Week 1, August 25-29
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- Icebreaker (Name poem and student inventory)
- HW: Print out Course Expectations and Parent Letter; Supplies, letter, and Freshman Packet Letter due September 4 for a grade (Due next Thurs; 8 items)
- Review course expectations (Keep in front of binder) / Course Expectations Quiz (grade)
- Noun Notes (Common, proper, abstract, concrete, collective). Store under "Grammar" tab.
- Read excerpt from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens; discuss unit theme (Identity and Sense of Self).
- Review levels of questioning with the excerpt; discuss.
- Capitalization practice, WriteSource workbook, pgs. 41-42 (Box in concrete nouns, circle the abstract).
- HW: Make up Course Expectations Quiz before Friday (Keep graded quiz in back of course expectations)
- Review capitalization pages. Keep in notebook under "Grammar" tab.
- Begin reviewing literary elements with literary elements notes and PPT (fill in notes using PPT; make sure to come up with your own examples). Fill in characterization section (indirect/direct characterization, round/flat characters.). Keep in notebook under "Reading" tab.
- Read "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" as a class.
- Preliminary supplies check (grade; students have until Sept. 4th to turn in everything)
- Organization of binders (we created our tabs and stored papers from the week in the appropriate sections; the tabs are listed above)
- Grammar quiz, Nouns (Concrete, abstract, common, and proper)
- Finish reading "SLOWM" as a class
- Group response to the question, "How would you describe Walter or his wife?" Answer and provide textual evidence.