We went over the following upcoming events on November 7th:

  1. Unit 5 Menu Options – Menu Option Projects are DUE December 5th
  2. Units 2 & 3 Poetry Unit – Poetry Portfolios are DUE January 16th
  3. Approach Papers – You can turn these in whenever you get them done. Here’s how you’ll be graded – SCORE LA Rubric. Lose 10 points for every day late. Your first Final Drafts are DUE:
    • Standard Plus – DUE December 19th,
    • Honors – DUE November 21st.
  4. Author Study (2nd Quarter) – Rough Drafts are DUE January 9th, Final Drafts are DUE January 16th.
  5. Literature Circles – We went over how they work, and how you’ll work with and within them.

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For our Literature Circles, you will have to choose to read one the novels below.

Rate your top 3 titles in order of preference:

  • 1 – “I’d love to read this title.”
  • 2 – “I’d like to read this title.”
  • 3 – “I’d settle for reading this title.”

Here are the titles:

  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • The Outsiders
  • Scorpions
  • Nothing But the Truth
  • Farewell to Manzanar
  • Tunes for Bears
  • Night

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For our study of Unit 5 – Just or Unjust? – we will be reading all of the following literature in the Language of Literature (use Classzone eServices to read up)

  • Paul Revere’s Ride
  • From Undaunted Courage
  • The Flower Fed Buffaloes
  • Bike a Historic Trail
  • War Party
  • The Other Pioneers
  • from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
  • from Lincoln: a photography
  • O Captain! My Captain! & Civil War Journal
  • From Roughing It (Author’s Study) Mark Twain
  • The Million Pound Bank Note
  • Comedy Knight

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For our Poetry Unit (Units 2 & 3), we will be reading all of the following literature in the Language of Literature (use Classzone eServices to read up):

  • Mother to Son
  • Speech to the Young
  • Father to Son (handout in resource packet)
  • The Charge of the Light Brigade
  • Simile- Willow and Ginko
  • A Loaf of Poetry
  • Old age sticks
  • The lesson of the moth
  • Fear and Identity
  • Stopping by the Woods
  • Mending Wall
  • Knoxville Tennessee
  • A Journey
  • Leagues
  • The drum
  • Choices
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