PERIOD 1 AND 2 ONLY LANGUAGE ARTS SYLLABUS

Language Arts Syllabus – PERIODS 1 AND 2 ONLY

B. Santos – Team 7-2 Week of January 28, 2008

EMAIL: bsantos@op97.org BLOG:santoslanguagearts.blogspot.com VOICE LINK: 4114

Announcements:

• Progress reports and conference information went home with students on 1/17. Please return with parent signature to teacher listed on your conference letter. Conference Night is 2/7.
• Good luck to Jack F. and Jenna S. on the District 97 Writing Celebration.
• SSR – Wednesday
• Box Top Advisory Contest is ongoing.
• No study session for Periods 1 and 2 this week.

Monday:

• Journal
• Review pg. 1 of vocabulary packet.
• Continue working on novel assignment.

Tuesday:

• LA Trivia
• Novel assignment is due today: (pg. 2 of vocabulary packet) and quiz on pages 59-87 on Lois Lowry’s The Giver. {Students who are working on the differentiated assignment based on The Sphere should adhere to their requirements.}
• Discuss this section of the novel.

Wednesday:

• Journal
• Analyze student sample of extended response based on Anton Chekhov’s “The Bet.”
• Continue working on novel assignment.

Thursday:

• LA Trivia
• ISAT Practice Test (long passage and extended response)

Friday:

• Novel assignment is due today: (pg. 3 of vocabulary packet) and quiz on pages 88-120 of The Giver.
• Discuss this section of the novel.
• Correct yesterday’s long passage responses and review scores on graded extended response.

Next Novel Assignment Due Date: Tuesday, 2/5.