Revolutionary Times W E E K O F O C T O B E R 1 4 T H

READING

STRATEGY:

PASSAGE

MAPPING

&

TPCASTT I N G

TYPES OF

READING:

ACTIVE

CLOSE

CRITICAL

October Announcement: DGP/Reading/Vocabulary/Writing

Test on October 29th ! Study your Notes!

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

Start of Class:

DGP

(Do M-Th today;

Use your blue & red

color coding)

Look in the next box

for more information.

When in class, take out your Writing Composition book .

Look at the board to see what you’re to do for DGP.

Complete that task in the first five minutes of class.

This week’s sentences:

Review all skills we’ve covered in DGP so far!

Start of Class:

EARLY RE-

LEASE DAY!

EXPLORE

TEST

In 8th GRADE

ONLY!

Activities:

Activities:

Activities:

Activities:

Activities:

During the week, students should have more than one assignment they’re working on nightly.

Homework:

Complete

Planning Sheets

Homework:

Complete

Unfinished Work

Homework:

Complete

Unfinished Work

Homework:

Complete

Unfinished Work

Homework:

Complete

Unfinished

Work

Running Homework for the Week:

Study DGP; Study for End-of-Nine Test; Read your Novel; Continue Your Writing

GRAMMAR

How do I master

DGP?

VOCABULARY

How does vocabulary

improve understand-

ing?

READING

Why is reading called

a process? What are

the three types of

reading?

WRITING

What is the differ-

ence between revis-

ing and editing?

E S S E N T I A L

QUE S T I ON S

KEEP

PRACTICING

YOUR

DGP!

This week is dedicated to wrapping up some activities that need to be completed.

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

14 15 16 17 18

Explore Test

21

22 23

Quiz for

Chains

Available

Benchmark

Narrative

Paper Due

24

Benchmark

25

End of First

Nine

28

Teacher

Workday

29

Cumulative

Test

30

Chains

Essay

Due

31

Wrapping Up

Loose Ends

Things You Should Know for This Test

DGP

Simple sentences, compound sentences, declarative, interrogative,

exclamatory, and imperative sentences, simple subject, complete

subjects, simple predicate, complete predicate, prepositional

phrases, objects of the preposition, parts of speech, subjects in unu-

sual order, possessive nouns, plural nouns, here/there are never

subjects, predicate adjective, predicate nominative

What questions do adjectives answer?

What questions do adverbs answer?

What is an independent clause?

Can a simple sentence have compound parts?

What makes a compound sentence different from a simple sentence

with compound parts?

What are the coordinating conjunctions? What do they do?

What is a reflexive pronoun? What is an indefinite pronoun?

What is a verb phrase?

What is the difference between a linking verb and a helping verb?

What is the subject of an imperative sentence? How is this different

from an exclamatory sentence? What is the “understood” you?

Writing

What are the steps of the writing process? What does each step do?

Name three ways you prewrite? Why is prewriting necessary? What

are the six ways to “hook” your audience? Name six ways you know

it’s time to change to a new paragraph when writing. What is the

purpose of transition words? What does it mean to support your

answers with details from text? How is your knowledge of the

writing process supported by DGP?

Reading

What is active reading? What is close reading? What is critical read-

ing? Why is reading a process? What are genres? How is poetry

different from prose? What is passage mapping? What is passage

mapping good for? What is TPCASTT? Can you TPCASST any piece of

literature? When do you use each one of these?

Vocabulary

belfry, aloft, somber, barracks, wretched, pomp, man-of-war,

grenadiers, textual analysis, paraphrase

Smashhh that

Testtt!

TEST

DA

TE:

10

/29

/13

Study NOOOW!