Poetry Out Loud Selections

Agenda:

• Use the chart on classroom to fill out your POL selection: http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/find-poems

-No duplicates or "Fire and Ice."  You must select a different poem from last year.

Homework:

• Make sure you have everything submitted, including your POL selection
• You should have read through chapter 5 in O Pioneers!
• You also should have submitted part 3 today in addition to your most recent reading questions

Land Jigsaw Part 2

Agenda:

• Warm-up journal: What more did we learn about our character's relationship with the land?
• Wrap up part 1
• Begin part 2 with new group
• Answer part 3

Homework:

• Part 3 due tomorrow
• Vocab mastery due tomorrow
• Redos and revisions due by the end of the week that we return.

O Pioneers Themes: Land

Agenda:

• Begin Jigsaw Activity on the land

Homework:

• Read chapters 4 + 5
• Complete reading questions

Peer Review

Agenda:

• Peer Review overview
• Rubric
• Questions (submit to classroom)
• When finished, begin to edit originals
• Workshop time if not completed

Homework:

• Read ch 2-3 for Monday w/ Questions
• Make sure your SPOTTTS group analysis is completed
• Vocab due before break
• Retakes and redos due at the end of the week we return

Whitman's "Pioneer's! O Pioneers!"

Agenda:

• Review SPOTTTS analysis components
• Listen to Whitman's "Pioneers!  O Pioneers!"
• Link to text: http://www.bartleby.com/142/153.html 
• Link to video reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha7O0O_fc48

• Complete online chart with your partner

Homework:

• Draft of paper due Friday
• Read chapter 1 with chapter questions completed for Friday

Introducing Quotes and Writing Workshop Continued

Agenda:

• Introducing Quotes Review
• Quote Introduction Practice Worksheet
• Drafting time when finished

Homework:

• Quote Intro Packet due tomorrow
• Draft #1 of paper due Friday
• 12/15--redos and retakes due

Friday: Draft Workshop

Agenda:

• Time to work on full drafts if done with the three steps leading up to it

Homework:

• Drafts due 12/16
• 12/15--due date for all revisions and retakes leading up to now (from what you have received back so far)

Thursday: Introducing Quotes

Agenda:

• Journal
• Worksheet Overview
• Practice

Homework:

• Read article
• Drafts of papers due next Friday
• 12/15 due date for revisions

Wednesday: Pre-Reading O Pioneers

Agenda:

• Pass out books
• Pre-Reading worksheet

Homework:

• Make sure pre-reading is done
• Evidence sheet should have been handed in today

Outlining and Grouping Evidence

Agenda:

• Return and review evidence finding sheet
• Outlining and grouping information packet

Homework:

• Outlining worksheet due Thursday
• Vocab mastery due before break
• 12/15--retakes and redos (tests and projects)

Grammar Quiz

Agenda:

• Dashes and parentheses quiz
• Vocab

Homework:

• Signed PR if not already
• Make up work and revisions/retakes due 12/15
• Vocab mastery due before break

Review Dashes and Parentheses

Agenda:

• Review (post test part b)
• Vocab review (or work on packet if not finished)

Homework:

• Signed progress reports for Monday
• Study for quiz on dashes and parentheses on Monday
• Apostrophe retake by 12/15
• Caricature revisions by 12/15
• O Pioneers! vocabulary due prior to break

Critical Lens: Evidence Part 2

Agenda:

• Progress Reports
• Finding Evidence

Homework:

• Complete the evidence sheet for tomorrow
• Progress Reports due signed Monday