1 st Marking Period

 Bell Ringer:  Please Fill Out the Technology Survey on your desk.  Agenda:  1. Technology Survey  2. Procedures  3. Syllabus  4. Symbols of Us  5. Name Game Essential Question: Who are you?

 Bell Ringer:  AOW – please take an AOW and Nonfiction Notes paper from the supply table, get out a piece of paper, and wait for instruction.  Agenda:  1. Bell Ringer  2. Symbols of US  3. Name Game  4. “Where I’m From Poetry” Essential Question: Who are you?

 Bell Ringer:  Vocabulary – Get out your notebooks/paper/ notecards  Agenda:  1. Vocab  2. “Where I’m From” Poetry Essential Question: Who are you?

 Bell Ringer:  Vocabulary – Get out your notebooks/paper/ notecards  Agenda:  1. Vocab  2. “Where I’m From” Poetry Essential Question: Who are you?

 Bell Ringer:  1. Gum Worksheet  Agenda:  1. Bell Ringer  2. “Where I’m From” Poetry Essential Question: Who are you?

 Bell Ringer:  Turn in vocab.  Agenda:  1. Bell Ringer  2. Turn in Vocab cards  3. “Where I’m From” Poetry Essential Question: Who are you? How can we use Publisher to enhance our poetry?

 Bell Ringer:  Get out GUM and AOW assignments.  Discuss.  Agenda:  1. Bell Ringer  2. Pass Back Vocab  3. Books  4. Start Native American Myths, Legends, and Folktales Unit Essential Question:

 Bell Ringer:  Please take a Vocab practice sheet and get started (only on the vocab side)!  Agenda:  1. Vocab Review/pass back papers  2. Native American Unit Essential Question: (see next slide)

 Bell Ringer:  Please get out the Bell Ringer paper from yesterday and work on the GUM side.  Agenda:  1. Bell Ringer  2. finish Notes  3. Begin reading Sky Woman Essential Question: How do the Senecas feel about nature?

 Bell Ringer:  1. Take 5 minutes to look over your vocabulary words. Ready…Go!  Agenda:  1. Review vocab  2. Quiz  3. Notes/Sky Woman Essential Question: What characteristics of a myth does Sky Woman have?

 Bell Ringer:  On a slip of yellow paper, tell me your honest opinion of reading and what kinds of things (genre of books, magazines, etc.) that you like to read, and how often you read for fun.  Agenda:  1. Bell Ringer  2. Notes  3. Video/Surprise  4. Sky Woman Essential Question: (see next slide)

 What’s the difference between myths, legends, and folktales?  Why are the American myths, legends, and folktales different from those found in other parts of the world?  What are the characteristics of an American myth, legend, or folktale?  Why do we tell stories about our origins?

 Bell Ringer:  1. Pick up AOW from the table.  Agenda:  1. AOW  2. Sky Woman  3. Great Medicine Essential Question: What characteristics of a myth do Sky Woman and Great Medicine have?

 Bell Ringer:  1. New Vocab list!  Agenda:  1. Vocab  2. Finish Sky Woman discussion  3. Great Medicine Essential Question: What characteristics do Sky Woman and Great Medicine have?

 Bell Ringer:  1. Pick up a GUM worksheet on the table  Agenda:  1. work on Gum  2. Work on worksheet for Great Medicine  3. Compare and Contrast Sheet  4. If done – start reading “The Owl Never Sleeps at Night on page 517. Essential Question: What characteristics of a myth do Sky Woman and Great Medicine have?

 Bell Ringer:  1. Turn in Vocab  Agenda:  1. Bell ringer  2. go over Qs  3. Notes for Great Medicine  4. Compare and Contrast Essential Question: What characteristics of a myth do Sky Woman and Great Medicine have?

 Bell Ringer:  1. Get out, go over, and turn in GUM and AOW  Agenda:  1. Bell Ringer  2. Questions  3. Notes  4. Compare/ Contrast essay Essential Question: How can we organize information in order to write a compare and contrast essay?

 Bell Ringer:  Password!  Agenda:  1. Password  2. C/C essay  3. When finished with the c/c essay – start reading the 1 st How and Why Myth on page 517 Essential Question: How can we organize information in order to write a compare and contrast essay?

 Bell Ringer:  5 minutes to look over your vocab!  Agenda:  1. Bell Ringer  2. Vocab Quiz  3. When done, make sure you’ve read the myth on page 517 before tomorrow. Essential Question:

 Bell Ringer:  1. Happy National Punctuation Day!  (video)  Agenda:  1. Bell Ringer  2. “Owl” story  3. QASI  4. Rainbow Crow Essential Question: How are “How and Why Myths” different from Creation myths?

 Bell Ringer:  Pick up AOW from the table.  Agenda:  1. Go over AOW  2. Read The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog on page 526. Essential Question: How are “How and Why Myths” different from Creation myths? **Take a look at the schedule board of the upcoming quiz!**

 Bell Ringer:  Vocab  Agenda:  1. Vocab  2. Discuss Elk Dog  3. Review Essential Question: How are “How and Why Myths” different from Creation myths?

 Bell Ringer:  Get out all notes and book  Agenda:  1. Quiz  2. GUM Essential Question:

 Put it on the table  Take a GUM and start working on it  Start looking at our next story,  The Devil and Daniel Webster p. 534

 Bell Ringer:  GUM!  Agenda:  1. Gum  2. The Devil and Daniel Webster p. 534 Essential Question: How is exaggeration used in legends?

 Bell Ringer:  Writer’s Notebook:  Option 1: How could you be late to your own funeral?  Option 2: What moment in time would you have most liked to witness?  Agenda:  1. WNB  2. Collect AOW, hand back cards  3. The Devil and Daniel Webster Essential Question: How is exaggeration used in legends?

 Bell Ringer:  -Practice Vocab – pick up paper!  Agenda:  1. Practice Vocab  2. Discuss The Devil and Daniel Webster  3. Creative Writing Essential Question: Is there a moral to The Devil and Daniel Webster?

 Bell Ringer:  -Practice GUM  Agenda:  1. GUM  2. Creative Writing Essential Question:

 Bell Ringer:  Take 5 minutes to review!  Agenda:  1. Vocab Quiz  2. When done..  A. Continue working on creative writing  B. Read The Serpentine Bobsled on page 549 – by Tuesday! Essential Question:

 Bell Ringer:  Get out essay  Agenda:  1. Collect essay  2. AOW  3. Pass Back Papers  Bobsled story Essential Question: What is a legend?

 Bell Ringer: Vocab  Agenda:  1. Vocab  2. Pass back papers  3. 8 th – Davy Crockett  4. Start Jumping Frog Essential Question: What is a legend?

 Bell Ringer:  Turn in Vocab  Agenda:  1. Go over Questions  2. Start The Legend of Sleepy Hallow Essential Question: How is Jumping Frog a legend?

 Bell Ringer:  Agenda: Essential Question: