First Quarter Syllabi

2009-2010

Day 1 Introduction/Me Bags Assign: Summer Reading writing

8/19 (W) ALL due 8/25 (T)

Day 2 Me Bags/Intro Assign: Read Happy Women

8/ 21 (F) Alcott & Happy Women

Day 3 Collect SR writing; Discuss Happy Women; Intro Assign: Work on essay rough draft

8/25 (T) major composition; Review Parts of due 8/31 (M)

Speech

Day 4 Daily Grammar/Nouns

8/27 (TH) Short Story unit/Literary Terms Assign: Verb Exercises; RD due 8/31

Day 5 Peer conference; Check Verb Exercises Assign: Final Draft of essay due 9/4 (F)\

8/31 (M) SS groups Read Short Story

Day 6 Noun Exercises; Groups work on format

9/2 (W) Assign: Final draft due Friday

Day 7 Final essay due by Break Assign: Ls 1 Activities

9/4 (F) Complete Format; Intro Vocab Ls 1

Day 8 SS groups present stories Assign: Pronoun Exercises; Review SS formats

9/9 (W) Daily Grammar-Pronouns

Day 9 Review SS unit; DG Adjectives Assign: SS Test Tuesday 9/15

9/11 (F) Adjective exercises due TH 9/17

Day 10 SS Test; Photostory-Ms Moore

9/15 (T)

Day 11 Photostory: Ms Moore Assign: Study Vocab Ls 1

9/17 (TH) Adjective Exercises; Review Vocab Ls 1

Day 12 DG Adverbs; Storytelling Day One Assign: DG Adverb Exercises

9/21 (M)

Day 13 Storytelling Day Two

9/23 (W) DG Adverb check Assign:

Day 14 Storytelling Day Three Assign:

9/25 (F)

Day 15 Storytelling Day Four Assign:

9/29 (T)

Day 16 Intro Contrast/Comparison essay

10/1 (TH) In class work on Photostory Assign: Photostory due Monday, 10/5

Work on essay

Day 17 Present Photostory Assign: Rough draft due 10/7

10/5 (M) Intro Anne Frank

Day 18 Intro Vocab Ls 2 Assign: Read Anne Frank: ;Ls 2 Activities

10/7 (SLW) Rough draft due

Day 19 Peer conference C/C essay Assign: Read Anne Frank

10/9 (F)

10/12 (M) Columbus Day Holiday Assign: Read Anne Frank

10/14 (W) Testing/PTA

10/15 (TH) PTA 8-3

Day 20 Check Vocab Ls 2 Activities Assign: Read Anne Frank; Original essay due Monday

10/16 (F)

END OF FIRST QUARTER FINAL ESSAY DUE BY ALL MONDAY, 10/19 BY BREAK