Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

April 15th

2nd Block - Re-write Blog  and Forum

Postings in Class.

3rd Block - Play

Homework:  Read Malcolm X and Chapter 11                        

April 16th

Read and respond to Malcolm X. 

Post responses on the Ning.

Read and respond to TKAM Chapter 4 excerpt.

Homework: Finish any incomplete work.  Read Chapter 12.

April 17th

Make sure you have finished Townsend Press by the end of class.

Watch Sir Ken Robinson Video on Education - take notes for a grade.

Close reading and questions of Chapter 11 in TKAM.

Homework: Read Chapter 13  and Finish Chapter 11 Questions and essay.                                 

April 20

2nd block - No Townsend Press this week due to testing.

Post Chapter 11 blog essay.

Watch two You Tube Videos AVision of Students Today and Mr.Winkle.  Take notes on both videos. 

Read and annotate E D Hirsch article, "Many Americans Can Read but Can't Comprehend."

Homework: Read Chapter 14 in TKAM.

April 21st

Discuss how to write a synthesis essay.   Pull from Malcolm X, Scout's perspective on education,

Sir Ken Robinson's video, E D Hirsch, A Vision of Student's Today and Mr. Winkle.  Write about the relevance of education in today's world.  See the assignment on the Ning.

Homework: Read Chapters 15 & 16                           

April 22nd

Continue working on Synthesis Essay.

Homework:

Read Chapter 17

April 23rd

Finish Townsend Press.

Work on synthesis essay.

Read Comprehension Practice

Homework: Chapter 18 & 19

ALGEBRA TESTING - 2nd Block meet in S. Library - Testing will throw off the assignment schedule, but not the reading schedule.  Continue to read.

April 24th

Work on Synthesis essay.

Homework: Read Chapter 20

ALGEBRA TESTING - 2nd block meet in S. Library - Testing will throw off the assignment schedule, but not the reading schedule.  Continue to read.

April 27th

Start new Townsend Press Chapter.  Work on synthesis essay - grammar practice. Homework: Read Chapter 21 & 22

April 28th

Transition Word practice.

Post final essay.  Bonus work Blog Post - see email.

Homework: Read Chapters 23 and 24

April 29th

Grammar Practice.

2nd Block - Finish essay and post to blog.

3rd block - Go over TKAM study guide and reading comprehension practice

Homework: Chapter 25

April 30th

2nd Block - Reading comprehension practice.

Read TKAM in class.

3rd Block -

Homework: Read Chapters 26 and 27.

Read "Harlem" by Langston Hughes.  Annotate the poem and relate it to TKAM.

Read Blog posts by the Illinois students.

May 1st Friday

Grammar practice

2nd block -

Homework: Finish the Book Chapters 27-31 (they are short)

Read "Harlem" by Langston Hughes.  Annotate the poem and relate it to TKAM.

Read Blog posts by the Illinois students.

3rd Block - Writing Prompt on Harlem.

May 4th Monday

Grammar Practice

2nd block Discuss TKAM - wrap up for study guide - writing prompt on Harlem

3rd block - Discuss TKAM - wrap up for study guide.

Create a wordle.

May 5th

Reading Comprehension Practice - Grammar practice

TKAM study guide wrap up -test Thursday.

Finish Wordle.

CHUNK TEST TOMORROW

May 6th

CHUNK TEST 

STUDY FOR TKAM TEST

May 7th 

TKAM Test

Return books to library - Take AR TKAM test.

May 8th

Discuss Martin Luther King Jr.  Read and listen to "I Have a Dream." 

Annotate the speech.

May 11th

Finish annotating "I Have a Dream."  Complete the Annotation Assignment.

May 12th

Writing Prompt for "I Have a Dream." 

May 13th 

Read the short story "Love is a Fallacy" and discuss fallacies. 

May 14th

Watch Ads with fallacies

Find fallacies in junk mail.  Complete group assignment.

May 15th 

ACT Practice

MAY 18th 

ACT Practice