Agenda, April 28

Due Now: Ch 7 & half of 8
Due Friday: Ch. 8 & 9
Friday: Quiz on Ch 5-9

Extra Credit? Celebrate the end of National Poetry Month! Go to OCPoWriMo and comment on three poems. Make sure you comment on the literary devices. Naturally, you'll use your best spelling and grammar.

1. Independent Reading
2. Return quizzes  / Your questions
3. Boo, Jem, and Scout on a 6-event timeline
4. Character Chart (and this time I mean it)
5. Figurative Language Analysis

Agenda, April 27

Grades are updated on ESIS

Due Now: Ch 5 & 6
Due Thurs: Ch 7 & half of 8
Due Friday: Ch. 8 & 9
Friday: Quiz on Ch 5-9

If you missed the Ch 1-4 quiz, go to B107 today after school.

1. Courage!
2. 826 Valencia
3. Character Chart
4. Independent Reading

Agenda, April 26

Due Now: Chapter 4
Due Tomorrow: Chapters 5 & 6

1. Testers to D112
2. Independent Reading
3. 5 minutes of questions
4. Quiz, Ch 1-4
5. Character Charts
6. Elements of Poetry
7. A poem by e.e. cummings

Agenda, April 25

Due Now: Read Chapters 2 & 3
Due Now: Storyboard Chapters 2 & 3. Good art is not a requirement, but it helps.
Due Tomorrow: Read Chapter 4. There might be a quiz on Ch. 1-4 tomorrow. Who knows?

1. Testers to D112
2. Independent Reading
3. Vocab again, finally!
4. Share our storyboards
5. Character charts

Agenda, April 22

Due Now: Show me your Mockingbird
Due Monday: Read Chapters 2 & 3
Due Monday: Storyboard Chapters 2 & 3. Good art is not a requirement, but it helps.

1. Late work / book checkout
2. Testers to D112
3. Think, pair, share: Dares
4. Storyboard: Haunted houses or dares
5. Chapter 1 / Character Charts

Agenda, April 21

Due Now: Opinionnaire
Due Tomorrow: Bring Mockingbird. DO NOT start reading tonight.

1. Divide and Conquer: Opinionnaire in small groups or Writing Time
2. Opinnionaire as a whole class
3. To the Library, Batman!

Agenda, April 20

Due Tomorrow: Opinionaire

1. Green sheet review.
2. Pink sheet review.
3. Everybody proofreads. Read the whole thing. Does it make sense? Does it have enough detail? Read each sentence from capital to period. Does each sentence sound like a sentence?
4. Writing time. Our goal is to finish today, but DO NOT rush.

Agenda, April 19

1. Fun with Sentence Fluency
2. Writing Time
3. "somewhere i have never traveled"

Agenda, April 18

1. "Dulce et Decorum Est"
2. You vs. You
3. Spell check, then define
4. Advice from the green sheet
5. Your angry essays
6. Writing Time

Agenda, April 15

Due ASAP: Typed Angry Essay

1. SWA Drafting time
2. "Dulce et Decorum Est," by Wilfred Owen

Agenda, April 14

Due ASAP: Typed Angry Essay
Due Now: Print your grades from ESIS. Make sure you write your name on them.

1. "Dulce et Decorum Est," by Wilfred Owen
2. SWA Brainstorming Time / Drafting time

Agenda, April 13

Due ASAP: Typed Angry Essay
Due Yesterday: 3 original metaphors, similes, and personifications
Due Thursday: Print your grades from ESIS. Make sure you write your name on them.

Vocab Quiz Makeups: Today after school in B107.

1. New Seating Chart
2. "This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams
3. SWA Brainstorming Time

Agenda, April 12

Due Today at the end of class: Typed Angry Essay
Due Now: 3 original metaphors, similes, and personifications
Due Thursday: Print your grades from ESIS

1. SWA Checklist
2. OCPoWriMo
3. Onomatopoeia, Alliteration, Consonance
4. Sentence Prescriptions
5. Typing Time

• Save your file with your initials followed by your period number. For example: EKp2 or EKp3
• Be sure to eject your flash drive before you remove it.
• If you finish or if get tired of typing, you may begin work on tonight's homework.

Agenda, April 11

Due Tuesday at the end of class: Typed Angry Essay
Due Tuesday at the beginning of class: Write 3 original metaphors, similes, and personifications

1. SWA Spelling List
2. Typing Time

• Save your file with your initials followed by your period number. For example: EKp2 or EKp3
• Be sure to eject your flash drive before you remove it.
• If you finish or if get tired of typing, you may begin work on tonight's homework.

Agenda, April 8

Due Yesterday: Complete Angry Essay Rough Draft
Due Now: Quiz on Vocab 7

Extra Credit? Visit OCPoWriMo and leave 3 comments: what did you like and why? Use good conventions, please.

1. Quiz
2. SWA Spelling List
3. Peer Review
4. Sentence Fluency Chart

Agenda, April 7

Due at the end of class: Complete Angry Essay Rough Draft
Due Tomorrow: Quiz on Vocab 7

Extra Credit? Visit OCPoWriMo and leave 3 comments: what did you like and why? Use good conventions, please.

1. OCPoWriMo / Lit Terms Review
2. Vocab Cartoons
3. Drafting Time

Agenda, April 6

Due Thursday at the end of class: Angry Essay Rough Draft
Due Friday: Quiz on Vocab 7 and Elements of Poetry

Forecasting Questions
OCPoWriMo
Conclusion Strategies
Drafting Time

Agenda, April 5

Due Yesterday: Song Lyrics
Due Thursday by the end of class: Angry Rough Draft

1. OCPoWriMo / Poetry Terms Review
2. Vocab 7
3. Angry Essay Introduction Techniques
4. Drafting Time

Agenda, April 4

Due Now: "Good" lyrics
Due Thursday: Completed Rough Draft of Angry Essay

1. Good paragraph, 1st draft
2. Elements of Poetry
3. A Well-Developed Good Paragraph
4. Angry Essay: Organization and Body Paragraphs