Miss Bass' Class

May 17-19, 2010 

Monday, May 17

Finish Portfolios and Peer Review Introduction Letters

Tuesday, May 18

2nd Hour Final 9:35-11:05

Due: Portfolios

Wednesday, May 19 

5th hour Final 8:00-9:30

Due: Portfolios

 May 10- 14, 2010

Monday, May 10

Work on Revising Cover Letters 

Create Title Pages and Table of Contents

Tuesday, May 11

Introduce Portfolio Assignment

Due: Career Exploration Projects

Wednesday, May 12

Work on Portfolio Assignment

Review writing

Thursday, May 13

Write Writer's Memo about your writing

Friday, May 14

Continue Writing Writer's Memo about your writing

May 3 - 7, 2010

Monday, May 3

Continue Writing up Research

Handout Checklist

Tuesday, May 4

Continue Writing up Research

Wednesday, May 5

Continue Writing up Research

Review writing

Thursday, May 6

Resume

Find a job description

Friday, May 7 

Cover Letter

April 26 - 30, 2010

Monday, April 26

ACT Reading Practice

Research (1 note sheet due)

Tuesday, April 27

ACT Reading Practice

Research (1 note sheet due)

Wednesday, April 28

ACT Test in the morning

Thursday, April 29

Write-up Research

Friday, April 30 

Write-up Research

Due: Interview #2 write-up/summary with notes attached.

 April 19-23, 2010

Monday, April 19

Review creating interview questions

Finish Writing Bio (Part II from career project)

Tuesday, April 20

ACT Prep

Research/Dialectic note refresher

Due: Bio

Wednesday, April 21

Career Day

Thursday, April 22

ACT Prep

Research

Due: 1 note sheet at the end of class

Friday, April 23

ACT Prep

Research

Due: Interview write up (notes stapled) and 1 note sheet at the end of class.

April 12-16, 2010

Monday, April 12

Work on Google Lit Trips

Show Rubric for project

Tuesday, April 13

Finish up Lit Trips 

Email to Miss Bass by the end of the day

Wednesday, April 14

Present Lit Trip

Introduce Career Exploration Project

Choose Career to Explore

Thursday, April 15

Present Lit Trip

Work on Bio for Career Project

Friday, April 16

Present Lit Trip

Write Interview Questions

April 5-9, 2010

Monday, April 5

Introduce Google Lit Trip Assignment (DUE ON TUESDAY APRIL 13)

Tutorials on Google Earth

Partner up with someone for your project.

Tuesday, April 6

Continue tutorials and working on Google Lit Trips

Wednesday, April 7

Work on Google Lit Trips

Thursday, April 8

Work on Google Lit Trips

Friday, April 9 

Work on Google Lit Trips

March 15-19, 2010

Monday, March 15

Read

Discuss -- Small groups

Blog

Tuesday, March 16

Read

ACT Intro and Practice with clickers

Wednesday, March 17

Read

Blog

Thursday, March 18

Read

ACT Practice with clickers

Friday, March 19 

ACT Practice with clickers

Blog/Read

March 8-12, 2010

 Monday, March 8

Go over ACT practice

Introduce Blogging Assignment

Post first blog at nicenet.org

Read

Tuesday, March 9

Read

Continue reviewing ACT Practice

Wednesday, March 10

Read

Submit blog (quote from the section you are reading)

Thursday, March 11

Read

Finish blog from yesterday

Continue ACT Practice (Antonymns)

Friday, March 12

Read

Go over ACT Practice

Week of February 22-26, 2010

Monday, February 22

Review for The Great Gatsby

Pleas bring an independent reading book

Tuesday, February 23

The Great Gatsby Test

Pleas bring an independent reading book

Wednesday, February 24

Independent Reading

Work on Revisions of 1st piece and submit revisions

Thursday, February 25

Independent Reading

Work on Revision of second piece

Friday, February 26 

 Independent Reading

Work on Revision of second piece

Week of February 15-19, 2010 

Monday, February 15

No School

Tuesday, February 16

Plot Story notes from Gatsby

Workshop -- Sentence Inventory

Wednesday, February 17

Writing Workshop on Verbs/Sentence Inventories

Thursday, February 18

Writing Workshop-- sentence fragments

Friday, February 19

Quick Vocab 7-9 Quiz

Review for The Great Gatsby

Test on Monday 

Week of February 7-12, 2010

Monday, February 8, 2010

Vocabulary Quiz on 1-6

Lit Circle Discussions #5

Large Group Discussions

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Quiz on Chapters 7-9

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Ski Day -- Work on Multigenre prompts

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Writer's Workshop

Due at the end of the hour: Multigenre assignment (5 pieces of writing)

Friday, February 12, 2010

No School 

Week of February 1-5, 2010 

Monday, February 1, 2010

Literature Circle Discussion Chapters 4-6 Gatsby

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Quiz on Chapters 4-6 Gatsby (Students who were not here need to make up the quiz on their own time -- before or after school or at lunch)

Vocabulary for rest of book

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Writer's Workshop

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Writer's Workshop on pieces due on February 11th

Discussion (#5) Chapters decided by individual groups -- role sheets are due

Friday, February 5, 2020

Writer's Workshop on pieces due on February 11th

Quiz on Vocabulary Chapters 4-6

For Monday please finish book 

 Week of January 25-29, 2010

Monday, January 25, 2010

Discuss Chapters 2 & 3 of The Great Gatsby

Read

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Quiz on Chapters 1-3 The Great Gatsby

Read

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Literature Circle Discussion ( you decide with your group what Chapters to discuss)

Read

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Introduce Writer's Workshop (Multigenre Prompts)

Write

Friday, January 29, 2010

Vocabulary Quiz

Write

By Monday you need to be through Chaper 6.  You will have a group discussion on Monday and a Quiz on Chapter 4-6 on Tuesday.

Week of January 19-22, 2010

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Quiz on notes from History of Literature 1914-1940

Review notes from Friday on History and Literature 1914-1940

Introduce Literature Groups/ Group warm-up

Wednesday, January 20 2010

Continue Literature Groups and introduction

Pass out books and begin reading The Great Gatsby

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Group Discussions

Bring Writer's Notebook

Friday, January 22, 2010 

Introduce Writer's Workshop

Bring Writer's Notebook

By Monday Read Ch. 1-3 The Great Gatsby

Week of January 11-15, 2010

Monday, January 11, 2010

NWEA testing

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Summarize TBAF

Review Vocabulary

Review  Literary Analysis Questions for "To Build a Fire" and complete p.623 1-7

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Continue Discussion about TBAF

Complete Discussion questions p. 622 5-7

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Review Vocabulary

Introduce Values/Symbols to TBAF

Give notes on time period of TBAF p. 468-71

Friday, January 15, 2010 

 "To Build a Fire" Quiz 

Take notes on note sheet for pages 706-713

Week of January 6-8, 2010

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Review Literary Elements

Introduce Vocabulary for "To Build a Fire"

Finish Vocabulary definitions as HOMEWORK

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Conflict Chart

Begin reading "To Build a Fire" through page 613

Friday, January 8, 2010

Continue and finish  "To Build a Fire"

Finish and turn in Conflict Chart

Reading Questions p. 623 Literary Analysis questions 1-4 finish as HOMEWORK