Numbers after activities refer to GLE's listed in Unit Standards .

August 11-15

Reading (1) Reading Counts (My Brother Sam Is Dead) #4, 9

(2) Figurative Language #3 (3) Story Elements #2 (4) Students independently read and analyze "Home" pp. 11-13 in Princeton Review LEAP practice book #2,3,4,5,9,12,13,38

English (1) Daily Quick Start (proofreading and vocab activity) #1, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 (2) Spelling : List 1 of Often Misspelled Words #26,27

(3) Standard English Usage (common errors) #29

August 17-21

Reading (1) Reading Counts: Students continue to read class novel My Brother Sam Is Dead. They will document pages read each day and summarize those pages in their reading logs. Upon completion, they will take the computer test on the novel worth 10 points toward the required Reading Counts goal (25 regular ed, 30 Honors). Students will then take an open- book, teacher- created test on the book which will count as a reading test grade. Students may read other Reading Counts books at home while reading the required novel in class.Reading Counts ends Oct. 2 (2) Students will identify , create, and interpret figurative language. Test on fig. lang. Fri., Aug. 21. #3. (3) Students will participate in class discussion and analyzation of "Home" read last week. #2,3,4,5,9,12,13,38 (4) Students will identify story elements. #2

English (1) Quick Start ...see above (2) List 1 spelling...test Wed., Aug. 19 #26, 27 (3) Create writing folder...due Tues., Aug. 25... rubric used for grading given to students (4) Continue to review common usage errors...test Fri., Aug. 21 #29 (5) Subjects, predicates, sentence types pp. 1-9 in grammar workbook. # 23, 24, 25

August 24-28

Reading (1) Reading Counts (see above) (2) Read and analyze Raymond's Run pp.32-45 in lit book #2,3,4,5,6,9,12,13,38 (3) Review story elements by identifying them in The Little Engine That Could and other selections #2

English (1) Daily Quick Start (see above) (2) Personalized writing folder due Tues., Aug. 25. Students were given a rubric to use in creating folder. This will count as an English test grade. All writing assignments will be completed at school and kept in this folder. This folder stays at school. (3) Bibliographic notation writing #45 (4) Types of sentences, subjects, and predicates. #

August 31-Sept. 4

Reading (1) Reading Counts (see above) (2) Review and test on Raymond's Run pp. 32-45 in lit book. Study story elements, workbook pp., and story questions to prepare for test. # 2, 3, 4, 9, 12, 13, 38. Test Tues. or Wed. (3) Read independently Harriet Tubman pg. 260 in lit book . #2, 3, 4, 12, 13, 38 (4) Continue to review story elements #12

English (1) Quick Start (see above) (2) Review subjects and predicates pp. 1-12 in grammar workbook and practice sentences from class and homework. Test on Wed., Sept. 2. # 23, 24, 25 (3) Continue to write bibliographic notation for books and magazines.#45

Sept. 8-11

Reading (1) Reading Counts (see above) (2) Discuss and analyze Harriet Tubman pg. 260 in lit book #2, 3, 4, 9, 12, 12, 38...test Fri. (3) Trip to library to check out RC books (4) Continue to review story elements via classwork and homework #12...test next week

English (1) Quick Start (see above) (2) Review subjects and predicates via pp. 19-21 in workbook and practice test...retest on Thurs., Sept. 10 # 23, 24, 25 (3) Continue to write bibliographic notation for books and magazines #45...test next week (4) Return graded writing folders and introduce standard essay outline #15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27

Sept. 14-18

Reading (1) Reading Counts (see above) (2) Continue reviewing Harriet Tubman pg. 260 in lit book. Test Wed., Sept. 16 # 2, 3, 4, 9, 12, 38 (3) Continue to review story elements...test will not be this week. #12 (4) Read the Mysterious Mr. Lincoln pg. 276 in text. # 2, 3, 4, 9, 12, 13, 38 (5) Compare/contrast the lives of Tubman and Lincoln. #2

English (1) Quick Start (see above) test this week on Q.S. vocab words # 1-20 (2) Finish chapter 1 in grammar workbook # 23, 24, 25 (3) Introduce standard essay outline which we didn't get to last week. # 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 (4) Continue to write bibliographic notation #45.

Sept. 21-25

Explore test... Monday-Wednesday

Reading (1) Reading Counts (2) Review story elements (test Fri., Sept. 25) (3) Library lesson on Thurs.

English (1) Quick Start (2) Write bibliographic notation (test Tues., Sept. 29) #45 (3) Review direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nouns, and predicate adjectives pp. 22-27 in grammar workbook (test Wed., Sept. 30) (4) Review chapter 1 in grammar workbook pp.1-30 (test Thurs., Oct. 1)

Sept. 28-Oct. 1

Reading (1) Reading Counts --Ends Oct. 1. (book test points & logs due) (2) Continue to read "Flowers for Algernon" pg. 190 in lit book #2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 12, 13, 38 (3) Review for nine- weeks exam ( figurative language, story elements, comprehension of independently read selections, terms on H. Tubman test)

English (1) Quick Start #1, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 (2) Review bibliographic notation writing (test Tues., Sept. 29) #45 (3) Review direct and indirect object, predicate adjective and predicate noun (test Wed., Sept. 30) #23, 24 (4) Review chapter 1 pp. 1-30 in grammar workbook (test Thurs. , Oct. 1) #23, 24 (5) Review for 9 weeks exam ( common usage errors, Q.S. vocab #1-20, List 1 spelling, bibliographic notation writing, chapter 1 in grammar workbook), proofreading)

Oct. 5-9

Reading (1) Finish reading Flowers for Algernon pp. 190-215 in lit book # 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 12, 13, 38 (2) Answer study questions for Flowers for Algernon (distributed in class, not those in book) (3) Review and correct returned story elements test (4) 9-weeks exam

English (1) Begin chapter 2 in grammar workbook pp. 31-48 #25 (2) Review and correct returned tests on bibliographic notation, direct objects, indirect objects, predicate adjectives, predicate nouns, and chapter 1 in grammar workbook # 45, 23, 24, 25 (3) Introduce standard essay outline #18, 15, 16 (4) 9-weeks exam

SECOND NINE WEEKS

October 12-16

Reading (1) Complete, discuss, and correct study questions for Flowers for Algernon. Test on Flowers for Algernon on Thursday, Oct. 15. # 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 12, 13, 33 (2) Test on comprehension of independently read selections on Mon., Oct. 12 (same GLE's) (3) Reading Counts...25 points needed for 1st period this nine weeks, 35 needed for 4th and 6th (4) Poetry terms # 7,8 (5) Read, interpret, and memorize Invictus. # 7, 8, 9, 38, 12, 13

English (1) Quick Start #1, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 (2) List 2 spelling # 26, 27 (3) Prepare to write expository essay # 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 (4) Continue chapter 2 on nouns in grammar workbook. # 25

Oct. 19-23

Reading (1) Reading Counts (2) Memorize and interpret "Invictus"...test Thurs. # 3, 8, 13 (3) Poetry terms #3 (4) Read and interpret " The Song of Hiawatha" pg. 121 in reading workbook

English (1) Quick Start (2) Nouns pp. 31-48 in grammar workbook (3) Use the writing process to write an expository essay (see GLE's above)

Oct. 26-30

Reading (1) Reading Counts (2) Read and analyze excerpt from The Song of Hiawatha pp. 120-128 in reading workbook #3, 8, 13 (3) Poetry terms #3 (4) Begin study of life and works of Edgar Allan Poe #3, 8, 13

English (1) Quick Start (2) Continue nouns pp. 31-48 in grammar workbook (3) Finish writing expository essays

Nov. 2-6

Reading (1) Reading Counts (2) Review poetry terms...test Wed., Nov. 4 (3) Continue study of life and works of Edgar Allan Poe

English (1) Quick Start (2) Finish nouns...test Friday, Nov. 6 (3) Review Quick Start vocab words #21-40...test Thurs., Nov. 5

Nov. 9-13

Reading (1) Reading Counts (2) Read and interpret Paul Revere's Ride and O Captain! My Captain! (3) Complete study of The Raven and Edgar Allan Poe...test Fri., Nov. 13 (4) Library lesson on Thurs. (5) Review Explore test results

English (1) Quick Start (2) Finish noun unit...test Thurs., Nov. 12 (3) Begin pronouns pp. 49-77 in grammar workbook

Nov. 16-20

Reading (1) Reading Counts #4 (2) Read chapters 1-10 of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as a class novel. Answer study questions. # 2, 3, 4, 5, 9,12, 13, 38 (3) Read and interpret O Captain! My Captain! and other short poems via homework # 13, 7

English (1) Quick Start #1, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 (2) Review pronouns pp. 49-77 in grammar workbook (3) Memorize and interpret A Nation's Strength (poem)

Nov. 30-Dec. 4

Reading  (1)  Reading Counts (go to library for new books on Mon.)  (2)  Continue reading and discussing in class The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  (3)  Analyze poems via homework assignments

English  (1)  Quick Start  (2)  Continue to review pronouns in workbook pp. 55-68  (3)  Review graded expository essay, rewrite making corrections, type  (4)  Analyze and memorize A Nation's Strength by Emerson