SP Poetry/Short Story unit
November 2012
Monday
Early Dismissal
29
Vocabulary Graveyard
-P. 33-34 (Book Cart)
-Haiku Epitaph
HW: p. 31 & 32
5
Langston Hughes:
Listening Practice
HW: Short Responses
12
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
30
31
Happy Halloween
-Audio – “The Raven”
-Begin discussion of
stanzas
6
7
Writing Workshop
Writing Workshop
Working with tone and the
Working with the theme
theme of Perseverance in
of Discrimination in
“Mother to Son” and “Still I
Friday
Cancellation due to
Hurricane Sandy
1
2
-Complete “The Raven” -Clichés, Puns, Idioms
-Watch “The Simpsons” HW: p. 36-39
Rise”
HW: p. 43-44
8
Silly Sonnets (p. 51-52)
-What is a Sonnet?
Writing Workshop
Creating our own silly
sonnets
“The Cold Within” and
“Still I Rise”
HW: 40-42
13
HW: Finish and Type your
Sonnet due 11/14
14
15
9
Poetry Quiz IV
(haiku, cliché, pun, idiom,
extended metaphor, tone,
perseverance)
Independent Reading Day
(School Book)
HW: p. 45-49
Distribute Hiroshima
16
Poetry Test Creation
-Robert Frost p.63
Decades
Independent Reading
-“Stopping By Woods..”
Project/Presentation
Day (School Book)
p.64-65
Overview
-“The Road Not Taken”
-Narrative Poetry
p. 66-67
19
20
21
22
23
Decades Planning Time Decades Planning Time
*NOTE: For each of the discussion days for Hiroshima, you are to
-Assigning
have the chapter read & the corresponding packet pages completed.
Groups/Decades
-Contact Info
26
27
28
29
30
Hiroshima
Hiroshima
Hiroshima
Hiroshima
Early Release Day
-Discussion:
-Discussion:
-Discussion:
-Discussion
Independent Reading
“A Noiseless Flash”
“The Fire”
“Details Are Being
“Panic Grass and
Day (School Book)
Investigated”
Feverfew”
*Books go home*
Periods 5, 7, 8, & 9
Short Story unit
December 2012
Monday
Tuesday
3
Writing the Blogs
Overview/Samples
Dist. Planning Pages
Wednesday
4
Test Prep
School Packet Due
Test Prep
10
Test Prep
11
Computers
Writing Blog 1
17
Decades Planning
Blog 1 due
Test Prep
18
Flex Day
24
Hoodwinked?
25
Thursday
Friday
7
6
-Decades Planning Time 1st Planning Page due
Peer Edit of Planning
Page
HW: Write Blog 1
Rough Draft
12
13
14
2nd Planning Page due Computers
Peer Edit of Planning
Writing Blog 2
Page
HW: Write Blog 2
Rough Draft
19
20
21
Hoodwinked?
Hoodwinked?
Writer’s Workshop
Reflection on
Hoodwinked
26
27
28
5