September 8 - 11

I hope everyone enjoyed the three-day weekend!  This week, we'll meet the Joad family in The Grapes of Wrath, take our first vocabulary quiz, and write about how we/our families/guardians came to California.

MONDAY: Labor Day, no school.

TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up with vocabulary words.  Collect homework.  Discuss answers to Chapter One questions.  Four corner debate based on evidence from homework question.  Read Grapes Chapter 2 in class and ask volunteers to act it out. Discuss chapter.

Watch short video about Syrian refugee crisis and (if time) read and annotate articles with differing opinions about what the USA should do about it, if anything.  Class will compare similarities and differences between current refugee crisis and Grapes of Wrath migrant workers, and undocumented immigrants working the fields today.

Note: Journals will be collected at the end of class Thursday for a journal check.  One page per class session, except the first day of school. 

Due: Chapter 1, Grapes of Wrath and Chapter One questions answered for class.


Homework: Read Grapes of Wrath Chapter 3 and write a paragraph in full sentences describing how you/your family/your ancestors came to California, per the worksheet.  Be ready to present it.  Study for vocab quiz.


THURSDAY/FRIDAY:  Journal warm-up using vocabulary words. First vocabulary/grammar quiz. Students will take out their paragraphs about their family coming to California and review them for spelling and grammar.  Three volunteers will present.  Collect all paragraphs for credit.

Introduce Setting the Stage Grapes of Wrath project - student will be able to choose a project from a list that helps them envision the world in the novel.  This project will be due the following week.  Students may begin work on their projects in class while they listen to the audio version of Chapter 4.

Introduce SOAPS - method of analyzing text, use this on the articles/video we saw on Tuesday and other examples.  Students will receive the vocab/grammar list for the following week's quiz.  Students will leave their journals in class for a journal check.  One page per class session, except for the first day of school.

Due: Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 3 read, paragraph about how you came to be in California.

Homework:
Read Grapes Chapters 5 and 6 for homework, work on "Setting the Stage" Grapes of Wrath project.