Weekly Agenda: October 12-16, 2009

Tuesday, October 13
In-class:
Discuss “Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?”
- plot
- characters
- questions
New Vocabulary
Grammar Lesson: Helping Verbs (WC pp.583-587)
- lesson
- group practice (overhead)
- partner practice (identifying linking, action and helping verbs)
- independent practice (Exercise A, p.587)
HW: none

Thursday, October 15
In-class:
Grammar Review: Types of Verbs (Exercise B, p. 587-588)
Read “Two Kinds”
- plot, setting, & character
- maintain Reader’s Notebook
- small groups answer post-reading questions # 2,3 & 6
- Discussion: Impressions of America (think-pair-share)
HW: Review vocabulary for quiz on Monday

New Weekly Vocabulary
prodigy
indignity
reproach
lament
ream
reverie
devastate
fiasco
betrayal
discordant