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!