25-26 Fall Greenhouse-Period 4 Assignments

-Be ready for a 5-point quiz on the words at the bottom of page 766 in the textbook.

Bring all books except ADM to class. We'll go to the library and return them and grab two copies of Romeo and Juliet.

Vocabulary-There will be a 20 point matching quiz on vocabulary from this quarter. Study the Raisin in the Sun vocabulary in your packet and the nine words from ADM's chapter 13 and the textbook. There is a picture of these nine words and their definitions just under the "For Reference" heading in the Classwork tab.

Reflection questions- There will be a short answer portion of your final. You will answer approximately three reflection questions about the class and your first semester performance. Write thoughtful responses, meet the word count, and do not use AI if you are hoping for as many points as possible on this portion.

Socratic seminar- There will also be a graded discussion of A Raisin in the Sun.

Homework due 12/16:
-Study for the final.
-Bring your Raisin in the Sun packet, your book, and your charged Chromebook.

Done in Class on 12/15:
-Create a turnitin account.
-Talk tiered consequences for AI flaggings.
-Do a Raisin in the Sun timed write.

Homework due 12/15:
-Finish the book! There are approximately 20 pages left.
-WE'LL DO SOME IN-CLASS WRITING ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY. BRING YOUR CHARGED CHROMEBOOK.
-See the post of reminders about what we're doing on the day of your final, 12/18.

Done during class on 12/11:
-Phones turned in
-Read Act II, scene two as a group.
-1/2 page writing on Raisin in the Sun dreams
-Break
-Raisin film excerpt

Homework due on 12/11:
-DON'T read ahead.
-DO finish the last chunk of vocabulary in the packet.

Done in Class on 12/9:
-Phones
-Breathe and bulletin
-New roles for Act II, scene two
-Break
-Write.
-Film

Homework due 12/8:
-Finish reading Act II, scene 1 (through page 95).
-Do vocabulary for Act II, scene 2. Find the parts of speech yourself.

Done during class on 12/5:
-Phones
-Breathe.
-Stamp paragraph homework.
-Film
-Break
-Read Act II, scene one in class.

Homework due on 11/20:
-Get to page 250 in your IR book.

Done during class on 11/18:
-Phones
-Breathe.
-Quiz
-Hughes' poetry with textbook work on page A35
-Vocab. exercise at the bottom of A35
-Break
-IR and update log

Homework due 11/18:
-Read the rest of chapter 13 of ADM and bring the book back to class.
-Be 200 pages into your IR book by 11/20.

Done during class on 11/14:
-Fill out today's box for your reading log.
-Read your IR book.
-Do a cartoon on page A34.
-Break
-Start to read ADM, chapter 13 as a class.

Homework due 11/14:
-Be sure to bring your copies of ADM tomorrow!
-Also, you should be 150 pages into your IR book by tomorrow and 250 pages in by 11/20.

Homework due 11/12:
-Be 100 pages into your IR book.Done during class on 11/7:
-Phones
-Breathe and bulletin
-Presentations
-Get A 29, A32 and A33 stamped.
-Break
-Read.

Homework due on 11/7:
-Read 20+ more pages in your IR book.
-Final presenters, be ready on Friday!

Done during class on 11/5:
-Phones
-Breathe and Bulletin
-Read for 20-25 minutes.
-Talk cartoon samples and how the blasphemous banana could be better.
-Now do your own cartoon on page A31. Use a word from today's reading.
-Break?
-Read pages 342-346 in the GREEN grammar book. Complete exercises 1, 2, 3, 8, and 9 on notebook pages A32 and A33.
-Independent work if time allows

Homework due on 11/5:
-Read 20+ more pages in your IR book.

Done during class on 10/31:
-Phones
-Breathe and bulletin
-Presentations
-TPX and difs, page one in packet
-Read and notebook activity
-Break
-Vocabulary cartoons in groups

-Read your book for 20 more minutes.

Homework due 10/29:
-Read your independent reading book for 20 minutes.

Done during class on 10/27:
-Phones
-Breathe and bulletin
-Presentations
-Independent reading

Homework due 10/27:
-If you finished your poem/freewrite in class today, start to memorize it.
-Presentations are M-W-F next week.

Done in class on 10/23:
-Phones
-Breathe.
-Bulletin
-Review directions for the presentation.
-Review DIFS -Listen and Look
-Time to work on work on poem/freewrite
-Independent reading: choose a book from the list below.
-Two laps and then to the library
-Return to class to read.

Book list:
Classic-To Kill a Mockingbird
Modern and popular-
Speak
Turtles All The Way Down
Aristotle and Dante
Patron Saints of Nothing
Modern and less popular-
This Time Will Be Different
Everything We Never Had
A Step From Heaven
All My Rage
The Hate U Give
We Are Not Free

Homework due on 10/23:
-Bring TPX back.Done during class on 10/21:
-Phones
-Breathe and bulletn
-TPX Socratic seminar debrief
-Break
-DIFS notes on A9

Homework due on 10/21:
-There is no homework.

Done during class on 10/17:
-Phones
-Breathe.
-Socratic seminar on TPX.
-Those who missed the seminar because they performed at the assembly will get an alternative assignment on Tuesday during class.

Homework due 10/17:
-There is no homework.

Done during class on 10/15:
-Phones
-Breathe and bulletin
-Notebooks and Reboots returned
-Notebook timed writes on TPX (must be completed in the physical classroom)
-Break
-Work with your Reboot. Student writing recitations begin next Tuesday.

Homework due 10/15:
-Finish the book!

Done during class on 10/13:
-Phones
-Breathe and bulletin
-Review poems from last night's reading.
-Complete the 3-square on A25.
-Break
-Highlight, reboot, share, repeat and hand in this in-class assignment.
-Start homework.
-Turn in notebooks.

Homework due on 10/13:
-Read 297-330 and do the top two boxes of A23.

Homework due on 10/9:
-Read 255-296 and complete A23.
-Be prepared for vocab. quiz.

Done during class on 10/7:
-Phones
-Breathe and bulletin
-Review poems on pages 238, 244, and 252.
-Start A23.
-Break
-Film with notes on A22 and notebook check

Homework due 10/7:
-Read 223-253 and do A21. It's the usual set up, including a new piece of writing at the bottom.
-Bring notebooks back!
-Check back on Saturday for some details about next Thursday's vocabulary quiz.

Done in Class on the 10/2:
-Phones
-Breathe. and bulletin
-Stamp A19.
-Pair share about recent TPX reading.
-Start reading homework on A21.
-Break and A20
-Film with notes on A22
-Get notebooks stamped as ready on time!

Have your life map and pages A1-A19 ready.

Homework due 10/2:
-Read 191-220 and do the top of A19.
-Notebooks are due!

Done during class on 9/30:
-Phones
-Breathe and bulletin
-Reboot your reboot! Do this at the bottom of A19.
-Break and finish A15.
-Share your poem with a friend. Talk about these two questions: 1. How can you alter the diction in some interesting way? 2. What non-sight imagery can you build into your poem? Then, add those changes to the bottom of A19 in a different color pen.
-Independent work time: continue to work the emerging personal poem, prepare for the notebook check or do the reading homework.

Homework due 9/30:
-Complete the top half of A17 filling the space with the questions I posed regarding ADM's chapter 3.
-Read TPX 161-190 and complete A18.

Done during class on 9/26:
-Phones
-Breathe and bulletin
-Personal writing reboot -using a favorite line from a previous free write or poem, do a reboot. Start with the favorite line and see if this writing can take you somewhere new. Fill the bottom half of A17. Get it stamped.
-Break and A15
-Discuss 126 and 127 of TPX.
-Start TPX pages with A18 (a typical 3-square).

Homework due 9/26:
-Read TPX 111-160 and do page A16.
-Look back at all previous FW's or poems and highlight or circle a favorite line in each.

Done during class on 9/24:
-Phones
-Breathe and bulletin
-ADM group work
-Stamp A14.
-Break with A15.
-Start reading homework and A16.

Homework due 9/24:
-Read ADM, chapter3. Bring both books back to class.

Done during class on 9/22:
-Phones
-Breathe and bulletin
-Presentation and iReady scores shared
-TPX 80-110 on A14.
-Get two of these stamped today: A10, A13 and A14. Finish the 3rd and get it stamped next time.
-Break with A15.
-CWA

Homework due 9/18:
-Read pages 21-41 in TPX.

Done during class on 9/16:
-Phones
-Breathe.
-Bulletin
-More artifact presentations?
-Work with TPX and A11 and A12.
-Listen to professional poetry reading
-Break +A10
-Back to TPX.

Homework due on 9/16
-Read 3-21 of The Poet X.

Done during class on 9/12:
-Phones
-Breathe.
-Artifact presentations
-Bulletin and safety video
-Break and A10
-Take notes on theme and topic and the bottom of A9.
-Go to the library and check out The Poet X.

Homework due on 9/12:
-Those who didn't present artifacts on Wednesday, must present on Friday.
-There is no additional homework.

Done in class on 9/10:
-Phones
-Breathe.
-Pair share
-Share artifacts.
-Break and add to A10.
-Look at some Miller poetry and start to talk topic versus theme.

Homework due 9/10:
-Bring in an artifact that says something about you or your backgroud. Be prepared to talk about it for a full minute.
-Finish the 20 minute TED Talk attached here. We watched about 14 minutes of it in class.


Done during class on 9/8:
-Phones
-Breathe.
-Bulletin
-Sing! Redo quiz for 8/10 points during lunch on Wednesday.
-Discuss ADM. Review vocab. and note chapter 1's important points at the bottom of A8. See the attached definitions, which you'll need to know for a vocab. quiz at the end of the quarter.
-Start A9 -Fill the top half with some ideas of artifacts to bring in and share with the class. What specific things will you share about the artifacts. Bring in at least one physical artifact/object OR email me a picture of it. You must put "artifact" in the subject line.

Homework due on 9/8:
-Do ADM's vocab. on page A7. Then read all of chapter one and be ready to talk about it on Monday.
-We're iReadying for one more day. Bring something extra to read if you're done!

Done during class on 9/4:
-Phones
-Breathe.
-Quiz
-"This I Believe" by Jackie Robinson and the bottom of A6.
-Break and add to A5
-Read A Different Mirror introduction as a class.
-iReady
-Collect signed syllabus.

Define these chapter one words/terms at the top of A7 before reading chapter one.

1. Multicultural adj -
2. Master Narrative noun -
3. Prospective adj -
4. Settlement noun -
5. Teeming verb -
6. Inclusive adj -
7. Chinese Exclusion Act - 8. Anti-semitism -

Homework due 9/4:
-Bring Chromebook and headphones.
-Bring your textbook, A Different Mirror.
-Study for the Alma Mater quiz.
-Get syllabus signed.

Done during class on 9/2:
-Phones
-Breathe and bulletin
-Sing/practice the Alma Mater
-Read "This I Believe" essay.
-Do top of A6.
-Discuss syllabus.
-iReady

Homework due on 9/2:
-Bring your charged Chromebook and headphones.
-Try to get to 9 hours sleep with some consistent bed time.
-Spend 20 minutes memorizing the Alma Mater (link is attached).

Done in class on 8/28:
-Phones
-Bulletin
-Breathe.
-Finish A2.
-Reading check -discuss the sleep article.
-Copy Alma Mater onto the bottom of A4.
-Watch TED Talk on growing your happiness.
-Body break and A5.
-Start the iReady diagnostic.

Homework due 8/28:
-Finish reading the article on sleep.
-Bring your charged Chromebook and headphones if you have them.

Done during class on 8/26:
-Phones
-Bulletin
-Breathe.
-Talk and record on A2.
-Sign A3.
-Cut and paste maps into your notebook.
-Do a quick write at the top of A4.
-Start reading sleep article as a group.

Homework due 8/26:
Define these words at the bottom of A3:
1. Legion
2. Synchrony
3. off-kilter
4. detritus
5. panacea
6. debris
7. proxy -authority or power to act as a substitute for a person or thing
8. cortisol
9. glial
10. toggle

Done in class on 8/22:
Phones
Breathe.
Sleep and eat check in top right box of A2
Read Funny in Farsi.
Do a free write on the top half of page A3.

Homework due 8/22:
-There is no homework.

Done in class on 8/20:
-Phones
-Breathe.
-Start page A2 =sleep and eat tracking
-Watch TED Talk on eating
-Reading Funny in Farsi as a class.
-Do the bottom of A1: personal free write and get it stamped.

Homework due 8/20:
Bring your spiral notebook to class everyday!

Done in class on 8/18:
-New seating chart
-Phone storage
-Breathe, 60-second practice
-TED Talk on breathing
-Try it for another 60 seconds!
-Get life maps stamped.
-Discuss Google Classroom posting.
-Read Funny in Farsi as a class.
-Do the top of A1 -a personal free write on any of the topics from Funny in Farsi. Get it stamped.

Homework:
-Bring your completed Life Map. It does not need to be colored.
-Bring a wide-ruled spiral notebook of 70+ pages.