Second+Quarter+Calendar+and+Activities

__**Second Quarter Calendar and Activities**__

__Marking Period 2nd QUARTER English 9A__ Continued Focus - Essential Literary Terms Novel - Mississippi Trial, 1955  Research - Civil Rights Mvmt & US History of the era Independent Projects - Read, Write, Speak & Listen || [|Link to My Curriculum Standards Spreadsheet]
 * Overview Projects and Assignments - 2nd Quarter - English 9A || Additional notes ||
 * Continued Grammar Practice and Instruction

Links: [] || Date || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thursday || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Friday || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11/14 - 11/18 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Writer’s Notebook; Grammar Handbook p.900-902 - Apply What You’ve Learned - Complete Sentences || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">OFF || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Finish binder checks; Grammar Packet review; Run-on sentence activities || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Observation 5th hour - Laptops <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assignment sheet <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|HERE] <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grammar Bytes Activity and follow-up quiz; laptop survey trial run; study island practice when finished || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Laptops - binder checks, study island practice, follow-up grammar activtities, Writer’s Notebook email doc || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11/21 - 11/25 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Writer’s Notebook: List at least 5 things you are grateful for, then write a piece that reflects on those things and explains their significance; begin review of Verbs That Personify packets || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Verbs that Personify packet review, parts of speech practice || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Parts of speech and grammar quiz; Writer’s Notebook || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">OFF || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">OFF  || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11/28 - 12/2 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Writer’s Notebook - Project Reflection; Lit. Terms:review character, setting, plot and theme || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Discussion of Personal Interest Project - Planning Sheet and “How to Create Research Questions” handout - identify 5 important items from the reading || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Laptops: Study Island Assignment: Basic Elements of Fiction review - Character, Setting, Plot, Theme, Impact and Tone; Sentence Fragments and Run-ons || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Laptops <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Finish Study Island Activities assigned on Wednesday || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Binder Check, Lit terms quiz - online; Project planning Writer’s Notebook || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12/5 - 12/9 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Novel vs. Short story handout, Read, then create a chart in the Notes section of your binder that identifies the similarities and differences between a short story and a novel; <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Informational texts: We are the 99% - The Guardian. Watch and respond in Writer’s Notebook || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WHOAAA Conf. (sub plans) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Research questions - online research handout in LMC || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Distribute the novel. Century of Segregation Intro.
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[] || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[] ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12/12 - 12/16 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12/19 - 12/23 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2012 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">OFF || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Polishing up Projects || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Polishing up Projects
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Murder of Emmet Till links and activities: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till] || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Polishing up Projects

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Murder of Emmet Till links and activities: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till] || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Polishing up Projects || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">01/09 - 01/13 <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2012 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student presentations and Exam review || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student presentations and Exam review || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student presentations and Exam review || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student presentations and Exam review || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student presentations and Exam review || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">01/16 - 01/20 <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2012 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student presentations and Exam review || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student presentations and Exam review || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student presentations and Exam review || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student presentations and Exam review || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Semester Exam: Grammar, Lit Terms, Literature & Writing || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Paul - works @ court house <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mississippi Delta - what is the significance of this <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> __setting__ <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">as it pertains to this story? <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hiram’s dad hates hate... ||
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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Notes for Novel Unit - Chapter Breakdown & Pacing || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Comments and Links ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 1-2 pgs 1-25 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Exposition: Hiram(protagonist), Harlan - Hiram’s Dad, Dee (p. 40) - Hiram’s Mom, Earl (Grandpa) Hillburn, Florence (Grandma) Hillburn,
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 3-4 pgs 26-45 ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ch. 5-6 pgs 46-67 ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ch. 7-8 pgs 68-93 ||  ||
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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ch. 11 pgs 118-130 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">propaganda handout ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ch. 12 -13 pgs.131-154 ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ch. 14 pgs 155-185 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">court room scene ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ch. 15-16 pgs 186-214 ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ch. 17 pgs 215-229, plus pg. 231 ||  ||