Meghan+McWalter

Unit Overview Drug Abuse & Gang Violence:

Overview: Educating the Future

This unit, which is thought to be risqué and too intense for teenagers, is to inform our students on the dangers of drug abuse and gang violence. We can't ignore this topic, I know we all don't want to believe that our young ones are taking part in these activities, but we have to face the facts and stand up. If we choose to ignore this, we are choosing to condone it. Drugs are taking over these students lives; they have no one to go to and are scared that if they do, something bad will happen to them. The other issue is gang violence. Gangs are becoming these students lives, people are getting hurt, and lives are being ruined. I think that because students aren't being educated on these topics or it is talked about very little in the classroom, they are more prone to abusing drugs and taking part in gangs. We need to help our students express their emotions in a different way than drugs and gangs. We need to help our students feel comfortable and loved in their school environment. We need to set an example. Yes it's a risky topic, but it's an important one.

This unit is made for an 11th grade English class. This is a great unit to start the year off with; it gets them interested in writing about themselves and their thoughts on these topics. This unit is filled with fun and creative writing activities that will help your students know the ins and outs of their own writing. This is junior year, most upper level English classrooms are required to have a research paper. This unit will help introduce writing and writing workshops. Students will be more prepared for a more scholarly assignment like a research or I-search paper.



**Objectives: **
 * Create personal approaches to substance abuse control and prevention
 * Demonstrate effective practices in working within groups
 * Demonstrate general skills of the writing process
 * Practice skills in speaking and listening as tools for learning
 * Students will talk about safety in their own school
 * Students will learn about the principal of diffusion of responsibility and techniques that can help them if they are ever a victim of violence.
 * Students will learn about gangs and how to avoid violence.


 * Readings **
 * All students will read //Yummy// by Greg Neri

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 * Literature Circle Book Selection **
 * //Go Ask Alice //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> by Anonymous
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Crank //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> by Ellen Hopkins
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">DopeSick //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> by Walter Dean Meyers
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Snitch //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> by Allison Van
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Almost Lost //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> by Beatrice Sparks

[|Lit Circle Book List.docx]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 24px;">(Parental consent form will be provided for students to bring home, sign, and return).

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Writing Activities ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> I want my students to feel “Free to Express” their thoughts and opinions, and I want them to be writing every day. I will provide the students with their own journals in which they will write in every class period. They can write about anything they want. They can use poetry, song lyrics, pictures, etc. to help them engage in their writing. I will ask them to write down personal experiences, thoughts, or questions they might have. I will NOT read these without their permission. They have the right to privacy, but I will flip through them to make sure the work is being done. This is meant to let them express their emotions and help them find out a lot about themselves.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entries (In-Class) **

Let's face it blogs are the new diaries, except they are for everyone to see and comment on. A teacher couldn't ask for a better way to get her students involved in a discussion with their peers. Since most students already have their own blogs or have some history with them, it shouldn't be too hard to introduce the idea to the students. This is meant to help with class discussion and keep the students writing outside of school; the internet is where all young writers go to express themselves these days.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Blog Entries (At home- School library) **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> These are writing activities that are prompted by questions pertaining to the novel the students will be reading. Each activity can be done in groups or individually. This is a way of letting the students know they aren’t alone. They will see their peers talking and collaborating about issues that teens face every day. This activity will lead in to a discussion on the book or real life issues.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Class Writing Activities (In-Class) **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> After reading the selected //Yummy// by Greg Neri the students will have a chance to get creative. They will create their own mini graphic novel that could be inserted into the novel //Yummy.// Anything that is inappropriate will not be accepted. These are real issues and I will not tolerate goof balling during this assignment.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mini Graphic Novel (In-Class) [|Mini-Graphic Novel.docx] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> While reading their Literature Circle books they will, as a group, create a news article about a specific scene in their selected novel. I want to see the informative side of my students. This is a topic that should be broadcasted on every news station. Why not hear it straight from the students themselves?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">News Article (In-Class)[|News Article activity.docx] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The idea about this lesson is to create awareness among the young population. Students will create their own warning labels just like the surgeon general warning on a pack of cigarettes. They will create a warning label that they could put on a gang or a specific drug that warns whomever encounters it. Research will be involved.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Warning Label (In-Class) **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Students will use their background in poetry and creative writing to help them write a song that speaks about drug abuse and gang violence. They will be able to make an album cover and write a message to their “listeners”.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Create a Song (In-Class)[|Create your own cd.docx] **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> I want students to hear it from someone other than me. I know that parents, friends, family, administrators, and police officers would be highly interested in what questions these students can come up with. If this can help them see other people’s opinions and ideas about this specific topic then the assignment has been successful. This project is a way for them to educate themselves.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Interview (Homework) **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">As a group, students will create a multi-genre book review. We have explored many different genres during this unit. Students can choose one that we have already done, or they can come up with their own. I will give the students a list of genres that we haven’t explored, and they can come up with their own.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Multi-Genre Assignment (In-Class, At Home) [|Multi-Genre Book Review.docx] **

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Unit Plan

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Drug Abuse and Gang Violence:

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Educating the Future

Sources on Topic: [|GANG_VIOLENCE.pdf] [|Street Gangs.htm] [|Preventing-Teen-Abuse-of-Prescription-Drugs-Fact-Sheet-2draft-Cephalon-sponsored.pdf] [|Teen Drug Abuse - Troubled teens are resorting to drugs..htm]


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Week 1: **


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Monday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Introduction: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Open the class with a discussion on gangs


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Show clip: **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yummy //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Book Review


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Class Writing Activity: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Define: Gang


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry #1: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thoughts and feelings on this topic


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Read/Blog


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tuesday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Blog Discussion


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free to express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Class Writing Activity: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Have you or someone you know ever been the victim of a crime? How did it make you, or the person you know, feel? How did you, or the other person, feel about punishing the offender?


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Read/Blog


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wednesday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Blog Discussion


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry #2: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free to express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Video Clip: Yummy **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **Class Writing Activity:** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">How do the adults in your life help you? What have you learned from them? Do the adults in Yummy's life help him in similar ways? How do you think his relationship with adults affects him?


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Read/Blog


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thursday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Blog Discussion


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry #3: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free to Express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Class Writing Activity: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">How do your surroundings, your neighborhood, compare to Roseland, Yummy’s neighborhood? How might your neighborhood or surroundings make a difference in your behavior?


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Reading/Blog


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Friday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Blog Discussion


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry #4: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Journal Collection


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Class Reading Day: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Class reads and discusses together


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Take a look at the books I’ve selected for the Literture Circles. Review them and put them in order favorite to least favorite.


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Week 2: __**


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Monday: __**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Video Clip: Gangs** media type="youtube" key="svMcZfChnmQ" height="349" width="425"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry #5: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free to Express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Class Writing Activity: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Create your own mini Graphic Novel.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Read/Blog


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tuesday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Blog Discussion


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry #6: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free to Express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Class Writing Activity: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Graphic Novel (Writing Workshop)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Read/Blog


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wednesday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Blog Discussion


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry #7: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free To Express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Writing Activity: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Writing Workshop for Graphic Novel


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Finish Reading/Blog


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thursday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Finish up discussing //Yummy// by Greg Neri


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry#8: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free to Express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Writing Activity: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Writing Workshop for Graphic Novel


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Presentations tomorrow


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Friday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Graphic Novel Presentations **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Collection **


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Week 3: __**


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Monday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Literature Circles

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5 groups /5 books


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry #9: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free to Express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Writing Activity: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Define: Drug Abuse


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lit Circle Meetings: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Create your own action plan: Timeline of reading and specific roles


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Start Reading Lit Circle Books/Blog


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tuesday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Blog Discussion


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry#10: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free to Express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Writing Activity: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">News article discussing Violence in gangs and Drug abuse


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Read lit circle books/Blog


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wednesday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Blog Discussion


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry#11: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free to Express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Video Clip: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> On drugs media type="youtube" key="IrcOVpAKsUg" height="349" width="425"


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lit Circles: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Meeting


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Read Lit Circle Books/Blog


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thursday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Blog Discussion


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry#12: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free to express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lit Circle: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Meetings for the rest of class


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Read Lit circle books/ Blog


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Friday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Blog Discussion / Discuss Multi-genre assignment


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry#13: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free to Express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Writing Activity: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Create your own “Warning label” for teens your age


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lit Circles: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Meetings


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Read/Blog


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Collection **


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Week 4: __**


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Monday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Blog Discussion


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry#14: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free To Express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Group Activity: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Create a CD


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Read/Blog


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tuesday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Blog Discussion


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry#15: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free to express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Group Activity: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Create a CD


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Interview with a higher power


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wednesday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry#16: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free to express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Class Activity: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Create a CD


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Read and work on project


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thursday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry#17: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free to Express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Writing Activity: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Create a CD


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Read/Blog


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Friday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Blog Discussion


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry#18: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free to Express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Class Activity: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">CD’s are DUE TODAY


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assignment: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Books must be finished by Monday’s class/Blog


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Collection **


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Week 5: __**


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Monday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Blog Discussion


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry#19: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free to Express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lit Circles: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Work on Multi-genre/Blog


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tuesday: __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Intro: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Blog Discussion


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal Entry#20: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Free to Express


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lit Circles: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Work on Multi-genre


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State Standards [|State Standards.docx] Contact Info: Meghan Mary McWalter Studying English Education Western Michigan University English 4790 Dr. Allen Webb Email: Meghan.m.mcwalter@wmich.edu MeghanMary7@gmail.com
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