Friday, September 27

They also need to show me SB 26, A15 (this chart they are making) and SB “Bethany” color coded. 

Each member of your group must choose a different vignette from the passage “Cut.”


Reread the passage. Look for the elements of a narrative interview that are on your chart.

Fill out the chart using support from the text.

When you finish, help your neighbor. No 100 until all group members are finished.

 Chart:

Description of person: What do they look like?  What are they wearing?  How do they act?
Description of setting of interview: Where are you?  What do they pay attention to during the interview?
Emphasis on the importance of the event How has their experience changed their life and who they have become?
Direct Quotations What quotes from the interview show VOICE and should be used with quotation marks?
Indirect Quotations What quotes do you want to summarize or rephrase?

Thursday, September 26

• Turn in the short answers from your vocab test that you rewrote.


• Make a key on the first page of “Bethany” – You will be coding the passage using 5 colors.

• Read pages 52-54 in your SB

• Mark a different color for

• description of person

• description of setting of interview

• emphasis on importance of event

• direct quotations

• indirect quotations

Wednesday, September 25

¤Define Coming of Age.  Then, explain how one of the stories we read illustrates the concept Coming of Age.  Be detailed and be plentiful.

¤Explain how an author we have read from our Springboard book created a unique voice in his or her writing. 

 

Due tomorrow.

Tuesday, September 24

Rewrite your short answer responses on loose paper and turn in to the bin. You may use your SB and your spiral. You may not use each other. DUE THURSDAY. Finish reading “Cut” and filling out the chart in your SB book.

Monday. September 23

Finish presentations


Preview Embedded Assessment (50% of final exam grade)

Read 60-61:

Circle the verbs

Underline the nouns

Mark unfamiliar words with a question mark

At the bottom of 61, write a list of questions you have or things you need to learn before the EA is due.

Thursday, September 19

Test


Finish writing your introductions (A13)

Grading: A5, A10, spiral Grade

Wednesday, September 18

Finish your A13 introduction.
Study for your test tomorrow. 
Have A5, A10, and A12 ready to be graded tomorrow. 

Tuesday, September 17

We interviewed our partners onto A12 of your spiral and began our first draft of the introduction of that partner onto A13.  You will work in class on Thursday (after your TEST) to complete the introduction. 

Friday, September 13

Quotation mark rules - Copy someone's A11


Pages 13-14 in SB - Write your 4 open ended questions onto A12 in your spiral.   They should be written on the left side of the paper in Cornell Note format.  We will begin interviews next week. 

Thursday, September 12

A5 – Add examples from SB or your own writing to each of the vocabulary cards


A10 – Create complete vocabulary cards for the 6 review words in SB:

Direct Quotation, Indirect Quotation, Protagonist, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole

Show A9 and SB 18 to Mrs. Bennett for grading. You will also get a notebook grade today.

Test next Thursday: All vocabulary terms from A5 and A10.

Be able to explain the concepts Coming of Age and Voice in writing.

Be able to explain how an author connects to the theme of Coming of Age and how he or she creates a unique Voice in one of the passages from your SB book that you’ve read.

September 11, 2013

All classes discussed the events of 9/11.  No assignment to make up, but make sure your A9 is complete in your spiral.  It will be checked tomorrow. 

Tuesday, September 10

* Make sure your chart on SB 18 is completed with detail.

* A9 - Redo your quickwrite from A6. Your new quickwrite should be written using someone else's voice. You brainstormed on A8, and that chart might guide you. This assignment is due Thursday.

Remind 101

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Monday, September 9

FAIR test

Thursday - Friday, September 5-6

Thursday-
1.  Finish LIA test
2.  Finish A8 (Voice Chart in your spiral) and show to Mrs. Bennett
3.  Grade check with Mrs. Bennett

HW:  Make sure you are caught up to assignment A8 in your spiral.

Friday- Substitute
1. Fill out SB page 18 after reading the passage assigned to you in class.  If you were absent, choose one and read it.  We will fill out the rest of the chart in class next week.

***FAIR TEST MONDAY***

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, September 3-5

Tuesday and Wednesday - LIA reading test
Thursday - FAIR reading test