Tuesday, Sept. 24 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: ACT Prep -English: page 2 (Questions 4-7); when done, read your book
• Quill Independent Work time
• Writer’s Workshop
• Color Coding your draft:
• See Color Key on Example Document, need YOUR paragraphs color coded by 8:55
• Check Highlighted Body Paragraphs (make sure they are on the Google Classroom assignment
• Intro/Conclusion Notes –shared with you in classroom
• Write Intro and Conclusion –on the same document with your body paragraphs, in the right order of paragraphs
• Body paragraphs second draft
• Body paragraphs second draft
• Make sure you have all colors represented in the total draft
• As in you must have THREE topics and for each topic you must have at least one QUOTE FROM FLIGHT, one SIMILARITY, and one DIFFERENCE
• Each paragraph must have a topic sentence, an intro to a piece of evidence, a quote/piece of evidence and analysis about what that evidence shows about the topic sentence.  
• Some will then repeat that sequence in the same paragraph, with a transition rather than a topic sentence.  Others will write a new paragraph following the same sequence.

Monday, Sept. 23 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Writer’s Workshop 30 minutes EXACTLY
• Work on your body paragraphs: if you have comments from Ms. B, work on what she wrote, if you aren’t finished, GET GOING!!!
• Turnitin.com: Class ID: 22462719 Enrollment Key: F2019contemp
• All paragraphs must have a topic sentence that is proven with the evidence cited
• I’ll be reading through paragraphs during work time (if you finish and upload -Everyone must have a completed draft uploaded to turnitin by end of work time tomorrow)
• Coming of Age Reading and Questions
• Independent Reading
• Read own book (you need to finish at least one book by the end of the term (can vary based on length of book), but more than one equals EXTRA CREDIT with book completion sheet)
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Thursday, Sept. 19 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: ACT Prep
• Flight ch-7: while reading, start looking for additional themes to trace
• Finish all of first row of transformation sheet
• Start filling out second row for his newest transformation
• Writer’s Workshop
• Note Taking
• All Notes done by: end of work time today
• If you finish your notes, take a look at the Body Paragraph materials in Classroom and then begin your first draft!

Wednesday, Sept. 18 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Writer’s Workshop Time
• Researching: Start research (need evidence from both Flight and the other text/online research (even for yourself, see comment on document)
• Finding support for your topic (research)
• Small Group Discussion: practice round 2 
• Discuss Discussing
• How did this round go?
• Other things to work on?
• Flight 
• Chapter 6:

Tuesday, Sept. 17 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: 10 min reading 
• Flight
• Chapter 5
• TQE: Thought, Question, Epiphany:
• Things that you should have as you plan your thought, question, and epiphany
• Best Evidence of a theme and evidence from ch 4-5
• How are we (the readers) like Zits at this point in the book (how are we in a similar situation while reading)?
• How are Zits and Hank similar? Different? How are Zits and Junior similar? Different?

Writer’s Workshop: Start research (need evidence from both Flight and the other text/online research (even for yourself, see comment on document) By tomorrow morning you must have a minimum of three pieces of textual evidence from Flight on your notes sheet (one for each topic)

Monday, Sept. 16 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Independent Reading
• Discussion Starters
• Wounded Knee article discussion
• Flight ch. 4 
• Fill out Transformation sheet for first transformation
• Writer’s Workshop
• Finish Graphic Organizer (at least 5 categories)
• Organize/highlight ideas in Zits side (what you want to compare/contrast)
• NOTES DOCUMENT: on google classroom
• Begin research (start with quote tracing for Zits’ char., then go to online research for your topic)

Friday, Sept. 13 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Wounded Knee Article -while reading, annotate.  Think of these questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? Connection to Zits?
• Independent Reading Time (when you finish annotating the article)
• New Partner/seat
• Writer’s Workshop 
• Compare and Contrast Essay
• You are comparing and contrasting Zits’ character with any of the following: another teen in a novel, a teen in ‘real life’ (general), yourself
• Step One: Choose a topic (what are you comparing him to?)
• Step Two: Graphic Organizer
• Categories on the notes sheet -need 5
• Fill out general ideas and then page numbers and evid.