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.