Monday   

 5/3

Read ch. 1 of Whirligig

 Finish your writing from today if you weren't

able to do so in class

Tuesday

5/4

Read ch. 2 of Whirligig 

Character worksheet 

Wednesday

5/5

Analyze ch. 1 & 2 indirect characterization

Write using indirect characterization

None

Thursday

5/6

Analyze ch. 1 & 2 allusions

Write using allusions

None

Friday

5/7

Revise & edit writing from Wed. & Thurs.

Finish your writing.  Due Monday. 

Monday   

 3/4

Thesis practice & creation 

 Write your thesis statement for the upcoming 

essay

Tuesday

3/5

Write introduction & first two body paragraphs 

Finish your intro & first two body paragraphs

Wednesday

3/6

Revision

Type up your revisions

Thursday

3/7

Write the last body paragraph & conclusion

Finish typing the rough draft of your essay

Friday

3/8

Revision

We will have one more day of revision on Monday. 

Final Draft of essay due Tuesday.

Monday   

 2/25

Read ch. 31 & 32   

 None

Tuesday

2/26

Read ch. 33 & 34

Read ch. 35

Wednesday

2/27

Read ch. 36-39

Read ch. 40

Thursday

2/28

Read ch. 41, 42, and 43

Finish ch. 43 if necessary

Friday

3/1

Read ch. 44 (the last chapter!)

Close reading of ch. 44/discuss

Monday   

 2/18

No School   

Tuesday

2/19

Gratitude Scavenger Hunt

Read ch. 26

Wednesday

2/20

Read ch. 27

Analyze "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls"

Read ch. 28

Thursday

2/21

Read ch. 29 & 30

Finish ch. 30 if necessary

Friday

2/22

Do the 29 & 30 worksheet; Read ch. 31

Monday   

 2/11

Varies by class.

All classes will be finished with chapter 21 by the end of the day   

Finish reading ch. 21 if necessary

Tuesday

2/12

Analyze ch. 21

Read ch. 22

Ch. 22 worksheet

Wednesday

2/13

Read ch. 23 together

None

Thursday

2/14

Read ch. 24 & 25

Respond to thematic elements of chapters in writing

Finish your paragraph from class if necessary.

Remember, it will be graded on paragraph form,

relevant text, context, speaker tag, citation, and 

vocabulary ("shows")

Friday

2/15

Socratic Seminar Speed Dating

Monday   

 1/28

Review ch. 6 & 7 (Focus on contrasts, STEAL, and similarities between characters) 

Start ch. 8   

 Finish reading ch. 8

Quiz Thursday on ch. 1-12

Tuesday

1/29

Read ch. 9, 10, & 11 (Focus on transitions between settings, both place & time)

 Finish ch. 10 & 11 if necessary

Quiz Thurs on ch. 1-12

Wednesday

 1/30

Read ch. 12 & review for tomorrow's quiz

Quiz on ch. 1-12 of Walk Two Moons tomorrow

Thursday

 1/31

Quiz

Read ch. 13 & 14

None

Friday

 2/1

Finish reading ch. 13 & 14

Point of view notes & practice

Monday   

 1/7

Group analysis of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"   

Tuesday

1/8

Finish group analysis and begin independent analysis

 None

Wednesday

 1/9

Finish independent analysis of poem

None

Thursday

 1/10

Write figurative language/ Brainstorm ideas for an original poem 

Narrow your ideas down to two for your original poem

Friday

 1/11

Write your rough drafts

Monday   

 1/1

Happy New Year!

No School         

Tuesday

1/2

No School

Wednesday

 1/3

Welcome Back!

Review figurative language & sound devices

from last year

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" worksheet

Thursday

 1/4

Identifying figurative language & sound devices

in poems - groups

 Google form on figurative language and sound devices 

Friday

 1/5

Practice with figurative language & sound devices - indepdent 

Monday   

 12/3

Act II, scenes i, ii, and iii

None

Tuesday

12/4

Act II, first half of scene iv

None

Wednesday

 12/5

Act II, second half of scene iv & all of scene v

Theme worksheet

Thursday

 12/6

Theme practice

 None

Friday

 12/7

Watch different versions of the play's final scene 

Monday   

 12/3

Act I, scenes 3 & 4

Be ready to read on your assigned day.  Tomorrow is the first half of scene 5

Tuesday

12/4

Act I, scene 5 (first half only)

Be ready to read on your assigned day.

 Tomorrow is the 2nd half of scene 5. Quiz Thurs. On Vocab for Act I.

Wednesday

 12/5

Act I, scene 5 (2nd half)

 Quiz tomorrow on Vocab from Act I

Thursday

 12/6

Quiz; review research paragraph; Tic-tac-toe board paragraphs

 Be ready to read on Monday if you’re part of Act II

Friday

 12/7

Finish tic-tac-toe board paragraphs

Monday   

 12/3

-Assign roles

-Practice roles - read & begin Part 1

of the Preparation worksheet

Finish part 1 of the Preparation worksheet

Tuesday

12/4

-Practice role & complete part 2 of the Preparation

worksheet

 Finish part 2 of the Preparation worksheet

Wednesday

 12/5

-Gallery walk for Victorian England, Charles Dickens,

and A Christmas Carol

-Paragraph relating info from gallery walk to your role in

A Christmas Carol

 Finish paragraph if necessary.  Be ready to read your role

on your assigned day.

Thursday

 12/6

-Vocabulary for Act I

-Read Act I, scene i

 Be ready to read your role on your assigned day.  Tomorrow will

be Act I, scene ii

Friday

 12/7

-Read Act I, scene ii

be Act I, scene iii & iv

Monday   

 11/19

Notes on Dramatic Elements 

Answer the questions on the review powerpoint

(On google classroom)

Tuesday

11/20

Read Sorry, Wrong Number

& review dramatic elements

 None

Wednesday

 11/21

Listen to & watch Sorry, Wrong

Number   

 Quiz Friday on elements of drama

Thursday

 11/22

Review Elements of Drama

 Quiz tomorrow on elements of drama

Friday

 11/23

Quiz

Gallery Walk & paragraph

Monday   

 11/19

Finish Infographic

Gallery Walk

None:)

Tuesday

11/20

Gallery Walk

Writing response

Finish your paragraph(s) if necessary

Wednesday

 11/21

Thanksgiving Play   

 Enjoy your long weekend & your Thanksgiving.  

Thursday

 11/22

No School

Friday

 11/23

No School

Monday   

 11/12

Begin research on Victorian England.  You will have 

3 days to research 3 sources.

Finish researching your 1st source.  All research is due at the beginning

of the period on Thursday.

Tuesday

11/13

Continue your research.

Finish researching your 2nd source tonight.  All research is due at the

beginning of the period on Thursday.

Wednesday

 11/14

Continue your research.   

Finish researching your last source tonight.  Be prepared to explain 

it all to your group tomorrow.

Thursday

 11/15

Plan & begin creating an infographic to display all information

you and your group uncovered.

 Bring in any materials (glue, markers, pictures you print out, etc) to add 

to your infographic tomorrow.

Friday

 11/16

Finish your infographic

Monday   

 11/5

Practice with nonfiction

Quiz Wed. on nonfiction: audience, author's purpose,

 & text structure

Tuesday

11/6

Practice with nonfiction

Quiz tomorrow on nonfiction: audience, author's purpose,

 & text structure

Wednesday

 11/7

Quiz on nonfiction: audience, author's purpose,

 & text structure

None

Thursday

 11/8

No School

Friday

 11/9

No School

Monday   

 10/29

Foreshadowing in Freak the Mighty

Finish foreshadowing work if necessary

Tuesday

 10/30

Foreshadowing extension activities

Find an example of foreshadowing in a tv show or movie.  Write it and the title of the show on a post-it note

Wednesday

 10/31

Halloween creative writing

None

Thursday

 11/1

Share yesterday's stories

Nonfiction text notes

Halloween nonfiction text

Quiz Wed. on author's purpose, structure of nonfiction texts, and main idea

Friday

 11/2

Nonfiction texts practice 

Monday   

 10/22

Free Max!

Test on Freak the Mighty skills Thursday.  Skills include: 

predictions and inferences, characterization, argumentative terms, signposts 

Tuesday

 10/23

Review for Test 

Test on Freak the Mighty skills Thursday.  Skills include: 

predictions and inferences, characterization, argumentative terms, signposts 

Wednesday

 10/24

Review for Test

Test on Freak the Mighty skills tomorrow.  Skills include: 

predictions and inferences, characterization, argumentative terms, signposts 

Thursday

 10/25

Test

None

Friday

 10/26

Rodman Philbrick/ Freak the

Mighty Videos

Monday   

 10/15

Read ch. 21

Read ch. 22 & reevaluate your prediction from class on the

worksheet

Tuesday

 10/16

Review ch. 22

Finish the book!   

None

Wednesday

 10/17

Final thoughts

Thursday

 10/18

Foreshadowing/ predictions    

Finish the predictions vs. inferences sheet

Test on Freak the MIghty skills next Thursday

Friday

 10/19

Clips of Freak the MIghty

Skills Review in groups

Monday   

 10/8

Review argumentative terms

Read ch. 15 - ?

Finish reading chapter 17

Tuesday

 10/9

Analyze STEAL for Kenny Kane in ch. 16 & 17 to determine innocence

or guilt   

If you did not create a strong claim

about Kenny today during class, make sure you

write one tonight.

Wednesday

 10/10

Get back friendly emails

Use claim to write a paragraph about Kenny

Thursday

 10/11

Use students' paragraphs to analyze argumentative writing

Read ch. 19 and part of 20 (stop at page 129)

Friday

 10/12

Finish ch. 20

Monday   

 10/1

Periods 3 & 4: I won't see you becuase of MAP testing

Periods 1, 7, & 9: Read chapter 10 & watch clip of movie

Periods 3 & 4: Make sure you've read chapters 10 - 12 by Wednesday.

Periods 1, 7, & 9: Do the compare/contrast ch. 10 activity

Tuesday

 10/2

Periods 3 & 4: I won't see you because of MAP testing

Periods 1, 7, & 9: Read ch. 11 & 12

Periods 3 & 4: Make sure you've read chapters 10-12 by tomorrow.

Periods 1, 7, & 9: Finish reading chapter 12 if necessary

Wednesday

 10/3

Half Day

All periods: Review chapter 10-12

Thursday

 10/4

Read ch. 14

Practice with STEAL, predictions, inferences, and signposts

Friday

 10/5

Read ch. 15

Practice with argumentative terms

Monday   

 9/24

Chapters 3 & 4 of Freak the Mighty

Finish reading ch. 4 if necessary

Quiz tomorrow on signposts

Tuesday

 9/25

Quiz

Review ch. 1-4

Read ch. 5   

Finish reading ch. 5 if necessary

Wednesday

 9/26

Review ch. 5

Read ch. 6 & 7

Thursday

 9/27

STEAL review

Inferences vs. Predictions

Friday

 9/28

Monday   

 9/17

Konstruct-A-Kid Activity

Mini Signpost Reviews

None 

Tuesday

 9/18

Konstruct-A-Kid Activity

Mini Signpost Reviews

None

Wednesday

 9/19

No School

Thursday

 9/20

Friday

 9/21

Monday   

 9/10

Shelfie Assignment Given    

Create class rules

Take your shelfie pic! 

Put it onto google classroom.  Codes for google classroom are on the HW portal. 

Tuesday

 9/11

Shelfie Share   

Give writing assignment (Shelfie E-mail) related to Shelfie

 Work on your shelfie email.  Due by Sunday night.  

Wednesday

 9/12 

Work on Shelfie E-mail

Thursday

 9/13

Friday

 9/14

Monday   

 9/3

Tuesday

 9/4

Wednesday

 9/5

Thursday

 9/6

Ice Breakers   

- Create a butterfly (directions given in class &  on HW portal) 

Friday

 9/7