Overview+of+Coursework+and+Activities

__**First Quarter Calendar**__   The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Lit term list for Friday’s Quiz || Elements of fiction notes and Bedford activities online (tech issues/ could not complete/ move to next week) || Elements of fiction notes and Bedford activities online (tech issues/ could not complete/ move to next week) || Binder Check Lit Term Quiz (move to next week) ||
 * **Week ** || **Monday ** || **Tuesday ** || **Wednesday ** || **Thursday ** || **<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Friday ** ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1 – 9/6 - 9/9 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No School || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Intro & Procedures || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Intro & Procedures || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Intro & Procedures || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Intro & Procedures ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2 – 9/12 - 9/16 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Getting to Know you Intro & Procedures || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Intro & Procedures || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Intro & Procedures for computers || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Intro & Procedures for computers || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Intro & Procedures Binder checks ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3 – 9/19 - 9/23 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pop Goes the Verb; Binder Sections/Tabs || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">15 Minute Timed Writing (highlight verbs, then revise) || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“In Love with Death” NYT article; listen, highlight verbs; Action verbs packet for Writer’s notebook; Grammar Into Practice - Mood paragraph || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Action & Linking Verbs practice packet in class complete and review with Sub || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Binder Check - tabs in place and work organized into proper sections; finish up Action Verb packet; 200 word journal enttry ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4 – 9/26 - 9/30 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The Bass, The River and Sheila Mant” with Sub; wksht packet and questions: 1-6, Another Pathway, Literary Concepts, and Words to Know || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The Bass, The River and Sheila Mant” with Sub; wksht packet and questions: 1-6, Another Pathway, Literary Concepts, and Words to Know || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Short Story review; Clarification and work day for students || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Review of materials from “The Bass...”; Laptop introduction: Care & Handling, Login, Google Docs, etc. || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No School for Students – PD Day ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5 – 10/03 - 10/07 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Introduction of Lit terms and concepts; Review of Action and Linking verbs packet (recheck Friday in Binder Check) || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Active Reader discussion and modeling,
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6- 10/10 - 10/14 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Utterly Perfect Murder by Ray Bradbury - pg 17 McD/Littell || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Utterly Perfect Murder by Ray Bradbury - pg 17 McD/Littell

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Papers back, progress reports for missing work || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">VirtualLit Bedford St. Martin’s Elements of Fiction <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Make-up missing work <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Writing Assignment - First Form: Compare & contrast the protagonist in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|The Secret Life of Walter Mitty] <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">with the protagonist in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|The Utterly Perfect Murder] || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">VirtualLit Bedford St. Martin’s Elements of Fiction <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Make-up missing work - Due TODAY || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Binder Check and Lit Term Quiz #1 (Quizlet LIt Terms Activity online?) || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HS ELA Common Core Diagnostic Pretest - Study Island || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grammar Practice - Parts of Speech || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">First Online Short Story - The Necklace || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">First Online Short Story - The Necklace || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Binder Check <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">Lit Term and Grammar Quiz <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow-up on Story elements, Study Island practice items || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Activities for The Necklace <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Class Discussion || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Questions 1-17 handout for “The Necklace”; || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Finish 1-17, then select group topic questions - answer questions individually,then come up with a group poster that captures the selected theme || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Binder Check <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lit Terms Quiz || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Most Dangerous Game - hybrid instruction text and online || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Second Short Story -The Most Dangerous Game - hybrid instruction text and online || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lit Terms Quiz; <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Second Short Story - The Most Dangerous Game - hybrid instruction text and online || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Project proposal; finish packet for TMDG; begin grammar practice packet || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2 HR Early Rel. Grammar Practice packet; Class and Self Evaluation Assignment || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2 HR Early Rel. Class & Self-Evaluation essay due today; conference sheets due today; Binder Check || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7 – 10/17 - 10/21 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grammar Practice - Parts of Speech
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8 – 10/24 - 10/28 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grammar Practice (Study Island Grammar Practice I and Writing Prompt I)Overview of Pinnacle and addition of student email; Writer’s Craft || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grammar Practice and Writer’s Craft;
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9 – 10/31 – 11/4 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Quiz review; Poster Presentations; || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lit Terms Discussion: Plot, Setting, Characterization, Irony - Focus on “The Necklace” and intro “The Most Dangerous Game” || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Second Short Story - Short Story Genre Handout;
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10 – 11/7 – 11/11 || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Finish bookwork for TMDG || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Packet for TMDG; Grammar Practice packet || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2 HR Early Rel.