TURN IN ALL LIBRARY BOOKS AND MATERIALS, AND TEXTBOOKS.
MONDAY-Read Chapter 8. Write a one page journal entry over the book so far, 1/2 summary and 1/2 your thoughts on what has happened. Honors, Read Ch. 9 when done.
TUESDAY-Read Chapter 9-10. Get grade checks signed. Update Facebook.
WEDNESDAY-Finish 9-10 if not already done. Write eulogies for Johnny, Dallas, or Bob.
Update Facebook page.
THURSDAY-Write a prediction: will Pony get put back into a home?
FRIDAY-Finish the story and the facebook pages for 8-12.
MONDAY-Review and turn in timeline.
Read Ch. 5
TUESDAY-Read Ch. 6. Gist activity: get with a partner and write a summary for each chapter 5-6 in 25 words or less. Then try to combine the two summaries in 25 words or less.
WEDNESDAY- Finish and Turn in Gist Activitiy.
THURSDAY-Catch up on all reading; catch up on facebook page. DUE Tomorrow!
FRIDAY-Read Ch. 7 together, finish and turn in facebook page for ch. 1-7.
APRIL 16-20
MONDAY- 1/2 PAGES-POINTS DUE, All test prep work due in today. Begin "The Outsiders"
TUESDAY-The Outsiders, read through middle of chapter 2, set up facebook worksheet page for Ponyboy. Use status posts to list the main events of the story as we read it. Have friends comment to add information. Use the things you find out about Ponyboy to fill out the information on the right hand side of the page. Make ads for businesses mentioned and things that relate to the story. You must have at least one status for each chapter.
get grade checks signed!!!!!!!
WEDNESDAY-Read up to Chapter 4. Catch up the facebook page. Be sure you have turned in your reading progress report and grade check. Those will be posted in the gradebook tomorrow.
THURSDAY-Chapter 4-5 update status. make a timeline to trace the events that led to what happened in the park.
FRIDAY-tURN IN tIMELINE
APRIL 9-13
MONDAY-FINAL TEST REVIEW-CHECK POETRY AND GENRE PACKETS
TUESDAY OCCT TESTS FOR 1ST, 4TH, AND 5TH HOURS WORK ON BIO POEMS
AND DIAMANTE POEMS
WEDNESDAY OCCT TESTS FOR 3RD AND 8TH HOURS WORK ON BIO POEMS AND DIAMANTE POEMS
THURSDAY-Finish Bio Poems and Diamante Poetry/finish and hand in all review packety by tomorrow.
WATCH THE TITANIC SPECIAL ON THE 15TH FOR BONUS!!!! WE WILL READ ABOUT THE TITANIC DURING THE BOAT UNIT IN MAY.
APRIL 2-6 PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES TUESDAY AND THURSDAY
MONDAY-COMPUTER LAB-TAKE OCCT PRACTICE TEST
TUESDAY-POETRY-FIGURATIVE LANG. REVIEW/GRADE AFFIXES/ROOT WORDS PACKET
WEDNESDAY- GRADE REFERENCE MATERIALS PACKET/ WORK ON GENRE REVIEW
THURSDAY-MAKE SURE POETRY AND GENRE PACKETS ARE DONE/WORK ON REVIEW RAPS
PLAY THE REVIEW GAMES BELOW-WRITE YOUR RESULTS AND GET PARENT SIGNATURE FOR BONUS. DO THE PRACTICE BOOKLET AND GET PARENT SIGNATURE FOR BONUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FRIDAY-NO SCHOOL
sorry-cut and paste did not work for last week~
http://www.rd.com/true-stories/the-unsinkable-titanic/GRADE AFFIXES/ROOT WORDS PACKET
GRADE AFFIXES/ROOT WORDS PACKET
MARCH 5-9 NINE WEEKS TESTS 1,3,5 THURSDAY; 2,4,8 FRIDAY
MONDAY-Grade main idea page, do Nine Weeks Test Study Guide-due tomorrow
TUESDAY-Go over and correct Study Guide; Do Literary Terms Review-due tomorrow
WEDNESDAY-REVIEW GAMES, ACTIVITY PAGE
THURSDAY- NINE WEEKS TEST 1,3,5 4,8 CHECK JOURNALS AND STUDY!
FRIDAY-NINE WEEKS TEST 4,8 1,3,5 CHECK JOURNALS AND STUDY=check or turn in Context Clues. Get your bracket filled out for "Book Madness", the book-lover's answer to March Madness. The Hunger Games is one of the field! (Link is at the bottom)
FEBRUARY 6-10
MONDAY-SSR/Read and discuss Harriet Tubman (gold book pg 22, do questions on pg 31-32.
TUESDAY-SSR/Discuss Harriet Tubman's jouney. Create a character profile for her showing how the author painted her character through descriptions of her look, thoughts, speech, actions, response of others, and direct statements.
Honors-Discuss Copper Sun ch. 1-7 Read next two chapters, answer essay questions over Copper Sun (Link to Sharon Draper's site below)
JANUARY 30-FEBRUARY 3
MONDAY-Solve Sherlock Holmes mysteries-write answers in notebook. Take AR tests in library today only since I am gone. Honors-turn in pages tomorrow.
TUESDAY-Computer Lab-Go to the link That says The Best Underground Railroad and Slavery website. Look at the left column . Select following the footsteps and do the interactive journey. Look at the other items in the left column. You may make the quilt square for bonus.
WEDNESDAY-Computer Lab. Honors and 3rd hr. Research these topics: Slavery in Africa, The Middle Passage, Concitions on Slave Ships, Slave Auctions, Legal rights of Slaves, Cape Coast Castle and the door/gate of no return. 5th and 8th -go to the site we used yesterday: Do questions 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 on the first link in the left column. Browse through the other links on my page for research.
THURSDAY-Check lab work, Slavery ABC, KWL
Turn in Computer Lab work
Honors-Begin Copper Sun, ch. 1-7
Slavery Reading Circles-check books out today
FRIDAY-no school professional dev. day.
JANUARY 23-27
1/2 of Reading Goal is due next Monday the 30th!
MONDAY-SSR/Review and evaluate detective's log. Form a hypothesis regarding the murder of Victor Savage. Give the murderer's name, motivation, and how they accomplished the crime. Turn in your predictions tomorrow.
TUESDAY-Read the play "The Dying Detective" Determine who killed Victor Savage and see if you were right!
WEDNESDAY-SSR/Watch the end of the video. Compare and contrast with the play. Begin working on Fact, Opinion, and Reasoned Judgment page. Weigh each statement and determine which category the information would fit in. Use context to identify word meanings from the play. Make a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the play and the movie.
THURSDAY- Finish and grade Fact,Opinion, and RJ wksht. Test tomorrow!
Read! 1/2 goal due Monday!
FRIDAY- The Dying Detective Test/Journal-write 1/2 page summarizing what you have been reading and 1/2 page telling what you thought about it for 1 page total
JANUARY 16-20
MONDAY-NO SCHOOL
TUESDAY-VOCAB. WKSHT FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES Copy words in notebook, answer questions. If absent, get pages from teacher
WEDNESDAY-COMPARE/CONTRAST 3 PARAGRAPH ESSAY OVER THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF AND A VIDEO EXCERPT. DUE TOMORROW
THURSDAY-Take Ransom of Red Chief Test-1pt., Turn in comp/contrast essay, check Sherlock Vocab./Preview Sherlock background-make sure detectives log is ready to go for tomorrow
FRIDAY-Watch The Dying Detective. Sort possible clues into fact, opinion, reasoned judgement, and misc. columns in your detective notebook. List possible suspects. Make you predictions as to the murderer and method of murder.
! JANUARY 4-6
WEDNESDAY- AR DAY! GET A HEAD START ON YOUR GOAL. DISCUSS PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE PROJECT
THURSDAY-SSR/Past, Present, Future Project See Link #2 Below for directions
FRIDAY-SSR/Work on PPF project, Due on MONDAY!
DECEMBER 12-16
MONDAY-Grade sequence wheel; use corrected sequence wheel to put events in a chronological timeline of Scrooge's life. Note that the sequence of events in the story is not in time order. The sequence is the order it happens in the book: not necessarily how it happens in life. Sometimes they are both in time order; it varies.
TUESDAY-Grade timeline; begin viewing A Christmas Carol; compare and contrast the film with the play. 1.List 5 things that were left out of the play that are in the film. 2. Make a plot map for the film; list at least five events in the exposition; list 8 or more in the rising action; identify the climax and explain why it is the turning point; list 4 things in the falling action; explain what the resolution is. Work on preparing for essay test questions! (See at bottom of assignment list)
WEDNESDAY-Finish the movie and related assignments.
THURSDAY-Work on nine weeks review
FRIDAY-Reward party for qualified students
DECEMBER 19-22
MONDAY-Review for test, AR-pages due
TUESDAY-PM CLASSES TEST ; AM CLASSES-VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS
WEDNESDAY-AM CLASSES TEST; PM CLASS HAS VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR! ENJOY YOUR BREAK AND THINK ABOUT THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE PROJECT WE WILL DO WHEN YOU RETURN. READ!-I WILL HAVE CANDY FOR AR PRIZES THE FIRST WEEK BACK!!
ESSAY QUESTION PROMPTS FOR NINE WEEKS TEST:
DECEMBER 5-9
MONDAY-Inference and Dickens PPTS./read for parts
Honors: all projects must be turned in. Banquet of the Gods will be on THURSDAY!
Be prepared!
TUESDAY-Read for Parts, Label Sequence Wheel, Preview Scene 1
Honors: Write a book review for EBSCO
WEDNESDAY-Read Sec. 1-3 of A Christmas Carol. Fill out the events on the sequence wheel.
THURSDAY-Scences 3-6, Fill out sequence wheel
FRIDAY-Fill out chronological timeline. How does it differ from the sequence wheel? Explain.
NOVEMBER 28-DECEMBER 2
1/2 AR-PAGES IS INCLUDED IN MIDTERM GRADE. IF YOU HAVE NOT COMPLETED THIS, YOUR GRADE WILL DROP ON THE REPORT. 1/2 READING WAS DUE ON 11-18. STUDENTS HAVE HAD ADDITIONAL TIME TO COMPLETE HALF OF THEIR GOAL.
MONDAY-Compare/Contrast paper over "The Lightning Thief"
Honors-Banquet of the Gods planning page due
TUESDAY- Finish Comp/Contrast, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, background and ppt.
Honors-Cereal of the Gods projects due on Thursday.
WEDNESDAY-Computer Lab. Research Charles Dickens and Victorian life for background information. Complete Scavenger Hunt.
THURSDAY-Bonus Cereal Box projects due-
Honors; Present Commercials Turn in Compare/Contrast over The Lightning Thief
FRIDAY-Inference Activity, READ! Honors-finish comp./contrast
NOVEMBER 21-22
MONDAY- Grade questions over LT Ch. 19-22
Lightining Thief Test
TUESDAY-Review test, Make-up missing work, READ! Be sure to read over break. I will be giving candy to test takers on Monday!
NOVEMBER 14-18
1/2 READING GOAL DUE FRIDAY THE 18TH!!!!!!
MONDAY-BW Who is the most evil person you can think of from history or current times? Can an evil person ever have good qualitites?
Read Ch. 19, Do Questions 1-4 on board. (See Below for week's questions)
Honors, 19-20.
TUESDAY- Finish Ch. 20, start 21. Do Questions. (See Below)
Honors: finish book and questions.
WEDNESDAY- Finish the book, Finish Questions. (See Below)
Check questions, Plan Cereal of the Gods Project
THURSDAY- Finish all Lightning Thief questons, read AR.
Honors: begin Cereal of the Gods project, Research for Banquet of the Gods
Access second link below for this information.
FRIDAY-Discuss elements of theme-identify for novel, review story elements. Lightning Thief Questions for Ch. 19-22 are due on Monday. 1/2 AR due today!
Honors: Continue research in computer lab
Access second link below for this information.
Ch. 19
1. What do you have to do to enter the Isles of the Blest?
2. How do Grover, Percy and Annabeth end up at the pit of Tartarus?
3. Why was Percy’s backpack getting heavy?
4. What terrible choice faces Percy when he decides to use the pearls? Would you have made the same choice he does? Why or why not?
Ch. 20
1. Ares says the best kind of war is when relatives fight each. Why would this be the most vicious kind of fight?
2. Why does Percy begin to suspect that Ares wasn’t acting alone – that he was taking orders from someone?
3. Which failures does Ares point to when he says Percy “doesn’t have what it takes”? Is this a fair criticism? Why or why not?
4. How does Percy’s ADHD keep him alive in the fight?
5. After Percy wounds Ares, something strange happens that makes Ares back off. What is it?
6. At the end of the chapter, what does Percy decide he must do to complete the quest?
Ch. 21
1. When the Los Angeles reporters interview Percy, how does he get back at Gabe?
2. Why do Percy, Annabeth and Grover split up when they arrive back in New York?
3. How does Percy convince the guard at the Empire State Building to let him see Zeus?
4. Percy says he is glad, in a strange way, that Poseidon is so distant. Why? Does this make sense to you?
5. Who was speaking from the pit? Why do think Zeus doesn’t want to talk about it?
6. How do you think Poseidon feels about Percy? How can you tell?
Ch. 22
1. What’s the tradition for campers who return from quests? How did the Ares cabin “honor” Percy?
2. How does Percy’s mom get enough money to go to college?
3. What happens to Grover in this chapter? Speculate: Will he come back in another book?
4. What is the bead for Percy’s first summer?
5. Luke says, “Western Civilization is a disease.” What do you think he means by that?
6. What turned Luke so bitter?
7. How did Annabeth take Percy’s advice?
Write a letter from Percy to Poseidon explaining why he did not choose to turn Gabe to stone.
NOVEMBER 7-12
MONDAY-Read Ch. 14-15, make sure all work is turned in and citations have been checked.
TUESDAY-Chapter 19-14 Skills quiz, read Ch. 16. Grade checks and reading progress pages are going home today. Get signed! (3rd and part of 5th will get Reading Progress reports tomorrow)
WEDNESDAY-Get Reading Progress Sheet and Grade Check signed!!!! Finish Ch. 16, Read Ch. 17, answer questions on board. (1.Give an example of foreshadowing on pg. 264. 2. Why could Percy understand the zebra?
3. What clues do we learn about the theft on pg. 252-253? 4. Make an ad for Crusty's Waterbed Palace highlighting their "special" features. 5. Ares is a biker in his modern version. Pick another god or goddess and describe what you think their modern version would be like.
THURSDAY- Finish questions and Ch. 17, start 18.
FRIDAY-Finish Ch. 18, check questions.
OCTOBER 31 - NOVEMBER 4
MONDAY-Present or turn in Idioms, Check Reading Records, begin Ch. 10. We will grade the ch. 8-9 worksheet first thing tomorrow.
TUESDAY-Check 8-9 wksht and quest.
Read Ch. 10-11. Read carefully, there is a quiz over this!
WEDNESDAY-Finish reading ch. 10-11, do wksht. over them, read ch. 12 when done. Worksheet due tomorrow.
THURSDAY-Finish Ch. 12, start Ch. 13. Check 10-11 wksht.
FRIDAY-Ch 10-13 quiz, journal
Get AR goals signed.
SEPTEMBER 26-30
MONDAY-SSR/BELLWORK Journal or Read
Character Profile page from Friday due tomorrow!
Watch Rikki Tikki Tavi
List 5-10 examples of personification used in the story. You may only say "talking" once! Bonus for extra examples.
PERSONIFICATION-the way an author creates a character by showing how they look, think, speak, act, how others respond to them, and by making direct statements about them.
TUESDAY-Grade character profiles and personification examples, read AR book
WEDNESDAY-Computer Lab-Look up terms used in "The Lightning Thief"; Take notes over greek mythology
THURSDAY-Book Talks with Mrs. Cutler/Turn in journals for grade. 3 Journal pages due.
FRIDAY-Computer Lab. Finish Lightning Thief Myth Vocabulary (below), Look at Met. Museum Greek collection. DUE MONDAY!!! 4-8 hrs will grade pg. 89-90
Rikki Tikki questions on Monday.
SEPTEMBER 19-23
MONDAY-SSR/BELLWORK Vocab. Foreshadowing, suspense, brave prediction (pg 72-73) personification, characterization, direct and indirect charcterization (on board)
Read pg 72-73. Make a Newspaper article describing a time when you were brave (pg. 72). Do the vocabulary in context exercise at the bottom of pg, 73. Circle the context clues in the sentence and write a synonym for the word. Use context; do not use dictionary.
TUESDAY-SSR/BELLWORK
Turn in News Article, Grade context vocab., Begin Rikki Tikki Tavi pg.74.
WEDNESDAY-SSR/BELLWORK
Finish Rikki Tikki Tavi Go over predictions.
THURSDAY-SSR/BELLWORK
Questions 1-5 on pg 89, all of page 90. .
FRIDAY-JOURNAL
Make character profiles for a charcter from Rikki Tiiki Tavi giving page numbers where you found the information.
AR IS NOW OPERATIONAL! GET STARTED TAKING TESTS!
SEPTEMBER 12-16 STUDY ACADEMIC VOCABULARY! (LINK BELOW)
MONDAY-BW/SSR Review "How do you make a good impression?" and vocab.
Read "7th Grade"
TUESDAY-BW/SSR READ
Do Literary Analysis questions 1-8, Write answer in complete sent., Then do Vocabulary Practice and Vocabulary Strategy; The Latin Root Uni, pg. 40 (answers only on this page)
Honors: Think of a funny incident similar to one in the story. You will make a cartoon showing it tomorrow.
WEDNESDAY-BW/SSR Read-Update AR record, take home for parent signature. Review grade check-take home for parent signature. These count for two grades and must be returned by FRIDAY or they will show as missing work on the midterm. Grade pg39-40 over 7th Grade. Think of an idea to make your plot cartoon tomorrow.
THURSDAY-BW/SSR
Make a plot cartoon showing the plot of "7th Grade"
Honors: Think of an incident similar to something in the story and make a cartoon showing the plot
FRIDAY-BW/SSR
Journal/Freedom Writers
Check over academic vocab and add any you don't have. Quiz next Friday over Academic Vocab. and voc. from 7th Grade.
SEPTEMBER 5-9
MONDAY-OUT
TUESDAY-BW/SSR-list as many genres and examples as you can think of. Prize for the most! Read pg.22-24 in text. ID charac. of most memorable book. Look at the elements of plot, discuss each one. ID elements of plot in excerpts, answer close read questions in complete sentences.
WEDNESDAY-BW/SSR-Read
Pages 25-29 Finish IDing plot elements in excerpts. Read the Dinner Party, pg 28-29. Do close reading q's in complete sent. Make a plot map (plot diagram) for the story. Us the info on pg. 26 to be sure you don't leave anything out.
THURSDAY-BW/SSR How do you make a good impression?List 5 ways. Use context clues to define the bold-faced voc. words at the bottom of pg. 31.
Finish yesterday's work.
FRIDAY-BW/SSR Journal
Visit Library, 1 book checkout
Freedom Writers
AUGUST 24-26
WEDNESDAY-Review handbook, get organized, Classroom Bingo. Bring an AR book or other reading material daily starting tomorrow.
THURSDAY-Review Syllabus and class rules, check out book for reading practice, set up reading notebook.
FRIDAY-Read AR book, check out textbooks.
MONDAY-SSR/BW
Textbook Scavenger Hunt; Grade and correct
TUESDAY-SSR/BW
pages practice paired reading work on vocab on pages 5-10 in grey boxes
WEDNESDAY-SSR/BW continue paired reading practicethrough pg. 12
THURSDAY-SSR/BW Finish Academic vocabulary words-we will have a quiz over these.
FRIDAY-SSR/BW
Grade Academic Voc.; paired reading-we will grade for following the format:
1.Silent Read, 2. One partner summarizes, other partner fills in any gaps;3. Partners collaborate on questions-write answers in complete sentences.
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