Week+9+to+13+October+2017

I can analyze a writer’s choices in terms of text structure, figurative meaning, and tone. Monday October 9, 2017 – No School for students-

Tuesday October 10, 2017 Warm-up – Writing about candy Opening – Interactive White Board Analyze Text Structure Work Session – Answer two guiding questions on “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” due at the end of the class period. Closing – Summarize

I can analyze a writer’s choices in terms of text structure, figurative meaning, and tone

Wednesday October 11, 2017 Warm-up – Logic Getting the Brain Revved up Opening - Grammar Work Session – Read “My Life as a Bat” Closing – Summarize the day

Thursday October 12, 2017 Warm-up – Critical Vocabulary on page 77 Opening – Level up Tutorial Tone Work Session – As needed read “My Life as a Bat” Receive guiding questions Due Monday October 16 Story maps Closing – Summarize the day

Friday October 13, 2017 Warm-up – Interpret – The narrator, as a bat, describes the sun rising “like a balloon on fire” (Collections, 72, L50). What meaning is conveyed by this simile in the context of the flashback? Opening – Grammar Work Session – Work on guiding questions due Monday October 16 Closing - Summarize the day