Category Archives: Class News

May1

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  • SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #19, respond to the following prompt in 1-2 paragraphs. Make sure to provide textual evidence to support your claim. Quote must be correctly embedded.
    • Do you feel Snapchat is beneficial or problematic? Explain. 
  • Animal Farm-Exam
    • If you were absent today, you must stay after school next Wednesday, May 6th for the make-up exam.
Apr30

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  • SLOT-Read and Annotate the article for Subject and Tone.
    • Highlight textual evidence
    • Label and explain all annotations
  • Animal Farm-District Common Assessment
    • If you were absent today, you must stay after school next Wednesday, May 6th for the make-up exam.
  • Homework-Study for tomorrow’s Animal Farm exam.
Apr29

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  • SLOT-Read and Annotate Article of the Week #19 for Audience and Purpose.
    • Highlight textual evidence
    • Label and explain all annotations
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes
  • Animal Farm-Review Parallel Events. Create a flow map of the three major events from Animal Farm. 
  • Homework-Study for tomorrow’s District Common Assessment. Study for Friday’s Animal Farm test
Apr28

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  • SLOT-Read and Annotate Article of the Week #19 for Speaker and Occasion.
    • Highlight textual evidence
    • Label and explain all annotations
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes
  • Animal Farm-Parallel Events
  • Homework-Study for District Common Assessment on Thursday and Animal Farm test on Friday!
Apr27

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  • SLOT-Read and Annotate, Article of the Week #19 for Connections.
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes
    • Reflection: Summarize your novel from the beginning to wherever you are in the novel. 
  • Animal Farm-Double Entry Journal for Theme due today.
    • Review for Animal Farm tests
    • District Common Assessment-Thursday
    • Exam-Friday
Apr24

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  • SLOT-Referencing article of the week #18, respond to one of the following prompts in 1-2 paragraphs. Make sure to provide textual evidence to support your claim. Quote must be correctly embedded.
    1. Do you believe that people should be allowed to pay for a visit to space? Explain.
    2. Do you believe future generations will travel to Mars? Explain.
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes.
  • Animal Farm-Chapter 7 and 8 themes due. Discuss Chapters 5-8.
  • Homework-Read Chapters 9 and 10. Find two examples of theme. One from each chapter. Double Journal due Monday!
Apr23

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  • SLOT-Read and Annotate the article for Subject and Tone.
    • Highlight textual evidence
    • Label and explain all annotations
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes
  • Portfolio Review/Pass back Argumentative Essays
  • Homework-Read Chapters 7 and 8 of Animal Farm. Complete two entries on the double journal for theme. One from Chapter 7 and one from Chapter 8.
Apr22

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  • SLOT-Read and Annotate Article of the Week #18 for Audience and Purpose.
    • Highlight textual evidence
    • Label and explain all annotations
    • If you are in hours 1-3 you must annotate for Speaker and Occasion as well.
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes.
  • Animal Farm-Finish Satirical Comic Strip. Due by the end of the hour.

REMINDER-All students, except for testing juniors and seniors, must report to school at 9:30 am tomorrow. The schedule is a speed schedule. Each hour will be 33 minutes in length. 4th hour will be the entire 60 minute class period in order to include lunch. 

Apr20

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  • SLOT– Read Article of the Week #18 for Connections only.
  • AoW #18 Space Travel
    • Highlight textual evidence.
    • Label and explain all annotations.
      • Text to Text
      • Text to Self
      • Text to World
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes.
  • Animal Farm-Satirical Comic Strip
  • Homework-Read chapters 5 and 6. Complete two entries on the Double Entry Journal.

REMINDER-All students, except testing juniors and seniors, report to school by 11am tomorrow. You will attend hours 4, 5, and 6 only.