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English 1/2 (Period 1)

Course Description

 Period 1 and 6, English 1/2, Room 509/PAC
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Tues. 10/10/17

-Go to library, return/renew/check out books
-Type clever.com into your url bar
-click "log in as a student" on the top right
-Click the "HMH" button
-Take the Reading Inventory test
 

Mon. 10/2/17-Fri. 10/6/17

-Independent Reading Book Review #2 due Tues 10/10 @7:30am.
-Visual Memoir Project: Submit only your YouTube unlisted link/url on Fri 10/6.
-Create a Google Slides version of your memoir with images and notes. Screencast the slides(add audio narration) and upload to Youtube(unlisted) 2minutes:30seconds-3minutes:30seconds long.
-Template for slide creation:
-Photos For Class:
-Visual Memoir Rubric

Tues. 9/26/17- Fri. 9/29/17

 -Edit/revise your Personal Memoir Essay's grammatical errors.
-Submit final draft by 11:59pm Friday 9/29.
-HIGHLIGHT dialog/quotes in "light red berry 3"
-sensory details/figurative language in "light green 2"
-meaning/lesson in "light purple 2"
-Add or revise dialog (quotes/scenes)
-Add a stated or implied meaning/lesson to your Memoir. What did you learn from your experience/incident.
-Revise to add figurative language/sensory details(sight,sound,taste,touch,smell) to your memoir.
-Share with one partner. Have that partner edit your memoir. Avoid complimenting. Only focus on critiquing. 
-Add partner edits to your memoir.
-Share your memoir with your 4/5 person group.
-Group procedure
-Slow down time, explode a moment so that something that took just a few minutes or seconds can be written about in detail that extends the experience.
 -Memoir Rubric #1
-Memoir Rubric #2
-Have your parent/guardian fill out Theatre Booster form WITH their email and turn in ASAP.

Mon. 9/25/17

-Write an on-demand(in class) five paragraph essay about your own personal memoir (700-800 words). We will spend the rest of this week revising it.
-Memoir Writing Prompt
-Example of a first draft essay that still needs editing
-Memoir Writing Techniques
-Memoir Rubric #1
-Memoir Rubric #2
-Have your parent/guardian fill out Theatre Booster form WITH their email and turn in ASAP.

Fri. 9/22/17

-Get into your group and FINISH answering quiz questions for Fist Stick Knife Gun. Submit by end of THIS period.
-Quiz
-Story Text
-Open your English Journal
  1. Add today's date at the TOP. (not under your other work.)
  2. In your Google Doc, go to Table/Insert Table and choose 2x2. Two squares high and two squares wide. 
  3. Add numbers and make your table. One box with ages 1-4, one box with ages 5-9, one box with ages 10-11, and one box for ages 12-now.
  4. In EACH box write 3-4 events, big or small, that happened in your life during those years. 
  • Write about one of the events you listed in your chart, or an event you listed while you were relating to the memoirs we read this week. 
  • Include details about who, where, when, why. 
  • Include information about emotions, (yours and others), events, and your reflection. 
  • Do you still feel the same way about this event now as you did then? 
  • What did this event teach you about life?
  • Tell the story, use what you remember, guess about the details you can't quite recall.
 -In your English Journal, list what sights do you vividly remember and why? List at least three.
-In your English Journal, make a list of sounds you vividly remember and why. List at least three.
 
-Be prepared to write an on-demand(in class) five paragraph essay on Monday about your own personal memoir. We will spend the rest of next week revising it.
-Personal Memoir guide
-Example of a first draft essay that still needs editing
-Have your parent/guardian fill out Theatre Booster form WITH their email and turn in ASAP.

Thurs. 9/21/17

Open your English Journal
  1. Add today's date at the TOP. (not under your other work.)
  2. In your Google Doc, go to Table/Insert Table and choose 2x2. Two squares high and two squares wide. 
  3. Add numbers and make your table. One box with ages 1-4, one box with ages 5-9, one box with ages 10-11, and one box for ages 12-now.
  4. In EACH box write 3-4 events, big or small, that happened in your life during those years. 
  • Write about one of the events you listed in your chart, or an event you listed while you were relating to the memoirs we read this week. 
  • Include details about who, where, when, why. 
  • Include information about emotions, (yours and others), events, and your reflection. 
  • Do you still feel the same way about this event now as you did then? 
  • What did this event teach you about life?
  • Tell the story, use what you remember, guess about the details you can't quite recall.
 
-Have your parent/guardian fill out Theatre Booster form WITH their email and turn in ASAP.

Wed. 9/20/17

 -Finish reading Fist Stick Knife Gun and answer the embedded questions (delete the story text before you submit, so it's only the questions/answers/lines you underline).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12SA50yWxIERCMH3UH0VJUYX2YhDGfH0BF_Bd6mvTH20/edit?usp=sharing 
  1. Open your English Journal
  2. Add today's date at the TOP. (not under your other work.)
  3. In your Google Doc, go to Table/Insert Table and choose 2x2. Two squares high and two squares wide. 
  4. Add numbers and make your table. One box with ages 1-4, one box with ages 5-9, one box with ages 10-11, and one box for ages 12-now.
  5. In EACH box write 3-4 events, big or small, that happened in your life during those years. 
  • Write about one of the events you listed in your chart, or an event you listed while you were relating to the memoirs we read this week. 
  • Include details about who, where, when, why. 
  • Include information about emotions, (yours and others), events, and your reflection. 
  • Do you still feel the same way about this event now as you did then? 
  • What did this event teach you about life?
  • Tell the story, use what you remember, guess about the details you can't quite recall.
-Have your parent/guardian fill out Theatre Booster form WITH their email and turn in ASAP.

Tues. 9/19/17

-If you haven't already done so, submit your independent reading book #1 review.
-Look for your next independent reading book- 
-In your English Journal (create a new doc), make a list of smells you remember vividly and why. A minimum of 3 smells and why.
 -Start reading Fist Stick Knife Gun and answer the embedded questions up through "`18"-
-Have your parent/guardian fill out Theatre Booster form WITH their email and turn in ASAP.

Mon. 9/18/17

-If you haven't already done so, submit all of the group memoirs answers-
-Submit your independent reading book #1 review by the end of this period.
Choose one of the three book review formats.
 -If you get done early, start reading Fist Stick Knife Gun and answer the embedded questions-
-Look for your next independent reading book- 
-Have your parent/guardian fill out Theatre Booster form WITH their email and turn in ASAP.

Fri. 9/15/17

-Each group member will travel to the other groups, teaching them about their memoir (summarizing it) and sharing their group's best answers 1-7.
-Everyone in the class will submit ALL answers to ALL memoirs by the end of this period today.
-If you get done early, start writing your independent reading book #1 review.
-Aria memoir
-The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
-Amy Tan
Black Boy
My Father Told me I was Fat
Woman Hollering Creek
 
-Have your parent/guardian fill out Theatre Booster form WITH their email and turn in ASAP.

Thurs. 9/14/17

-Each group member will travel to the other groups, teaching them about their memoir (summarizing it) and sharing their group's best answers 1-7.
-Everyone in the class will submit ALL answers to ALL memoirs.
-Aria memoir
-The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
-Amy Tan
Black Boy
My Father Told me I was Fat
Woman Hollering Creek
 
-Have your parent/guardian fill out Theatre Booster form WITH their email and turn in ASAP.

Wed. 9/13/17

-Get into your group of 4 and read your group's assigned memoir.
-Everyone in your group answer all 8 of your memoir jigsaw questions.
-Share all 8 of your answers with your group and decide as a group which answer is best. Change your answers to the "best" ones.
 
-Aria memoir
-The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
-Amy Tan
Black Boy
My Father Told me I was Fat
Woman Hollering Creek
Homework- due by end of class Thurs. 9/14/17-
-Have your parent/guardian fill out Theatre Booster form WITH their email and turn in ASAP.

Tues. 9/12/17

-Submit "Us and Them" Close Reading questions by 11:59pn TONIGHT.
-Mrs. C will change your seating chart and you will form groups of 4 and read and answer Jigsaw Memoir questions. Each person will eventually rotate to other groups, teaching them about their assigned memoir. 
-Aria memoir
-The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
-Amy Tan
Black Boy
My Father Told me I was Fat
Woman Hollering Creek
Homework-
-Have your parent/guardian fill out Theatre Booster form and turn in ASAP.

Mon. 9/11/17

-If you were absent on Friday, Take "Us and Them" Quiz
Only answer multiple choice questions. Put "NA" for close reading questions.
-Submit "Us and Them" Analysis and Response by end of this period.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mn1-eoVOBKm1rbXVn0ImT7BN8xD64JrycdoaQYMHruI/edit?usp=sharing
-Submit updated English Journal by end of this period.
-Homework- "Us and Them" Close Reading questions- due Tues 9/12/17
-Have your parent/guardian fill out Theatre Booster form and turn in ASAP.