September 21-25

It's "Back to School Night" this week, so please mark your family calendar and ask parents and guardians to come to your classes this Thursday night, September 24.  We'll have a minimum day on Friday afterwards.  It should be a great week; students will get to see each others' Grapes of Wrath "Setting the Stage" projects hung in the classroom.

MONDAY/TUESDAY:  Journal warm-up, share.  Go over quiz results, talk about chapter 8.  We will be revising "How You Came to be in California" narrative passages, adding precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters (per 11th Grade California State Writing Standards).  Notes: figurative language and imagery.  Three more presentations. Read chapter 9 in class, class activity: what would you carry with you in an emergency?

Due: Grapes of Wrath through Chapter 8 read.  (5th and 6th - "Setting the Stage" assignment as well.)

Homework: Come to class on Thursday/Friday with 3 original passages containing figurative language or imagery about your narrative on a separate piece of paper. Study for vocab/grammar/reading quiz on Thursday/Friday, (there will be one reading question).

WEDNESDAY (5th and 6th only): Journal warm-up, share.  SOAPS analysis, read and annotate articles, class "stakeholder" debate, rebuttal, voting about surveillance cameras at high school.

Due: n/a
Homework: Continue homework from Monday:
Come to class on Friday with 3 original passages containing figurative language or imagery that will fit into your narrative. Study for vocab/grammar/reading quiz on Friday, (there will be one reading question).

THURSDAY/FRIDAY: Journal warm-up, share. Vocab/grammar/reading quiz. Work on "How you Came to be in California" narratives.  Receive Vocab/Grammar for next week.

Due: 3 original passages containing figurative language or imagery about your narrative on a separate piece of paper. 

Homework: Please read The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 10 and be ready to discuss it.