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Weekly Agendas –
All students are responsible for the information presented here.
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All students must do a five minute oral presentation
on an educational topic of their choice beginning on week 7.
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All students must complete a research paper during the
second nine weeks.
Week 1:
Vocabulary Unit 1; expository essay #1; Begin Romeo and Juliet/
Comprehension
exercises; Sustained Silent Reading; 3 Written Journals
Week 2: Finish
assigned journals; group essay #2 – persuasive; grammar quiz on
common usage
problems; Act I Romeo and Juliet
quiz; Sustained Silent
Week 3: Act II quiz on Romeo and
Juliet; introduce new grammar unit on
punctuation; essay 3: expository; sustained silent reading
Week 4: New
Vocabulary words; quiz and class activity on Act III; quiz on
Punctuation;
Group essay #4; Journals due Fri.; Vocabulary Test #2
Week 5:
Benchmark Testing on Monday and Tuesday; Act IV quiz (Weds); Final
Romeo and Juliet Test and Essay #5
(Fri.); New vocabulary words; SSR
Week 6: Begin The Odyssey; New vocabulary words; Library
(Tues/Weds) –
Oral
presentation due in two weeks; Journals due Fri.; Vocabulary test #3
on Friday; Essay #6 (Weds.); SSR; Group Projects due Oct. 3rd.
Week 7:
Continue with The Odyssey (quizzes
on Book 10 and 12); Grammar quiz on
Subject/verb agreement; Group essay #7; Homework in FCAT workbook.
Week 8: Begin
Oral presentations; Book 21 quiz on The
Odyssey; Essay #8.
Journals due on Friday.
Week 9: Finish The Odyssey – last Book quiz; PSAT
schedule changes – watch the
Movie The Odyssey; FCAT book homework;
continue oral presentations;
Essay #9; SSR; begin short stories in literature book; Vocabulary
test #4.
Week 10: Finish
oral presentations; continue with short stories in literature book;
Review for
midterm exam (Weds. Oct. 29).
Week 1:
Vocabulary Unit 1; expository essay; Begin The
Crucible;
Sustained
Silent
Week 2: Grammar
quiz on common usage problems; group essay #2: persuasive;
Act I The Crucible quiz; Puritan background
notes quiz; sustained silent
reading quiz; Vocabulary test #1
Week 3: Act
II/III quizzes on The Crucible;
introduce new grammar unit on
punctuation; essay 3: expository; sustained silent
reading.
Week 4: Collect
homework on “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”; Quiz
On Act
III; notes on incorporating a quote in an essay; quiz on punctuation;
Group
essay #4; submit journals; Vocabulary test #2
Week 5: Group essay #5; Begin The Great Gatsby; Distribute Group Projects on
The
Crucible (Due Oct. 3); Slide show on the 1920’s; Quiz on Ch.
1-3; SSR
Week 6: New
Vocabulary words; Library on Tues/Weds – Oral presentations due
In two
weeks; essay #6 (Weds.); SSR (Fri.); Vocabulary Test #3 (Fri.); Journals
Due Fri; quiz on Ch. 4-6 (Weds.)
Week 7: Reading
quiz on The Great Gatsby ch. 4-6; grammar quiz on subject-verb
Agreement; essay #7; SSR; reading homework each night in the novel.
Week 8: Begin
oral presentations; Finish the novel (quiz on ch.
7-9); Essay #8 on the
Novel; Journal check #4.
Week 9:
Continue oral presentations; begin short stories in the literature book;
Essay #9; SSR; Vocabulary test #4.
Week 10:
Continue reading short stories; review for midterm (Oct. 30th).