and "The Black Cat"
Due Friday: Quiz on Vocab 1 and 2

1. Quick Book Talk
2. Quick Vocab Review
3. Finish "The Black Cat"
4. "People Change" Handout
5. What's a Thesis Sentence?
6. 13 Sentence Types: Occasion / Position

Agenda, January 4

Do Now: Don't unpack - it's seating chart time.
Due Wednesday: If you haven't finished your narrative, report to B107 after school on Wednesday to finish. You will need to arrange your own transportation.
Due Thursday: Bring a personal reading book to class. If you want to check one out from me, you need to check it out before the end of the day on Wednesday in order to earn credit.

Today's Learning Targets:

I know the elements of the Plot Pyramid.
I can master ten new vocabulary words.
I can track how a character changes over the course of a story.

1. Seating Chart / Hall Passes
2. How was your break?
3. Everyday Edits
4. Vocab #2
5. "The Black Cat" audio