English 9 Daily Agendas:  September 6 - September 10
 
Monday 9/6
No School - Labor Day
Tuesday 9/7
1. Journal/Bell-Ringer: Think of a time something you really wanted to happen actually happened.  Then, make a metaphor or simile for how you felt.  Next, think of a time you really wanted something to happen and it didn't.  Make a metaphor or simile for that feeling too.
2. Business
    a. Turn in late Perfect Paragraphs &/or  SQ3R from WS book.
    b. Organization Checks - Planners - in Period 1 Friday.
    c. Preview: Tomorrow's Timed Writing
3. Reader's Workshop
    a. Check in Of Mice and Men books. (During Journal?) - Keep in your bookbag!
    b. Literary Techniques: Metaphor/Simile
        1) Share a few metaphors/similes from today's journal.
        2) Nothing is ever quite what it seems - literature as metaphor.
        3) How the metaphor/simile works.
            a) We all have different meanings, perceptions.
            b) Tenor and Vehicle (If absent, be sure to get these notes in class.)
        4) Introduce The Metaphor Game (as time allows).
 4. HW: none
Wednesday 9/8
1. Journal/Bell-Ringer: none
2. Business
    a. Reminder: Planners checked in Period 1 Friday.
    b. Reminder: Have OMM with you every day.
3. Writer's Workshop
    a. District Checkpoint Writing Assessment: Narrative
    b. Complete and turn in.
4. HW: none
Thursday 9/9
1. Journal/Bell-Ringer: How do you respond when things don’t go your way?  Tell a little story that illustrates that.
2. Business
    a. Reminder: Planners checked in Period 1 tomorrow.
    b. Reminder: Have OMM with you every day – have checked if you just got it.
3. Reader's Workshop
    a. "Mother to Son" - Read together, annotate, & discuss.
    b. Assign: Complete questions on "Mother to Son" worksheet for tomorrow.
4. HW: Complete questions on "Mother to Son" worksheet for tomorrow.
Friday 9/10

1. Journal/Bell-Ringer: Create “Theme Tracker” – Web or Outline
     *So far: Your writing, “Mother to Son”
2. Business
    a. Organization Checks - Planners - in Period 1.
    b. Turn in "Mother to Son" worksheets.
    c. Reminder: Have OMM with you every day.
3. Reader's Workshop
    a. Full Intro to Hopes and Dreams Unit.      

*UPDR – Understand what will be expected of you & maybe a little planning.
    b. Intro to Of Mice and Men Study - Allusion: To a Mouse.
 4. HW: none