* 8th Grade ~ Table of Contents ~ Reading & Writing Notebook *
April/May
Date Topic
4/21 Hero’s Journey
4/24 Hero’s Journey Map
4/24 Mulan’s Character Transformation Chart
4/27 “Mulan’s Journey” Map
5/8 Gilgamesh
5/16 “Thank You, M’am”
5/17 The Mentor
5/23 Film Hero Transformation Chart
March
Date Topic
2/20 Farewell to Manzanar Cover Page
2/20 Japanese Internment Timeline
2/20 Reading like a historian: Japanese Internment
2/22 Pre-Reading: Farewell to Manzanar
2/23 Reading 1: Defining Injustice
3/7 Reading 2: Questions of Loyalty
3/14 Reading 3: Free to Go
3/16 Uprooted Gallery Walk/ Yamada Reflection
3/22 Reading 4: Re-entry
4/3 Part 5: Confronting the Past
February
Date Topic ________________
1/30 Hero’s Journey Cover Page
1/30 Facing Challenges & Growing Up
1/31 “The Medicine Bag”
2/1 Personal Narrative – Coming of Age
2/2 Rituals & Rites of Passage
2/2 Hero’s Journey Vocabulary
2/6 Food for Thought ?’s
2/7 Rite of Passage
2/10 “Invictus”
2/14 Hidden Figures
January
Date Topic ________________
1/12 MLK, Jr. Remembrance ?’s
1/18 MLK, Jr. Found Poem
December
Date Topic ________________
12/1 Aristotle’s Persuasive Appeals
12/2 MLK, Jr. Speech Contest
12/5 Dalton Sherman’s Speech
12/5 Unpacking MLK, Jr.’s words
12/6 MLK, Jr.’s I Have a Dream
12/9 Rhett Ybarra MLK Speech
November
Date Topic ________________
11/8 Irving e-Sentences
11/9 “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” ?’s
11/18 And One
11/28 Plot Diagram Notes
11/28 “LSH” Plot Diagram
11/29 Disney vs. Irving Venn Diagram
October
Date Topic ________________
10/4 Mandala Prewriting
10/5 Hit the Bridge
10/6 Insert 20’s
10/7 Zing the -ING
10/10 Google Peer Response
10/17 Effective Introductions
10/19 Effective Conclusions
10/25 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
10/27 Parts of Speech Foldable
September
Date Topic ________________
9/12 The Man In The Red Bandanna – 9/11
9/12 Interview Challenge
9/16 Reading Counts – Q1 Goal
9/19 SSR Criteria for Success
9/20 Mandala Introduction
9/21 Sign vs. Symbol T-chart
9/23 Reading Log
9/26 Mirror of Experience Activity
9/28 Mandala RD