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.

MONDAY

• Silent Reading
• Hand in good copy of narrative paragraph along with draft, self assessment, and peer feedback sheet
• What does it mean to be courageous?  How do we find the courage to stand up for what we believe it? Can bravery be learned?
• Anchor texts – Cooks Brook and Resisting Hitler – Class reading together (R)
• H.W. complete question package for homework (H)

TUESDAY

• Silent Reading
• Discuss the homework from last day
• What is plot? Check out the definitions for introduction, inciting incident, climax, falling action, resolution (see literary terms in Readings and Resources)
• Complete a plot map for the animated short,  “Taking The Plunge”
• Read the short story, “The Nest”
• PERIOD 3 ONLY (BECAUSE YOU HAVE AN EXTRA DAY)  – complete a plot map for the short story “The Nest”

WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY

• Review last day’s homework
  • Plot map for the animated short “Taking The Plunge”
  • Plot map for the short story “The Nest”
• Class groups to formulate answers and present discussion questions for “The Nest” (H)
• What is annotation? See handout:  Reading To Understand – Annotating A Text (H)
• Guided reading and annotating  the short story, “The No Guitar Blues” (RR)
• H.W.  Finish annotating the short story.  Read your silent reading book over the weekend.

FRIDAY

PROFESSIONAL DAY — NO SCHOOL

MONDAY

• What is independent reading? – logging our progress for the semester (H)
• Library orientation and selecting books
• Review criteria for “I Am From” poems
• H.W. Write drafts (due Tuesday)

TUESDAY

• Independent Reading – students to set weekly reading goal
• Drafts of “I Am From” poems due today
  • Partner share of poems. Peer feedback – 1 star and one wish
  • Review of assignment criteria (Final copy with design due Friday)
• Short Story:  “Charles” by Shirley Jackson (R)
• H.W. complete the accompanying questions for Charles (H), “I Am From” poem due Friday

WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY

• Independent Reading
• Class discussion of questions from the short story “Charles”
• Memoir – Writing a Narrative Paragraph (H)
  • Outline and write draft
  • Peer Editing/Teacher Conferencing/Feeback

FRIDAY

• “I Am From” poetry assignment due today
• Lesson on revision vs. editing – provided peer feeback on writing – see Revision vs. Editing in handouts under Grammar, Revision Editing
• Write good copy of the narrative paragraph
  • Final copy to include: good copy, rough draft, self-assessment, orange feedback form

WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY

• Partner interviews
• Course outlines, reading survey, and website
• Letter to Ms. D’Angelo – “Persuade Me” Assginment
• Boston Big Picture – Visual Text Analysis – What do good readers do?
  • Observe, wonder, infer

FRIDAY

• Hand in class surveys and letters, review final class guidelines/course outlines
• Creating engaging pieces of writing – Show Don’t Tell Practice exercise (H)
• I Am From Poems (H)
• HW finish show don’t tell practice worksheet and brainstorm for your “I Am From Poem” (H)

If you have made it this far, you are in the right place! Stay tuned each week to keep tabs on your readings, assignments, and homework.

There are supplies that you will need for English class.  They are as follows:

Supplies Needed For Class

• A three-ring binder with lined loose-leaf paper. Some students choose to have two separate smaller binders for each course, and others choose to put two courses into one two-inch binder with a divider in the middle.  Either option is fine.
• 2-3 Blue/black pens for writing assignments
• A pencil
• 2 coloured pens for editing
• White-out tape
• 1-2 packages of sticky notes (3 inch x 3 inch)
• 1 yellow highlighter
• 1 small personal bottle of hand sanitizer
• A water bottle
• A silent reading book – more on this next week. Students will have a chance to take out a book from the school library or bring one of their own

For days we are working on projects

• Pencil crayons and felt pens
• Scissors
• Glue Stick