3 SEPTEMBER

-Course overview

-Name cards

-Tour of room

-Weekly schedule

4

-Indep Reading

-Bookmarks/talks

-Registering books

-Share brainstorms

5

-Register books

-Into Quiz

-SSR

-3 Respects Wksh.

-Share

-HW Brainstorm funny, scary, proud moment (narrative)

-Syllabus Quiz Friday

- Bring SSR book for Friday

-Issue Textbooks

-Writing sample

-HW Cover by Monday

-Medieval Heraldry

HW Shield and paragraph due Tues.

8

STAR Test

-Check book covers

-Vocab Folders

-Vocab/Spelling

-Plot Map—intro

-do w/simple story

9

-Daybook 1-1

-Famous arch enemies

-“Rikki-tikki-tavi”

10

Rikki-tikki-tavi

Nag’s POV

11

Daybook 1-2

-“Boy and Man”

-External conflict

12

-Review for quizzes

-Vocab/Spell Quiz

-SSR

-Papers

Fall of Roman Empire—problems?

c/c historical maps—why the changes?

Europe Map

HW Map due  Thursday

GEO Challenge #1

Discuss GEO #1

Intro Timeline

Time for research (textbook)

Finish timeline

Present

15

Start Catherine

-vocab/spelling

Discussion questions

-background info on setting

16

DB 1-3

2.3-2.4, notes

17

Disc.

Sept./Oct. Quiz

18

DB 1-4

Life in the Middle Ages

19

Nov./Dec. Quiz

Language Quiz

SSR

What do you know about feudalism/ Middle Ages?

Feudalism depends on loyalty—what does that mean?

-Read 2.1

-Graphic organizer hierarchy—c/c with our society

Read 2.2, notes

Manor simulation

2.5, notes

Love/hate letter using the dialect—be George, Aelis, or Catherine

(Due Wednesday)

2.6-2.7

How to be a . . . poem

-lord

-peasant

-lady

-monarch

-knight

(Due Tuesday)

22

Vocab/Spell #3

23

DB 1-4

Hot seat Prep—What is important about marriage

24

Jan./Feb. Quiz

Verbs

25

DB 1-5

Hot seat

26

Vocab/Spell Quizzes

March/April Quiz

SSR

Catholicism in Middle Ages

Monk DVD

Start reading/notes

3.1-3.2

3.3-3.4

Reader’s Theater:  Canterbury Tales

3.5

Stained Glass

3.6-3.8

Latin 101

Illuminated Script

Illuminated text poem on THE CHURCH

29

Vocab/Spell #4

30 1-5

Intro Personal Ad Do Catherine and 1 other POV

OCTOBER 1

Grammar

May/June Quiz

2 All-School Write

3

Vocab/Spell Quiz SSR/Papers

Analyze painting

Do 4.2, notes

Drama groups

Practice Skits

4.3/skit

4.4-/skit

4.5-4.6/skits

4.7-4.8/skits

6

Vocab/Spell #5

7

DB 2-1

Intro essay

Brainstorm CDs (descriptive anecdotes about Catherine’s personality)

8

-Grammar

-July/Aug./Sept. Quiz

9

DB 2-2

Share CDs

Collect best 2 and write thesis (in-class)

10

Spell/Vocab Quiz

SSR/Papers

Creating a Medieval Family

Chap 4 SS Quiz

Work Period

Work Period

Work Period

Final Work Period
Due Tuesday

13

Vocab/Spell #6

Intro Paragraph

14

Daybook 2-3

All-School Write Feedback

15

-Grammar

-Body Paragraph #1

16

DB 2-4

Body Paragraph #2

17

Vocab/Spell Quiz

SSR

5.1-5.2Read/Notes

(Magna Carta Simulation)

Plague Sim

Read/Notes 5.3

Plague Person Accounts--

Your family during/after the plague

Read/Notes 5.4

Hundred Years War

Review for Quiz

Quiz Chap 5