Ms. Devery

Homeroom:

8th grade English:

1. Entry task: What are some of the things you did this summer? and complete a 2 minute check of desk and computer to make sure that they have not been damaged.
2. Go over expectations of what Be respectful looks, sounds, and feels like in My Classroom.
3. Complete practice same graphic organizer of My Summer Break.
4. Exit Slip: Share some back to school advice for elementary and secondary students.  

1. Entry task- What does respectful looks, sounds, and feels like in Ms. Devery's classroom? and complete a 2 minute check of desk and computer to make sure that they have not been damaged.
2. Go over expectations of what safe looks, sounds, and feels like in Ms. Devery's classroom.
3. Finish graphic organizer on your summer break and turn it in.
4. if completed my begin the SELFIE
5. Exit Slip: Write a reflection on why it is important to stand up for yourself.

1. Entry Task: What does safe looks, sounds and feels like in Ms. Devery's classroom?
2. Go over expectations of what responsible looks, feels, and sounds like in Ms. Devery's classroom. 
3. Finish SELFIE and turn it in
4. Begin Letter to myself 
5. Exit slip: write a reflection on  living without plastic, and complete a 2 minute check of desk and computer to make sure that they have not been damaged.

1. Entry task- What does responsible look, sound, and feel like in Ms. Devery's classroom?
2. Go over expectations of what being engaged looks, sounds, and feels like in Ms. Devery's classroom. 
3. Finish Letter to myself and turn it in.
4. Begin Who AM I Questionnaire
5.  Exit Slip: Write an explanation of the technology they would use, and discuss the potential drawbacks of this technology.

Homeroom:

English:

1. Entry task:  What is your best quality as a human being?  Explain  Also check your desk for vandalism.
2. Go over All About You Poster and the rubric
3. Finish interviews
4. Exit Slip: Write about something you are passionate (excited) about.   Also check your desk for vandalism

1. Entry task: Why is it important to look at your rubric before you start your project? Explain.
2. Work on your poster
3. Finish your interview 
4. Exit Slip: Explain what you think will be the most difficult part of this project.

1. Entry task: What is the progress on your poster? Explain. Will you be able to turn it in on time? Explain.   Also check your desk for vandalism
2. Finish poster due Thursday
3. Finish Interviews
4. Go over rubric before you turn in the poster 
5. Exit Slip: So far, how are you feeling about Mountain View Middle School especially the changes? Explain

1. Entry Task:  What makes a story scary?   Also check your desk for vandalism
2. Pass out workbook pages
3. Go over standards, formative assessments and set goal
4. Answer essential question
5. Choose homework assignment and go over expectations.  The homework is due at the end of the unit.
6. Set your goals using index cards
7. Stream Start video and answer questions
8. Exit Slip: What is your goal for this reading excerpt?

1. Entry task- What homework story did you chose?  Do you have all the material?   Also check your desk for vandalism
2. Finish the questions on Stream Video
3. Read What is a Horror Genre? Textbook pages 85-88
4. Complete Academic Vocabulary
5. Complete questions 4-5 and questions 1-3
6. Complete engage in brain List it and Self Awareness
7. Complete the set of questions
8. Exit Slip: What is the central idea of the story or text?

Homeroom:

English:

1. Entry Task: Why is it important to not give up when some tasks are difficult or challenging?
2. I Ready Diagnostic Expectations
3. 2 minute check on damages at desk and check and check out Chromebooks
4. Complete Friday the 13th Passage, and activities and turn them in today.
5. Go onto Google Classroom and begin the grammar and mechanics Sentences
6. Exit Slip: What change would you like to see in our world?

1. Entry task: Write a sentence using a noun, verb, and adjective.  Make sure you label the parts of speech.
2. I Ready Diagnostic Expectations
3. 2 minute check on damages at desk and check and check out Chromebooks
4. Finish Grammar and Mechanics-Sentences
5. Begin the Writable in HMH
6. Exit Slip: Why is it important to not bully or harass anyone?  What should you do when you see someone being bullied? Explain.

1. Entry task: Why is it important to do your very best on the I Ready Fall Diagnostic?
2. I Ready Diagnostic Expectations
3. 2 minute check on damages at desk and check and check out Chromebooks
4. Begin I Ready Diagnostic for Fall in Reading
5. Exit Slip: What can YOU do to help change the world for the better?

1. Entry Task: How far did you get on the I Ready Fall Diagnostic? Was anything difficult? Did you give up? Explain.
2. I Ready Diagnostic Expectations
3. 2 minute check on damages at desk and check and check out Chromebooks
4. Work on the I Ready Fall Diagnostic
5. When finished make sure the Writable and Sentences in HMH is completed.
6. Exit Slip: Describe our school using a noun, a verb, and an adjective. Remember to label the parts of speech.

1. Entry Task: Did you finish your I Ready Fall Diagnostic? IF not, how far did you get?  What were the resutls of the diagnostic?  How do you think you did? Explain.
2. I Ready Diagnostic Expectations
3. 2 minute check on damages at desk and check and check out Chromebooks
4. Finish the I Ready Diagnostic
5. Make sure you have finished the writable (2), and Grammar and Mechanics Sentences in the HMH program.
6. Receive first workbook: What is a Horror Genre?
7. Exit Slip:  What makes a story scary?

Homeroom:

English:

1. 2 minute check for desk and Chromebook Damage
2. Complete Planner WB p1-11
3. Entry task: What makes a story scary?
4. Hand out workbooks
5. Go over homework section WB p 1 and hand out materials
6. Answer essential question: Why do we sometimes like to feel frightened? WB p 7
7. Go over standards for this unit WB p2-6
8. Watch Stream to Start Video and answer question ABC WB p8
9. Answer questions 4-5 WB p9
10. Engage your brain questions 1-3 WB p10-11
11. Exit Slip: Use predict and technique in a sentence that show the meaning of the word. 

1. 2 minute check for desk and Chromebook Damage
2. Complete Planner WB p12-14
3. Entry task: Write a sentence using a comma to separate a word or phrase.
4. Finish WB p1-11
5. Read What is a Horror Genre TB p85-88
6. Central Idea WB p12
7. Question 2 paraphrase and summarize WB p13
8. Question 3 Quotation with Annotation WB p13
9. Senses graphic organizer WB p14
10. Exit Slip: What is the central idea of a story or text?

1. 2 minute check for desk and Chromebook Damage
2. Complete Planner WB p 15-16
3. Entry task: What is the difference between paraphrasing and summarizing?
4. Finish WB p1-14
5. Question 5 Expand Vocabulary ABC WB p15
6. Watch In Focus Video and answer questions 6 WB p16
7. Exit Slip: What makes a good horror story? Use text from excerpt to support your answer.

1. 2 minute check for desk and Chromebook Damage
2. Complete Planner WB  16-21
3. Entry task: What is the purpose of the central idea of the excerpt?
4. Listen to What makes a horror story and answer questions TB 85-88 and answer questions 7-11 WB p16-17
5. Question 12 answer how the main idea of paragraph 4 contributes to the development of the central idea? WBp17
6. Whole class A-D Wb p18
7. Responsible Decision Making WB p19
8. Level up tutorial on summarizing and summarizing practice WB p21
9. Exit Slip: What is the connection between the main idea and the central idea?

1. 2 minute check for desk and Chromebook Damage
2. Complete Planner ASSESSMENTS
3. Entry task: Explain how the five senses helps you understand a meaning of a word?
4. Turn and Talk and Response Log
5. Assessment Practice, and oral assessment
6. Online assessment
7. Analyze text and Central Idea
8. Exit Slip: How does the use of direct quotes enhance your paper when explaining an idea?

Homeroom:

English:

1. 1 minute check on desks and computers, write in planner: Finish assessments and projects, and record grades WB p6 (Friday entry and exit slip)
2. Entry task: Why is it important to reflect on good and poor decisions in your life?
3. Online Grammar Practice
4. Online assessment
5.  Punctuation assessment on suffixes/vocabulary
6. Begin working on project
7. Exit Slip:  Add a suffix to the following sentence: A good horror story electrify ________________ the readers.

1. 1 minute check on desks and computers, write in planner: Finish assessments and projects, and record grades WB p6 (Monday's  entry and exit slip)
2. Entry task: Use the words justify and intensify in a sentence that shows the meaning of the words.
3. Finish project
4. Begin Literary poster
5. turn in workbook
6. get new workbook for the Tell-Tale Heart
7. Answer essential question on WB p8
8. Read and take notes on Point of View WB p9
9. Exit slip: Define what is the horror genre. (Use enhancing language)

1. 1 minute check on desks and computers, write in planner: WB p7-13, and record grades WB p6 (Tuesday's  entry and exit slip)
2. Entry task: What do you know about Edgar Allan Poe?
3. Finish answering essential question on WB p8, and taking notes on point of view on WB p9
4. Watch stream in video and answer the question on the bottom of WB p16
5. Analyze Suspense WB p10
6. Expand your vocabulary WB p16
7. Exit slip: Do you think Edgar Allan Poe's life and experiences impacted the themes of his short stories?

1. 1 minute check on desks and computers, write in planner: WB p11-13 and bottom of 16, and record grades WB p6 (Wednesday entry and exit slip)
2. Entry task: Why do we sometimes like to feel frightened?
3. Watch Text In Video and answer question on the bottom of page 16
4. Read The Tell=Tale Heart TB p97-102
5. Complete graphic organizer WB p11
6. Complete senses graphic organizer WB p12
7. Answer on your own Question1-3 WV p13
8. Exit Slip: Do you think the narrator was mad?  What did the narrator not want to the old man to see?

Homeroom:

English:

1. 1 minute check on desks and computers
2. Complete planner check  WB p8-16
3. Entry task: Do you think the narrator was mad?  What did the narrator not want the old man to see?
4. Record grades on page 6
5. Text in  Video and question 16 on page 16
6. Complete Questions 1-13 WB p14-16
7. Online grammar and mechanics
8. Exit Slip: What makes the story, "The Tell-Tale Heart" a classic?

1. 1 minute check on desks and computers
2. Complete planner check  WB 17-20
3. Record Grades p6
4. Entry slip: What is the mood of "The Tell-Tale Heart? Explain.
5. Finish Online grammar and mechanics
6. Questions 14-17 WB p17-18
7. Contrast and Contradictions WB p19
8. Question 18 WB p21
9. Exit Slip: How does the writer create supense in a story? What makes a story suspenseful?

1. 1 minute check on desks and computers
2. Complete planner check  WB p p21  online grammar and vocabulary
3. Record grades WB p6
4. Entry task: What does the evil eye and beating heart symbolize?
5. first period only WB p21
6. Finish online grammar and mechanics practice
7. Begin online vocabulary
8. Exit slip: Explain first and third person point of view.

1. One minute check on desks and computers
2. Complete planner check  WB p22-24  and level up tutorial point of view
3. Record Grades WB p6
4. Entry Slip: How does point of view build suspense?
5. Finish online vocabulary
6. complete more practice WB p22
7. Complete self-management WB p23
8. Complete Level up tutorial on point of view
9. complete point of view WB p24
10. Exit Slip:  Explain the narrator's voice.

1. 1 minute check on desks and computers
2. Complete planner check  WB p8-16
3. Record grades WB p6
4. Entry task: What elements of the story elicit feelings? Use examples from the text.
5. Finish workbook before turning it in
6. Complete Turn and Talk
7. Complete Assessment practice and oral assessment
8. Complete the concept of Horror
9. Exit Slip: What do you know from having been told the story in the first person?

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute check on desk and computer
2. Planner Check: Complete Assessments
3. Record Grades p6-7
4. Entry Task: How do we use descriptive details to visualize the story's characters, setting, and conflict?
5. Finish all assessments from Monday: Turn and Talk/Response log, Oral Assessment and online practice, The Concept of Horror, Analyze Text, and Expand Vocabulary
6. Complete Dashes assessment
7. Begin Project
8. Work on Literary Genre Poster
9. Exit Slip: What is the purpose of the dash?  Provide one example from the story.

1. One minute check on desk and computer
2. Planner Check: Complete Assessments
3. Record Grades p6-7
4. Entry task: Write a sentence using a dash.
5. Finish all assessments
6. Finish the project and Literary genre poster
7. Exit Slip: Explain how using the dash creates suspense/

1. One minute check on desk and computer
2. Planner Check: Finish all assessments, and WB p8-10
3. Record Grades p6-7, and collect workbook
4. Entry task: List three words in the Tell-Tale heart that create suspense.
5. Finish all assessments, projects, and poster
6.  Get Monkey Paw's workbook and answer essential question on WB p8
7. Complete Lucky objects WB p9
8. Short Story read and take notes on WB p9
9. Take notes and read about Theme WB p10
10. Exit Slip: What does stifle derision mean?

1. One minute check on desk and computer
2. Planner Check: Complete Assessments, project, and poster and WB p8-10
3. Record Grades p6-7
4. Entry task: What do you think the Monkey Paw might be about?
5. Finish WB p8-10
6. Read and take notes on Foreshadowing WB p11
7. Level the Theme work on HMH
8. Annotation in Action WB p12
9. Read and take notes on Foreshadowing WB p13
10. Exit slip: What are the characteristics of a short story?

Homeroom:

English:

1. 1 minute desk and computer Check
2. Planner: WB p13-15
3. Entry Task: What does credulity mean?
4.  Go over pages 8-13 to make sure workbook is completed
5. Expand Vocabulary WB p14
6. Preparing for Read WB p13
7. Dialogue WB p15
8. Begin reading the Monkey Paw TB p112-124
9. Draw three pictures that depict the first half of the story
10. Exit Slip: What  does CRED mean?  List three root words using the root word CRED

1. 1 minute desk and computer Check
2. Planner: WB p 15 and draw pictures that depict the plot of Monkey Paw
3. Entry Task:  What advice about the Monkey's paw does the Sergeant-Major share with the Whites?
4. Read the second half of Monkey's Paw p112-124
5. Draw three pictures that depict the ending of Monkey's Paw
6. Complete the chart on WB p15
7. Peer Video on Theme
8. Exit Slip: What does the compensation amount exacerbate the White's grief?

1. 1 minute desk and computer Check
2. Planner: WB p16-17
3. Entry Task:  What surprised you about this short story?
4. Answer questions 2-10 WB p16-17
5. Exit Slip: Describe some of the fear in the Monkey's Paw?

1. 1 minute desk and computer Check
2. Planner: WB p18-21
3. Entry Task: What is Mr. White's motive for making the first wish?  Does he make a wish for him or his family? Explain.
4. Answer questions 9-18 WB p18-21
5. Peer Coach Video on Aha Moments
6. Exit Slip: Why doe Mr. White not want to open the door after the second wish?

1. 1 minute desk and computer Check
2. Planner: WB p 21-25
3. Entry Task: What is the purpose of foreshadowing and how does it enhance a story? 
4. Turn and Talk WB p21
5. Pacing WB p22
6. An ending with pictures WB p23
7. Answer questions 21-22 WB p24
8. Visual Monkey Paw WB p25
9. Exit Slip: Define the word theme, and what is the theme of the Monkey's Paw?

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute check on computers and desk
2. Planner: Complete Assessments
3. Entry Task: What lessons do the characters learn?  How does it relate to the theme?
4. Practice Assessment and oral assessment
5. Online Assessment
6. Analyze Text
7. Exit Slip: Describe the suspense in the Monkey's Paw. Include what you see and hear.

1. One minute check on computers and desk
2. Planner: Complete Assessments
3. Entry Task: What imagery foreshadows events at the beginning of the story?
4. Expand your vocabulary 
5. Story map and essential question
6. Subjective mood
7. Personal Response
8. Exit Slip: What is the conflict and the climax of a Monkey's Tale?

1. One minute check on computers and desk
2. Planner: Complete Assessments
3. Entry Task: What imagery or words foreshadowed future events?
4. Finish all the assessments
5. work on project and finish poster
6. Turn in workbook
7. Exit Slip: What are some possible themes of the Monkey's Paw?

1. One minute check on computers and desk
2. Planner: Complete Assessments
3. Entry Task: What is the subjective mood, and write a sentence using the subjective mood?
4. Finish all assessments- receive a sheet with what you are missing with your assessments
5. Receive new workbook and complete pages 7-9
6. Exit Slip: Rewrite the following sentence in subjective mood:  The Whites recommend that Morris is seated by the fire.

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute check on desks and Chromebook
2. Planner: WB p6-10 and watch film
3. Entry task: What do you think will be different about the film version and the short story?
4. WB p6 write your goal for this workbook, p 7 answer the essential question, p8 answer questions 1-2, and page 9 class discussion
5. Watch Film Clip of the Monkey's Paw
6. Exit Slip: List any suspense movie and explain two horror elements.

1. One minute check on desks and Chromebook
2. Planner: WB p 10-15
3. Entry Task: List three things that the movie and the film version have in common.
4. WB p10 Complete Film Technique Terms
5. WB p11 Answer question 2
6. WB p12 Complete Vocabulary Cards
7. WB p13 Questions 1-2
8. Pg 14 Complete Literary Term poster
9. Exit Slip: What is the two difference between the film version and the short story?

1. One minute check on desks and chrome book
2. Planner Turn and Talk and Assessments
3. Entry Task: What was more frightening or suspenseful the short story or the film version of The Monkey's Paw? Explain.
4. Turn and talk and response Log
5. Analyze Media and compare versions
6. online assessment
7. Exit Slip: How does the lighting, sound effects, and music create suspense in the film version?

Homeroom:

English:

1. Check 1 minutes desks and computers
2. Planner: Finish Assessments
3. Entry Task:  What film techniques can show a horror element? Explain.
4. Analyze Media and compare versions assessment
5. Discuss and present assessment
6. Online assessment
7. Finish grammar and mechanics
8. Exit Slip: What scene was the most suspenseful? Why?

1. Check 1 minutes desks and computers
2. Planner: Finish Assessments
3. Entry Task: What did the director do to make the setting and the characters more suspenseful? Explain.
4. Finish all assessments: poster, analyze film, analyze media, discuss and present, online assessment
5. Choose and finish project
6. Turn in workbook
7. Exit Slip: How does the lighting contribute to suspense?

1. Check 1 minutes desks and computers
2. Planner: Finish Assessments and WB p 6-8
3. Entry Task: How does shots and angles contribute to suspense?
4. Finish all assessments see workbook and assessment check
5. Receive new workbook
6. Complete page 6 and set goals
7. Complete page 7 answer essential question and engage brain
8. Complete page 8 conduct research
9. Exit Slip: Explain what technique the director used that enhanced  the film the most?

1. Check 1 minutes desks and computers
2. Planner: Finish Assessments and WB 6-10
3. Entry Task: Explain what you know about Greek Mythology. 
4. Complete p 6 set goal, p 7 answer essential question, and engage brain, page 8  conduct research
5. Analyze epic poem and archetype read and take notes WB p 9
6. Class discussion WB p10
7. Annotation WB P 10 and read Aeneid of  Virgil TB p140-141
8. Find words that create pictures WB p10
9. Exit Slip: What is an Epic Poem?  What is an archetype?  How does Archetype relate to an epic poem?

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute check for desks and computers
2. Planner: WB p10-13
3. Entry Task:  What tone or attitude toward Charon is conveyed by the poem's word choice?
4. Read poem again 140-141 and complete page 10
5. Graphic Organizer WB p11
6. Character Log WB p12
7. Answer questions 1-4 WB p12-13
8. Exit Slip: What mood did the poem. Aeneid of Virgil create?  Support answers with details from the text.

1. One minute check for desks and computers
2. Planner: Assessments
3. Entry Task: What insight did the Priestess share?  What was the life lesson?
4. Peer coach video words to the wiser
5. Online grammar and mechanics
6. Literary Poster
7. Turn and Talk and response Log
8. Oral assessment and practice
9. Collect Workbook
10. Exit Slip: What language in the poem helps create the mood? Give one example.

1.  One minute check for desks and computers
2.  Planner: Finish Assessments and WB p6-9
3. Entry Task:  Have you ever read a graphic novel before?  Which one?  What did you like about them?
4. Check out the novel Coraline in the library
5. Finish assessments
6. WB p7 number assessments and write goal for the packet
7. WB p8  answer the essential question
8. WB p9 Class Discussion
9. Exit Slip: What is the first and third point of view?

1. One minute check for desks and computers, and read Coraline for the first 5 minutes of class
2. Planner: WB WB p9-13 and Read Coraline
3. Entry Task:  What other myths have you read? Explain.
4. WB p9 Complete character log
5. Read Hades Lord of the Dead TB p143-152
6. Answer graphic novel questions 1-2  WB p10-11
7. Complete 3  2  1  WB p12
8. Complete Point of View  Questions 1-2 WB p13
9. Exit Slip:  What are some features of a graphic novel?

1. One minute check for desks and computers and read 5 minutes of Coraline
2. Planner: WB p14-19
3. Entry Task: List one character, one event, and one question you have about Hades, Lord of the Dead.
4. Analyze Adaption and point of view Questions 1-2 WB p14
5. Synthesizing information A-B WB p15
6. Questions 1-4 WB p16
7. Synthesizing information questions 1-20 WB p17
8. Analyzing adaptions questions 1-3 WB p19
9. More inference practice WB p20
10. Figurative Language practice Aeneid WB p20
11. Level up Video on Inference
12. Online grammar and Mechanics
13. Turn in workbook
14. Exit Slip: Why does Charon refuse to take the souls across the river ?  

Homeroom:

English:

1. 1 minute Check on desk and computer
2. Planner: Assessments
3. Read Chapter 1-2 of Coraline pages 1-20
4. Entry Task: What are two mythical heroes, or villains, or gods you encountered in the poem or graphic novel? Who are they and what do they do?
5. Response Log and Turn and Talk
6. Practice and Oral Assessment
7. Online Assessment
8. Analyze the Text
9. Compare Versions
10. Exit Slip: In mythology what is the purpose of the underworld? Who went there?

1. 1 minute Check on desk and computer
2. Planner: Assessments
3. Read Chapter 1-2 of Coraline pages 1-20
4. Entry Task: What is synthesizing?  Explain how it helps  you understand the meaning of the text.
5. Finish analyze the text and compare versions
6. Project Choice
7. Literary Poster
8. Exit Slip: How might a graphic artist convey the 
9. character's feelings at a glance?

1. 1 minute Check on desk and computer
2. Planner: Assessments and page 6-9, 12, and 16-17
3. Read Chapter 1-2 of Coraline pages 1-20
4. Entry Task:  What imagery in the poem or graphic novel was used to help you understand the content better?
5. Finish all the assessments
6. Receive new workbook and complete pages 6-9 numbering the assessments and setting your goal for the novel, Coraline, page 10 answer the essential question, and 12, 16-18 pre worksheets on Coraline.
7. Exit Slip:  What pronouns do you use in first and third person point of view?

Homeroom:

English:

1. 1 minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: I Ready Diagnostic, Chapters 1-5  WB p6-17
3. Entry Task: Describe how the author, Neil Gaiman begins the story? (Chapters 1-2)
4. winter I Ready Diagnostic
5. WB p6-17
6. Exit Slip" What is Coraline like? her world? How does she spend her time?  What is her relationship with her parents like? (Chapters 1-2)

1. 1 minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: I Ready Diagnostic, Chapters 1-5  WB p6-17
3. Entry Task: Describe how Coraline's parents react to her when she tries to get their attention?  Chapters 1-2
4. I Ready Diagnostic Winter
5. WB p6-17
6. Exit Slip: Coraline receives a warning about her future. What are the warnings?  From whom does she receive them?  What do you think this message means? Chap 1-2

1. 1 minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: I Ready Diagnostic, Chapters 1-5  WB p6-17
3. Entry Task: Coraline's parents are described as being preoccupied with their work. How does the preoccupation affect Coraline and what does it reveal about her family dynamics? Chap 1-2
4. Winter I Ready Diagnostic
5. WB p6-17
6. Exit Slip: How does Coraline define bravery?  How does she show she is brave? (Chapters 3-4)

1. 1 minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: Chapters 1-5  WB p6-17Literary Circle Worksheet , Notes, and Vocabulary
3. Entry Task: When Coraline discovers her parents are missing she calls the police. What does she tell the officers?  How do they respond?  Why?  How would you have responded if you were the officer? Chapters 3-4
4. Work on Literary Circle Worksheet
5. Take Notes on WB p14
6. Complete vocabulary and summary
7. Exit Slip: As Coraline's initial fascination with the alternate world begins to shift as she futher explores it. Analyze how Coraline's reaction to the alternate world's superficial charms and eerie differences she notices, reflect on the change, and the self discovery. (Chapters 3-4)

1. 1 minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: Chapters 1-5  WB p 6-17, Literary Circle worksheet, notes, vocabulary, and summary
3. Entry Task: Compare Coraline's regular world to the other world? Chapters 3-4
4. Finish Literary Discussion worksheet, notes on WB p14, Vocabulary, and the summary.
5. Exit SLip: How does Coraline occupy herself when she is waiting for her parents to come home? (Chapters 6-7)

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute desk and computer check
2. Read Chapters 3-10
3. Planner: Read Chapters 2-10, Vocabulary, and Notes and Literary Circle Worksheet week 2
4. Entry Slip: Who wakes Coraline up in the middle of the night? What happens between the two?
5. Complete Week 2 Notes Chapters 3-10 WB p21
6. Complete Week 2 Vocabulary
7. Work on Literary Circle Week 2
8. Exit Slip: What are some things Coraline discovers about the new world?  What some of the differences between the real and alternate world?

1. One minute desk and computer check
2. Read Chapters 3-10
3. Planner: Read Chapters 2-10, Vocabulary, and Notes, WB p23-24, Literary Circle worksheet week 2
4. Entry Slip: In Chapter 6, what does the cat do that upsets Coraline so much?  Why did Coraline get upset by this?
5. Finish Week Two Notes WB p 30 
6. Complete Week Two Vocabulary
7. Complete WB p23 Cause and effect
8. Complete WB p24 Character types
9. Exit Slip: Describe the exchange between the other mother and Coraline in Chapter 6. In what ways is she like a regular mother and daughter relationship? In what ways it is different? Explain.

1. One minute desk and computer check
2. Read Chapters 3-10
3. Planner: Read Chapters 2-10, Vocabulary, and Notes Wb p23-25 Literary Circle worksheet week 2
4. Entry Slip: List two character traits of Coraline. Support with textual evidence.
5. Finish week 2 notes and vocabulary
6. Finish Cause and effect WB p23 and WB p24 Character types
7. Finish Week Two-three literary circle worksheet
8. WB p25 Fact and Opinion
9. Turn in workbook in
10. Exit Slip: Why does the other mother want Coraline? What does the cat think about this?

1. One minute desk and computer check
2. Read Chapters 3-10
3. Planner: Read Chapters 2-10, Vocabulary, and Notes WB p23-25 and Literary Circle worksheet week 2, Quiz and Project
4. Entry Slip: Why do you think the other mother has taken Coraline's parents and the other children?
5.  Complete Literary Circle Discussion Week 2-3
6. Begin Quiz and Project for Week 2-3
7. Complete pages 223-25 in workbook
8. Make sure notes and vocabulary are finished and turn them in.
9. Exit Slip: What happens if Coraline loses? What happens if she wins?

1. One minute desk and computer check
2. Read Chapters 3-10
3. Planner: Read Chapters 2-10, Vocabulary, and Notes
4. Entry Slip: Do you think it was a good idea for Coraline to go through the trap door? Explain.
5. Complete WB p33 Problem Solving
6. Complete WB p34 Character Comparison
7. Work on Literary Circle 4
8. Finish Week two quiz and project and anything in the workbook.
9. Exit Slip: Explain how Coraline's other father feels about hurting Coraline?

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute clean of desks and computers and Read Chapters 10-13 of Coraline
2. Planner: Finish Week 2-3 Project, Read Chapters 10-13, Take Novel Notes WB p38 Week four, and week four vocabulary
3. Entry task: What does the crazy old man convince Coraline to do?  
4. Finish Project week 2-3
5. Take Week Four Notes WB p38
6. Complete Vocabulary Week Four
7. Exit Slip: Why do you think the other mother's house is flattening out?

1. One minute clean of desks and computers and Read Chapters 10-13 of Coraline
2. Planner: Finish Week 2-3 Project, Read Chapters 10-13, Take Novel Notes WB p38 Week four, and week four vocabulary, WB P40 AND 42
3. Entry task: Where does Coraline tell the other mother her parents have been hidden?
4. Finish Week Four Notes WB p38 , and week four vocabulary
5. Complete WB p 40 Plot Mountain 
6. Complete WB p42 What is a theme
7. Turn in Workbook
8. Finish Week Four Literary Circle Worksheet.
9. Exit Slip: How does the black cat help Coraline escape?

1. One minute clean of desks and computers and Read Chapters 10-13 of Coraline
2. Planner: Finish Week 2-3 Project, Read Chapters 10-13, Take Novel Notes WB p38 Week four, and week four vocabulary, WB p40 and 42, and week Four literary Circle
3. Entry task: Who helps Coraline close the door?
4. Finish Vocabulary, Notes on WB p38, WB p400 and 42
5. Finish Literary Circle worksheet week 4
6. Literary Circle Discussion and turn in Literary Circle worksheet
7. Turn in workbook if you did not complete yesterday.
8. Begin studying for final assessment of Coraline.
9. Exit Slip: What does Coraline do with the black key?

1. One minute clean of desks and computers and Read Chapters 10-13 of Coraline
2. Planner: Finish Week 2-3 Project, Read Chapters 10-13, Take Novel Notes WB p38 Week four, and week four vocabulary, WB p40 and 42, and week Four literary Circle
3. Entry task: Why do the three children in the dream say, "it is not over yet?"
4. Work on Final Assessment
5. Exit Slip: What do Coraline's parents remember about their time in the other world?

1. One minute clean of desks and computers and Read Chapters 10-13 of Coraline
2. Planner: Finish Week 2-3 Project, Read Chapters 10-13, Take Novel Notes WB p38 Week four, and week four vocabulary, WB p40 and 42, and week Four literary Circle
3. Entry task: What message does Mr. Bobo say the Miche wants to give Coraline?
4. Finiish Assessment
5. Finish Workbook, notes, vocabulary and literary circle week four
6. Exit Slip: What does Coraline to to the well in order to ensure the hand will never escape?

Homeroom:

English

1. Complete one minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: WB p13-18
3. Entry Task: Define Autobiography. What makes this excerpt  of Frederick Douglass an autobiography?
4. WB p13 Freedom Discussion
5. WB p14 Class Discussion
6. WB 15 Engage the Brain
7. WB p16 Self-Awareness
8. WB p17 Analyze Autobiography
9. WB p18 Expand Vocabulary and 3 sentences
10. Exit Slip: What will people risk to be free?

1. Complete one minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: WB p 19-21 and Read Frederick Douglass p267-270
3. Entry Task: Why did learning to read change Frederick Douglass's life? Explain.
4. Finish WB p13-18
5. Analyze Structure WB p19
6. Read Frederick Douglass TB p267-270  and highlight words and phrases that show cause and effect
7. WB p20 Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer
8. Complete close read screencast WB p21
9. Exit Slip: In the text sketch why did the mistress stop teaching Frederick Douglass to read?

1. Complete one minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: WB p22-24
3. Entry Task:  In paragraph 6 TB p270 write down a fact in the paragraph.
4. WB p22 Figurative Language
5. Watch Text In Focus Video
6. Complete Vocabulary in Context Questions 1-6 WB p23-24
7. Answer questions 1-2 WB p24
8. Exit Slip: Frederick Douglass thought reading was a blessing and a curse, what did he mean?

1. Complete one minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: WB p 25-28  HMH Level Up and Vocabulary Connotation and Denotation
3. Entry Task: Why do you think Frederick Douglass wanted to be free and after he was free why did he continue to help others?
4. Finish WB p23-24
5. Complete applying vocabulary WB p25
6. Contrasts and Contradictions Questions 1-6 WB p26-27
7. HMH Vocabulary Connotations and Denotations
8. HMH Level Up Tutorial Cause and Effect
9. Infinitives WB p28
10. Exit Slip: What idea began to haunt Douglass's thoughts because of learning to read?

1. Complete one minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: WB p 29 and Assessments
3. Entry Task:  What was the tone of Frederick Douglass's autobiography? Provide one detail from the text.
4. Connotation and Denotation WB p29
5. Turn and Talk and Response Log
6. Practice and oral assessment
7. Begin Poster
8. Exit Slip: Why do you think Douglass became an abolitionist?  

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute Computer and Desk Check
2. Planner: Assessments
3. Entry task: In Frederick Douglass what is one cause and one effect from that narrative?
4. Finish Online Assessment
5. Analyze the Text Assessment
6. Connotation and Denotation
7. Infinitives
8. Frederick Douglass Writable 
9. Exit Slip: Give the connotation of the word friend - 2 examples

1. One minute Computer and Desk Check
2. Planner: Assessments
3. Entry task: Define unabashed, and use in a sentence.
4. Receive assessment Check
5. Finish all the assessments (online assessment, analyze the text, connotation and denotation, infinitives, and Frederick Douglass Writable
6. Exit slip: Write a sentence using an infinitive.

1. One minute Computer and Desk Check
2. Planner: WB p6-9 and Level up Tutorial on Mood
3. Entry task: What do people like Frederick Douglass risk to be free?
4. Finish all the assessments
5. Hand out Workbook for The Drummer Boy of Shiloh
6. WB p6 Essential Question and engage brain
7. WB p7  Self Management and Historical Fiction
8. WB p 8 Analyze Setting
9. WB p 9 Analyze Literary Devices
10. Level up Tutorial on Mood
11. Exit Slip: Define Historical Fiction. What makes The Drummer Boy of Shiloh an example of Historical Fiction?

1. One minute Computer and Desk Check
2. Planner: WB p9-11 and Read The Drummer Boy of Shiloh TB p279-284
3. Entry task: Define Setting.  Describe the setting of the Drummer Boy of Shiloh.  List two details.
4. Finish WB p9 Literary Devices
5. WB p 10 Complete Vocabulary
6. WB p 11 Learn to annotate the story
7. Read The Drummer Boy of Shiloh TB p279-284
8. Complete The Drummer Boy of Shiloh Screencast
9. Exit Slip: Describe Joby's character. Give one descriptive detail. 

Homeroom:

English:

1. 1 minute check on desks and computers
2. Planner: WB  WB p12-15,  Finish online vocabulary, Close Reading Screencast
3. Entry task: In Direct Dialogue what is one thing the General told Joby? Underline the Dialogue Tag.
4. Finish Online Vocabulary on HMH
5. Close Reading Screencast
6. WB p12 Analyze sentence structure
7. WB p12-13 Vocabulary in Context Questions 1-6
8. Exit Slip: In Direct Dialogue  what is one thing Joby said to the General?  Underline the Dialogue Tag.

1. 1 minute check on desks and computers
2. Planner: WB  WB p 14-15 and Text in Focus Imagery Practice
3. Entry task: Describe the General's character, and give ne descriptive detail in your text.
4. WB p14-15 Questions 1-6
5. Text in Focus and Visualizing work
6. Exit Slip: Why do you think Joby volunteered for the army?

1. 1 minute check on desks and computers
2. Planner: WB p16-17 Peer coach video and work on point of view
3. Entry task:  Do you think Joby regretted joining the army? Why or why not.
4. WB p16 Applying Academic Vocabulary  Questions 6-7
5. WB p 16 Analyze the Effects of Point of View  Questions 8-10
6. Point of view video and chart
7. Exit Slip:  Why would the story sound like if it was told in Joby's Point of View?

1. 1 minute check on desks and computers
2. Planner: WB  p17-19 and HMH grammar practice-verbs
3. Entry task:  What point of view is t story told from? How do you know?
4. WB p17 Question 12
5. WB p18 Complete the Imagery question
6. WB p19 Self-Awareness
7. HMH grammar practice - Verbs
8. Exit slip: How does the dialogue contribute to the story?

Welcome to Second Semester

Homeroom:

English:

1. 1 minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: WB p22-24, HMH Analyze Language and Research writable
3. Entry task: What word does Joby use to describe the General?
4. Figurative language Practice WB p20-21
5. HMH Skills Coach Analyze Language
6. Indicative Mood Questions 1-4 WB p22
7. Skills Coach WB p23-24
8. HMH Writable on research
9. Exit Slip: Define indicative mood.  Write a sentence using indicative mood.

1. 1 minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: Writable and Assessments
3. Entry task: Write one sentence in imperative mood as if you were the General.
4. Finish WB p22-24
5. Finish Writable on Research
6. Work on Turn and Talk and Response Log
7. Complete Practice and oral assessment
8. Exit slip: Write one sentence using imperative mood if you were Joby.

1. 1 minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: Assessments
3. Entry task: What is a simile.  Create and write a simile.
4. Finish Turn and talk/ Response Log/ practice and oral assessment
5. Complete Analyze text
6. Complete Figure of Speech and expand vocabulary
7. Exit Slip: What does askew mean? Use it in a sentence.

1. 1 minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: Assessments
3. Entry task: What does resolute mean? Use it in a sentence.
4. Finish analyze text and expand vocabulary and figure of speech
5. Complete Indicative Mood
6. Complete Drummer Boy of Shiloh Selection Test in HMH
7. Begin Project
8. Exit Slip: What does strewn mean?  Use strewn in a sentence.

1. 1 minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: Assessments
3. Entry task: What does the General mean when he tells Joby he is the heart of the army?
4. Finish all tests- see test check to make sure you have completed them all
5. If done begin new workbook Oh Captain My Captain WB p6-9
6. Exit Slip: What is an idiom? Create and write an idiom.

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: Assessments
3. Entry task: Define imperative mood. Write one sentence using imperative mood as if you were the General.
4. Finish Response Log/ Turn and Talk, and Practice oral assessment
5. Analyze Text Assessment
6. Expand Vocabulary and Figurative language assessment
7. Indicative Mood assessment
8. Work on Research Writable in HMH.
9. Exit Slip: Write a sentence using imperative mood as if you are Joby.

1. One minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: Assessments
3. Entry task: What does resolution mean? Use resolution in a sentence.
4. Finish Analyze text, Expand Vocabulary and Figurative language, Indicative Mood
5. Online Assessment selection test "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" HMH
6. Work on writable for research in HMH
7. Projects
8. Exit Slip: What does strewn mean?  Use strewn in a sentence.

1. One minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: Assessments
3. Entry task: What does the General mean when he tells Joby, "that he is the heart of the army?
4. Receive test workbook check
5. Finish all tests including the project and writable. 
6. if done WB p6-8
7. Exit Slip: What is an idiom.  Create and write an idiom,

1. One minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: Assessments and WB p6-8
3. Entry task: What did the Drummer Boy risk to be free?
4. Finish all the assessments: Analyze text, online assessment, expand vocabulary and figurative language, imperative mood, Project, and writable
5. Receive new workbook Oh Captain My Captain
6. WB p 6 Essential Question and Engage Brain
7. WB p7 Social Awareness
8. WB p8-9 Read poems and figurative language and complete notes
9. WB p9 read Analyze poetry and define poetry words
10. Exit Slip: Who is Walt Whitman?  Why is he so sad?

1. One minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: WB p 6-12 and Read Oh Captain My Captain TB p294
3. Entry task: What makes a good captain?
4. Complete Oh Captain My Captain Vocabulary WB p9
5. Read poetry patterns WB p9-10
6. Read Oh Captain My Captain by Walt Whitman TB p294
7. Complete questions 1-6 WB p11-12
8. Complete ONLINE Vocabulary HMH
9. Exit Slip:  What was the tone of Oh Captain My Captain? 

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute Check on desks and computers
2. Planner Check: WB p12-14 and online vocabulary Work
3. Entry task- What language in the poem, "Oh Captain My Captain"  helped you figure out the tone of the poem?
4. Workbook p 12 Question 7
5. Wordbook p 12 Academic Vocabulary questions 1-3
6. Go over figurative language chart WB p13
7. Work on figurative language HMH and finish online grammar -verbs
8. Exit Slip:  What did you notice about the poem's physical form or shape?  What was the author's purpose?

1. One minute Check on desks and computers
2. Planner Check:  Assessments
3. Entry task- What does "bleeding drips of red" mean?
4. Work on Response Log and Turn and Talk
5. Work on Practice and Oral Assessment
6. if time start on Analyze text.
7. Exit Slip:  What does "the bells I hear the people are exulting" mean?

1. One minute Check on desks and computers
2. Planner Check:  Assessments
3. Entry task: What two things are being compared in Oh Captain My Captain ? (the extended metaphor)
4. Finish Response log and turn in talk and practice oral assessment
5. Finish Analyze text, 
6. Begin analyzing figurative language
7. Start Writable in HMH
8. Exit Slip:  Why are the people sad and happy? Explain.

1. One minute Check on desks and computers
2. Planner Check: Assessments
3. Entry task: How do you honor someone close to you?
4. Finish Analyze text, Response log and turn and talk, Practice oral assessment, Figurative Language
5. Finish the Writable on HMH
6. Complete Selection Test online assessment on HMH
7. Project
8. Exit Slip: What does freedom mean to you?

Homeroom:

English:

1. 1 minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: WB p6-10, HMH Vocabulary and Video Notes on Harriet Tubman
3. Entry task: What did Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and Joby risk to be free?
4. WB p6-7  Answer essential question and engage brain
5. WB p8-9 Analyze Biographies and complete chart
6. WB p9-10 Expand your vocabulary
7. HMH Vocabulary
8. Beginning of Harriet Tubman Video and take notes on WB P12
9. Exit Slip: What is the Underground Railroad?  What is a conductor?

1. 1 minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: WB p 11-13 TB p301-312 Read Harriet Tubman
3. Entry task:  What character traits should one possess in order to effectively encourage others?
4. WB p11 Annotation in Action
5. Read Harriet Tubman TB p301-312, and highlight tone words
6. WB p12-13 Complete Web Diagram
7. Exit Slip: How is Harriet Tubman well-prepared and careful?

1. 1 minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: WB p13-14
3. Entry task: Why is Harriet Tubman compared to "Moses"?
4. WB p13  Finish Web Diagram Chart
5. WB p14 Complete characterization Chart
6. Exit Slip: What was the attitude of the people who were pursuing the travelers?  and what was the attitude of the travelers?

1. 1 minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: WB p 14-17
3. Entry task: What was the Fugitive Slave Law?
4. Finish WB p14 Character Chart
5. WB p15-16 Questions 1-6
6. WB p17 Cite textual evidence questions 1-3
7. Exit Slip: What were the reasons the travelers were turned away from the first farm house?

1. 1 minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: WB p 12-19 and Harriet Tubman Video Notes WB p12
3. Entry task: After the farmhouse stop, what happens when Harriet Tubman knocks on the next door?
4. Finish WB p15-17 Questions 1-6 and 1-3
5. WB p18-19 Biography and Questions 1-4
6. Video on Harriet Tubman and take notes on WB p12
7. TURN IN WORKBOOK TODAY
8. Exit Slip: What were some of the difficulties of the journey?  What made things bearable? 

Homeroom:

English:

1. 1 minute check of desk and computer if using.
2. Planner: WB p18-22
3. Entry Task: What state or country did the travelers escape to?
4. Complete Biography questions 1-4 WB p18-19
5. Tough Questions Questions 1-4 WB p19-20
6. Notice and Note Questions 1-2 WB p20-21
7. Quick Check Questions 1-7 WB p21-22 
8. Exit Slip: Explain the rights you have as a United States Citizen.

1. 1 minute check of desk and computer if using.
2. Planner: WB p21-24
3. Entry Task: How far was Canada from where you are?  
4. Finish quick check questions 1-4 WB p21-22
5. Underground Railroad Questions 1-3 WB p22
6. Primary and Secondary Sources Question1 WB p23
7. Drawing Conclusion Questions 1-4 WB p24
8. Identifying Primary Sources WB p24 Question 1
9. What would happen with the Travelers if they gave up and went back?

1. 1 minute check of desk and computer if using.
2. Planner: WB p 24-25  and HMH Grammar
3. Entry Task: Are you surprised that they showed Harriet Tubman with a Bible? Explain.
4. Finish WB p24 Primary Sources Questions 1-2
5. WB p25 Analyzing Details
6. LEVEL UP: Levels of Characterization
7. WB p25 Methods of Characterization Chart
8. HMH Vocabulary
9. Exit Slip: Describe some of Harriet Tubman's actions and how did others feel about Harriet Tubman?

1. 1 minute check of desk and computer if using.
2. Planner: WB p26-27  HMH Vocabulary and Grammar
3. Entry Task: Why Was Harriet Tubman willing to  put herself in danger to help others?
4. WB p26 Vocabulary Review
5. WB p27  Conditional Mood Practice
6. HMH: Interactive Lesson Vocabulary
7. HMH: Grammar Lesson
8. Exit Slip: Define Biography.  Why is Harriet Tubman's excerpt an example of a Biography?

1. 1 minute check of desk and computer if using.
2. Planner: WB p 27-28  HMH Vocabulary, grammar, and Writable
3. Entry Task: Define Characterization.  Describe Harriet Tubman.
4. Finish WB p27 Conditional Mood Practice
5. Social Emotional Learning WB p28
6. Finish HMH Grammar and Vocabulary
7. Collect Workbook
8. Begin Writable HMH
9. Exit Slip: If you could use only three words to describe Harriet Tubman what would they be and why?

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute check on desk and computer
2. Planner: Harriet Tubman Assessments
3. Entry Task:  Explain how Harriet knew how to increase the chance of escape?
4. Complete Vocabulary in Context
5. Complete Conditional Mood
6. Complete Project
7. Exit Slip: Define eloquence.  Use eloquence in a sentence.

1. One minute check on desk and computer
2. Planner: Harriet Tubman Assessments
3. Entry Task: Define Cajole. Use cajole in a sentence.
4. See assessment check and finish all Harriet Tubman Assessments: Writable, Selection Text, Analyze Text, Vocabulary in Context, Conditional Mood, and Project . Also Turn and Talk/ Response Log, and Practice Oral Assessment.  HMH Latin Roots, Verb Tense, and Characterization
5. Receive New workbook and complete WB p6-8
6. Exit Slip: Define sullen.  Use sullen in a sentence.

1. One minute check on desk and computer
2. Planner: WV p6-9
3. Entry Task: What did Harriet Tubman risk to be free?
4. Receive workbook
5. WB p6 Answer essential question and engage brain
6. WBp7 Debate/ Poetry Definitions
7. Read Poem Not My Bones TB p322-324
8. Complete Figurative Language WB p8-9
9. Exit Slip: Do you think people are more than just bodies and bones after they die? Explain.

1. One minute check on desk and computer
2. Planner: WB p8-12
3. Entry Task: Is it acceptable to use real human skeletons as models for doctors and scientists?
4. WB p8-9 Figurative language Similes, metaphors, and personification Questions 1-2
5. Analyze Figurative Language Video HMH  and chart WB p10
6. Analyze Chronological Structure Questions 1 WB p11 
7. WB p12 Questions 1-5
8. Exit Slip: How does chronological structure of a text hep the author achieve their purpose of informing or entertaining?

1. One minute check on desk and computer
2. Planner: WB p11-13  HMH Grammar and Vocabulary
3. Entry Task: What is the theme of the poem, Not My Bones?
4. WB p 11-13 Questions 1-10
5. HMH Vocabulary and Grammar
6. Exit Slip: What text (statements) in the poem support the theme or central message?

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: WB p8-10
3. Entry task:  What does "My soul runs free" mean? What type of figurative language is it?
4. WB p8 Contrasts and Comparisons Questions 1-2
5. WB p9 Quesion3-8  and Essential Questions 1-2
6. Contrast and Contradiction Video
7. WB p10 Analyze Chronological Text Questions 1-2  and CHALLENGE
8. Exit Slip: How does the speaker statement "I am not Bones" relate to a sense of freedom?

1. One minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: WB p 9-12
3. Entry task: Explain how the poem Not My Bones supports what people risk to be free?
4. Finish WB p9-10
5. WB p11  Compare Treatments Questions 1-4
6. WB p12  Chart and choose position
7. Begin HMH Vocabulary and Punctuation
8. Exit Slip: How did the Porter family first make use of Fortune's Skeleton?

1. One minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: HMH Punctuation and Text Sketch
3. Entry task: What was Larry Fortune's first name?
4. TEXT SKETCH- answer two questions
5. HMH Punctuation end marks
6. Exit Slip: What form does this text take?

1. One minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: HMH Vocabulary, Punctuation, Compare and Contrast
3. Entry task: What do you think happened to Fortune? Do you think it was accidental? Explain.
4. Finish HMH Punctuation and the Text Sketch
5. Compare and contrast details of poem and historical writing
6. HMH Vocabulary
7. Exit Slip: What happened to Fortune's skeleton in 1970?

1. One minute desk and computer check
2. Planner: HMH Punctuation and Vocabulary, Compare and Contrast, Turn and Talk and Response Log, and Practice and oral assessment
3. Entry task: What are some reasons we know about Fortune today?
4. HMH: Finish Punctuation and Vocabulary
5. Finish Text Sketch and Compare and Contrast
6. Complete  Fortune's Bones Turn and Talk and Response Log
7. Complete Fortune's Bones Practice and Oral Assessment
8. Exit Slip: What would some people not approve of Fortune's skeleton on display?   

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute check on computer and desk
2. Planner Check: Assessments
3. Entry Task: In the poem, what is the writer's tone towards the speaker?
4. Make sure completed turn and talk/Response Log and Practice and oral assessment
5. Analyze Text assessment
6. HMH- Selection Test
7. Table Talks
8. Project
9. Exit Slip:  What kind of historical documents provide facts about people's rights?

1. One minute check on computer and desk
2. Planner Check: Assessments
3. Entry Task:  What civil rights would Fortune have been denied as an enslaved person?
4. Finish all assessments and check assessment check 3/24
5. Begin Research packet (choose topic, write research questions, and begin research.
6. Exit Slip: Underline the verb in the following sentence: Over the years, the skeleton was lost and then found.  

1. One minute check on computer and desk
2. Planner Check: Research Project
3. Entry Task: What evidence should you use to support your claim?
4. Write 4 research questions
5. Complete the 6 notecards (your research about your topic)
6. Exit Slip: What topic are you going to research, why did you choose that topic?

1. One minute check on computer and desk.
2. Planner Check: Research Project
3. Entry Task: Why do you need  research questions? Write down one of your research questions.
4. Finish your research
5. Begin the rough draft.  Write your hook, background information, and you thesis statement.
6. Begin your body paragraphs
7. Exit Slip: Where should you find reliable information on the Internet?

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute check for computer and desk damage
2. Planner:  Work on Research Paper (Begin the writing process)
3. Entry Task: Why do you need research questions?  Write down one of your research questions.
4. Finish the research for your topic.  Make sure you have enough information to complete 3 paragraphs)  
5. Write the introduction (hook, background information, and thesis statement, and the first body paragraph.
6. Exit Slip:  What is a thesis statement.  Write down your thesis statement.

1. One minute check for computer and desk damage
2. Planner:  Work on Research Paper (Begin the writing process)
3. Entry Task: What information do you include in body paragraphs?
4.  Finish the introduction and body paragraph one
5. Begin the final two body paragraphs.
6. Exit Slip: What is the procedure for citing evidence? What goes on the front of your research card? What goes on the back of the research card?

1. One minute check for computer and desk damage
2. Planner:  Work on Research Paper (Finish the writing process)
3. Entry Task: What goes into a conclusion of your research paper?
4. Finish the introduction, and the body paragraphs (3)
5. Write the conclusion.
6. Peer Edit
7. Exit Slip: Why is important to include transitions in writing your research paper?

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute check on desks and computers
2. Planner: WB p 10-19
3. Entry Task: Why is it important to maintain positive relationships in your teenage years?
4. Finish WB p10-16
5. WB p16 Relationship Skills
6. WB p17 Engage Your Brain- Self-Awareness
7. WB p18 Take Analyze Perspective Notes
8. WB p19 Take Novel Notes
9. WB p22 Take Analyze Characterization Notes
10. Exit Slip: What is self-awareness? Why should you not quit if something gets difficult or challenging?

1. One minute check on desks and computers
2. Planner: WB p 18-22
3. Entry Task: Where is the Bronx? List two things about the Bronx?
4. WB p22 Finish Characterization notes
5. WB p18, 19, and 22  Add questions to your notes
6. Read the Bronx Masquerade TB p355-360
7. WB p20 Analyze perspective chart
8. Exit Slip: What does the plot on most novels focus on?

1. One minute check on desks and computers
2. Planner: WB p 18-24
3. Entry Task: What clues tells you that Tyrone and Devon are in the first person?
4. Go over notes (metacognitive markers) p18, 19, 20, and 22
5. WB p23 Answer Question 1
6. WB p24 Analyze Characterization Chart
7. Exit Slip: What are the components of a novel?

1. One minute check on desks and computers
2. Planner: WB p 20-22 Text Sketch and Peer Coach Video
3. Entry Task: How do you think Diondre feels when Diondre is observed by his classmates participating in art?
4. Go over notes on p18,19, and 22
5. Text Sketch in HMH
6. Peer Coach Video on Characterization and anchor chart
7. WB p25 Examples of Characterization Chart
8. Exit Slip: Why does Diondre not want his friends to know about the art class?

1. One minute check on desks and computers
2. Planner: WB p 24-31
3. Entry Task: Describe Diondre's character. List two things
4. WB p24-25 Finish the characterization charts
5. WB p27 Expand your Vocabulary
6. WB p28 Vocabulary in Context questions 1-4  
7. WB p28-30Analyze Characterization questions 1-7
8. WB p30-31  Analyze Narrative Structure Questions 1-4
9. Exit Slip: What are the elements of characterization? List two things,

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute desk check and Computer Check
2. Planner: WB 34-38 and Video HMH Ah Moment and Level up Point of view
3. Entry task: What is a narrative?
4. Ah Moment Video
5. WB p34 Questions 1-4 Ah Moment
6. WB p35 Gerunds
7. WB p36 Analyze Perspective Questions 1-2
8. Point of View Video
9. WB p37 Continue Character Story
10. WBp38 Social Emotional Questions 1-3
11. Exit Slip: What are the elements of non-linear plot structure?

1. One minute desk check and Computer Check
2. Planner: Assessments
3. Entry task: What is a flashback
4. Turn and talk and Response Log
5. Practice and Oral Assessment
6. Writable
7. Selection Test Bronx Masquerade
8. Entry task: : What is on example of dialogue in Bronx Masquerade?

1. On minute desk check and Computer Check
2. Planner: Assessments
3. Entry task: What are context clues?
4. Finish Writable and Selection test
5. Analyze the text
6. Project
7. Exit Slip: Does Janelle's behavior surprise Devon? Explain.

1. One minute desk check and Computer Check
2. Planner: Assessments and WB p10-12
3. Entry task: What is first person point of view?
4. Finish Assessments with Assessment Check
5. If done, WB p10-12
6. Exit Slip: What event helped Devon feel he does not have to hide his love of reading?

1. One minute desk check and Computer Check
2. Planner: WB p10-16
3. Entry task: How does Diondra and Devon's poems help express their thoughts and feelings?
4. WB p 10 Essential Question and engage brain
5. WB p11-12 Breaking away and self management
6. WB p13-14 Analyze structure and take notes
7. WB p15 Expand Vocabulary, list of traits and paragraph
8. WB p 16 Annotation in Action and Author's Purpose
9. Exit Slip: How do writer's convey character perspective?

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute check on computer and desk
2. Planner: WB p14-27
3. Entry Task- What ways do teenagers seek independence?
4. WB p14 add summary to your notes
5. WB p17-22 Finish workbook pages from Friday, May 2
6. WB p23 Questions 6-7
7. WB p24 Questions 1-2
8. WB p25 Questions 1-3 and 1
9. WB p26 Question 1
10. WB p 27 Main Idea
11. Exit Slip- Why do some teenagers engage  in risky behavior?

1. One minute check on computer and desk
2. Planner: WB p14-27 and begin assessments
3. Entry Task What makes an adolescent brain different?
4. Finish Workbook p14-27
5. Turn and Talk and Response Log
6. Practice and Oral assessment
7. Writable on HMH
8. Selection Test on HMH
9. Exit Slip: If this unit was informational, what kind of articles would you be reading? Be specific.

1. One minute check on computer and desk
2. Planner: Assessments
3. Entry Task: How is informational text structured. List two details.
4. Finish Writable and Selection Test
5. Analyze The Text
6. Project
7. Exit Slip: What type of structure did the author of the Debt We Own an Adolescent Brain use?

1. One minute check on computer and desk
2. Planner: Finish Assessments and begin WBp8-11
3. Entry Task: What kind of adult do you want to become?
4. Finish all assessments (assessment check)
5. WB p8-12 It's Complicated.
6. Exit Slip: Why do you think author's use statistics?

1. One minute check on computer and desk
2. Planner: WB p 8-13 and Read It's Complicated TB p396-398
3. Entry Task: What are signal words? List 2 signal words when using compare and contrast.
4. WB p8 Essential Question and Engage the Brain
5. WB p9 Social Emotional Learning 
6. WB p10 Identifying Counterclaims with notes
7. WB p11 Question 2 and Expand your Vocabulary
8. Read It's Complicated TB p396-398
9. WB p14-15  Complete Elements of an Argument Chart using It's Complicated.
10. Exit Slip: Why are healthy adolescent years important to adults?

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute check on computers and desks
2. Planner: WB p12-18
3. Entry task: What is your relationship with technology?
4. WB p12-13 Elements of Argumentation Chart using text
5. WB p14- Vocabulary in Context and questions 1-4
6. WB p15-16 Questions 1-5 and word gap
7. WB p17 - Question 6 and word gaps
8. WB p18- Context Clues and Social emotional learning
9. Exit Slip: Does social media create a complicated life? Explain

1. One minute check on computers and desks
2. Planner: Assessments
3. Entry task: What is your stand on teenagers using media? For or Against. Explain
4. Writable in HMH
5. Selection Test in HMH
6. Analyze the Text
7. Project
8. Exit Slip: After reading the article. would your parents be more or less worried about teens using social media? Explain,

1. One minute check on computers and desks
2. Planner: Assessments
3. Entry task: What is the author's point of view on social media?
4. Finish writable and Selection test
5. Finish Analyze the text and the project
6. Exit Slip: Where do teens learn how to be adults?

1. One minute check on computers and desks
2. Planner: WB p21-26 Read Outsmart Smartphone
3. Entry task What reasons did Boyd give to explain why adults may not be concerned about adults using cell phones?
4. WB p21 Essential question and engage Brain
5. WBp22- Analyze structure and rhetorical devices
6. WBp24- Rhetorical devices chart
7. WB p25 Vocabulary chart
8. Read Outsmart Smartphone TB p407-412
9. Exit Slip: What are the benefits of social media?

1. One minute check on computers and desks
2. Planner: WB p27-33
3. Entry task: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Having friends online is the same thing as having friends in real life? Explain
4. WB p26 Questions 1-5
5. WB p 27- Questions 6-9
6. WB p28-29- Quick Check and Questions 1-4
7. WB p 30 - Questions 1-3
8. WB p31 Questions 1-2 and Question 1
9. WB p32 Chart and Quick Check
10. Peer coach video evalutaing evidence
11. Exit Slip: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Social media can increase some people's feelings of anxiety? Explain.

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute desk and computer Check
2. Planner Check WBp31-33 and Assessments
3. Entry task: How do you feel if you can not be on your phone? Explain.
4. WB p31 Chart and Quick Check
5. WB p32 Question 1-2
6. WB p33 Argument Practice
7. Writable on HMH
8. Exit Slip: Do you prefer texting or talking?

1. One minute desk and computer Check
2. Planner Check:  Assessments
3. Entry task: According to the author, what "adult thinking" can be hindered by teens overuse of social media?
4. Finish Writable
5. Selection Test
6. Project
7. Exit Slip: Do you worry about people talking about you online?  explain how you handle it, if it happens?

1. One minute desk and computer Check
2. Planner Check Research on persuasive argument about social media
3. Entry task: Do you think technology and social media are having a negative impact on your life? Explain.
4. Finish research  on a persuasive argument about social media
5. Exit Slip: Define rhetoric and rhetorical devices.

1. One minute desk and computer Check
2. Planner Check Persuasive Argument on Social Media research and introduction
3. Entry task: Why is it important to ask questions if you do not understand the requirements? 
4. Finish research on your argument
5. Write your introduction paragraph
6. Exit Slip:  Why is it important to manage your time when writing an essay?

1. One minute desk and computer Check
2. Planner Check Introduction and body paragraphs of social media persuasive essay
3. Entry task: Why is it important to understand all guidelines and the rubric before writing your essay?
4. Finish introduction
5. Begin writing your body paragraphs (3)
6. Exit Slip: What is the purpose of a persuasive argument?

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute check on computer and desk
2. Planner: Finish body paragraphs, counterclaim, and conclusion
3. Entry Slip:  What is you claim and audience?
4.  Finish Body paragraphs WB p16-19
5. Finish Counterclaim WB p20
6. Finish Conclusion WB p21
7. Begin typing in the HMH Writeable argumentative essay
8. Exit Slip: What are  the three reasons that support your claim?

1. One minute check on computer and desk
2. Planner: Begin typing in HMH Writeable- Argumentative Essay
3. Entry Slip: What do you include in an introduction?
4. Finish Typing your argumentative essay in HMH writeable 
5. Exit Slip: What needs to go into body paragraphs?

1. One minute check on computer and desk
2. Planner: Finish typing and WB p7-12
3. Entry Slip: What do you include in the conclusion of an argumentative essay? 
4. Finish typing argument and submit
5. WB p7-12 Anne Frank
6. Exit Slip: Do you turn in your essay on time? If not what is your plan?

1. One minute check on computer and desk
2. Planner: Holocaust introduction and notes
3. Entry Slip: What do you know about Anne Frank?
4. Learn about the Holocaust through introduction and take notes on WB p10
5. Exit Slip: How do you cope with major disappointment or loss?

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute check on desk and computer
2. Planner: Finish taking Notes on WB p10, and start the Butterfly project
3. Entry task: What do you know about the Holocaust?
4. Finish Boy and the Striped Pajamas, and take notes on WB p10
5. Begin the Butterfly Project
6. Exit Slip: Why is it important to speak up when someone is getting bullied?

1. One minute check on desk and computer
2. Planner: Finish Butterfly Project and WB p22, 25, and 27 choose parts
3. Entry task: What effects can stereotypes have on people or groups?
4. Finish Butterflies and hang them up in the classroom
5. Stream to Start Video on HMH
6. WB p22  complete Vocabulary
7. WB p25 10 Things I cannot live without
8. WB p27 Choose parts for Scene 1-2
9. Exit Slip: What can you learn from reading about people who experience tragedy?

1. One minute check on desk and computer
2. Planner: Read Scene 1-2
3. Entry task: What did you learn about the Holocaust from watching The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?
4. Read Scene 1 TB p 442-445
5. Read Scene 2 TB p445-455
6.  Exit Slip: Scene 1-2  Why is it important to pay attention to dates and stage direction when reading a play?

1. One minute check on desk and computer
2. Planner: Read Scene 3-4, and WB 27-35
3. Entry task: Scene 1-2 How does the stage direction help you understand the mood in the play?
4. Read Scene 3 TB p455-474
5. Read Scene 4 TB p445-455
6. WB p27-32 Questions 1-7
7. WB p35 Questions 16
8. Exit Slip: Scene 1-2- Describe what happened to Anne and her family before and after the war?

1. One minute check on desk and computer
2. Planner: Read Scene 5 TB 479-482, Choose parts and WB p36-47
3. Entry task:  Scene 1-2Describe Mr. Franks and Mr. Van Daan's personalities?
4. Read Scene 5 WB p479-482
5. WB p36 Quick check.
6. WB p38 Questions 21-23
7. WB p40-42 Questions 1-2
8. WB p44 Quick Check
9. WB p47 Questions 13-15
10. Exit Slip: Scene 1-2 What are some of the rules of the attic? 

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute check desks and computers
2. Planner: Finish Reading Act 1 Scenes 1-5
3. Entry task: Scene 3  What tensions have grown between the residents?
4. Read TB p474-490 Scene 4 and 5
5. Choose parts for Act 2
6. Exit Slip: Scene 4: What is Mr. Van Daan doing in the middle of the night?

1. One minute check desks and computers
2. Planner: WB p27-42
3. Entry task: How did Mr. Dussel's arrival change things for the people in the attic?
4. WB p27-52 Questions and Quick Checks
5. Exit Slip: Act 2 Scene 1: How much time has passed between the end of Act 1 and the beginning of Act 2- what happened to the suspected thief?

1. One minute check desks and computers
2. Planner: Finish Reading Act 2 Scenes 1-5
3. Entry task: Act 2 Scene 2 Why is Mrs. Frank unhappy about Anne's relationship with Peter?
4. Read Act 2 Scene 1-5
5. Exit Slip: Act 2 Scene 2: How has Anne's and Peter's relationship changed?

1. One minute check desks and computers
2. Planner: Finish Reading Act 1 Scenes 1-5  and WB p27-63
3. Entry task: Act 2 Scene 3: Why is Mrs. Frank angry with Mr. Van Daan?
4. Finish Read Act 2
5. WB p27-63
6. Exit Slip: Act 2 Scene 4: Describe tension in the scene.  Why are the residents upset?

1. One minute check desks and computers
2. Planner: Finish Reading Act 1 Scenes 1-5
3. Entry task: Act 2 Scene 5: What do the characters hear in the scene?
4. WB p 8-23
5. Exit Slip: Act 2 Scene 5: How did Mr.  Frank feel by the end of the play? Did his mood change from the beginning of the play?

This will be my very last time -- Thank you for all parents and students who I had the opportunity to teach on my very last year.

Homeroom:

English:

1. One minute check for computer and desk
2. Planner: Finish both workbooks, and Act 1-2 Analyze texts and cut down butterfly
3. Entry task: What does this dialogue reveal about Anne: "I still believe that people are good at heart."
4. Read poem and take butterfly
5. Finish Act 1-2 Analyze the Text Assessments
6. Finish Act 1-2 Projects
7. Exit Slip: Why isn't Anne bitter? What does this say about her character?

1. One minute check for computer and desk
2. Planner: Finish both workbooks, and Act 1-2 Analyze texts 
3. Entry task:  What evidence of good does Anne see in the world?
4. Finish Act 1-2 Analyze the text assessments
5. Finish Act 1-2 Projects
6. Exit Slip: After Mr. Frank closed the journal at the end of scene 5, his attitude changed, why?

1. Entry Task:  What is your goal for High school?
2. Last day of school- sign annuals and celebrate
3. Exit slip: Give Ms. Devery advice on what to do in her retirement.