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What happened last week? Click here to see the weekly workflow archive.
🎓PSAT Reminders & Prep.
✅ Complete a full shut-down and restart of your laptop.
✅ School laptop/charger check. NOTE: You must bring this equipment to the PSAT.
✅ You can see your PSAT room location posted outside of the cafeteria.
🚗PSAT/SAT Incentives 🚗
Juniors must take the PSAT this year to be eligible for SAT incentives in April
Juniors who participate and put forth their best effort will earn one full point toward their senior parking permit application.
Writing Workshop
🎯Review Writing Workshop Objectives
💯Click here to prepare for and take Vocabulary Quiz #6 on “The Crucible, Act IV”.
📚 Click here to learn how to continue developing your vocabulary with Vocabulary Learner activities and discover how you’ll be graded for this.
Reading Workshop & Academic Discourse Workshop
🎯Review Academic Discourse Workshop Objectives & Reading Workshop Objectives
🎭Finish prompt responses to Act III of The Crucible. See Google Classroom for reading/response directions.
🎭Begin viewing/reading/discussing Act IV of The Crucible. See Google Classroom for reading/response directions.
🎒 For homework:
📖Continue reading & tagging your selected Independent Reading book.
📚 Click here to continue developing your vocabulary with Vocabulary Learner activities. Between 10/14 - 10/20, you must complete a minimum of 30 minutes.
Reading Workshop & Academic Discourse Workshop
🎯Review Academic Discourse Workshop Objectives & Reading Workshop Objectives
📖Continue reading & tagging your selected Independent Reading book.
📖Meet with Mrs. Juster for a 1:1 Reader’s Conference where we’ll discuss:
Independent Reading Selections
Pacing with Independent Reading
Responses to Independent Reading
🎭Continue viewing/reading/discussing Act IV of The Crucible. See Google Classroom for reading/response directions.
Writing Workshop
🎯Review Writing Workshop Objectives
📚 Click here to learn how to continue developing your vocabulary with Vocabulary Learner activities.
🎒 For homework:
📚 Click here to continue developing your vocabulary with Vocabulary Learner activities. Between 10/14 - 10/20, you must complete a minimum of 30 minutes.
📖Continue reading & tagging your selected Independent Reading book.
Reading Workshop & Academic Discourse Workshop
🎯Review Academic Discourse Workshop Objectives & Reading Workshop Objectives
📖Continue reading & tagging your selected Independent Reading book.
📖Meet with Mrs. Juster for a 1:1 Reader’s Conference where we’ll discuss:
Independent Reading Selections
Pacing with Independent Reading
Responses to Independent Reading
🎭Continue viewing/reading/discussing Act IV of The Crucible. See Google Classroom for reading/response directions.
Writing Workshop
🎯Review Writing Workshop Objectives
📚 Click here to continue developing your vocabulary with Vocabulary Learner activities. Between 10/15 - 10/20, you must complete a minimum of 30 minutes.
🎒 For homework:
📚 Click here to continue developing your vocabulary with Vocabulary Learner activities. Between 10/14 - 10/20, you must complete a minimum of 30 minutes.
📖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.
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.
📓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.