Week of Oct. 4

Friday
Using the Learning Express Library, students learned strategies to find the main idea of a passage, define vocabulary in context, and tell the difference between fact and opinion.
Homework:
Anything you need to catch up on, including any Learning Express modules you may have missed.



Thursday
Tales #20
harold mesmerized by the sight stared at classy cassandra for a full minute before he sat down; he was smitten
Vocab: mesmerized, smitten
We played the envelope game with sentences to elaborate on and then shared out the best ones.
Homework:
Know the commanders



Wednesday
Tales #19
she was beautiful and she was classy and she was wonderful and she had long curly black hair and a ghost of a smile manifested itself on her lovley lips
Vocab: manifested
We reviewed the answers to Tues. Wk 2 w/s (students keep as a study guide).
We read Wed., July 1, Chapter 5: Longstreet and Chapter 6: Lee up to page 139 (...by General Hill).
Homework:
Finish Chapter 6, answering chapter questions as you go.
There will not be a reading quiz, but you need to make points on your yellow sheet on what you learned from the chapter about Robert E. Lee.



Tuesday
Tales #18
sitting there at the desk in front of him reading the book war and peace was a apparition of beauty that affected his ability to move
Vocab: apparition
Students did a great job presenting The Comedy of Secession Readers Theater play.
We checked the HW and students then had time to work on tonight's homework or read.
Homework:
Tuesday, Week 2 w/s



Monday
Tales #17
his corpulent knees knocked together in shock and his eyes grew bigger under his glasses
Vocab: corpulent
I collected the Vicki Murray paragraphs.
We worked on our reading comprehension skills in the lab. If you were absent, follow these directions:
1. Go to phxlib.org
2. Click on Learning and Research (on the left)
3. Click the L (at the top of the page)
4. Click Learning Express Library
5. After logging in, Click Middle School
6. Choose MS Reading Comprehension: Foundation Course 1
Your answers are saved automatically. To pick up where you left off, click on MyCenter (you may have to "fast foward" to where you stopped).
Homework:
Monday, Week 2 w/s