Tuesday, April 1 st –NO CLASS TODAY! APRIL FOOLS!!!!!! Hatchet (meets 1 st—get your book, paper, and pencil, and come to the back table. ) & Alabama Moon (meets 2 nd—stay at your desk and read your next chapters ) Walk Two Moons & Where the Red Fern Grows written assignment: Pick up an index card. Choose 1 character to complete a character analysis: – 3 important events that have happened to this character – 2 questions you would ask this character if you could talk to him/her – 1 way in which you are like this character TURN THIS IN TO THE BOX BEFORE YOU LEAVE CLASS.

Wednesday, April 2 nd Walk Two Moons(meets 1st—get your book, paper, and pencil, and come to the back table.) & Where the Red Fern Grows (meets 2nd—stay at your desk and read your next chapters) Hatchet & Alabama Moon written assignment: Pick up an index card. Choose 1 character to complete a character analysis: – 3 important events that have happened to this character – 2 questions you would ask this character if you could talk to him/her – 1 way in which you are like this character TURN THIS IN TO THE BOX BEFORE YOU LEAVE CLASS.

Thursday, April 3 rd Alabama Moon (meets 1 st—get your book, paper, and pencil, and come to the back table. ) & Hatchet (meets 2 nd—stay at your desk and read your next chapters ) Walk Two Moons & Where the Red Fern Grows written assignment: Pick up your composition books. Journal entry for Where the Red Fern Grows (5-8 sentences): – Describe something you wanted so badly but had to be patient for. Did you get it? Was it worth waiting for? Journal entry for Walk Two Moons (5-8 sentences): – Write about a “taste” or “sound“ sparked memory. Was it a food? A song? Be descriptive.

Friday, April 4 th Turn in reading logs! Where the Red Fern Grows (meets 1st—get your book, composition book, and pencil, and come to the back table.) & Walk Two Moons (meets 2nd—stay at your desk and read your next chapters) Written assignments for Hatchet & Alabama Moon: Journal entry for Hatchet (5-8 sentences): – Sometimes Brian’s thoughts go back to an earlier time, when he was with his mother. What effect do these “breaks” have on the story? Journal entry for Alabama Moon (5-8 sentences): – Pap says, “Because we never asked for anything and nobody ever gave us anything, we don’t owe anything to anybody.” Do you agree with this philosophy? Explain your answer.

Monday, April 7th Alabama Moon (meets 1 st—get your book, composition book, and pencil, and come to the back table. ) & Hatchet (meets 2 nd—stay at your desk and read your next chapters ) Walk Two Moons & Where the Red Fern Grows written assignment: Pick up your composition books. Journal entry for Where the Red Fern Grows (5-8 sentences): – How would you describe the act of putting an animal’s life before a human’s? Heroic? Irresponsible? Foolish? Journal entry for Walk Two Moons (5-8 sentences): – Several mysteries remain unanswered at this point. What is the most reasonable explanation for each: Who is Mrs. Cadaver, really? Who is the lunatic? Why is someone leaving messages? What happened to Sal’s mother?

Tuesday, April 8th Hatchet & Alabama Moon will meet for 15 minutes at the beginning of class BEFORE you complete your written assignment. Get your composition books, novel, and something to write with. Where the Red Fern Grows (meets 1st—get your book, composition book, and pencil, and come to the back table.) & Walk Two Moons (meets 2nd—stay at your desk and read your next chapters) Written assignments for Hatchet & Alabama Moon: Journal entry for Hatchet (5-8 sentences): – What do you think Brian means when he tells himself that self- pity doesn’t work? Do you agree? Journal entry for Alabama Moon (5-8 sentences): – The boys want to make Moon president of Pinson. Does this surprise you? What does this tell you about Moon? How does Moon feel about this?

Wednesday, April 9th Alabama Moon (meets 1 st—get your book, composition book, and pencil, and come to the back table. ) & Hatchet (meets 2 nd—stay at your desk and read your next chapters ) Walk Two Moons & Where the Red Fern Grows written assignment: Pick up your composition book Where the Red Fern Grows: Pick up a “The Lowest Animal” from the back table and your composition book. You will follow the directions FIRST. Then, when you finish reading and annotating, write a 5-8 sentence reflection on what you read in your composition book. Walk Two Moons: – Make a t-chart with your story’s protagonist on the left and antagonist on the right (select only one if there are more). – List 10 descriptive phrases about each (looks, acts, says, what others say) – Which character did you like/relate to more and why? Answer in 2-3 sentences.

Thursday, April 10 th Where the Red Fern Grows (meets 1st—get your book, composition book, and pencil, and come to the back table.) & Walk Two Moons (meets 2nd— stay at your desk and read your next chapters) Written assignments for Hatchet & Alabama Moon: – Pick up a “The Lowest Animal” from the back table and your composition book. You will follow the directions FIRST. Then, when you finish reading and annotating, write a 5-8 sentence reflection on what you read in your composition book.

Friday, April 11 th Alabama Moon (meets 1 st—get your book, composition book, THE LOWEST ANIMAL, and pencil, and come to the back table. ) & Hatchet (meets 2 nd—stay at your desk and read your next chapters ) Walk Two Moons & Where the Red Fern Grows written assignment: Pick up an index card—hold on to this for Monday’s meeting: Select 4 characters from the story. Draw lines dividing the card into 1/4s. Write one character in each section. Write the answers to the following questions for each character: – 1. What is the character’s role? – 2. What 3 words best describe this character? – 3. Does this character grow or change so far in your novel? Briefly explain in 2-3 sentences.

Monday, April 14 th Where the Red Fern Grows (meets 1st—get your book, index card from Friday, and pencil, and come to the back table.) & Walk Two Moons (meets 2nd—stay at your desk and read your next chapters) When you are meeting, discuss for 15 minutes: Talk about what you each wrote on your index cards Friday. Take turns, and everyone share! Turn in your index cards to Mrs. Potts when you finish. Written assignments for Hatchet & Alabama Moon: Pick up an index card—hold on to this for Tuesday’s meeting: Select 4 characters from the story. Draw lines dividing the card into 1/4s. Write one character in each section. Write the answers to the following questions for each character: – 1. What is the character’s role? – 2. What 3 words best describe this character? – 3. Does this character grow or change so far in your novel? Briefly explain in 2- 3 sentences.

Tuesday, April 15 th Alabama Moon (meets 1st—get your book, index card from yesterday, and pencil, and come to the back table.) & Hatchet (meets 2nd—stay at your desk and read your next chapters) When you are meeting, discuss for 15 minutes: Talk about what you each wrote on your index cards yesterday. Take turns, and everyone share! Turn in your index cards to Mrs. Potts when you are done. Walk Two Moons & Where the Red Fern Grows written assignment: Walk Two Moons: In your composition book (5-8 sentences)—Phoebe is not portrayed as a likeable character in this section, yet Sal remains a loyal friend to her. What fact(s) about Phoebe’s situation influences Sal’s loyalty to her? Where the Red Fern Grows: In your composition book (5-8 sentences)— How did you feel about Grandpa accepting the Pritchard’s bet? Explain.

Wednesday, April 16 th Where the Red Fern Grows (meets 1st—get your book, composition book, and pencil, and come to the back table.) & Walk Two Moons (meets 2nd— stay at your desk and read your next chapters) When you are meeting, discuss for 15 minutes: Talk about what you each wrote in your composition book yesterday. Take turns, and everyone share! Walk Two Moons & Where the Red Fern Grows written assignment: – Pick up an index card. – “Snake Story” Retell your story’s plot on a snake diagram, placing the causes on the left and the effects on the right. – Make sure your events are in order!

Thursday, April 17 th Camp People—make sure you have some make up work to complete today and tomorrow. Hatchet(meets 1st—get your book, composition book from yesterday, and pencil, and come to the back table.) & Alabama Moon (meets 2nd—stay at your desk and read your next chapters) Walk Two Moons & Where the Red Fern Grows written assignment: – Pick up composition book. – “Snake Story” Retell your story’s plot on a snake diagram, placing the causes on the left and the effects on the right. – Make sure your events are in order!

Friday, April 18 th Walk Two Moons (meets 1st—get your book, composition book from yesterday, and pencil, and come to the back table.) & Where the Red Fern Grows(meets 2nd—stay at your desk and read your next chapters) Written work for Alabama Moon & Hatchet: Pick up a laminated job sheet of your choosing. You will complete this “job” in your composition book. If you choose investigator, here is your topic: – Alabama Moon: Research 5 facts about where the author, Watt Key, is from. How can you connect his home county to the locations you see in the book? – Hatchet: Brian makes a great discovery while he is trying to catch a fish one day—light refraction. Research at least 5 facts about light refraction to explain to your group.

Monday, April 21 Alabama Moon(meets 1st—get your book, composition book from yesterday, and pencil, and come to the back table.) & Hatchet (meets 2nd—stay at your desk and read your next chapters) Written work for Walk Two Moons & Where the Red Fern Grows: Pick up a laminated job sheet of your choosing. You will complete this “job” in your composition book. If you choose investigator, here is your topic: – Walk Two Moons: Research five facts about the tragic history of the Black Hills of South Dakota. – Where the Red Fern Grows: In the novel, Billy’s dad says, “There’s more to education that just reading and writing.” What kind of education does Billy receive? Also, research five facts about education during the story’s time period (you need to figure out WHAT the time period is )

Tuesday, April 22 Walk Two Moons (meets 1st—get your book, composition book from yesterday, and pencil, and come to the back table.) & Where the Red Fern Grows(meets 2nd—stay at your desk and read your next chapters) Other two novels: If you have finished the book, discuss your feelings about the ending in 5-8 sentences. Here are some things to think about: Did you expect it? Was it shocking? Looking back, does everything seem to come together and make sense? Would you change anything? – If you have not finished, what are your predictions about the ending?

Wednesday, April 23 Alabama Moon(meets 1st—get your book, composition book from yesterday, and pencil, and come to the back table.) & Hatchet (meets 2nd— stay at your desk and read your next chapters) Other two novels: Discuss your feelings about the ending in 5-8 sentences. Here are some things to think about: Did you expect it? Was it shocking? Looking back, does everything seem to come together and make sense? Would you change anything?