Monday
After completing pre-reading activities, we read The Tell-Tale Heart by Poe. Then we watched the 7-minute movie based on the story.
Students wrote a paragraph comparing the print version with the movie version.I collected the paragraphs.
Homework:
Crossword puzzle based on vocabulary from the short story.
Tales #26
Vocab: noisome
this may be the 1st day of school she said but you have homework tonight my name in case your interested is mrs noisome
Tales #27
Vocab: aside
oh no not mrs noisome groaned gnarly in an aside to harold. i hear she gives tons of homework calls parents and makes students write and writ
Tales #28
Vocab: transcribed
everyone transcribed the assignment into their notebook except conan from who nobody ever expected and homework
Tales #29
Vocab: sallied
when the bell rang harold sallied forth from the classroom with gnarly he had found a best friend
Tales #30
Vocab: dilemmas
and after school harold tells gnarly all about himself and his dilemmas
Tales #31
Vocab: lament
well gnarly my mom and dad are getting divorced and are fighting over me he said with a lament
Monday, October 31, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Week of Oct. 24
Friday
We engaged in critical thinking exercises.
Homework:
Study vocab; read
Thursday
Tales #25
as gnarly concluded his sentence the teacher a short bizarre middle aged lady dressed in tennis shoes and an loathsome purple dress sauntered in the door
Vocab: sauntered, bizarre, loathsome
P3 and P5 read the novel and continued with their Lit. Devices assignment.
P4 worked on characterization,reading comprehension, and vocabulary.
Homework:
Study vocab; read
Wear pink tomorrow!
Wednesday
Students took the Gallup Poll online.
Homework:
Study vocab; read
Tuesday
Tales #24
shes shy and shes nice and shes comely and she gets good grades and all the cool dudes are after her but she ignores them gnarly concludes
Vocab: comely
We did our classroom spelling bee run-off. Congrats to the following students:
P3 - Sarah, Shauri, Bryce (alternate: Jenny)
P4 - Nick, Chris, Savana (alternate: Alexis)
P5 - Dillon, Dalton, Nikko (alternate: Elizabeth)
Homework:
Study vocab; read
Monday
Tales #23
gnarly nerd a strait A student continued to inform harold. and classy cassandra is to good a student to be interested in conan he elucidated
Vocab: elucidated
P3 and P5: Students worked on their literary devices assignment while reading the novel.
P4: students wrote scenarios explaining their vocab words. I collected the w/s (Words to Own, p. 4)
Homework:
Study vocab - know spelling and definition; read
We engaged in critical thinking exercises.
Homework:
Study vocab; read
Thursday
Tales #25
as gnarly concluded his sentence the teacher a short bizarre middle aged lady dressed in tennis shoes and an loathsome purple dress sauntered in the door
Vocab: sauntered, bizarre, loathsome
P3 and P5 read the novel and continued with their Lit. Devices assignment.
P4 worked on characterization,reading comprehension, and vocabulary.
Homework:
Study vocab; read
Wear pink tomorrow!
Wednesday
Students took the Gallup Poll online.
Homework:
Study vocab; read
Tuesday
Tales #24
shes shy and shes nice and shes comely and she gets good grades and all the cool dudes are after her but she ignores them gnarly concludes
Vocab: comely
We did our classroom spelling bee run-off. Congrats to the following students:
P3 - Sarah, Shauri, Bryce (alternate: Jenny)
P4 - Nick, Chris, Savana (alternate: Alexis)
P5 - Dillon, Dalton, Nikko (alternate: Elizabeth)
Homework:
Study vocab; read
Monday
Tales #23
gnarly nerd a strait A student continued to inform harold. and classy cassandra is to good a student to be interested in conan he elucidated
Vocab: elucidated
P3 and P5: Students worked on their literary devices assignment while reading the novel.
P4: students wrote scenarios explaining their vocab words. I collected the w/s (Words to Own, p. 4)
Homework:
Study vocab - know spelling and definition; read
Friday, October 21, 2011
Week of Oct. 17
Thursday and Friday
Special Schedule due to Early Release for Parent-Teacher Conferences.
Thursday we had P2, 3, and 1; Friday we had P4, 5, and 6.
P3 finished their letters in the lab, turned in a hard copy, and e-mailed them to me.
In the other periods, we worked on deductive reasoning skills.
Homework:
Study vocab; read
Wednesday
P4 worked on reading comprehension and "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" packet. They completed an open-book quiz on the story.
P3 and P5 typed up their friendly letters in the lab.
Homework:
Study vocab
Tuesday
Tales #22
a obese pimply faced kid in the next desk leans over to harold dont pay no attention to conan he whispered. hes not as tuff as he looks
Vocab: obese
P4 worked on reading comprehension and "The Treasure of Lemon Brown."
P3 and P5 took the Spelling Test (Tales #1-19)
P3 and P5 read the novel, took notes, and worked on finding literary devices (this is an individual project).
Handout: P3 and P5 - Give Me Liberty Literary Devices Assignment (due when we finish the novel).
Homework:
Revise letters (P3 and P5)
Monday
P3 and P5: Rough drafts of the letters due.
Students completed "The Moustache" language packet and turned it in.
Homework:
Spelling Test on Tales #1-19 tomorrow.
Special Schedule due to Early Release for Parent-Teacher Conferences.
Thursday we had P2, 3, and 1; Friday we had P4, 5, and 6.
P3 finished their letters in the lab, turned in a hard copy, and e-mailed them to me.
In the other periods, we worked on deductive reasoning skills.
Homework:
Study vocab; read
Wednesday
P4 worked on reading comprehension and "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" packet. They completed an open-book quiz on the story.
P3 and P5 typed up their friendly letters in the lab.
Homework:
Study vocab
Tuesday
Tales #22
a obese pimply faced kid in the next desk leans over to harold dont pay no attention to conan he whispered. hes not as tuff as he looks
Vocab: obese
P4 worked on reading comprehension and "The Treasure of Lemon Brown."
P3 and P5 took the Spelling Test (Tales #1-19)
P3 and P5 read the novel, took notes, and worked on finding literary devices (this is an individual project).
Handout: P3 and P5 - Give Me Liberty Literary Devices Assignment (due when we finish the novel).
Homework:
Revise letters (P3 and P5)
Monday
P3 and P5: Rough drafts of the letters due.
Students completed "The Moustache" language packet and turned it in.
Homework:
Spelling Test on Tales #1-19 tomorrow.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Week of Oct. 10
Thursday
We worked on brain strengthening exercises with deductive reasoning problems.
Homework:
Spelling Test on Tales #1-19 next week.
Thursday
Tales #21
as the effects of her stunning beauty wore off harold heard conan shouting at him she thinks shes too good for us
Vocab: stunning, effects
P3 and P5 worked on the pen pal project.
P4: Students took the Tales spelling test.
We then read "The Girl's Like Spaghetti" about why you can't manage without apostrophes! Students received a handout showing the main points and the rules for using the apostrophe (study this and know the rules). Their next assignment was to create six sentences following the pattern on the first side of the handout.
Homework:
Pen Pal rough drafts due Monday.
Wednesday
Tales #20
harold mesmerized by the sight stared at classy cassandra for a full minute before he sat down; he was smitten.
Vocab: smitten, mesmerized
P4: Students worked on the skills of reading comprehension and summarizing.
P3 and P5: We worked on the pen pal project.
Homework:
Study vocab - test tomorrow
Tuesday
Ms. Ronemous had a sub.
Students read the short story "The Moustache" and responded to questions about it.
Homework:
Finish packet
Monday
No School - Fall Break Day
We worked on brain strengthening exercises with deductive reasoning problems.
Homework:
Spelling Test on Tales #1-19 next week.
Thursday
Tales #21
as the effects of her stunning beauty wore off harold heard conan shouting at him she thinks shes too good for us
Vocab: stunning, effects
P3 and P5 worked on the pen pal project.
P4: Students took the Tales spelling test.
We then read "The Girl's Like Spaghetti" about why you can't manage without apostrophes! Students received a handout showing the main points and the rules for using the apostrophe (study this and know the rules). Their next assignment was to create six sentences following the pattern on the first side of the handout.
Homework:
Pen Pal rough drafts due Monday.
Wednesday
Tales #20
harold mesmerized by the sight stared at classy cassandra for a full minute before he sat down; he was smitten.
Vocab: smitten, mesmerized
P4: Students worked on the skills of reading comprehension and summarizing.
P3 and P5: We worked on the pen pal project.
Homework:
Study vocab - test tomorrow
Tuesday
Ms. Ronemous had a sub.
Students read the short story "The Moustache" and responded to questions about it.
Homework:
Finish packet
Monday
No School - Fall Break Day
Monday, October 3, 2011
Week of Oct. 3
Friday
I collected the Choice Board activity (P3 and P5 only) and the Ball Game w/s.
We engaged in critical thinking and deductive reasoning activities to stretch our brains.
Homework:
Read!
Tuesday-Thursday
Tales #16
perambulating to the only vacant desk harold's hands began to shake
Vocab: perambulating
Tales #17
his corpulent knees knocked together in shock and his eyes grew bigger under his glasses
Vocab: corpulent
Tales #18
sitting there at the desk in front of him reading the book war and peace was a apparition of beauty that affected his ability to move
Tales #19
she was beautiful and she was classy and she was wonderful and she had long curly black hair and a ghost of a smilt manifested itself on her lovely lips
Vocab: apparition
We continued to work on characterization and reading comprehension.
Homework:
Study vocab
Monday
Students wrote in their jounals about their weekend.
They then continued with their characterization work, citing evidence in the text (with page numbers).
P4 worked on the introductory activity Making the Connection w/s 26, which I collected.
P4 then read "Broken Chain" by Gary Soto and worked on w/s 4 and 38 (will be collected tomorrow). Some were able to begin work on the questions on page 38.
Homework:
Week 1 Ball Games w/s (correcting errors) - due Friday
I collected the Choice Board activity (P3 and P5 only) and the Ball Game w/s.
We engaged in critical thinking and deductive reasoning activities to stretch our brains.
Homework:
Read!
Tuesday-Thursday
Tales #16
perambulating to the only vacant desk harold's hands began to shake
Vocab: perambulating
Tales #17
his corpulent knees knocked together in shock and his eyes grew bigger under his glasses
Vocab: corpulent
Tales #18
sitting there at the desk in front of him reading the book war and peace was a apparition of beauty that affected his ability to move
Tales #19
she was beautiful and she was classy and she was wonderful and she had long curly black hair and a ghost of a smilt manifested itself on her lovely lips
Vocab: apparition
We continued to work on characterization and reading comprehension.
Homework:
Study vocab
Monday
Students wrote in their jounals about their weekend.
They then continued with their characterization work, citing evidence in the text (with page numbers).
P4 worked on the introductory activity Making the Connection w/s 26, which I collected.
P4 then read "Broken Chain" by Gary Soto and worked on w/s 4 and 38 (will be collected tomorrow). Some were able to begin work on the questions on page 38.
Homework:
Week 1 Ball Games w/s (correcting errors) - due Friday
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