1. 10th Gr. Week 20 Agenda & Obj. 1/20-1/24
Monday: No School
Tuesday – Wednesday Intro to Fahrenheit 451
By the end of Gr.10, read and comprehend literature…
Write routinely… shorter time frames… for a range of tasks…
Conduct short…research projects to answer a question or solve…
Thursday:
Determine the meaning of words… as they are used in the text…
Helping visual learners understand the play. Stopping every so often to ask questions.
Friday: Act V
Analyze how complex characters… develop…
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development…
By the end of Gr.9, read and comprehend literature…

2. Daily Writing: My Thoughts 1/21/14
Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail:
What do you think about when you can't fall asleep?
What things do you think are beautiful?
Planner
Due tomorrow:
Prepare for presentation
Bring in a picture/ad showing ways people escape, ways people deal with the pressures of life.

3. Tuesday: Intro to Fahrenheit 451
Show/Share your research on censorship!
Go to the computer lab and create a presentation for your selected topic:
The atomic Era and the cold War
Mccarthyism
Popular culture in the US at the Beginning of the Fifties
Ray Bradbury & Utopian vs. Dystopian literature

4. Daily Writing: Courage 1/22/14
Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail:
What do you think courage means?
“Courage is grace under pressure.” ~Ernest Hemingway
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” ~Mark Twain
Planner
Vocab & ?s due Friday

5. Wednesday: Intro to Fahrenheit
Take 5 minutes to chat in your groups.
Groups present!
Agree/Disagree statements – hand these in before you leave.

6. Daily Writing: BEST Friend 1/23/14
Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail:
What is most important to you in a friend-- loyalty, generosity, honesty--why?
What makes your best friend your best friend?
Planner
Vocab & ?s due Friday

7. Read and answer questions.
Thursday: Fahrenheit 451
Vocab & ?s Fahrenheit 451
Read and answer questions.

8. “Men are what their mothers made them.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Daily Writing: Mom 1/24/14
Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail:
“Men are what their mothers made them.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.” ~Chris Brown
Planner
Vocab & ?s due Friday

9. Friday:
Show me

10. What parts of nature do you like best? What do you do for exercise?
Daily Writing: What? /27/14
Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail:
What parts of nature do you like best?
What do you do for exercise?
What four things are most important in your life?

11. Hot Seat
Designated “hot seat” in front of the room. 2 minutes to ask the seated person any question in a rapid-fire succession. The hot seat member is allowed to say “pass” for any too personal questions — avoid asking anything too personal, as it can ruin the fun.
Sample questions:
“What would you do if you won the lottery?”
“If you could meet and have dinner with any person who ever lived, who would it be and why? What would you ask that person?”
“What three words would you use to describe yourself?”
Questions can be funny, too, such as:
“What was your most embarrassing moment?”
“What was your proudest moment?”
“What was the silliest thing you’ve ever done?”