1. Monday, April 4 SSR Today you will need: Do Now: Objective: Homework:
Independent Reading Novel
Reader’s AND Writer’s Notebook
Pen or Pencil
Do Now:
SSR
Objective:
I can apply my knowledge of text structures, text features, and my chosen research topic to create a featured article and Google Slide presentation.
Homework:
Vocabulary Word Study (Quiz on April 15)

2. Motivational Monday
Write a note of encouragement or thanks to someone in your life. It could be a friend, your parents, a teacher, an administrator, anyone : )

3. April 4: “Introduction to Poetry”
I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.
-Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch.

4. Your Turn...
OK, now let's beat the poem a little bit "to find out what it really means." What metaphor is used in each stanza to represent finding meaning in a poem?

5. Featured Article
Create a featured article using EIGHT text features and THREE text structures (make sure to use signal words in each paragraph). You will use a Google Document to create your featured article. You will then turn your final product in using Google.com/classroom.

6. Slide Show Slide 1 - Essential Questions about your topic
Slide 2 - Picture of your Featured Article
Slide 3 - Supporting Information (Talking points)
Slide 4 - Citations Page
(MLA Format, points will be deducted if this format is not followed. Use Easy Bib or Mackinvia to correctly cite your sources.)

7. Tuesday, April 5 SSR Today you will need: Do Now: Objective: Homework:
Independent Reading Novel
Reader’s AND Writer’s Notebook
Pen or Pencil
Do Now:
SSR
Objective:
I can apply my knowledge of text structures, text features, and my chosen research topic to create a featured article and Google Slide presentation.
Homework:
Vocabulary Word Study (Quiz on April 15)

8. Tricky Tuesday
Write two riddles using your Unit 14 vocabulary words!

9. April 5: “I Am Offering This Poem”
Keep it, treasure it as you would if you were lost, needing direction, in the wilderness life becomes when mature; and in the corner of your drawer, tucked away like a cabin or a hogan in dense trees, come knocking, and I will answer, give you directions, and let you warm yourself by this fire, rest by this fire, and make you feel safe,
I love you,
It's all I have to give, and it's all anyone needs to live, and to go on living inside, when the world outside no longer cares if you live or die; remember,
I love you.
I am offering this poem to you, since I have nothing else to give. Keep it like a warm coat, when winter comes to cover you, or like a pair of thick socks the cold cannot bite through,
I love you,
I have nothing else to give you, so it is a pot full of yellow corn to warm your belly in the winter, it is a scarf for your head, to wear over your hair, to tie up around your face,
-Jimmy Santiago Baca
Click here to listen

10. Metapoetry
Metapoetry is poetry about poetry, especially self-conscious poems that focus on objects or items associated with writing or creating poetry. These might include puns on the word "feet" for example, referring on one level to the body part, and on another to the metrical feet of a poem.
Your Turn: Write and illustrate your own metapoem.

11. Featured Article
Create a featured article using EIGHT text features and THREE text structures (make sure to use signal words in each paragraph). You will use a Google Document to create your featured article. You will then turn your final product in using Google.com/classroom.

12. Slide Show Slide 1 - Essential Questions about your topic
Slide 2 - Picture of your Featured Article
Slide 3 - Supporting Information (Talking points)
Slide 4 - Citations Page
(MLA Format, points will be deducted if this format is not followed. Use Easy Bib or Mackinvia to correctly cite your sources.)

13. Wednesday, April 6 SSR Today you will need: Do Now: Objective:
Independent Reading Novel
Reader’s AND Writer’s Notebook
Pen or Pencil
Do Now:
SSR
Objective:
I can apply my knowledge of pre-reading strategies to meet the author, build background knowledge, and watch a short video over the 1960s to prepare for The Outsiders.
Homework:
Vocabulary Word Study (Quiz on April 15)

14. Study your Unit 14 Vocabulary Words!
Wicked Word Wednesday
Study your Unit 14 Vocabulary Words!
Quizlet on my site!
10 Minutes!

15. April 6: “Acquainted with the Night”
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain. I have out-walked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly height, O luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.
-Robert Frost

16. The Outsiders

17. The Outsiders
You will be given a series of statements. After each statement you will be asked to choose a corner of the room.
If you:
Strongly agree- Go to the top left corner of the room
Agree- Go to the top right corner of the room
Disagree- Go to the back right corner of the room
Strongly Disagree- Go to the back left corner of the room

18. I think there are cliques in my school.
Do you Agree? Disagree?
I think there are cliques in my school.

19. I don’t associate with people who are different from me.
Do you Agree? Disagree?
I don’t associate with people who are different from me.

20. Many of my friends are like my family.
Do you Agree? Disagree?
Many of my friends are like my family.

21. Do you Agree? Disagree?
I would do anything for my friends if they were in a rough situation, no matter the cost.

22. I have a rival or a group of people that I do not get along with.
Do you Agree? Disagree?
I have a rival or a group of people that I do not get along with.

23. Sometimes violence is the only way that things can be solved.
Do you Agree? Disagree?
Sometimes violence is the only way that things can be solved.

24. Revenge is always sweet.
Do you Agree? Disagree?
Revenge is always sweet.

25. Dying for someone is heroic.
Do you Agree? Disagree?
Dying for someone is heroic.

26. Do you Agree? Disagree?
Pick one of the statements that really stood out to you and write a one-paragraph response as to why you agree or disagree.

27. Pre-reading Info
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28. Pre-reading Info *denotation~a dictionary definition
*connotation~what the word makes you think of
~~Using the above definitions, write the DENOTATION of :
~~CLIQUES
~~GANGS – a group of recurrently associating individuals or close friends or family with identifiable leadership and internal organization
Now, for you, what are the CONNOTATIONS?

29. Author Info Read the short Biography.
Go to Google.com/classroom and complete the Bio Quiz by Monday.

30. Thursday, April 7 SSR Today you will need: Do Now: Objective:
Independent Reading Novel
Reader’s AND Writer’s Notebook
Pen or Pencil
Do Now:
SSR
Objective:
I can apply my knowledge of my chosen research topic to present my performance task to the class.
Homework:
Vocabulary Word Study (Quiz on April 15)

31. Write THREE tips and tricks for presenting your performance task!
Tipster Thursday
Write THREE tips and tricks for presenting your performance task!

32. April 7: “Cliché”
What is this????
My life is an open book. It lies here on a glass tabletop, its pages shamelessly exposed, outspread like a bird with hundreds of thin paper wings.
It is a biography, needless to say, and I am reading and writing it simultaneously in a language troublesome and private. Every reader must be a translator with a thick lexicon.
-Billy Collins
No one has read the whole thing but me. Most dip into the middle for a few paragraphs, then move on to other shelves, other libraries. Some have time only for the illustrations.
I love to feel the daily turning of the pages, the sentences unwinding like string, and when something really important happens, I walk out to the edge of the page and, always the student, make an asterisk, a little star, in the margin.

33. You can begin your poem "My life is . . . "
Extended Metaphor
Your Turn: Think of a metaphor for your own life that you can extend in this same way. Think of something which has several components, such as a kind of television show, movie, or game. Even certain kinds of food that involve many elements -- pizza, casserole, chef salad, -- or ingredients -- cakes and cookies, could inspire your poem. What about complicated places -- highway, library, cruise ship, dormitory, apartment house, shopping mall, a stadium, a garden? Perhaps your metaphor might extend an activity, like playing a football game (LOL) or driving a car.
You can begin your poem "My life is "

34. Friday, April 8 SSR Today you will need: Do Now: Objective: Homework:
Independent Reading Novel
Reader’s AND Writer’s Notebook
Pen or Pencil
Do Now:
SSR
Objective:
I can apply my knowledge of my chosen research topic to present my performance task to the class.
Homework:
Enjoy your weekend (Quiz on April 15)

35. April 8: Concrete Poems

36. Your Turn
Now you get to try your hand at writing a concrete poem of your own.