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ScheduleWarm-UpTextCritical Writing/ Exit TicketNotesAfter School
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1st Nine Weeks | Aug 12 - Oct 8
Week 1 | Aug 10-14
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ScheduleWarm-UpTextCritical Writing/ Exit TicketNotesAfter School
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Mon
8/10
Teacher work days
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Tue
8/11
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Week 1
Aug 10-14

Wed
8/12
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
Getting to Know You>First Day Slide Show
>Day One
>Websites
>Class Expectations
First Day CheckDay One old CCR
https://www.mr-skipper.com/dayoneccr
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Week 1
Aug 10-14

Thu
8/13
B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
What Do You Remember?Tech Integration - Spreadsheet

Digital Citizenship #1
APP CheckDay One old ELA
https://www.mr-skipper.com/day-one
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Week 1
Aug 10-14

Fri
8/14
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
Grammar Warmup 1
Parts of Speech Brain Dump

Grammar Lesson 1
>Parts of Speech Review
>Nouns and Pronouns
>Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

Pass out forms to collect on Monday.
Put it in Practice

Goal Setting video
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1st Nine Weeks | Aug 12 - Oct 8
Week 2 | Aug 17-21
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ScheduleWarm-UpTextCritical WritingNotesAfter School
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Week 2
Aug 17-21

Mon
8/17
B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
Who Are You?(G7)
Numbers
New Math
Number Burst

(G8)
We Wear the Mask
Jabari Unmasked

Identity Project
What is one part of a person’s identity that might not be obvious to others? Why can that part of someone’s identity still be important?
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Week 2
Aug 17-21

Tue
8/18
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
Grammar Warmup 1
Parts of Speech Brain Dump
Tech Integration - Spreadsheet

Digital Citizenship
(G7) Boundaries and Consent
(G8) App Trapps and Addictive Design
Put It in Practice
Write one sentence that includes at least four different parts of speech. Then choose two words from your sentence, identify each word’s part of speech, and explain how you know.
Elements of Fiction
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Week 2
Aug 17-21

Wed
8/19
B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
Grammar Warmup 2
Find the Nouns and Pronouns
Grammar Lesson 2
>Verbs
>Adjectives and Adverbs


>Bios and Websites
Writing
Darius and the Bookshelf
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Week 2
Aug 17-21

Thu
8/20
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
Grammar
Identifying verbs, adverbs, and adjectives
Introduce the Research Project

What is Research?
Autobiographies
Work on biographies and websites
V FB @ 6:30 (Dement)
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Week 2
Aug 17-21

Fri
8/21
B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
(G7) Think Like a Sleuth

(G8) Agree or Disagree?
(8) Self-Reliance

(7) Echoes of Symmetry
Reflection
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1st Nine Weeks | Aug 12 - Oct 8
Week 3 | Aug 24-28
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ScheduleWarm-UpTextCritical WritingNotesAfter School
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Week 3
Mon
8/24
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
20 mins to take care of all technology projectsAnnotating

(G7) New Math
(G8) Poison Tree

PT Text
Grammar Lesson 3
>Subjects and Predicates
>Independent and Dependent Clauses
>Subject-Verb Agreement
no tutorials
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Week 3
Tue
8/25
B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
Grammar Warmup 3
Who or What Does It Mean?

Identifying pronouns and antecedents.
(G8) Letter to 8th Grader
(G7) 7th Grade - Soto
G9 VB @ 4:30
JV VB @ 5:30
V VB @ 6:30



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Week 3
Wed
8/26
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
WritingGrammar Lesson 4
Clauses and Phrases

House to Outline
tutorials
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Week 3
Thu
8/27
B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
Research 2
Topics
- MQA
- Evidence and Elaboration

Grammar Lesson 5
>Types of Sentences
V FB @ 7:00





tutorials
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Week 3
Fri
8/28
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
Fine ArtsSelf-Reliancedancetutorials
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1st Nine Weeks | Aug 12 - Oct 8
Week 4 | Aug 31 - Sep 4
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ScheduleWarm-UpTextCritical WritingNotesAfter School
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Week 4

Mon
8/31
B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
Thinking(G7) - Seventh Grade - Soto

(G8) - The Landlady
(G7) Seventh Grade - Beginning

(G8) Landlady - Beginning
tutorials
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Week 4

Tue
9/1
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
school cancelledschool cancelledschool cancelledschool cancelledschool cancelled
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Week 4

Wed
9/2
B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
Common and Proper Nouns(G7) - Seventh Grade - Soto

(G8) - The Landlady
(G7) Seventh Grade - Middle

(G8) Landlady - Middle
tutorials

G8 FB
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Week 4

Thu
9/3
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
Concrete and Abstract Nouns(G7) - finish Seventh Grade qz
- practice recording bibliographic information

(G8) - The Landlady
(G7) Seventh Grade - End

(G8) Landlady - End
tutorials

G8 VB
V FB @ 7:00
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Week 4

Fri
9/4
District Holiday
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1st Nine Weeks | Aug 12 - Oct 8
Week 5 | Sep 7-11
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ScheduleWarm-UpTextCritical WritingNotesAfter School
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Week 5
Mon
9/7
District Holiday
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Week 5
Tue
9/8
B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
Countable and Non-Countable Nouns(G7) Arguementative Essays and CERCA Review
Little Things are Big (CERCA)


(G8) finish The Landlady
Which part of CERCA do you think is most important: claim, evidence, reasoning, counterargument, or audience? Why?

Two or three sentences, max.
G9 VB @ 4:30
JV VB @ 5:30
V VB @ 6:30






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Week 5
Wed
9/9
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
Collective NounsBoth in ThinkCERCA
(G7) Stargirl
(G8) Unit 1 ECR
G8 FB





tutorials
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Week 5
Thu
9/10
B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
G7 - Continue CERCA
G8 - Gear Up Presentation
Writing Lesson 1
Answering the Question/ MQA


All of the Acronyms
G8 VB
V FB @ 7:00




tutorials
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Week 5
Fri
9/11
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
Who decides who you will be?Self-Reliance
text
slide deck
Critical Writing Packet





tutorials
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1st Nine Weeks | Aug 12 - Oct 8
Week 6 | Sep 14-18
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ScheduleWarm-UpTextCritical WritingNotesAfter School
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Week 6
Mon
9/14
B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
Pronouns and Antecedents 1(G7) Oranges

(G8) The Road Not Taken
SCRtutorials

G7 FB
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Week 6
Tue
9/15
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
Unit 1 Testno tutorials

G9 VB @ 6:00
JV VB @ 6:00
V VB @ 7:00
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Week 6
Wed
9/16
B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
Pronouns and Antecedents 2(G7) Unit 1 ECR

(G8) The Lottery (CERCA)
ECR/ CERCA Essaytutorials
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Week 6
Thu
9/17
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
Pronouns and Antecedents 3(G7) Unit 1 ECR

(G8) The Lottery (CERCA)
ECR/ CERCA Essayno tutorials

hive meeting
(alternate schedule)

G7 VB
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Week 6
Fri
9/18
Student Holiday
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1st Nine Weeks | Aug 12 - Oct 8
Week 7 | Sep 21-25
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ScheduleWarm-UpTextCritical WritingNotesAfter School
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Week 7
Sep 21-25

Mon
9/21
B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
Pronouns and Antecedents 7(G7) Do Teens Need Recess

(G8) The Landlady
Frackingtutorials
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Week 7
Tue
9/22
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
Pronouns and Antecedents 8tutorials

G8 FB
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Week 7
Wed
9/23
B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
WritingViolence in MoviesFrackingtutorials
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Week 7
Thu
9/24
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
Research 6
Organizing Notes
G8 VB
V FB @ 7:00




tutorials
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Week 7
Sep 21-25

Fri
9/25

B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
How can music capture the energy and personality of a place?

If a Houston could create its own music, what sounds, moods, and rhythms would it include?
Rapsody in BlueChoice BoardG9 VB @ 6:00
JV VB @ 6:00
V VB @ 7:00





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1st Nine Weeks | Aug 12 - Oct 8
Week 8 |Sep 28 - Oct 2
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ScheduleWarm-UpTextCritical WritingNotesAfter School
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Week 8
Mon
9/28
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
Thinking(G7) Oranges

(G8) Kenyan Teen






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Week 8
Tue
9/29
B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
Grammar Warmup 8
Simple or Compound?

Directions:
Label each sentence as simple or compound. A compound sentence has two complete thoughts joined correctly.

Example sentences:
The rain stopped.
The rain stopped, and the sun came out.
Javier finished his essay.
Javier finished his essay, but he forgot to print it.

Follow-up:
Combine these two sentences into one compound sentence:
The hallway was crowded. The bell had not rung yet.
Violence in MoviesThe Role of Machines (AI)G8 FB






















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Week 8
Wed
9/30
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
Writing





tutorials
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Week 8
Thu
10/1
B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
Research 7
Thesis Statements
G8 VB





tutorials
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Week 8
Fri
10/2
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
Fine ArtsNighthawks by Edward HopperG9 VB @ 6:00
JV VB @ 6:00
V VB @ 7:00



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1st Nine Weeks | Aug 12 - Oct 8
Week 9 | Oct 5-9
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ScheduleWarm-UpTextCritical WritingNotesAfter School
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Week 9
Mon
10/5
B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
ThinkingAdditional CERCAG7 FB





tutorials
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Week 9
Tue
10/6
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
Grammar Warmup 9
Combine the Sentences

Directions:
Combine each pair of sentences using either a comma with a conjunction or a semicolon.

Example pairs:
The test was difficult. The students were prepared.
I wanted to keep reading. The bell rang.
The room was quiet. Everyone was working.

Follow-up:
Write one original sentence that correctly uses a semicolon.




















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Week 9
Wed
10/7
B Day
6th 8:20 - 9:42
7th 9:46 - 11:08
8th 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
9th 1:12 - 2:34
10th 2:38 - 4:00
WritingThe Landlady 2Citing Sources





tutorials
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Week 9
Thu
10/8
A Day
1st 8:20 - 9:42
2nd 9:46 - 11:08
3rd 11:12 - 12:22
lunch 12:22 - 1:08
4th 1:12 - 2:34
5th 2:38 - 4:00
Research 8
Outlines
G7 VB





tutorials
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Week 9
Fri
10/9
Student HolidayV FB @ 7:00
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End of First Nine Weeks
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