Eng.+10+Jan.


 * ||  || Jan. 1

No school || Jan. 2

No school || Jan. 3

No school ||
 * Jan. 6

SNOW DAY

[|Business Day Live Article on Animal Farm]

[|Model of a Literary Essay]

[|Animal Farm Essay Instructions and Rubric]

MLA Format

Grammar topics for next two weeks: Students will practice individually and in small groups using Grammar & Composition Handbook p. 346-349, p. 164-169, as well as worksheets. || Jan. 7
 * Apostrophe usage
 * Main and subordinate clauses

SNOW DAY

Work on essay: [|Animal Farm Essay Instructions and Rubric] || Jan. 8

SNOW DAY

Continue writing: [|Animal Farm Essay Instructions and Rubric]

Share with partner || Jan. 9

Continue writing: [|Animal Farm Essay Instructions and Rubric] || Jan. 10

Continue writing: [|Animal Farm Essay Instructions and Rubric]

[|Sample] ||
 * Jan. 13

Students continue working on Animal Farm essay this week

[|PAL] --Let's practice MLA citation technique!

This week's grammar topics: [|Sample]
 * Apostrophe usage

[|Model of a Literary Essay] || Jan. 14

Continue writing:

[|Animal Farm Essay Instructions and Rubric]

[|Sample]

[|Model of a Literary Essay] || Jan. 15

Continue writing:

[|Animal Farm Essay Instructions and Rubric]

[|Sample]

[|Model of a Literary Essay] || Jan. 16

Continue writing:

[|Animal Farm Essay Instructions and Rubric]

[|Sample]

[|Model of a Literary Essay] || Jan. 17

Grammar Quiz--clauses and apostrophes

Final draft due ||
 * Jan. 20

Review for exam >> [|Direct Objects Quiz] || Jan. 21
 * [|Literary Terms]
 * Grammar Practice
 * [|Pronoun Case]
 * [|Pronoun Case Chart]
 * [|Subjects and Predicates]
 * [|Objects]
 * [|Indirect Objects Quiz]

Practice Grammar || Jan. 22

Reading Comprehension

Practice for grammar and literary term exams || Jan. 23

Grammar Portion of Exam || Jan. 24

Two hour early release

Literary Terms Portion of Exam ||
 * Jan. 27

Literary Terms Portion of Exam

[|Writer's Notebook--Reflection] Review your writing and answer the reflection questions. || Jan. 28

SNOW DAY || Jan. 29

New Semester

[|Course Expectations]

[|Vocabulary words] for the week.

Analyzing Important U.S. Documents...

Writer's Notebook
 * [|Reading Survey]
 * What is the role of civil disobedience in a democratic society?
 * How do writers, artists and musicians engage in civil disobedience?
 * =====How do informational writers, photographers, naturalists, and reporters engage in civil disobedience?=====
 * =====How is their approach to educating or providing news a protest of political and social issues? Is it civil disobedience or unethical?=====
 * =====How is their approach to educating or providing news a protest of political and social issues? Is it civil disobedience or unethical?=====
 * =====How is their approach to educating or providing news a protest of political and social issues? Is it civil disobedience or unethical?=====

Read and [|annotate]

[|Patrick Henry's Speech to the Second Virginia Convention] || Jan. 30

Read and [|annotate]

[|Patrick Henry's Speech to the Second Virginia Convention]

[|Rhetorical Devices in Henry's Speech]

Review vocabulary words || Jan. 31

Continue with rhetorical devices

Review vocabulary words

Grammar: apostrophes ||