Friday
Students engaged in critical thinking exercises.
Homework:
Read as far as p. 196 (the end of Chapter 7) by Monday.
Thursday
Students took the Harbinger test and then continued reading their novel and working on the Literary Devices assignment.
Homework:
Read as far as p. 196 (the end of Chapter 7) by Monday. Students who needed to, took the book home.
Wednesday
Students had time to read the class novel and work on their Lit. Devices assignment.
Homework:
Harbinger test tomorrow.
Tuesday
BTales #15
isabelle ingenuous of course smilted at williams powm and felicias freindly jibe but her smile immediatly turned to a frown at the sight of a recogizable hulking figure that loped towards them with a malevolent grin on its face. it was orson odious followed by his 2 pals danny dappper and petra pulchritudinous
Vocab: jibe, loped, malevolent, odious, dapper, pulchritudinous
We held the spelling bee run-off. Congrats to Caitlyn, Keegan, and Corinne (alternate: Claire)
Homework:
Study vocab (Weeks 1-3, BTales, and Harbinger) and Stems List #1.
Harbinger test on Thursday.
Monday
BTales #14
for the benefit of youre freinds william cant you and your freind jesse write nothing except those insipid limericks and cinquains felicia teased. hey how about giving us a brake and trying another form of poetry this year
Vocab: insipid
Students read Johnny Tremain and worked on their Lit. Devices assignment.
We then played a game to practice Stems List #1.
Homework:
Study vocab (Weeks 1-3, BTales, and Harbinger) and Stems List #1.
Harbinger test on Thursday.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Week of Oct. 17
Monday
Handout: Apostrophes study guide (orange)
Handout: Johnny Tremain Literary Devices assignment (due when we finish the book)
We reviewed the rules for apostrophes, and then worked on a reading comprehension/grammar packet based on "The Moustache" short story.
I collected the packet.
Homework:
Study vocab (incl. BTales and Harbinger)
Handout: Apostrophes study guide (orange)
Handout: Johnny Tremain Literary Devices assignment (due when we finish the book)
We reviewed the rules for apostrophes, and then worked on a reading comprehension/grammar packet based on "The Moustache" short story.
I collected the packet.
Homework:
Study vocab (incl. BTales and Harbinger)
Week of Oct. 10
Friday
We stretched our brains by engaging in deductive reasoning and critical thinking exercises.
Homework:
Read!
Thursday
BTales #11
its working. you haven't lost youre touch william. you you can still affect and discombobulate some of the teachers and last year in fact you recited cinquains which had an even grater effect on the teachers than the limericks. are you going to go back to limericks this year.
Vocab: discombobulate
Students read the novel and completed six of eight responses to what they read.
Homework:
Study vocab
Wednesday
BTales #10
first her tongue protruded slightly and next she froze in place for less then 3 seconds. this wasnt nothing new. sam sagacious glanced at the teacher puthis book in his backpack and laughed
Vocab: protruded, sagacious
Students then had time to read in class.
Homework:
Study vocab
Tuesday
Ms. Ronemous had a sub.
Students read the short story "The Moustache" and responded to questions about it.
Homework:
Finish packet
Monday
No School - Fall Break Day
We stretched our brains by engaging in deductive reasoning and critical thinking exercises.
Homework:
Read!
Thursday
BTales #11
its working. you haven't lost youre touch william. you you can still affect and discombobulate some of the teachers and last year in fact you recited cinquains which had an even grater effect on the teachers than the limericks. are you going to go back to limericks this year.
Vocab: discombobulate
Students read the novel and completed six of eight responses to what they read.
Homework:
Study vocab
Wednesday
BTales #10
first her tongue protruded slightly and next she froze in place for less then 3 seconds. this wasnt nothing new. sam sagacious glanced at the teacher puthis book in his backpack and laughed
Vocab: protruded, sagacious
Students then had time to read in class.
Homework:
Study vocab
Tuesday
Ms. Ronemous had a sub.
Students read the short story "The Moustache" and responded to questions about it.
Homework:
Finish packet
Monday
No School - Fall Break Day
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Week of Oct. 3
Friday
Students competed to find the culprit and weapon in the Kitchan Calamity crossword. Congrats to Matt for being the first to solve the puzzle!
They then engaged in deductive thinking exercises and creative writing prompts to stretch their mental capabilities.
Homework:
Read and review vocab
Thursday
Students took the Week 2 vocab Words in Context quiz.
Afterwards, they read and made notes on the novel.
Homework:
Read
Wednesday
BTales #8
since his joke had fallen flat and noone had laughed william waggish regaled his friends with a knew limerick aboiut girls that wear green. brown faced with expressive dark pupils williams composition of mischievous poems to hide his real aspiration to be as eloquent a poet as his secret hero langston hughes
Vocab: regaled, eloquent, mischievous
We checked the Harbinger vocab words and definitions (orange sheet) and practiced the song.
Students used adjectives to describe a picture, then read an article on the person in the picture. Based on the reading, they had to decide which adjectives to keep (with justification from the text) and which adjectives to add (with justification from the text).
They then, individually, had to write a paragraph using the Ways to Elaborate we have been working on (today we added Cause and Effect, Compare/Contrast, and narrative from others' experiences).
Homework:
Finish the paragraph. The paragraph and one picture per group (remember to add members' names) with adjectives added and justified due Friday at the start of class.
Review Week 2 vocab - words in context quiz tomorrow.
Tuesday
BTales #7
the last member of the troup sam sagacious simply stood wisely and mutely as he waited for the clamor to die down. he held a huge heavy book nortons anthology of poetry in his hand and pretended to read it but he really was watching alessandra amorous who he liked
Vocab: sagacious, mutely, clamor
We continued with ways to elaborate, and in groups wrote a paragraph using the techniques.
Homework:
WordSmart 2x and graph the results
Monday
New vocab handout: Harbinger
We learned five ways to elaborate, ways of improving our writing, and took notes in our Lit. Elements notebooks.
Homework:
Complete vocab match-up.
Review vocab from Week 2 - quiz this week.
Students competed to find the culprit and weapon in the Kitchan Calamity crossword. Congrats to Matt for being the first to solve the puzzle!
They then engaged in deductive thinking exercises and creative writing prompts to stretch their mental capabilities.
Homework:
Read and review vocab
Thursday
Students took the Week 2 vocab Words in Context quiz.
Afterwards, they read and made notes on the novel.
Homework:
Read
Wednesday
BTales #8
since his joke had fallen flat and noone had laughed william waggish regaled his friends with a knew limerick aboiut girls that wear green. brown faced with expressive dark pupils williams composition of mischievous poems to hide his real aspiration to be as eloquent a poet as his secret hero langston hughes
Vocab: regaled, eloquent, mischievous
We checked the Harbinger vocab words and definitions (orange sheet) and practiced the song.
Students used adjectives to describe a picture, then read an article on the person in the picture. Based on the reading, they had to decide which adjectives to keep (with justification from the text) and which adjectives to add (with justification from the text).
They then, individually, had to write a paragraph using the Ways to Elaborate we have been working on (today we added Cause and Effect, Compare/Contrast, and narrative from others' experiences).
Homework:
Finish the paragraph. The paragraph and one picture per group (remember to add members' names) with adjectives added and justified due Friday at the start of class.
Review Week 2 vocab - words in context quiz tomorrow.
Tuesday
BTales #7
the last member of the troup sam sagacious simply stood wisely and mutely as he waited for the clamor to die down. he held a huge heavy book nortons anthology of poetry in his hand and pretended to read it but he really was watching alessandra amorous who he liked
Vocab: sagacious, mutely, clamor
We continued with ways to elaborate, and in groups wrote a paragraph using the techniques.
Homework:
WordSmart 2x and graph the results
Monday
New vocab handout: Harbinger
We learned five ways to elaborate, ways of improving our writing, and took notes in our Lit. Elements notebooks.
Homework:
Complete vocab match-up.
Review vocab from Week 2 - quiz this week.
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