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Welcome back! Sept 6-9 Recollection - Childhood - discussions. Literary devices in literature- posters Sept 6th "About School" poem. Questions due Friday Literary Devices Poster due Monday Sept 12th

Sept 12-16 Sept 12- "The 1st Day of School"- questions due Sept 13- "The School Globe" questions due Sept 14 - Read "How to do Battle with Grown Ups," questions are due Sept. 16 Sept 15 - Went through elements of a short story and read "Penny in the Dust." Questions due Sept. 19 Sept 16 - Did an activity on tone identification and started reading "Grace". "How to do Battle with Grown Ups" questions due.

Sept. 19 - 23 Sept 19 - Finished reading "Grace." Story map due Sept. 21. "Penny in the Dust" questions due today. Sept 20 - Went through different types of rhyme and read "Warren Pryor." Questions due tomorrow. Sept 21 - Read "The Man who Finds Out His Son Has Become a Thief." Questions due on Sept. 23. Story maps due today. Sept 22 - Did an activity on rhyme scheme and started a group project. Rhyme activity and group project are due Sept. 27. Sept 23 - Looked at examples of Dramatic Readings and worked on group project.\

Sept. 26 - 30 Sept. 26 - Work period for dramatic reading assignment Sept. 27 - Students presented their dramatic reading of a poem to the class. We defined 'fairy tales' and began our examination of children's literature. Sept. 28 - Read "Who's Afraid of the Wicked Witch" and began analysis of a fairy tale. Sept. 29 - Finished analysis of a fairy tale within groups. Read a fractured fairy tale and students started brainstorming how to write one of their own. Fairy Tales are due Oct. 7 Sept. 30 - Work period for fractured fairy tales and to catch up on past assigmnents.

Oct. 3 - 7 Oct. 3 - Read a short biography of Harper Lee and completed a crossword puzzle. Students had time to work on their fractured fairy tales. Oct. 4 - Read an article on the Jim Crow Laws and worked on Fractured fairy tales. Oct. 5 - Brainstormed historical context of To Kill a Mockingbird, discussed major themes and started reading Chapter 1. Oct. 6 - Finished reading chapter 1. Students had time to work on reading guide for Chapter 1. Oct. 7 - Fractured Fairy Tales due today. - Deadline extended to October 11. Read chapter 2 of To Kill a Mockingbird. Distributed reading guide for chapters 2 - 8.

Oct. 11 - 14 Oct. 11 - Chapter 1 reading guide is due today. Read chapter 3 as a class. Oct. 12 - Listened to the audio book version of chapter 4 and started reading chaper 5. Oct. 13 - Finished reading chaper 5 and 6. Oct. 14 - Read chapter 7 and listened to chapter 8.

Oct. 17 - 21 Oct. 17 - Read chapter 8. Questions for chapters 2 - 8 are due Oct. 19. Oct. 18 - Notes on characters and social class. Read Chapter 9. Oct. 19 - Work period for questions. Oct. 20 - Read Chapter 10. Oct. 21 - Read Chapter 11. Quiz on part 1 of To Kill a Mockingbird is on Tuesday, October 25. The last day to hand in past assignments (Story Maps, Warren Pryor, Rhyme Scheme & Fairy Tales) is on Monday, October 24.

Oct. 24 - 28 Oct. 24 - Read Chapter 12 of To Kill a Mockingbird Oct. 25 - Part 1 Quiz. Oct. 26 - Read chapter 13 and 14. Oct. 27 - Read chapter 15. Created a map of Maycomb together. Oct. 28 - Read chapter 16.

Oct. 31 - Nov. 3 Oct. 31 - Reviewed themes and characters of To Kill a Mockingbird Nov. 1 - Talked about Provincial Election and how elections work. Nov. 2 - Read chapter 17. Journals due Thursday. Nov. 3 - Examined party platforms for Provincial election. Read chaper 18. Journals due today. Nov. 4 - Ran the Student Vote program. Work perio to complete chapter questions.

Nov. 7 - 10 Nov. 7 - Read chapter 19 Nov. 8 - No class, Career Fair in Yorkton Nov. 9 - Wrote an in-class character sketch. If we finish To Kill a Mockingbird by Nov. 17, we will have a class fun day. Nov. 10 - Read chapters 20, 21, 22.

**To Kill a Mockingbird - Character Sketch Assignment** - A character sketch examines the personality and physical appearance of one character. It is like a snapshot of a character, describing her/him in a certain moment. - Look at the character chart on the front of your chapter 2 - 8 questions. - Pick one of these characters and describe them in one well formed paragraph (8 - 12 sentences). Do not give the full history of your chosen character. Pretend you are describing her/him to someone who has never read the book.

Tips for writing a character sketch: //Physical appearance// The easiest character trait to describe is the character's physical appearance. You start by describing how the character looks physically such as size of physical stature, color and length of hair, color of eyes, and what kind of clothes she or he wears. //Personality// Once you have established what the character looks like, describe their personality. You can look at what the character says, how she/he says it, how she/he interacts with others, what she/he does, how she/he dresses, what she/he thinks, what others say and think about her.

Nov. 15 - Nov. 18 15- Read chapters 23 and 24 of To Kill a Mockingbird. All chapter questions will be due Monday, November 21. 16- Read chapters 25, 26 and 27. 17- Read chapters 28, 29, 30, 31. Next week we will review the novel and write the exam on Thursday, November 24. 18- Fun day - to celebrate the completion of our novel study.