- Do Now - Start New DIRT Entry
- Independently read for 10 minutes.
- Answer Reader Response
- 3 Questions About Your Book
- 2 Predictions or Inferences
- 1 Important Idea
- Word Study (Begin a new Word List V)
- agile (agility): the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble.
- assertion (assertive, assertively): a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief.
- Class Discussion - Christmas the Season of Giving?
- RATA - The Visit of the Three Wise Men and Astronomical Objects and Astronomical Events
- Questions to Understand
- Where is Bethlehem?
- What are Frankincense and Myrrh?
- What is an astronomical conjunction?
TUESDAY - Single Period
- Do Now - Copy into Word List V
- cascade (cascading, cascaded): pour down rapidly and in large quantities.
- chronicle (chronicles, chronicling): to record a related series of events in a very factual and detailed way.
- Read Aloud Think Aloud - The Gift of the Magi
WEDNESDAY- Double Period
- Do Now - Start New DIRT Entry
- Independently read for 10 minutes.
- Answer Reader Response
- 3 Questions About Your Book
- 2 Predictions or Inferences
- 1 Important Idea
- Word Study (Continue Word List V)
- covet (coveted, coveting): a yearning to posses or have something.
- inconsequential: not important or significant.
- Mini-lesson: What are Situational and Dramatic Irony?
- Practice Activity in Teams
- Take Home Quiz on Irony due tomorrow!
THURSDAY - Single Period
- Do Now - Copy into Word List V
- instigate (instigator, instigating): bring about or start an event or action.
- predominate (predominating): to be the main element; to be greater in number or amount.
- Learning Target: Can you identify the three types of irony in different passages.
- Correct Homework
- Begin Take Home Quiz
- Begin Take Home Quiz Due Tomorrow
FRIDAY - Double Period
- Do Now - Start New DIRT Entry
- Independently read for 10 minutes.
- Answer Reader Response
- Describe a situation in your novel that you consider ironic. It could be verbal irony (sarcasm), situational irony (we know something the character doesn't), or dramatic irony (totally unexpected).
- Collect Take Home Quiz
- Word Study (Continue Word List V)
- 9. prudent (prudence): acting with or showing care and thought for the future.
- 10. subside: become less intense. When referring to water, to return to a lower level.
- Hand in your Swallowing Stones Essay on Monday for partial credit.
- Mini-Lesson: Identifying Irony in "The Gift of the Magi," a short story by O. Henry.
- Create Vocabulary Flash Cards
- Complete Words to Know Skill-builder Worksheet
- Homework: Take Home Quiz on Gift of the Magi
- Test on "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry on Monday.
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