Weeks of Sept 21st and 28th

 Sept 28th...

This week completes our first 9 weeks of virtual instruction. Students will be completing the nine weeks by completing various schoology assignments on our last story, The Ransom of Red Chief, by O. Henry. These assignments will be found in their Schoology ELA folders each day.

Our focus this past nine weeks has covered the following academic standards in the following categories:

Reading Literature

• Identifying details in a story to improve comprehension
• Identifying sequence in a story to improve comprehension
• Identifying genres of Fables, Science Fiction, and Realistic Fiction
• Comparing and Contrasting
• Identifying and analyzing theme
• Identifying narrative voice
• Identifying author's purpose
• Identifying figurative language
• Identifying and reflecting on Irony
• Summarizing

English Language Grammar

• Identifying sentence fragments
• Homophones
• Capitalization
• Subject Verb Agreement
• Dialogue and quotations

Writing

• Writing short responses
• Narrative essay writing

Speaking and Listening

• Active listening

Social Emotional Learning

• Building a positive self identity through self-reflection and focus on improvement.

Week of Sept. 14th-18th

Our Learning Objectives this week:

• Students will be reading two new texts this week..The Frog and The Mouse...and How They Croaked...The Death of Julius Caesar.
• Students will reflect and analyze both texts using details from our reading
• Students will write to specific follow up questions to further understanding of the texts.
• Students will complete NO RED INK activities throughout the week.

Week of Sept. 8th-Sept.11th

 Objectives for the week:

• Students will complete a summary writing activity following their TN READY Type Test on our story, All Summer In A Day, during TEAMS class.
• Students will review and complete a self assessment assignment on their narrative essay writing from last week.
• Students will complete a Florida Virtual Learning component of Summaries for their independent work on Asynchronous days.
• All daily assignments will be found in each day's folder.