Aug. 22
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Investment Day
Community Building
CHAMPS
and the
RIDGE POINT WAY
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Investment Day:
Investment Day:
Community Building
Community Building
Poem with 2 Voices
Ridge Point Way
Course Syllabus
Class expectations
Supplies
MLA Heading
Bring America Street to
class
Symbolism
Pre-Assessment:
Characterization
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Chart Thematic Topics
Lit. Terms- assign
Flashcards (DG1)
Create a Poem with 2
Voices based on two
characters from America
Street
Mountains & Valleys
Clocking Partners
Goal Setting
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HW: work on poem and
bring draft ideas next
Friday
2
Warm-up Procedures
Interacting with Text:
“Secret Life of Walter
Mitty”
Extend: Playing with
Author’s Style
Writing Workshop
Writing Workshop
Playing with Author’s
Style
Finish Poem with 2
Voices and present
Present a new adventure
for Walter Mitty
HW: Read 3 poems
p.776-782. Bring a
personal object to class
Tuesday
9
END of PR1
punctilious
Grammar Mini-lesson:
Simple Sentences
Read Aloud
Analyze “Secret Life of
Walter Mitty”
Quickwrite Pre-reading
Anchor Chart:
annotation ideas
Update Thematic Topics
Chart
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6
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Introduce Testing
Procedures
Update Thematic Topics
SAM Sheet
vivacious
Quiz over 3 poems
(DG 2)
Labor Day
Quick write: familiar
object
Summer Reading
Objective Test (MG 1)
Create a poem
mimicking stylistic
elements from mentor
text poems
Flashcards due (DG 1)
-quiz is Sept 22 (DG 6)
amicable
Grammar Mini-lesson:
Compound Sentences
Examine Persuasive
Appeals (Ethos, Pathos,
Logos) in Old Major’s
Speech
Ethos, Logos, Pathos
assignment (DG 4) due
next Monday. Extra
Credit: examine EPL in
this year’s election
speeches (Due the 27th)
HW: AF Chapter 2
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taciturn
AP Questions Chapter 1
Analyze Old Major’s
Speech with an AP lens
Introduction to Animal
Farm
Genre, Fable, Allegory,
Symbolism
(Bring Novel)
Background: Russian
Revolution
Update Thematic Topics
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erudite
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Animal Farm Timed
Quiz Chapters 1-3
(DG 5)
Interact with text: “I
Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings”
HW: Read George
Orwell Background
article
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garrulous
Mini-Lesson:
Depth of Thought
through Random Word
analysis. Apply to
characters in short
stories/speakers in
poems
HW: AF Chapter 4
Introduction to Animal
Farm
Ethos, Logos, Pathos
HW: AF Chapter 1
(annotate) – Characters,
Old Major’s dream
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adroit
Writing Workshop:
Introductions:
Universal
Transition
Thesis
Compare characters in
“Thank you M’am” and
“I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings”
Examine organization of
ideas and construct a
Graphic Organizer
HW: Read “I Know
Why the Caged Bird
Sings” pg. 254;
and AF Chapter 3
Quiz – George Orwell
Bio (DG 3)
HW: AF Chapter 5
HW: AF Chapter 6
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emaciated
Grammar Mini-lesson:
Complex Sentences
Ethos, Pathos, Logos
due (DG 4) Present
Writing Workshop:
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ingenious 21
recalcitrant 22
obsequious
Writing Workshop:
Writing Workshop:
Literary Terms Quiz
(DG 6) – Timed
Building Body
Paragraphs
Building Body
Paragraphs
Imbedding Text –
organization of ideas
Imbedding Text –
organization of ideas
HW: AF Chapter 8
Applied Practice
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HW: AF Chapter 9
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reticent
HW: AF Chapter 10
Analyze AP Practice
29
gregarious
Update Thematic Topics
Sentence Quiz (DG 7)
Writing Workshop:
Writing Workshop:
Review types of
sentences in body
paragraphs
Continue writing
effective Conclusions:
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Fort Bend County Fair
Day
Introduction: Revising
Clear, Thesis Statement
HW: AF Chapter 7
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English I Checkpoint #1
Animal Farm Test
(MG 2)
Review AF
Timed Writing Tips
Write a Single Selection
Short Answer response
using “The Golden Kite,
the Silver Wind”
Revise Single Selection
Short Answer response
using “The Golden Kite,
the Silver Wind”
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14 End of 1st 9-weeks
Writing Workshop:
Writing Workshop:
Draft and Revise SAR
for a grade
Edit and
Publish SAR (DG 10)
Create Writing
Portfolios. Reflection on
Summer reading and
Single Selection Short
Answer Response
Create Writing
Portfolios. Reflection on
Summer reading and
Single Selection Short
Answer Response
Vocabulary Quiz (DG
11)
(extra credit for this
grading period is
dropping the lowest
daily grade).
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4
fractious
Timed Writing:
Character Analysis
(MG 3)
Questions over “The
Golden Kite, the Silver
Wind” and “The Arm’s
Race” (DG’s 8 & 9)
Questions over “The
Golden Kite, the Silver
Wind” and “The Arm’s
Race” (DG’s 8 & 9)
Bring Summer
Reading Novels
vacuous
Gallery Walk
HW: Write a Single
Selection Short Answer
response, using “The
Arm’s Race”
(DG 10)—Due Oct. 12
Make sure to go back
into your summer
reading and mark key
points in the characters’
development
Review Timed Writing
Rubric
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inane
Effective Conclusions
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incorrigible
10
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convivial
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ubiquitous
Update Thematic Topics
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impudent