Wednesday-Thursday
End-of-year activities, Adv. Lang. Arts DVRA, STAR testing.
I collected the Reading Logs and the Six Word Memoirs on Monday.
End-of-year activities.
Homework:
None
Tuesday
Students finished typing up their summaries, focusing on the key terms on the handout (setting, characters, etc.).
Handout: Original Modern Day Cinder Tale
In pairs, students began work on their own Cinder Tale.
Homework:
Study for tomorrow's Week 1 and Week 4 Vocab Quiz.
We'll have time in class tommorrow to work on the original tale (on paper - we won't have the netbooks). They are due Thursday.
Monday
We continued our research on the Cinder Tales and began typing up our summaries, focusing on the key terms on the handout (setting, characters, etc.).
Homework:
Review Week 1 and 4 words and definitions - quiz on Wednesday.
Thursday / Friday: Advanced Lang. Arts Online Assessment, STAR, share Tales.
Subject to modification.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
Week of May 9
Tuesday - Friday
Blogger has been Read-Only all week due to technical issues, so I have not been able to update.
Tuesday and Wednesday students worked on research for their Mythological Barbie project.
Wed. - I collected the Cartoons and students took the Week 4 and 5 "Reggie" style quiz.
Thurs. - Students presented and I collected the Mythological Barbie projects. We then graded quizzes we had taken recently.
Fri. - Intro to Cinder Tales project. In pairs, students read and took notes on two Cinderella stories. They then created a double-bubble thinking map on what they had read.
Handout: Directions on the Cinder Tales project.
Homework:
Review Week 1 and 4 words and meanings.
We will continue reading the tales on Monday. Tuesday we will type up the summaries and begin the Original Cinder Tale (due Friday - we will share).
Wednesday we take the Week 1 and 4 sentence quiz.
Thursday / Friday: Advanced Lang. Arts Online Assessment, STAR, share Tales.
Subject to modification.
Monday
I collected the Bad Hair Day Assignment; some students shared.
Students then worked on research for the Barbie assignment.
Homework:
Cartoon due Wed., Mythological Barbie Thursday
Review words from Weeks 4 and 5 - "Reggie" style quiz on Wednesday
Blogger has been Read-Only all week due to technical issues, so I have not been able to update.
Tuesday and Wednesday students worked on research for their Mythological Barbie project.
Wed. - I collected the Cartoons and students took the Week 4 and 5 "Reggie" style quiz.
Thurs. - Students presented and I collected the Mythological Barbie projects. We then graded quizzes we had taken recently.
Fri. - Intro to Cinder Tales project. In pairs, students read and took notes on two Cinderella stories. They then created a double-bubble thinking map on what they had read.
Handout: Directions on the Cinder Tales project.
Homework:
Review Week 1 and 4 words and meanings.
We will continue reading the tales on Monday. Tuesday we will type up the summaries and begin the Original Cinder Tale (due Friday - we will share).
Wednesday we take the Week 1 and 4 sentence quiz.
Thursday / Friday: Advanced Lang. Arts Online Assessment, STAR, share Tales.
Subject to modification.
Monday
I collected the Bad Hair Day Assignment; some students shared.
Students then worked on research for the Barbie assignment.
Homework:
Cartoon due Wed., Mythological Barbie Thursday
Review words from Weeks 4 and 5 - "Reggie" style quiz on Wednesday
Monday, May 2, 2011
Week of May 2
Friday
Early Release - Special Schedule
No Class
Thursday
Students took the Week 5 Vocab Quiz and then began researching their god/goddess for the Bad Hair Day assignment.
Handout: Mythological Barbie assignment (due Thurs., May 12)
Homework:
Research for projects
Wednesday
Handouts: Even Gods Have Bad Hair Days assignment (due Mon., 5/9) and blank Zits Cartoon (due Wed., 5/11).
We discussed requirements and expectations for both assiggnments.
Students presented their Original Creation Myth Posters.
Homework:
Week 5 Review Quiz tomorrow (plus Week 4 for those who were absent when we took that one).
Tomorrow we're in the lab and will be able to do some research for the Bad Hair Day assignment after the quizzes.
Tuesday
7th grade field trip
Monday
We reviewed answers to all the Week 5 w/s.
Students finalized their presentations.
Homework:
Review Weeks 4 and 5 vocab and idioms.
Week 5 Review Quiz on Thursday.
Early Release - Special Schedule
No Class
Thursday
Students took the Week 5 Vocab Quiz and then began researching their god/goddess for the Bad Hair Day assignment.
Handout: Mythological Barbie assignment (due Thurs., May 12)
Homework:
Research for projects
Wednesday
Handouts: Even Gods Have Bad Hair Days assignment (due Mon., 5/9) and blank Zits Cartoon (due Wed., 5/11).
We discussed requirements and expectations for both assiggnments.
Students presented their Original Creation Myth Posters.
Homework:
Week 5 Review Quiz tomorrow (plus Week 4 for those who were absent when we took that one).
Tomorrow we're in the lab and will be able to do some research for the Bad Hair Day assignment after the quizzes.
Tuesday
7th grade field trip
Monday
We reviewed answers to all the Week 5 w/s.
Students finalized their presentations.
Homework:
Review Weeks 4 and 5 vocab and idioms.
Week 5 Review Quiz on Thursday.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
FreeRice Status
To date, our class has donated 22,770 grains of rice via our FreeRice project. Great job, everyone! Let's see what we can do in the next three and a half weeks.
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