Thursday, January 16, 2020

Agenda-

1. Take out lined paper, a pen, your essay help sheet, essay format sheet, and your writer’s notebook.
2. Writing Day 2 of your in-class essay. Remember this is your last day to work on this in class. You are doing the best you can to finish. This is a draft, and won’t look and sound like a final draft and that is okay!
3. For A Christmas Carol script to find your evidence, click here: ACC script
4. If you finish your essay before the end of class, read for your independent reading or study for the Vocabulary quiz tomorrow.

Homework-

Vocabulary Unit 4 Quiz tomorrow.

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Agenda-

1. Take out lined paper, a pen, your essay help sheet, essay format sheet, and your writer’s notebook.
2. Writing Day 1 of 2 of your in-class essay. If you did not finish finding your evidence yesterday or need to fix up your thesis and topic sentence, do that first before you write out your essay. Remember you have this whole class period and the whole class period tomorrow.  (Also, this is a timed in-class essay, so you will be keeping this in class).
3. For A Christmas Carol script to find your evidence, click here: ACC script

Homework-

Vocabulary Unit 4 Quiz Friday

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Agenda-

1. Take out lined paper, a pen, your essay help sheet, essay format sheet, and your writer’s notebook.
2. I’ll be checking your Christmas Carol notes while you are planning.
3. Planning Day for A Christmas Carol Essay (remember, this is a timed in-class essay, so you will be keeping this in class). I will give you your instructions in a handout.
4. For A Christmas Carol script to find your evidence, click here: ACC script

Homework-

Vocabulary Unit 4 Quiz Friday

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading

Monday, January 13, 2020

Agenda-

1. Turn in your Essay Reflection assignment
2. Take out your iPad/Chromebook, your Vocabulary Unit 4 packet, and a pen to grade with.
3. Goodreads comment. Click here for the Goodreads prompt: Goodreads Prompts 2019-2020
4. Correct Vocabulary Unit 4
5. Read for independent reading or study your vocabulary if time permits.

** Note- I will be checking your Christmas Carol notes (that should be done since we did this in class)  tomorrow while you plan for your timed in-class essay. Make sure you have your writer’s notebook with you.

Homework-

Vocabulary Unit 4 Quiz Friday

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading

Friday, January 10, 2020

Agenda-

1. Take out your iPad/Chromebook and your essay help sheets
2. Watch the last 10/15 minutes of ACC movie
3. Finish the social justice reflections activity. Follow the instructions and answer all of the questions on the slideshow. Click here for slideshow: Social Justice essay reflection 2020
4. Read for independent reading or work on vocabulary if time permits.

** Note- I will be checking your Christmas Carol notes (that should be done since we did this in class) this Tuesday while you plan for your timed in-class essay. Make sure you have your writer’s notebook with you.

Homework-

Typed and printed essay reflection due Monday.

Vocabulary Unit 4- annotate for main ideas- due Monday.

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading

Thursday, January 9, 2020

Agenda-

1. Take out your iPad/Chromebook and your essay help sheets
2. Pass back social justice essay and type social justice reflection. Follow the instructions and answer all of the questions on the slideshow. Click here for slideshow: Social Justice essay reflection 2020
3. Read for independent reading or work on vocabulary if time permits.

Homework-

Typed and printed essay reflection due Monday.

Vocabulary Unit 4- annotate for main ideas- due Monday.

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Agenda-

1. Class Spelling Bee
2. Read for independent reading or work on vocabulary if time permits.

Homework-

Vocabulary Unit 4- annotate for main ideas- due Monday.

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading.

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Agenda-

1. Take out a pen and your iPad/Chromebook
2. Goodreads Comment. Click here for the prompt: Goodreads Prompts 2019-2020
3. Vocabulary Unit 4- annotate for main ideas
4. Read for independent reading if time permits.

Homework-

Vocabulary Unit 4- annotate for main ideas- due Monday.

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading.

Monday,  January 6, 2020

Agenda-

1. YAA today!

Homework-

Vocabulary Unit 4- annotate for main ideas- due Monday

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading.