Friday
Students engaged in creative writing activities to stretch and challenge their brains.
Thursday
Tales #15
her and her friends jabbed their noses in the air and didnt even say hello to harold
Vocab: jabbed
Tales #16
perambulating to the only vacant desk harold's hands began to shake
Vocab: perambulating
P3 and P5 read more of the novel, filling in character maps on Nathaniel and Basil (two separate maps) as they went. The maps are due Tuesday.
P4: Students completed the following packets:
w/s 3-17: Reflections on "Mrs. Flowers"
w/s 12: Mrs. Flowers Mini-Test on "Mrs. Flowers"
Dear Mrs. Ables Packet
I collected all three.
P3 and P5: Students read in groups, took notes, and worked on completing two graphic organizers on Nathaniel's and Basil's character traits.
Homework:
Finish w/s 63
Wednesday
I checked the HW (PMI).
Handouts: P3 and P5 received Character Map #2. (We did not do the 3 questions on the back.)
P4: Students completed p. 27 of the Lit. Elements notebook and then moved on to the Grammar Link packet. They also completed a graphic organizer (character map) on Mrs. Flowers, citing evidence from the text. All the work was collected.
P3 and P5: Students read in groups chapters 8-11, took notes, and worked on completing a graphic organizer on Nathaniel's character traits.
Homework:
P3 and P5: Complete a Journal Entry / Literary Response on what you read today in class. Label it Journal Entry #2.
Tuesday
Tales #14
belinda and her cohorts took one look at harolds ugly brown glasses round face and serious expression and the whole crew dismissed him as worse than the kid gnarly nerd
Vocab: cohorts
Handouts: Character Traits; Understanding "Character" Analysis
P3: We did a PMI in class on the novel and read through Ch. 6.
P4: Students completed questions #2, 3, and 5 in their Lit. Elements notebook. I checked their work.
P5: We practiced doing a PMI together in class. Students read in groups and will complete a PMI on their own.
Homework:
All periods:Study the Character Analysis sheet (green)
P3 and P5: Complete a PMI (Plus, Minus, Interesting) on the part of the novel you read in class.
Monday
Students took a short Parts of Speech / Sentence Structure Pretest, which was turned in (not yet graded)
Posted on the SmartBoard:
Fill out your agenda for the week.
Then, in your writing journal (this period's bin at the back of the room):
- put the date on a fresh page
- write for 5 min. about this past weekend
- when finished, pick up the w/s from the front desk
We then read w/s 65-66, Ethos, Pathos, & Logos, as a class, and in pairs completed the assignment at the top of p. 66 before sharing out. We did not do the bulleted assignment at the bottom of the page. Students are to keep the worksheet in their Literary Elements notebooks and refer to it when writing persuasively (e.g., as in their upcoming Social Studies assignment).
Homework:
w/s 63 (Connecting Paragraphs) - due Friday
