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2009-2010 School Year—Room 12

Contact Me: snyderdr@westprairie.org

Daily Academic Schedule

1^st Hour: 8:15am-8:59am	7B Language Arts
2^nd Hour: 9:02am-9:46am	Prep*
3^rd Hour: 9:49am-10:33am	7A Literature
4^th Hour: 10:36am-11:20am	8B Language Arts
5^th Hour: 11:23am-12:07pm	8B Literature
6^th Hour: 12:10pm-12:42pm	Lunch
7^th Hour: 12:45pm-1:29pm	Team Meetings
8^th Hour: 1:32pm-2:16pm	8A Language Arts
9^th Hour: 2:19pm-3:03pm	7A Language Arts

*Parents/students, if at any time you would like to talk with me or set up a meeting, my prep period would be an ideal time to do so.

ISAT TESTING will begin today Monday March 1^st and continue through Friday March 5^th.

3^rd Quarter Book Projects are due Friday March 5^th. The directions for that project are posted at the bottom of the page.

**Assignments and lesson plans listed below are subject to change.

**Assignment due dates for the week, along with some extended assignments, are listed at the bottom of the webpage.

Weekly Schedule (ISAT Testing is this week 3/1-3/5. Get rest! Try your best!)

3/8/10

· 7^th Language Arts—12.3

· 8^th Language Arts—12.1

· 7^th Literature—read “Icarus and Daedalus” (pgs. 737-739)

· 8^th Literature—“All but My Life” 663-665

3/9/10

· 7^th Language Arts—12.4

· 8^th Language Arts—12.2

· 7^th Literature—read “Prometheus” (pgs. 743-745)

1. HW—pg. 746 #1-5 and pg. 740#1-5

· 8^th Literature—introduce and work on Holocaust collage

3/10/10

· 7^th Language Arts—Chapter 12 Quest (quiz/test)

· 8^th Language Arts—12.3

· 7^th Literature—Quiz covering both “Prometheus” and “Icarus and Daedalus”

1. Once quiz is completed, I will introduce the comparative essay for both of the above stories

· 8^th Literature—finish “All but My Life”

3/11/10

· 7^th Language Arts—Chapter 12 scavenger hunt

· 8^th Language Arts—12.4

· 7^th Literature—work collaboratively with partner on answering questions for essay, begin writing rough copy of essay

· 8^th Literature—Quiz over “All but My Life”

3/12/10

· 7^th/8^th Language Arts—Unit 19 vocabulary test/homework is also due

· 7^th Literature—continue working on rough draft or go to computer lab to type final (depends on previous day’s progress)

· 8^th Literature—full reading day

Upcoming Due Dates

3/9/10—pg. 740 #1-8 (7^th Lit. Only)

3/10/10—Capitalization homework assignment due (8^th Language Arts Only)

3/10/10—pg. 746 #1-5 (7^th Lit. Only)

3/12/10—Unit 19 vocabulary test/homework due (7^th/8^th Language Arts Only)

Friday 3/5/10—3^rd Quarter Book Project due (7^th/8^th Literature classes only)—biography/autobiography interview questions

3^rd Quarter Project

For your third quarter project, I want you to read a biography or an autobiography and complete the following project.

1. Character Interview: Choose a character in your book and formulate a list of 15-20 questions that you would ask that character. Be creative when asking the questions and make certain that they are open ended questions (elicits more than a yes/no response). Do not simply ask where they live and what they do. Those are not good interview questions. A good question may ask what their motive was when they acted a certain way, or how their personal background influences how they act. Along with creating those questions, you must generate responses for each question that you come up with. Each response should be at least a paragraph in length (4-6 sentences) and should be written in complete sentences. Use the text when creating your responses to support your answers.

Extra Credit Opportunity for this project (20 points possible): If you would like a chance to earn extra credit for this project, you could do the interview in front of the class. Get together with someone and have that friend be the interviewer and you be the character from the book. I said that there need to be 15-20 questions; however, for this I only want you to present 5-7 of those questions. If you’re going to do this, I expect it to be excellent. You could dress up as your character and impersonate them. If they’re British, speak with an accent. If they were an athlete, try to wear some team apparel. Be creative!

3^rd Quarter Checkpoints:

· Book Approval Form due Wednesday January 20, 2010 (10 points)

· Summary of Book (to be written in class) due Monday February 8, 2010 (10 points)