1. Cavalier Time What is your author’s purpose?
What point of view is your text written from?
Describe the setting. How will the setting affect the conflict of your text?
Make a connection to your text. Explain this connection.
Create your own writing prompt about what you have read so far. Use two academic vocabulary words.

2. Monday
Take out your introductory paragraph about animal experimentation.
Reflect: What should a strong argumentative essay include. Write this in your interactive notebooks.

3. Monday: Brain Break
What should be included in an argumentative essay?

4. Word Sort: Group Activity
Rite of passage
Melanoma
advocate
opponents
accentuate
disappointed
Malignant
dictatorship
prohibit
Forbidden
Banned
teammates
Permitted
democracy
Elated
Diminish
discourage 4

5. Brain Break: 30 Second Expert
1. What do you already know about tanning beds? Share what you know with your 5

6. Monday: Writing An Argument
Read the articles about tanning.
Annotate the articles.
Create your claim. Make sure your claim has two “because” reasons.
Create a counter claim.
Begin your first paragraph. 6

7. Body Paragraphs and Conclusion
Your body paragraph should have a topic or introduction sentence.
Present three pieces of evidence to support your claim.
End with a concluding sentence
The conclusion paragraph should begin with an ending transition. Restate your claim and counterclaim, and end with a concluding sentence.

8. Writing Prompt
Read the articles titled “Many Teen Girls Using Tanning Beds: Report” and “Ban on indoor tanning for teens a ‘dictatorship,’ says one salon owner.” Formulate your ideas concerning the issue of teenagers and tanning beds. Write an argumentative essay stating your position on whether or not government officials should legally ban teenagers from tanning beds. Support your position with convincing reasons and several pieces of cited text from both articles. Be sure to elaborate or explain your reasons in detail.

9. Tuesday Take out your argument materials.
Reflect: What is the easiest part of writing an argument? What do you find is the most difficult?

10. Brain Break Tuesday
1. Taboo

11. Restate
Say
Tell
Repeat
Again
words

12. Visualize
Eyes
See
Imagine
Think about
Close

13. Tuesday: Writing An Argument
Read the articles about tanning.
Annotate the articles.
Create your claim. Make sure your claim has two “because” reasons.
Create a counter claim.
Begin your first paragraph. 13

14. Body Paragraphs and Conclusion
Each body paragraph should have a topic or introduction sentence.
Present three pieces of evidence to support your claim.
End with a concluding sentence
The conclusion should begin with an ending transition. Restate your claim and counterclaim, and end with a concluding sentence.

15. Writing Prompt
Read the articles titled “Many Teen Girls Using Tanning Beds: Report” and “Ban on indoor tanning for teens a ‘dictatorship,’ says one salon owner.” Formulate your ideas concerning the issue of teenagers and tanning beds. Write an argumentative essay stating your position on whether or not government officials should legally ban teenagers from tanning beds. Support your position with convincing reasons and several pieces of cited text from both articles. Be sure to elaborate or explain your reasons in detail.

16. Tuesday Wrap up Reflect on what you have accomplished today.
Make a list of what you still need to finish

17. Wednesday Warm up! Words 1-6

18. Figurative Language Pretest
1. Take your time. The data from this assessment will allow your teachers to see what terms we need to work the most with!

19. Interactive Notebooks
1. Glue your learning goals and poetry language in your notebooks.

20. Poetry Zip Zap Zop
What do you know about poetry?

21. Poetic Sound Devices
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Consonance
assonance

22. Types of Rhyme
Internal
External
Complete
Partial

23. Structure in Poetry
Verse
Stanza
Refrain
Couplet
Quatrain
octave

24. Types of Poetry Narrative Limerick Sonnet Lyric Free verse Ode
Diamante
Elegy

25. Edgar Allen Poe
What surprised you? Poster Activity

26. The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe
Take out your mood and tone words.
Listen to the audio and read along to The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe.
What mood and tone words go with this poem?
What is the theme?
What types of figurative language or poetry devices are used in this poem?
How does the mood and tone affect the theme of the poem?

27. Thursday Warm Up: Words 7-12

28. Academic Vocabulary Test
When you finish your test, turn it in and read Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe. It is found on page 579 in your textbooks.
Compare and Contrast Annabel Lee to The Bells. Discuss theme, mood and tone, figurative language, and poetic devices.

29. Annabel Lee What rhyme scheme is used in the first stanza?
What is the speaker’s relationship to Annabel Lee?
Reread this stanza. Identify words and phrases that are repeated. What emphasis does this repetition create.
The last two stanzas are among the longest in the poem. What ideas and emotions does the poet emphasize by ending the poem with long stanzas.

30. Friday Warm Up Open your books to Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe.
Compare and contrast poetry to a narrative.
Compare and contrast poetry to a song.

31. Annabel Lee What rhyme scheme is used in the first stanza?
What is the speaker’s relationship to Annabel Lee?
Reread this stanza. Identify words and phrases that are repeated. What emphasis does this repetition create.
The last two stanzas are among the longest in the poem. What ideas and emotions does the poet emphasize by ending the poem with long stanzas.

32. TS-CAPTT Strategy T: Title, think about the title before reading
S: Shift, Is there a shift or a change in speaker, setting, or mood?
C: Connotation and Figurative Language: how are words and phrases used beyond the literal?
A: Attitude, What is the author’s tone or attitude towards the subject?
P: Paraphrase, Restate the poem in your own words.
T: Title Revisited: Examine the title again, Do you have other ideas about the meaning now?
T: Theme: Determine the message in the poem.

33. ICU by Read the poem ICU by .
Compare the theme, mood, tone, figurative language, and poetic elements to Annabel Lee.