Weeks Agenda Monday Tuesday Read take notes on

Week’s Agenda Monday – Tuesday: Read & take notes on fiction & nonfiction Wednesday – Thursday: Recall, Infer & Interpret Friday: Grammar Friday! Commas

Daily Writing: Poverty 09/10/2012 Choose a picture, and start a story:

Monday: Finish Taking Notes Homework due TODAY: Bring in a book/novel to read in your free time. Hold up your book! Go over handout and rubric for monthly book talk. First book talk on Thursday, October 11. If you lose these handouts, you will have to print them on your own time. You can find them on my website: larsons-class-cite. weebly. com Finish taking notes on pages 1 – 5 on Fiction and Nonfiction, taking Cornel Notes as you read. If you’re done taking notes, read silently. Have your notebooks open so I can check them. Popcorn read first historical essay, “The Baker Heater League. ” Homework due tomorrow: Read and take Cornel Notes on something in the news If you don’t get the newspaper, you can go online -- bbc. com or nytimes. com or any news-related website. Homework title: Current Events

Daily Writing: Life 09/11/12 Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail: “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. ” ~Charles Darwin “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. ” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tuesday: Random Hand in your homework: Read and take Cornel Notes on something in the news. Homework title: Current Events Forgot? Everyone gets a late pass for this first assignment. All other assignments from this day forth will be subject to school policy: 75% 1 day late, 50% if later than the following Monday. 1 pt extra credit for those of you who remembered (or checked my website). Larson’s Late Homework Pass If you ask for one, you won’t get one. I will be giving them SPARINLY to students who I think have gone above and beyond and showed true leadership as a student. Turn it in WITH your late homework. Pass good for one day late for one assignment. If you lose it, you lose the ability to turn in an assignment late. The pass is nontransferable (meaning the student I gave the pass to, cannot give the pass to another student).

Tuesday: Random Continued Some of you are losing your 82 prep points & 82 participation points… These should be EASY POINTS! You should be IN YOUR DESK with your notebook open when the bell rings (or at least on your way to your desk). If the bell rings and you’re not in the room, you are tardy. NO EXCUSES. If you’re absent you don’t get your points. NO EXCUSES. Keep your journals (don’t leave them in the classroom) and bring them to class everyday. I think the journal gnome is eating them at night. This means to be prepared for class you need a pencil/pen, a novel/book, and TWO notebooks: The journal I gave you for daily writing & drafting. The notebook you brought or your homeroom teacher gave you for notes and vocab (test/quiz stuff).

Tuesday: Nonfiction Objectives: Learn about different elements of nonfiction. Apply the different elements of nonfiction to The Baker Heater League. ” Review elements of fiction and vocabulary in The Baker Heater League. ” Finish popcorn reading “The Baker Heater League” discussing the elements we see as we read. Journal title: Descriptive Essay Generate a circle web of people you know well. Then, write adjectives that describe them next to their names. At least 4 people with at least 3 adjectives describing each person. Popcorn read “The 11: 59” historical fiction essay (pg. 12).

Daily Writing: Cute Babies 09/12/12 Choose a picture, and start a story:

Wednesday: Nonfiction Homework due today: Hand in homework title: Current Events (due yesterday) Show me your circle diagram (keep this in your journal – we’ll be using it later). Finishing popcorn reading “The 11: 59” historical fiction essay. Write these down in your notes (question in the right margin of your notes can be “What is the difference between recall, infer and interpret? ”): Recall (verb): to bring back from memory; recollect; remember: Can you recall what she said? Summarize: state or express in a concise form and in own words. Interpret (verb): to give or provide the meaning of; explain. Classify (verb): to arrange or organize by classes Analyze (verb): to examine critically, so as to bring out the essential elements or give the essence of: to analyze a poem. Homework due tomorrow what you don’t get done in class: Finish questions 1 – 6 on Fiction & Nonfiction Review. Write your name and your class, and the answers on the back. Staple an extra sheet of paper if you need more writing space.

Daily Writing: Lyrics 09/13/12 Respond to and explain these lyrics OR explain how you’re original and what you do when you’re faced with peer pressure. From 4 am by Our Lady Peace: I blame myself for being too much Like somebody else I never thought I would just Bend this way Then a phone call made me realize I’m wrong

Objective: Thursday: Nonfiction Apply the differences between recalling, inferring, and interpreting and each to a piece of literature. Get out your homework: Questions 1 – 6. Homework title: Fiction & Nonfiction Review DRILL! Everyone tell the class one thing you recalled, one thing you inferred OR one interpretation you made (make sure to raise your hand). Take cornel notes on pg. 24 -26. Read A Retrieved Reformation (pg. 27) Homework due Monday what you don’t get done in class: Finish questions 1 – 8 on A Retrieved Reformation worksheet. Write your name and your class, and the answers on the back. Staple an extra sheet of paper if you need more writing space.

Daily Writing: Advice 09/14/12 Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail: What is the best advice you ever received? Did you take the advice? How did it turn out? Tell about a time you didn’t take someone’s advice and you wish you had. How will you change what you do the next time. Tell about a time you broke a rule and wish you hadn’t. Explain in detail.

Vocab/Grammar Friday! Objective: Review the rules of commas and apply these rules to our writing. Go over the “Dear John” letter writing it two different ways. Go over the basic rules of commas handout. Homework due next Friday what you don’t get done in class: Write a sentence for each comma rule (make sure to label the rule). Reminder of homework due Monday: Finish questions 1 – 8 on A Retrieved Reformation worksheet. Write your name and your class, and the answers on the back. Staple an extra sheet of paper if you need more writing space. Note: You may want to work on the homework due Monday first, and then work on your comma homework.

Commas! Grammar Friday Commas change MEANING! Take 5 minutes and write this letter twice with different punctuation. Dear John: I want a man who knows what love is all about you are generous kind thoughtful people who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior you have ruined me for other men I yearn for you I have no feelings whatsoever when we're apart I can be forever happy will you let me be yours

Commas! Grammar Friday Commas change MEANING! Dear John Letter #1 Dear John: I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we’re apart. I can be forever happy — will you let me be yours? Jane

Commas! Grammar Friday Commas change MEANING! Dear John Letter #2 Dear John: I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me. For other men, I yearn. For you, I have no feelings whatsoever. When we’re apart, I can be forever happy. Will you let me be? Yours, Jane