Category: Power Of Language

Wednesday 3.16

3/16/2016

1/28/2016

Today we:

HOMEWORK
Due TODAY
Print "Saturday's Child" by Countee Cullen.

Due THURSDAY January 28
"Great Debaters" PEAL paragraph

1/22/2016

Today we:

HOMEWORK
Due Tuesday, January 26
Print "Saturday's Child" by Countee Cullen.

Due Thursday, January 28
"Great Debaters" PEAL paragraph

1/20/2016

Today we:

HOMEWORK
Due Friday, January 22

Revise and edit your Word Obituary. You will turn this in with your rubric and rough draft.

1/13/2016

Today we:

completed a 10 minute, line-count warm-up (see slide)
shared our warm-ups
checked for 3 late assignments
reviewed homework ("The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow")
Perspectives
- blindfolded volunteers; object recognition
- listened to the story "Elephant and the Blind Men"
Language Shapes Perspective
- "Iconoclasts" debrief
- Poison and Bavarian Crystal word discussion

HOMEWORK
DUE FRIDAY 1.15
"The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow"

Also make sure you have completed the following:

Parent Acknowledgement of Syllabus
Community Supplies (tissues; 24-ct pencils; paper towels or cleaning wipes.
Iconoclasts Release Form
Writer's Notebook Definition Cover

1/7/2016

Today we:

turned in our warm-up (see slide below) for a grade
discussed the idea of "concept" vs. "topic" and analyzed images to decide what concepts they were suggesting
received Writer's Notebook assignment
compared "I Hear America Singing" to "I Too"
- purpose of each author
- patterns in each poem
- concepts in each poem and any concepts that are shared
Began vocabulary building with Grammar Review