1. January 17
Tuesday

2. Warm-up
Writing prompt on board

3. 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.

4. Reading
Jeremiah’s Song

5. 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

6. Begin answering questions
What words or phrases in paragraph one are dialect?
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.
What does the idiom “book learning” mean?
How do Macon and Jeremiah get along?

7. 5. Reread lines 148-154. What is the narrator’s description of Grandpa Jeremiah in your own words?
How does Ellie’s view of Macon change throughout the story?
In lines , how does the narrator feel about Macon?
In lines , what are the words or phrases that are dialect?

8. 10. What happens in lines ? 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?

9. Vocabulary Monitor restate Summarize Dialect Clarify Dialogue
main idea
inference

10. January 18
Wednesday

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

12. Warm-up
Review homework – Clara Barton

13. Vocab Review
Monitor
restate
Summarize

14. 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!!!

15. January 19th
B day
Thursday

16. Makeup Day Makeup missing Homework Assignments Notes Exit Tickets
Tests/quizzes

17. Warm-up Make a plot chart of Jeremiah’s Song Climax Rising Action
Falling Action
Exposition - beginning
Resolution - ending

18. Rubric – 3rd block only Exposition Rising action – 3 events Climax
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)

19. 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.

20. Questions Who is Jeremiah?
How does the narrator know Ellie has changed after coming home from college?
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.”
What is Jeremiah’s songs meant to do?
What does Macon do while he listens to Grandpa’s songs?
How do we know Ellie begins to like Macon?
What is a stroke?
What is a diagnosis?
What is a condition?
What is a setback?
What does Ellie do when Dr. Crawford tells her how sick Jeremiah is?
What is the pattern/reoccurring event throughout the selection?

21. Questions – Lightning Round
You can tell the narrator of the story
Is too young to understand grandfather’s stories
Doesn’t trust Macon
Pays attention to the people in his life and the events taking place
Doesn’t want to know that his grandfather is at the end of his life
Ellie became unhappy with things at home –
When the narrator becomes friends with Macon
After she moved away to work in the city
After hearing the doctor’s diagnosis
When she first came home from college

22. Questions – Lightning Round
3. 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 stories b.) the narrator is growing up c.) he’s worried the narrator is getting conceited d.)the narrator is well known in the town. 4. When Grandpa Jeremiah describes his stories as a bridge, he means a.) they are best told while travelling b.) protect against dangers c.) can be difficult to cross d.) connect with the past

23. January 20th
Friday

24. Warmup Review 2 weeks vocab words Primary Source Secondary Source
Claims
Evidence
Argument
Counter Argument
Analyze
Thesis Statement
Introduction
Body paragraphs
Conclusion

25. Assessment
Test 2