Day/Date	Class work	Homework
8/25/2008 MONDAY	Vocabulary 1 introduction; sentence structure power point; background introduction for Things Fall Apart	Chapters 1-3 Things Fall Apart; comparison of Okonkwo and Unoka
8/26/2008 TUESDAY	Simple sentence patterns; Compound Sentences with commas and conjunctions or with semicolons	Chapter 4 of Things Fall Apart
8/27/2008 WEDNESDAY	Vocabulary review; compound sentence review; complex sentence structure; writing exercise; chapters Proverbs--an interpretation of ancient wisdom.	Read chapters 5-6 and answer questions.  Study for vocabulary test.  Search for a library book
8/29/2008 THURSDAY	Vocabulary test; Quiz on chapters 1-6 of Things Fall Apart;	Read chapters 7-8 Things Fall Apart
8/30/2008 FRIDAY	Cause effect journal/ complete one journal as an essay.	Read chapters 9-12 Things Fall Apart.  Bring a book to class
9/1/2008 MONDAY	LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
9/2/2008 TUESDAY	Vocabulary 2.  Quiz on chapters 1-12	Homework Chapters 13-15
9/3/2008 WEDNESDAY	Socratic Seminar on "The Second Coming"
9/4/2008 THURSDAY	Vocabulary Test 2.  End of Socratic Seminar	Homework read through chapter 15
9/5/2008 FRIDAY	Essay of Poetry Explication on "The Second Coming"	Read through chapter 18

9/8/2008   MONDAY	Vocabulary 3, Compound/complex sentences, peer review on essays.  Type tomorrow	Read through the end of part II
9/9/2008  TUESDAY	Type essays and submit.  Part II quiz.	Read through the end of part III
9/10/2008 WEDNESDAY	Discuss book.
9/11/2008 THURSDAY	Vocabulary 3 test.  Test over Things Fall Apart.
9/12/2008 FRIDAY	END of the Spear	Independent reading
9/15/2008 MONDAY	END of the Spear Vocabulary 4	Independent reading
9/16/2008 TUESDAY	Write comparison essay between  movie and book	Independent reading
9/17/2008 WEDNESDAY	"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker , "Where I'm From" Poem	Independent reading
9/18/2008 THURSDAY	"Typhoid Fever" Frank McCourt, Vocabulary 4 test
9/19/2008 FRIDAY	Type essays and poems

9/22/2008 MONDAY	Journal - Playing with point of view  Write from the point of view of your desk, pencil, or cell phone Vocabulary 5 intro.  The Oral Tradition:  Ballads:  Barbara Allen, p. 530.  The Devil and Daniel Webster - sage folk tale.	Independent reading
9/23/2008 TUESDAY	Sentence Structure B Introduction to Beowulf:  Time to work on posters	Posters due
9/24/2008 WEDNESDAY	Write a letter to somebody with whom you need to resolve a problem Read Beowulf-p.23
9/25/2008 THURSDAY	Vocab 5 test. Write about one of your favorite quests.  Beowulf through p. 51
9/26/2008 FRIDAY	BOOK CELEBRATION

Journal 1:  Describe your favorite room in your house.  (Spatial organization)

Journal 2:  How was your weekend?

Journal 3:  What is the biggest problem in this school and how could it be solved? (Problem/solution)

Journal 4:  Drama in my life

Journal 5:  How do parental, social. or monetary pressures affect your life?  (Cause/effect)

Journal 6:  How to be macho

Journal 7:  What could happen to make things fall apart in your life?