September 30 - October 4

I hope everyone enjoyed the three-day weekend! Here's what's on the agenda for this week:


MONDAY: No school for students, staff development day.

TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up. Go over the Carter passage as a whole class, looking for rhetorical devices. SOAPS, strategies for annotating, rhetorical analysis outline format. Name class bucket. 

Due:  Please read the Carter rhetorical analysis passage, and annotate it. Identify any of the rhetorical analysis strategies we've learned in class: ethos, logos, pathos, imagery.  Bring it with you to class, ready to share. 

Please find a cozy spot and some alone time and read 30 pages in your independent reading book. (If you chose a longer book, over 180 pages, go a bit further.)

Homework: Study for quiz on Thursday/Friday. 

Please read another 10 pages in your independent reading book, up to page 130 (a bit more if you chose a book that is longer).

THURSDAY/FRIDAY: Journal warm-up. Quiz covering vocabulary #4 and grammar. Receive special Tone Vocabulary sheet for next week. Receive rhetorical analysis outline format. As a whole class, create outline for Carter passage. Notes: tone. Musical tone exercise.

Due: Up to page 130 in independent reading book.

Homework: Finish the independent reading book this weekend and be ready to begin the end-of-book project next week.