English Calendar
April
April 10-14
April 10-14
- Monday: Get your historical fiction argumentative essay back from Mrs. Hill & look at your feedback. Get a yellow paper called "Lost Cities, Lost Treasure" & read it front and back. See Mrs. Hill to make up the questions for the readings. Write your answers on a paper called SAGE practice. Get a new red bookmark.
- Tuesday: Finish reading the article about the melted chocolate bar. See Mrs. Hill to make up the questions. Get a new yellow paper and read "In Praise of Careful Science." See Mrs. Hill to make up the questions.
- Wednesday: Get a yellow 1/2 sheet with a prompt on it. Analyze the prompt, and begin making a FLEE map based on the three articles and the quotes on your other yellow papers.
- Thursday: Finish your FLEE map. Staple it to all your yellow papers and turn it in. Complete Proofreading Exercise 1 on your ICE 3a.
- Friday: No School; parent/teacher conferences.
- April 17-21
- Monday: See Maughan to make up the Argumentative Writing CFA.
- Tuesday: Get the tan "Cheeseburger Paragraph Structure Notes" and use this Powerpoint to fill them out. Do Proofreading Practice 3 on your ICE 3a paper.
- Wednesday: See Maughan for your Argumentative Writing CFA score; revise your CFA with red pen if you got less than 100%. From either the CFA or your mistakes/discovery FLEE map, write an introduction, one reason paragraph, and a paragraph with an opposing claim/counterclaim. Turn it in.
- Thursday: SAGE review game. Library visit!
- Friday: SAGE training test. Get a green paper called "Figurative Language: Hyperbole & Idiom" and complete it. Add hyperbole and idiom definitions to your notes.
- April 24-28
- Monday: Turn in your gray bookmark. Get a new white one with multiple reading strategies on it. SAGE Testing
- Tuesday: SAGE Testing
- Wednesday: SAGE Testing
- Thursday: SAGE Testing
- Friday: SAGE Testing
May
May 1-5- Monday: SAGE Testing
- Tuesday: SAGE Testing
- Wednesday: SAGE Testing
- Thursday: SAGE Testing
- Friday: SAGE Testing
- May 8-12
- Monday: Finish your green paper called "Figurative Language: Hyperbole & Idiom". Define "allusion" on your Figurative Language Notes. Get a Mentor Sentence 5 paper and begin completing the parts of speech.
- Tuesday: Complete the first page of the Mentor Sentence 5 paper. Read "A Man Who Had No Eyes" (Literature textbook, page 457). Get a paper from Maughan to answer the discussion questions on.
- Wednesday: Complete the Invitation to Revise on Mentor Sentence 5. Finish your questions for "A Man Who Had No Eyes" (Literature textbook, page 457) and turn in your paper. Define "prejudice" and "discrimination" on your ICE 3a paper. Begin reading "The Scholarship Jacket" (Literature book page 297).
- Thursday: Complete the Invitation to Imitate on Mentor Sentence 5. Read "The Scholarship Jacket" (Literature book page 297). Put examples of prejudice and discrimination in the story on your ICE 3a paper. Get a purple Genre paper. Summarize either "A Man Who Had No Eyes" or "The Scholarship Jacket." Label them realistic fiction, and define realistic fiction as a genre. Make sure you've defined onomatopoeia on your Figurative Language Notes.
- Friday: Finish Mentor Sentence 5 & turn it in. Define "assonance" on your Figurative Language Notes. Get an orange homework assignment called "Figurative Language & Music." It's due Thursday, May 18th. The back is extra credit. Read "All Summer in a Day" (Literature book page 279) and summarize it on your purple paper. Define Science Fiction as a genre.
- May 15-19
- Monday: Read "The Monsters are Due On Maple Street" (Literature 334) and summarize on your purple paper.
- Tuesday: Read "Sorry, Wrong Number" (Collections 111) and summarize on your purple paper.
- Wednesday: Finish "Sorry, Wrong Number" (Collections 111) and summarize on your purple paper. Define mystery as a genre. Get a green paper called "Figuring Out Me" and begin answering the questions.
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- May 22-26
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- Thursday: Last Day