English 10
The Color of Water and
Personal Narrative Memoir
October
13
14
CERA Pre-Test
Intro to memoir
15
16
17
21 minutes in
Into to Color of
Free Reading
class
Water Friday
Explain time-line Read The Glass
Timeline Due
Themes, memoir
project
Castle in class
characteristics,
etc.
HW: finish
HW: Memoir
Finish The Glass
timeline for
characteristics
Castle
HW: prediction
Wednesday
sheet, timeline
sheet
20
21
22
23
24
Pick up Color of
Recap chapters 1 Grammar
Go over memoir Grammar Quiz 1
Water
and 2 – ch. 2
Wednesday
project
discussion
Free Reading
HW: read
Friday
HW: read
HW: read ch. 3
HW: read ch. 5
through ch. 9 for
through ch. 2
and 4
and 6
Monday, rough
draft
27
28
29
30
31
Rough Draft for Recap chapters 1- Grammar
Next best draft
Grammar Quiz
peer review
10
Wednesday
for peer review
2
HW: ch. 10, next
draft of memoir
for Thursday
November
3
Book discussion
Book discussion
HW: ch. 11 and
12 and next best
draft
Final draft due
Thursday!
Free Reading
Friday
HW: read
through ch. 15 by
Monday
4
5
6
7
No School
In class polishing Grammar
Grammar Quiz
day
Thursday
3

HW: ch. 16-19 by
Wednesday
10
In class
polishing/typing
HW: ch. 13 and
next best draft
HW: final draft
due tomorrow
11
Final Draft of
memoir due
Free Reading
Friday
Begin ch. 20 in
class
HW: ch. 21-22
12
Book discussion
Book discussion
Grammar
Wednesday
HW: read ch. 23
HW: read ch. 2425
HW: have
epilogue finished
by tomorrow
13
End of book
wrap up
14
Grammar Quiz
4
Free Reading
Friday
*You are responsible for taking care of your material from the book depository.
*Be prepared for sporadic “did you read it” quizzes through this unit.
*Due dates for drafts of memoir are set, and late passes will not be accepted for this project.