OCTOBER 2024

Thursday, October 31

• Finish reading The Castafiore Emerald. If you do not finish reading this or finish the plotting, this is homework, due tomorrow, November 1.
• Preview of Three Act Structure test
• General three act structure review activity

Wednesday, October 30

• Continue plot point with The Castafiore Emerald

Tuesday, October 29

• Continue plot point activity with The Castafiore Emerald
• Punctuation practice

Monday, October 28

• Plot diagram lesson
  • Download Structure notes here
• Begin plot diagram activity with Tintin
  • Download The Castafiore Emerald here

Thursday, October 24 (Periods 1-3)/Friday, October 25 (Period 4)

• In library with Mrs. White (first ten minutes)
• Complete “Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” tasks
• Notebook check – turn in notebook at end of class
• Punctuation review (if time allows)

Tuesday, October 22 (Periods 1-3)/Wednesday, October 23 (Period 4)

• Complete “Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” activity from Thursday
• Begin “Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” story write
• Punctuation review

Monday, October 21 – MUSTANG DASH

Friday, October 18 – IN LIBRARY WITH MRS. WHITE

Thursday, October 17

• Complete tridimensional character bone structure activity
• Read “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” by Gabriel García Márquez
  • Listen to audiobook here. You MUST follow along with the text if listening.
  • Spanish original version.
• Complete this response in your ELA notebook: 

Create a tridimensional character bone structure for the drowned man for who he was before drowning. Use details from the text. For missing details of the bone structure, fill in the rest on your own.

Wednesday, October 16

• Tridimensional character bone structure lesson
• Tridimensional character bone structure activity (create a tridimensional character bone structure using yourself as the character)
• DOWNLOAD THE TRIDIMENSIONAL CHARACTER BONE STRUCTURE HERE if you misplaced your physical copy.

Tuesday, October 15

• Characterization I activity II
• Characterization I freewrite

Monday, October 14

• Characterization I lesson (same sheet as activity)
• Characterization I activity

Friday, October 11

• Finished revising/editing in class
• FINAL DRAFT of personal narrative is due

Thursday, October 10

• Finish peer review
• Revising and editing
• Punctuation practice

Wednesday, October 9

• Partner revising and editing
• Partner narrative review document

Tuesday, October 8

• Punctuation lesson
• Independent and dependent clauses lesson
• Punctuation practice on Blooket

Monday, October 7

• Punctuation lesson (1st period only)
• Writing time
• ROUGH DRAFT of personal narrative is due – SUBMIT via a .docx, .doc, or PDF via Schoology – see submission requirements here

Friday, October 4 – NO SCHOOL (T.I.S. DAY)

Thursday, October 3

• Showing versus telling
• Utilizing selected pieces to write your personal narrative
• Writing time

Wednesday, October 2

• Brainstorming activity

Tuesday, October 1

• Personal narrative assignment
• Expectations for formal papers
• Review of Hughes, Updike, and Wright short stories
• Selection of short story for narrative