Monday, August 6
Classwork:
Classwork:
Classwork:
Classwork:
- Do Now: Unit 1, Quiz B
- Descriptive Writing Activity: Write a three-paragraph essay on an object you carry now, or one from your childhood. Describe the object in detail, the mood it evokes, and reasons for its importance.
- Finish essay, if not finished in class.
- Choose Independent Reading book by Friday. Click here for help choosing a great book for you!
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Classwork:
- Do Now: Read The Things They Carried page 1 to the break on page 2. In Journals, write about why the letters were so important to Jimmy Cross.
- Watch short film about Vietnam Era
- Read about conscription/draft in Vietnam Era
- Read An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
- Write: Looking at the background of each author, what seems similar about the two men's writings that seem similar?
- Read The Things They Carried to page 25 (end of chapter 1)
- Think: What's so important about 'the things they carried' in the book?
- Continue Independent Reading
Classwork:
- Do Now: Extended argument essay: War Literature is .
- Then: Discuss how the two war stories are similar and different
- War Literature Activity- an argument writing workshop
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- Study Vocabtest.com, Junior Unit 2 list for quiz on Monday
- Continue writing Argumentative Writing Activity started in class
- Continue Reading The Things They Carried: "Spin" and "On the Rainy River" (up to page 61)
- Enrichment: Complete 'Skill Questions 3, 4 a/b, 6 and 9-21' in the 'After Reading' for An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
- Choose Independent Reading book by Friday
