1. Thursday August 10 1st AGENDA:
Attendance/assigned seating
Front office/paper work
You will receive the last paper tomorrow, therefore I will not collect until Monday.
Turn in signed syllabus
Google classroom!
Chromebook rental fee/user agreement
Course Fee= $10 Lots of copies!!!
Partner Drawing
Getting to know each other=introductions
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Illustrate your current public speaking ability
Communicate with a peer to complete a task

2. Thursday August 10 6th and 7th AGENDA:
Attendance/assigned seating
Turn in signed syllabus
Anyone need a hard copy?
Course Fee= $10 Lots of copies!!!
Partner Drawing
Getting to know each other=introductions
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Illustrate your current public speaking ability
Communicate with a peer to complete a task

3. Communication Game Groups of 2 Backs to each other
1 drawer, 1 communicator; who is who?
All artists on one side, all communicators on the other
You can say anything necessary to accomplish this task, but you may not look at each other’s paper
5 minutes!
PAUSE!
Artist, please hand your drawing to your communicator
Communicator, you may now look at the progress of the drawing.  Please take note of any misunderstandings or inaccuracies.
ARTISTS may NOT see the original drawing

4. Getting to know each other
Full name + What you go by/Want to be called
Something you’re passionate about:
Hobbies/interests?
How do you want to be recognized in this class?
Something unique/different about yourself
Desires/what you want out of this class?
Strengths and weaknesses of:
Reading/English/Literature/Grammar/Vocab/Time Constraints
(TOPICS COVERED ON THE ACT/COMPASS TEST)
What characteristics/attributes you look for or want in a teacher

5. friday August 11 1st AGENDA: BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Attendance
Turn in signed syllabus
Chromebook rental fee/user agreement
Course Fee= $10 Lots of copies!!!
Finish Introductions
Introduce “Week in the life of…” assignment
Journal #1 “A week in the life of…”
ACT Score poster
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Illustrate your current public speaking ability
Communicate with a peer to complete a task

6. Friday August 11 6th & 7th AGENDA:
Attendance
Turn in signed syllabus
Course Fee= $10 Lots of copies!!!
Finish Introductions
Introduce “Week in the life of…” assignment
ACT Score poster
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Illustrate your current public speaking ability
Communicate with a peer to complete a task

7. monday August 14 1st AGENDA: Attendance Turn in signed syllabus
Chromebook rental fee/user agreement
Course Fee= $10 Lots of copies!!!
Front office paperwork: all or none!
Partner Up: ACT English Scavenger Hunt
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Illustrate your current public speaking ability
Communicate with a peer to complete a task

8. AGENDA: monday August 14 Attendance Turn in signed syllabus
Course Fee= $10 Lots of copies!!!
Partner Up: ACT English Scavenger Hunt
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Illustrate your current public speaking ability
Communicate with a peer to complete a task

9. ACT English Scavenger Hunt

10. monday August 14 2nd AGENDA: Attendance/assigned seating
Turn in signed syllabus
Course Fee= $10 Lots of copies!!!
Getting to know each other= introductions
ACT English Scavenger Hunt
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Illustrate your current public speaking ability
Communicate with a peer to complete a task

11. Getting to know each other
Full name + What you go by/Want to be called
Something you’re passionate about:
Hobbies/interests?
How do you want to be recognized in this class?
Something unique/different about yourself
Desires/what you want out of this class?
Strengths and weaknesses of:
Reading/English/Literature/Grammar/Vocab/Time Constraints
(TOPICS COVERED ON THE ACT/COMPASS TEST)
What characteristics/attributes you look for or want in a teacher

12. tUESday August 15 2nd AGENDA: Attendance Turn in signed syllabus
Course Fee= $10 Lots of copies!!!
Partner UP: Communication Game
Partner Up: ACT English Scavenger Hunt
Finish ACT posters
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Illustrate your current public speaking ability
Communicate with a peer to complete a task

13. Tuesday August 15 1st AGENDA:
Attendance
Turn in signed syllabus
Chromebook rental fee/user agreement
Course Fee= $10 Lots of copies!!!
Front office paperwork: all or none!
ACT English test Craven needs to see what you can, and cannot, do.
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Illustrate your current ability on act english

14. Tuesday August 15 6th & 7th AGENDA: Attendance Turn in signed syllabus
Course Fee= $10 Lots of copies!!!
ACT English test Craven needs to see what you can, and cannot, do.
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Illustrate your current ability on act english

15. Wednesday August 16 2nd AGENDA: Attendance Turn in signed syllabus
Course Fee= $10 Lots of copies!!!
ACT English test Craven needs to see what you can, and cannot, do.
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Illustrate your current ability on act english

16. Wednesday August 16 1stAGENDA:
Attendance
Turn in signed syllabus
Course Fee= $10 Lots of copies!!!
Office paper work
Journal #2: “ACT English test reflection”
Journal #3: “Independent and Dependent”
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Illustrate your current ability on act english

17. Thursday August 16 2nd AGENDA:
Attendance
Turn in signed syllabus
Course Fee= $10 Lots of copies!!!
Journal #2: “ACT English test reflection”
Journal #3: “Independent and Dependent”
Independent or dependent?
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Illustrate your current ability on act english

18. Journal #1 8/17 “ACT English test reflection”
SCORE X 1.25=_______ X36=__________/75= act English score
How did it go?
What are things you felt confident/good about?
What are things you are concerned with/need to work on?

19. Journal #2 8/17 “Independent and dependent”
Any and all thoughts/ connections to independent?
Any and all thoughts/ connections to dependent?

20. Thursday August 17 1stAGENDA:
ASAP: ACT score on poster
Attendance
Office paper work?
Review independent vs. dependent
Quiz/understanding check
Go over as a class
How to combine independent and dependent
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Illustrate your current ability on act english

21. Friday August 18 2nd AGENDA: BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Attendance
Syllabus? Course fee?
Review independent vs. dependent
Quiz/understanding check
Go over as a class
How to combine independent and dependent
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Identify an independent and/or dependent clause

22. Friday August 18 BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: 1st AGENDA:
Attendance
Syllabus? Course fee?
Chrome Books!!!!!
Lockers (my bad!)
Review quick question over yesterday
School House Rock: conjuctions!
Whole class activity: make grammatically correct groups
Chromebooks= “a week in the life of…”
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Identify an independent and/or dependent clause

23. tUESday August 22 2ND AGENDA:
Review quick question over yesterday
School House Rock: conjunctions!
Whole class activity: make grammatically correct groups
Chromebooks= “a week in the life of…”
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Identify an independent and/or dependent clause

24. Quick Questions What is a dependent clause?
What is an independent clause?
What are the 3 ways to join two independent clauses? ?
What is the 1 way to join an independent clause with a dependent clause?

25. Group Activity
Each of you has one of the following: independent, dependent, punctuation with a conjunction, punctuation
Create groups With at least 2 and no more than 3 people to create a compound/complex sentence
the sentence does NOT have to make logical sense, but it must be grammatically correct
Don’t worry about ending the sentence with puncuation

26. Tuesday August 22 BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
1st AGENDA:
Sentence Structure practice
Trivia Style
On your own
Journal #4 “Essential”
Practice as a class
Chromebooks= “a week in the life of…” first work day
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Identify an independent and/or dependent clause

27. Trivia???? Small groups/teams Create a school appropriate team name
Each team/group gets answer choices (a,b,c,d and f, g,h,j)
We will review questions on the board
Mr. Craven will read the question and answer choices, you will get a set amount of time to confer with your team and pick a letter/answer choice
Once mr. craven says it is time, on the count of three every team will show their choice at once and hold it
Once mr. craven gets your score, we will then go over the question and answer choices
Remember the goal of this is to learn!!!! If learning is not taking place, we will not play trivia

28. Trivia???? Mr. Craven’s favorite college sports team is?UL UK
TENNESSEE
DUKE
Mr. Craven’s dog is named?
MONTREZL
HUCKLEBERRY
PAPI CUTEFACE
TWAIN
Mr. Craven’s daughter’s name is?
CARTER
ANN
WILEY
MARLEY

29. Wednesday August 23 BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
1st AGENDA:
Trivia
Sentence Structure
Chromebooks= “a week in the life of…”
Second work day, Tomorrow is last work day in class
Due friday
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Identify an independent and/or dependent clause