1. Monday

2. What does your name mean?
Where did you get your name? Does it have a particular meaning?
What does the name itself mean?
What do you like/dislike about your name?
If you could change your name to something else, what would you choose? Why?
*everyone will get a chance to share!

3. Affirmations
#1:
To:
Thank you for ______________. I think you are _______________.
From: #2
You are a great ______________. I appreciate that you ________________.

4. 7.W.02 Writing Objective: The Highly Proficient student can write an informative/ explanatory essay that conveys complex ideas/concepts with a strongly developed focus and organization.   Essential Questions: 1. What is an informative/explanatory essay? How is it structured? How can the structure be used to fully explain my topic? 2.How can a writer include complex ideas and concepts in one’s essay? 3.How does a writer focus these concepts using relative content?

5. Tuesday

6. Journal/Discussion
What problem(s) would you like to solve in your future?
might be world-wide problems? community problems? family problems? personal problems? use your imagination
If you’re a little confused: this is just a unique way of thinking
about who/what you want to be when you grow up!

7. Wednesday

8. What is your reaction to the end of Tangerine?
Journal/Discussion
What is your reaction to the end of Tangerine?
5 sentences

9. 7.W.02 Writing Objective: The Highly Proficient student can write an informative/ explanatory essay that conveys complex ideas/concepts with a strongly developed focus and organization.   Essential Questions: 1. What is an informative/explanatory essay? How is it structured? How can the structure be used to fully explain my topic? 2.How can a writer include complex ideas and concepts in one’s essay? 3.How does a writer focus these concepts using relative content?

10. Thursday

11. Journal/Discussion Affirmations
Write a special note to someone in this classroom on the provided sticky note and give it to them.
Affirmations
#1: Write to a classmate, and give them a compliment about their work in class.
#2: Write to a friend, and give them a compliment about their friendship with you.

12. TANGERINE TEST REVIEW

13. What did Paul notice after his mother took the exit ramp in Florida?
A huge bonfire of citrus trees

14. When Kerri asked Paul what had damaged his eyes, he wondered-
Why he didn’t remember what he thought had happened

15. What did Paul do when Portable 19 started to fall into the sinkhole?
He helped rescue kids from the portable

16. What was the second “miracle” that happened to Paul?
The IEP “disappeared” from his file

17. What happened at Erik’s first football game?
Antoine pulled the ball away and Erik did a back-flop in the mud

18. What did Paul and Luis both like best about the tangerine business?
The smell of the grove

19. After Erik hit Tino, Paul saw something like ________ or ________ in Erik’s eyes.
sorrow or fear

20. When Luis asked Paul if he wanted to help fight the freeze, Paul said-
They were all War Eagles

21. What helped Paul remember the truth about his eyes?
Spray painted graffiti, the silver-gray wall, Erik yelling the name Castor

22. What did Paul learn at the “important meeting” at his house?
Erik and Arthur were the thieves that had stolen from the tented houses

23. 7.W.02 Writing Objective: The Highly Proficient student can write an informative/ explanatory essay that conveys complex ideas/concepts with a strongly developed focus and organization.   Essential Questions: 1. What is an informative/explanatory essay? How is it structured? How can the structure be used to fully explain my topic? 2.How can a writer include complex ideas and concepts in one’s essay? 3.How does a writer focus these concepts using relative content?

24. Friday

25. Journal
What plans do you have for this upcoming extended weekend? If you don’t have any plans, what would you like to do?
5 sentences

26. 7.W.02 Writing Objective: The Highly Proficient student can write an informative/ explanatory essay that conveys complex ideas/concepts with a strongly developed focus and organization.   Essential Questions: 1. What is an informative/explanatory essay? How is it structured? How can the structure be used to fully explain my topic? 2.How can a writer include complex ideas and concepts in one’s essay? 3.How does a writer focus these concepts using relative content?