Class Agenda: Monday, October 15

1) Read and annotate "Marigolds"

2) Response to Literature Pre-writing

HW: Revise Injustice Narrative Essay

Class Agenda: Monday, October 8

) Warm-Up: The Infinitive Phrase (Period 4)/ Gerunds vs. Participles (Period 6)

2) Discuss introductions and opening hooks

3) Revise introductions for narrative essay about injustice

4) Peer review revised introductions

Homework: Finish revising introductions; type if you can!

Class Agenda: Friday, September 28

1) Vocab/Parts of Speech Jeopardy Review

2) Present "Most Dangerous Game" Visual Aids

Homework: Study vocab and parts of speech for test on Monday!

Class Agenda: Wednesday, September 26

1) Elements of Fiction Jeopardy

2) Apply Elements of Fiction to "Most Dangerous Game"

3) Assign figures of speech to partners

Class Agenda: Wednesday, September 19

1) Warm-up: Holt Handbook pg. 42--Exercise 1 (The Sentence)

2) (Per. 3, 7): Finish "American History"

3) Parts of Speech Pre-test

4) Parts of Speech Guided Notes

HW: Complete "What is a Verb?" packet (due Friday)

Class Agenda: Tuesday, September 18

1) Get out Narrative Essay Pre-writes:
a) Journal Freewrite
b) Plot Chart
c) 2-sided Pre-writing Handout

2) Use pre-writes to write narrative essay in class

3) Staple essay to pre-writes and hand in

No homework! Rest your hands!

Class Agenda: Friday, September 14

1) Narrative Essay Notes: Steps 3 and 4

2) Homework: Prewriting Handout (Details about plot, character, and setting; guiding theme/argument)

3) Start reading and completing reading guide for "American History" (pg. 565)

HW: 2-sided Prewriting Handout (due Tuesday)

Class Agenda: Wednesday, September 12

1) Hand in Expert Packets

2) Elements of Fiction: Point of View

3) Narrative Essay Notes: Basic Definition and Step One:

a) Annotate prompt
b) Discuss freewrite journal: Why We Write (homework)

4) Finish Film

5) L of KWL on Wiesel Documentary

Homework: Freewrite Journal: Why We Write

Class Agenda: Tuesday, September 11

1) 9/11 Reflection

2) Finish Expert Groups

3) KWL-- Journal

4) Wiesel documentary

No Homework!

Class Agenda: Monday, September 10

1) Class blog/website

2) Expert Group Prep (10-15 minutes)/Notebook Checks

3) Expert Group Teaching

No Homework!

Class Agenda: Friday, September 7, 2007

1) Elements of Fiction Guided Notes: Character and Conflict

2) Begin work in Character/Conflict Expert Groups

a) Read passages and select top three

b) Begin completing group's expert findings chart

No Homework!

Class Agenda: Thursday, September 6, 2007

1) Setting Visual Aids

2) Setting Group Project Presentations

No homework!

Class Agenda: Wednesday, September 5, 2007

1) Group Setting Projects:

a) 5 passages describing place

b) Write found poem

c) Write analysis

Homework: Type sentences, poem, and analysis; 1 question for Mr. Dzieza

Class Agenda: Tuesday, September 4, 2007

1) Clarify Points about Night

--Sighet, TRANSYLVANIA
--Concentration Camps: Birkenau --> Auschwitz --> BUNA --> Buchenwald

2) Night Test

3) Elements of Fiction Guided Notes: Theme and Setting

4) Start homework: Setting Journal Prompt

Homework: Setting Journal Prompt

Class Agenda: Friday, September 1, 2007

1) Journals: Wiesel quote and Safe Classroom Environment Journal

2) Elements of Fiction Guided Notes: Plot

3) Plot in Night with Groups/ Magnets on Board

Homework: Prepare for Night test on Tuesday; parent signatures and notebooks

Class Agenda: Thursday, August 31, 2007

1) Attendance/Class Survey and First Day of School Freewrite

2) Review Syllabus

Homework: Parent Signatures and Notebook Check next Friday, September 7th

Informative Holocaust websites

The student section of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's website: http://www.ushmm.org/education/forstudents/

Personal testimonies of holocaust survivors: http://www.museumoftolerance.com/site/c.juLVJ8MRKtH/b.1343627/k.630A/Personal_Testimonies.htm

Another Student's Response to _Night_