Monday
· Reading 8 – Reading strategy lesson: Think aloud and talking to text strategies explored with pictures and sample text. Students will practice these on their own with an essay.
· Reading 7 – Bullying Lesson: Students will learn the difference between harmless teasing and hurtful language by discussion and completing an in-class assignment with a partner.
· Practical Literature 10 - Read "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe together as a class. Students will work on the active reading worksheet on symbolism after reading.
Tuesday
· Reading 8 – Bullying Lesson: Students will learn about being a bystander and things they can do to take a stand against bullying. They will complete an advice column writing assignment for homework for next class period.
· Reading 7 – Review notes on nonfiction and discuss topics for the unit. Introduce the big question for the unit (p. 406 in textbook). Begin reading "The Three Century Woman" from the textbook. Students will complete the guided reading questions for this story while reading and add any other talking to text notes that they wish as they read.
· Practical Literature 10 - Students will finish reading "The Masque of the Red Death" and they will work together to complete the worksheet on symbolism. As a class, we will discuss symbolism within the short story, "The Masque of the Red Death."
Wednesday
· Reading 8 – Bullying Lesson: Students will learn about being a bystander and things they can do to take a stand against bullying. They will complete an advice column writing assignment for homework for next class period.
· Reading 7 – Students will continue to read "The Three Century Woman" together as a class. Students are responsible for individually completing the guided reading questions as we read. As a class, we will discuss these questions at the end of the story.
· Practical Literature 10 - Students will be introduced to the short story "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket" by reading the background information in the textbook. As a class, we will begin reading this story and students will complete an active reading worksheet with discussion questions on the story as we read.
Thursday
· Reading 8 – Students will explore the "talking to text" reading strategy with an essay. As a class, we will examine student examples of "talking to text" notes on the board and students will work individually to read the rest of the essay using this strategy.
· Reading 7 – Students will read from "The Fall of the Hindenburg" together as a class and respond to the guided reading questions while reading. When finished, students will respond to the post-reading questions for each of these stories ("The Three Century Woman" and "The Fall of the Hindenburg").
· Practical Literature 10 - Students will continue reading "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket" together. Students will also identify parts of the plot as we read and complete the active reading worksheet.
Friday
· Reading 8 – Students will explore the "talking to text" reading strategy with an essay. As a class, we will examine student examples of "talking to text" notes on the board and students will work individually to read the rest of the essay using this strategy.
· Reading 7 – Students will complete a Venn Diagram with a partner to compare and contrast these two stories. As a class, we will discuss the similarities and differences and decide if they fall into either the fiction or nonfiction categories.
· Practical Literature 10 - Students will continue to read "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket" together as a class. They will work together on the active reading worksheet and on identifying parts of the plot. We will discuss these together as a class.
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