MONDAY: (minimum day - all classes, 35 minutes per class) Find seats, welcome and introduction, journals passed out and started, share. Receive syllabus, begin work on Interest Inventory Worksheet. DUE: First journal entry, completed in class. HW (Homework): Completed Interest Inventory Worksheet for next class. Read syllabus and ask parents/guardians to read it, sign it and return it by Friday.
TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY: Journal, share. Interest Inventory Worksheet activity. Teacher/Student Contract exercise. Overview of SAT changes. Discuss syllabus, including upcoming units, procedures and routines. Write one-page letter to yourself as a freshman. DUE: Interest Inventory Worksheet. HW: Finish letter for next class, bring signed syllabus to class. Work on gathering supplies (binder with tabs, per syllabus) for next week.
THURSDAY/FRIDAY: Journal, share. Review procedures and routines. Turn in letter. Receive Vocab/Grammar for next week. Gallery Walk. Grapes of Wrath introduction including anticipation guide, video of Dust Bowl, Depression PPT. Pick up a copy of The Grapes of Wrath for next week. DUE: letter, signed syllabus. HW:
- Get supplies for class (notebook with tabs per syllabus - will be checked next week),
- read Chapter One of The Grapes of Wrath and answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper: 1. Why does Steinbeck spend so much time talking about the wind? What impression are we supposed to have of the conditions the people lived in? 2. Do men and women still handle setbacks differently? Explain your answer with an example (from history, current events, science, a personal example - something specific and concrete).
- Look over vocab words for next week's quiz on Thursday/Friday.
- Ask your parents/guardians about how your family came to California. We'll talk about this in greater depth next week.
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