| WEEK 1 |
Date
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Presentation & Handouts
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What We Did
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Reminders
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Monday
8.18
and
Tuesday
8.19
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- Syllabus Overview
- Summer Reading Information
- "Voices from the Past"
- Code of Conduct Review
- Classroom Tour
- "Who is Mr. Hampton?"
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- All class materials (composition notebook, duotang, etc.) are due by next week. If you have them earlier, please take notes in your composition notebook).
- Make sure to finish your Summer reading assignment; it is due during the third week of school. You will post the assignment online (instructions will come next class session).
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Wednesday
8.20
and
Thursday
8.21
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- Note Taking
- Notes: Web Resources
- Solo: Register for Schoology
- Notes: The Hampton System (Part I)
- Free-Write: Reading Memories
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- All class materials (composition notebook, duotang, etc.) are due by next week. If you have them earlier, please take notes in your composition notebook).
- Make sure to finish your Summer reading assignment; it is due during the third week of school. You will post the assignment online (instructions will come next class session).
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Friday
8.22
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- Review Rubrics
- Notes: Introduction to Cooperative Learning
- Notes: Structures, Partner Sharing Methods
- Solo: Moral Dilemmas
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- All class materials (composition notebook, duotang, etc.) are due by next week. If you have them earlier, please take notes in your composition notebook).
- Make sure to finish your Summer reading assignment; it is due during the third week of school. You will post the assignment online (instructions will come next class session).
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| WEEK 2 |
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Monday
8.25
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- Textbook Pickup (2nd, 6th)
- Review Rubrics
- Notes: Introduction to Cooperative Learning
- Notes: Structures, Partner Sharing Methods
- Solo: Moral Dilemmas
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- All class materials (composition notebook, duotang, etc.) are due by next week. If you have them earlier, please take notes in your composition notebook).
- Make sure to finish your Summer reading assignment; it is due during the third week of school. You will post the assignment online (instructions will come next class session).
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Tuesday
8.26
and
Wednesday
8.27
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- Textbook Pickup (3rd, 5th, 7th)
- Begin Point System / SWYW Challenge
- Review Rubrics (6th only)
- Organize Materials (Comp. Notebook / Duotang)
- Notes: The Hampton System (Part II)
- Notes: Purpose of Materials
- Desk Olympics
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- Make sure to finish your Summer reading assignment; it is due during the third week of school. You will post the assignment online (instructions will come next class session).
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Thursday
8.28
and
Friday
8.29
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- NEW Teams (see Hampton if absent)
- Team Builder: Team Introductions
- Solo: Organize Duotang
- Notes: Information on Summer Reading Exam
- Notes: Reading Strategies for AICE
- Watch: "Setting a Purpose"
- Solo / Team: Text Marking Activity with "The Miracle Fruit"
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- Make sure to finish your Summer reading assignment; it is due during the third week of school. You will post the assignment online (instructions will come next class session).
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| WEEK 3 |
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Tuesday
9.2
and
Wednesday
9.3
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- Digital Citizenship Class on Moodle (see Hampton or Mr. Pfriender for more information)
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Thursday
9.4
and
Friday
9.5
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- Notes: Study Guides
- NEW Vocabulary Study Guide
- Summer Reading Exam (see Hampton to make up)
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| WEEK 4 |
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Monday
9.8
and
Tuesday
9.9
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- Team Builder: Presidents & Plants
- Read: The Importance of Vocabulary (from The Art of Manliness)
- Activator: V for Vendetta
- Notes: History of the English Language
- Notes: Commonly used prefixes, suffixes
- Teams: Word Formation+ (do solo if absent)
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Wednesday
9.10
and
Thursday
9.11
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- Word Part of the Day Introduction
- Teams: Mix, Music, Match
- Notes: Context Clues
- Teams: Practice Context Clue sentences
- Read: The Gift of the Magi + Organizer in notebook
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Friday
9.12
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- PICTURE DAY
- Teams: Mix, Music, Match (3rd, 5th, 7th only)
- Read: The Gift of the Magi + Organizer in notebook (3rd, 5th, 7th only)
- Team Builder: Uncommon Commonalities+ Team Names
- GT #1: That vs. Which
- Notes: Graphic Organizers in Vocabulary
- Teams: Graphic Organizers Activity in Notebook
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| WEEK 5 |
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Monday
9.15
and
Tuesday
9.16
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- Team Builder: Uncommon Commonalities+ Team Names
- GT #1: That vs. Which
- Notes: Graphic Organizers in Vocabulary
- Teams: Graphic Organizers Activity in Notebook
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Wednesday
9.17
and
Thursday
9.18
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- Quiz #1 (Word Part, Context Clue Practice)
- Solo: Vocabulary Notebook
- Team Builder: Gambits
- Teams: Vocabulary Charades
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| WEEK 6 |
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Monday
9.22
and
Tuesday
9.23
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- Guidance Visit (Thompson)
- Library Trip w/ Mr. Pfriender
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Wednesday
9.24
and
Thursday
9.25
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- Team Builder: Question Cubes
- GT #2: Who vs. Whom
- Silent Reading Time (SRT)
- Teams: Word Part Jeopardy
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- Vocabulary Exam is next class; review over study guide, grammar time lessons, and word parts of the day.
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Friday
9.26
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| WEEK 7 |
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Monday
9.29
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Tuesday
9.30
and
Wednesday
10.1
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- Return / Record New Grades
- Notes: GP Exam
- NEW Fictional Criticisms Study Guide
- Read / Respond: Literary Criticism / R.R. Crit.
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- Summer Reading Revision Deadline: 10.17
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Thursday
10.2
and
Friday
10.3
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- GT #3: I vs. Me
- Notes: R.R. Criticism
- Read / Respond: How to Fight Monsters
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| WEEK 8 |
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Monday
10.6
and
Tuesday
10.7
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- Team Builder: Round Robin
- Activator: Dead Poets Society
- Read: Formalist Criticism
- Notes: Formalism, Denotation, Connotation
- Practice: Magazine Advertisements
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Wednesday
10.8
and
Thursday
10.9
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- Quiz #2
- Silent Reading Time (SRT)
- Notes: Tone and Mood
- Teams: Practice Passages
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Friday
10.10
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| WEEK 9 |
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Monday
10.13
and
Tuesday
10.14
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- Hampton Off Campus
- See Hampton directly for assignment
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Wednesday
10.15
and
Thursday
10.16
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- Return New Grades
- GT #4: Effect vs. Affect
- Notes: Figurative Language
- Read / Discuss: Shooting an Elephant
- Solo: Practice Composition
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Friday
10.17
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- Notes: Writing a Composition
- Read: Shopping for Stories + Practice Composition
- Silent Reading Time (SRT)
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| WEEK 10 |
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Monday
10.20
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- Notes: Writing a Composition
- Read: Shopping for Stories + Practice Composition
- Silent Reading Time (SRT)
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Tuesday
10.21
and
Wednesday
10.22
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- GT #5: Colon vs. Semi-Colon
- Read/Discuss: A Dining Experience
- Solo: Formalist Essay
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Thursday
10.23
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- Quiz #1
- Team Builder: Dining Experience Skits
- Silent Reading Time (SRT)
- Notes: Part B Writing
- Solo: Part B Practice
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