Quarter 1
Week 10: Oct 6-10
📖Novel Study
None for a little while. We will be working with the HMH textbook instead.
📚Reading Concepts
We will be reading/working with the the following passages: from "Bronx Masquerade", "The Debt We Owe to the Adolescent Brain", and "Hanging Fire"
We had read from "Bronx Masquerade" last week, but there is a small project that we did not get to as of yet due to the field trip and larger writing prompt
Analyze perspectives, Analyze characterization, Analyze structure, Analyze author's purpose, Compare poetic structure, Compare poems
💬Language Concepts
Daily Language Review, IXL Skills: Organize information by topic (N.2), Identify the complete subject/predicate (FF.2), Identify the compound subject/predicate (FF.4)
✍️Writing Concepts
Poetry explanation, journal entries about reading
🏠Possible homework
IXL N.2, FF.2, FF.4--> due one week after it has been assigned with a score of at least 90%
Quarter 1
Week 9: Sep 29-Oct 3
📖Novel Study
None for a little while. We will be working with the HMH textbook instead.
📚Reading Concepts
We will be reading the the following passages: from "Bronx Masquerade", "The Debt We Owe to the Adolescent Brain", and "Hanging Fire"
Analyze perspectives, Analyze characterization, Analyze structure, Analyze author's purpose, Compare poetic structure, Compare poems
💬Language Concepts
Use punctuation correctly
✍️Writing Concepts
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 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.