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01-24-20

1. Thursday's DLR for Week 20
2. Students finished TMPBN Questions #2 from yesterday.
3. Students brainstormed reasons for and against treating people with money differently.
4. Teacher discussed the proper way to make an Argumentative Paragraph with a counterargument.

01-22-20

1. Wednesday's DLR for Week 21
2. The Intelligence of Dolphins reading comprehension.
3. We read page 582 to 583 of "The Million Pound Bank Note". We stopped at the first thing Portia said on page 583.
4. TMPBN Questions #2 1. Why did Henry occasionally wear old rags? 2. Who recognized Henry from Frisco? Provide textual evidence to support your answer. 3. What did Lloyd Hastings want of Henry? What did Henry suggest? Support with information from the text.

01-21-20

1. Monday and Tuesday's DLR for Week 21
2. Teacher discussed irony with the help of several examples.
3. Students read page 576, second column, the first thing the servant said, to page 582, the second thing Henry says.

01-17-20

1. DLR Quiz #20
2. Students finished TMPBN Questions #1. Please see Announcements from 01-16-20 for these questions.
3. Students watched 10 Lottery Millionares Who Lost It All
4. Freewrite #4-Obj: In a 1/3 to 1/2 of a page, address this topic. Some people who have won a large amount of money have said, "It's the worst thing that ever happened to me. Why would they feel this way?
 
 

01-16-20

1. Thursday's DLR for Week 20.
2. Teacher passed back Persuasive Paragraph #1
3. High Tech to Go reading comprehension
4. We finished reading page 574 of "The Million Pound Bank Note" to page 576.
5. Students answered 3 questions about the story in #4. 1. What had the brothers been discussing, and what did it lead too? 2. Why was Henry chosen? Provide textual evidence to support this answer. 3. What did Henry first do with the money? Give evidence from the text to go along with your answer.

01-15-20

1. Wednesday's DLR for Week 20.
2. Freewrite #1-In a 1/3 to 1/2 of a page, tell me if the love of money is the root of all evil.
3. Students read pages 573 and part of 574 of "The Million Pound Bank Note". We got to Cockney's first line, in the second column, of page 574. (per. 1) Students got to the first column, the 4th thing that Hastings said, on page 574. (per. 4)

01-14-20

1. DLR for Monday and Tuesday for Week 20.
2. We watched a short clip on Mark Twain
3. Students used the following 7 words: proposition, conceive, competent, rebuke, eccentric, benefactor, and shrewd in sentences that show me they understand the meaning of them.
4. Students picked parts to read for "The Million Pound Bank Note".

12/18/19

1. Laughter reading comprehension (per. 1)
2. Catfish Noodling (per. 4)
3. Some students finished their My Partner's Life Fictional Speech.
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12-17-19

1. Students finished their My Partner's Fictional Life Speech.
2. Some students, in partners, read their speeches to the rest of the class.

12-16-19

1. Students took the full story quiz for "The Diary of Anne Frank". You'll need to stop by at lunch or break to make this up if you were absent today.
2. We brainstormed the advantages and disadvantages of being a successful public speaker.
3. Students watched a clip on how to speaking publicly successfully.
4. Students need to work on My Partner's Fictional Life Speech
Obj: Create a 3 paragraph speech that describes the fictional life of your partner. The more outrageous it is, the better it will sound. Please, don't include anything that is inappropriate.

12-13-19

1. DLR Quiz #18
2. We read scenes 4 and 5 of Act 2 of "The Diary of Anne Frank".
3. Students answered two questions in pairs. 1. How would Anne have finished her last sentence in scene 4? Would she have wanted to publish her diary? Why or why not? 2. If Anne did publish her diary diary do you think she would have made some changes to her original draft? Explain.

12-10-19

1. Tuesday's DLR for Week 18
2. Students finished working on and we discussed Comparing Peter and Anne Chart.
3. Compare and Contrast Paragraph #3 Obj: Show how Peter and Annes' feelings for each other have changed over time as well as stayed the same. Provide reasons to support the similarities and differences.
4. We read 341-343 of "The Diary of Anne Frank".
5. Students worked on The Consequence Chart.

12-09-19

1.Monday's DLR for Week 18
2. Students finished their Blackmail Charts from Friday.
3. Students read the rest of Scene 2 Act 2 of The Diary of Anne Frank.
4. Students made the Comparing Anne and Peter Chart. They began working on this in pairs. Please see the teacher at lunch or break for the format of this.

12/05/19

1. Students did Wednesday and  Thursday's DLR for Week 17.
2. Students read 325-327.(per. 1 only)
3. Students added another entry to Conflict Chart #1. (per. 1 only)
4. We read pages 328-330 of "The Diary of Anne Frank".
5. Students copied down Citing down Citing Text Evidence Chart #4. Only questions 1 and 2 were copied down. 1. Reread  lines 145-200 to determine the characters' traits. What does the dialogue about cutting the cake reveal about Mrs. Frank? Mr. Frank? the Van Daans? 2. Reread lines 350-380. What problem does Mr. Kraler describe to the group? How does this dialogue move the plot forward to provoke a decision?
6. Students worked on questions listed under #5 (per. 4 only).