1. English 9 and 10

2. Thursday, September 25
Sponge
1. Sit down
2. Get your notebook
3. Answer the sponge question
Sponge question
Describe a time when you had a disagreement
with someone. What was the outcome?

3. Thursday, September 26th
English 9
Today’s activities
1. Review terms on our learning intention board
2. Interloper’s Readers Log
3. Begin reading story
4. Practice Reading Strategy and identify terms
in the reading
5. See movie

4. Interloper’s Reading Log
Turn to page 303
Connect: What’s the longest argument you had
with someone?
Background: Read the paragraph and write down
the most interesting and important sentence.
Literary analysis: Write down the definitions for the
terms Conflict, Internal and External and indirect
characterization.
Reading strategy: indentifying cause and effect
Vocabulary: Complete an immersed in words chart

5. English
Immersed in Words Chart
9
Create a chart like this using – words are on pg 303
ALL OF THE WORDS
Word
Experience
What it
is/what it isn’t
Definition
Precipitous (adj)
Steep; sheer
Marauders (n)
Raiders; people
who take goods
by force
Medley (n)
Mixture of things
not usually found
together.
Picture
representing
image

6. Thursday, September 26th
English 10
Today’s activity
1. Sponge
2. Review research article
a.
b.
c.
d.
Review one experiment
Summarize the experiment
Review APA citation
Compare it to MLA
3. Create a Reader’s Log for the Short Story
4. Begin reading our new short story, The Widow
and the Parrot

7. Parrot Reader’s Log
Turn to page 428
Connect: How do you feel about animals?
Background: write down the most intersting and
important sentence in the paragraph
Literary Analysis: Write down the definition for the
terms- Motivation and Plot (all boldly printed words)
Reading Strategy: Drawing inferences (write definition)
Vocabulary development: Immersed in Words Chart

8. English
Immersed in Words Chart
10 Create a chart like this using – words are on pg 429
ALL OF THE WORDS
Word
Experience
What it
is/what it isn’t
Definition
Ford (n)
Shallow place in
a river where
people can
cross
Dilapidated (adj)
Shabby and
neglected
Sovereigns (n)
British gold coins
worth one pound
each ($2.00 us
money)
Picture
representing
image