This week in Literacy students will...

-Finish their persuasive writing graphic organizer

-Learn Logos, Paths, and Ethos as rhetorical appeals

-Guest Speaker on Wednesday: Lawyer!

-Legal terminology

-Begin reading Monster! 

This week in Literacy students will...

Complete a pre-reading activity for the book Monster, create their investigative journals and write an essay on the topic of teens and punishment. 

This week in Literacy students will....

- Complete their poet portfolio for which all sections are due on Wednesday, September 25th

-Complete their quarter 1 reflection

Please work on completing the parts of your poetry portfolio. They should all be on your one note under unit 3 poetry. By Monday try and complete your poet biography one oager, your SLAM analysis of a poem, email me your black out poem choice, and begin writing your own poem. Thank you!

This week in Literacy students will...

- Complete group projects for their verse novels by Wednesday

-Complete the Article of the week by Thursday

-Begin Independent poetry project

This week in Literacy srurents will...

-Finish reading their assigned verse novels 

- Analyze a verse from their novels 

-Review different poetic techniques

-Get assigned poet for independent poet study

This week in Literacy students will...

-Learn and apply what an onomatopoeia is.

-Learn what rhythm is in poetry.

- Learn about poetic form and imagery. 

-Complete article of the week by Thursday.

This week in Literacy students will...

 

-Learn and use the acronym SLAM to analyze poetry on a deeper level as a whole class

-Be assigned their verse novel reading groups

-Use SLAM to analyze a section of the verse novel independently

This week in Literacy students will complete a book tasting in order to try and find a good book to read during independent reading. Students will also complete a reading survey and about me survey. We will begin our 2nd unit which is our Week long Writing Boot camp Unit to do a quick crash course on essay writing to prepare them for high school and beyond.