Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Apply skills from units 1,2 and 3 by answering open ended questions

Media Center - check out books for Responding to Literature project due in 3 weeks

HOMEWORK: RESPONDING TO LITERATURE, SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT HANDOUT

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Read and write to consider how a poet's message relates to their own experiences. Write a poem about reading. Include 3 sound devices.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Identify the characteristics of nonfiction text.

Use newspaper articles about Raleigh, NC to study the characteristics of nonfiction.

Discuss the differences between primary and secondary sources based on the definition and examples provided.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Complete a chart to review nonfiction characteristics, specifically newspaper, historical document and essay

Monday, November 7, 2011

Show an understanding of text by highlighting important ideas and summarizing information from an article on Women's Suffrage 

Tuesday, November 8, 2011 & Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Review summarizing  and find the main idea using yesterday's article on Women's Suffrage.

HOMEWORK: FINAL COUNTDOWN GRAPHIC ORGANIZER ON TODAY'S NONFICTION ARTICLE

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Define and understand argument and counter argument. Develop arguments and counter arguments using Women's suffrage as a topic

Friday, November 11, 2011

NO SCHOOL VETERAN'S DAY

Monday, November 14, 2011

Use the SCROL reading strategy to read a persuasive essay and comprehend, make predictions, identify author's purpose and respond.

Prentice Hall textbook persuasive essays: On Woman's Right to Suffrage (510), Sharing the American Dream (530), The Trouble With Television (519)

HOMEWORK: WHEN DOES EDUCATION STOP ARTICLE

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Reread and selectively highlight author's purpose and supporting details; analyze and evaluate a persuasive essay

Essay In a Day: Sharing the American Dream, The Trouble with Television, On Woman's Right to Suffrage

HOMEWORK: WORD MAP ON HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Create a graphic organizer using the opinions and supporting details from yesterday's persuasive essay

HOMEWORK: RESPONDING TO LITERATURE DUE TOMORROW & WORD MAP ON SECONDARY SOURCES AND PERSUASIVE ESSAY

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Diagnostic Test #2

Collect Responding to Literature

HOMEWORK: BRING LIBRARY BOOKS TO RETURN THEM AND CHECK OUT NEW BOOKS

Friday, November 18, 2011

Media Center

Review and discuss persuasive essay, fact, opinion, counter argument, primary or secondary source, historical document

Monday, November 21, 2011

Framework for reading informational text - quiz of open ended questions covering objectives from the last two weeks

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Semantic mapping, concept maps, and word maps on primary and secondary sources, newspapers, historical documents, nonfiction, persuasive essay

Monday, November 28, 2011

Framework for reading argumentative text - quiz of open ended questions covering objectives from the last two weeks

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Review the purpose of persuasive writing

Study the use of tone, style and language use in presenting persuasive text; define tone and style

Evaluate the effectiveness of a text

"The Trouble with Television" page 519 (handout)

HOMEWORK: FINISH BANNEKER ACTIVITY

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Review argument and counter argument in persuasive text

Understand how possible counter arguments affect how and author presents ideas

"The Trouble with Television" page 519 (handout)

Thursday, December 1 & Friday, December 2

Study the use of tone, style and language use in presenting persuasive text

Be able to evaluate the effectiveness of a text

"American Dream" page 164

"I Have A Dream" speech (handout on tone, style, language, word choice, audience, sentence length)

Monday, December 5 - Friday, December 9

Review and evaluate author techniques of bias, emotional factors, and propaganda

Identify examples and select most effective examples of bias, emotional language and propaganda

Create an advertisement for a product you are familiar with using Windows Movie Maker or powerpoint.

Monday, December 12, 2011

SCHOOL ASSEMBLY

Demonstrate an understanding of how an author's background influences stance

Choice: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. pages 1010-1013; page 1014 #6,7,8,9

HOMEWORK: 145/146 ON CHOICE STORY FROM TODAY

RESPONDING TO LITERATURE DUE TOMORROW 

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Diagnostic Test #3

Responding to Literature due on FANTASY

Review frameworks for Benchmark on Thursday and Friday

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Review frameworks for Benchmark on Thursday and Friday

Media Center to return books and check out new books

HOMEWORK: BENCHMARK TEST TOMORROW - STUDY NOTES. 

NEW RESPONDING TO LITERATURE DUE 1/12. 3/6 Periods are reading Tears of a Tiger, Darkness Before Dawn or Forged by Fire. 4/7 Periods are reading The Giver.

GRAMMAR - CLAUSES AND PHRASES HANDOUT

Thursday, December 15 and Friday, December 16

Benchmark #1

Monday, December 19, 2011

Read and reread using the QtA strategy to monitor comprehension, determine meaning and author's purpose.

Write responses to show understanding

Tuesday, December 20 and Wednesday, December 21

Read and reread using the QtA strategy to monitor comprehension, determine meaning and author's purpose.

Write responses to show understanding

View student created commercials

Thursday, December 22, 2011 - Monday, January 2, 2012

NO SCHOOL - HOLIDAY

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Read informational articles to comprehend, respond and draw conclusions

Discuss main idea (What all the sentences in the paragraph are about.)

HOMEWORK: WRITE A REFLECTION ABOUT THE TWO ARTICLES FROM TODAY'S LESSON. WHAT CAN YOU CONCLUDE ABOUT BOTH SITUATIONS?

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Reread article to write conclusions

Read fiction text and draw conclusions

The Ninny by Anton Chekhov pages 760-762. Read and discuss. Answer questions 1-4 on page 762

Thursday, January 5, 2012

The Ninny - open book test

Friday, January 6, 2012

Practice reading between the lines to draw inferences and justify wiht details. Read, listen, discuss and respond to text in order to draw conclusions and inferences within multiple group settings

Re-read "Thank You, M'am" for inferencing handout questions.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Practice reading between the lines to draw inferences and justify with details. Read, listen, discuss and respond to text in order to draw conclusions and inferences within multiple group settings

The Story-Teller by Saki

Tuesday, January 10, 2012 & Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Practice reading between the lines to draw inferences and justify wiht details. Read, listen, discuss and respond to text in order to draw conclusions and inferences within multiple group settings

The White Umbrella

The Medicine Bag

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Diagnostic Test #4

Responding to Literature due today

3/6 - Tears of a Tiger & 4/7 - The Giver

Collaborative assignment: Interview the protagonist from one of this week's stories to find out what lessons they learned from the events of the story.

Friday, January 13, 2012

EARLY RELEASE DAY

Media Center to check out new books for Responding to Literature

Collaborative assignment: Write a review of one of this week's short stories as a columnist for a newspaper's arts section. Discuss plot, theme and character development. Present your opinions about the story with supporting evidence. Critique the author's ability to tell a story.

Monday, January 16, 2012

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. HOLIDAY - NO SCHOOL

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Framework for Reading Fiction - open ended questions on a fiction reading passage

Wednesday, January 18 - Friday, January 20, 2012

Read using the selective highlighting strategy

Complete a chart to evaluate problems and solutions in nonfiction text

Who Can Replace a Man?

Robots May be the Worforce of the Future

Nature of the Job Changes with Progress

The Robotic Economy

Monday, January 23, 2012

TEACHER WORKDAY - END OF 2ND QUARTER

Tuesday, January 24 - Thursday, January 26, 2012

Complete a chart to evaluate problems and solutions in nonfiction text

Saving the Wetlands

"Who Can Replace a Man" pages 222-234

NCWiseOwl articles on technology in the workplace

THURSDAY'S HOMEWORK: Day 85 handout

Friday, January 27, 2012

Utilize graphic organizers to propose solutions using relevant details and the problem-solution process.

Using the day 85 handout, feedcats, statistics and helpful hints start a problem-solution outline on bullying or technology replacing man

Monday, January 30, 2012

Problem Solution assignment with statistics relating to the problem

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Making Inferences

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

QUIZ - Mr. Banvard's Panorama

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Diagnostic Test #5

Responding to Literature due

Friday, February 3, 2012

Media Center - check out new books for Responding to Literature

Discuss Rotary Club essay contest

Monday, February 6 & Wednesday, February 8

UNIT 6 Assessment: Create a glogster page using your outline on bullying or technology

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Begin Unit 7

Read two poems to identify tone and analyze tone through word choice. Write a collaborative summary statement.

Poems on pages 656-658 and 660-661 of the Prentice Hall literature book

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Present glogster pages to the class

HOMEWORK: ANALOGIES

Friday, February 10, 2012

Define and recognize analogies through teacher modeling, class discussions and written form.

Explain relationships between two sets of words.

Create analogies with a partner that identify the following relationships: synonyms, antonyms, same category, category member, part of a whole, change, function

Monday, February 13, 2012

QUIZ: Framework for Reading Informational Text: Plastic, Plastic Everywhere

Tuesday, February 14 - Friday, February 17

Author's Purpose

Monday, February 20 & Tuesday, February 21

TEACHER WORKDAYS

Wednesday, February 22

Determine author's purpose in nonfiction text

HOMEWORK: RESPONDING TO LITERATURE DUE TOMORROW

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Diagnostic Test #6

Responding to Literature due

Read and analyze prompts as a prewriting stage in the process.

Write and defend thesis statement

HOMEWORK: BRING LIBRARY BOOKS FOR RETURN TO THE MEDIA CENTER

Friday, February 24, 2012

Letters to the Editor - show students sample letters from the News and Observer and have them pick out the tone, author's attitude, author's purpose, bias, argument, supporting details, counter arguments and details to refute counter arguments

Create an outline to plan a persuasive letter to the editor and review the format of a business letter

Monday, February 27, 2012

Begin draft of letter to the editor in BUSINESS LETTER FORMAT (on back of your handout) with paragraphs as follows:

1. Thesis with brief explanation

2. First argument with supporting details

3. Counter argument with rebuttal

4. Strongest argument with supporting details

HOMEWORK: FINISH ROUGH DRAFT OF LETTER TO THE EDITOR AND BRING BACK SIGNED INTERIM

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Peer edit and revise the letter using checklists

HOMEWORK: COMPLETE THE FINAL DRAFT OF YOUR LETTER TO THE EDITOR AND BRING IN ALL PAPERS ATTACHED

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Turn in completed final draft along with plan, outline, rough draft, revision checklist, peer edit checklist and self evaluation rubric of persuasive writing.

Read and take focused notes while reading in order to make various connections to text using page 682 "For My Sister Molly Who In the Fifties"

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Read poems and take connection notes in order to increase comprehension

Practice a "during" reading strategy

HOMEWORK: HANDOUT 110 ON STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

Friday, March 2, 2012

Read poems and take connection notes in order to increase comprehension

Practice a "during" reading strategy

Monday, March 5, 2012

Read a poem, "Ring Out Wild Bells" and use context clues to complete the vocabulary chart

HOMEWORK: REWRITE "RING OUT WILD BELLS" USING MODERN VOCABULARY WORDS

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Share modernized poems

Read poems to interpret and analyze as well as make inferences by answering questions and discussing in teams. Reflect on the learning process in a discussion.

Read the two poems and identify hyperbole, metaphor, simile, personification and symbolism.

HOMEWORK: WRITE YOUR OWN POEM USING SYMBOLISM AND TWO OTHER TYPES OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE THAT WE DISCUSSED TODAY.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Apply during reading strategies to a poem. Identify figurative language (hyperbole, metaphor, simile, personification, symbolism) and sound devices (alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, rhyme, rhyme scheme) and the effect of their use.

HOMEWORK: IDENTIFY FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE AND SOUND DEVICES IN THE POEMS ON THE HANDOUT PROVIDED

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Listen to and read a poem to analyze poet's purpose.

Read the poem on page 680 and write down specific words/phrases that create a picture. Draw the simile in lines 32-36. What is the effect of the simile in lines 32-36 on the poem?

HOMEWORK: WRITE A POEM ABOUT NATURE COMPARING IT TO 3 THINGS USING SIMILES AND METAPHORS

Friday, March 9, 2012

Read 2 selections to identify common themes. Answer questions to show understanding of theme. Identify repetition, tone, author's attitude and purpose, mood and theme in the 2 selections. Then answer the following question: In what ways do these 2 selections remind us of the current issues in our country?

Monday, March 12, 2012

Raymond's Run - read and analyze the plot

HOMEWORK: FORGIVE MY GUILT (POEM)

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Review for benchmark test tomorrow

The Medicine Bag and The White Umbrella - handout activity on connections to self, other texts, and the world

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

LANGUAGE ARTS BENCHMARK

HOMEWORK: DAY 121 HANDOUT & RESPONDING TO LITERATURE

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Diagnostic Test #7

Responding to Literature due

Friday, March 16, 2012

CAREER DAY & EARLY RELEASE DAY

Monday, March 19 - Friday, March 23, 2012

Writer in Residence Michael Beadle

Poetry Week - allusions, theme, extended metaphors, voice, imagery, artwork incorporation

Monday, March 26 - Wednesday, March 28, 2012

TESTING FOR DATA COLLECTION/NOT GRADED - READING, MATH, SCIENCE

EOG TESTING MODE - RESULTS WILL BE USED TO GUIDE INSTRUCTION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SCHOOL YEAR

Thursday, March 29, 2012

8TH GRADE FIELD TRIP TO VIRGINIA

Friday, March 30, 2012

TEACHER WORKDAY

Monday, April 2 - Friday, April 6, 2012

SPRING BREAK

Monday, April 9, 2012

Framework for reading poetry

Submit illustrated poem for TEST GRADE

Day 122 handout

Tuesday, April 10 - Monday, April 23, 2012

Read informational articles to comprehend, respond and draw conclusions.

Kony, Trayvon Martin, Emmett Till, brachata, facebook purchases instagram

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Diagnostic Test #8

Responding to Literature

Wednesday, April 25 - Monday, April 30, 2012

CASE 21 Review

HOMEWORK: GET CASE 21 RESULTS SIGNED

Tuesday, May 1 - Friday, May 4, 2012

EOG REVIEW

Monday, May 7 - Thursday, May 10, 2012

The Diary of Anne Frank - introduction, gallery walk, KWL, read pages 1-93

Friday, May 11 - Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Study Island - EOG review

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

MATH EOG

Thursday, May 17, 2012

READING EOG

Friday, May 18, 2012

READING AND MATH EOG MAKEUPS

REWARD DAY FOR STUDENTS WHO SHOWED UP FOR REGULAR TESTING DAYS

Monday, May 21, 2012

8th Grade Science EOG

Tuesday, May 22 - Friday, May 25, 2012

8th Grade Science EOG makeups

The Diary of Anne Frank - connections to primary and secondary sources  through Book In A Day, Book Pass and "The Holocaust: A North Carolina Teacher's Resource"

View The Diary of Anne Frank

Monday, May 28, 2012

HOLIDAY - NO SCHOOL

Tuesday, May 29 - Friday, June 1, 2012

The Diary of Anne Frank - connections to primary and secondary sources through "The Holocaust: A North Carolina Teacher's Resource"

Responding to Literature on The Diary of Anne Frank

Group projects on The Diary of Anne Frank

MAY 31ST ALL TEXTBOOKS AND LIBRARY BOOKS DUE TO THE MEDIA CENTER. STUDENTS WILL BE TAKEN TO RETURN ALL BOOKS DURING THEIR LANGUAGE ARTS CLASS.

Monday, June 4, 2012

Group projects on The Diary of Anne Frank

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Group projects on The Diary of Anne Frank

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

LIGONFEST & TALENT SHOW

Thursday, June 7, 2012

8TH GRADE AWARDS DAY

8TH GRADE PICNIC