Please note — Wednesday is a four period day. You will have all of your classes.
Period 2 – notify your teacher if you plan on running the Terry Fox run on Tuesday.
MONDAY
- Independent Reading – log your pages from last week
- Share annotation homework from over the weekend for The No Guitar Blues. What did Fausto learn? Did he resolve his conflict? What is the theme (or purpose of this story)? What message is the author trying to communicate to the reader.
- Short Story – Thank You Ma’am by Langston Hughes (RR)
- Class discussion – introduction to making connections
- H.W. – Read for pleasure. Venn Diagram is an in class reading assignment.
TUESDAY
Terry Fox Run – Period 2 (classes may be shorter today)
- Venn Diagram Assignment (reading comprehension activity – must be completed in FLEX if you are absent).
- Grammar Package #1 – Complete pages #1 &2 (H)
- Independent Reading
WEDNESDAY
- Independent Reading
- Photo Study – What do you know about the Vietnam War?
- Short Story – Zebra by Chaim Potok (RR)
- Learning about character and making inferences for Zebra (H)
- H.W. – Finish character inferencing sheet on Zebra for Friday
THURSDAY
NO SCHOOL – Truth and Reconciliation Day
FRIDAY
Photo Day -Morning only
- Review character homework from Wednesday for Zebra
- How To Write A Literary Paragraph (H)
- Work on outline for character paragraph. Use the template and write your ideas in point form. Remember to use the character inferencing homework we went over at the beginning of the class to help you with this.