Week of March 26

Thursday/Friday
Students worked on the Literary Devices crossword puzzle and turned it in.
Handout: Vocab Stems List 1-6
Students worked on this in class.
Homework:
Vocab Stems List due Monday


Wednesday
Error/Fixit: Ides of March/Volcanic Iceland
Students worked on the Literary Devices crossword puzzle.
Homework:
The crossword is due for P4 & 5 tomorrow, and for P3 Friday.


Tuesday
Error/Fixit: Nuts for Pecans/Larsen B Ice Shelf
We revised for and took the final Parts of Speech / Sentence Structure test, graded it, and turned it in.
Handout: Literary Devices crossword (review - students could work in groups and use their notebooks).
Homework:
Lit. Devices is not homework; we will continue it on Friday.



Monday
Error/Fixit: Tunisia/Silly Putty
Paragraph structure work: Japanese-Amercans During WWII and Albert Einstein: Winning the Race to Develop the Atom Bomb
The first was turned in; the second w/s was to be finished for homework
Homework:
Finish w/s 229 - due tomorrow

Spring Break

March 19-23

PTA Conferences March 29

Week of March 12

Friday
7th/8th grade field trip


Thursday
Stems List #6 Quiz.
In groups, students continued discussing and completing the Turning to the Dictionary for Help Packet (3-3 to 3-8), which was due at theend of the period.
Homework:
Read


Wednesday
Error/Fixit
In groups, students continued discussing and completing the Turning to the Dictionary for Help Packet (3-3 to 3-8)
It was turned in, and students will finish it tomorrow.
Homework:
Stem List #6 sentences - due tomorrow
Quiz on the Stems #6 tomorrow




Tuesday
Error/Fixit: Ezra Jack Keats/Tuskegee Airmen
Handout: Turning to the Dictionary for Help Packet (3-3 to 3-8)
Students worked on this activity, turned it in, and will continue with it tomorrow.
Homework:
Stem List #6 sentences - due 3/15
Quiz on the Stems on Thursday



Monday
Collected Sonnets.
Students worked on posters featuring aspects of Pirate Pride for Whirlybird Wednesday.
Students had time to work on their Stem List #6 sentences.
Homework:
Stem List #6 sentences - due 3/15
Quiz on them Thursday

Week of March 5

Friday
I collected the worksheets from yesterday.
Students watched a documentary on E. A. Poe and completed a worksheet on the poet.
Poe worksheet was turned in.
Those who were absent can view the documentary online at the following sites:
E.A. Poe Biography
Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

On a blank sheet of paper, make three columns, landscape format. Label them: What I already know about Edgar Allen Poe; Some things I wonder about him; Interesting details from the documentary
Fill in the first two, then fill in the last one as you watch the videos.
Homework:
If absent, view documentary online and complete worksheet.
Stems List #6 sentences due Thursday, 3/15, and there will be a test on them next week.
Sonnets due Monday



Thursday
Students worked on grammar, syntax, figurative language, literary elements, spelling, and vocabulary (Language Practice Week 9 and 10, and Week 5 Friday (O. Henry).
Homework:
Finish w/s for homework



Wednesday
Error/Fixit: Barbie/Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Handouts: Shakespearean Sonnet Rubric; Sonnet example; Poem in Pocket w/s for tomorrow
We reviewed and practised the iambic pentameter and the structure of Shakespearean Sonnets.
Homework:
Find poem for Poem in your Pocket Day - tomorrow
Start on Stem List #6 sentences - due 3/16
Shakespearean Sonnet due Monday, 3/12 (follow rubric)



Wednesday
Error/Fixit: Barbie/Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Handouts: Shakespearean Sonnet Rubric; Sonnet example; How to write a Sonnet; Poem in Pocket w/s for tomorrow
We reviewed and practised the iambic pentameter and the structure of Shakespearean Sonnets (this link will help)
Homework:
Find poem for Poem in your Pocket Day - tomorrow
Work on Stem List #6 sentences - due 3/16; quiz next week
Shakespearean Sonnet due Monday, 3/12 (follow rubric)


Tuesday
Collected ballads
Error/Fixit: Ohio/Dr. Seuss
We watched videos on iambic pentameter and writing a sonnet.
Students focused on creating short lines that rhymed.
Homework:
Find poem for Poem in your Pocket week.
Create three sets of couplets that rhyme. Each end rhyme of the couplet must rhyme, but not all three couplets have to rhyme.


Monday
Collected plot diagram of movie from students who were in Rm 705 on Friday.
Error/Fixit: The Pig/Whooping Crane
Students began their own ballads based on Bad Country Ballads w/s.
Requirements: 16 lines; couplets rhyme; must tell a story
Homework:
Final copy of original ballad due tomorrow
Start on Stem List #6 sentences - due 3/16
Quiz on them next week