Agenda for 10/17-10/21

Monday Tuesday Wed-Thur Friday

Warm-up: Housekeeping or VW Test Corrections- 80

Activity:

We do: SIFTT over “Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress Forward” AND “Mother to Son”

632,636

Lab 806 with Ms. Drexler-

TURN IN HOMEWORK

Warm-Up: Absolute Brush Strokes

Activity:

SIFTT:

We Do: “Identity” page 621

We Do: “My Captain! My Captain” page 752

You Do: “I Saw Old General at Bay” page 756

Library!!!

SUMMATIVE: “Limelight” analysis using SIFFT

Introduce Project: Notebook

October 17, 2011I CAN : read to understand the meaning of figurative language and the underlying message of a text.

Warm-up: Housekeeping or VW Test Corrections- 80

Activity:

We Do: SIFTT over “Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress Forward”

Textbook page 632

Homework:

You Do: SIFTT over “Mother to Son”

Textbook page 636

October 19-20, 2011I CAN : read to understand the meaning of

figurative language and the underlying message of a text.

TURN IN HOMEWORK:

SIFTT “Speech to the Young” & “Mother to Son”

Warm-Up: Absolute Brush Strokes

SIFTT:

We Do: “Identity” page 621

We Do: “My Captain! My Captain” page 752

You Do: “I Saw Old General at Bay” page 756

October 21, 2011

I CAN : read to understand the meaning of figurative language and the underlying message of a text.

Library- Check out & Renew books

Poetry Test: Analyze “Limelight” using SIFTT.

DEAR- Drop Everything And Read!

Vocabulary Workshop Test Corrections

Stapled to your original test

Make a chart & list the following in your chart:

1. Question #

2. Incorrect Answer

3. Correct Answer

4. Definition for the correct answer

“Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes

Well, son, I'll tell you:Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.It's had tacks in it,And splinters,And boards torn up,And places with no carpet on the floor --Bare.But all the timeI'se been a-climbin' on,And reachin' landin's,And turnin' corners,And sometimes goin' in the darkWhere there ain't been no light.So boy, don't you turn back.Don't you set down on the steps'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.Don't you fall now --For I'se still goin', honey,I'se still climbin',And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

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