Monday, February 5th, 2018

Do Now - 15 minutes SSR Time and Complete log

Literature - Finish retelling or plot map from last week. Read "Analyzing Proposition and Support" and "Road Warriors Listen Up Some Rules for Street Wise Biking" in Elements of Literature. Answer Test Practice Quesyions including Constructed Response. Constructed Response should be one sentence answers (literature section)

Poetry - Work on Sonnet


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