CLASSWORK:

Write Vocabulary Sentences

new words for Thur's quiz: catharis-rigamarole

Bean Trees vocabulary Quizlet deck

HOMEWORK: Finish chapter 5. Read chapter 6 for homework Tuesday night/Wednesday.
Quiz over chapters 1-6 Thursday.
Learn Vocabulary words for Thursday's quiz:

catharis-rigamarole
Start thinking about your book report

CLASSWORK:

Vocab quiz asylum-sanctuary

new words for Thur's quiz: catharis-rigamarole

Bean Trees vocabulary Quizlet deck

HOMEWORK: Finish chapter 5. Read chapter 6 for homework Tuesday night/Wednesday.
Quiz over chapters 1-6 Thursday.
Learn Vocabulary words for Thursday's quiz:

catharis-rigamarole
Start thinking about your book report

Thursday. Thor's day.

CLASSWORK:

1. Read your independent reading book

2. Creative Book Report options: movie, interview with author, shoebox diorama, book in a box, collage or other art project, scrap book, other
Book Reports

3. Review vocabulary
4.Read Bean Trees. Characterization Charts
5. Read chapter 5

HOMEWORK:
1. Read chapter 5 tonight; Monday's homework is chapter 6.
2. Bean Trees vocabulary for Monday's quiz.
Bean Trees vocabulary Quizlet deck
"asylum" to "sanctuary"

In the spirit of Valentine's Day, I'd like each one of you to find a poem about love and enter it on the class Google Doc. Since some of you are grumpy Valentine's Day haters, I'll allow you to enter a poem that deals with any aspect of love as it was defined by the Greeks:

Philia--friendship and brotherly love

Agape--charity, compassion

Eros--romantic love; "the spark"

Storge--affection

Enter your poem here:

Love Poems, 1st Period

Love Poems, 4th Period

Love Poems, 5th Period

Create your entry like this:

Sonnet 116, by William Shakespeare (Mr. Isom)

To make a link:

Find the poem on the Internet, highlight the URL and copy.

Then type the title of the poem in this document below the dotted line.

Then highlight the title you typed and press ctrl K, and then ctrl V, and then enter

somewhere i have never traveled, by e.e. cummings (Mr. Isom)

Monday, Valentine's Day Week

HOMEWORK:
1. Read chapter 2 tonight; Read chapter 3 Tue and Wed night (finish for Thur).
2. Bean Trees vocabulary for Thur. quiz.
Bean Trees vocabulary Quizlet deck "enraptured - apoplectic"

It's almost Valentine's Day, so in the spirit of love, I'd like each one of you to find a poem about love and enter it on the class Google Doc. Since some of you are grumpy Valentine's Day haters, I'll allow you to enter a poem that deals with any aspect of love as it was defined by the Greeks:

Philia--friendship and brotherly love

Agape--charity, compassion

Eros--romantic love; "the spark"

Storge--affection

Enter your poem here:

Love Poems, 1st Period

Love Poems, 4th Period

Love Poems, 5th Period

Create your entry like this:

Sonnet 116, by William Shakespeare (Mr. Isom)

To make a link:

Find the poem on the Internet, highlight the URL and copy.

Then type the title of the poem in this document below the dotted line.

Then highlight the title you typed and press ctrl K, and then ctrl V, and then enter

somewhere i have never traveled, by e.e. cummings (Mr. Isom)

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The Title of Your Poem, by Famous Poet (Your Name)

In-class Reading Book (you may read at home, too, but not required)
Check out book from library
1. In-class Reading--15 minutes
Write a 1/2 page summary of the first 2 pages
After finishing the first 10 pages or so, write 1/2 page telling me what you like about the book.
Share
2. Read Bean Trees 15 minutes
Homework: over the weekend, finish chapter 2
3. Robert Frost poetry

Every Thursday you will have quiet reading time to read a book of your own choosing. After finishing the book, you will do a creative book report (more on that later).
Today we will head to the library to check out books. Mr. Rick, our school librarian, will help you.

The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
Quizlet deck, vocabulary Bean Trees chapter 1
Vocabulary quiz Thursday
Homework: Read the rest of chapter 1

Out of Class Reading
Every Thursday you will have quiet reading time to read a book of your own choosing. After finishing the book, you will do a creative book report (more on that later).
Today we will head to the library to check out books. Mr. Rick, our school librarian, will help you.

The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
Quizlet deck, vocabulary Bean Trees chapter 1
Vocabulary quiz Thursday
Homework: Read the rest of chapter 1
Homework: over the weekend, finish chapter 2









". . . sometimes you can tell the truth better if you do more than just tell the truth"--Twain

"We don't read and write poetry [or books] because it's cute; we read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion"--Mr. Keating, Dead Poets Society

"Neither novels or their readers benefit from attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside the story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species"--John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

John Green reads The Fault in Our Stars, chapter 1