City or Country Living

Agenda:

• Check SAT puzzle
• Warm-up Journal: What more did we learn about our character's attitude towards the land?  What more did we learn about attitudes toward country living?
• Guardian Article
• Agree/Disagree Lines

Homework:

• Begin studying first sixteen words of vocab
• Read 6 + 7 with reading questions

O Pioneers! Themes: Land

Agenda:

• Wrap up Whitman Poem analysis
• Begin Jigsaw Activity on the land

Homework:

• Read chapters 4 + 5
• Complete reading questions
• Honors: Part 2 of your assignment is due tomorrow

Quote Planking Problems

Agenda:

• What is wrong with this? Journal on provided quote
• Examples of how to introduce a quote well
• Practice handout with NEWSELA article

Homework:

• Finish NEWSELA worksheet
• Make sure you have read 2-3 and have completed the reading questions
• Final drafts of paper due Monday

Subject Verb Agreement Quiz

Agenda:

• SV Quiz
• Continue working on Whitman Poem

Homework:

• Read ch 2-3 and finish reading questions
• Papers due Monday

Peer Review Day

Agenda:

• Peer Review using questions and provided rubric
• Edit your paper using the peer review questions answered about your writing

Homework:

• Study for tomorrow
• Ch 2-3 questions of O Pioneers! due on Friday
• Essays due Monday

Pioneers! 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:

• Finish draft of critical lens for tomorrow's peer review
• Read chapters 2 + 3 with chapter questions completed for Friday
• Study for subject-verb test on Thursday

Subject-Verb Agreement Review

Agenda:

• Review exercises 7-13
• Looking at pronoun-antecedent agreement
• Exercise 14

Homework:

• Make sure the work for O' Pioneers! is completed
• Continue working on essay assignment