First Quarter Syllabus - Grade 8 - 2005-2006

Day 1 Orientation/Course Overview

8/24 & Syllabus Attendance Policy ASSIGN: Summer Reading

Day 2 Introduce Vocabulary Unit 1

8/25(A) Read “Happy Women” ASSIGN: “Happy Women”

8/26(B) Essay due 9/2(F)/Voc 1

Synonyms

Day 3 Check Voc 1/Summer Rdg ASSIGN: Study Voc 1/ 8/29(M) A/B writing assignment/Composition Rough Draft of”HW” due next class/Summer Rdg due 9/6 by all

Day 4 Composition/Peer Conference “HW” ASSIGN: Voc 1 Study/

8/30(T-A) “HW” due Friday, 9/2

8/31(W-B) Summer Rdg writing due

Tues, 9/6

Day 5 Review Voc 1/Grammar ASSIGN: Voc 1 Quiz

9/1(TH-A) Diagnostic/ Nouns, Pronouns,

9/2(F-B) Adjectives

9-2 Friday Happy Women essay due by all by Break in the basket in Rm 214

9-6 Tuesday Summer Reading assignment due by all by Break in the basket in Rm 214

Day 6 Voc 1 Quiz/ Grammar - ASSIGN: Grammar

9/6(T-A) Verbs Exercises

9/7(W-B)

Day 7 Intro Voc 2/Grammar- ASSIGN: Exercises/

9/8(TH-A) Verbs Voc 2 Synonyms

9/9(F-B)

Day 8 Short Story Unit/Check Voc 2 ASSIGN: Rd “Louisa”/

9/12(M-A/B) Format

Day 9 Discuss “Louisa” ASSIGN: Rd “Caged Bird”/

9/13(T-A) Format

9/14(W-B)

Day 10 Disc “Caged”/Review Voc 2 ASSIGN: Study Voc 2/Rd “Free”

9/15 (TH-A)

9/16 (F-B)

Day 11 Voc 2 Quiz/Disc “Free” ASSIGN: Rd “Mary”/Format

9/19 (M-A/B)

Day 12 Disc “Mary” /Intro Voc 3 ASSIGN: Rd “Xmas”/Format

9/20 (T-A) Voc 3 Synonyms

9/21 (W-B)

Day 13 Disc “Xmas”/Check Voc 3 ASSIGN: Review Short Story Unit

9/22 (TH-A)

9/23 (F-B)

Day 14 Review Short Story/ ASSIGN: Short Story Test

9/26 (M-A) Anne Frank Background

9/27 (T-B)

Day 15 Short Story Test/ ASSIGN: Voc 3 Quiz

9/28 (W-A) Review Voc 3

9/29 (TH-B)

Day 16 Voc 3 Quiz/Anne Frank ASSIGN: Rd Act I, sc 2 & 3

10/3 (M-A/B) Act I,sc 1 p368-71 p.371-93

Day 17 Act I, sc 4 & 5 p.394-406 ASSIGN: Act I Study Questions 406

10/4 (T-A) Act II, sc 1 & 2 p.407-20

10/5 (W-SB)

Day 18 Act II, sc 3-5 p420-29 ASSIGN: Act II SQ p. 429

!0/6 (TH-A)

10/7 (F-B)

Day 19 Review Anne Frank ASSIGN: Anne Frank Test

10/11 (T-A)

10/12 (W-B)

Day 20 Anne Frank Test ASSIGN: Rough Draft due Monday

10/13 (TH-B) Character Sketch

10/14 (F-A)

Day 21 Peer conference ASSIGN: Sketch due TH, 10/20

10/17 (M-A/B) Character Sketch

Day 22 Grammar-Adverbs & ASSIGN: Exercises/Character Sketch

10/18 (T-B) Prepositions

10/19 (W-A)

10/20 Thursday Character Sketch do by all by Break in the basket in Rm 214

Day 23 Grammar-Conjunctions & ASSIGN: Exercises

10/20 (TH-B) Interjections

10/21 (F-A)