Category: DC English 8

Monday, March 4th – All Classes

Indie Read

🖋️Quickwrite #14: Book Club Read – Who holds the race-based and/por gender-based power in your book? How is race or gender an issue? Explain. [Post-Colonial & Feminist Lens Application]

STUDY: Discussion Day – Crit. Lit. Group Book Club 🎯3 (share your notebook page thoughts)

DEADLINE: CCR Revisions due no later than end of day Monday 3/11 (rename as LastnameCCRRV.docx when your revisions are complete).

THIS WEEK: Book Club – Crit. Lit. Paper Work (topics, plan, design, source search/read)

Friday, March 1st – All Classes

Indie Read

STUDY: A look / some thoughts about feedback (see handout).

+ Time for reading teacher feedback on your cited commentary & response paper.

TO-DO: MLA Survey for Understanding (find this TODAY on GClassroom)

DEADLINE: 🎯 #3 & notebook page due Monday 3/4 (end of book)

UPCOMING: Revisions for CCR due no later than Monday 3/11 (details on submission next week)

Friday, February 23rd – All Classes

Indie Read

🖋️Quickwrite #11: Book Club Read – Who holds the $/economic power in your book? How is class structure an issue? Are there issues of freedom related to money? Explain. [Marxist Lens Application]

STUDY/SHARE: Explore-A-Shelf activity to add books to your TBR

DEADLINE: 🎯 #2 & notebook page due Monday 2/26 (schedules available on the slides on GClassroom)

Wednesday, February 21st – DC English 8 & English 8

Indie Read

STUDY/NOTES: Building Argument – Research Direction & Claim Evidence Cycle (slides on GClassroom if you missed or need a review)

🖋️Quickwrite #9:  Claim & Evidence Practice – Make some kind of claim about your book club read (so far). Back it up with evidence. Explain and connect.

DEADLINE: 🎯 #2 & notebook page due Monday 2/26 (schedules available on the slides on GClassroom)

Tuesday, February 20th – All Classes

Indie Read

🖋️Quickwrite #8:  Power Quotes – Choose one of the two following quotes.  Then spend 4 minutes in your notebook developing your own thoughts.

  • “There is no good and evil.  There is only power and those too weak to seek it.” – Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
  • “Can’t seem to shake these vultures / off my trail / Power is made by power being taken / so I keep on running to protect my situation” – John Mayer “Vultures” from Continuum

STUDY: Discussion Day – Crit. Lit. Group Book Club 🎯1 (share your notebook page thoughts)

DEADLINE: 🎯 #2 & notebook page due Monday 2/26 (schedules available on the slides on GClassroom)