Friday, August 30th

Period 1
1) Get your spiral
2) Compose a letter to me about your goals for 8th grade
3) RADaR
HW: None

Periods 2&3
1) Power Write: What is truth?
2) Complete revisions
3) Final copy of letter to Mrs. Hughes
HW: None

Periods 4&5
1) Power Write: Why do we revise?
2) Daily Language Practice
3) Final Copy of Letter to Self
HW: None

Periods 6&8
1) Power Write: Compose a 140 character autobiography of your 7th grade year.
2) Leader in Me Introduction and Habit 1
HW: None

Thursday, August 29th

Periods 1-3 (2nd-please remind me to take attendance!)
1) Power Write (Get your spiral on your way in!) What is a leader?
Write until I tell you to stop. It is ok to get off topic.
2) Discussion
3) Goal-Setting Letter- Revision and Final Draft
HW: None (Unless you must complete your final draft at home)

Periods 4&5
1) Grab your spiral on your way in. Power Write: What is truth?
(Write until I tell you to stop, it is ok to get off topic if you run out of things to write about the topic)
2) Revision vs. editing
3) Writing Workshop- complete final draft of your letter to me
HW: None

Periods 6&8
1) Power Write: Compose a SIX word memoir. Choose your words carefully.
2) Sharing
3) My life in bullet points
4) Writing Workshop
HW: None

Wednesday, August 28th

Periods 1-3 (2nd, please remind me to take attendance!!!!!)
1) Name Game
2) Goal-Setting Letter to me
3) Sharing
No Homework

Periods 4&5
1) Name Game
2) Letter to yourself as a freshman; what do you hope to achieve by then?
3) Sharing
No Homework

Periods 6&8
1) Name Game
2) Autobiography vs. Memoir
3) My life in bullet points
No Homework

Tuesday, August 27th

Welcome to class!

All Classes
1) Expectations/Policies/Procedures
2) Name Game
3) Year Overview

Homework: Get all forms signed and turned in. Please give your parents my class expectations letter.

Back to School!

Friday, March 22nd

Pre-AP:
1) Power Write: While reading "Flowers for Algernon," what has been the most compelling part of the story for you? Has there been anything that has frustrated or upset you? What and why?
2) Share
3) Hand in Homework
4) Finish "Flowers for Algernon"
HW: None

8K:
1) Power Write: While reading "Flowers for Algernon," what has been the most compelling part of the story for you? Has there been anything that has frustrated or upset you? What and why?
2) Share
3) Hand in Homework
4) Finish "Flowers for Algernon"
HW: None (5th period Stems Worksheet)

G/T:
1) Finish "Flowers for Algernon"
2) Compose alternate ending
HW: Complete alternate ending

Thursday, March 21st

Pre-AP:
1) Power Write: Write about a time when you surprised yourself by accomplishing something difficult. Explain.
2) Flowers for Algernon
HW: Stems Worksheet

8K:
1) Power Write: Write about a time when you surprised yourself by accomplishing something difficult. Explain.
2) Flowers for Algernon
HW: Stems Worksheet

G/T:
1) Flowers for Algernon Part II