Plans for February 27 - March 3

Post date: Feb 24, 2017 9:14:26 PM

Monday, February 27 - West Hall Book Fair Begins

• Reading Response #11: It Says/I Say

• Reading/Media Review/Enrichment

  • Pre-AP: Creating Infographics with Piktochart

  • 2nd Period: Poetry analysis and Kahoot! quiz

  • 3rd Period: Fake News

• Research/Plagiarism - Using direct quotes and paraphrase

Tuesday, February 28

• Everyday Edit: Thomas Edison

• Book Fair Visit

• Writing:

  • Essay #7 - Prewriting/Organizing

Wednesday, March 1 - Get Lost in a Book (Wear Camouflage)

• Warm-Up: Reading a flyer (conclusions, inferencing, context clues, internal and external text structures)

• Grammar Review: Coordinating Conjunctions

• Writing:

  • Drafting Essay #7

• 2 hr. early release - inclement weather

Thursday, March 2 - Read Across America Day

• Everyday Edit: Dr. Seuss

• Grammar: Correlative and Subordinating Conjunctions

• Writing:

  • Drafting/Editing Essay #7

• Homework: Finish RR #11

Friday, March 3 - Last day of Book Fair

• RR #11 Follow-Up

• Writing:

  • SOL Prompt Review: Pop-Up Debate/Group Discussion/Thesis Statement Throwdown

  • Revising for Clarity/Eliminate repetition

  • Essay #7 small group/peer revision

• Homework: Study for Multiple Choice Writing SOL Released Test on Tuesday, Essay #7 due Wednesday