Friday
No School - Spring Break Day
Thursday
Tales #68
and to farther complicate things at that moment belindas parents return to there abode
Vocab: complicate, abode
Tales #69
harold the brave hero never faltered. its my fault he told belindas irate parents as he rose up to greet them
Vocab: faltered, irate
Completed, graded, and collected packet on figurative language and rhyme scheme.
Practiced writing imagery and personification.
Homework:
Review vocab, roots, literary terms, etc.
Wednesday
Collected w/s 112 from yesterday.
Completed, graded, and collected packet on figurative language and finding information in the dictionary.
Played a Jeopardy-style game to review figurative language.
Homework:
Review vocab, roots, literary terms, etc.
Tuesday
Checked and discussed w/s from yesterday (Cliches, Vivid Lang.).
Completed, discussed, collected w/s 111 and 113 (sensory details, proofreading).
Homework:
w/s 112 - Visualizing Comparisons
Monday
Tales #67
everyone else stood stupefied unable to move their limbs like frogs who have been mesmerized by a flashlight
Vocab: stupefied
Graded "Why I don't shoot bears" packet.
Copy into Composition Notebook and respond:
Serene, Scary, or Suspenseful
The mood of a story of passage is the general feeling it conveys. A story's mood might be tense in one passage and light in another. U se the sentence below as the first line of a story, and then create six differet second sentences, each of which creates a different mood.
Pierre sat quietly and stared out the window.
Homework:
w/s 70 and 94: Cliches and Using Vivid Language
Monday, March 29, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Week of March 22
Friday
We took this week's Roots Quiz (tain, ten).
Completed, graded, and collected w/s 21 [Dear Santa: personal pronouns] and w/s 22 [Colorful Clues: subject and object pronouns].
Graded and collected Great Pecan Caper packet.
Homework:
We will check the "Why I don't shoot bears" packet on Monday.
Thursday
No class today - special half-day schedule
Wednesday
Tales #66
the fight stopped quick and harold ran to throw water and baking soda on the conflagration
Vocab:
conflagration
We worked on reading comprehension packets. One we graded in class, the other is due Friday (no class tomorrow).
Homework:
Review roots, vocab, literary terms, etc. The Great Pecan Caper is due Friday. Roots test Friday as well.
Tuesday
We worked on poetic elements, allegories, and reading comprehension.
Homework:
Review roots, vocab, literary terms, etc. The Great Pecan Caper is due Friday.
Monday
New Latin Roots list (tain, ten, tent).
Students completed w/s 14: Winds that sigh and clouds that cry (personification). They then took their favorite sentence from that activity and used it as a starter for a paragraph.
Students then worked on Personification w/s #4 - personifying the sentences.
Homework:
Finish w/s #4 and w/s 14, if necessary.
Roots test on Friday.
We took this week's Roots Quiz (tain, ten).
Completed, graded, and collected w/s 21 [Dear Santa: personal pronouns] and w/s 22 [Colorful Clues: subject and object pronouns].
Graded and collected Great Pecan Caper packet.
Homework:
We will check the "Why I don't shoot bears" packet on Monday.
Thursday
No class today - special half-day schedule
Wednesday
Tales #66
the fight stopped quick and harold ran to throw water and baking soda on the conflagration
Vocab:
conflagration
We worked on reading comprehension packets. One we graded in class, the other is due Friday (no class tomorrow).
Homework:
Review roots, vocab, literary terms, etc. The Great Pecan Caper is due Friday. Roots test Friday as well.
Tuesday
We worked on poetic elements, allegories, and reading comprehension.
Homework:
Review roots, vocab, literary terms, etc. The Great Pecan Caper is due Friday.
Monday
New Latin Roots list (tain, ten, tent).
Students completed w/s 14: Winds that sigh and clouds that cry (personification). They then took their favorite sentence from that activity and used it as a starter for a paragraph.
Students then worked on Personification w/s #4 - personifying the sentences.
Homework:
Finish w/s #4 and w/s 14, if necessary.
Roots test on Friday.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Week of March 8
Friday
Students completed writing activities centered around surprising elements and getting the reader's attention at the start of a piece of writing (Gotcha w/s 21 and Bodacious Beginnings w/s 26-27).
Homework:
Read!
Thursday
Students took the 3rd quarter DVQRA (Reading Assessment) and the Student Gallup Poll.
Homework:
Review literary terms, vocab, etc.
Wednesday
Tales #64
from beneath conans armpit harold espied flames that licked up the curtains
Vocab: espied
Tales #65
he shouted to conan that the fight should stop because the house would soon be engulfed in flames
Vocab: engulfed
Worked on Hyperbole, Allusion, and wrote Haiku poems.
Homework:
Review roots, vocab, literary terms, etc.
Tuesday
Tales #62
in the distance harold heard gnarly and cassandra shriek in unison harold the trash cans on fire
Vocab: shriek
Tales #63
from under the pounding that conan was delivering his freinds voices alerted harold to the danger
Vocab: alerted
Roots Test [stat] plus dictation and parts of speech.
Graded Roots test [lect] from last week.
Poetry Ingredients w/s (The Sound of Poetry) - worked on in class. Rhyme scheme practice on the back of the w/s.
Homework:
Review roots, vocab, literary terms, etc.
Monday
Tales #61
harolds blubber protected him from any egregious harm but his glasses bit the dust as they laid under conans feet
Vocab: egregious
Students completed A Really Bad Beginning - w/s 66 and Duke's Dilemma w/s - 50.
Individually and as a class, we then worked on syllables and stress (part of our poetry unit).
Homework:
Roots test tomorrow!
Students completed writing activities centered around surprising elements and getting the reader's attention at the start of a piece of writing (Gotcha w/s 21 and Bodacious Beginnings w/s 26-27).
Homework:
Read!
Thursday
Students took the 3rd quarter DVQRA (Reading Assessment) and the Student Gallup Poll.
Homework:
Review literary terms, vocab, etc.
Wednesday
Tales #64
from beneath conans armpit harold espied flames that licked up the curtains
Vocab: espied
Tales #65
he shouted to conan that the fight should stop because the house would soon be engulfed in flames
Vocab: engulfed
Worked on Hyperbole, Allusion, and wrote Haiku poems.
Homework:
Review roots, vocab, literary terms, etc.
Tuesday
Tales #62
in the distance harold heard gnarly and cassandra shriek in unison harold the trash cans on fire
Vocab: shriek
Tales #63
from under the pounding that conan was delivering his freinds voices alerted harold to the danger
Vocab: alerted
Roots Test [stat] plus dictation and parts of speech.
Graded Roots test [lect] from last week.
Poetry Ingredients w/s (The Sound of Poetry) - worked on in class. Rhyme scheme practice on the back of the w/s.
Homework:
Review roots, vocab, literary terms, etc.
Monday
Tales #61
harolds blubber protected him from any egregious harm but his glasses bit the dust as they laid under conans feet
Vocab: egregious
Students completed A Really Bad Beginning - w/s 66 and Duke's Dilemma w/s - 50.
Individually and as a class, we then worked on syllables and stress (part of our poetry unit).
Homework:
Roots test tomorrow!
Monday, March 1, 2010
Week of March 5
Friday
Tales #60
the fight that ensued is not a pretty site but harold fueled by cassandras lovley brown eyed gaze did good for a chubby four eyed straight A student.
Vocab: ensued
Tales #59
conan leapt at harold and he aimed his ham sized fist for harolds face and harold ducked and conans fist slammed into the wall and the cigarette fell from the now gaping aperture of his mouth
Vocab: aperture
We completed some exercises on personification and then wrote in our composition notebooks for 10-15 minutes, using the following as the starter:
Roosevelt buried the shoe in the back yard, then took off.
Homework:
Roots test on Tuesday!
Thursday
Tales #58
your lower then the belly of a flatulent basset Hound he adds
Vocab: flatulent
We completed some exercises on personification and then reviewed the limericks from last Tuesday. Many needed improvements here and there, which we worked on during class.
Ms. Ronemous was prodigiously surprised and feels extremely fortunate to have such wonderful students who continued to express birthday wishes throughout the day; a special thanks to Aubrey H for the beautiful poster, Nalani L for the card, and Katie S for the poem!
Homework:
Write a poem that incorporates personification. Desirable, but not mandatory, would be to write it in the form of a limerick.
Wednesday
Early Release - Special Schedule
Tuesday
Following up on yesterday's work on rhythm and rhyme in poetry, students practiced correctly dividing words into syllables before creating their own poem based on their phone number (each number indicated the amount of syllables in that line).
We then read some examples of Limericks on the overhead, practicing the meter and end rhymes, followed by the Instant Limerick w/s.
The best two limericks each student created from the template were to be copied into their composition notebook.
Homework:
Write an original limerick, being careful to keep the correct meter and end rhyme (use "A lady wile dining in Crewe" as a model to help with the correct cadence). Due Thursday.
Study vocab, literary terms, roots, parts of speech, etc.
Monday
New Latin Root (stat); test next Tuesday.
Shared Howling for Justice responses from Friday.
Began our introduction to poetry with w/s 16 and 15: Rhythm and Rhyme. Practiced writing free-verse and metered versions, and identifying end and internal rhyme patterns.
Homework:
Study vocab, literary terms, roots, parts of speech, etc.
Tales #60
the fight that ensued is not a pretty site but harold fueled by cassandras lovley brown eyed gaze did good for a chubby four eyed straight A student.
Vocab: ensued
Tales #59
conan leapt at harold and he aimed his ham sized fist for harolds face and harold ducked and conans fist slammed into the wall and the cigarette fell from the now gaping aperture of his mouth
Vocab: aperture
We completed some exercises on personification and then wrote in our composition notebooks for 10-15 minutes, using the following as the starter:
Roosevelt buried the shoe in the back yard, then took off.
Homework:
Roots test on Tuesday!
Thursday
Tales #58
your lower then the belly of a flatulent basset Hound he adds
Vocab: flatulent
We completed some exercises on personification and then reviewed the limericks from last Tuesday. Many needed improvements here and there, which we worked on during class.
Ms. Ronemous was prodigiously surprised and feels extremely fortunate to have such wonderful students who continued to express birthday wishes throughout the day; a special thanks to Aubrey H for the beautiful poster, Nalani L for the card, and Katie S for the poem!
Homework:
Write a poem that incorporates personification. Desirable, but not mandatory, would be to write it in the form of a limerick.
Wednesday
Early Release - Special Schedule
Tuesday
Following up on yesterday's work on rhythm and rhyme in poetry, students practiced correctly dividing words into syllables before creating their own poem based on their phone number (each number indicated the amount of syllables in that line).
We then read some examples of Limericks on the overhead, practicing the meter and end rhymes, followed by the Instant Limerick w/s.
The best two limericks each student created from the template were to be copied into their composition notebook.
Homework:
Write an original limerick, being careful to keep the correct meter and end rhyme (use "A lady wile dining in Crewe" as a model to help with the correct cadence). Due Thursday.
Study vocab, literary terms, roots, parts of speech, etc.
Monday
New Latin Root (stat); test next Tuesday.
Shared Howling for Justice responses from Friday.
Began our introduction to poetry with w/s 16 and 15: Rhythm and Rhyme. Practiced writing free-verse and metered versions, and identifying end and internal rhyme patterns.
Homework:
Study vocab, literary terms, roots, parts of speech, etc.
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