Planning Your Week:
M 1/9—Return signed syllabus ASAP. Bring $10 for Membean vocabulary program.
M 1/16 before midnight—Complete vocabulary practice on Membean
Thursday, January 5
LG: Reflect on personal qualities and characteristics; produce theme statements.
- Complete welcome sheet; complete TRSS forms.
- Discuss the syllabus and review class procedures
- Read The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco; Discuss—Is there a moment that has turned you into who you are today? Compose a theme statement.
- Get to know your classmates - complete your clock partner handout
- Revise theme statements with your 12:00. Get to know two interesting things about this partner to introduce him/her to the class.
Friday, January 6
LG: Apply skills for close reading, gathering evidence, and making inferences to poems; set writing goals for timed writing.
- Introduce Poetry Out Loud; read the NEA interview with 2016 champion Ahkei Togun and watch his performance and “Why Poetry Out Loud?”.
- Compose a response to the timed writing prompt (1990 parental conflict).