Monday- Computer Lab for student surveys Tuesday- Media Center and Indefinite Pronouns Wednesday-Pronoun case-subjective, objective, and possessive Thursday- Pronouns-Intensive and Vague Friday- Reading comprehension formative REMINDERS: * Only 10 Coach books left. Get yours today. Only 30 school days left before Milestones HOMEWORK: *USA Test Prep- Grammar check up- DUE FRIDAY!!! NO EXCEPTIONS!!! *If you are re-taking the Hatchet summative for a grade recovery, then complete the make up material and turn it in to your teacher for the make-up exam. |
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Monday- Grammar formative (make-up); compound sentences and clauses
Tuesday- Review Grammar formative and discuss Wednesday- Complete comprehension questions Hatchet Thursday- Stations with study material for Hatchet Friday- Hatchet Summative Monday- Constructed response- model and complete in class
Tuesday- Media Center Wednesday- Games sentence scrambler and Classify and sort compound and complex sentences Thursday-Review warm-ups for quiz Friday- Formative- Compound sentences, Restrictive and non-restrictive element parenthetical elements Reminders:
Monday-Thursday:
Stations: Academic vocabulary- Don't forget to visit Quizlet Figurative language- What is the meaning behind the figurative language? Auditory listening-Listen to the story Hatchet on audio Close reading-Comprehension with annotations Friday- Summative Hatchet chapters 1-8 Reminders:
Tuesday- We will be in the computer lab working on USA Test Prep. (Non-restrictive elements) Wednesday- We will be in the media center Thursday- We will be conducting our literature circle discussion for better comprehension of the book Hatchet. Friday- We will have a quick check on independent, dependent, and relative clauses. Homework:
Monday-Review quiz from 1/8 and read chapter 3 in class by reading choice. Students will be completing foreshadowing on their lit circle prep pages for a class discussion on chapters 1-4.
Tuesday-Read chapter 4 in class by their reading style choice. Students will be completing foreshadowing on their lit circle prep pages for a class discussion on chapters 1-4. Wednesday- Students will review phrases and clauses and complete any unfinished work on their lit circle prep pages Thursday-Computer ab-The students will be working in Google Classroom. Friday- Quick check Close reading from Hatchet chapters 1- Homework for this week: Chapters 1-4 in Htachet should be read by now. Class time has been given for them to be able to complete reading and ask questions in class. Lit circle prep pages have been checked and unfinished pages have been marked incomplete in infinite campus. These students may complete this assignment and turn in it no later than Tuesday for full credit. I have uploaded this assignment and its requirements on infinite campus for your convenience. If you have any questions, please email me directly or I may be reached on Class Dojo or Remind chat. Reminders: Coach books have been ordered. Nine additional books have been ordered and will be distributed on a first come first serve basis. TUESDAY- We will be introducing Hatchet and the author Gary Paulsen. We will also be introducing Phrases and Clauses. We will work on these all week and have a formative quick check on Friday. WEDNESDAY-Media Center to get our books THURSDAY- The students will take a survival quiz for fun and review Phrases and Clauses. FRIDAY-Formative on Phrases and Clauses HOMEWORK FOR THIS WEEK: Read chapter one and two in Hatchet and list 3-5 contextual vocabulary words that are new to them, what page they found them on, what they predict the meaning is, and then the actual meaning of the terms. They will also list at least three sensory language terms from the chapter. We will be Reading in class on Monday as well as discussing chapter one and my expectations for the following chapters. *As always, email me directly if you have further questions. REMINDERS: Coach book order forms will be accepted until Monday, January 11th. Additional books will be ordered. Monday-We will be in the computer lab to revise and edit the argumentative essays.
Tuesday-MEDIA CENTER Wednesday-Substitute -Practice with parts of speech and reading and analyzing an argument. Thursday-We will be in the computer lab to complete the argumentative essays. (DUE ON FRIDAY) Friday-Argument quiz Myon reading and Read Theory Today we read an analyzed another argument story. We also reviewed our work with the sub so the students had an opportunity to ask questions for the quiz tomorrow. (vocabulary and commas: series and compound- review for mastering the standard).
Tuesday- substitute. The students reviewed commas: series and compound. They also read and analyzed an argumentative story from the literature book.
Monday and Tuesday we will be in the computer lab completing the argumentative essays they have been working on.
Nov. 12th- Argumentative reading and writing: from now until the break, we will be completing classwork designed for the students to get acquainted with the process of recognizing evidence from a text in order to support one's claim. Parents beware: some children may become very good at persuasion through evidence. Most of our practice will be completed during school and may not require them to have additional homework.
Homework:
Today we started analyzing argumentative reading in order to transfer it to writing next week.
Homework
November 4th- substitute
November 5th- Grammar review pronouns and commas Novemebr 6th- Pronoun summative CONGRATULATIONS to our class Spelling Bee winners!
Richard Eusery/Preston Lyle Matthew Berry/George Stoudmire Emma Neal/Chandler Minehart Solano Christian/Tayshaun Bolton Homework: USA Test prep-October 26th Group assignment due Friday. Read 20 minutes each night NO SCHOOL TOMORROW! Summative Friday! Pronouns Today and tomorrow we will be working on paired texts in Reading using The Terrible Things and Neimoller's poem. Wednesday and Thursday we are introducing and practicing identifying and correcting vague pronouns. Friday, we will take a formative assessment on pronoun shift, commas, and a short leveled reading passage.
Homework: USA Test Prep- Complete the group assignment labeled October 26th. Study for the Spelling Bee- November 2nd. Reminders: Yearbook prices go up after October 31st to $40.00. We had a very busy week!
Thursday in the computer lab, we took a pretest with all of the words for unit 2. These words can be found on Quizlet. Your child has a handy little cheat sheet with all of the Language Arts website usernames and pass codes in the front of their agenda. This is to help ease the stress of organization with so many sites that we visit. Following the vocabulary, we completed a short quick check to identify what the students already knew about argument writing. (Please have your child complete this in Google Classroom if they have not taken it). Finally, we ended the week with a formative quiz on commas and pronoun case. If your child scored lower than an 80, they were allowed to make corrections and improve their score. Reminders: Homework: COMPLETE ALL USA TEST PREP BY SUNDAY AT MIDNIGHT. (no more exceptions) Many students, still, are not getting on USA Test Prep. There is very informative information on there including videos that could have assisted with this weeks grammar lesson. COMPLETE THE ARGUMENT PRETEST BY SATURDAY. This was due on Thursday. SUPPLIES: Students are showing up to class without pencils to write with. Please make sure that they have pencils, their journals, highlighters, and glue sticks or tape. This is essential for their success. CRAZY SOCK MONDAY! Sock it to drugs. Remember, email me if you need anything! I love hearing from you. Today we had a substitute and completed some Grammar (pronoun case) as well as a citing with textual evidence for inferences work. Tomorrow we will be in the computer lab working in Google Classroom again. The children are really enjoying this.
Homework Read 20 minutes and complete any Google classroom work that is unfinished. Also complete any USA Test Prep not completed. We continued our search for QAR (question and answer response relationships). We identified the four different types as well as answered the questions to The Terrible Things, an allegory of the holocaust. We also compared the genre of a story and a poem looking for similarities between the two. Tomorrow we will be in the media center.
Homework: Read 20 minutes Assignments will be posted on USA Test prep for students to complete on Tuesday. Identified students (they know who they are) will be completing Read Theory instead. If they forget their username and password they may get it from me on Thursday when I return. We are finishing up the week with a reading comprehension formative assessment.
*Please make sure your child is reading 20 minutes each night. *If you missed your conference, you may re-schedule or do a phone conference with me next week. Just email me with a time and date. Monday, we will be launching a new unit, Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl. |
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