Class Documents
Daily Breakdown
1st Quarter
August 6: Welcome
- 2-hour Day
- Summer Reading reminder
- Supply List
August 8: 1st Full Day
- Seating Chart
- Remind 101
- Cell Phone Policy
- Class Website
- Ice Breaker
August 9: Interviewer, Interviewee
- Get to know your classmates, and a little info about Mrs. Davis
August 10: Who are you? Who am I?
**HOMEWORK: Finish Welcome Letter (Due Monday for a 15 point grade)
- Welcome Letter: Introduction to Mrs. Davis & letter about yourself
- Turn in reading preferences (5 point grade)
**HOMEWORK: Finish Welcome Letter (Due Monday for a 15 point grade)
August 13: Library Day; Supplies Due (10 point grade)
- Turn in finished Welcome Letter (15 points)
- Check supplies (binder w/dividers, notebook paper, annotation tools, independent reading book)
- Binder setup
- Introduction to Formatting (Librarians)
- Mission Statement
August 14: Benchmark Writing Assessment
- Cannot post this online. If you miss class, please schedule a day after school to make-up this assessment. Please plan for 45 minutes.
August 15: Benchmark Multiple-Choice Assessment
- Cannot post this online. If you miss class, please schedule a day after school to make-up this assessment. Please plan for 45 minutes.
August 16: Begin Unit 1 - Narrative
- Narrative elements discussion w/ "Joy & Heron"
August 17: Read The Bass and the River by Sheila Mant
**HOMEWORK: Annotated each paragraph of Bass - bullet point the facts
- 1st pass: general facts & details (aka What is going on here?)
**HOMEWORK: Annotated each paragraph of Bass - bullet point the facts
August 20-21: Close reading - The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant
- Focus: diction, tone, mood, theme, character development
August 22: Writing Assessment on The Bass and the River
- Bass writing assessment
August 23: Writing Self-Assessment
- Benchmark essay & "Bass"
August 24: Writing Peer Assessment
- Bass - draft #2
August 27: Harrison Bergeron Intro
- Quick Write
- Begin Harrison Bergeron
- Question prep for Socratic Seminar
August 28: 2081 Video (Harrison Bergeron mentor piece)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udZ5sD5hDK0
- Question prep for Socratic Seminar
August 29: Socratic Seminar
August 30: Socratic Seminar Continued
August 31: Harrison Bergeron Writing Assessment
- Narrative
September 3: Labor Day (No school)
September 4: Summer Reading Assessment
September 5: Self-Grading
- Summer Reading Assessment
- Harrison Bergeron narrative - peer feedback
September 6: Type Harrison Bergeron
- In G-7 computer lab
September 7: Narrative Assessment & Reflection
- Based on Harrison Bergeron
September 10: Assessment Corrections
September 11: Picture Day
- Free Read
September 12: Begin Expository Unit
- 3 Level Thinking practice
- Image
- Video (no sound)
September 13: Early Dismissal
- Level 1 Read through - facts & details
September 14: Lamb to the Slaughter Cont.
- Level 2 Read through - special focus on character development through STEAL
- Level 3 - Craft 3 assertions based on your findings from levels 1 & 2
- These will be used to formulate your thesis statement for your 1st expository essay!
September 17: Expository Essay
September 18: Revise & Edit
- Peer Assessment
September 19: Revise & Edit
- Self Assessment
September 20:
- Introduce Interlopers by Saki
- Focus on symbolism
September 21: Type Essays
- Computer cart in class
September 24: Library Day
- Focus on symbolism
September 25: Interlopers Cont.
- Symbolism Writing Task
September 26: CFA Review
September 27: End of 1st 9 weeks - CFA EXAM
2nd Quarter
September 28: Quarter #1 Reflection
October 1-5: Fall Break
October 8-9: Argument Introduction
October 10: Emma Watson's HeforShe Speech
Follow our levels of thinking method of annotation
•Level 2 –
**Homework: Finish reading Watson speech & annotate for the argument prompt (see slides for reference to annotation requirements)
Follow our levels of thinking method of annotation
•Level 2 –
- Rhetorical Devices & Techniques Ms. Watson uses - label evidence
- Central Idea - label evidence
- Purpose - label evidence
**Homework: Finish reading Watson speech & annotate for the argument prompt (see slides for reference to annotation requirements)
October 11: 1st 9 weeks Report Card
**Homework: Finish reading Wiesel speech & annotate for the argument prompt (see slides for reference to annotation requirements)
- Eli Wiesel's Nobel Speech
- Same annotation activity as above
**Homework: Finish reading Wiesel speech & annotate for the argument prompt (see slides for reference to annotation requirements)
October 12: Argument Essay #1
**Homework: Finish essay
**Homework: Finish essay
October 15: Revise & Edit Argument Essay
- Peer feedback
October 16: Revise & Edit Argument Essay
**Homework: Edit essay
- Self assessment
**Homework: Edit essay
October 17: Argument Essay Conferencing
October 18: Parent/Teacher Conferences
October 19: Pre-reading Night by Eli Wiesel
**FINAL ARGUMENT ESSAY DUE
** Questions from the reading will be taken up for a grade
- Reading Preparation - Background
**FINAL ARGUMENT ESSAY DUE
** Questions from the reading will be taken up for a grade
October 22: Begin Night by Eli Wiesel
- Preface & Chapters 1-2 assigned (SKIP Foreward)
- Socratic #1 Questions assigned
October 23-26: Socratic Prep
October 26: Socratic Prep
October 29: Never Shall I Forget
**DUE FRIDAY NOV. 2
**DUE FRIDAY NOV. 2
October 30: Night Socratic #1
October 31: Night Socratic #2 Prep
November 1-4: Socratic Prep
November 5: Night Socratic #2
**Socratic #2 Prep Due @ end of class
**Socratic #2 Prep Due @ end of class
November 6: Election Day (No school)
November 7: Socratic #3 assigned
**Due Tuesday Nov. 13
**Due Tuesday Nov. 13
November 8: Progress Report
- Socratic Prep
November 9: Socratic Prep
November 12: Library Day
November 13: Socratic #3
**Socratic Prep due @ end of class
**Socratic Prep due @ end of class
November 14: Socratic #4 assigned
**Due Tuesday Nov. 20
**Due Tuesday Nov. 20
November 15: Early Dismissal
- Socratic Prep
November 16-19: Socratic Prep
November 20: Socratic #4
**Socratic Prep due @ end of class
**Socratic Prep due @ end of class
November 21-23: Thanksgiving Break (No school)
November 26: Final Socratic Prep
November 27-29: Socratic Seminar Prep
November 30: Final Socratic Seminar
December 3: Mood Poster
**Due Friday 12/7
December 4: Annotate Social Injustice prompt & articles
December 5: Essay Prep
December 6: Essay Prep OR Mood Poster work
December 7: Write mini-essay
December 10-13: Midterm Review
December 14-19: Midterms
December 20: 2-hour Day; End of 2nd 9 weeks
3rd Quarter
January 8: S. M. A. R. T Goals
January 9-10: Mrs. Davis out sick
January 11-15: Battle Bar Prep
- Argument activity
- Argument activity
January 16: Battle Bar BATTLE
- Argument activity
- Argument activity
January 17: Syntax Review
January 18: Argument Essay Preparation
- Article Annotations: Focus on the questions below for your annotations
•With what do you agree? Disagree?
•What stands out – “Whoa, crazy!”
- Article Annotations: Focus on the questions below for your annotations
•With what do you agree? Disagree?
•What stands out – “Whoa, crazy!”
January 22: Argument Essay Preparation
- Prompt (attached)
- Introduction Notes
- Essay Checklist
- Prompt (attached)
- Introduction Notes
- Essay Checklist
January 23: Argument Essay Preparation
- Introduction Drafting & Editing
- Introduction Drafting & Editing
January 24: 2019-2020 School Year Scheduling w/ Guidance Department
- Conferencing continues if able
- Conferencing continues if able
January 25: Argument Introduction Draft Due
- CFA #4 - Sentence Structure
**Must schedule a make-up CFA is absent (after school Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday next week)
- CFA #4 - Sentence Structure
**Must schedule a make-up CFA is absent (after school Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday next week)
January 28: Argument Body Paragraphs
- Transition Words/Phrases Escape Room
**Get the notes from a fellow classmate
- Transition Words/Phrases Escape Room
**Get the notes from a fellow classmate
January 29: Body Paragraph Drafting
- Peer Reviewing tomorrow
- Peer Reviewing tomorrow
January 30: SNOW DAY
January 31: 1/2 Day - Peer Review Body Paragraphs
February 1: Counter Claim Introduction
- Drafting
**Get notes from a fellow classmate
- Drafting
**Get notes from a fellow classmate
February 4: Socratic Seminar Prep & Conclusion Intro
- Students to create questions based on the attached chart
**Get notes from a fellow classmate
- Students to create questions based on the attached chart
**Get notes from a fellow classmate
February 5-6: G Hall Lab - Type papers
February 7: Socratic Seminar Prep
February 8: Socratic Seminar Prep
February 11: Socratic Seminar - Data Privacy v. National Security
**Socratic Prep due at the end of class
**Essay due at 6 pm
**Socratic Prep due at the end of class
**Essay due at 6 pm
February 12: Narrative Study Unit
- There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
- Group work
- There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
- Group work
February 13: Narrative Study Unit
- A Day Made of Glass video
- Socratic Seminar Prep
- A Day Made of Glass video
- Socratic Seminar Prep
February 14: Narrative Study Unit
- Socratic Seminar Prep
- Research modern day advances in technology that have benefited our society or hindered it. Include this research on your socratic prep sheet.
- Socratic Seminar Prep
- Research modern day advances in technology that have benefited our society or hindered it. Include this research on your socratic prep sheet.
February 15: Narrative Study Unit - Mrs. Davis absent
- Socratic Seminar Prep
- Socratic Seminar Prep
February 19: Narrative Study Unit
- Socratic Seminar - Technology & Society
- Socratic Seminar - Technology & Society
February 20: Punctuation Escape Game
February 21-25: Flood Days Punctuation Review
February 26: Punctuation Escape Game Cont.
February 27: Practice EOC
February 28: Benchmark #3 - FINAL OF THE YEAR
March 1: Finish Punctuation Escape Game
- Punctuation Review
- Punctuation Review
March 4: 'What do you want out of college?'
- Test Prep & Socratic Seminar
- Test Prep & Socratic Seminar
March 5: 'What do you want out of college?'
- Socratic Seminar
- Socratic Seminar
4th Quarter
March 6: 'Multipotentialites' Playposit
- Test Prep & Socratic Seminar
- Test Prep & Socratic Seminar
March 7: 'Multipotentialites'
- Socratic Seminar Prep
- Socratic Seminar Prep
March 8: 'Multipotentialites'
- Socratic Seminar
- Socratic Seminar
March 11: Current Event Socratic
- Test Prep & Socratic Seminar
- Test Prep & Socratic Seminar
March 12: Current Event Socratic
- Socratic Seminar Prep
- Socratic Seminar Prep
March 13-14: Current Event Socratic
- Socratic Seminar Prep
- Socratic Seminar Prep
March 15: Current Event Socratic
- Socratic Seminar
- Socratic Seminar
March 18-19: Youth & Success Prep
- Article & Questions
- Article & Questions
March 20: Youth & Success
- Seminar
- Seminar
March 21: Close Reading
- Sound of Thunder excerpt
- Sound of Thunder excerpt
March 22: Verbal Tennis
- Instructions to be provided in class
- Instructions to be provided in class
April 1: Context Clue practice
- Blended Learning Stations (3)
- Blended Learning Stations (3)
April 2: Context Clue practice
- Blended Learning Stations (3)
- Blended Learning Stations (3)
April 3-4: Prompt Breakdown & Planning Practice
- Blended Learning Stations (3)
- Blended Learning Stations (3)
April 5: Revision Practice
- Use drafts from stations
- Use drafts from stations
April 8: Parallel Structure Review
- Power Point review & practice
- Power Point review & practice
April 9: Parallel Structure Review - Escape Game
April 10: Testing Info
- Link to schedule on' Home' page
- Link to schedule on' Home' page
April 11-12: Testing Review
- Multi-skill Speed Review
- Multi-skill Speed Review
April 15: Test Coping Strategies
April 16-25: Testing
April 26: Make up Day
April 29: Intro to Shakespearean Unit
- Shakespearean Scavenger Hunt
- Shakespearean Scavenger Hunt
April 30 - May 1: Shakespearean Insults
- Choosing of the top insult and artwork
- Working on the artwork
- Choosing of the top insult and artwork
- Working on the artwork
May 2-8: Midsummer Night's Dream
- Read as a class & sign up for daily roles
**Shakespearean Insults Assignment Due May 2
- Read as a class & sign up for daily roles
**Shakespearean Insults Assignment Due May 2
May 9-10: Scrapbook Page
May 13-15: Midsummer Night's Dream Film Study
May 16-17: Midsummer Night's Dream Interpretation Assignment
May 20: Midsummer Night's Dream Interpretation Project Presentation
May 21-24: FINALS