Words From Watson

Monday March 2 Finish Grammar Exercises 455-457 EX 34,36,37 Grade MUG 19/20 Parallelism Practice Persuasive Rubric Periods 4,7,8 Check Sentence Packet Tuesday March 3 STAAR Practice in Testing Groups Wednesday March 4 STAAR practice in Testing Groups Thursday March 5 Animal Farm Test - scantron 50 Questions Friday March 6 Review AF test Pass out Poetry Vocabulary -- look up and copy down definitions NO HOMEWORK Looking ahead:  starting Poetry Unit and make sure you are reading an outside book -- Bring to class next Friday

Monday 22 MUG #19 Concept Map check Animal Farm Chap 8-9 Summaries Letter to Editor Format and Example Work on Letter to the Editor Tuesday 23 Letter to the Editor Typed Rough Draft Due  12 point font/Times New Roman/Double spaced/1" margin/left hand paragraph alignment Letter to the Editor Peer Edit AF Chapter 10 Wed 24 Field Trip AF Chapter 10/annotations/SGQ's/summary/ 8-10 Chart in AF packet Thursday 25 Final Draft of Letter to the Editor Due 12 point font/Times New Roman/Double spaced/1" margin/left hand paragraph alignment NOODLE TOOL CITATIONS PRINTED OUT **** Irony Worksheet in AF packet Symbolism Worksheet in AF Packet Complete Animal Farm  AF SGQ's Chap 10 Friday 26 Animal Farm Written Journal Response MUG #20 Grammar pages 455-457 EX 34,35,36 UPCOMING:   STAAR PRACTICE: MARCH 3 and 4 Animal Farm Exam March 5th 50 Questions Scantron

Monday 16 - off Tuesday 17  Animal Farm Chapter 8:  update annotations/summary/SGQ's Wednesday 18  Animal Farm Chapter 9:  update annotations/summary/SGQ's Thursday 19   Check Sentence Packet/Ck SGQ's/Letter to the Editor instructions and concept map example Friday 20   Work on Letter to the Editor Concept Map due MOnday Typed Rough Draft Due Tues 24th for Peer Edit Final Typed Draft Due Thursday the 26th - Major Grade

Feb 9 Check Prompt #1/ Journal response 5 minutes to prompt #2 Writer's notebook, journal side Pass out Sentence Structure Packet - Due Friday Update annotations/ 3 -4/ review summaries Active Listening to AF chapter 5 - annotate/summary HMWK:  SGQ's from AF packet Chapters 3-5 Due Tuesday Feb 10 Analysis Posters Due Annotation Check Mug # 17 AF chapter 6 - Active Listening/annotations ch summary Feb 11 Annotation Quiz - Discuss Mug # 17 Ck MUG #15/16 AF Chapter 7  Active Listening/annotations/ ch summary Feb 12 AF Chapter 7 Active Listening/annotations/ ch summary/SGQ's CONT AF Film HMK:      SENTENCE PACKET DUE FRIDAY Feb 13 - Turn in SENTENCE PACKET MUG #18 Introduce Letter to the Editor Practice Planning for LTE Active Reading Animal Farm Chapters 5-7 Chart - Manipulative Language -- AF packet

Monday Feb 2 Chk Old Major's Speech Analysis Mug #16 Old Major's Speech Group Poster -- due Friday -- requirements posted in separate post HMK:  Latin Roots Tuesday Feb 3 Latin Roots Test -- Set one and two -- roots only ALL OF SET THREE 75 question test Wednesday  Feb 4 Ck Mug #16 Group Wk T hursday Feb 5 Group Work on analysis poster Friday Feb 6  Poster Due next Tuesday -- Quiz grade In Writer's Notebook, Journal Side, respond to Prompt #1 from AF packet.  complete sentence. AF Chapter 3 and 4 Silent Reading and annotation Chapter 3 -4 Chapter Summary

Old Major offers 3 claims in his speech: 1. The life of an animal is misery and slavery (p.28). 2. Man is the only creature that consumes without producing (p.29). 3. All men are enemies. All animals are comrades (p.31). Choose 1 claim to analyze. Include the following sections. Choose how you want to arrange this information on your poster. **Claim(opinion/position)?-   **Evidence used?- Provide the pieces of evidence and what type of evidence it is(facts, quotes, statistics, anecdotes, examples). **Persuasive technique(s) used and logical fallacies?- **Counterarguments?-