Dr. George’s 9th Lit. Agenda 10/1/2018 – 10/5/2018

Essential Questions for the week… What makes a good story? How does an author define his/her style?

REMEMBER: ALL WARM-UPS SHOULD BE AT LEAST ONE PARAGRAPH IN LENGTH Monday 10/1/18 Warm-up Reviewing the elements of a short story: When writing a short story, what elements (parts) should be clear to the reader? Explain. REMEMBER: ALL WARM-UPS SHOULD BE AT LEAST ONE PARAGRAPH IN LENGTH

Monday 10/1/18 Agenda Short Story Prewrite: Turn to page 98 in your book. Complete the short story brainstorming activity individually. Short Story Writing: We will head to the lab so that you can start your short story. Use the MLA template on Edmodo to make sure your story is formatted correctly.

HW: USA TEST PREP DUE FRIDAY @8:00am Tech Tuesday 10/2/2018 Short Story Writing: We will head to the lab so that you can start your short story. Use the MLA template on Edmodo to make sure your story is formatted correctly. HW: USA TEST PREP DUE FRIDAY @8:00am

Wednesday (lab again) 10/3/2018 Short Story Writing: We will head to the lab so that you can start your short story. Use the MLA template on Edmodo to make sure your story is formatted correctly. HW: USA TEST PREP DUE FRIDAY

USA TEST PREP IS DUE BY TOMORROW AT 8:00 am. No exceptions! Thursday 10/4/2018 – NO WARM UP Touchstone Testing: Place your phone in the collector and clear off your desk. Wait for further instructions. IR Project: You will have class time to work on your independent reading project. USE YOUR TIME WISELY! USA TEST PREP IS DUE BY TOMORROW AT 8:00 am. No exceptions!

Friday 10/5/2018 TED Talk (moved from Thursday?) IR Project: You will have class time to work on your independent reading project. USE YOUR TIME WISELY!

This week’s standards… ELAGSE9-10RL3: Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. ELAGSE9-10RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it and manipulate time create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise. ELAGSE9-10W3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. ELAGSE9-10W9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. CCRS L.9-10.6: Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words. CCRS L.0-10.5b: Analyze nuances in the meaning of words with similar denotations.

Unit Assessments… Formative Short Story Prewrite TED Talk Summative Personal Short Story Independent Reading project