8A+-+Periods+1+&+8+(2011-2012)

Welcome to Mrs. Wagaman's 8A Wikipage. Check back throughout the year to links to handouts, videos, and more.

Refugee Article []

A Christmas Carol





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__Week 12: 11/14-11/18__ Unit 2 Test Study Guide:

Objectives for Unit 2 Test: 16. Read, interpret, and analyze various Poe short stories and/or poems 17. discuss the use of literary devices, tone, and style 18. understand and analyze irony 19. Analyze the characterization of Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Big Questions for Unit 2 Test: 8. How do writers deal with life's reality or escape the reality? 9. Is it better to act from the mind or from the heart? 10. How does "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" still capture the imagination of readers today?

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__Week 11: 11/7 - 11/10__ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Full Text: 1st Period:For Thursday, 11/10 - Read from pg. 15 to pg. 21. []

Study Guide:

Due 11/10 - GUM 3 Homework __Week 10: 10/31-11/4__

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Audio by Iggy Pop media type="youtube" key="O4bMIskxqcg" height="315" width="420" Prezi on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow []

__Week 9: 10/24 - 10/28__ Monday- Test Tuesday - Edgar Allan Poe Biography Video []

Wednesday - Friday - The Raven Audio by Christopher Walken http://instruct.uwo.ca/mit/204f/audio/raven.mp3 []

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__Week 8 10/17-10/21__ Finish Flowers for Algernon

__Week 7 10/11-10/14__ []

Documentary: The Real Rain Man media type="youtube" key="NJjAbs-3kc8" height="315" width="560"

__Week 6: 10/3 - 10/7__ 10/3 - 1st, 2nd, 3rd Period- Quiz - 4th and 8th Period - Review

10/4 - 4th and 8th Period - Quiz

__Week 5: 9/26-9/30__ 9/26 - PSSA Discussion

9/27-9/29- Read "The Struggles to be an All-American Girl" and "Ed McMahon is Iranian"

9/28 - Introduction to Library/Skyward

9/30 - Discussion and/or Review (Periods 1-3 Only)

__Week 4: 9/19-9/23__

Writer's Notebook: What makes you proud? What has been your proudest moment? It doesn’t have to involve something others recognize as a major accomplishment. It just has to be meaningful to you. If you’re struggling to think of an example, make a drawing/write a goal you have for yourself (think RAFT letter) and what it might be like to achieve it. 9/20 - GUM Homework Due 9/23 - GUM Quiz

Cause and Effect Writing - due by Friday

__Week 3: 9/12-9/16__ 9/14-Writer's Notebook-" Take a few moments to write about the last week of your life – a lot has happened! Feel free to write about the flood, recovery effort, 9-11, or something else that has been going on in your life."

9/15 - Writer's Notebook- " Write about a really good (or bad) elementary school memory. Try and record specific details about the who, what, where, when, (why?) and how."

9/16 - __The Circuit__ - answer Q's 4, 9, 10, 11, 13

__Week 2: 9/5 - 9/9__ 6 Word Memoirs - due 9/6



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