Today in Class...2/27

Happy Birthday Kat!
Periods 2/6:
1. Cliche and Idiom (quick)
2. More to your Google experience
3. Work time
HW: Check Google Classroom for assignments!

Periods 3/7/9:
1. Welcome to your Chromebook experience!
2. Work time
HW: First Google Classroom assignment!
Be sure biography rough drafts are ready

Today in Class...2/26

Happy Birthday Colin S.!
Periods 3,7,9:
1. Mini biography
2. Sample biography of a student
HW: Finish rough drafts of biographies

Periods 2/6:
1. Literary Terms review project
2. Literary terms grade sheet

Today in Class...2/25

Periods 3,7,9:
1. Interviewing/collecting your information for mini bio
2. Intro to chromebooks?...
HW: Organize/outline mini biography information
LIt elements project shared by tonight

Periods 2/6:
1. Discuss Pecos Billl and The Dinner Party
2. Personification/Aunty Misery
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3. Chromebooks
4. Lit elements review project
*Lit elements test next week

Today in Class...2/23

Happy Birthday Rhiannon!
Periods 3,7,9:
1. Review for lit elements test... Study your google slides tonight!
(Revised due date: Share by Wednesday night.)
2. What is biography/autobiography? Biography activity
HW: Lit elements test tomorrow
Finish interview questions

Periods 2/6:
1. Hyperbole and Pecos Bill (pick up from last Thursday...) Pecos Bill
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2. Argumentative check-in and/or The Dinner Party
HW: Use Argumentative check list to guide you and finish Argu essay first draft. Share with me by tomorrow evening
*Finish extended metaphor poem Extended metaphor

Today in Class..2/12

Happy Birthday Margaret! (belated)

Periods 2/6:

1. Go over extended metaphor work

2. Hyberbole

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3. Argumentative- incorporating quotes into writing

Argu checklist

HW: Continue to work on Argumentative piece

Periods 3,7,9:

1. Literary Collection project work time

Today in Class...2/11

Periods 2/6: *Please have SAR questions ready to hand in
1. Honors 9 Essay
*You may organize essay first in graphic organizer
*No time to draft-- on demand writing

*The Outsiders by SE Hinton
*YA realistic fiction novel
*Edgar Allen Poe short stories
*Peak by Roland Smith
*The Pearl by John Steinbeck

Periods 3,7,9:
1. Finish/trade grade poetry check-in
2. Your final slide (Your original piece) Final slide
Drafting...
HW: Lit terms project due Monday after break-- Stay after or lunch? 

Today in Class...2/10

Happy Birthday Yamila!
Happy Birthday Dan and Ryan S.!
Periods 2/6:
1. Argumentative research continued... Use your sample introductions are your guide
(I'll be sharing comments with you while working..)
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2. The Bet/The Silence short answer--highlight for proof Short answer response
Create Final copy quality attached to highlighted (HW)
3. Extended Metaphor/Dialect Extended Metaphor
HW: The Bet/The Silence short answer final copy due tomorrow
(hard copy- handwritten)
*Honors entrance essay tomorrow in class

Periods 3,7,9:
1. Review project and due date, etc. Literary Terms Collection project
2. Final term(s)-- Cliche and Idiom
3. Poem practice
HW: Thursday and Friday are in-class project work days..
If you need more time beyond this, stay after or at lunch! Projects due Monday after break

Today in Class..2/6.

Periods 2/6:
1. The Bet/Silence SAR
2. Highlight, etc...
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3. Argumentative-- Transitions resource, Citing references

Periods 3,7,9:
1. Project grade sheet and example grading sheet
2. Project work time

Today in Class...2/5

Periods 2/6:
1. The Bet/The Silence comparison The Bet
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2. Argumentative continued...

Periods 3,7, 9:
1. Short answer responses back
2. Read Pecos Bill- hyperboles, similes and end of story task

Today in Class...2/4

Periods 2,6:
1. Finish The Bet
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2. Argumentative research

Periods 3,7,9:
1. Hyperbole and Pecos Bill

Today in Class...2/3

Periods 2/6:
1. New seats
-Small short story/poem unit begins
2. "The Bet"- The Bet activity
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3. Argumentative process..continued

Period 3,7,9;
1. New seats
2. Begin lit terms project/review tool Literary Terms- a collection