Wedneday 11/29 and Thursday 11/30

1. Convention #10

2. vocab review

3. 10 minute review for “Pro Patria”

4. “Pro Patria” seminar

5. Begin Joy Luck stories: read “The Red Candle”

Monday 11/26 and Tuesday 11/27

1. vocab warm up
2. "Snow"
--10 minutes to review questions and turn in
--seminar
3. "Pro Patria"
--quickwrite: How has your country, culture, history, region, shaped you?
--words to know: memoir, excerpt, context
--read excerpt
4. HW: compete 9 questions on "Pro Patria"

Tuesday 11/21 and Wednesday 11/22

1. conventions warm up: page 9
2. vocabulary: next 3 words
3. "Snow" by Julia Alvarez
--What is flash fiction"
--Words to know
--quickwrite
--complete 10 solo question as preparation for seminar

Friday 11/17 and Monday 11/20

1. new vocab: first four words
2. complete team questions
3. seminar
4. jigsaw timeline
5. exit question:

Is “Why, Honey?” a coming of age story? Write a claim and counterclaim.

Yes, because…

No, because…

Wednesday 11/15 and Thursday 11/16

1. conventions #8: commas to combine sentences
2. "Why, Honey?"
--before you read: epistolary narrative; quickwrite
--read the story aloud
--complete 3 column chart: facts, assumptions, guesses

Monday 11/13 and Tuesday 11/14

1. new seating chart
2. conventions warm up: page 6
3. "This is What it Means to Say Phoenix Arizona"
--10 questions (in teams)
--seminar
4. one paragraph response to this question: How is this a story of psychological/ emotional growth for Victor? Or Thomas?

Tuesday 11/7 and Wednesday 11/8

1. Complete questions on "Catch the Moon" (work in teams, but complete solo questions)
2. Seminar discussion
3. Next story: "This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona"
--quickwrite on love/hate relationships
HW: Read the entire story. Annotate for love and hate.

Friday 11/3 and Monday 11/6

1. Conventions quiz covering first 6 pages of study guide
2. Two Kinds
--warm up teams (share answers to questions)
--seminar discussion
3. HW: read "Catch the Moon"

"Pleading Child" and "Perfectly Contented"

Click HERE to listened to the songs mentioned in "Two Kinds."

Wednesday 11/1 and Thursday 11/2

1. conventions warm up on italics and quotation marks
2. review Cornell notes on bildungsroman
3. First story: "Two Kinds"
--before reading quickwrite
--words to know
--graphic organizer on conflict (complete as you go)
HW: answer 9 questions on "Two Kinds" on google classroom