1. Attendance

2. Course Outline / EDHS FAQ's

1. Attendance

2. EDHS FAQ's / Course Outline

1. Attendance

2. Who are Mrs. Holton & Mr. Wolf? Quiz

3. Begin "Who are We?" activity

HW - Bring signed course outline on Friday

1. Attendance

2. Finish "Who are We?" activity

3. "Who are We?" discussion

WEEK 2
Monday 9/10
1. Appositives
2. Turn & Talk
3. Non-Fiction: "No more homework"
HW - Active reading: "No more homework"
Tuesday 9/11
1. Turn & Talk
2. Whole Class Discussion: Non-Fiction
3. Cliffhanger: Vocabulary
HW - Read and complete Cliffhanger "The Brown Bomber"
Wednesday 9/12
1. Turn & Talk
2. Whole Class Share: "The Brown Bomber"
3. MLA Format: heading, page #'2, margins, spacing, font, title
4. Computer Lab: "The Brown Bomber" poster
Thursday 9/13
1. Prefixes 1-5
2. Parts of Speech: Proper Nouns, Common Nouns, Pronouns
3. Week in Review
HW - Study for test
Friday 9/14
1. Q & A Review
2. Weekly Assessment #1
3. "The Most Dangerous Game" Intro
4. Direct vs Indirect Characterization

WEEK 3
Monday 9/17
1. Library Orientation
Tuesday 9/18
1. Library Orientation
HW - Bring SSR book
Wednesday 9/20 (B2SN)
1. SSR
2. MLA Works Cited Page
3. Computer Lab: Works Cited Page
Thursday 9/21
1. SSR
2. Prefix 6-10 / Parts of Speech: Plot
3. Characterization & Plot
HW - none
Friday 9/22
1. SSR List
2. Begin reading "The Most Dangerous Game"
HW - Bring a book for SSR

WEEK 4
Monday 9/24
1. SSR
2. Appositives Practice
3. "The Most Dangerous Game" reading
HW - Read "The Most Dangerous Game" pp 23-26 and complete active reading
Tuesday 9/25
1. Non-Fiction - "Washington Post" Enter the Text Thinking
2. Cliffhanger Vocabulary
3. Cliffhanger Activating Prior Knowledge/Appositives
HW - Read Cliffhanger and complete writing activity & complete "Washington Post" active reading assignment
Wednesday 9/26
1. Turn & Talk/Whole Class Discussion "Washington Post"
2. Turn & Talk/Whole Class Discussion "Breaking the Barrier"
3. Work Cited Info: Print Source
4. Computer Lab: Paragraph w/ Works Cited page
HW - Continue Reading "The Most Dangerous Game"

WEEK 5
Monday 10/1
1. SSR
2. Action vs Helping Verbs
3. Appositive Practice
4. Taking Annotations
HW - Non-Fiction reading & annotations, read "The Most Dangerous Game" pp 30-33, finish helping verbs worksheet
Tuesday 10/2
1. SSR
2. Turn & Talk: Annotations
3. Cliffhanger Vocab & Prior Knowledge/Literary Terms (tone, mood, theme, point of view)
HW - Read and complete Cliffhanger activity
Wednesday 10/3
1. Turn & Talk: Cliffhanger
2. Technical Writing: Form Letter
3. Computer Lab: Form Letter
HW - None

Thursday 10/4
1. Weekly Assessment Review

2. Prefixes
3. Class Reading: "The Most Dangerous Game"

HW - Review for weekly assessment

1. Weekly Assessement

2. Class Reading: Finish "The Most Dangerous Game"

WEEK 6
Monday 10/8
1. Review Tone/Mood Worksheet
2. Tone & Mood/Theme activity: Your movie clip activity or something with "The Most Dangerous Game"
3. Teach the Non-Fiction active reading strategy "Text Coding" for this week.
4. Distribute "...Chimp" reading assignment and explain text coding assignment for it.
HW - Non-Fiction Active Reading
Tuesday 10/9
1. SSR
2. Discuss Non-Fiction Active Reading
3. Cliffhanger Vocabulary & Prior Knowledge
HW - Complete Cliffhanger
Wednesday 10/10
1. Discuss Cliffhanger
2. Thematic Statements & Concrete Details
3. Writing Lab: MLA Thematic Paragraph "The Most Dangerous Game"
HW - None
Thursday 10/11
1. SSR
2. Prefixes
3. I vs. Me
4. Test Review
HW - Study for Weekly Assessment
Friday 10/12
1. Weekly Assessment
2. I vs Me Review

WEEK 7
Monday 10/15
1. SSR
2. Prefixes
3. Intro to "The Perfect Storm"
4. Non-Fictions: Sketching Through the Text
HW - Active Reading
Tuesday 10/16
1. SSR
2. Discuss Non-Fiction
3. Cliffhanger Vocabulary & Prior Knowledge
4. Subject/Verb Agreement Worksheet
HW - Cliffhanger & finish subject/verb worksheet
Wednesday 10/17
1. Discuss Cliffhanger
2. Writing Lab: "Dream" MLA paragraph
Thursday 10/18
1. SSR
2. Subject/Verb Agreement #2
3. Weekly Assessment Review
HW - Study for test
Friday 10/19
1. Weekly Assessment
2. Paper pass back

WEEK 8
Monday 10/22
1. Prefixes
2. Begin "The Perfect Storm"
3. Active Reading: Two-Column Notes
HW - Non-Fiction Active Reading
Tuesday 10/23
1. SSR
2. Discuss Active Reading
3. Affect vs Effect
4. Begin "The Perfect Storm"
HW - Read "The Perfect Storm" to the first "pause & reflect", complete active reading, and affect vs effect worksheet
Wednesday 10/24
1. SSR
2. Correct Affect vs Effect worksheet
3. Among vs Between
4. Sentence Combining: Comma Conjunction
HW: Finish sentence combining and Among/Between - Affect/Effect Worksheets, and read "The Perfect Storm" pp 67-70 w/ Active Reading