Week of Aug. 31

Friday
Caught ‘Ya #10:
Harold didnt no about conans and his friends apalling grades
Vocab: appalling
Caught ‘Ya #11:
All he could see was conans cool audacious exterior and he wanted to be like him
Vocab: audacious
Took Parts of Speech and Literary Elements Quiz. Did not grade homework, due to quiz running longer than expected.

Homework: Continue with original sentences for vocab words, and study parts of speech handout (green) and story mountain diagram. Next spelling test is on 9/14. Sentences due that day.



Thursday
Caught 'Ya #9: poor chainless harold pondered wow those dudes are awesome
Vocab: ponder
Reviewed the Conflict w/s from yesterday. Read and discussed The Windows of Wonder short story.

Homework: Complete Exercises 1 and 5, and any one of 2, 3, or 4.
Study for the Parts of Speech and Lit. Elements Quiz tomorrow.



Wednesday
Took the DVQRA (Deer Valley Quarterly Reading Assessment) in the computer lab. Collected All Summer in a Day response and plot diagram.

Homework:Finish Conflict w/s. Study!


Tuesday
Caught 'Ya #7: conan an otherwise intelligent dude is so busy impressing his peers with his virility that his grades dropped to Fs Vocab word: virility.
Caught 'Ya #8: conan the flunking macho dude led alot of the hip dudes at school and him and his sycophants all wore alot of fake gold chains Vocab word: sycophant.
Collected plot diagram of Gary Soto's Seventh Grade. Corrected and turned in Vocab Quiz from Monday. Read All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury. Students were given prompt, to which they were to respond in writing.

Homework: Finish question (prompt) and complete plot diagram of the story. Study parts of speech and plot elements (Story Mt. diagram).



Monday
Spelling Test #1 (words from Caught 'Ya's #1-5). Collected vocab sentences. Continued work on Seventh Grade plot diagram (either turned in or due start of class tomorrow). Went over five main parts of a plot diagram (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resoltion) as terms to know. Note: Bring Seventh Grade story to school each day.
Caught 'Ya #6: conan a really cool dude looked at nonathletic porky 4 eyed harold with disdain as if h e were lower than the belly of a rat Vocab word: disdain.

Homework: Finish plot diagram, if necessary. Study Lit. Elements, vocab, parts of speech, story mountain diagram.