This Week: September 28 - October 2

Monday, September 28:Kick-Off: Crazy Sentences (Nouns, verbs, and adjectives)
In Class: Vocabulary Bingo: Lesson 11 and 12 Vocabulary words
Homework: Study for Vocabulary Test (Test is on Lesson 12. There may be a few lesson 11 words on the test as the tests build on each other so students review words and don’t forget them after the test on that lesson!)

Tuesday, September 29:
Kick-Off: Identifying nouns, verbs, and adjectives
Vocabulary Test
Reading Assignment: Begin in class after test. Finish for homework. Read Ch. 9 in The Outsiders. Complete reading check as you read (five questions)

Wednesday, September 30:
Kick-Off: Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives
Class work: discuss Ch. 9 and take up reading checks
Read Chapter 10 while completing the “Picture” comprehension sheet. (only questions on Ch. 10).
Homework: finish class work

Thursday, October 1:
Kick-Off: Nouns, verbs, and adjectives
Class: discuss Ch. 10. Share answers to “Picture” comprehension sheet
Read Ch. 11 together and complete the answer to the third picture
Homework: Make sure all kick-offs are done and review them for Kick-Off Quiz

Friday, October 2:
Kick-Off Quiz
Read Ch. 12 in The Outsiders

This Week: September 14-18

Monday, Sept 14:
Kick-Off: using commas, capitalization, and quotations marks
Vocabulary: Lesson 12; Exercise I-pp.119-120 (1-15)
Review Kick-Off Quiz and Weekly Notes
Homework: Finish Vocabulary Ex. 1

Tuesday: September 15:
Kick-Off: using commas, capitalization, and punctuation marks
Read in The Outsiders: Chapter 4
Pre-AP: 3 Levels of Reading Theme Project
Index card reading check
Homework: None

Wednesday: Sept 16:
Kick-Off: using commas, capitalization, and punctuation marks
Discuss Chapter 4
Read in The Outsiders: Chapter 5
Pre-AP: 3 Levels of Reading Circle Theme Project

Thursday, September 17:
Kick-Off: using commas, capitalization, and punctuation
Grammar in Context Activity
Read The Outsiders Ch. 6

Friday, September 18:
Kick-Off Quiz
Pre-AP: Among the Hidden should be finished!
Read in The Outsiders

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)