Mon 10/31 Up Front Magazine

Learning Target

Read closely to determine main idea and supporting details

Daily Activity:

Read "Will a Robot Take Your Job?" from Up Front Magazine, annotate the article, complete the close reading activity, and take a quiz on the piece. Hand in the close reading.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Final work day for collaborative paper on Tues.

Fri 10/28 Reading Immersion

Learning Target

Read self-selected texts

Daily Activity:

Reading immersion.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring reading materials on Fridays. To make up Friday reading, read for 35 minutes in Hornet Hour, Study Hall, or at home. Have your teacher or parent verify by note or email that you spent quality time reading! This reading should be self-selected texts, not school work, unless you have  consulted me prior.

Thurs 10/27 Collaborative Review

Learning Target
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts 
Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics

Daily Activity:

Peer Review: between groups
All students in a group read for another group and offered annotations and suggestions. 
Reminders/Due Dates:

Print multiple copies of your paper for peer review on Wed.

Wed 10/26: Discussion of One Paper

Learning Target
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts 
Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics

Daily Activity:

All students reviewed one group's essay. We shared suggestions as a class, and I modelled suggested improvements.

Mon Tues 10/24, 25 Collaborative Essay

Learning Target
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts 
Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics

Daily Activity:

1. Intro: should include specific reference to the film being discussed. 
Clear and focused thesis 
Set up context for the idea: for example, explain what/why/how "community" is important
2. Body: for each paragraph, set out a main idea. Evidence from either text with a warrant (explanation that connects the evidence to your claim). You must make the connection for readers. Point back to the thesis
3. Conclusion
Recap the discussion and make a final insight
Note: we use "present tense" verbs when analyzing text. Ex: Hrothgar's band pursues the troll, Grendel's father, and kills him.
Reminders/Due Dates:

Print multiple copies of your paper for peer review on Wed.

Mon 10/17, 18 Beowulf and Grendel

Learning Target
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts 
Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics

Daily Activity:

Monday:  Beowulf and Grendel continued. For each viewing you must take notes, at least 10-15 details. By the end of viewing you should have at least 40 items--remarks and responses/thoughts, lines, description of action. We will begin the paper after your fall break.
Tues: small group work on content

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring reading materials on Fridays. To make up Friday reading, read for 35 minutes in Hornet Hour, Study Hall, or at home. Have your teacher or parent verify by note or email that you spent quality time reading! This reading should be self-selected texts, not school work, unless you have consulted me prior.

Friday 10/14 Reading

Learning Target

Read self-selected texts

Daily Activity:

Reading immersion.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring reading materials on Fridays. To make up Friday reading, read for 35 minutes in Hornet Hour, Study Hall, or at home. Have your teacher or parent verify by note or email that you spent quality time reading! This reading should be self-selected texts, not school work, unless you have  consulted me prior.

Thurs 10/13 Beowulf and Grendel

Learning Target
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts 
Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics

Daily Activity:

Thursday:  Beowulf and Grendel continued. For each viewing you must take notes, at least 10-15 details. By the end of viewing you should have at least 40 items--remarks and responses/thoughts, lines, description of action. We will begin the paper after your fall break.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring reading materials on Fridays. To make up Friday reading, read for 35 minutes in Hornet Hour, Study Hall, or at home. Have your teacher or parent verify by note or email that you spent quality time reading! This reading should be self-selected texts, not school work, unless you have consulted me prior.

Tues/Wed 10/11, 12 Film Analysis

Learning Target
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts 

Daily Activity:

Tuesday: Beowulf Test
Wednesday: Intro to paper and begin movie Beowulf and Grendel. You should make an effort to make up this viewing.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring reading materials on Fridays. To make up Friday reading, read for 35 minutes in Hornet Hour, Study Hall, or at home. Have your teacher or parent verify by note or email that you spent quality time reading! This reading should be self-selected texts, not school work, unless you have consulted me prior.

Thurs/Fri 10/6, 7

Learning Target
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts 

Daily Activity:

Thurs: Work on Anglo Saxon "scavenger hunt"
Fri: Reading immersion
(Check with another student)

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring reading materials on Fridays. To make up Friday reading, read for 35 minutes in Hornet Hour, Study Hall, or at home. Have your teacher or parent verify by note or email that you spent quality time reading! This reading should be self-selected texts, not school work, unless you have consulted me prior.

Wed 10/4 Remainder of Beowulf

Learning Target
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts 

Daily Activity:

1. Journal: Wisdom

2. Socrates said, "Wisdom begins in wonder." Respond.

3. Complete Beowulf selections: pp. 58-66

Complete "Reading Check" and Literary "Analysis"
Hand in by the end of the hour on Thursday

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring reading materials on Fridays. To make up Friday reading, read for 35 minutes in Hornet Hour, Study Hall, or at home. Have your teacher or parent verify by note or email that you spent quality time reading! This reading should be self-selected texts, not school work, unless you have consulted me prior.

Tues 10/4: Battle With Grendel and Other Lays

Tues Oct 4

Learning Target

Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts 

Daily Activity:

Journal: Respond to the following quote by Rudyard Kipling: I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

Read 46-57 in the literature text. (We listened to the audio.)  Battle With Grendel, Grendel's Mother, Battle With Grendel's Mother. 
* See another student for a few additional terms in your notes.

*Anyone on the field trip is responsible for what was missed today.

Oct 3 Grendel and Beowulf

Mon Oct 3

Learning Target

Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts 

Daily Activity:

Journal: Respond to the Medal of Honor video
1. Homework check (Thursday: 42-45) 

2. Small group work: "Grendel" and "Beowulf"
Cite lines from the text and make inferences based on last Thursday's homework:

Examine the details, ask questions of the text: What do we learn about Grendel and Beowulf in the text?

Things to consider: 

What are his/their strengths?

What are his/their struggles?

What does the speaker of this poem want us to know about life in this society? List details and cite lines that analyze their characters and values.