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Monday March 6th "Russians" analysis-- parallel context with Animal Farm Due Tuesday Tuesday March 7th 50 Question Animal Farm Test Know/Review:  All chapter Summaries/ All chapter SGQ's/  Characters/Allegory chart/Themes/All changes to the 7 Commandments/Maxims/Songs of Animal Farm/Persuasive Techniques/Logical Fallacies/ Rhetorical devices Wednesday March 8th Receive Animal Farm writing prompt and directions for timed writing on Friday.  You may prep but not write Thursday March 9th Timed writing over Animal Farm Prompt.  Rough Draft only/ open book/open note Friday March 10th AF Movie

Monday Ck Chp 8 Summary/Sgq's Animal Farm Chapter 9- active listening/annotate Annotations/Summary/SGQ's Tuesday STAAR testing 4,3,2,1 = Ck Chp 9 AF SGQ's/Summary Wednesday STAAR TESTing 5,6,7,8 Ck Chp 9 AF SGQ's/Summary Thursday AF Chapter 10 Active Listening/annotate AF Chapter 10 Summary AF review Crossword puzzle - Due Friday AF Irony Worksheet- Due Friday Friday Ck Crossword and Irony Worksheet AF Study Guide Questions Ch 10 Complete sentences with Text Evidence AF Theme discussion AF Allegory level PWPT UPCOMING:  AF test Tuesday March 7th March 9th and 10th AF open book timed writing in class

Monday 13 Ck Grammar 49-58 Basic Sentence Structure Ck AF vocabulary/Chapter 1/2 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS Ck AF Study Guide Questions Chp 3 Read and annotate/Summary/SGQ's Tuesday 14 AF Chapter 4Read and annotate/ Complete Chap 4 SGQ's AF Chapter 4 Summary Wednesday 15 Ck Chapter 4 Study Guide Questions/Summary Watch AF Movie through Chapter 4 Thursday 16 AF quiz Chapters 1-4 30 questions includes vocabulary Active Listening/Annotate AF chapter 5 complete AF Chapter 5 summary Friday 17 Journal Prompt #2 - full page response Writer's notebook J36 " Why do Revolutions occur?" Check AF chapter 5 summary AF Chapter 5 SGQ's Journal Prompt #2

Monday: Letter to the Editor Final Draft Handout.  Discuss Opposing Viewpoints Animal Farm Book Check Animal Farm -- active Listening /Annotation pages 3-11 Analysis of Old Majors Speech for Persuasion - Due Tuesday Typed Rough Draft for Letter to the Editor Due Tuesday Tuesday: Check and Discuss Old Major Analysis Peer Edit of Letter to the Editor:  Final Draft Due Feb 3rd PEER EDIT Read through the letter one time BEFORE you start the edit 1.     Write out the topic: 2.     Write out the claim in their letter: 3.     Write out the first sentence in the letter: 4.     Does the first sentence grab your attention? (remember, the first sentence DOES NOT have to be the Claim)If yes, how/if not--how could they improve the sentence? 5.     Have they utilized: Logos, Pathos, Ethos? a.      Identify the type/s of support they used for Logos: stats, facts, quotes, ex...

Monday Jan 23rd _ PRINT AD ANALYSIS DUE Watch MLK JR. Deliver "I have a Dream" speech. Add to annotations- identify:  Theme, anaphora, repetition, loaded language, claim, opposing viewpoint, imagery, analogy Persuasive Terms Quiz Thursday:  study 24,25,26 in Notes side of Writers notebook Tuesday Jan 24 4 hr STAAR practice in the AM -- see 5,6,7,8 for abbreviated time 7th - Ck 159-160 of MLK jr speech analysis Wed Jan 25 4 hr STAAR practice in the AM -- see 4,3,2,1 for abbreviated time Parallelism Worksheet  Thursday Jan 26 Persuasive Terms Quiz Essay Map example -- Reality TV REad " The WEak shall Inherit the Gym in Lit textbook pg 1008 and complete Essay Map for the piece.  Identify Claim, Main ideas, Support Friday Jan 27 Ck Essay Map Parallelism Practice Pass out Letter to the Editor Rubric Pick Topic -- Must be debatable Look at Gale on Library Website -- Opposing viewpoint links Rough Draft of Letter Due Tuesday for P...

Monday - Holiday Tuesday Jan 17  Complete Idiom assignment - Final due on Thursday Begin Print Ad Analysis --Make sure and bring in a full page magazine AD MEMBEAN WINDOW #3 due on the 18th Wednesday 18th -- High School Visits through 4th period 7th Period --Work on Idioms and Ad analysis 8th Period-- ELA LAB HMWK LATIN ROOTS SET 3 Test on Thursday the 19th.  Make sure and review the roots from Set 1 and Set 2 as well as the Roots and Words from Set three.  Same format as Sets 1 and 2 Thursday 19th Idiom Poster due - quiz grade Latin Roots Set 3 Exam--  Friday 20th Discuss Rhetorical Devices - Notes 24 Pass out " I have a dream" speech Discuss Tone and Mood and context of speech Annotate IHAD" for Monday:  Theme, claiM, Repetition, Allusion, Analogy, Anaphora, alliteration, Repetition, Rhetorial Questions, opposing viewpoint, Loaded Language, connotation word list Work on Print Ad analysis PRINT AD DUE MONDAY/ ANNOTATION DUE MONDAY ...

BEGIN PERSUASION UNIT MEMBEAN Window #3 Jan 4 - Jan 18th 90 minutes at 70 % accuracy -- please change Membean class codes if you are in a different period this semester 1: M6LQEKK 2: M6LQCD8 3: M6LQC2D 4: M6LQED4 7: M6LQEXD January 4th - Wednesday Reorder Writer's Notebook.  Spring Semester Sections Add:  LR set 3, Persuasion Notes, Logical Fallacy Notes Notes side Journal:  Argument with your Parents:  analyze for Claim, Support, Opposing Viewpoint, Counterargument Notetaking:  Elements of an Argument-- fill in Claim /Support/counterargument Jan 5th Thursday Notetaking:  Types of Support- fill in and discuss ARI - Ethos, Pathos, Logos Lit Book: 983  French Fries - Read, discuss, analyze Persuasive Techniques:  Powerpoint, Fill in the blank notes in Writer's notebook Jan 6th Friday: Persuasive Techniques:  Powerpoint, Fill in the blank notes in Writer's notebook - continued Read ZOOS 990-993 Zoos 994-996 Complete...