English Language Arts

Period 1 Google Classroom Link to Join

Period 5 Google Classroom Link to Join

Semester 2, Quarter 3:

Please check Google Classroom for the updated daily agenda and homework. 

Semester 1: 

Wednesday: 

CW: Read Refugee Chapters 49 - 51

HW: Read Chapters 52-53 (Last two chapters)

Tuesday, 12/19 - 

CW: Read Chapters 43-48 + Figurative Language Extra Credit

HW: None

Monday, 12/18 - 

CW: Read Chapters 40-42 + Draw the scene using the author's imagery

HW: Unfinished CW

Friday, 12/15 - 

CW: Summarize Chapter 39, Vocab Quiz, Review Chapters 37-39

HW: None

Thursday, 12/14 - 

CW: Chapter 37-39 

HW: Read chapter 39. All past due assignments - deadline tomorrow 

Wednesday, 12/13 - 

CW: Chapter 34-36 Review + Mood Worksheet

HW: Copy four sentences down from a book. Label all the nouns and verbs. 

Tuesday, 12/12 - 

CW: Chapter 31-33 Review, Sequence of Events of Chapter 31

HW: Read Chapter 34-36

Monday, 12/11 - 

CW: Read Chapters 31-33 + Find words in the chapters that are unfamiliar to you. 

HW: Find definitions to the vocabulary words we chose as a class.

Period 1: incoherently, inevitable, epaulets, chastise, seams, lurched, agonizing, sluggishly, rationed, headlong. 

Period 5: lurched, chastise, incoherently, agonizing, flailing, inevitable, gutted, seeping, sluggishly, cobbled

Friday, 12/08 - 

CW: Collect Essays, Quiz Week 5 

HW: Essay if not turned in yet

Thursday, 12/07 - 

CW: Read Chapter 28-30

HW: Essay due tomorrow, Study for Quiz

Wednesday, 12/06 - 

CW: Chapters 25-27 Review Page; Character Traits: Mahmoud VS Isabel; Pass back quizzes (quizzes returned to student file in class). 

HW: Finish character chart + work on essay (due Friday)

Tuesday, 12/05 - 

CW: Share definition of vocab words; Read Chapters 25-27; compound-complex sentences

HW: Finish reading chapters 25-27

Monday, 12/04 - 

CW: Read Ch. 22 - 24; Vocabulary; Cause and Effect Exit Ticket

HW: Look up definitions for your class words for the week. 

Period 1: keening, dinghy, porthole, sham, lolling, flogging, aspirin, blubber, tentatively, adrenaline

Period 5: churlish, roiling, dinghy, sham, tentatively, flogging, thrum, lolling, keening, adrenaline, curt 

Friday, 12/01 - 

CW: Quiz + Time to work on final drafts 

HW: None

Thursday, 11/30 - 

CW: Figurative Language Review Page, Read Chapter 22-24

HW: Review for Quiz: Vocab, sentence types, and Refugee - focus on how author describes characters.

Wednesday, 11/29 - 

CW: Chapter 19-21 of Refugee; "Whodunnit?" Challenge.

HW: Work on final draft of essays, due December 8.  Checklist provided.

How many adjectives are in each paragraph? Tally the total for each paragraph for $5 class cash. 

Tuesday, 11/28 - 

CW: Ch. 16 - 18 review page + simple, compound, complex sentences + pass back essay drafts

Count and tally how many of each sentence you have in your intro paragraph of your essay. 

Ex: Introduction paragraph:  # of simple, # of compound, # of complex, # of other (fragment, run-on);   

 *$3 class cash for any additional paragraphs you tally 

HW: Unfinished classwork + complex sentences worksheet (glue into notebook)

Monday, 11/27 - 

CW: Journal Response, Vocabulary Words, Read Chapter 16 - 18 of Refugee + Exit Ticket

HW: Finish Reading up to Chapter 18, Vocabulary Sentences in Journal

Friday, 11/17 - 

CW: Work on Essays if not done + Class market

HW: Have a good break!

Thursday, 11/16 - 

CW: Write out essay draft. Due Tomorrow End of Day - typed or handwritten okay. 

HW: Essay due tomorrow. Double spaced, 12 pt font if typed. Skip lines if hand written. 

Wednesday 11/15 - 

8CW: Work on Conclusion Outline for Essay

HW: Work on Conclusion Outline for Essay - Start writing out/typing out essay. Will continue in class tomorrow. 

Tuesday, 11/14 - 

CW: Work on Body Outline for Essay

HW: Work on Body Outline for Essay

Monday, 11/13 - 

CW: Read Chapter 15 + Chapter 13-14 Review 

HW: Start outlining Introduction for Personal Narrative 

Thursday, 11/09 - 

CW: Gratitude Letters - Most of ELA was working on Mesopotamia Passport project for History

HW: Submit gratitude letters by Monday if didn't do so yet. 

Wednesday, 11/08 - 

CW: Personal Narrative Template. Exit Ticket. 

HW: Read Refugee Chapter 13 - 14

Tuesday, 11/07 - 

CW: Think about your personal narrative. Topic to Theme. Read Chapter 10-11

HW: Read chapter 12 of Refugee 

Monday, 11/06 - 

CW: Finish Historical Facts Page up to Chapter 9 + Author's Notes. Read Chapter 10 - 11. Fire Alarm. 

HW: Write a gratitude letter for a staff member (due Thursday). 

Friday, 11/03 - 

CW: Quiz

No HW. 

Thursday, 11/02 - 

CW: Figurative Language and Theme Review. Read Chapter 8 and 9. 

HW: Review for quiz. Vocab, Fig Lang, Theme, and Refugee Chapters 1-9.

Wednesday, 11/01 - 

CW: Read Chapter 9. Understanding Theme. 

HW: Chapter 7 - 9 Review Page  Theme Worksheet

Tuesday, 10/31 - 

CW: Chapter 4-6 Review Page. Read Chapter 7 and 8. Figurative Language Notes. 

HW: Figurative Language Notes Page

Monday, 10/30 - 

CW: Historical Facts Page for Chapter 4, Color in Map + Settings Constructed Response Pages, Read Chapter 5 and 6, Vocabulary Week 2

HW: Write sentences for vocabulary words + Finish Setting Constructed Response Page 

Friday, 10/27 - 

CW: Quiz 

No Homework 

Thornton, 10/26 - 

CW: Journal Prompt #3, Review Mood/Tone and Subject/Predicate. + Read Chapter 4

HW: Study for quiz: Vocab, Subject/Predicate, Mood/Tone, + Refugee Chapter 1-4. 

Wednesday, 10/25 - 

CW: Journal Prompt, Correct HW, Mood and Tone

HW: Complete Historical Facts Packet (in notebook) for Chapters 1-3

Tuesday, 10/24 - 

CW: Glue in Ch. 1 - 3 Review and Comparing Facts pages into notebook. + Read Chapter 3 + Subjects and Predicates

HW: Complete Chapter 1-3 Review + Subjects and Predicates Page

Monday, 10/23 - 

CW: 1. Glue Refugee Pages into new notebook. + 2. Vocabulary Words  + 3. Read Refugee Ch. 1-2

HW: Write sentences for each vocabulary word. Finish gluing pages into notebook if not done. 

Friday, 10/20 - 

CW: Spring Water Ad Presentations

HW: None - Refugee starting next week. Bring ELA Notebooks to class

Thursday, 10/19 - 

CW: Spring Water Ad Presentations + Pass back notebooks and graded classwork

HW: Bring in a new notebook for ELA (unless approval from me to continue using current notebook) 

Wednesday, 10/18 - 

CW: Spring Water Ad Presentations

HW: Finish Spring Water Ad Project if not done so yet. 

Tuesday, 10/17 - 

CW: Spring Water Ad Presentations

HW: Finish Spring Water Ad Project if not done so yet. 

Monday, 10/16 - 

CW: Anti Bullying Presentation

HW: Spring Water Projects - presentations all week 

Friday, 10/13 - No school

Thursday, 10/12 - 

CW: Tuck Everlasting Movie

HW: Spring Water Project (presentations all next week)

Wednesday, 10/11 - 

CW: Journal Response, Quarter Comprehension Skills Review

HW: Spring Water Project (presentations all next week)

Tuesday, 10/10 - 

CW: Journal Response, Quarter Review of Grammar, Work on Project

HW: Spring Water Project

Monday, 10/09 - 

CW: Journal Response, Introduce Spring Water Ad Project

HW: Start working on Spring Water Ad - Decide on type of advertisement. 

Friday, 10/06 - 

CW: Week 6 Quiz + Finish Tuck Everlasting

HW: None

Thursday, 10/05 - 

CW: Review - Jigsaw Gallery, make a poster with your group on a concept learned this week

HW: Study for quiz: Vocab week 6, plural nouns, conflict, and Tuck Everlasting

Wednesday, 10/04 - 

CW: Read Tuck Chapter 22 - 23 + Four Types of Conflict

HW: Finish conflict pages, add examples of conflict from Tuck Everlasting to your notebook

Tuesday, 10/03 - 

CW: Read Tuck Chapter 19-21 + Plural Nouns

HW: None

Monday, 10/02 - 

CW: Introduce Vocab Week 6 Words + Read Chapter 17

HW: Write sentences for vocabulary words + Read Chapter 18

Friday, 9/29 - 

CW: Test 

HW: None

Thursday, 9/28 - 

CW: Sample Short Responses - Writing Expectations, Review for Quiz

HW: Study

Wednesday, 9/27 - 

CW: Read Tuck Everlasting Chapter 16, Take notes on the different types of context clues. 

HW: Using any of your vocabulary words, write two sentences including context clues. 

Tuesday, 9/26 - 

CW: Read Tuck Chapter 14, Introduce Homophones, Homographs, and Homonyms. Start Homograph worksheet (glue into notebook when done). 

HW: Read Chapter 15 of Tuck Everlasting, finish Homograph worksheet. 

Monday, 9/25 - 

CW: Tuck Everlasting Chapter 11-13, Introduce Vocab Week 5

HW: Finish vocab packet - write a sentence for each vocabulary word. 

Friday, 9/22 - 

CW: Quiz on Week 4 Vocab, Appositives, Metaphors and Similes, and Tuck Everlasting 

HW: None

Thursday, 9/21 - 

CW: Review for quiz 

HW: Study for quiz: appositives, similes and metaphors, vocabulary week 4, and be caught up with Tuck Everlasting up to Chapter 10. + [**5th period - Find 5 similes and 5 metaphors from Tuck Everlasting and copy them into your journal.]

Wednesday, 9/20 - 

CW: Correct Homework, Review Appositives, Tuck Everlasting Chapter 10, Figurative Language: Simile and Metaphor (glue into notebooks). 

HW: Finish cutting and gluing Simile and Metaphor page into notebook. 

Tuesday, 9/19 - 

CW: Tuck Everlasting Chapter 8 and 9, Take notes on Appositives in English Journal, Start Appositives Worksheet

HW: Finish Appositives Worksheet

Monday, 9/18 - (sub today)

CW: Week 4 Vocabulary Words

HW: Finish writing sentences and a mnemonic device in your vocabulary packet. Glue vocabulary pages into your notebook. 

Friday, 9/15 - 

CW: Quiz Today - Vocab Week 3, Pronouns and Antecedents, Point of View, Short Response. 

NO HW

Thursday, 9/14 - 

CW: Review Today (Jeopardy), Tuck Everlasting Chapter 7

HW: Study for Tomorrow's Quiz

Wednesday, 9/13 - 

CW: Antecedents Review, Tuck Everlasting Chapter 6 

HW: Finish writing new addition to Chapter 6: Focus on Stranger

Tuesday, 9/12 - 

CW: Point of View Review (last week), Antecedents

NO HW

Monday, 9/11 - 

CW: Journal Prompt (chapter 5), Week 3 Vocabulary, Continue iReady Diagnostic 

HW: Finish Vocabulary Packet, glue into notebooks

The Westing Game

Please check Google Classroom for each week's vocabulary words.

Refugee 

Week 5: * each period has a different set of words *

Period 1: 

incoherently, inevitable, epaulets, chastise, seams, lurched, agonizing, sluggishly, rationed, headlong. 

Period 5: 

lurched, chastise, incoherently, agonizing, flailing, inevitable, gutted, seeping, sluggishly, cobbled

Week 4:     * each period has a different set of words *    

Period 1: 

1. keening - grieving/distraught 

2. dinghy - small boat or raft 

3. porthole - small window of boat

4. sham - false

5. lolling - walk relaxingly 

6. flogging - beat as punishment 

7. aspirin - painkiller; medicine 

8. blubber - mumble 

9. tentatively - not for certain

10. adrenaline - fight or flight

Period 5: 

1. churlish - rude 

2. roiling - annoy; disturb

3. dinghy - small boat or raft

4. sham - false 

5. tentatively - not for certain

6. flogging - beat as punishment 

7. thrum - rhythmic humming 

8. lolling - walk relaxingly 

9. keening - grieving/distraught 

10. adrenaline - fight or flight

11. curt - straightforward and rude 

Week 2:

11. Infidel - (noun) an unbeliever to a particular religion.

12. Fuhrer - (noun) a ruthless, cruel leader

13. Squalid - (adjective) improper, dirty, unpleasant due to neglect. 

14. Bulbous - (adjective) fat or round

15. Pedestal- (noun) the base of a statue 

16. Apocalypse - (noun) the end of the world

17. Shabbos - (noun) Sabbath; Jewish day of rest at the end of each week (Saturs

18. Beholden - (noun) owing a debt to someone for their help

19. Rabidly - (adjective) in a violent, extreme way 

20. Inconceivable - (adjective) unbelievable 

Week 1: 

1. indignation - anger or annoyance towards unfairness 

2. promenade - a walkway 

3. ethereal - out of this world; heavenly

4. reel - move back suddenly 

5. pandemonium - wild and noisy confusion, chaos ; uproar

Tuck Everlasting

Week 6: 

Peculiar - unusual or strange 

Contentedly - expresses happiness or satisfaction

Surveyed - looked carefully and thoroughly at something

Hearth - the floor of a fireplace 

Tension - the feeling of anxiousness in a social situation

Grimly - in a serious, depressing manner

Constable - a peace office 

Acrid - unpleasant, usually in smell or taste

Ebb - move away from; gradually reduce 

Accomplice - a partner in crime

Week 5: 

Fatal - deadly; causing death

Petulance - the quality of being childishly bad-tempered

Ghastly - causing great horror or fear

Envious - to feel resentful or unhappy about what others possess

Free will - to act on one’s own discretion; the freedom to choose

Mingle - to casually socialize 

Gingerly - in a careful or cautious manner

Plaintive  - sounding sad or mournful

Week 4: 

Poised - to be composed in a self-assured manner

Fleeting - lasting for a very short time (synonym of brief)

Brief - a short duration of time (synonym of fleeting)

Mantel - the shelf on top of a fireplace

Devote - to give a lot of time or resources to something 

Philosophy - the study of knowledge and existence 

Pitch - the highness or lowness of tone

Ignorant  - lacking knowledge or awareness

Week 3: 

indomitable - impossible to defeat

perilous - risky and dangerous

teeming - swarming with

cavernous - like a cave in size, shape, or pattern

jumble - mixed up, unorganized

cahoots - conspire secretly with

roust - to cause to get up or move

gander - to glance or look at

Novels: 

Tuck Everlasting

Refugee

Percy Jackson's A Lightning Thief 

Supplies: 

Pencils

Colored Pens

Crayons or colored pencils

Highlighter

4 to 6 one subject spiral notebooks (9 in x 11 in)

Glue Sticks

Scissors