Quarter 1
Week 8: Sep 22-26
📖Novel Study
None for a little while. We will be working with the HMH textbook instead.
📚Reading Concepts
We will be reading the short story "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs and watching a film clip of it from Ricky Lewis Jr.
Analyze themes, Analyze foreshadowing, Analyze film
💬Language Concepts
Order topics broadest to narrowest (N.1), Use correct homophones (Z.1), Identify the sentence as interrogative, imperative, exclamatory, or declarative (FF.1)
✍️Writing Concepts
Film review, Literary analysis
🏠Possible homework
IXL N.1, Z.1, and FF.1--> due one week after it has been assigned with a score of at least 90%
Quarter 1
Week 7: Sep 15-19
📖Novel Study
None for a little while. We will be working with the HMH textbook instead.
📚Reading Concepts
We will be reading a literary criticism by Sharan A. Russell and having some discussions about the reading.
Analyze literary criticism, Paraphrase and summarize texts
💬Language Concepts
Commas (IXL TT.1&2 ) Suffixes (IXL V.6 )
✍️Writing Concepts
Master of Horror, Write a Letter
🏠Possible homework
IXL UU.1&2, V.6--> due one week after it has been assigned with a score of at least 90%
Quarter 1
Week 5- Sep 2-5
📖Novel Study: "A Monster Calls".
We will be reading "A Monster Calls" this quarter. Weekly assignments will average 2 to 3 chapters per week. We will have class discussions, games, and will be applying and literary concepts to the novel.
📚Reading Concepts: Analyzing Plot, analyzing themes, analyzing characters, analyzing imagery, evaluating a documentary, analyzing text elements, analyzing literary criticism, paraphrasing and summarizing text.
💬Language Concepts: Ellipses, using a dictionary, summarize a story, multiple-meaning words, semicolons, colons, paratheses dashes.
✍️Writing Concepts: Journal entries, getting inside a character's head, summarizing a culture in a story, poetry, writing a letter, rewriting a scene, and writing a personal response.
Quarter 1
Week 4- Aug 25-29
📖Novel Study: "A Monster Calls".
We will be reading "A Monster Calls" this quarter. Weekly assignments will average 2 to 3 chapters per week. We will have class discussions, games, and will be applying and literary concepts to the novel.
📚Reading Concepts: Analyzing Plot, analyzing themes, analyzing characters, analyzing imagery, evaluating a documentary, analyzing text elements, analyzing literary criticism, paraphrasing and summarizing text.
💬Language Concepts: Ellipses, using a dictionary, summarize a story, multiple-meaning words, semicolons, colons, paratheses dashes.
✍️Writing Concepts: Journal entries, getting inside a character's head, summarizing a culture in a story, poetry, writing a letter, rewriting a scene, and writing a personal response.