November 18 - November 22

What you miss if you miss this week --

• We will complete our study of The House on Mango Street
• We will take some quizzes over the novel
• We will complete "Esperanza's Open Mind"
• We will write a letter home - At the end of the novel Esperanza says, "One day I’ll pack my bags of books and paper. One day I will say goodbye to Mango…Friends and neighbors will say, What happened to that Esperanza…They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the one’s I left behind" (110). Pretend that you are Esperanza and write a letter to one of the characters on Mango Street that you "left behind." Discuss some of your memories of Mango Street, particularly the one’s that had a significant impact on how you view yourself and your community. Describe what you are doing now, and how your life on Mango Street prepared you for it. You should also include how you plan to "come back" for the others and how you intend to help them. (1-2 pages).
• We will create a writer's notebook and begin our poetry unit (See photo below for Poems about Poetry notebook assignment)

PLEASE NOTE - Due to the high number of failures on the most recent common assessment, we will complete mandatory test corrections in class on Wednesday for a square root curve.

November 12 - November 15

COMMON ASSESSMENT ON FRIDAY!!!

What you miss if you miss this week -

• PreAP will be comparing and contrasting the articles about housing that you read last week Comparing Two or More Texts
• All classes will read "Why We Crave Horror Movies" by Stephen King
• PreAP classes will be writing a Rhetorical Precis
• 6th and 7th period will be summarizing the text, analyzing evidence and creating a poster

November 4 - November 8

What you miss if you miss this week -

• We will continue reading The House on Mango Street
• We will compare a fictional text with an expository text Comparing Two or More Texts
• We will practice inference and supporting detail 
• We will distinguish factual claims from opinions and commonplace assertions
• Figurative Language Test on Friday (make sure you know how to determine "what is being compared to what and why").

Charting the Text Table