1. Language Arts Agenda Mrs. Petrovitch Week of Nov. 24

2. ELA 8 Monday, Nov. 24 Record Agenda and Targets Dress Code Debate “Bullying” Close and Critical Reminders/Future Dates 40 Book Challenge Reading logs Book Advertisements

3. Hero in the Hallway (3:55) http://www.herointhehallway.com/ What is Bullying (4:15) http://www.stopbullying.gov/videos/2010/09/what-is-bullying.html

4. Read the article, “I Survived Being Bullied”, By Adama Kamara Talk to the Text as you read Complete the Multiple Choice Questions Read the poem Why? Reflect upon the poem By Talking to the Text on the side margins Writing: Using the writing structures, Cause and Effect, Description, Problem and Solution, Problem/Solution or Sequence, write about a time when you may have been bullied (Text to Self Connection), a time when you witnessed bullying occurring (Text to Self Connection), viewed an occurrence of bullying (Text to World Connection) or you have read about bullying (Text to Text Connection). Choose one structure to write.

5. Description  for example  in particular  for instance  to illustrate  such as  most important  another Cause and Effect  therefore  as a result  lead(s) to  because of  in order to  for these reasons  thus  if-then  may be due to

6. Problem/Solution  the problem is  the difficulty is  it is possible to  if-then  one challenge is  thereforeCompare/Contrast  like  similar to  Unlike  In contrast  Whereas  while  Although  different from  As opposed to  instead of  however  as well as  either/or

7. Sequence Sequence  First  Next  Last  Another  Then  Finally  Before  Preceding  Following  Additionally

8. ELA 8 Tuesday, Nov. 25 Record Agenda and Targets Bullying Close and Critical Analysis IDR-20 min. Journal 5 min. Reminders/Future Dates 40 Book Challenge Reading logs Book Advertisement