Weekly Schedule
**Writing SOL is Wednesday, October 23 (multiple choice) and Thursday, October 24 (essay)**
Week 11
10/21 - Go over released SOL test *Get permission slip signed
10/22 - Review TestNav
10/23 - EOC Writing SOL multiple choice
10/24 - EOC Writing SOL short essay
10/25 - Finish Into the Wild and watch movie
Week 10
10/14 - No School
10/15 - Prompt Practice; No Red Ink - Colons
10/16 - Released SOL test
10/17 - End of the 1st nine weeks- Prompt practice and missing work
10/18 - Prompt Practice - reinforce the persuasive/argument format.
Week 9
10/7 - Finish writing prompt; practice items
10/8 - Prompt practice; go over practice items
10/9 - Prompt practice; grammar practice; Into the Wild chapter 8
10/10 - Noon Release; revise essay
10/11 - No School - Parent-teacher conferences
Week 8
9/30 - Prompt practice; commonly confused words; go over benchmark; chapter 7/8 vocab
10/1 - Prompt practice; finish commonly confused words - quiz tomorrow; chapters 7 & 8
10/2 - Prompt practice; commonly confused words quiz; chapter 7/8 quiz
10/3 - Writing Prompt
10/4 - Anchor papers; writing prompt
Week 7
9/23 - Revising for vague, repetitive, and unclear thesis statements; Read chapter 4 and answer 3/4 questions on Google Classroom; complete chapter 5/6 vocabulary
9/24 - Revising for vague, repetitive, and unclear thesis statements; logical fallacies notes - using The Simpsons
9/25 - Finish revising assignment; review for Writing & Grammar Benchmark
9/26 - Benchmark testing
9/27 - Prompt practice; commonly confused words; chapter 6 of Into the Wild
Week 6
9/16 - *NOON RELEASE* Revise drafts on Google Classroom
9/17 - Dedicated writing time; grammar; Transcendentalism & begin Into the Wild by John Krakauer
9/18 - Dedicated writing time; grammar; Read chapaters 1-3; answer vocab and questions.
9/19 - Dedicated writing time; grammar; Finish work for chapters 1-3
9/20 - Dedicated writing time; grammar; Read chapters 4-5
Week 5
9/9 - Revise drafts; submit final essay **Get permission slip signed
9/10 - Subject-verb agreement quiz; Reading focus: Fireside Poets **Permission slips are due
9/11 - Dedicated writing time; grammar; pronoun-antecedent agreement; Fireside Poets
9/12 - Dedicated writing time; grammar: pronoun-antecedent agreement; Fireside Poets
9/13 - Field trip to see The Comedy of Errors at the Little Washington Theatre
Week 4
9/2 - Labor Day! No School!
9/3 - Dedicated writing time - SOL prompt practice; comma quiz; finish analyzing persuasive techniques of Thomas Paine's Common Sense (excerpt) and The Crisis No. 1 (excerpt).
9/4 - Dedicated writing time - SOL prompt practice; subject-verb agreement; Declaration of Independence activity
9/5 - Dedicated writing time - SOL prompt practice; subject-verb agreement; finish Declaration of Independence activity; begin persuasive essay
9/6 - Subject-verb agreement; persuasive essay rough draft due in No Red Ink.
**Persuasive essay will be due at the end of class on Monday, September 9.
***On Friday, September 13, we will be taking all 11th and 12th grade students to the Little Washington Theatre to see The Cambridge American Stage Tour's production of William Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors.
Week 3
8/26 - Writing and Grammar diagnostic/ MLA format for mini-research project
8/27 - Dedicated writing time - SOL prompt practice; grammar focus: commas; reading - The Great Awakening/ "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
8/28 - Dedicated writing time - SOL prompt practice; grammar focus: commas; reading - Persuasive techniques/Thomas Paine & Patrick Henry
8/29 - Dedicated writing time - SOL prompt practice; grammar focus: commas; reading - Persuasive techniques/Thomas Paine
8/30 - Comma quiz; Reading - Declaration of Independence
Week 1 & 2
8/14 - Class expectations need to be signed
8/15 - Simple sentence practice on NoRedInk; timeline activity on Passport
8/16 - Finish simple sentence practice/ begin compound/complex sentence practice on NoRedInk; timeline activity on Passport, read creation myths and the poem, "Song of the Sky Loom"
8/19 - Compound/complex sentence practice on NoRedInk; read and evaluate metaphor in "Song of the Sky Loom"
8/20 - Finish compound/complex sentence practice on NoRedink; finish "Song of the Sky Loom." Complete Understand and analyze the Oral Tradition worksheet. Begin myth project.
8/21 - Quiz on sentence types; work on Myth project
8/22 - Remediation for sentence types; work on Myth project
8/23 - Sentence quiz re-take; present myth projects.