The English 8 GATE Notebook will be collected and graded periodically. If you
have questions, please ask Mrs. Stevens for clarification.
Notebook pages should have your LAST NAME & PAGE NUMBER in each of the
corners.
English 8 GATE Notebook-- Be sure all of these papers are neat, complete, and
glued in this order:
Page 1-- Autobiographical Narrative Table of Contents
Page 2-- Marking the Text/Annotations
Page 3-- "Why Write?" article
Page 4-- Writing prompt responding to "Why Write" (Aug. 31st regret/missed
opportunity)
Page 5-- "Eleven"
Page 6-- Writing prompt responding to "Eleven" (Sep. 1st
embarrassment/injustice)
Page 7-- Spelling/Vocab. Prefixes/Roots (Week 1)
Page 8-- Writing Territories (brainstorming possible topics...)
Page 9-- Writing prompt responding to brainstorming activity on Sep. 3rd
Page 10-- Autobiographical Narrative Overview/Rubric
Page 11-- "Report Card" (Ms. C's example)
Page 12-- 4 Ways to Begin a Narrative Essay/Ways to Say "Said..."
Pages 13 (13a, 13b...)-- 1st Rough draft of Autobiographical Narrative
(started Fri. Sep. 4)
Page 14-- Spelling/Vocab. Prefixes/Roots (Week 2)
Page 15-- Punctuating Dialogue
Page 16-- Starter (week of Aug. 31)
Page 17-- Quiz (week 1, taken on 9/4/09)
*** Notebooks checked/graded on Friday, Sep. 11th
Page 18-- "Flowers for Algernon" Table of Contents
Page 19-- Starter (week of Sep. 7th)
Page 20-- Quiz (week 2, taken on 9/11/09)
Page 21-- Plot-- Literary Terms
Page 22-- "Flowers for Algernon" Quickwrite (from 9/15/09)
Page 23-- "Flowers for Algernon" Vocabulary List 1 (Week #3)
Page 24-- "Flowers for Algernon" response/notes (from 9/17)
Page 25-- Starter (Week of Sep. 14th)
Page 26-- Quiz (week 3, taken on 9/17/09)
Page 27-- "Flowers for Algernon"/"IQ Puzzle" Vocabulary List 2 (Week #4)
Page 28-- Inference Chart ("Flowers for Algernon")
Page 29-- Starter (week of Sep. 21st)
*** Notebooks checked/graded on Wednesday, Sep. 30th
Page 30-- House of the Scorpion Table of Contents
Page 31-- Vocabulary-- Prefixes (due 9/30/09)
Page 32-- Starter (week of Sep. 28th)
Page 33-- Quiz (week 5, taken on 10/2/09)
Page 34-- House of the Scorpion Reading Calendar
Page 35-- Character Literary Terms
Page 36-- Reader Response (from 10/6/09)/Think-Pair-Share Instructions
Page 37-- House of the Scorpion Vocab. List #1 (Ch. 1-10)
Page 38-- House of the Scorpion Ch. 1-10 questions
Page 39-- Quiz on House of the Scorption Ch. 1-10 (taken 10/9/09)
Page 40-- House of the Scorpion Vocab. List #2 (Ch. 11-22)
Page 41-- "What is a Socratic Seminar?" guidelines
Page 42-- Socratic Seminar Quickwrite & Questions (for seminar on 10/14/09)
Page 43-- Non-Fiction Article- "A Brief History of Cloning"
Page 44-- Paragraph plus revisions (from 10/16 & 10/19/09)
Page 45-- Starter (week of Oct. 12)
Page 46-- Quiz on House of the Scorpion Ch. 11-22 (taken 10/16/09)
Page 47-- First Quarter Review-- Support
Page 48-- Non-fiction Article- "Mexican Drug Cartels"
Page 49-- Paragraph (from 10/23/09)
Page 50-- Questions (ch. 11-22, 23-34, 35-end) for House of Scorpions
Page 51-- House of Scorpions Vocab. List #3
*** Notebooks checked/graded
Page 52-- Americana Research Table of Contents
Page 53-- Paraphrasing/Summarizing
Page 54-- Americana Overview (from 11/9/09)
Page 55-- Student Model (of a Research Paper)
Page 56-- Research Notes (from 11/13/09)