Week of November 26-30

Book report projects due:  NEXT MONDAY.
Monday
We read the captivating non-fiction story or Shyima in "A Child Slave in California," and began answering questions. If you were absent, read the article and be prepared to answer questions tomorrow.

Tuesday
We will finish discussing the article, "A Child Slave in California," and begin our BAV words, (ethos, pathos, logos)

Wednesday
In preparation for our persuasive passage, "The Trouble with TV," we will define our literary vocabulary words.

Thursday
Students received their grammar test back, and used their notes to identify the correct answers and fix their errors for grading.

Friday
Students worked on their book report projects that are due Monday, December 3rd.

Academic Assistance is available from now to December 18th, 4-5pm, in the major subject areas.

Week of November 19-25

Monday
Today we continued to practice adjective and adverb clauses in preparation for our test tomorrow. Homework for tonight are the following pages in your GRAMMAR textbooks

—Pg. 512 –Essential & Nonessential Clauses

—Exercise 5, numbers 1, 5, & 9

—Exercise 6, numbers 2, 6, & 10

—Pg. 516 Noun Clauses

Exercise 9, numbers 2, 4, 6, 8 & 10

If you were absent today, or you would like some additional practice, please practice the following additional assignments in your textbook.
Pg. 510-Adjective Clauses
            Exercise 4, numbers 17-20
Pg. 514- Adverb Clauses
            Exercise 7, numbers 9-14

Tuesday-Test! 
Students completed a test on the type of sentences, and sentence clauses. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Week of November 12-16

Monday
Advanced: Students identified figurative language in the story "All the Places to Love," and demonstrated their knowledge of Words in text through a test.
Homework: Answer the question: What is the author's tone in "All the Places to Love?"

Standard: Students read the story "All the Places to Love," and used reciprocal teaching strategies to better understand the passage.
Homework: Test tomorrow on Words in text, BAV Words (tone & imagery) and Activities 5 & 6 due.

Tuesday
Advanced: Analyze the various tones an author can use while writing a passage and brainstorm ideas for writing about a place you love/loathe. Brainstorming will take place on the back of the following FLEE Map.

 Standard: Demonstrated their knowledge of Words in text through a test, and analyzed various tones an author can use while writing a passage. Students also picked a place they loved/strongly disliked.

Wednesday
Advanced: Finish Flee Map and continue draft writing essay. Final Essay Due FRIDAY!

Standard: Students brainstormed about a place they love and began working on a brochure to persuade others to attend.

Outside of the brochure

Inside of the brochure

Thursday

Grammar day!!!! and Book Fair the second half of the class period.
Quiz on sentence types tomorrow, practice:Simple, Compound, Complex Sentences as well as Subordinate Clauses.

Friday: Essays Due!!!
Grammar day continued

Week of November 5-9

Monday: 
Discovery Ed Testing, Computer Lab 3

Tuesday: Election Day
Discovery Ed Testing, Computer Lab 3

Wednesday: BAV
Objective: Students will be able to received their results from Discovery Ed, set goals, and learn two new academic vocabulary words, (Tone and Imagery).

Thursday: Activity #5
Objective: Students will be able to determine the meaning of literary vocabulary words for our next story, All the Places to Love by Patricia Maclachlan.  Students will also be able to make predictions and ask questions about the passage, prior to reading. Our new words are: Rafter, Meadows, Scattered, Sly, Raucous, Swaggered, Marsh, Barren, and Skimmed.

Friday:  Activity #6
Objective: Students will be able to determine the main idea of the passage, All the Places to Love, and identify figurative language in the passage.

Test on Monday: Analyzing Words and Text
Assignments Due Monday-BAV and Activities 5 & 6

Week of Oct. 29-Nov. 2

Monday-
Objective: Complete BAV words from Friday,  review the current lesson's goal, and identify irony. We listened to the song Ironic by Alanis Morissette and either created our own ironic statement (Advanced) or identified irony within the song (standard).

HW: Advanced only-Complete highlighted columns of Activity #2 (If absent please see me before school for the handout)

Tuesday-
Objective: Understand the definition of word parts (Activity #2) and complete the exposition and rising action (Activity #3) of The Tell-Tale Heart pgs. 522-528.

HW: Finish reading the story.

Wednesday-
Objective: Complete the graphic organizer for plot sequence (Activity #3) and view the monologue of Vincent Price presenting "The Tell-Tale Heart." Part 1 & Part 2

Thursday- Lunch with Ms. Samuels to retake Characterization test
Objective:  Tracing the Character Development (Activity #4)

HW: Finish activities not completed in class

Friday- Test today:Plot & Conflict
                            (Activities 1-4 Due)

Objective: Demonstrate knowledge of plot development and conflict through testing, and review parallelism. 

Benchmark testing on Monday & Tuesday!!!!! Computer Lab 3

Week of October 22-29

Monday: Test Tomorrow!

Objective: Today you organized your binders for the second marking period, and learned that your 2nd Qtr Book Report projects will be due: Dec. 3rd!!!

Activities 16-18 are due tomorrow. Please refer to blog dates 10/11 for the vocabulary and 10/17 for the characterization questions.

Studying for test: To adhere to copyright laws,I could not find and internet site for characterization, please review your notes. For context clues however, I was able to find this link Context Clues. Please print your page and answers to receive full credit.

Tuesday
Objective: Today you were able to demonstrate your knowledge of characterization AND context clues through testing.

Wednesday
Objective: Today  you wrote a descriptive paragraph describing a fictional character or a person you know. Several examples were given in class using characters from famous novels.
If you were absent please refer to this blog: Writerlious to see some examples. Final character descriptive paragraphs due: FRIDAY.

Thursday-Activity #1
Objective: Determine the literary vocabulary words for our next short story: The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe. Be sure to follow the template provided. The vocabulary words are: profound, dissimulation, sagacity (yes similar to sagacious), crevice, gesticulation, derision, scantlings, and hearken.

Friday-Character Descriptive Paragraphs DUE!
Objective: Determine the academic vocabulary word for our next story. *Reminder-Your BAV should have 16 boxes per page. The words complete were: Plot, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, foreshadow, suspense, mood, and irony. These definitions can be found at the back of your literature textbook.

Homework: Finish Vocabulary charts from Thursday and Friday.

Characterizing Joby

After reading The Drummer Boy of Shiloh in our textbook, pgs. 7-14 yesterday, we were very prepared to begin developing the character. To do this we used a stick figure diagram to answer questions about the character. For those students that did not finish in class, the questions are presented below.