SYLLABUS - WEEK OF OCTOBER 22, 2007

Announcements:

• Health is now rotating onto another team. Please follow your new core class schedule.
• Personal narratives (and rubrics) should be taken out of portfolio after conference and returned to class. Students have the option of revising their personal narratives by Tuesday, 10/23. You must resubmit all previous drafts and the rubric (grade). Students who do not wish or do not need to revise must return their narratives with the rubrics to their yellow classroom folders.
• Study session is this Friday @ 8:20 A.M. Anyone who needs a place to work on their novel assignment is invited. If you had questions about the results of your grammar post-test and need extra help on fragments or run-ons, you are also invited. See me for a pass.
• You should be in the process of working on your novel assignment. In short, these are the due dates for homework related to the novel:

ü 10/22: Response journal #1

ü 10/25: Response journal #2

ü 10/29: Response journal #3

ü 10/31: Response journal #4

ü 11/2: Vocabulary handout

Please look at all the requirements on the handouts I distributed last Wednesday.

Monday:

• Journal
• Discussion of first section of the novel. Collect response journal #1.

Extended 6^th and 7^th period only:

• Assign new seats and purge LA take home folder.
• Continue reading and working on novel assignment.

Tuesday:

• LA Trivia
• Return graded fragment/run-on post – test
• Mini-lesson: Adjectives and Adverbs

Extended 1^st and 2^nd period only:

• Assign new seats and purge LA take home folder.
• Continue reading and working on novel assignment.

Wednesday:

• Journal
• Continue adjectives and adverbs lesson if needed.
• Mini-lesson: Diagramming simple and compound subjects and verbs.

Thursday:

• LA Trivia

• Discussion of second section of the novel. Collect response journal #2.

Extended 6^th and 7^th period:

• Diagramming adjectives and adverbs

Friday:

• In-class creative writing exercise (alphabet story). Keep in classroom folder.
• Sharing day (journals, quickwrites, Walk Two Moons empathy exercise, or alphabet story.

Extended 1^st and 2^nd period

• Diagramming adjectives and adverbs