E10+A+-+September+4+-+8

=Monday, September 4= = = =Tuesday, September 5= = = =Wednesday, September 6=
 * Labor Day
 * celebrate Labor in America!
 * Freshman Day!
 * ===First Day!===
 * ===Seating Chart!===
 * ===Assignment sheet===
 * ===Use this or your own planner/calendar===
 * ===You need to keep track of your assignments!===
 * Syllabus
 * 3 pts.
 * Due Tuesday, Sept. 12
 * ===Drawing with Ed Emberley===
 * ===Add one shape at a time===
 * ===We can draw everything===
 * ===Draw one on your own===
 * ===First Day questions===
 * ===3 pts.===
 * ===Due Tuesday, Sept. 12===

=Thursday, September 7= > ===2. skeptical, adj. – not easily convinced; doubtful=== > ===3. gullible, adj. – easily convinced; overly trusting=== > ===4. derogatory, adj. – belittling===
 * ===Tomorrow:===
 * ===bring ID card to check out //Of Mice and Men//===
 * ===Vocabulary warm-up: 2 parts!===
 * Part 1: start a study list of these words
 * keep this list, add 4 words each day
 * This list is for you.
 * Title of first list: //Of Mice and Men// vocab
 * ===Part 2: practice using these words===
 * ===use a small warm-up sheet from a basket on your table===
 * ===Use today's vocab words in sentences.===
 * ===You may write 4 sentences or 1 sentence===
 * ===but you must use all of today's words===
 * ===Underline today's words on the little sheet===
 * ===Turn the little sheet into the silver box on the wall by the door===
 * ===Today's words! Of Mice and Men vocab - #1 - #4===
 * ===1. morose, adj. – gloomy===

= = =Friday, September 8=
 * ===The Book Love Experiment: What is it?===
 * ===what are the advantages?===
 * ===we'll be reading this book for 12 - 15 minutes each day in class===
 * Tomorrow, Friday, we'll be going to the library to choose a book
 * think about what you might be interested in - topics, authors, styles
 * ===What do you know about the Great Depression?===
 * ===Dorothea Lange photos - lets look at these photos===
 * Migrant Mother - we'll work on as a class
 * ===front of the sheet===
 * ===Choose one of the other three to do===
 * ===discuss with classmates===
 * ===back of sheet===
 * final paragraph to write
 * Choose from:
 * Migrant Mother
 * Dust Bowl Refugees
 * Stoop Labor
 * White Angel Breadline
 * ===answer one of the Level III questions more thoroughly in a good paragraph===
 * ===feel free to use ideas from answers to the Level II questions to support your topic sentence===
 * ===Staple together question sheet and paragraph===
 * ===turn in at end of class===
 * ===Student tutoring will start soon===
 * ===Could you be a tutor?===
 * ===Are you confident in a subject?===
 * ===Can you help someone else with patience and kindness?===
 * ===Organizational meeting next Wednesday after school, room 409===
 * ===Vocab warm-up:===
 * ===5. slough, n. – //sloo// – stagnant backwater, often left behind when a river moves.===
 * ===6. slough, v. – //sluf// – to shed; to cast off===
 * ===7. slew, v. past tense – //sloo// – past tense of to slay, to kill.===
 * ===8. mottled, adj. – marked with blotches of different colors===


 * ===Check out //Of Mice and Men// - 8:40===
 * ===reading schedule starts on Monday===
 * ===Go straight to the library after you get your book===
 * ===See me if you don't get a book===
 * Trip to the library for Fun Reading book
 * ===fiction or non-fiction===
 * ===what's the difference?===
 * ===no graphic novels this time===