TUESDAYJanuary 17

Warm-up

Writing prompt on board

Dialect

Y’all needa write that there prompt off’n the board. I know you fokes awful tired and, if you had your druthers, you’d be off yonder playin or talkin. It may not even set right none no how. But fer now, you caint. Go get you some paper. Y’all fixin’ to do some readin’. Bless your heart, but just holler if you ain’t getting’ it.

Reading

Jeremiah’s Song

Vocabulary

Monitor – checking your comprehension as you read Restate – to say or write something again in a different

way Summarize – to briefly retell the main ideas in your

own words Dialect – a form of language spoken in a particular

place or by a particular group of people Dialogue – written conversation between 2 or more

characters Clarify – pause and reflect to make clear what you are

reading Main Idea – the most important idea about a topic Inference – a logical guess based on facts

Begin answering questions

1. What words or phrases in paragraph one are dialect?

2. Grandpa Jeremiah says his stories are the songs of his people. What do stories and songs have in common? Write what he means in your own words.

3. What does the idiom “book learning” mean?

4. How do Macon and Jeremiah get along?

5. Reread lines 148-154. What is the narrator’s description of Grandpa Jeremiah in your own words?

6. How does Ellie’s view of Macon change throughout the story?

7. In lines 202-206, how does the narrator feel about Macon?

8. In lines 249-261, what are the words or phrases that are dialect?

10. What happens in lines 288-290?11. Why might Grandpa Jeremiah’s

death be especially harder for Ellie to deal with?

12. What does the narrator think at the end about Macon’s song?

Vocabulary

Monitor restate Summarize Dialect Clarify Dialogue main idea inference

WEDNESDAY January 18

Makeup Day

Makeup missing Homework Assignments Notes Exit Tickets Study for makeup tests/quizzes

Warm-up

Review homework – Clara Barton

Vocab Review

Monitor restate Summarize

Summarizing Information

Summarize the events that occur on each page. Your summaries can only be 3 sentences long.

Make sure you write down ONLY THE MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION!!!

THURSDAY

January 19th B day

Makeup Day

Makeup missing Homework Assignments Notes Exit Tickets Tests/quizzes

Warm-up

Make a plot chart of Jeremiah’s Song

Exposition - beginning

Rising

Actio

n

Climax

Falling Action

Resolution - ending

Rubric – 3rd block only

Exposition Conflict Characters (GJ, Narrator, Ellie, and Macon) Setting

Rising action – 3 events Climax Falling action – 1-2 events Resolution Text evidence (quote and page

numbers)

Quiz Bowl

Group yourselves into teams of 4. You will be asked questions about the story.

Your group will receive one question. If you cannot answer it correctly, the question goes on to the next team.

If you shout out answers to another team’s question, your team will lose 2 points.

The team with the highest points will receive a prize and 5 points extra credit on the quiz tomorrow.

Questions

1. Who is Jeremiah?2. How does the narrator know Ellie has changed after coming

home from college?3. What does the following statement help you understand about

the narrator? “I wasn’t about to go in there and listen to no stories at night.”

4. What is Jeremiah’s songs meant to do?5. What does Macon do while he listens to Grandpa’s songs?6. How do we know Ellie begins to like Macon?7. What is a stroke?8. What is a diagnosis?9. What is a condition?10. What is a setback?11. What does Ellie do when Dr. Crawford tells her how sick Jeremiah

is?12. What is the pattern/reoccurring event throughout the selection?

Questions – Lightning Round1. You can tell the narrator of the story

a) Is too young to understand grandfather’s storiesb) Doesn’t trust Maconc) Pays attention to the people in his life and the

events taking placed) Doesn’t want to know that his grandfather is at

the end of his life

2. Ellie became unhappy with things at home –1. When the narrator becomes friends with Macon2. After she moved away to work in the city3. After hearing the doctor’s diagnosis4. When she first came home from college

Questions – Lightning Round3. Macon tells the narrator, “You getting to be a big

man, that’s all.” What does he mean?a.) he’s too old to be afraid of scary storiesb.) the narrator is growing upc.) he’s worried the narrator is getting conceitedd.)the narrator is well known in the town.

4. When Grandpa Jeremiah describes his stories as a bridge, he meansa.) they are best told while travellingb.) protect against dangersc.) can be difficult to crossd.) connect with the past

FRIDAYJanuary 20th

Warmup

Review 2 weeks vocab words1. Primary Source 2. Secondary Source 3. Claims4. Evidence5. Argument6. Counter Argument 7. Analyze 8. Thesis Statement 9. Introduction10.Body paragraphs11.Conclusion

Assessment

Test 2