Class will begin with our vocabulary quiz.

We will then do rule # 5 of commas and present this week's gambit winner

After our competition, you will have 25 minutes to write your response to "Saturday Climbing" and then it must be handed in.

Once this is complete, there is another practice quiz on literary terms on "Saturday Climbing"

In our last period today, we will be outlining our personal essays so that we are prepared to write them in class on Monday.  We will read the personal essay "My Body is my Business" as an exemplar.

Today is the last day of vocabulary practice.

We will do comma rule #4

Today we will finish our highlighting and notes for the story "Saturday Climbing".  We know that the story focuses on the relationship between the father and daughter and on a day of climbing.  Your task is to search out the comparisons by reading the story a second time on your own.

If there is time, you will write your explanation.

We will begin with our vocabulary today...this is the last week to work on vocabulary.

We will take up comma rule #3 today.

Penny in the Dust Characterization charts are due.  We will start planning for our personal essays "The trouble with parents is...., the trouble with kids is..."

At the end of class we will read the short story "Saturday Climbing"

We will continue with our work on vocabulary and commas today.

After the practice and quiz on rule #2, we will do an activity on putting together an essay.  We will do a discussion about types of essays and then you will get the assignment for your final essay for this unit.

We will take up the charts from yesterday and finish our discussion about "Penny In the Dust"

We begin class everyday with a grammar gambit.  We just finished sentence structure and are moving on to commas.  

We are going to then move on to a short story called "Penny in the Dust".

Before reading we will do a quick break out discussion activity on the following topics:   

explain a time when they had a misunderstanding with communication.  
share about a time when they've been in conflict with their parents. 
what they think are the most important qualities in parents.  

Then have we will sit and silently read "The Penny in the Dust"  We will use highlighters and remember to use strategies for annotating text and to read the text while identifying literary terms, point of view, character, setting - they can use different colors to highlight their ideas.  There is a quiz in google classroom for you to take on terms.

When we have completed the reading and the quiz, we will get  to work in pairs (both still need to produce the chart) and complete a characterization chart for both the father and Pete.  The assignment is in the google classroom with an example and it is due tomorrow.

Today we will begin class by completing the oral presentations on the visuals that we prepared.

If time permits, we will put together the pieces of the essay in groups and then work on our vocabulary.

You will have 15 minutes to put together your presentations and then we will be presenting our visual projects in class.  We will evaluate them together - 10 marks for thoughts, support and details and 10 marks for presentation idea and technique.  If there is time at the end of class we will do this week's vocabulary.

Today we are doing our final grammar gambit on run-on sentences and a vocabulary quiz found in your google classroom.

We will complete a short writing assignment on the story (see google classroom)

You will have the rest of your class time to work on the visual representation assignment given yesterday.

We will start class with vocabulary and then move on to day three of run on sentences.

We will finish our discussion on the short story "Just Lather that's All" including defining dilemma again and discussing the dilemma.

Finally, you will be required to complete the visual response to text assignment for Just Lather found on this site under short story unit - assignments.

We'll begin with vocabulary.
We will do day two of run-on sentence work.
Today we continue to work with the story "Just Lather that's all".  We'll discuss and take notes on the different points of view and then discuss the point of view employed in the story.