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**This Week’s Agenda** **April 25 – 29, 2011**

**__Essential question:__ What do you think of the social status of birth mothers in Jonas’s community? Why do you think they are given this status? How is this similar or different from our society?** **__Reading Instructional Focus:__ Literary Analysis** **__Objectives__:** **1) Determine the meaning of words with multiple meanings in context** **2) Locate and analyze elements of characterization, plot, theme, and other literary elements** **3) Analyze literary devices: mood, tone, figurative language** **__Word of the Week:__ paramount (adj.) greatest in importance or significance** **__Quote of the Week:__ “Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.”** **- George Orwell -** **__Monday__:**  WARM UP – Journal: **Vocabulary Unit 1.** **1) Journal and planner** **2) Quiz 1 – The Giver** **3) Prepare for Literature Circles** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**a. Complete assigned reading** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**b. Complete/review notes** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**c. Prepare any props you may need** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">**__Homework__: “Your Perfect World” Project Due May 13**

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">**__Tuesday__** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;"> WARM UP – Journal: **Vocabulary Unit 2** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**1) Journal and planner** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**a. Discussion: Do you think the life of the elderly is better or worse in our society?** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**2) Color Walk** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**3) Literature Circles meet (20 minutes)** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**4) Spring Fling Prep** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">**__Homework__: “Your Perfect World” Project Due May 13**

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">**__Wednesday__** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;"> WARM UP – Journal: **Vocabulary Unit 3** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**1) Journal and planner** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**2) New Literature Circle Assignments** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**3) The Giver – Chapters 7 – 9** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**a. Vocabulary – context sentences** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**b. Discussion: Do you think that we should have different rules for different members of society?** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">**__Thursday – Early Release__** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;"> WARM UP – Journal: **Vocabulary Unit 4** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**1) Journal and planner** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**2) Vocabulary Word Search** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**3) The Giver: Chapters 10 -12** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**a. How does sameness impact a society?** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">**__Homework__: “Your Perfect World” Project Due May 13**

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">**__Friday__** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;"> WARM UP – Journal: **Vocabulary Unit 5** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: 0in;">**1) Journal and planner** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: 0in;">**2) Vocabulary activity** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: 0in;">**3) The Giver – Chapters 13 – 15** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%; margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**a. Discussion: (How) would you change if you were given more power or authority than your friends?** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">**__Homework__: “Your Perfect World” Project Due May 13**