Mar28

Bellwork-Compare Fall SRI score with Spring SRI score to show growth.
SSR-Read/Conference/Vocab Log
- Be sure to read at home each night!
Honors–Animal Farm Lit. Circle individual tasks for Chapters 7 & 8. Monday after break is Discussion Day.
LA 2–Animal Farm Chapter 7. Read and find an example of theme for your double entry journal.
- 6th hour only-Quiz

Mar27

SRI Testing

Mar26

Scheduling!

Mar23

Writer’s Notebook-Satire
SSR-Read/Confer/Vocab Log
- Be sure to read at home each night!
Honors-Hours 1 and 3: Journaling Day. Hour 5: Ch’s. 5 & 6 Lit. Circle Discussion Day.
LA 2-Hour 2: Quiz and review of Chapters 5 & 6. Hour 6: Review political cartoon and Chapters 5 & 6.

Mar21

Writer’s Notebook-Satire
SSR-Read/Confer/Vocab Log
- Sign-up for CM 5 Book Talk!
- Be sure to read at home each night.
Honors–Animal Farm Ch’s. 5 & 6 individual tasks for lit. circles. Next discussion day is tomorrow, with the exception of 5th hour, you will discuss on Friday due to Career Day.
LA 2–Animal Farm Chapter 5. Read chapter 5 and find an example of theme for your double entry journal.

Mar20

Writer’s Notebook-View the clip from Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update portion of the tv show. Answer questions 1-3 after.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l4NYspZLsU
  - 1.What is the real news story being satirized in the clip? Who or what are the main targets of political satire in this source? What method of satire does this source seem to use the most?
  - 2.Was this sketch effective? In other words, did it use the methods successfully? Did it expose or criticize its target? Did the way the anchors presented the information help you to understand their message and their point of view? Explain.
  - 3.If you were tasked with writing a satire, what would the subject be? School, family, politics, etc.? Explain specifically what you would write about concerning that subject.
SSR-Read/Conference/Vocab Log
- Be sure to read at home each night!
Honors–Animal Farm Chapters 5 & 6. Work on individual task for Lit. Circles. Thursday is Discussion Day.
LA 2-Political Cartoon
- Political Cartoons
- Find an example of the themes, “The Importance of Education and Knowledge” (blue), “Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely” (green) and “Power of Propaganda” (yellow). Using the cartoon, you will explain through annotation how the drawing is an example of this theme. Label your annotation with the theme title.
- Highlight the part of the cartoon you are referencing using your highlighters.

Mar19

Writer’s Notebook-Satire
SSR-CM 5 Book log/Goals log and vocab log (if absent, see Mrs. Lichocki for your copies.
Honors–Animal Farm Chapters 3 & 4 Lit. Circle Discussion Day.
LA 2-Discuss Chapters 3 & 4 of Animal Farm.

Mar14

SLOT-PSAT Practice #3
- Answer questions 7-9. Explain why you chose the answer you did.
SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes/conferencing/vocab log
- Vocab Log/Book Log/Goals due Friday!
Honors–Animal Farm Chapters 1 & 2 Lit. Circle Discussion
LA 2–Animal Farm Chapters 1 & 2 Discussion

Mar13

SLOT-PSAT Practice Week #3
- SATPractice-WritingandLanguage (1)
  - Answer questions 4-6.
  - Then, in the margins next to the questions, explain why your answer is correct.
SSR-CM 4 Literary Letter
- Vocab log/book log/goals due Friday!
Honors-Animal Farm Chapters 1 & 2. Lit. Circle assigned tasks. Tomorrow will be our first discussion day, so your individual tasks must be complete!
LA 2-Discuss Chapters 1 & 2.
- Create individual bubble maps to describe each character: Mr. Jones, Old Major, and Moses
- You should have two entries on your thematic double entry journal. One entry from chapter 1, one entry from chapter 2.
  - Thematic Work-Double Jrnl

Mar9

Bellwork-Allegory/Theme
SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes/Conference/Vocab Log
- Be sure to read at home each night!
Honors-Literature Circle Prep (Animal Farm)
- Reminder-If you plan to purchase a copy of AF, try to have it by Monday!
LA 2-Propaganda Activity