Daily Agenda

Please look below for daily agenda items and links to resources.

Please email Mrs. Little (klittle2@sandi.net) to request and schedule individual/small group help. So far, I am finding that I need to keep flexibility in my office hours/help. Some students are accessing their work right after Advisory and need help then; whereas, some students are taking a break and needing help later in the afternoon. Students can either receive help through email or schedule a Zoom. I am open and available to both.

Friday, January 22nd

• NYT Lesson of the Day: Amanda Gorman and ‘The Hill We Climb’
• Distance Learning Feedback for English
• You have access to Lexia for the remainder of the school year. Keep up your reading and writing skills!

Thursday, January 21st

• FASTtrack Reading Assessment
• NYT Lesson of the Day: Amanda Gorman and ‘The Hill We Climb’

Wednesday, January 20th

• FASTtrack Reading Assessment
• Optional Extra Credit: Inauguration Analysis (Shared in your English folder.) Submit in Canvas here.

Tuesday, January 19th

• Lexia Tracking-TOTAL OF 300 units due by Friday. Up to 140 points extra credit available.
  • Over 500-Leslie
  • Over 400-Dalina
  • Over 350-Kyle and Leilani
  • Over 300-Valente, Kawika, Colin, Bella, Cindy, Zion, and Kona
  • COMPLETERS: Jeremy and Ahmed
• "Dreams" by Langston Hughes with Pear Deck
• Flex TIme/HW: Finish your PearDeck responses. Complete at leaset 5 units of Lexia. Watch "Harlem History" until 7:20. Why may Harlem have been a place that many African Americans came to realize their dreams?

Friday, January 15th

• Complete paired text comparison of film adaptation of "Thank You M'am", the short story "Thank You M'am", and the poem "Mother to Son" as well as further analysis of "Thank You M'am"
• Check PowerSchool- Do you have any questions about assignments or grades? Chat with Ms. W or Ms. Little.
• Work on Lexia and missing assignments
• All late work must be submitted by January 18th to be included in your final grade
• HW/Flex Time: Finish Thank You M'am media recording, missing work, and Lexia

Thursday, January 14th

• Teenagers who steal should be strictly punished so they learn their lesson. Agree or Disagree?
• Pre-Reading video for "Thank you, M'am"
• "Thank you, M'am" in CommonLit (guiding and assessment questions)
• Colin Powell: "Kids Need Structure" EdPuzzle in Canvas
• HW/Flex Time: Complete CommonLit assessment questions, EdPuzzle in Canvas, and 5 units of Lexia. If you would like to watch it, here is a short film adaptation of "Thank You M'am".

Wednesday, January 13th

• Review of last night's video content
• "The Harlem Renaissance"
• Read "Mother to Son" in CommonLit (audio by Viola Davis)
• Complete assessment questions in CommonLit
• Complete media recording reflection in Canvas

Tuesday, January 12th

• • LEXIA LEADERS:
    • Over 400-Dalina and Leslie
    • Over 300-Kyle, Leilani, Bella, and Cindy
    • Over 270-Kawika, Gavin, and Colin
    • COMPLETERS: Jeremy and Ahmed

• Student Showcase of Sleep PSA
• Work on Lexia/Missing assignments

1. What made Langston Hughes influential and special?
2. What was the relationship between jazz and blues with his poetry?
3. What made him "a great American literary voice of the 20th century"?

Monday, January 11th

• Sleep Deprivation Public Service Announcement/Expression
• Submit in Canvas by Tuesday
• HW/Flex Time: Work on Sleep Expression Assignment (your finished piece should be done by tomorrow morning) and complete 5 units of Lexia.

Friday, January 8th

• Sleep Deprivation Public Service Announcement/Expression
• Submit in Canvas by Tuesday

Thursday, January 7th

• School Start Time Debate in Canvas
• Sleep EdPuzzle in Canvas

Wednesday, January 6th

• Review of Sleep Survey Results
• Continue reading Scope (Dec/Jan issue)- Log in as student. Password: Innovation
  • The Story of Sleep Infographic
  • Sleep Disasters Slides
• Complete the Scope Sleep doc that was pushed into your English folders and submit in Canvas
• Read this article to prepare for tomorrow's debate
• Go to this website and click on the "Information for Parents" doc. You will learn more facts about school start times.

Tuesday, January 5th

• • LEXIA LEADERS: NEW COMPLETER- AHMED!!!!!!!
    • Over 400-Dalina and Leslie
    • Over 300-Kyle, Leilani, and Bella
    • Over 275-Cindy and Kawika
    • Over 250-Gavin, and Colin
    • COMPLETERS: Jeremy and Ahmed

• Sleep Survey
• “Why Are We Soooooo Tired?” - Dec/Jan issue of Scope
  • Sign in as Student
  • Password: Innovation
• Padlet- Perfect Storm

Monday, January 4th

• CommonLit: "The Hero's Journey"
• Media Response in Canvas:

Friday

• Read Chapter 27 and 28 Touching Spirit Bear PDF
• Picture Reveal
• HW/Flex Time: Catch up with Lexia if you are behind. Rest, rejuvenate, and relax!

Thursday

• Read rest of 25 and Chapter 26 Touching Spirit Bear PDF
• Look at grades/missing assignments and conference with Ms. Little
• HW/Flex Time: Complete missing assignments and 5 units of Lexia.

Wednesday

• Review Ch. 22-23 Breakout Rooms Share-out
• Read Chapter 24 and part of 25
• Totem Pole EdPuzzle in Canvas
• Flex Time/HW: 5 units of Lexia and complete Totem Pole EdPuzzle in Canvas.

Tuesday, 12/12

• Read end of Ch. 21-23 Touching Spirit Bear PDF
• Ch. 22-23 Breakout Rooms (Be prepared to share on Wednesday
• Flex Time/HW: 5 units of Lexia. Canvas assignment-Slides 15, 16, 17, and 18 as a media response (Ch. 20-21)

Monday, 12/11

• Lexia Tracking
  • LEXIA LEADERS:
    • Over 400-Ahmed and Leslie
    • Over 300-Dalina
    • Over 275-Kyle, Leilani, Bella, and Cindy
    • Over 230-Yosgart, Kawika, Gavin, and Colin
    • COMPLETER: JEREMY
• Touching Spirit Bear PDF Ch. 20-21
• Slides 12, 13, 1and 14 in Canvas as a media response
• HW/Flex Time: 5 units of Lexia. Complete your Canvas work of slides 12-14 .

Friday, 12/10

• Touching Spirit Bear PDF Ch. 18-19
• Slideshow Prompts
• HW/Flex Time: 5 units of Lexia. Submit your summary and only answers to slides 6-10 in your Takeaway Ch. 15-18. This should be submitted in Canvas.

Thursday, 12/9

• Touching Spirit Bear PDF Ch. 17-18
• Complete Pear Deck slide 6 to slide 10.
• HW/Flex Time: Complete Pear Deck to slide 10 and 5 units of Lexia

Wednesday, 12/9

• Pear Deck Intro
• (mid p.74 Touching Spirit Bear PDF through Ch. 16)
• Complete Pear Deck. Tomorrow, Ms. Little will close the session to publish the Takeaways so you can submit it.
• HW/Flex Time: Complete Pear Deck and 5 units of Lexia

Tuesday, 12/8

• Use a grammar tool to edit your work.
• Peer Review/Share Out.
• Submit Argument Letter Essay in Canvas.
• Lexia
• HW/Flex Time: Be sure your essay in submitted in Canvas. Lexia- 5 units.

Monday, 12/7

• Lexia Tracking (continue updating on the same one in your English folder

• Congratulations to our LEXIA LEADERS (200 units or higher as of 12/6): Leslie (over 400), Dalina (over 300), Ahmed (over 300), Kyle, Leilani, Kawika, Cindy, Colin, Valerie, Bella, Derek, William, Yosgart, Valente, Gavin AND A LEXIA COMPLETER: JEREMY HURD!!!!
• Use the graphic organizer to create your argument essay. Work on Editing your Argument Essay. Use the highlighting/coding on graphic organizer to be sure you have each part. Use the rubric in Canvas to be sure you have completed each requirement and met expectations.
• TSB Argument Essay Guidance (Look at last slide (#16) for format of essay.)
• HW/Flex Time: By using the graphic organizer, create an argument essay. Code your essay with the fonts/highlighting modeled on the graphic organizer. Use the Island Argument Essay doc in your English folder for your final draft. Lexia- 5 units

Friday, 12/4

• TSB Argument Essay Guidance
• Complete Complete the G.O. for the entire essay. Submit in Canvas by 3PM today.

Thursday, 12/3

• TSB Argument Essay Guidance (slides 1-14)
• Complete Complete the G.O. for the con/counter body paragraphs (4th body paragraph)
• HW/Flex Time: Be sure 5 sections in G.O. are complete. Lexia-5-7 units.

Wednesday, 12/2

• Submit Lexia Tracking Sheet
• TSB Argument Essay Guidance (slides 1-6)
• Complete Complete the G.O. for 3 body paragraphs (after the introduction paragraph)
• HW/Flex Time: Be sure your tracking sheet is submitted. Complete 3 sections in G.O. Lexia-5-7 units.

Tuesday, 12/1

• Lexia Tracking (continue updating on the same one in your English folder

• Congratulations to our LEXIA LEADERS (175 units or higher as of 11/29): Leslie (over 400), Dalina (over 300), Jeremy (over 300), Ahmed (0ver 300), Kyle (over 200), Leilani (over 200), Kawika (over 200), Cindy (over 200), Colin (over 200), Valerie (over 200), Bella (over 200), Derek (over 200), William (over 200), Yosgart, Valente, Gavin, and Rafael!
• Review of arguments for return to island
• Introduction paragraph and thesis. Use slides 1-5 for help: TSB Argument Essay Guidance

• HW/Flex Time: Complete the G.O. for the intro paragraph and thesis. Watch the BrainPop movie, "Online Sources". To access the BrainPOP assignment, sign in through Clever. Work on Lexia for 30 minutes.

Monday, 11/30

• Refresh of the story
• Read Ch. 14-half of 15 (to mid 74 Touching Spirit Bear PDF)
• Complete Island Debate Form
• HW/Flex Time: 30 minutes of Lexia and complete Island Debate Form

Friday, 11/20

• Complete Acrostic Poem and submit in Canvas.
• Submit your Circles of Influence in Canvas.
• Look at PowerSchool and see if you are missing any assignments.

Thursday, 11/19

• Read Ch. 13 (page 60 Touching Spirit Bear PDF)
• Begin Cole Matthews Acrostic Poem assignment due Friday (student example). Submit in Canvas.

Wednesday, 11/18

• Reminder- Circles of Influence Work (due Friday)
• Finish Reading Ch. 12 (page 58)
• Cole's Realization Writing Workshop (Submit by Thursday morning in Canvas)
• HW/Flex Time: 5-7 units of Lexia. Complete and submit your Ch. 12 Cole's Realization writing. Work on your Circles of Influence (due Friday)

Tuesday, 11/17

• Chapters 9, 10 and 11 Reading Quiz in Canvas
• Finish reading chapter 12 as a class (pg 55 Touching Spirit Bear PDF)
• Chapter 12 Response - Cole's Realization (due on Thursday)
• HW/Flex Time: Lexia 30 minutes (5-7 units). Brainstorm your writing for Cole's Realization. On Wednesday, I will be splitting you into writing groups based upon your choice.

Monday, 11/16

• Lexia Tracking (continue updating on the same one in your English folder

• Congratulations to our LEXIA LEADERS (168 units or higher as of 11/15): Leslie (over 400), Dalina (over 300), Jeremy (over 200), Kyle (over 200), Leilani (over 200), Kawika (over 200), Cindy (over 200), Ahmed (0ver 200), Bella (over 200), Derek (over 200), Yosgart, Valente, Gavin, Rafael, and William!

• Read Chapter 11 (pg 52 Touching Spirit Bear PDF)
• CommonLit.org- "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs"
• HW/Flex Time: Complete assessment questions in CommonLit. Work on Lexia for 30 minutes. Complete the Google Form from Friday if you did not.

Friday, 11/13

• Read Chapter 10 (pg 48 Touching Spirit Bear PDF)
  • • • • Use Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to explain why a student who doesn't eat a nourishing lunch will likely do poorly in school.
        • How can Maslow's theory explain the motivations of Cole in Touching Spirit Bear?
• Watch: Encountering Abraham Maslow (11 minutes)
• Watch: Hierarchy of Needs in Ratatouille (7 minutes)
• Complete this Google Form.
• HW/Flex Time: Complete your 21 units of Lexia. Your total amount for the year should be 168. Complete any missing work.

Thursday, 11/12

• Read Chapter 9 (You may use the text Touching Spirit Bear PDF)
• Chapter 9 Circle Response (Submit in Canvas)

Wednesday, 11/11

Tuesday, 11/10

• Share out Group Responses to Ch. 8 questions
• TSB Quiz Ch. 7 and 8 in Canvas (You may use the text Touching Spirit Bear PDF)
• Lexia or any other missing assignment
• HW/Flex Time: Complete any missing assignment posted 10/5 or later. Work on Lexia for 25 minutes. THANK A SOLDIER FOR HIS/HER SERVICE.

Monday, 11/9

• Lexia Tracking (continue updating on the same one in your English folder
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• Example of an appropriate, specific goal and action: I will complete 6 units each day in Lexia. I will do this by checking my progress "trophy" at the end of my 25-30 minutes and recording my progress. If I have not met my 6 units, I will continue working until I have.
• Complete presentations from Friday starting with Colin's group
• Read Ch. 8 Touching Spirit Bear PDF
• Group Responses to Ch. 8 questions
• HW/Flex Time: Finish your portion of the slide Be prepared for a TSB quiz. Lexia- 25 minutes

Friday, 11/6

• Continue reading Touching Spirit Bear PDF (page 38)
• Connections and Motivations from Ch. 7

Thursday, 11/5

• Complete Group slides and present (Groupwork-Banishment vs. Custody)
• Continue reading Touching Spirit Bear PDF (page 37)
• HW/Flex Time: Identify one natural consequence. Work on Lexia for 30 minutes.

Wednesday, 11/4

• Read Ch. 6 (p.31) Touching Spirit Bear PDF
• Groupwork-Banishment vs. Custody
• HW/Flex Time: Reread the article and collect evidence for your group's slide. Work on Lexia for 30 minutes.

Tuesday, 11/3

• • Cole and Circle Justice - Corners Activity
  • Canvas Discussion after reading Junior Scholastic articles

Monday, 11/2

• Lexia Tracking (continue updating on the same one in your English folder) and upload to Canvas (ONLY CAN SUBMIT UNTIL 11/6 FOR CREDIT)
• Congratulations to our LEXIA LEADERS (150 units or higher as of 11/1): Leslie (over 300), Dalina (over 200), Jeremy (over 200),

• Read TSB Ch. 5 Touching Spirit Bear PDF

• • • Can a criminal become rehabilitated in ways other than by traditional justice? Is it possible for the victim and the perpetrator to achieve peace between each other with traditional justice? Give your opinion on the questions above after viewing/listening to at least one of the above resources or from your own personal research. Refer specifically to the information in at least one of the sources. 150-word minimum.
    • Complete 25 minutes of Lexia.

Friday, 10/30

Thursday, 10/29

• Opener: What was one surprising fact you learned from yesterday's video?
• "I Am Offering This Poem" in CommonLit -Guiding and Assessment questions (a total of 7).
  • How can the theme be applied to Cole? Why do you think this text is paired with Touching Spirit Bear?
  • Padlet (complete a full response

Wednesday, 10/28

• • Touching Spirit Bear PDF Chapter 4
  • Lexia -Independent Work
  • Congratulations to our LEXIA LEADERS (150 units or higher as of 10/25): Dalina (over 200), Leslie (over 300), Jeremy, Leilani, Bella, and Cindy
  • HW/Flex Time: Tomorrow we will be reading a poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Watch this video which is an interview with author about his incarceration experience . Work on Lexia for 25 minutes.

Tuesday, 10/27

• Cake Analogy Reflection-Complete your minimum 500 word reflection. EXPLAIN HOW the ingredients influenced you. Submit in Canvas.
• HW/Flex Time: Finish writing your cake analogy reflection. Work on Lexia for 25 minutes.

Monday, 10/26

• Lexia Tracking (continue updating on the same one in your English folder)
• Cake Analogy Reflection-Brainstorming ingredients-Complete the chart only
• HW/Flex Time: Write an email to your parent/guardian. Copy Ms. Little (klittle2@sandi.net). Write in the email how many units of Lexia you should have completed (105), how many you should complete each week (21), and if you are meeting your goals. If you are not meeting the goals, write why you are not meeting your goals and what your plan is to start meeting your goals. If you are meeting your goals, explain what you are doing to meet them. Work on Lexia for 25 minutes.

Friday, 10/23

• Student Work Share Out-Open Mind (Cindy, Gavin, and Bella)
• Read Ch. 3 Touching Spirit Bear PDF
• Canvas Reading Check
• HW/Flex Time: Complete your weekly Lexia units

Thursday, 10/22

• Padlet
• Continue work on Open Mind. Submit in Canvas.
• HW/Flex Time: Submit your Open Mind in Canvas. Work on Lexia for 30 minutes. Weekly goal is 21 units.

Wednesday, 10/21

• • Review of yesterday's slides
  • Touching Spirit Bear PDF Chapter 2
  • TSB Ch. 2 Open Mind (example of symbols within the head and full example). This document was pushed into your English folders. The final work will be due on Friday.
  • HW/Flex Time: Work on Open Mind-complete approximately 3 symbols for today. Work on Lexia for 25 minutes.

Tuesday, 10/20

• • Touching Spirit Bear PDF
  • HW/FLex Time: TSB Ch. 1 Slides (SUBMIT HERE-every student should submit his/her OWN slide with his/her OWN words) and 25 minutes of Lexia

Monday, 10/19

• Lexia Tracking (continue updating on the same one in your English folder)
• Lexia tutorials and Pick Up Grades Day (Focus: Most assignments posted 10/5 or later AND Lexia)
• HW/Flex Time: Work on Lexia and check for missing assignments (especially the narrative that was due on Friday). You should be working on work for all three classes for at least two hours during Flex Time every day.

Friday, 10/16

• Peer Review and Submission of Narratives in Canvas
• HW/Flex Time: Be sure you have a minimum of 21 units complete for your Lexia this week and you have submitted your final draft of Mt. Everest Narrative.

Thursday, 1015

• Narrative in Progress Feedback
• Highlighting and editing of rough draft
• HW/Flex Time: Complete your editing, proofreading, and highlighting of your draft. Lexia- 25 minutes (Record the number of units you earn and in which strand.)

Wednesday, 10/14

• Review of rubric and expectations
• Continue writing rough drafts (rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution/revelation)
• HW/Flex Time: Complete your rough draft. Lexia- 25 minutes (weekly goal is 21 units).

Tuesday, 10/13

• Peer Review of Lexia Tracking Sheet
• Plot Line Spot Check-on Mt. Everest Prewriting doc (Please submit in Canvas)
• Reminder to review prompt and rubric before writing
• Begin Rough Draft- Establish exposition (including characters & setting) and inciting incident. (Full rough draft due Wednesday by 10 pm)

Monday, 10/12

• Lexia Tracking Sheet (Submit in Canvas) To check how many units you have completed each day, follow these directions daily This must be submitted during the specified week due to the goal-setting. Late submissions will NOT be accepted after 10/16.
• Plot Diagram/Prewriting
• Narrative Rubric and Highlighting (Rough Draft due...)
• HW/Flex Time: Be sure your Lexia Tracking Sheet is submitted in Canvas. Complete your plot line and review the rubric on your Mt. Everest prewriting doc. Lexia-25 minutes.

Friday, 10/9

• Complete all three questions in your Mt. Everest Part One (review as a class)
• Start drafting your plotline based on the prompt (optional)
• HW/Flex Time: Be sure all three questions are fully answered in your Mt. Everest Part One document. The 3 research questions are listed after the three sources. Your 21 Lexia units for the week should be completed. Be sure they are! Data for the week collects until Sunday. Do not procrastinate!

Thursday, 10/8

• Begin Mt. Everest Narrative Part One (read all three sources)
• Hw/Flex Time: Review the two articles and excerpt. Highlight connecting text, underline main ideas, and use comment boxes to define new words and to annotate. Lexia for 30 minutes (work on Comprehension first).

Wednesday, 10/7

• Kahoot Review of Progress Period 2 Expectations
• Lexia PowerUp Tracking
• Complete your Lexia PowerUp Student Tracking Sheet (in English folder)

Tuesday, 10/6

• Student Choice and completion of Fast Reading Assessment
• Progress Period 2 Grading and Reflection (Submit here in Canvas.)
• HW/Flex Time: Complete your grade reflection and work on Lexia- 30 minutes. Record what strand you worked on and how many units you earned in your planner. Be sure you understand the information that was presented today.

Monday, 10/5

• Continue with FasTrack Reading Assessment
• Lexia Work-one strand per day/write down your units
• HW/Flex Time: Be sure your After 20 Years, foreshadowing notes, and movie review/peer review are done. This will be the last week to turn in these assignments. No other work from progress period 1 will be accepted late starting progress period 2 (today).

Friday, 10,/2

• Review of last night's Peer Review of Movie Review
• FastTrack Reading Assessment
• HW/Flex Time: Work on missing assignments and Lexia (21 more units are due on Sunday)

Thursday, 10/1

• Example of Foreshadowing homwork
• "After Twenty Years" Movie Review and Comparison to the Text in Canvas
• Post your media recording and complete a peer review of another peer's submission
• HW/Flex Time: If you did not complete your movie review, complete it and your peer review in Canvas. Complete 25 minutes in Lexia.

Wednesday, 9/30

• • Expectations of annotating in CommonLit and reminder about Lexia units (updated Monday or Tuesday each week)
  • Group Work analyzing literature devices in "After Twenty Years"
  • Foreshadow Hints in "After Twenty Years"
  • HW/Flex Time: Complete Foreshadow doc (in your English folder). Submit in Canvas. Complete 25 minutes of Lexia.

Tuesday, 9/29

• • Examples in chat
    • Verbal Irony (Last Names A-C)
    • Situational Irony (Last Names D-L)
    • Dramatic Irony (Last Names N-R)
    • Foreshadowing (Last Names S-V)
  • Paired "text"- Using the details of the painting predict the setting of the story
  • "After Twenty Years" in Common Lit- Use the annotation tool to write notes and highlight in the text how Jimmy and Bob feel about each other.
  • HW/Flex Time: Complete a second reading of the text, be sure you have a minimum of 3 highlights with annotations for the above. Complete the assessment questions. Work on Lexia for 25 minutes.

Monday, 9/28

• • Pre-reading video: What is Loyalty?
  • Discussion: LOYALTY in Canvas
  • Irony and Foreshadowing Definitions and Examples

• • HW/Flex Time: Brainstorm examples of 3 types of irony and foreshadowing, finish your discussion prompt and 2 replies if you have not, complete missing work, and Lexia- 25 minutes

Friday, 9/25

• Review/Share Out Opener- Compare/Contrast of the movie vs written text
• Review 'Envy' Group Assignment in Padlet
• All Summer in a Day Quiz in Canvas
• P.U.G. (Pick Up Grades) day/Lexia- last day to turn in work before grades are due is 9/30.
• HW/Flex Time: Students who earn over 21 units in Lexia will receive EXTRA CREDIT for each additional unit- up to 9 extra credit points available! Weekly units are due by Sunday night to be credited to the assignment.

Thursday, 9/24

• ASD Close reading questions
• 'Envy' Group Assignment in Padlet - click here for the instructions
• HW/Flex Time: Watch this video of "All Summer in a Day". Compare and Contrast the Video and Story Versions (you will be using this in class tomorrow)

• Wednesday, 9/23

• Locker Feedback
• Think about the people, places, events, and ideas that are most precious to you. Name a few. How would you feel if any of these things disappeared?
• "All Summer in a Day" as a class (Focus: How does the setting influence the plot, including the conflict and resolution?)

• HW: In your English folder, take notes on Close reading questions. Be prepared to share these answers in class tomorrow. Lexia/PowerUp for 25 minutes. Resubmit your locker if you submitted it through Google Drive. Use a URL.

Tuesday, 9/22

• First Progress Period Ends 10/2.
• Research the term Freytag's Pyramid
• In the chat answer-Name one drawback and one benefit of using Freytag's pyramid
• Review of basic plots Padlet
• Book Bits
• HW/Flex Time: Complete ASD Intro which was placed in your English folder. (Full assignment directions are in Canvas.) Submit in Canvas by Wednesday morning. Work on Lexia PowerUp for 25 minutes.

Monday, 9/21

• CommonLit resubmissions: You may resubmit until I release scores/answers. Then, it will be a paragraph resubmission that can earn no higher than a B.
• "Knock Knock video" with written form of "Knock Knock" Breakout Room Questions:
  1. How does the action of knocking evolve throughout the poem? Does it represent the same thing in the ending as it did in the beginning?
  2. What can we learn from tragedy? How is the speaker impacted by the absence of his father?
  3. How does prejudice play a role in the speaker’s father’s imprisonment? In what ways does the speaker anticipate encountering prejudice himself?
  4. Does the speaker believe he can control his fate?
  5. How are "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" and "Knock Knock" suitable to be juxtaposed?

• Kahoot Knock Knock

• HW/Flextime: Padlet: Using THIS padlet, write down names of books/movies that you believe are categorized in the seven basic plots. Label them 1-7. Starting this week, students are expected to complete 21 units of Lexia/PowerUp by Sunday at midnight. Students' work should be 7 units in each strand (Word Study, Grammar, and Comprehension.) Lexia/PowerUp can be accessed through Clever.

Friday, 9/18

• Sign up for a Padlet account using your imiddlesd email. It is free. This is how I can invite you to as a member to our Padlets. Padlet.com (Here is a video of directions to sign up for Padlet.) Be sure you have inputted your proper, full name on your profile in order to receive credit for the writing you did in Padlet. If you change your name, your work may be erased or you may not receive credit. Here is a video to show you how to have your school record name in Padlet.
• TEST PADLET WITH EMAILS
• Theme Quiz in Canvas (all students need to be on their school computers and signed into their imiddlesd accounts)
• "Knock Knock video" with written form of "Knock Knock". Consider the following questions which will be discussed on Monday:
  1. How does the action of knocking evolve throughout the poem? Does it represent the same thing in the ending as it did in the beginning?
  2. What can we learn from tragedy? How is the speaker impacted by the absence of his father?
  3. How does prejudice play a role in the speaker’s father’s imprisonment? In what ways does the speaker anticipate encountering prejudice himself?
  4. Does the speaker believe he can control his fate?
  5. How are "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" and "Knock Knock" suitable to be juxtaposed?

• HW/Flex Time: Complete the reading in BrainPop: Plot Related Reading (You can access BrainPop through Clever.)
  1. Be ready to answer this question on Monday: Think about the books and movies you've recently read and seen. Can you categorize each story into one of these seven basic plots? Can you think of other stories with very similar plots?

Thursday, 9/17

• Share lockers
• Watch this Video about Theme vs. Main Idea
• Theme Notes
• Compare and Contrast the themes in "A Treasure of Lemon Brown" and E. E. Cumming's poem "[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]"
  • Listen to the poem read aloud in this video

• • Here is another read aloud by E. E. Cummings

Wednesday, 9/16

• Opening Music
• "Pre-reading for The Treasure of Lemon Brown" Video
• Complete a response to this discussion prompt in Canvas and reply to two classmates' posts
• Begin a guided reading of the short story "Lemon Brown," by Piri Thomas, in Commonlit.org
  • Remember to R.A.C.E when writing a constructed response! (student example)
    • RESTATE the question to form a TOPIC SENTENCE
    • ANSWER all parts of the question
    • CITE EVIDENCE from the text
    • EXPLAIN how the evidence supports your answer

Tuesday, 9/15

• Name slide show
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Be Yourself Big Think (Does aspiring to be like others keep people from embracing their own individualities?)
• Complete your assignment in CommonLit ("Identity"). Be sure to have a full paragraph with text evidence for the answer to the last question.
• THE ART OF BEING YOURSELF | CAROLINE MCHUGH (Do you agree with McHugh’s ideas regarding originality? Why do you think it’s difficult for people to accept and embrace their unique qualities? ) Start at 3 min. End at 5.30 min.
• HW: Complete your CommonLit assignment AND submit your locker assignment in Canvas

Monday, 9/14

• Review of name HW making links public
• Sign up for CommonLit.org (Use your imiddlesd email account and password to sign up. Use your full name. Use the code: RGW5GY.)
• Inferencing
• HW: Locker Assignment (DUE on Wednesday at 8am). This was pushed into your imiddlesd English folder. Please use the version in your FOLDER. SUBMIT IT HERE IN CANVAS.

Friday, 9/11

• Review of Identity definitions
• Share English imiddlesd folder with stu.sandi.net folder account
• "My Name" Excerpt from The House on Mango Street
• What's in a name prompt (found in Canvas)
• HW: Completed published slide is due on Monday in Canvas

Thursday, 9/10

• Mood of artwork for poem
• Poem analysis (in English folder in imiddlesd account)
• HW: What My Name Means graphic organizer personal work (in English folder in imiddlesd account)

Wednesday, 9/9

• Expectations
• Review of last night's homework
• Grading
• Open House
• HW: Identity Form

Tuesday, 9/8

• Welcome
• Zoom norms and expectations
• Resources and links
• Getting to Know You Survey
• HW: Meme in Canvas