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)