Monday, January 30, 2012

Week 20

1/30 Vocabulary Test 4, Weekend Check In

1/31 Review Vocab Test Study Strategies, Zap Retakes

2/1 Live Grading of Sounder Summaries (Note Taking, Peer Share), T-Chart

2/2 Sharing Quizlet.com, New Vocabulary Words for Test 5, Study Strategies

2/3 Sub - Read out loud and share short story from textbook, review vocabulary words in context

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Week 19

1/23 Vocabulary Study Team - Help with Quizlet, Reader Logs Due

1/24 New Reader Logs, Live Grading - Sounder

1/25 Jeopardy Vocabulary

1/26 Vocabulary Test 4

1/27 Half Day - 4th, 5th, 6th hour watch Monsters Are Due on Maple Street (from Text)

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Week 18

1/16 Martin Luther King Day - No School

1/17 Sounder Summaries - Writing Lab Time

1/18 Sounder Summaries - Wrap Up, Textbook Vocabulary

1/19 Sounder Comprehension Test

1/20 Live Writing Grading / Writing Conferencing

Monday, January 9, 2012

Week 17

1/9 Textbook Reading Selections & Vocabulary: The Amigo Brothers pages 363-371
Sounder
Weekend Check in: Speaking & Listening
Story Context Concepts: Great Depression, Jim Crow Laws
NOTE: For students who missed the movie, the script can be found online at: sfy.ru/?script=sounder

1/10 Daily Reading Logs Check
Story Context Concepts: Reconstruction, Share Cropping
Sounder

1/11 Reader Logs, Watch Sounder, Bulleted Key Events

1/12 Review definitions of what a Summary is, 8 Review Examples

1/13 Review Transition Words

HOMEWORK: Complete a rough draft of your Sounder summary due on Tuesday.

Week 16

1/2 No School

1/3 Weekly Textbook Reading Selections & Vocabulary. Review Unit 2 Grammar Test

1/4 Handy Pages: Who to Write Summaries Practice

1/5 Film: Sounder

1/6 Film: Sounder. *Bring Composition Booklets