Thursday Feb 26 and Friday Feb 27

2D1

Thursday
-quiz #1 on Mockingbird
-news report assignment (in class)

**paragraphs due Thursday or Friday

Friday
-practice news report (as seen on literacy test)
-peer evaluation and assessment
-quizzes returned and corrected

**paragraphs due Thursday or Friday

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Weekend Homework
-read Mockingbird
-unit test on non fiction - Wednesday March 11
-final Mockingbird quiz - Tuesday March 24

3C1

Thursday
-final reminders for writing assignment #1 - the memo
-element of fiction #7 - plot
-short story "One of These Days"

Friday
-finish short story with focus on plot
-element of fiction #8 - symbolism (if time)

Weekend Homework
-work on memo (rough copy due Tuesday)

Wednesday Feb 25

2D1
-parts of the newspaper
-note and fact finding assignment

Test - THURSDAY - Mockingbird Chs. 1-11

Good Copy of the Paragraph - DUE THURSDAY OR FRIDAY

Thursday
-quiz
-2nd fact finding assignment on news reports

Friday
-practice writing a news report (literacy test)

Monday
-Rhetorical Devices

3C1
-introduction to writing assignment #1 
**ROUGH COPY WILL BE DO MONDAY

Thursday
-element of fiction #7 - plot
-short story: "One of These Days"

Friday
-element of fiction #8 - symbolism
-finish "One of These Days"

Monday 
-peer edit rough copy

Tuesday Feb 24

2D1
-peer editing of paragraph
-final reminders (how to package assignment, rubric, etc)

-note on parts and characteristics of a news report 

Homework
-revise paragraph 
-read Mockingbird

Upcoming Due Dates
Thursday - quiz on Mockingbird chapters 1-11
Thursday and Friday - hand in paragraph

3C1
-returned quizzes from yesterday

-intro to business writing (handout and note)

Mon Feb 23

2D1
-introduction to the newspaper (non fiction writing)
-parts of the newspaper
-students completed a worksheet, skimming through various articles (in preparation to write a news report on Friday

**Tuesday - rough copy compare/contrast due

**Thursday - scantron quiz on Mockingbird

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3C1
-quiz on first 3 stories and first 6 elements
-watch modern take on "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"
-handout Business Writing textbook

**Tuesday - introduction to writing assignment #1

Fri Feb 20

2D1
-continued lesson on compare/contrast writing
-topics and due dates assigned
**rough copy due this Tuesday; good copy Thursday or Friday

Weekend Homework
-read Mockingbird and work on paragraph

Monday
-introduction to newspaper (more non-fiction writing)

Other Important Dates
-Thursday Feb 26 - Mockingbird Quiz (chapters 1-11)

3C1 
-dialogue note (element of fiction #6)
-watched tv version of the teleplay we analysed "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"
-quiz outline
-time to review for quiz (if there is time)

Weekend Homework
-study for quiz

Monday
-quiz

Wed Feb 18

2D1
-corrected "It's All Downhill From Here" (personal impression writing)
-reviewed homonyms 

Homework
-period 1 - define your homonym and read Mockingbird
-period 2 - no defining for you (period got cut short because of the liturgy) so just read Mockingbird

Thursday and Friday
-introduction to compare/contrast paragraph

**Mockingbird quiz 1 moved back one day to February 26

3C1
-define setting (element of fiction #5)
-started reading "Monsters"

Tues Feb 17

2D1
-note on chapters 1 and 2 of Mockingbird
-read the beginning of Mockingbird

Homework
-continue to read Mockingbird; first quiz (on chs. 1-11) is on February 27
-review "It's All Downhill from Here" so we can take it up Wednesday

Wednesday
-"Its All Downhill from Here"
-homonyms grammar lesson

Thursday and Friday 
-intro to compare/contrast paragraph

3C1
-note on theme
-intro to "The Monsters are due on Maple Street" 

Wednesday and Thursday
-read "Monsters"

Friday
-quiz review and outline

Monday
-quiz on first 3 short stories

Thurs Feb 12 and Fri Feb 13 (ut oh)

2D1

Thursday

-read first half of chapter 1 of Mockingbird

No homework tonight - unless you did not finish the "It's All Downhill from Here" questions; if you didn't, finish them for Monday

Friday

-finished chapter 1 of Mockingbird

-note on the purpose of chapter 1 (we will finish on Tuesday)

Weekend Homework 

-read chapter 2 and make notes (new characters, 6-8 important events ie what happens)

3C1

Thursday

-finished and corrected "DB Cooper" questions

-fact finding mission on DB Cooper (the aftermath and legacy)

Homework

-complete mission if not completed during class time

Friday
-hand in fact finding mission

-Unsolved Mysteries on DB Cooper

Weekend Homework

-nothing; unless you have incomplete work from this week ("The Interlopers" or "DB Cooper")

Wed Feb 11

ENG 2D1
-note on personal impression
-read "It's All Downhill From Here" p. 125
-answered questions

Homework
-complete all 5 questions

Tomorrow and Friday
-take up questions

-begin Mockingbird

ENG 3C1
-watched version of  "The Interlopers"
-note on character
-read true crime story, "DB Cooper"

Tues Feb 10

ENG 2D1
-feature article analysis
(students read 2 feature articles and completed a chart on them)

No formal homework - though you could read over your notes on Feature Articles as a final review for this type of writing

Tomorrow
-personal impression writing

Thursday and Friday
-introduction to To Kill a Mockingbird

ENG 3C1
-finished "brain" questions on "The Interlopers"
-watched short video on Interlopers
-defined nemesis

Tomorrow
-the story of DB Cooper

FRIDAY FEB 6

2D1
-read "Eye Spy" p. 147 of Language and Writing

Weekend Homework
-get signatures (if not yet done)
-find a magazine (with a feature article) to bring in on Monday
-complete "Eye Spy" worksheet - everything except #2

3C1
-read "The Interlopers" p.41 of Between the Lines

Homework
-get signatures (if not yet done)

SNOW DAY!!!!

2D1
-'smartest kids in the class contest' for fabulous prizes
-seating plan
-course evaluation (signature due Friday)

Wednesday
-get books (put your name in them)
-English Guidelines (signature due Friday)
-course and unit overview

Thursday 
-what is information text?
-final class reminders
-passwords note

Friday
-read 'Eye Spy'

3C1
-'smartest kids in the class contest' for fabulous prizes
-seating plan
-course evaluation (signature due Friday)

Wednesday
-get books (put your name in them)
-English Guidelines (signature due Friday)
-course and unit overview

Thursday
-note on conflict
-pseudonyms 

Friday
-read "Interlopers"