Week 1
Common
Assessment
Week
Week 2
Watsons Go to
Birmingham
and Roll of
Thunder, Hear
my Cry
conclusion
Week 3
Persuasive
Unit
Monday
Nov. 4
Pretest (Daily
Grade)
Homework –
Post –it
strategy with
Chicago
Tribune article
11
Warm Up –
Book Wrap Up
Essay Pass
Around
Tuesday
5
Reteaching
DaySplit Classes
with Mrs.
Hotchkiss
Wednesday
6
Common
Assessment
12 Book Fair
Warm Up –
Essay Pass
Around
13
Warm Up –
Textual
Evidence
Pre-write
18
Warm Up –
What is
persuasive?
14
Warm Up –
Textual
Evidence
Practice
st
1 Draft
19
20
Final Draft Due Warm Up –
Rhetorical
Warm Up –
Fallacy Notes
Central
Argument
Examples of
Rhetorical
“I Have a
Fallacies
Dream”
“Veteran
Homework –
Returns
Study for quiz
Becomes
Symbol”
Homework –
Study for quiz
Autobiography
vs. Fictional
Adaptation
Unit
Post-Novel
Questions Due
Homework –
Finish Prewrite
“Remarks on
Signing Civil
Rights Bill
Week 4
Friday
8
Go over test
Corrections
15
Warm Up –
Check 1st Draft
Writer’s
Workshop
1st Draft
Central
Argument
Notes
Thanksgiving
Break
Thursday
7
Common
Assessment
25
Thanksgiving
Break
Dec. 2
Warm Up –
Definitions
Autobiography
vs. Fictional
Adaptation
26
Thanksgiving
Break
3
Warm Up –
Qualities of
Autobiography
Homework –
1st Draft
21
Warm Up –
Rhetorical
Fallacy Table
as class
“Wrong Orbit”
Homework –
Final Draft
22
Warm Up –
Terms Quiz
Mission DayThe Search for
the Seven
Cities of Gold
Rhetorical
Fallacy Table
on own
Homework –
Study for quiz
Homework –
Study for quiz
27
Thanksgiving
Break
4
Warm Up –
Autobiography
vs. Fictional
Adaptation
28
Thanksgiving
Break
5
Warm Up –
Qualities of
Fictional
Adaption
“Playing Time”
“Playing Time”
“Eat Dirt”
29
Thanksgiving
Break
6
Warm Up –
Exit Ticket
Review
Autobiography
vs. Fictional
Adaptation
Week 5
Fiction and
Nonfiction
Review
Week 6
Fiction and
Nonfiction
Review
9
Warm Up –
Terms Review
10
Warm Up –
Quickwrite
“Charles” –
Review of
Fiction
“Charles” –
Review of
Fiction
Homework –
Study for
Terms Test
Homework –
Study for
Terms Test
16
Warm Up –
Dictionary
Skills
17
Semester
Exam
Test Review
11
Warm Up –
Practice
Questions
“Going for the
Gold” – Review
of Nonfiction
Homework –
Study for
Terms Test
18
Semester
Exam
Exit Ticket Autobiography
vs. Fictional
Adaptation
12
Warm Up –
Partner Study
Questions
13
Warm Up –
Study
Independently
“Going for the
Gold” - Review Terms Test
of Nonfiction
Homework –
Study for
Terms Test
19
Early Release
20
Early Release
“No News”
“No News”