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What happened last week? Click here to see the weekly workflow archive.
Writing Workshop
🎯Review Writing Workshop Objectives
🌳Review Nature Journaling goals and purpose.
📋Head outside to begin work on your November Nature Journal entry.
🔰Complete & submit your November Nature Journal. See Google Classroom for your journal entry. Due: Tomorrow, Tuesday, 11/25.
Academic Discourse Workshop
🎯Review Academic Discourse Workshop Objectives
🌳Watch and discuss the first half of the film, Walden, by Ken Burns
🎒 For homework:
📖Continue reading & tagging your selected Independent Reading book.
🎗️Remember to complete work not completed in class.
Academic Discourse Workshop
🎯 Academic Discourse Workshop Objectives
🏛️Visit the Library of Congress to select a poem to perform for our November Poetry Day.
📗November Poetry Day performances!
🎒 For homework:
📖Continue reading & tagging your selected Independent Reading book.
🔰 Complete the Poetry Day Reflection/Analysis for November. You can find this assignment in Google Classroom under Academic Discourse. Due: Tuesday, 12/2.
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.
What'cha Reading? If you’ve switched your independent reading book or moved on to a new one, click here.
📓Reader's & Writer's Notebook
Composition Notebook Entries Prior to This Week
📓FRONT HALF OF YOUR 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 #6: Reader's Response to Independent Reading.
Entry #7: Reader's Response to Independent Reading.
Entry #8: Reader's Response to Independent Reading.
Entry #9: Reader's Response to Independent Reading.
Entry #10: Reader's Response to Native American Lit
Entry #11: Reader's Response to Walt Whitman
Entry #12: Reader's Response to Independent Reading.
Entry #13: Reader's Response to "An Episode of War"
Entry #14: Reader's Response to "Paul Revere's Ride"
📓BACK HALF OF YOUR NOTEBOOK: Writing Prompts
Entry #1 Prompt: Who am I as a reader?
Entry #2 Prompt response for The Crucible, Act I - See Google Classroom assignment for prompt.
Entry #3 Prompt response for The Crucible, Act II - See Google Classroom assignment for prompt.
Entry #4 Prompt response for The Crucible, Act III - See Google Classroom assignment for prompt.
Entry #5 Prompt response for The Crucible, Act IV - See Google Classroom assignment for prompt.
Entry #6 Prompt: If I could change one thing about independent reading, I would … OR The best thing I’ve read this semester…