Daily Agendas and Assignments

Monday, October 28

What you need today: Draft of time essay, essay prompt

1. Bell Ringer: Open Padlet and add to the collaboration board on Line of Reasoning

2. Discuss the Line of Reasoning for "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Work Due:  Line of Reasoning for "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Assignment: Complete the first two Details "Whenever he was so fortunate" and "An old man, Don" be prepared to discuss at the start of class tomorrow

Tuesday, October 29

What you need today: 

1. Bell Ringer: On a sheet of paper, make a list of all the Disney villains you can think of. Then pick one and start to outline a "backstory." This should be from your own creation, not from a twisted or reimaged version of the story, if you use one that has a twisted/ reimagined fairy tale already be sure you are using your own creativity as the inspiration. Ex. Cruella / 101 Dalmatians or Maleficent/ Sleeping Beauty

2. Details "Whenever he was so fortunate" and "An old man, Don"

3. Disney Villains Argument Project, Day 1

Assignment: Finish project for presentation next Tuesday

Work Due:  Details "Whenever he was so fortunate" and "An old man, Don"

Wednesday, October 30

What you need today: colored pencils, markers, etc.

1. Disney Villains Argument Project, Day 2

Work Due:  Nothing due

Assignment: Work on project

Thursday, October 31

What you need today: Chromebook, pen/ pencil, highlighter

1. Halloween Prayer: Dear God, we ask that your hand of protection is upon everyone out trick or treating this Halloween. Keep them safe from harm, protect them from injury, protect them from dangerous people, protect them from getting lost. Be with each child, parent and guardian. Help them to feel safe and secure in their community. Amen. 

2. Guidance Presentation: Xello

3. Disney Villains Argument Project, Final Work Day

Work Due: Nothing due

Assignment: Work on project due Tuesday

Friday, November 1

What you need today: Chromebook, paper, highlighter, pen

1. Bell Ringer: None

2. "Letter from Birmingham Jail"  and MEAL

Work Due: Nothing

Assignment: Compose ONE body paragraph for Monday

Monday, November 4

What you need today: pen, paper, Chromebook 

1. Bell Ringer: Details, To those who saw him

2. Quarter 2 Says, Does Journals

3. Notes on Definition Essays

4. Read "Today's Leading Man" by Barna (print out)

Work Due: MEAL paragraph for Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Assignment: Do your first Says, Does Journal for "Shooting an Elephant"

Tuesday, November 5

What you need today: pen, paper, Chromebook

1. Bell Ringer: Read "Today's Leading Man" by Barna (print out you got yesterday)

2. Notes on Definition Essays

3. If time permits, start Deliberate and Intentional Syntax

Work Due: Do your first Says, Does Journal for "Shooting an Elephant"

Assignment: Deliberate and Intentional Syntax read document. Complete the Higher Level Thinking Question in a fresh google doc.  Be prepared to discuss and turn it in tomorrow to Google Classroom.

Wednesday, November 6

What you need today: pen, paper, AMSCO workbook

1. Bell Ringer: Details, The truck

2. Prayer: May the courage of Oscar Romero inspire us to work with integrity for an end to violence and poverty. Amen.

3. Finish Deliberate and Intentional Syntax 

4.  Start AMSCO Chapter 2 Review Section 1 (MCQs) and (FRQ) Replay in Sports (precis only) due Monday

Work Due: Deliberate and Intentional Syntax read document. Complete the Higher Level Thinking Question in a fresh google doc.  Be prepared to discuss and turn it in tomorrow to Google Classroom.

Assignment: Read "The Tiger is God" (RR) for Thursday and AMSCO Chapter 2 Review Section 1 (MCQs) and (FRQ) Replay in Sports (precis only) due Monday

Thursday, November 7

What you need today: AMSCO workbook, pen, paper, Chromebook

1. Prayer: May the courage of Oscar Romero inspire us to work with integrity for an end to violence and poverty. Amen.

2. Discuss "The Tiger is God" from RR 

   1. What is the impact on the reader of Harrigan's first paragraph? What tone does it set for the essay?

   2. What details does the author give that are most important in the defining the nature of the tiger? Pick out three or four specific paragraphs that are most important.

   3. Why do you think that Harrigan go into minute detail about the physical arrangements of the zoo and the schedules? Why would readers want to know these details?

   4. Notice the title. Is this an essay about Tigers? or is a essay about God? Explain your reasoning.

   5. Read into the metaphor of the title.

      • What are the qualities of God? Which source are you using? Depending on which God you believe in, or which part of the Bible used depend on the qualities being bestowed on the tiger in the comparison.

      • How do the qualities identified above provide deeper insight into what the title is getting at?

3. Work time on AMSCO

Work Due: Have read "The Tiger is God"

Assignment:  AMSCO Chapter 2 Review Section 1 (MCQs) and (FRQ) Replay in Sports (precis only) due Monday

Friday, November 8

What you need today: Pen, Questions from Thursday

1. Prayer: May the courage of Oscar Romero inspire us to work with integrity for an end to violence and poverty. Amen.

2. Work Time on Says, Does Journals, Flipbook, AMSCO

Work Due: Nothing due

Assignment:  AMSCO Chapter 2 Review Section 1 (MCQs) and (FRQ) Replay in Sports (precis only) due Monday

Monday, November 11

What you need today: pen, AMSCO workbook

1. Bell Ringer: Details, He went on until

2. Disney Villains Speeches

3. Notes on Exemplification/ Illustration Notes

4. Work Time: Read "Just Walk on By"

• Respond to the following questions in LOC

• Exploring the Text: 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11

Work Due: AMSCO Unit 2 Review Activities

Assignment:  "Just Walk on By," Respond to the following questions in LOC Exploring the Text: 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11

Tuesday, November 12

What you need today: pen, AMSCO workbook

1. Bell Ringer: Details, The dog

2. Finish Disney Villains Speeches

3. Notes on Exemplification/ Illustration Notes

4. Discuss "Just Walk on By"

Work Due:   "Just Walk on By," Respond to the following questions in LOC Exploring the Text: 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11

Assignment: Have read AMSCO Unit 3 Introduction & Anchor Texts for class time

Wednesday, November 13

What you need today: pen

1. Discuss Review of AMSCO unit 2

2. Discuss introduction to AMSCO Unit 3 

   • Introduction & Anchor Texts

     1. Read Unit 3 Introduction pp. 111-121

     2. Composing your own on p. 120

     3. What do you know? pp. 120-121

     4. Examine the graph at the bottom of p. 121, read the questions in the caption and respond. Be prepared to discuss on Wednesday.

Work Due: AMSCO Unit 3 Introduction & Anchor Texts

Assignment: Read AMSCO Unit 3, Part 1

Thursday, November 14

What you need today: pen, AMSCO workbook

1. Bell Ringer:  Details, If my mother

2. Discuss Claims and Evidence (AMSCO Unit 3, Part 1)

3. Notes on Process Analysis, if time permits

Work Due: AMSCO Unit 3, Part 1

Assignment: Read "Learning to Read and Write" with drafted SOAPSTone to discuss

Friday, November 15

What you need today: pen, AMSCO workbook

1. Bell Ringer: Details, About suffering

2. Notes on Process Analysis

3. Discuss "Learning to Read and Write"

4. AMSCO Unit 3, Part 2

Work Due: "Learning to Read and Write" with drafted SOAPSTone

Assignment: Finish reading AMSCO Unit 3, Part 2 and outline the LOR for "Learning to Read and Write" 

Monday, November 18

What you need today: pen, AMSCO workbook

1. Bell Ringer: Details, Under the hard

2. Prayer: May the courage of Oscar Romero inspire us to work with integrity for an end to violence and poverty. Amen.

3. Continue discussing AMSCO Unit 3, Part 2

4. Discuss LOR of "Learning to Read and Write" 

5. Read AMSCO Unit 3, Part 3

Work Due: Have finished reading AMSCO Unit 3, Part 2 and outline the LOR for "Learning to Read and Write" 

Assignment: Read AMSCO Unit 3, Part 3

Tuesday, November 19

What you need today: pen, AMSCO workbook

1. Bell Ringer: Details, I rounded the hut

2. Prayer: Grant O merciful God, That I may ardently desire, Prudently examine, Truthfully acknowledge, and  Perfectly accomplish What is pleasing to You,  For the praise and glory of Your name. Amen.

3. Finish 3.2 and Start 3.3

Work Due: Have read Unit 3, part 3

Assignment: Read "I Want a Wife" LOC p. 539, complete questions 3-6 in a typed document. Upload to Google Classroom BEFORE class starts

Wednesday, November 20

What you need today: pen, AMSCO

1. Bell Ringer: Details, How fine it is

2. Notes on Classification/ Division

3. Discuss "I Want a Wife" LOC p. 539

Work Due: "I Want a Wife" LOC p. 539, complete questions 3-6 in a typed document. Upload to Google Classroom BEFORE class starts

Assignment:  Do checkpoint MCQs for Unit 3, Part 3 (3.1: 2-4 and 3/ 3.2: 2 and 2/ 3.3: 2-4 and 3)

Thursday, November 21

1. Bell Ringer: Details, She was wearing

2. Prayer: Grant O merciful God, That I may ardently desire, Prudently examine, Truthfully acknowledge, and  Perfectly accomplish What is pleasing to You,  For the praise and glory of Your name. Amen.

3. Work Time on Final Exam Project (Flipbook) and Quarter 2 Project (Says, Does Journals)

Work Due: AMSCO Unit 3, Section 3 Multiple Choice

Assignment: AMSCO Unit 3, Sections 1-3 Apply What You Learned. You can put all 8 responses to the questions and the reflect on the essential questions in same document. Due Monday.

Friday, November 22 

What you need today: pen, LOC

1. Bell Ringer: Details, In fact right behind

2. Prayer: Grant O merciful God, That I may ardently desire, Prudently examine, Truthfully acknowledge, and  Perfectly accomplish What is pleasing to You,  For the praise and glory of Your name. Amen.

3. Go over Unit 3, Part 3 MCQs

4. Work Time on AMSCO Unit 3, Sections 1-3 Apply What You Learned. You can put all 8 responses to the questions and the reflect on the essential questions in same document. Due Monday.

Work Due: MCQs for Unit 3, Part 3, assigned Wednesday

Assignment:  AMSCO Unit 3, Sections 1-3 Apply What You Learned. You can put all 8 responses to the questions and the reflect on the essential questions in same document. Due Monday.

Monday, November 25

What you need today: pen, LOC

1. Notes on Exemplification/ Illustration Notes

2. Embedded Quote Practice

3. Read "On Dumpster Diving" (LOC) prepare a written response with embedded quotations to support your claim for question 12.

Work Due: AMSCO Unit 3, Sections 1-3 Apply What You Learned. You can put all 8 responses to the questions and the reflect on the essential questions in same document. Due Monday.

Assignment: Finish "On Dumpster Diving" and question 12 with embedded quotes

Tuesday, November 26 MID QUARTER

What you need today: pen, LOC

1. Bell Ringer: Details

2. Activity for "On Dumpster Diving"

3. Continue Embedded Quotes, if time permits

4. Start, if time permits--otherwise complete as homework--Compose precis for "On Dumpster Diving"

Lars Eighner crafts a well argued essay on the merits of Dumpster diving. Write an essay in which you analyze the rhetorical choices Eighner makes to convey his message that Dumpster diving is a result of America's obsession with wealth and consumerism.

Work Due: "On Dumpster Diving" and and question 12 with embedded quotes

Assignment: Write draft of rhetorical precis for "On Dumpster Diving" based on prompt above.

Wednesday, November 27 No School Happy THANK GOODNESS FOR A LONG BREAK

Thursday, November 28 No School Happy Thanksgiving

Friday, November 29 No School Happy Consumerism Weekend

Monday, December 2

1. Bell Ringer: Submit precis to Google Classroom

2. Finish Activity/Discussion of "On Dumpster Diving"

3. Continue Embedded Quotes using quote from activity.

Work Due: Rhetorical Precis for "On Dumpster Diving"

Assignment:  Read the Rhetorical Analysis Essay documents and the Rhetorical Strategies Cheat Sheet document BEFORE class time tomorrow

Tuesday, December 3

1. Bell Ringer: Precis revision activity

2. Discuss documents from Monday

3. Outlining for Rhetorical Analysis "On Dumpster Diving"

Work Due: Have read the documents provided on Monday

Assignment: Finish outline for essay, bring PRINTED copy to class and upload to Google Classroom

Wednesday, December 4

1. Bell Ringer: Review outlines in pairs

2. Example Rhetorical Analysis

3. Compose draft of essay

Work Due: PRINTED outline and uploaded to Google Classroom outline

Assignment: Finish draft of essay for Thursday's class. Bring PRINTED draft to class.

Thursday, December 5

What you need today: Chromebook, pen

1. Powerful Conclusions for Rhetorical Analysis a la Garden of English

2. Peer Review 

3. Revise essay

Work Due: Printed draft of essay

Assignment: Revise essay for Friday

Friday, December 6

What you need today: pen, highlighter

1. Quote Integration Tips a la Garden of English

2. Peer editing

3. Revise

Work Due: Printed Revision of essay for class

Assignment: Rhetorical Analysis essay due Monday. 

Monday, December 9

Prayer

1. Take notes on Compare and Contrast

2. Read together Twain, "Two Ways of Seeing a River." As you read, complete a Says/Does journal for this essay.

3. Work time for  "Two New Baseball Palaces"

Work Due: Rhetorical Analysis on Dumpster Diving--Submit to Turnitin.com AND Google Classroom

Assignment: Read "Two New Baseball Palaces" & complete the Says/Does Journal for the reading. Be prepared to share with a peer who will offer feedback on it.

Tuesday, December 10

Prayer

1. Bell Ringer: Read Grammy Rewards. Consider which kind of Compare and Contrast essay is this one? In what ways is it structurally similar to Twain's essay? In what ways is it different?

2. Score your peer's says does using the rubric. Offer constructive feedback to help them improve no only this Says/ Does entry, but that could be applied to any others they have or need to do.

3. Work Time on "The Ways of Meeting Oppression" (Print out)

Work Due: Read "Two New Baseball Palaces" & complete the Says/Does Journal

Assignment: MLK's "The Ways of Meeting Oppression" & Complete Questions for Study and Discussion 1-5 have something written down, so I can check off that you have done it.

Wednesday, December 11

Prayer

1. Discussion of MLK's "The Ways of Meeting Oppression" 

2. Questions for Study and Discussion 1-5

Work Due: MLK's "The Ways of Meeting Oppression" & Complete Questions for Study and Discussion 1-5

Assignment: Write a one page reflection on a problem common in middle school. What advice (solution) would you recommend for that problem?

Thursday, December 13 

Prayer

1. Notes on Cause and Effect & Problem Solution 

2. Read "After a Lean Acorn Crop"

Work Due: One page problem/ solution reflection (typed)

Assignment: Finish "After a Lean Acorn Crop" & Read "Human Cost of an Illiterate Society" complete Says/ Does for each

Friday, December 13 

Prayer

1. Finish discussing "After a Lean Acorn Crop"

   • What does it say?

   • What does it do?

   • What quotes exemplify how it connects to the audience?

2. Discuss "Human Cost of an Illiterate Society"

   • What does it say?

   • What does it do?

   • What quotes exemplify how it connects to the audience?

Work Due: Finish "After a Lean Acorn Crop" & Read "Human Cost of an Illiterate Society"

Assignment: Read Tanzina Vega, “Monks Embrace Web to Reach Recruits”  complete Says/Does and be ready to share/ present your precis with the class, explaining how you made the choices you did.

Monday, December 16

Prayer

1. Discuss Tanzina Vega, “Monks Embrace Web to Reach Recruits” 

2. Start Red Jacket in "Defense of Native American Religion"

Work Due: Have read Tanzina Vega, “Monks Embrace Web to Reach Recruits”  can completed Says/ Does

Assignment: Read Red Jacket in "Defense of Native American Religion" and complete Says/ Does

Tuesday, December 17

Prayer

1.  Activity on Red Jacket in "Defense of Native American Religion"

Work Due: Have read Red Jacket in "Defense of Native American Religion" and complete Says/ Does, bring printed draft for teacher check and comments

Assignment: Work on Says/ Does Journals

Wednesday, December 18 

Prayer

1. Bell Ringer: None

2. Continue working on Says/ Does improvements

3. Example of Says/ Does Chart

Work Due: Nothing due

Assignment: Read "Wonder Woman" by Gloria Steinem complete Says/ Does share document link for commenting access here

Thursday, December 19

What you need today: Pen, Chromebook

Prayer

1. Bell Ringer: None

2. Discussion on "Wonder Woman"

3. Work day Says/ Does or Flipbook

Work Due: Nothing Due

Assignment: Work on Says/Does and Flipbook over break

Friday, December 20 Golden Mass Day

Prayer

1. Bell Ringer: None

2. Work day Says/ Does or Flipbook

Work Due: Nothing due

Assignment: Work on Says/Does and Flipbook over break

Monday, December 30

No School

Tuesday, December 31

No School

Wednesday, January 1 HAPPY NEW YEAR!

No School

Thursday, January 2

Prayer: 

1. Flipbook (Final Project)

Work Due: Says/ Does Journals

Assignment: Work on Flipbook, due Tuesday

Friday, January  3

Prayer: 

1. Bell Ringer: 

2. MLA 9

Work Due: Extension for "Says, Does" Due Today

Assignment: Flipbook MLA 9 Works Cited for Monday at the start of class, PRINTED

Monday, January 6

What you need today: pen, Chromebook

1. Bell Ringer:

2. What is Satire?

3. Read and Discuss "A Modest Proposal"

Work Due: 

Assignment: TBA

Tuesday, January 7

What you need today: Pen, Chromebook

1. Bell Ringer:

2. 
   

Work Due: TBA

Assignment: TBA

Wednesday, January 8

What you need today: 

Final Exams Periods 

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Thursday, January 9

What you need today: 

Final Exams Periods 

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Friday, January 10

What you need today: 

Final Exams Periods 

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