Tuesday, September 19th – Multi-Cultural Lit

Read Aloud – I Am a Story by Dan Yaccarino – & Indie Read

🖋️ Quickwrite #11: First Impressions? (of your book club verse novel so far)

NEW: Schedule and targets for reading of verse novels

  • 🎯1: Thur. 9/21 🎯2: Wed. 9/27 🎯3: Wed. 10/4
  • The Poet X 🎯1: 92 🎯2: 220 🎯3: 357
  • Punching the Air 🎯1: 93 🎯2: 231 🎯3: 386
  • Clap When You Land 🎯1: 116 🎯2: 261 🎯3: 417
  • Solo 🎯1: 145 🎯2: 303 🎯3: 457

PAST DUE: Writing #2 – Thinking beyond Stamped was due as an MSWord doc in Dropbox no later than end of YESTERDAY Monday 9/18

Monday, September 18th – English 9/10

📖 Book Talk x 2 & Indie Read

TO-DO: Vote on our next class read – Jackpot by Nic Stone or Bad Girls with Perfect Faces by Lynn Weingarten (vote in GClassroom stream TODAY!)

WRITE TIME ⏰

DEADLINE: Writing #1 – Thinking beyond Dear Martin due in GClassroom no later than end of day Monday 9/18 – TODAY!

Friday, September 15th – English 9/10

🎬Book Trailers & Indie Read

TO-DO: Assignment in GClassroom – take pics of your 2 best/fave/most interesting notebook entries and submit them as evidence of your learning for this progress period. These will be considered along with your general engagement in class.

WRITE TIME ⏰

DEADLINE: Writing #1 – Thinking beyond Dear Martin due in GClassroom no later than end of day Monday 9/18

Friday, September 15th – Rhetoric & Comp

🎬Book Trailers & Indie Read

🖋️ Quickwrite #12: Random Picture Piece (ask Mrs. C for a picture)

STUDY/READ: “How to Email Your Professor Without Being Annoying AF” by Laura Portwood-Stacer

ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: Read through the “Scholarly Definitions of Rhetoric” choosing your 3 favorites. Create a notebook page including these 3 faves ❤ AND reasons WHY you chose them (be thoughtful). Do this by classtime on Tuesday 9/19.

Thursday, September 14th – English 9/10

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

TO-DO: Assignment in GClassroom – take pics of your 2 best/fave/most interesting notebook entries and submit them as evidence of your learning for this progress period. These will be considered along with your general engagement in class.

STUDY/WRITE: Details on Writing #1 assign + time to get started. (We’ll be working on them again tomorrow. Bring charged Chromebooks!!).

DEADLINE: Writing #1 – Thinking beyond Dear Martin due in GClassroom no later than end of day Monday 9/18

Thursday, September 14th – Multi-Cultural Lit

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

STUDY/WRITE: Details on Writing #2 assign + time to get started. (We’ll be working on them again tomorrow. Bring charged Chromebooks!!).

TO-DO: Fill out the GForm on today’s Classroom stream to select the book you want to read for the verse novel book club. (Do this today 9/14 or tomorrow 9/15).

DEADLINE: Writing #2 – Thinking beyond Stamped due as an MSWord doc in Dropbox no later than end of day Monday 9/18