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call of the wild

https://survivingenglish.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/The-Call-of-the-Wild-Annotated.pdf

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The CWT is due on Friday, March 24.

I will assign all the lessons related to the CWT on LearnZillion.

The lessons are 30-33.

The final draft is the only thing that will be graded. It is due on Friday, March 24.

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CWT Instructions

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LEAP Practice 1

LEAP Practice 2

Tuesday: Literature Circle on "The Tale-Tale Heart"

Wednesday: Socratic Seminar Preparation

Thursday: AR Due.....Socratic Seminar

Friday: LEAP Practice/Review/ iReady/AR

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Monday: Section 5 Quiz, open book and open note on "The Tell-Tale Heart"

Beginning on Monday through the end of the week on Friday, students will do an entire practice LEAP test for ELA. Both the quiz and practice LEAP are going to be graded for correctness.

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Monday: Practice Cold Read Quiz, Multiple Choice and Essay on Edulastic: Lessons 16 and 17

Tuesday: Lesson 18 Narrative Structure of "Ransom of Red Chief"

Wednesday: Lesson 19 : Rewriting "Ransom of Red Chief" from a different point of view

Thursday and Friday: "Tale-Tell Heart" Read and Summarize. Discuss Narrative Structure

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"The Ransom of Red Chief"

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Monday-Wednesday: Lesson 12-13 Literary Circle Discussion on the novel Nothing But the Truth

Thursday-Friday: "The Ransom of Red Chief" Lessons 14-16

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Monday: Review and Quiz for "Allegory of the Cave"

Tuesday: Lesson 9 "Story Truth and Happening Truth"

Wednesday and Thursday Lesson 10-11 Narrative Point of View

Friday: iReady/AR 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RWOpQXTltA

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Allegory of the Cave

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Monday-Thursday: Lessons 5-8 of the 3rd unit "The Tell Tale Heart"

Students will read Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and use the text to find incidences of "perception", "truth" and "reality" and relate these to the text and other texts in the unit

Friday: Section Quiz/ iReady

Please continue to read AR. It's due March 9.

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This week we will continue to read and finish Nothing But the Truth  by Avi.

After each daily reading assignment, we will discuss how unit terms such "truth", "perception" and "reality" relate to events of the novel

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https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhZsz8uBr6V5aMozQ_jPybtavzl2PqIZw

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Please continue to read AR. AR for the 3rd Quarter is due March 9, 2023. The goal for all students is 14 points.

Tuesday: Practice LEAP Test.

Wednesday-Friday: Culminating Writing Task

We find relevent evidence, then draft and finally edit and refine and produce a final draft.

Monday, January 9: Sugar Cold Read Multiple Choice Questions

Tuesday, January 10: Introduce new unit; Begin reading the unit novel as a class via audiobook.

Wednesday-Friday: Read audiobook 30 minutes a day then, Lessons dealing with "The Allegory of the Cave"

Resources for Culminating  Writing Task:

Rubric

Example

Student Copy of Culminating Writing Task

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Sugar Cold Read Task Practice

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https://youtu.be/xm9LmAVVCms

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Monday: SLT Pre and Post Quizzes; iReady

Tuesday: No School

Wednesday and Thursday: Lessons 5-8 of Sugar

Friday: No Sugar

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Student Examples

Extension Task Instructions

Cumulative Writing Task

Cumulative Writing Task Examples

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Monday: Deduce the theme of "Flowers for Algernon" Lesson 25

Tuesday: Compare Charlie and Dr. Frankensein's Monster Lesson 26

Wednesday: Compare the structure of "Flowers for Algernon" to Chapter 13 of Frankenstein Lesson 27

Thursday: Prepare for a Socratic Seminar Lesson 28

Friday: Socratic Seminar Lesson 29

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Monday: Compare the Structure of both "Flowers for Algernon" and the Chapter 4 excerpt of Frankenstein. Lesson 20

Tuesday: Quiz over Lessons 16-20; Lesson 21 write a progress report from the perspective of another character

Wednesday: Lesson 22 and 23 Practice Cold Read Quiz. 5 multiple choice questions and one constructed response

Thursday:Lesson 24 and 25 Complete Flowers for Algernon and deduce a theme of the text

Friday:Lesson 26: Compare Charlie to Frankenstein's Monster and Compare structure of Chapter 13 of Frankenstein to Flowers for Algernon

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Monday: Quiz over Lessons 11-15 LearnZillion

Tuesday: Lesson 16 Analyze Character Development in Flowers for Algernon

Wednesday: Summarize Frankenstein Lesson 17

Thursday: Lesson 18 Understanding Frankenstein's motivations

Friday: Lesson 19: Analyze Language to Understand Tone and Meaning

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Monday: No school

Tuesday: Lesson 11: Flowers for Algernon Progress Report 4-8. Examining how Charlie changed after surgery

Wednesday: Lesson 12: What is intelligence?

Thursday: Lesson 13: How does structure impact plot and character development?

Friday: There will be a sub due to drill. There will be a writing  assignment or iReady work to do.

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Monday: Lesson 9 Apply knowledge from the "Inkblot" article to "Flowers for Algernon"

Tuesday: Lesson 10 Revise a written response to a claim from a literary text

Wednesday: Quiz over Lessons 5-10. Review during the 1st half/ quiz in the 2nd half

Thursday: Lesson 11: How has Charlie changed?

Friday: Lesson 12: What is intelligence?

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If you are not here for the quiz, it is your responsibility to make it up before school or after school by August 29, 2022

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