Semester I

MLA format used when typing papers

Paragraph writing: journal Q1

Expository research essay: Adolescence and Brain Based learning

Compare and Contrast Essay

Persuasive essay of choice presented orally

Friendly and business letters/Technical writing

Phrases/clauses

Sentence structure: Write When You’re Not Looking (children’s book to be read to BA):

Concentration: commas, points of ellipsis, transitional words, modifiers

Critique G8WA posted topics; practice writing from writing prompts

Identify and avoid: fragments, misplaced modifiers, dangling participles

Active/passive voice

Writer’s consistent point of view

Poetry: memorize, recite, and write

· “The Road Not Taken”

· “The Winning Attitude”

· “The Turkey Shot out of the Oven”

· “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Write original poems

Greek etymology

Semester II

MLA format used when typing papers

G8WA Practice Test

G8WA Test: January 19

Conventions: pronouns, verb tenses, dialogue, punctuation

Response to literature

Write a long narrative of choice

Job applications and references

Read: short story or novel to analyze

Memorize, recite, and write poetry

Commonly misspelled words

Create a movie script and produce or publish a 32-page anthology featuring the long narrative

CRCT prep

Grading:

100 points: daily grade, quizzes

200 points: tests, presentation recitations

600 points: 32-page book, exams, projects

WORK FOR THE WEEK

August 2011

Wk 1 August 8-12

Monday: Journal: explanation handout and first entry

What you should know about journals!

· This is a test grade taken over 40 days!

· Write a good paragraph for each entry and use vivid details because I read every entry and respond!

· Everyone could make 200/200 by the end of the quarter if you write every day and turn in your journal on your designated day. Circle the day you turn in.

1st: Monday 2^nd: Tuesday 5^th: Wednesday 6^th: Thursday 7^th: Friday

I will not take journals if you forget to turn it in. You will lose that week’s points. However, if you are absent on your turn-in day, write a note on the journal entry page that you were out, and turn it in the day you return.

The best thing about journals is that I get to know you, plus you can get an easy 200 points!

What you write in your journal is confidential until you reveal that …

You are being hurt or bullied

You are hurting or bullying someone

You are going to hurt yourself.

Then, the counselor will be consulted.

Memorize: “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost (brain-based learning) -timed-contest with other classes.

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost


TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;	5

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,	10

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.	15

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.	20

This poem will be recited (200 points) and written (200 points) on Friday.

Tuesday: Journal entry; recite poem from practice; write poem for daily grade.

Wednesday/Thursday: Journal; recite poem; list steps in brain-based learning; pre-write paragraph detailing how we learned the poem in such a short time period. Organize steps; rough draft.

Friday: Journal; recite poem to the teacher and write it from memory; write an expository paragraph which details how to learn using brain-based learning.

WK 2 August 15-19.

Monday: Journal; introduction of active/passive voice;

Review of point of view; revise rough draft of brain-based learning in active voice and consistent 2^nd person point of view

Tuesday: Journal; NTSSWTSWIAP; transitional words; compound sentences;

Revise rough draft using the lessons of today

Wednesday/Thursday: Journal; introduction of Greek I; write final draft of Brain-based Learning using the rubric as a guideline.

Friday: present paragraphs to the class

Wk3 August 22-26

Monday: Journal; introduction to adolescence unit (lecture + formal outline)

Tuesday: Journal; complete lecture and experiment

Wed./Thurs.: Journal: research article on adolescence; Greek review and puzzle

Friday: Journal: quiz on adolescence; Greek daily grade; pre-write for essay: “Adolescence, Do I Have It?”

Wk 4 August 29-

Monday: Journal; discuss simile and metaphor to use in the adolescence essay

Tuesday: Journal; teacher conference about essay introduction; Greek I quiz; write body paragraphs

Wednesday/Thursday: Journal; write essay conclusion paragraph; revise/edit

Friday: NO JOURNAL; write final draft