Week of 3/10/13 – Lessons for LA 8

3/10/14
Research rough due Monday.
Outsiders Test Tuesday

Monday
Classwork:
Grade grammar quiz.
Check drafts.
Outsiders game.
Homework
Study for the Outsiders test.
Vocab from chapters 5-12.
Lots of questions about comprehension and literary technique, and a paragraph about a popular topic.

Tuesday
Classwork:
Outsiders test.
Homework:
None

Wednesday
Classwork:
Lab time to type.
Homework:
Work on your research draft in Google.

Thursday
Classwork:
IBD
Handout: Bio of author
Read: Foolology
Chart difficult lines. (Making sense of…) [Indv. then Groups with stickies and sentence stems]
Whole group meeting.
Homework:
Finish Google version of research paper by Sunday night.
Back in the lab for formatting on Monday.
Printed/finished copy due Tuesday 3/18.

Friday
Classwork:
IBD: Make charts about Reed’s message.
Homework:
Final draft of research paper due Tuesday 3/18, including the “Works Cited.”