1. Assigned seats
2. Copy homework into planner
3. Discuss Summer Reading
4. The Case of the Mystery Class activity (grade)
5. Discuss student findings

1. Copy and discuss homework
2. Collect journals
3. Fill out PBS sheet
4. Share a wordle example and assign words
5. Discuss Blog rules and checklist
6. View and model class blog
7. Watch blog safety video
8. Sample chat activity (possible notebook check)
9. 3-2-1 Exit Ticket (3 blog safety rules, 2 new things you learned today, 1 question you still have about blogs) (grade)

1. 3-2-1 Entrance Ticket
2. Review Lab Procedures
3. Star Reading Test
4. Multiple Intelligence Quiz
5. Summer and AR Reading Quizzes
6. Time to Work on Blog Homework
7. Start Syllabus PowerPoint and Handout

1. Hand in Multiple Intelligences Quiz and AR Quizzes taken yesterday
2. Class Expectations PowerPoint and Syllabus Handout
3. Edusoft Benchmark Pretest
4. Early Finishers:  Take AR Quizzes, Read AR, Work on Homework, Be a Classroom Helper

1. Journal Entry #1 - Calvin and Hobbes Ignorance Comic Strip
2. HW Discussion - How's it going?
3. Complete Pretest
4. Early Finishers:  AR Testing, HW Time, Class helpers, Make-Ups
5. Preview Literary Devices Project (starting tomorrow)

1. Journal #2 -  Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?"
2. HW Check
3. Partner PowerPoint Project discussion (assignment, expectations, rubric, partner, term)
4. In Lab:  Partner PowerPoint Project

1. Journal #3 - "Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. . . it is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." - Anonymous
2. HW Discussion
3. Library Orientation and Visit (must bring an AR book to class each day from now on)
4. In computer lab:  Partner PowerPoint Project (due by end of class Tuesday)

1. Journal #5 - "Read a Symbol"  Choose at least one of these symbols to "read".  Describe it, explain what it means, and decide why this image was chosen to represent that meaning in particular.  Do you feel the symbol accurately represents its meaning?  Why?  If not, design a better symbol and explain why it would be better.   
2. In Lab:  Partner PowerPoint Project (collaboration)
3. Research your Term
4. Create Definition and Examples
5. Create PowerPoint

EARLY DISMISSAL

1. Literary Elements Partner PowerPoint Presentations
2. Guided Notes (save for notebook check)
3. Review

1. Literary Elements Partner PowerPoint Presentations
2. Guided Notes (save for notebook check)
3. Review

1. Journal #5 - choose one:  
   •How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

   - Anne Frank

   •Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.

   - Margaret Mead
2. Casting the Vision for the year
3. Bricks and Barriers (classwork)
4. Turn in Multiple Intelligences Coat of Arms (Homework)
5. Screening Popcorn Party

1. Journal #6 - "For Better or For Worse" comic strip
2. SSR
3. AR Goal Setting Confereneces
4. Literary Criticism Styles Quiz, PPT, and Guided Notes (notebook check item)

1. 15 minutes of Silent Reading (SSR)
2. Reading Log Entry #2
3. Journal Entry #7 - Free Writing
4. Student Survey
5. Received Language Textbooks
6. Elements and Devices of Literature Test
7. Short Story Elements PPT

1. SSR - 15 minutes
2. Critical Strategies (quiz, guided notes [notebook check item], ppt.)
3. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
4. Vocabulary ppt
5. Read the story  - assign parts
6. Discuss Short Story Elements and add to semantic map (notebook check item)

1. SSR - 15 minutes
2. ZAPs Discussion and Letters
3. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
4. Read, Discuss, character map of Mitty in either reality or fantasy (notebook check item), add short story elements (notebook check item)
5. "The Necklace"
6. Vocabulary PPT, read

1. SSR - 15 min.
2. Library Trip (AR quizzes, new books, log checks)
3. Journal #9:  What is your most embarrasing school memory? (in response to parents from Open House)
4. Housekeeping:  return graded work, fill out index card with name, hour, GE level, Multiple Intelligence, and Criticism Style
5. "The Necklace":  finish vocab. PPT, read, discuss, chart short story elements (notebook ckeck item), plot map (notebook check item)

1. SSR - 15 min.
2. Book Talks for Literature Circles and vote (see following three links)
3. Touching Spirit bear
4. Julie of the Wolves
5. The View From Saturday
6. 5 Points of View PowerPoint (took notes, notebook check item)
7. Brain Pop video and class practice quiz
8. Owl Creek (read, discussed POV, watched last scene of movie[check blog for movie])

1. SSR - 15 min.
2. Finish Owl Creek
3. Literature Circle Break Out Sessions (read at least first chapter)
4. Literature Genres (define genre, class discussion of examples, watch movie for review)

1. SSR
2. Journal #9 - (choose one)
3. Review HW expectations
4. 4th hour - complete "Owl Creek"
5. Complete Short Story Elements Chart (notebook check item)
6. Comma Lesson ("Grammar Time:  The Comma" video with guided notes [notebook check item], p. 336-345, read as class, model parts of Exercises 3-6, complete Review B as a class)

1. SSR
2. Complete Grammar Video
3. HM Discussion
4. Literature Circle break-Out Session (instruction differentiated based on book)
5. TSB Journal #1:   After reading chapter 5, do you think Cole's parents were the cause of his violence, or did COle share responisiblity for his behavior?

1. 15 min. of SSR
2. Return Graded Work/ZAPs
3. Genre PPT
4. Choose your genre
5. Genre Exploration Sheets group work

*short day - activity day

1. SSR - 15 min.
2. Copy Homework into planner
3. Short Story Quiz Rough Draft
4. Literature Circles Break Out Sessions
5. Discussion
6. TSB Journal #2:  What is the type of conflict in Touching Spirit bear?  Is it man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society, man vs. himself, or all of the above?  Give specific examples and explanations
7. Reading Time

1. SSR
2. Short Story Quiz Final Draft
3. Return HW, check, and discuss
4. Complete Comma Movie
5. Comma Pretest
6. Short Story genre selection and exploration
7. Short Story Brainstorming

1. SSR
2. AR goal conferences
3. hand out grade sheets for parent signature
4. Literature Circles
5. Discussion
6. Reading time

1. SSR
2. Library
3. AR quizzes, AR Log Conferences, HW Check
4. Go over HW - check answers, ask questions
5. Short Story Groups
6. Brainstorming Packet for Short Stories

1. SSR
2. Comma Quiz
3. Journal Entry #10:    Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.       - Anonymous
4. Literature Circle Break Out Sessions
5. Discussion
6. Journal #3:  (two sided)  
   •What character traits allowed Cole to survive the experience of the bear attack?  How were these same traits a destructive force in Cole’s Life prior to the bear attack?
7. Reading Time

1. SSR
2. Brain Pop Videos and Guided Notes (notebook check item) and Discussion for colons and semicolons
3. Show not Tell writing lesson
4. Complete short story brainstorm packets (notebook check item)
5. Begin short story rough draft

EARLY DISMISSAL (SHORT DAY)

1. SSR - 10 minutes
2. In-Class Literature Circles
3. Meet Reading Goals
4. JOW and VFS study guides, TSB totem activity sheet
5. AR quiz opportunity

1. SSR
2. HW Discussion
3. Grammar Practice Quiz  - Colons and Semicolons
4. Complete Short Story Brainstorming packet (notebook check item)
5. Short Story Rough Drafting (notebook check item)
6. AR Quiz Opportunity

1. SSR
2. HW check
3. Go over colon and semi colon HW
4. Discuss Fiction Unit Review
5. Look ahead:  discuss next week's agendas
6. Literature Circles:  TSB
7. TSB Journal #4: Freewrite
8. Complete reading TSB
9. Totem Activity Sheet
10. HW:  Bring an artifact to share (journal illustration, an at. oow, a totem, or some artifact that you think represents some theme or occurance in our story) 

1. SSR - 15 minutes
2. Weekly Homework discussion
3. Weekly Reminders
4. Notebook Check handout
5. Ped Handout
6. Short Story Rubric handout
7. Literature Circles
8. Complete reading the novel
9. Outside:  Circle Justice Sharing and Discussion

1. SSR
2. Journal Collection
3. Return Graded Work
4. Novel Unit Test - Hand in TSB Journal
5. Benchmark Exam
6. Hand in Notebook Checks
7. Early Finishers:  Ar Quizzes, Library Time, SSR

1. SSR
2. Editing Marks handout - discuss
3. Daily Edit:  California Statehood (notebook check)
4. Ped Entemology Read-A-Loud Activity
5. Complete Testing
6. Early Finishers:  Library Time, AR Quizzes, Entemology Games
7. Unit 2:  Nonfiction Vocabulary PPT and Guided Notes (notebook check)

1. SSR
2. Daily Edit:  Jesse James
3. Entemology of Ped read-a-loud challenge
4. Complete Nonfiction PPT and Guided Notes
5. Library:  AR quizzes, checkout time, peer editing of short story, short story formatting

1. SSR
2. Daily Edit:  Desegregation at Central High
3. Entemology Read-A-Loud for Ped
4. Textbook Scavenger Hunt Group Work (notebook check)
5. Interactive Reader:  Analyzing Textbook Features (notebook check)
6. Colon &Company Worksheet (notebook check)

1. SSR
2. Copy HW, discuss, receive handouts
3. Daily Edit:  Lemony Snicket
4. Entemology:  new words (man, manu), complete practice quiz and go over, brainstorm list of additional words that contain that word part (notebook check item)
5. Cornell Notes Modeling (notebook check)
6. Quotation Marks Interactive Presentation (notebook check)

1. SSR
2. Daily Edit:  Neptune's Discovery
3. Colon and Company Handout (notebook check item)
4. Textmapping in groups (go over directions, separate into groups, complete the activity, paragraph reflection)

1. SSR - library and AR quiz opportunity
2. Daily Edit:  Tecumseh
3. Textmapping Reflection
4. Entemology Read-A-Loud
5. Complete Quotation Marks Interactive Presentations with Cornell Notes (notebook check item)
6. Colon and Company Handout
7. Interactive practice Sheets/Presentation for commas, colons, semi-solons, and quotation marks

1. SSR, Conferences, Quiz Time, Library Time
2. Daily Edit:  Jimmy Carter
3. Grammar Interactive Practive Sheets for Lessons 16, 17 and 18 (notebook check item)
4. Text Structure (inspiration presentation, exploring nonfiction station rotation, identify text structure using graphic organizers)

1. Library:  Nonfiction Call Numbers, Location, and Book Talk
2. Entemology Review Game:  Read-A-Loud Competition (2nd Hour and 3rd Hour are tied)
3. Entemology Quiz (Ped and Man)
4. Grammar Test (commas, colons, semi-colons, and quotation marks)
5. Text Structure Identification Group Work (on-going)

1. SSR - 15 min. (quiz opportunity)
2. Weekly HW Discussion and Handouts
3. Make Your Own Nonfiction Scavenger Hunt
4. Discuss Expectations
5. Choose partner
6. Create Scavenger Hunt in Library

1. SSR - 15 min. (quiz opportunity)
2. Daily Edit:  Gandhi
3. Quick Interactive Quotation Review
4. Apostrophe Lesson
5. Interactive presentation with Cornell Notes (notebook check)
6. Interactive Practice Exercises (notebook check item)
7. "Spec" Entemology vocabulary words review and read-a-loud qualifying rounds

1. Library:  SSR, AR Quizzes, Library Time
2. Complete Apostrophe Lesson, Cornell Notes, and Practice Activities (notebook check items)
3. Reader and Writer Workbook p. 164-183:  complete all activities, questions, and writing responses
4. Hand out grade sheets, ZAPs, and conference with students about their missing work and their grades

1. SSR
2. Daily Edit:  "Peanuts"
3. Homework Discussion and Handouts
4. Interactive Presentation on Evaluating and Choosing Print Resources with Guided Questions (notebook check item)

1. SSR
2. Daily Edit:  "Arthur"
3. Grade Sheets Going Home
4. PPT on Electronic Resources with Guided Questions (notebook check item)
5. Brain Pop:  Research, Evaluating Sources, Citing Sources
6. Library Time:  Research for Author Poster (notebook check item)

1. SSR - always an AR quiz time opportunity
2. Daily Edit:  "Molly Pitcher"
3. Library Time:  Author Poster Project
4. Locate and Evaluate at least 2 sources
5. Create Bibliography
6. Write 3 Paragraph Article
7. Print Images for Poster

1. SSR
2. Daily Edit Quiz:  Eleanor Roosevelt
3. Brain Pop:  Main Ideas and Outlining with Handouts for Activities (notebook check items)
4. Pronoun Antecedent Agreement Interactive Presentation with practice activities (notebook check items)

1. SSR - AR quiz time
2. Check late HW
3. Assign and Discuss Weekly HW
4. Etymology of "spec" and "dict" final Read-A-Loud round *Third hour is the reigning champ!
5. Etymology Test
6. Brain Pop:  Main Idea and Outlining with Handouts (notebook check items)
7. Computer Lab:  Author Poster Project research, source validity, three paragraph essay, works cited list, 5 questions, print pictures

1. SSR
2. Students will receive Notebook Check Handout to prepare for Thursday
3. Lab Time:  Author Poster Project Final Day
4. *all posters are due by the end of class*
5. Early Finishers:  Complete Pronoun Antecedent Interactive Presentation and Handouts

1. SSR
2. Notebook Check Hand-In
3. Go Over Study Guide
4. Benchmark Unit 2 Test
5. Writing Prompt

1. SSR
2. Library for Book Fair Preview Video
3. Questions about Homework and Notebook Check
4. *early dismissal

1. SSR
2. Daily Edit:  Cola Success Story
3. Etymology of "ject" Read-A-Loud
4. Apostrophe Review Video
5. Apostrophe Interactive Review Activities (nb check)
6. Complete Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement  Presentation and interactive review activities (nb check)
7. Author Poster Project Presentations - Audience records 3 facts per author (nb check)

1. SSR
2. Journal #1:  Don't you know. . . that everybody's got a fairyland of their own?" - Mary Poppins
3. Library for Fantasy Book Talk
4. Elements of Fantasy Guided Notes and Handout (nb check)

1. SSR
2. Journal Entry #2:  "What a terrible country [Loompaland] is!  nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the entire world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles." - Willy Wonka
3. Introduce interactive word wall chart and matching handout (nb check item)
4. Watch fantasy video - students identify and take notes on fantasy elements

1. SSR
2. English Review
3. English Test
4. Journal #3:  "All you have to do is knock the heels together three times and command the shoes to carry you wherever you wish to go." -The Good Witch from the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
5. Discuss Fantasy Movie (elements of fantasy, archetypes, symbols, motifs, setting, POV, character development, conflict, mood, literary devices)
6. Continue watching Labyrinth

1. SSR
2. Homework Check
3. Etymology Read-A-Loud for "ject"
4. Continue discussing fantasy movie (elements of fantasy, archetypes, symbols, motifs, setting, POV, character development, conflict, mood, literary devices)
5. Complete watching Labyrinth
6. Holiday themed listening activity

1. Book Fair
2. SSR - 15 minutes (always an opportunity to take AR quizzes)
3. Daily Edit:  Time Zones
4. HW discussion
5. Fantasy movie (Labyrinth) wrap-up
6. Sentence Structure Presentation with outline notes (notebook check item)

1. Anticipation guide for "Harrison Bergeron"
2. SSR
3. Journal Entry #6
4. Sci-Fi ppt with guided notes (notebook check item)
5. "Harrison Bergeron" vocabulary ppt and notes (notebook check item)
6. Read "Harrison Bergeron"
7. Discuss and fill out fantasy and sci-fi semantic map for "Harrison Bergeron" (notebook check item)

1. SSR
2. Daily Edit:  Stellaluna
3. Etymology Read-A-Loud Finals (4th hour won!)
4. Sentence Structure (outline notes and independent practice packet, go over answers) (notebook check items)

1. SSR
2. Journal Entry #5 - Affirmative Action Political Cartoon
3. Review "Harrison Bergeron" using sci-fi and fantasy semantic map (notebook check)
4. Complete reading of "Harrison Bergeron"
5. Handicap Group Activity

1. SSR
2. Journal #6:  Equality Debate
3. Sci-Fi Book Talk
4. Handicap Group Activity
5. Journal #7:  Group Activity Reflection

1. SSR
2. Wrap-Up Handicap Activity and Reflection Journal
3. Review Sentence Structure
4. Kaboom Group Game

1. SSR
2. Daily Edit:  Sousa Marches
3. IQ Test (notebook check)
4. Read "Examination Day"
5. Stop and Predict Journal #8
6. Look for hidden clues, textual evidence, and foreshadowing
7. Semantic Map fill in (notebook check)
8. Etymology Read-A-Loud practice for early finishers 

1. SSR
2. Daily Edit:  Marie Curie
3. Sci-Fi and Fantasy Venn Diagram Groups (notebook check)
4. Short Stories Triangular Comparison Groups (notebook check)
5. Class Discussion/Review for Test Tomorrow

1. SSR and Individual Conferences
2. Assign and Discuss Weekly Homework
3. Daily Edit:  Macy's Day Parade
4. Library Trip:  AR Quizzes, New Books, Reading Time
5. Graphic Novels Presentation (definition, history, background, types, popular titles, manga, book talks)

1. Assign Literature Circle Groups
2. SSR and Individual Conferences
3. Assign and Discuss Literature Circle Book Reports
4. Group Planning Session
5. Day 1 Reading Goals
6. Journal #9 - Group Discussion Session - Characterization
7. Group Character Analysis Stick Figure
8. Day 2 Reading Goal (partially complete)

1. Journal Entry #1 - Read and reflect on your journal grade.  Freewriting!
2. Pass out graded work
3. Early finishers read AR
4. Holiday Book Talk
5. Library Visit:  take AR quizzes, checkout new books, reading time
6. HW discussion, record in planner
7. Poetic Devices and Elements PPT and Guided Notes - Be sure to fill out all examples.  This will be collected as item 1 of our notebook check!

1. SSR - 30 minutes to catch up
2. Complete Guided Notes for Poetry Devices and Elements PPT
3. Poetry Packet (classwork)

**** substitute day

1. SSR - receive new reading goals (letter to go home to parents soon)
2. HW discussion and copies
3. Review PPT and complete guided notes
4. NB check table of contents
5. "Old Familiar Faces" (discuss tone, oral performance, and poetry slam expectations, volunteers will read text and compare styles and effect, class will listen to audio sample or professional reading and compare the tone to class volunteers, "unpack" the words and meaning of the poem, analyze the poetic elements and devices)
6. Students will take notes on class discussion on poem handout - this is item #2 on our notebook check table of contents

1. SSR
2. Journal Entry #2 - Reflect on AR and STAR goals and progress and develope a "plan of attack" (demonstrate and discuss as a class)
3. Hand in Reader/Writer workbooks with classwork completed from yesterday's agenda
4. Free vs. Form Poetry Interactive Activboard Flipchart with Guided Notes (notebook check item)

1. SSR
2. Make Poetry Fliplet
3. Learn, write, and share Bio-Poem
4. Couples Making Couplets Lesson
5. Read and analyze "Sick" by Shel Silverstein (rhyme scheme, syllabic rhythm, irony, tone, etc.)
6. Create a couplet that fits perfectly with Shel's chosen rhyme scheme, tone, and rhythm

1. SSR
2. HW Discussion
3. Poetry Out Loud Brainstorm
4. Discuss Group Work Instructions
5. Assign Groups
6. Groups analyze, "unpack", label, and assign an appropriate tone for each line of "Running on Empty" by Robert Phillips
7. Groups will compete in a poetry reading

1. SSR:  in library, individual conferences
2. Daily Edit:  Michael Jordan
3. Assign and discuss weekly homework
4. Complete Poetry Audio-Visual Presentations and peer evaluations
5. Read Literature Textbook pages 912-913 and participate in class discussion activity on page 918

1. SSR:  participation check
2. Journal Entry:  read cartoon and create your own convincing arguement why your teacher should accept your late work
3. complete any remaining poetry audio-visual presentations
4. complete textbook reading and discussion from previous day
5. Propaganda Introduction
6. PowerPoint with Guided Notes
7. Recruitment into Propaganda Mission

1. SSR:  participation check
2. Daily Edit:  Grand Canyon
3. (2nd hour only) Complete Propaganda introduction PowerPoint and guided notes
4. Recruitment into "Point Out Propaganda" Mission
5. Group work to complete mission
6. Group presentations and discussion

Scroll throught the PowerPoint until you get to the slide that begins the journals for the third nine weeks.  The ones that are due are journals 1-10.