Tuesday, September 8, 2009

This Week: September 7-11

Monday, September 7:No School: Labor Day

Tuesday, September 8:
Begin Lesson 12 Vocabulary
Kick-Off: Weekly Notes Review: “Myth” and “mood”
Homework: Complete Mini-Wordwall for Lesson 12 Vocabulary Words
(Students should have words and definitions in Vocabulary Section of Binder)

Wednesday, September 9:
Kick-off: Weekly Notes Review: “theme,” “concrete detail,” and “commentary”
Add “Protagonist, antagonist, and point-of view” to weekly notes
Read in The Outsiders
Create Character journals
Discuss use of flashback in the story and major events thus far.
Homework: Finish reading Ch. 3 in The Outsiders.


Thursday, September 10:

Weekly Notes Review: protagonist, antagonist, point-of-view
Add “realistic fiction” to Weekly Notes
Grammar in Context Activity: Capitalization and Punctuation in The Outsiders
Read Ch. 4 in The Outsiders
Homework: Read Ch. 5 in The Outsiders

Friday, September 11:
Quiz on Weekly Notes/The Outsiders Ch. 1-5
On Quiz: myth, mood, theme, realistic fiction, protagonist, antagonist, point-of-view, flashback, concrete detail, commentary ; there will be a few questions on what we have read in The Outsiders (Ch. 1-5)