Weekly Agenda March 21-25

The Things they Carried

Monday & Tuesday
Journal Articles
-2nd draft returned
FINAL draft due Friday
-prepare to Quaker share
Character Squares and Charts due MONDAY
NO HW

Wednesday
SSR
#8


Thursday & Friday
-draft cards
-vocab book marks
In-class writing
-Goodbye Letter
-quaker share excerpts of goodbye letter
Chap 1 Read Aloud
-3Q sheets
HW Finish Chapter 1 and 3qs


Collect "Goodbye Letters"
Times OP.Ed. piece, Things Carried in Iraq War
Discussion Chapter 1: 1-14 3Qs
-characterization
-list of things carried, weight, tangibles and intangibles
Pack Backpack and share
-freewrite on perspective
Review Vocabulary

Weekly Agenda March 15-18

Whale Talk

Tuesday
Review Draft #1 Comments
Practice application of transitional expressions -quiz
Character Chart
HW 3Q Sheets due tomorrow
HW Article Draft #2 due Thursday

Wednesday
SSR
#8

Thursday
EAP Testing

Friday
Character Chart and Squares work -in class
HW Squares and Chart due Monday

Weekly Agenda March 7-11

Whale Talk

Monday & Wednesday
Speed Interviews
Official Journal Assignment

• student examples
• norming on rubric

Research and Interview regarding Topic
HW Finish Reading Whale Talk for Thursday and complete 3Qs per chapter.

NO Journal entry this week, Journals due FRIDAY!! #1-#6 (remember #6 is worth 10pts)

Thursday & Friday
Roughdrafting per Inverted Triangle

• working with transitional expressions
• review signal phrases active verbs
• direct quotations and paraphrasing
• the colon, semi-colon and comma for emphasis
• review appeals: to emotions, logic, ethics

Work with Style Guide

• edit draft
• peer and teacher edits and responses
• what's missing?

Review text: communication styles and methods to avoid and diffuse confrontation
-group work

HW for Next Friday: Final Draft with roughdrafts and rubric attached

Weekly Agenda Feb 28-Mar 1

WHALE TALK

Monday & Tuesday
Complete Graphic Organizer
-defining essential elements of journalism
Angier "Why Men Don't Last: Self-Destruction as a Way of Life"
-reciprocal reading
-pair presentation of visual
-Extra Journal entry 5
-connections to book and world
--qualities and realistic goals for men
HW Settle on a topic for Journal article assignment and interview one adult/excerpt, due Thursday
AND read Chapter 12 & 13 for Thursday and 3-level questions per each chapter.

Wednesday
SSR
Journal Entry #6

Thursday & Friday
Graduation Speech Freewrite
Review topics and debrief information learned from interviews.
Speed Interviews
Review Chapters 11-13
-class discussion
Transitions list and practice
Complete Character Chart and begin drafting Squares
HW Find a secondary source about your topic for Monday

Weekly Agenda Feb 22-25

WHALE TALK

Tuesday
Chapter 7&8
-quiz
Recent News
-identifying parts
-structure: inverted triangle
HW Read Chapter 9&10 and 3Qs per chapter for Thursday

Wednesday
SSR
Journal Entry #4

Thursday
Review reading
Continue Character Chart
Taj Fel's Social Identity Theory
-social web group
Transitions
-creating sentences
-interviews
HW Settle on a topic for Journal article assignment and interview one adult/excerpt

Friday
Complete Graphic Organizer
-defining essential elements of journalism
Angier "Why Men Don't Last: Self-Destruction as a Way of Life"
-reciprocal reading
-pair presentation of visual
-connections to book

Weekly Agenda Feb 14-18

WHALE TALK

Monday& Tuesday
Character Squares Assignment
-work on character chart
Journal Article Assignment
-graphic organizer
-terms
Review Chapter 5
-3Q discussion
HW Read Chapter 6 for Thursday and write 3Qs

Wednesday
SSR
Journal Entry #3

Weekly Agenda Feb 7-11

WHALE TALK

MONDAY & TUESDAY
Chapter 2 Reading Quiz
-please make up by the end of the week
T.J. as 'superhero'

• brainstorm qualities of a superhero
• brainstorm T.J.'s hero qualities "record language"
  
• Karl Jung and archetypes
• revisiting character foils

Revisit Child Abuse Statistics
-processing; consequences
Male Societal Expectations
-addressing gap between 'traditional' versus 'egalitarian' roles for boys and men
-global implications
Review Chapter 3
-3Q Discussion
HW Read Chapter 4 for Thursday and write 3Qs

WED
SSR
Journal Entry #2

Thursday & Friday
Review Chapter 4
-3Q Discussion
Character Chart and Square Assignment
-group work to fill in chart
Literary Terms
-digression
Journal Article Assignment
-terms related to journalism
HW Read Chapter 5 for Monday and 3Qs