Assignments Q2

11/9: Logs and Responses due on Friday (Special note: 1 page of narrative free writing may be completed as an alternative to Literature Responses

11/10: Due Monday-5-paragraph Character Sketch. See rubric for details.

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11/14: Study for "archetype v. character" quiz

11/15: No school

11/16: Logs and Responses due tomorrow. Please make one of the responses related to Atticus.

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Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

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11/29:

• Revise your character sketches based on the rubric score, my feedback, and the comments of your peer editors.
• Be ready to submit a piece for display on the class bulletin board.
• Remember you'll need to read an article from NEWSELA for Friday and take one of the quizzes.
• Be ready to submit any revisions to your original story.
• Be ready to play "Stump the Teacher" with Unit 3 vocabulary words.

11/30

• Collect 5 electronic sources to be used for your Environmental Issue research project.
• Complete p. 40 of Unit 3 in Vocabulary Workshop
• Complete your reading log (including the NEWSELA article and independent reading) and write literature response.
• Present Mrs. Humer with a piece of writing to be displayed on the bulletin board.

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12/4

• Finish writing original sentences for the Unit 3 terms.
• Be ready for a quiz over the terms on Tuesday.
• Have read 5 of your environment issues articles by Wednesday. See the link for the assignment.

12/5

• Be sure you've read all 5 of your articles on your environmental issue topic.
• By Friday, have 20 separate notes across the three subtopics: 1) background; 2) damage/problems caused by the issue; 3) hope.

12/6

• Complete the GQ_IDEA response started in class. Be ready to submit it on Friday along with the an additional response for the NEWSELA article read for 12/8 (don't forget to take the quiz). See this link for a model.
• If you didn't finish the Bellringer, p. 38 in Vocabulary Workshop (Completing the Sentence), please do so for homework.

12/7

• Submit your NEWSELA/Reading Log and your GQ_IDEA response. (Click here for the framework and sentence starters.)
• Submit p. 38 from Vocabulary Workshop, Unit 3 (done as bellringer in class on Wednesday) AND study for the test tomorrow.
• Be prepared to submit 20 notes across the three sections (background, problems caused, and hope) of your organization device.

Upcoming deadlines for the research project....

Monday, 12/11: 1)Have a poster board; 2) Have a draft of your section on the background information for the environmental issue on which you're working.

Tuesday, 12/12: Write a draft for the "Problems Caused" section for the project.

Wednesday, 12/13: Write a draft for the "Hope" section.

Friday, 12/15: Poster project due.

HAVE A WONDERFUL WINTER BREAK!!!!

HAPPY 2018!!

Monday, 1/8:

NWEA READING TEST

Thursday, 1/11:

HW: Newsela log, reading log, and QG_IDEA due.

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Monday, 1/15: No school in observance of Martin Luther King Jr.

Tuesday, 1/16:

Do the Write Thing!

• rules
• gallery walk

Unit 4 terms:

• notes

HW--p. 56 Completing the Sentence

Wednesday, 1/17:

Do the Write Thing! journaling prompts

Thursday, 1/18:

Pass back papers. Into Thin Air wrap-up.

Workshop:

• IXL
• DTWT

HW:

1. complete 500 to 1000 words for DTWT (GQ_IDEAs postponed until DTWT submissions are completed.
2. NEWSELA article
3. Reading Logs
4. IXL logs due Wednesday 1/24

Friday, 1/19:

Have read Chapters 1 and 2 from A Long Walk to Water (LWW).

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Monday, 1/22

• NWEA data and goal-setting.
• Update reading and writing logs.
• Ch. 1 LWW quiz
• Unit 4 vocabulary terms/notes

Tuesday, 1/23

Workshop: IXL, conferencing and goal setting, DTWT revisions

HW:

• IXL skills due (7.N.5, 7.O.2, 7.Q.1-->Q.4 & P.3
• Finish p. 56 in Vocabulary Workshop; Complete p. 57
• Study Unit 4 words for Stump the Teacher and January!
• DTWT submissions due Thursday 1/25

Wednesday, 1/24

• Grade p. 56 and p. 57
• January!
• Goal Setting/Bulletin Board Building

HW: Final day to submit your Do the Write Thing! piece. Must be 500-1000 words long and must address the three following questions:

1. How have I been affected by youth violence?
2. What are the causes of youth violence?
3. How can violence be prevented?

Thursday, 1/25

(Re)read Ch. 1 and 2 of A Long Walk to Water

Close read pass 1 and pass 2 of "Let America Be America" again.

HW: NEWSELA article + quiz; Reading Log

Friday, 1/26

DRAW! Reading comprehension activity for Ch. 2

p. 54 "Completing the Sentence"

HW: Get parent signature for DTWT entry submission.

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Monday, 1/29

Quiz over Ch. 2

Lost Boys of Sudan youtube clips. QTF

HW: Get parent signature for DTWT entry submission.

Tuesday, 1/30

Pass back papers; wrap up DTWT submissions; Langston Hughes background; close read 2X

HW: IXL skills due tomorrow.

Wednesday, 1/31

Record # of books read; Practice writing open and closed questions. Practice revising and flip-floppping each; Lost Boys of Sudan QTF revisions; BrainPop! on Harlem Renaissance

HW:

• Due Thursday: test over Unit 4 vocabulary terms
• Due Monday: 1) Log for NEWSELA and independent reading; 2) GQ_IDEA; 3) Literature response for A Long Walk to Water; 4) have read to p. 60 of LWW and be prepared for a test over pages 1-60.

Thursday, 2/1

Unit 4 Test

HW: 1) Log for NEWSELA and independent reading; 2) GQ_IDEA; 3) Literature response for A Long Walk to Water; 4) have read to p. 60 of LWW and be prepared for a test over pages 1-60.

No School on Friday!!!! End of 2nd Quarter!!!!! Have a wonderful long weekend!