Essential Question:  How can I be respectful, responsible, and safe at Pine Mountain Middle School?

     1.  Classroom and school procedures and expectations

     2.  Review Reading Log

     3.  Complete the All About Me activity

Essential Question:  How can I accomplish the responsibilities in my Language Arts class?

     1.  Introduce and begin our first Vocabulary Workshop unit

2.  Review Book Report Expectations

3.  Review grammar - the 8 parts of speech and composing sentences 

Essential Question:  How can I accomplish the responsibilities of my Language Arts class?

1.  Continue working on our first Vocabulary Workshop unit

2.  Continue building our Interactive Notebook: subjects & predicates, conjunctions, and independent & dependent clauses

3.  Learn how to use Office365 for completing book reports. Learn how to 'share' assignments and how to properly format an essay.

Essential Question:  How does learning vocabulary and grammar enhance my writing?

     1.  Complete our first vocabulary unit - due Monday

2.  Continue building our Interactive Notebook: verbs, conjunctions, and independent & dependent clauses

Essential Question:  

1.  Vocab Workshop - Unit 2:  due Monday, September 17

2.  OL:  Grammar Review games - practice what we've been learning!

3.  Computer Lab 1901:   Book Report #1

Essential Question:  How can change be significant?  What makes a good story?

     1.  Vocab Workshop - Unit 2:  due Monday, September 17

     2.  Media Center - book checkout

     3.  Baseline writing

     4.  Computer Lab 1901:   Book Report #1  Due September 14 - NO  LATE  WORK  ACCEPTED!

5. Classroom Spelling Bee (Friday, September 14)

Essential Question:  How can change be significant?  What makes a good story?

     1.  Vocab Workshop - Unit 2:  due Monday, September 17

     2.  SB:  The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez

     3. Answering text dependent questions

4.  Conflict:  Internal and External

Essential Question:  How can change be significant?  What makes a good story?

     1.  Vocab Workshop - Unit 3:  due Monday, October 29

     2.  SB:  The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez

     3.  Conflict:  Internal and External

     4.  Computer Lab 1901:  USATestPrep.com

Essential Question:  How can change be significant?  What makes a good story?

     1.  Vocab Workshop - Unit 3:  due Monday, October 29

     2.  The Circuit Summative Assessment

     3.  SpringBoard Unit 2 Book Walk and unpacking the embedded assessment

     4.  Laptops in classroom: book reports

5. Analyzing film clips for changes caused by internal and external conflicts

Theme: Stories of Change

Essential Question:  How can change be significant?  What makes a good story?

     1.  Walk Two Moons novel introduction and anticipation questions

     2.  Walk Two Moons reading chapters 1-9 in class

     3.  Walk Two Moons assignment packet

Essential Question:  How can change be significant?  What makes a good story?

     1.  Walk Two Moons read chapters 10-16

     2.  Walk Two Moons chapters 10-16 assignment packet

     3.  Walk Two Moons  short writing assignment - Due Sunday,  October 28 (last page in packet) 

Essential Question:  How do people work through grief in their life?  

How do internal and external forces help people grow?

  1.  Vocab Workshop - Unit 3:  due Monday, October 29

  2.  RACES writing strategy - review for "Moccasins" essay

  3.  Walk Two Moons:  Ch. 10 - 15:  vocabulary/short     response questions/written response/Venn diagram (packet 2)  due on Monday, October 29

  4.  Walk Two Moons:  Ch. 16 - 22:  vocabulary/short response questions/written response (packet 3) due on Friday, November 2

 5.  Computer Lab 1901:  "Moccasins" essay due by       Friday, November 2

Book Report #3  due by Thursday, November 15

Essential Question:  How do people work through grief in their life?  

How do internal and external forces help people grow?

     1.  Vocab Workshop - Unit 4:  due Monday, November 26

     2.  Walk Two Moons:  test  (chapters 1 - 22

     3.  Walk Two Moons:  Ch. 23 - 29:  vocabulary/written response (packet 4)  

     4.  Computer Lab 1901:  Book Report #3  due by Thursday, November 15

Essential Question:  How do people work through grief in their life?  

How do internal and external forces help people grow?

     1.  Vocab Workshop - Unit 4:  due Monday, November 26

     2.   Walk Two Moons:  Ch. 30 - 35:  vocabulary/written response (packet 5) due Friday, November 16 

     3.  Computer Lab 1901:  Book Report #3  due by Thursday, November 15  

                                                

Essential Question:  How do people work through grief in their life?  

How do internal and external forces help people grow?

     1.  Vocab Workshop - Unit 4:  due Monday, November 26

     2.   Walk Two Moons:  Ch. 36-44:  vocabulary/written response (packet 6) due Friday, November 30 

     3.  Computer Lab 1901:  Book Report #4  due by Saturday, December 15  

Essential Question:  

  How do internal and external forces help people grow?

  How can talking and working with others help one analyze a novel?

     1.  Vocab Workshop - Unit 5:  due Monday, December 17 

     2.  Embedded Assessment 2:1:  Responding to Literature

                - review internal/external conflict (IAN)

                - Internal/External conflict with Sal and Phoebe

                   text evidence that supports the conflict

                - explore exemplars and the assessment rubric

                - drafting essay

     3.  Computer Lab 1901 

Essential Question:  

  How do internal and external forces help people grow?

  How can talking and working with others help one analyze a novel?

     1.  Vocab Workshop - Unit 5:  due Monday, December 17 

     2.  Review for Walk Two Moons Assessment

     3.  Computer Lab 1901 - Walk Two Moons Assessment

Essential Question:  Why do we have controversy in society?  How do we communicate in order to convince others?

     1.  Vocab Workshop - Unit 6

     2.  SpringBoard:  Book Walk 3

     3.  Computer Lab 1901

4. Unpack the first embedded assessment for Unit 3. 

Essential Question:  Why do we have controversy in society?  How do we communicate in order to convince others?

     1.  Vocab Workshop - Unit 6

     2.  SB:  It's Time to Argue and Convince

     3.  SB:  Peanuts and Pennies - Identifying Claims in an Argument

     4.  SB:  Support the Sport?  Creating Support with Reasons and Evidence

     5.  Computer Lab:  Touchstone  [CTLS Assess]

Essential Question:  Why do we have controversy in society?  How do we communicate in order to convince others?

     1.  Vocab Workshop - Unit 6 - Due Monday!

     2.  SB:  Support the Sport? Article about Dodge Ball and learning reasons and evidence

     3.  SB: Support the Sport? Article about Football Helmets

4.  Computers:  Book Report #6

Essential Question:  Why do we have controversy in society?  How do we communicate in order to convince others?

     1.  Vocab Workshop - Unit 7 - Due February 25!

     2.  SB:  Support the Sport? Article about Football and Concussions

     3.  SB: Support the Sport? Article about Football and Concussions - practice a debate

4. Guest Speaker - Language Arts in the Real World 

5.  Laptops in Classroom:  Book Report #6

Essential Question:  Why do we have controversy in society?  How do we communicate in order to convince others?

     1.  Vocab Workshop - Unit 7 - Due February 25!

     2.  SB:  Social Networking and Kids - group argument project     

3.  SB: Social Networking and Kids - continue to research

4.  Lab 1901:  Book Report #7

Essential Question:  Why do we have controversy in society?  How do we communicate in order to convince others?

     1.  Vocab Workshop - Unit 8 - Due March 25!

     2.  SB:  Social Networking and Kids - group argument project     

3.  SB: finish PowerPoint (see daily homework for instructions)

4. Group Argument Project Presentations

4.  Lab 1901: Book Report #7

Essential Question:  Why do we have controversy in society?  How do we communicate in order to convince others?

     1.  Collaborative Narrative Writing Practice: create a mythological creature for Ruby Falls Caves

     2.  Milestone Practice: Answering Text Questions and Short Constructed Response (timed)     

3. Milestone Practice: Extended Constructed Response (Lab 1906)

4. Quarter 4 Mini Touchstone 1 (Lab 1901)

4.  Vocab Workshop - Unit 8 - Due March 26!

 

Essential Question:  Why do we have controversy in society?  How do we communicate in order to convince others?

     1.  6th Grade Field Trip: Ruby Falls and Rock City

     2.  Evaluate revised constructed response: argument essay   

3. Milestone Practice: Extended Constructed Response (Media Center) 

4. Quarter 4 Mini Touchstone 1 (Lab 1901)

5.  Review narrative techniques/evaluate extended constructed response

How can change be significant?

What makes a good story?

How can change be significant?

What makes a good story?

How can change be significant?

What makes a good story?

How can change be significant?

What makes a good story?

How can change be significant?

What makes a good story?

How can change be significant?

What makes a good story?