Monday, September 24, 2018

Tuesday September 25, 2018: Unit 1 Essay and Wrap up

List of Graded Assignments:

  1. Summary Practice of Balboa by Sabina Murray (Google Form)
  2. Balboa Notes, completed and shared with teacher (Google Doc)
  3. William Bradford/Handsome Lake Notes, completed and shared with teacher (Google Doc)
  4. Unit 1 Coggle on Bradford, Handsome Lake, and Balboa (Coggle.it)
  5. Unit 1 Pre-writing Form--Topic Sentences and supporting details based on your coggle from all three stories (Google Form)
  6. Unit 1 Pre-writing Google doc, shared with teacher (Google Doc)--a topic sentence and three supporting details from each story (you should have copied and pasted your answers from the Pre-writing Google form for this)
  7. In the Pre-writing Google Doc, draft a paragraph based on your topic sentence and supporting details (one paragraph for each story)
  8. Take each drafted paragraph over to prowritingaid.com, sign-in with your Google account, and copy and paste each paragraph into the grammar checker
  9. Copy and paste your edited paragraphs back into your pre-writing Google Doc (don't erase the original paragraph, just put it underneath and label it as edited)
  10. Write an introduction and conclusion in your Pre-writing Google Doc and repeat the steps with the grammar checker Write a conclusion and Introduction for your 3 paragraphs and grammar check them (prowritingaid.com)
  11. Create a Final draft Google Doc and share it with me; copy and paste your edited sentences/paragraphs into your final draft
  12. Create a title for your essay
  13. Go to canva.com and create a title graphic for your essay and put it into your final draft under your title

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Tuesday-Friday September 18-21 2018: Balboa Summary


  1. Google Form on Balboa
  2. Complete Coggle for Unit 1
  3. Check Live grades for if you've shared your coggle or not. (maybe you didn't put your last name or period in the center of the diagram)
  4. Complete the Writing form for UNIT 1
-->Google Form for Balboa Short Story<--

-->Google Form for Essay on Unit 1<--

Friday/Monday, September 21-24, 2018: 
  • Take your answers from Your Essay on Unit 1 google form (it's in your email), and put that in a new google doc "Pre-writing for Unit 1".  
  • Draft a paragraph for each topic sentence and its supporting details. (3 paragraphs total)



Friday, September 14, 2018

Friday/Monday September 14/17, 2018: Unit 1 Recap

  1. Create a Coggle and Share with me
  2. Use the example to the right to design your diagram
  3. Fill in the appropriate information
  4. Please feel free to work cooperatively with your table mates
  5. Let's leave take-aways/themes for last
  6. This Diagram should be complete by the end of class on Monday September 

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Thursday September 13, 2018: Notes on Balboa


  1. Open Google docs for Balboa and make sure you have shared this with me
  2. Open your Online text book to Balboa
  3. Re-read the story and complete the notes

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Tuesday September 11, 2018: Balboa


  1. Quizlet for Balboa: Quizlet.live
  2. Google Doc for Balboa
  3. Read Balboa from the online text book, or you can grab a hard copy from the front
  4. Complete Notes for the story in your Google doc as you go

Friday, September 7, 2018

Friday September 7, 2018: Test on Coming of Age in Dawnland


  1. Test on "Coming of Age in Dawnland"
  2. Finish Notes and make sure you've turned them in (shared them)
  3. Short Video on the Wampanoag Way
  4. Have a great Weekend!

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday September 4-6, 2018: Coming of Age in the Dawnland


  1. Finish notes from Bradford: Chapter 11 (I will check your google doc for a grade over the weekend)
  2. Add new section (Heading 1) in your google doc: Coming of Age in the Dawnland and make subsections (Heading 2) for the (1)Author, (2) background of the book and overview, and (3) notes
  3. Read Coming of Age in the Dawnland  in the online textbook. 
  4. Take a short note in your google doc on each paragraph from the text. 
  5. Vocabulary Quiz on the Bradford Vocabulary on Wednesday September 5, 2018
  6. Quiz on Coming of Age in the Dawnland on Friday September 7, 2018