Just a reminder that October 23rd marks the end of first quarter. Keep a close eye on those grades! We will also have an early out this week on Wednesday at 12:45 for teacher in-service.
English 7: Monday-Friday: I grossly underestimated the amount of time needed to prepare, practice, edit, and put together our final productions. It will take us all of this week to put together our final newscasts. Students are currently shooting rehearsals and will hopefully start final takes on Wednesday. Editing should take place on Thursday, and we will be watching final projects on Friday. The students are really getting into these newscasts so we'll take as much time as needed to get these together.
English 8: Monday- students will have the class to catch-up on their writing prompts in Write to Learn and their English activities in No Red Ink. I will conduct a short lesson on figurative language just as a refresher for students.
Tuesday- we start our next collection of stories with a focus on "the thrill of horror". Just in time for Halloween we will be exploring, reading, and writing about our favorite horror writers, watching bits of our favorite horror movies, and discussing what makes a horror movie/story scary. Students will have a variety of writing tasks for this collection beginning with writing a profile of a suspense/horror/thriller author. We will read a short story by Poe and analyze his writing for specific elements that make him one of the greatest writers of all time.
Wednesday- we will continue on with our discussion and writing our profiles about our thriller authors. Students will be reading another short story and compare it to Poe's work.
Thursday- students will have class time to finish their profiles and start their research on, in their opinion, the greatest scary story/movie ever written/made.
Friday- students will continue their research and begin assembling their short speech about why the story/movie they chose is the greatest and what elements it contains that makes it so. They will also need to find a short clip or a short reading from the movie/story they chose demonstrating their understanding of horror plot elements.
Lesson plans are subject to change. As always, please contact me with any questions, comments, or concerns. Let's have another great week of learning!
Ms. Ashley Alonzo
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