Monday, 10/3

Writing our
Expository Essay:
The definition of
Heroism:
Outlining: Hook,
bridge, thesis
- Topic Sentences
-Concluding
Paragraph
Monday, 10/10

Tuesday, 10/4
Writing our
Expository Essay:
The definition of
Heroism:
Outlining:
Supporting
details
Focus Skill:
Applying TLQCE
pg. 76 (SB.1.15)
Tuesday, 10/11

Fall Break!!!!

Fall Break!!!!!

Monday, 10/17

Tuesday, 10/18

Unit One Review

-Using
biographical
texts to write a
found poem.
-Writing a
biographical
poem

Unit One Review

Learning Stations
Skills Covered:
-Main Idea,
Central Idea,
Supporting
Details
-Text structures:
i.e.
Compare/contras
t and Cause and
Effect
-Theme

Monday, 10/24

Tuesday, 10/25

SB2.1&2.2
-Previewing our
unit
-Discussing our
academic
vocabulary
-Compare and
Contrast

SB 2.2 Compare
and Contrast
using a historical
text

Wednesday, 10/5
Wrap up outline.
-Beginning to
publish our essay
using our outline.

Thursday, 10/6
Finish publishing
our essay.
-Peer Edit
-Make corrections

Friday, 10/7
Complete essay.

Wednesday,
10/12

Thursday, 10/13

Friday, 10/14
Fall Break!!!!!

Wednesday,
10/19
Unit One Review
Learning Stations
cont.
Skills Covered:
-Authors word
choice
-Comprehension:
Analyzing a
Narrative
-Poetic Elements:
i.e. irony, simile,
metaphor
-Types of
questions
Wednesday,
10/26
SB 2.3 Utopian
Ideals and
Dystopian Reality
-Harrison
Bergeron
-Focus concepts:
Theme, and
analyze how
dialogue and
incidents propel

Thursday, 10/20

Friday, 10/21

Learning Stations
continued
-See Tuesday and
Wednesday
-Review games

-Unit One Test

-Previewing
writing tasks for
unit 2

Thursday, 10/27

Friday, 10/28

SB 2.3 Utopian
Ideals and
Dystopian Reality
-Harrison
Bergeron
-Focus concepts:
Embedded
quotations, active
and passive voice

SB 2.4
Understanding
Societys Way of
Life
-Begin reading
The Giver
-Writing
questions: Level
one, level two,
level three

action, reveal
aspects of
character,
provoke
decisions