10/14/16 Student Agenda – Please follow these instructions today.

Friday, 10/14/16 Student Agenda

Dear Students,

I apologize for being out today. My son is sick. Please keep this agenda sheet and use it for both classes today. Anything you don’t complete is homework.

Today’s substitute will be rating each class on a scale of 1-10 as well as declaring a winning class. Today’s winning class gets a mercy pass and an extra 10 points on their suspense story plot chart. Any class which scores below a 7 will earn a dictionary assignment and 3-5 days of independent work, depending on that class’s score. So, on that note – win. If your name is taken down by the sub for a behavior problem, you will get detention and parent contact. No discussion. If your name is mentioned as being awesome, you will get Dojo points.

All Reading Class Periods

1. Review all conflict types in your “Narrative Terms Notes” (INB Reading Section.)
2. Independent Reading Day! You should be well into book 3 now. Please make sure it’s a genre book! If you failed to bring your book today, you must choose one of mine to read all period. Return my book to the shelf @ the end of class.

• Use your reading time wisely. Next book and reflection due 10/21.
• Active reading means no side conversations, no staring blankly into space.
• You must answer today’s IR question before leaving using A.P.E. (#rememberHarambe) Your answer should be 4-6 sentences long. Keep your question in your INB for review/turn in on Monday.
  

  Which conflict has the biggest impact on the events and characters of your current book? Is this an internal or external conflict? Man vs. Man? Man vs. Nature? Please identify the conflict, its type, and how it majorly impacts everything and everyone in your book. Explain using evidence from your text.

  3. If you have already finished your book, you may work on your “Book of the Month To-Read List” (page 4 INB Reading Section) when you have completed today’s question. Ipads are allowed for this work, but can be taken away by the substitute if you are not on Destiny Quest or an approved book resource site. B.o.t.M. “To Read” lists will be grade checked Monday.

All ELA Class Periods

1. Period 2 and 6: Complete # 11 – 20 SAM Step 2 Group Practice. Period 5: Complete remaining “Grammar Ninja” Pronouns practice in your packet.
2. Refer back to the picture prompt you chose yesterday (both pictures are marked in the Harris Burdick book on the U table if you need to see them), your notes on writing suspense, and your blank narrative plot chart you created yesterday.
3. Brainstorm a suspenseful or scary story in response to one of your two picture prompts. Plan out your story on the plot chart you created. Create a place in your plot chart where you will attempt the suspense tricks you learned yesterday. Where will you create a question in your readers’ minds? Where will you slow down the moment of greatest intensity (and how?) Where will you create dramatic irony? Highlight these plans in YELLOW on your plot chart.
4. Begin writing your rough draft as soon as you’re ready! Plot charts, if not finished in class, are due for grading on Monday. We will use Monday as a writing day for your rough draft.