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  • SLOT-Read and Annotate Article of the Week #5 for Connections. Remember, this week’s article will be counted as a summative assessment of your ability to read and annotate for connections, SOAPSTone, and successful completion of Friday’s micro-argument!
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    • Highlight textual evidence using your yellow highlighter
    • Label each connection and explain through annotation
      • Text to Text
      • Text to Self
      • Text to World
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes
    • Book Talk Sign-Up! If you are absent today, make sure to see Mrs. Lichocki tomorrow to sign-up for Semester 1 Book Talk and to get a copy of the rubric!
      • Honors – Continue working on Dialectical Journal entries
  • “The Scarlet Ibis” – Close and Critical Reading-Narrative Text
    • Summarize “The Scarlet Ibis” in 8-10 sentences. Focus on main points only, making sure to exclude details!

  • SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #4, respond to the following prompt in 2 paragraphs:
    • Would this article make someone rethink their diet?
      • Paragraph #1 – Intro and Claim (underline claim)
      • Paragraph #2 – Your correctly embedded, quoted, textual evidence, highlighted in pink
        • Introduce your quote
        • Copy quote
        • Include parenthetical citation (Carroll 1).
        • Give your reasoning
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes
    • Honors – Work on Dialectical Journal entries
  • “The Scarlet Ibis”– Finish reading the short story in preparation for Monday. While you are reading you should continue to look up words you don’t know and give a 1-2 sentence summary for each chunk of text.

  • SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #4, read and annotate for Subject and Tone.
    • Highlight textual evidence using your green highlighter
    • Label your evidence and explain through annotation
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes
    • Honors – Work on Dialectical Journal Entries
  • “The Scarlet Ibis”-Begin reading pages 554-558
    • the-scarlet-ibis-text
      • The PDF is not numbered like your textbook, so if you are finishing the reading at home, read pages 1-3. You may stop after the first column of text on page 3.

  • SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #4, read and annotate for Audience and Purpose.
    • Highlight textual evidence using your orange highlighter
    • Label your evidence and explain through annotation
  • SSR
    • LA 1 –  Read novel for 10 minutes/Goals using SRI score
    • Honors – Read novel for 10 minutes/Dialectical Journal Introduction
  • “The Scarlet Ibis”
    • LA 1 –  Vocab
    • Honors –  Intro and Vocab
    • SI INTRO/Vocab

  • SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #4, read and annotate for Speaker and Occasion.
    • Highlight textual evidence using your blue highlighter
    • Label your evidence and explain through annotation
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes/Goal setting using SRI Scores
  • “The Scarlet Ibis”-Intro
  • LA 1 Only!!!!
    • SI INTRO-Complete first two slides only
  • HONORS-MDG Test

Hours 4, 5, 6 complete the micro argument over the weekend and submit AoW #3 on Monday! This is due to the Pep Assembly!

Hours 4, 5, 6 complete the micro argument over the weekend and submit AoW #3 on Monday! This is due to the Pep Assembly!
  • SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #3, respond to the following prompt in 2 paragraphs
    • Do you agree or disagree with this procedure? Explain.
      • Paragraph #1 – Intro and Claim (underline claim)
      • Paragraph #2 – Your correctly embedded, quoted, textual evidence, highlighted in pink
        • Introduce quote
        • copy quote
        • include parenthetical citation (Sample 1).
        • Give your reasoning
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes
  • LA 1-Study for “The Most Dangerous Game” test on Monday!
  • Honors LA 1 – Suspense Story due Monday due to Friday’s Pep Assembly. You will take “The Most Dangerous Game” test on Tuesday due to Monday’s assembly during 6th hour.
    • Hours 4, 5, and 6, be sure to turn-in your participation sheet and plot diagram flow map on Monday!

  • SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #3, read and annotate for Subject and Tone.
    • Highlight textual evidence using your green highlighter
    • Label your evidence and explain through annotation
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes
  • MDG