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 Weekly Agenda 

from past weeks

red = assignments DUE on that date

 Mon. 3/2     

Clark ACT reading practice test; How Artifacts Reveal Culture 

Masterson: overview of PAARC

4th AND 5th OBSERVATIONS due 3/2 (Clark); 

5th Observation/FN/S and Interview #1 DUE today (Masterson)                       

Tues. 3/3  

11th grade PAARC testing 1st-3rd hours                                

Wed. 3/4

11th grade PAARC testing 1st-3rd hours

AOW #10 Summary/Reflection DUE Today (Masterson) 

Interview #2 due

Interview write-up

Thurs. 3/5

11th grade PAARC testing 1st-3rd hours 

6th AND 7th Observation/FN/S DUE Today (Masterson - due dates may change)

observation/fieldnote write-up

Mon. 2/23

Snow Day

Tues. 2/24

View Neimeyer's Chart of Symbols

ACT Reading test overview;  (take notes from the ACT book pg 234-240)

Wed. 2/25

Writer's Notebook: brainstorm - what represents your group?

ACT reading test practice #1

Introduce "How Artifacts Represent Subculture"

Continue ACT reading test practice

Thurs. 2/26

Overview of PAARC test

View annotated bibliography; 

Write "How Artifacts Represent Subculture"   

Clark AoW #9 "Devil's Highway" due

Interview #1 due today (Clark); Summarize interview

 4th AND 5th OBSERVATIONS due 3/2 (Clark)

Masterson AOW#10 "Charlie Hebdo" assigned DUE 3/3

4th Observation/FN/S  DUE today (Masterson)

Mon. 2/16 

Review website and ethnography schedule; see new features on website (calendar & more future weeks below)

Masterson: Review Ethnography Plan and First Observation (collect ideas for field notes right and left sides) Plan revision due Wed. 2/18

Clark: Introduce Interview, write and hand in 10 questions 

Discuss "Deconstructing the Horse"

Tues. 2/17

Masterson: Discussion of "Deconstructing the Horse" as an ethnography

Introduction: Interview. Write and hand in 10 interview questions. 

Clark: Don't Judge a Book revision; Deconstructing the Horse

Wed. 2/18

ACT Prep - English passage 3

Masterson: Ethnography Plan revisions due

Thurs. 2/19 

Observation/Fieldnotes #2 and #3 due

Write Observation summary

ACT prep - English passage 4

Mon. 2/9       

Hoop Dreams - take "fieldnotes"

Tues. 2/10

Read and annotate "Deconstructing the Horse"

Answer questions for "Deconstructing the Horse"

Wed. 2/11

Discuss "Deconstructing the Horse"

ACT practice

Thurs. 2/12   

Observation/Fieldnotes #1 due

complete summary of observation in class & hand in

Mon. 2/2  Sentence practice;

Go over Proposals

Clark Devil's Highway - read 10 pages (finish chapter 2)

Write Plan

Tues. 2/3  ACT prep; Plan due to turnitin.com 

Wed. 2/4   ACT prep; review of field-note taking

Plan and proposal due to turnitin.com (Masterson)

Thurs. 2/5  Hoop Dreams - take fieldnotes 

 Mon. 1/26  

Clark: Devil's Highway to page 20

Parking Lot Movie Questions and Categorize notes

Proposal  due Wednesday to turnitin.com      

"House for the Homeless"  (Clark: read & annotate by 1/28 - Wed.)     

Tues. 1/27  

 ACT practice - English      

Wed. 1/28 

 "House for the Homeless"   - discuss & questions  

Discuss Devil's Highway - quiz 1/29 or 2/2    

Masterson: read Devil's Highway p 10-20 

Proposal due to turnitin.com - midnight 

Thurs. 1/29  

Introduce "Plan" - begin to write, plan due 2/3  

First Observation fieldnotes due 2/12

Devil's Highway to page 41 due

Masterson: Devil's HIghway to page 31

HOMEWORK: Masterson - for Monday DH to p 41

 Mon. 1/19  

Workshop "Don't Judge a Book"

Go over Ethnography packet

Brainstorm possible groups

Devil's Highway - read to page 10 by Thursday

Tues. 1/20     

Ethnography vocabulary

Parking Lot Movie & fieldnotes

Devil's Highway - read to page 10 by Thursday

Wed. 1/21   

Parking Lot Movie  & fieldnotes

Devil's Highway - read to page 10 by Thursday

Thurs. 1/22     

Parking Lot Movie & fieldnotes

Introduce/Assign Proposal

Apply Vocabulary to Parking lot Movie

Don't Judge a Book draft 2 due to turnitin.com

Devil's Highway - read to page 10 by Thursday - Discuss briefly in class

 Mon. 1/12 

Gatsby - Clark

ACT punctuation quiz - Masterson

Get Nacirema article

Tues. 1/13

Read and annotate Nacirema (due Wed.)

Nacirema questions

Wed. 1/14

Discuss Nacirema

Thurs. 1/15

Write "Don't Judge A Book"

Clark: Turn in Encyclopedia - 1 entry to turnitin.com by 12 pm

Mon. 1/5 AoW #8; 

Masterson: class policies

ACT punctuation practice

AoW#8 - Border Crisis

Tues. 1/6 

annotate AoW in class; 

review AoW rubric

ACT Punctuation practice

Wed. 1/7 

ACT Punctuation practice - Masterson

ACT quiz -Clark

AoW reflection: work on reflection and 3 sentence summary (Masterson's class)

Thurs. 1/8 

AoW #8 due - annotations due in class, Reflection due to turnitin.com; 

ACT Punctuation practice - Masterson

ACT Punctuation quiz- review answers - Clark

 Monday, Dec. 15

Watch Gatsby

Tuesday, Dec. 16

Watch Gatsby

Wednesday, Dec. 17

The final will be on The Great Gatsby AND count for 10% of the semester grade.

1st hour final: 8:30-10:00

2nd hour final: 10:10-11:40

3rd hour final: 12:20-1:50

Thursday, Dec. 18 

 Monday, Dec. 8

Read Chapter 7

Tuesday, Dec. 9

Read Chapter 8

Wednesday, Dec. 10

Read Chapter 9

Thursday, Dec. 11 

Review Chapters 7-9

Monday, Dec. 1

Review Gatsby Chapters 1-3

Read Gatsby Chapter 4

Tuesday, Dec. 2

Review Gatsby Chapter 4

Read Gatsby Chapter 5

Wednesday, Dec. 3

Review Gatsby Chapters 5

Read Gatsby Chapter 6

Thursday, Dec. 4  

Review Gatsby Chapters 1-6

Due: AoW #7

 Monday, Nov. 24

Read Gatsby Chapter 2

Tuesday, Nov. 25

Read Gatsby Chapter 3

Wednesday, Nov. 26

No School. Happy Thanksgiving!

Thursday, Nov. 27

No School. Happy Thanksgiving!

Monday, Nov. 17

Introduce the Great Gatsby

Tuesday, Nov. 18

Presentations

Read Gatsby Introduction

Wednesday, Nov. 19

Presentations

Read Gatsby Chapter 1

Thursday, Nov. 20 

Presentations

Finish reading Gatsby Chapter 1

 Monday, Nov. 10

Research for Career Resource Page and Cite Sources

Tuesday, Nov. 11

Write Career Resource Page

Due: Interview

Wednesday, Nov. 12

Work on Interview Write-up 

Thursday, Nov. 13

Prepare and sign up for presentation on Monday and Tuesday

Due: Final Career Project due

 Monday, Nov. 3

Write Bio

Review Interviews and Guest Speakers

Tuesday, Nov. 4

Guest Speaker

Resumes, Interview Question brainstorm

Due: Bio

Wednesday, Nov. 5

Work on Resumes 

Thursday, Nov. 6 

Guest Speaker

No Article of the Week this week. Tuesday, November 11, Interview due

Due: Resume Draft

 Monday, Oct. 27

Finish Memoirs

Tuesday, Oct. 28

Introduce Career project

Guest Speakers

Wednesday, Oct. 29

Guest Speakers

Due: Parent Interview 

Thursday, Oct. 30 

Guest Speakers

Due: AoW#6 Ebola (Annotations and Reflection) Please submit to Turnitin.com

Due: Draft of Memoir

Monday, Oct. 20

ACT Practice

Tuesday, Oct. 21

Memoir Writing

Wednesday, Oct. 22

Memoir Writing

End of Quarter

Thursday, Oct. 23  

Memoir Writing

No Article of the Week

Monday, Oct. 13

Review for Glass Castle Test

Due: Book completed

Tuesday, Oct. 14

Review for Glass Castle Test

Wednesday, Oct. 15

Glass Castle  Test

Due:  Annotations for AoW #6 (it will be used on the test)

Thursday, Oct. 16

ACT English Punctuation

commas, semi-colons, colons

Due: NO reflection  for AoW #6

Monday, Oct. 6

Glass Castle  p.245-257

Review Vocabulary

Due: Read to page 244 in Glass Castle

Tuesday, Oct. 7

Review Vocabulary

Wednesday, Oct.8

Glass Castle  p.258-271

Thursday, Oct. 9

Glass Castle  p. 272-288

Start on reading article for next week

Due: Reflection and Annotations for AoW #5

Monday, Sept. 29

Glass Castle  Bass p. 168-179; Clark p 167-188 (due Tues)

Due: Read to page 167 in Glass Castle

Tuesday, Sept. 30

Glass Castle  Bass p. 180-202; Clark 188-202 (Due Wed)

Wednesday, Oct.1

Glass Castle  Bass p. 203-225; Clark 203-225 (Due Thurs)

Thursday, Oct. 2 

Glass Castle  Bass p. 226-241; read in class, 

Due: Reflection and Annotations for AoW #4

Monday, Sept. 22

Discuss Annotating and reading graphs

Revisit the ACT

Tuesday, Sept. 23

Read Glass Castle  Bass p. 90-101

Make Revisions

Wednesday, Sept. 24

Read Glass Castle Bass p. 102-167 (for Monday)

Thursday, Sept. 25

ACT Practice Reading Test

Due: Reflection and Annotations for Segregation AoW #3

 Monday, Sept. 15

Article of the Week annotation - reading strategies: summary, definition, questions

Glass Castle  

Bass p. 50-66

Tuesday, Sept. 16

Glass Castle 

Clark to p.53

Bass p.66-80

Wednesday, Sept. 17

Glass Castle

Clark to p.76

Bass 81-90

Thursday, Sept. 18

Practice ACT test English section

due: revision of AoW#2 Stand up for your health

due: Article of the Week #3 annotations

 Monday, Sept. 8

Article of the Week annotation - reading strategies: summary, definition, questions

Clark: I'm From revisions due Thursday- see notes at right->

Tuesday, Sept. 9

WN: Make connections of Glass Castle to something else. What does it make you think of? What does it remind you of?

AoW annotations due

Glass Castle - Clark p. 12-

Bass 15- 23

exit ticket: What issues does Jeannette struggle with and why?

Wednesday, Sept. 10

Glass Castle Clark 

Bass p. 23-34

Thursday, Sept. 11

Glass Castle

Bass p. 35-50

due: revision of AoW#1 ISIS

due: Article of the Week a) 3-5 sentence Summary and b) 1-2 paragraph response - write  in response to one line/idea from the article.

Tuesday, September 2

Vocabulary Pretest (link for each class at right)

Article of the Week Annotation - reading strategies: summary, definition, (questions)

Wednesday, September 3

Vocabulary pretest-Clark

Article of the Week a) 3-5 sentence Summary and b) 1-2 paragraph response - write  in response to one line/idea from the article. 

Use Writer's Inc to write summary, p 421.

Thursday, September 4

Introduce Glass Castle; use anticipation guide; read chapter 1 &2

Friday, September 5

Glass Castle  read chapter 1 &2 p. 3-14

Due: Poem Revisions (Bass)

 Monday, August 25

Writer's Notebook

Make sure you can get into school gmail

I'm from poem: brainstorm, write (in googledocs) Due date: 

Tuesday, August 26

Clark: Writer's Notebook

"I'm from" due at start of class Wed.

Wednesday, Aug. 27

I'm from: revise, workshop

Thursday, Aug. 28

Vocabulary Pretest (link for each class at right)

I'm From: revise, conference, workshop

Writer's Memo

Glass Castle -check out

Monday, August 18

No School

Tuesday, August 19

Policies and Procedures

Introduce Anticipation Guide

Wednesday, August 20

Introduce Writer's Notebook

Rambling Autobiography

Where I Am From Poem (Objective to annotate)

Thursday, August 21 

Brainstorm Where I Am From Poem

Continue Writer's Notebook Decoration (Completed by Monday)