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Weekly Workflow

This semester's essential question:

How do writers use language and narrative to construct and convey truth?

September 22nd - September 26th

What happened last week? Click here to see the weekly workflow archive.

Monday, 9/22: Exploring The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Reading Workshop & Academic Discourse Workshop

🎯Review Academic Discourse Workshop Objectives & Reading Workshop Objectives

🔰 Complete the Poetry Day Reflection/Analysis for September. You can find this assignment in Google Classroom under Academic Discourse. Finish this for homework.

📓Complete Entry #6: Reader's Response to Independent Reading in the front section of your reader’s and writer’s notebook.

🎭 Continue viewing/reading/discussing Act I of The Crucible. See Google Classroom for reading/response directions. We'll do this tomorrow.

🎒 For homework:

💯Click here to complete Vocabulary Quiz #3 on “The Crucible, Act I”.

📚 Click here to continue developing your vocabulary with “The Crucible, Act II”. Quiz: Monday, 9/29.

📖Continue reading & tagging your selected Independent Reading book.

Tuesday, 9/23: Exploring The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Reading Workshop & Academic Discourse Workshop

🎯Review Academic Discourse Workshop Objectives & Reading Workshop Objectives

📖Continue reading & tagging your selected Independent Reading book.

🎭 FINISH viewing/reading/discussing Act I of The Crucible. See Google Classroom for reading/response directions.

🎒 For homework:

📚 Click here to continue developing your vocabulary with “The Crucible, Act II”. Quiz: Monday, 9/29.

📖Continue reading & tagging your selected Independent Reading book.

Wednesday, 9/24: Exploring The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Reading Workshop & Academic Discourse Workshop

🎯Review Academic Discourse Workshop Objectives & Reading Workshop Objectives

📖Continue reading & tagging your independent reading book.

🎭 Continue viewing/reading/discussing Act II of The Crucible. See Google Classroom for reading/response directions.

🎒 For homework:

📚 Click here to continue developing your vocabulary with “The Crucible, Act II”. Quiz: Monday, 9/29.

📖Continue reading & tagging your selected Independent Reading book.

Thursday, 9/25: Exploring The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Reading Workshop & Academic Discourse Workshop

🎯Review Academic Discourse Workshop Objectives & Reading Workshop Objectives

📖Continue reading & tagging your independent reading book.

🎭 Continue viewing/reading/discussing Act II of The Crucible. See Google Classroom for reading/response directions.

🎒 For homework:

📚 Click here to continue developing your vocabulary with “The Crucible, Act II”. Quiz: Monday, 9/29.

📖Continue reading & tagging your selected Independent Reading book.

Friday, 9/26: Nature Journal Day!

Writing Workshop

🎯Review Writing Workshop Objectives

🌳Introduction to Nature Journaling as we kickstart our study of transcendentalism and nature writing.

📋Head outside to begin work on your nature journal entry.

🔰Complete & submit your September Nature Journal. See Google Classroom for your journal entry.

🎒 For homework:

💯 Click here to continue developing your vocabulary with “The Crucible, Act I”. Quiz: Monday, 9/22.

📖Continue reading & tagging your selected Independent Reading book.

So, wait a minute...do I have homework?

Yes- always! First, use this weekly workflow to keep track of deadlines and manage your time outside of class.

Next, thanks to independent reading, you always have reading to do. How much? Your Weekly Goal for Independent Reading (inside class and outside of class) is 40 minutes (minimum).

Lastly, most weeks we're working on vocabulary development. Use this page as a guide for your ongoing vocabulary work.

📓Reader's & Writer's Notebook

Composition Notebook Entries Prior to This Week

📓FRONT SECTION OF COMPOSITION NOTEBOOK: Reader's Responses

Entry #1: Reader's Response to "Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper" by Martin Espada (p. 1132 in lit. book).
Entry #2: Reader's Response to “One Day Now Broken in Two” by Anna Quindlen (p. 1156 in lit. book).
Entry #3: Reader's Response to "The Names" by N. Scott Momaday (p. 1076 in lit. book).
Entry #4: Reader's Response to "Mint Snowball" by Naomi Shihab Nye (p. 1081 in lit. book). For prompt, see Weekly Workflow for 9/4.
Entry #5: Reader's Response to Independent Reading.

📓BACK SECTION OF COMPOSITION NOTEBOOK: Writing

📓Entry #1

9/9/25

Prompt: Who am I as a reader?

If you’ve switched your independent reading book or moved on to a new one, click here to fill out the “What’cha Reading?” form.

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