Today's Focus: Today's Focus: Continued watching War Horse (Connections to All Quiet and WWI unit in History.)

Homework:
- Keep working on your sophomore project!
- WWII Film Permission Slip DUE TOMORROW

Today's Focus: Began watching War Horse (Connections to All Quiet and WWI unit in History.)

Homework:
- Keep working on your sophomore project!

Today's Focus: Culminating All Quiet on the Western Front Socratic Seminar

Homework:
- Work on your Sophomore Project
- We will start watching War Horse​ on Monday. :)

Today's Focus: Grammar Packet - Active vs. Passive Voice, All Quiet on the Western Front Book Debrief (Character Chart Finalization), Evidence Collection Time

Homework:
- Finish your Evidence Collection Activity DUE TOMORROW
- Culminating Socratic Seminar TOMORROW

Today's Focus: Finished Psychological Connection to All Quiet on the Western Front (Examples from the text of coping mechanisms), Sophomore Project Thesis Statement Feedback, Grammar Packet - Using Verbs: Voice (Active vs. Passive)

Homework:
- Finish the book DUE TOMORROW
​- Culminating Socratic Seminar on Friday

Today's Focus: Sophomore Project Structure Examples (Introductions, Conclusions, and Body Paragraphs), Psychological Connection to All Quiet on the Western Front - Coping Mechanisms

Journal #6: Does it help or hurt to talk about traumatic experiences? With a small group, discuss whether talking about traumatic experiences is a good idea. Under what circumstances might communicating about trauma be helpful? Under what circumstances might it be counterproductive?

Homework:
- Finish the book BY THURSDAY!
- Culminating Socratic Seminar on Friday

Today's Focus: Chapter 7 Open-Book Reading Quiz, Mini-Socratic Seminars - 

• Were you surprised that the three young French women were willing to spend the evening with Paul, Kropp, and Leer? Why or why not?
• How does Paul’s classmate Mittelstaedt taunt and humiliate Kantorek? Do you think this treatment of Kantorek is justified? Explain.
• When Paul tells Kemmerich’s mother about her son’s death, why is he surprised at her grief?

Journal #5: Paul says that “every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.” If you were a soldier in combat, do you think you would find yourself trusting chance or trusting something else instead? Do you feel differently about chance as it relates to your everyday life? Explain.

Homework:
- Finish the book by Wednesday

Today's Focus: (There was a substitute today.) Silent Sustained Reading - Chapters 9 & 10, Sophomore Project Work Time

Homework:
- Finish reading Chapters 9 & 10 DUE MONDAY

Today's Focus: (There was a substitute today.) Silent Sustained Reading - Chapters 8 - 10

Homework:
​- Finish Chapter 8 if you did not finish in class.