Week of Oct. 10, 2022

WEEK OF Oct. 10, 2022 **Subject to change due to class progress

PLEASE NOTE: Spirit Week activities Thursday and Friday, work TBD.

Period 1: English 9/10

Monday: Editorial due. The rest of the week will be spent working on Spirit Week activities.

Period 2: ELA 6

MON - WED: Document based writing practice for standardized writing tests.

Period 3: Literacy

MON – TUES: Holes vocabulary (group): correctional, penal, canteen, prospect, barren, saliva, coincidence, auctioned, desolate, burlap, torment, buzzard, wearily, scarcity, amusing, humiliating, vacancies, destiny, sanitary, torment.

WED: Begin next reading Holes Chapters 4 – 6, pages 11 – 25, aloud in class.

Period 4: English 11/12

All week: focus on the short story, “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin, discuss and analyze, and identify literary devices, including irony.

VOCABULARY – class. Pillar, accord, speculation, beneficent, avalanche, obstacles, indulgent, astonished, imperious, disquieting, subtle, quadroon, riveted, despairingly, stubble, spectacle, remnant.

Period 5: ELA 7

Begin Unit 2, “Take Control.” How do actions define us? “I decided,” “my options are,” and “my choice is. . .” “AHA Moments” = what shifts a character’s actions/views.”

MON VOCAB (group): metabolism, moot, futile, deltoids, biceps, goiter, delirious, cultural, aspect, rogue.

TUES – WED: Story Txt, p. 103, indiv. assm. p. 107, group assessment p. 108.

Period 6: Law (no class Wednesdays)

MON -TUES: Students present findings on law assigned to research. GRADED quiz on regulation. Begin Unit 3: The connection between morality, ethics and laws.