 Jan 30-Feb 3
Monday
Practice Reading STAAR
Watch Facing the Giants
Tuesday
Journal
SAT/DOL
Analogies
Grammar
Read Swallowing Stones: Sticky Notes 11-16 due
Wednesday
Journal
DOL/SAT
Read Swallowing Stones
Pop Quiz
Jan 16-20
Monday: MLK Holiday
Tuesday
Journal: Do we still judge others by race attitude, looks, etc...
DOL Coleman/Concorde
SAT video
Greek and Latin root words
Greek and Latin activity
Grammar pg 16-17 Linking Verbs
Wednesday
Journal: It was a stormy, frigid night...
SAT/DOL
Grammar pg 20-21 Articles and Proper Adjectives
Greek and Latin Activity due
Read Swallowing Stones
Thursday
Journal
DOL due and review
Greek and Latin Quiz
Read Swallowing Stones
Friday
Journal: due
SAT/DOL Quiz
Read Swallowing Stones
Library Activity
Jan 9-13
Monday
Journal
SAT
DOL
Greek and Latin
Greek and Latin Activity
Read Swallowing Stones
Grammar Pgs 52-53
Tuesday
Journal
DOL/SAT
Review Swallowing Stones
Pop Quiz
Read Swallowing Stones
Wednesday
Journal
SAT/DOL
Greek/Latin Activity due
CSCOPE
Read Ch 8-9 (sticky notes)
Thursday
Journal
SAT
DOL Due and Review
Greek and Latin Quiz
Read Swallowing Stones
Grammar
Friday
Journal due
SAT/DOL quiz
Read Swallowing Stones
Grammar
Jan 2-6
Monday Teacher Workday
Tuesday
Journal: I resolve to....
DOL:Poe/Aquarius
SAT: Foible, uncouth, tact, exact...
Swallowing Stones
*Vocabulary Ch 6-8
*Read Ch 6
*Sticky notes
Grammar: Direct Objects pg 50-51
Greek and Latin
Wednesday
Journal: What do you think Michael should do?
SAT/DOL
Grammar: Prepositions (Super Flying Ninja Squirrel)
WB pg 34-35 (Pg 35 is for homework)
Finish Ch 6
Thursday
Journal: Why you we not have "real" conversations with others?
SAT/DOL
DOL due and review
Greek and Latin Quiz
Read Ch 7 Swallwing Stones
Notes over types of questions
Friday
Journal Free Write
SAT/DOL Quiz
Read Swallowing Stones
Grade page 35
Dec 1-19
Reviewing and completing our published books!!!
Nov 14-18
Group Projects due Nov 29th
Monday-Tuesday
Journal:
SAT/DOL The Bet
SAT Video
Computer Lab: Type poems, Compare/Contrast Paper
Work on Freytag Triangles: Historical Fiction and Your Choice
Review CSCOPE
Due Wednesday:
Compare/Contrast (three parts)
Two Freytag Triangles (given out last week)
Wednesday
Journal: After...
SAT/DOL
CSCOPE
Work on Fretags/poems
Thursday
Journal
SAT/DOL
Write stories: Historical fiction/Your choice
Work projects
DOL Due and review
Friday
Journal due
SAT DOL Quiz
Work on stories and projects (due 11-29)
Nov 7-11
Monday
Journal: I'm thankful for...
DOL: Charles
SAT video
Work on Group Project based on The Giver (due Nov 29th) Rules, layout, etc.
Compare and Contrast paper based on The Giver and The Village
Tuesday-Wednesday
Journal
SAT/DOL
Work on poems for published book..
Computer Lab to type:
1. Poems
2. Compare/Contrast Paper
3. Begin working on books
Thursday
Journal:
DOL/SAT
DOL due and review
Poetry packets
CSPCOPE
Friday
Journal
DOL/SAT Quiz
CSCOPE
Work on projects due Nov 29th
Oct 31- Nov 4
Monday-Tuesday
Journal: What would your utopia include?
SAT/DOL: Consider
Go over book report info...due Tuesday, Nov. 8th...no late grades (Under Download page...Book Jackets)
The Village....notes
Wednesday
Journal: Winning....
SAT/DOL
Finish The Village
Begin Compare and Contrast paper
Go over Giver Test
Talk about projects for utopias
Grammar
Thursday
Journal:
SAT/DOL
DOL due and review
Compare and Contrast papers
Grammar
Oct 24-28
Monday
Journal
DOL The Black Death
SAT...no vocab buddy
Computer Lab...Spooky Tales...typed stories due TOMORROW!!!! OCT 25th
Read Library Book
The Giver
Tuesday
Journal
SAT/DOL
Peer Edit Spooky Tales
The Giver
Grammar WB
Wednesday
Journal
DOL/SAT
Giver Test
Thursday
Journal
SAT/DOL
DOL due and review
Spooky Tales in the Library
Friday
Journals due
SAT/DOL quiz
Begin Utopia projects
The Village movie
Oct 17- 21
Monday - Thursday
Journals
DOL The Running Brook of Horror
SAT Video
SAT Vocab Buddy
Listen to The Giver
Giver sticky notes and packets up to Ch 20
Create and Write Spooky Tales
(Type in Comp Lab on Thursday and next Monday...due OCt 25th)
Read Library book have to have read by Oct. 31st
Thursday
Greek and Latin Quiz
DOL due and review
Computer Lab
Friday
DOL/Vocab Quiz
Journals due
Listen to The Giver
Sticky Notes
Giver Packets
Oct 10 - 14
Monday Holiday
Tuesday- Wed
Journal
DOL Tecumseh
Vocab Buddy choose one word, create a Halloween scene, meaningful sentence, word, definition
SAT Video
Giver Packets
Giver Ch 14-17
Diamante
Thursday
Journal
DOL/Vocab Buddy due
Giver Packets
Read Giver
Giver Pop Quiz
Friday
Journals due
SAT Vocab/DOL Quiz
Giver
Oct 3-7
Monday
Journal: Mondays....
DOL Peanuts/Statue
Grammar WB pg 163-164 (Sub. Conjuctions)
Read/listen to The Giver
Cookie Dough Kick-off
Tuesday
Journal:
DOL/SAT video
Read/Listen to The Giver
Giver Activities: Diamante, Hand
Pop Quiz
Giver Questions
Wednesday
Journal
CSCOPE
Thursday
Journal
DOL due and review
Vocab Buddy due
Grammar WB
Read The Giver
Friday
Journals due
DOL/Vocab Quiz
Read The Giver
Giver Questions
Sept 26-30
Monday - Wednesday
Journal: My life...
DOL: Neptune/Desegregration
SAT: deride, benevolent, scrutinize,assail,didactic,
histrionic
Vocab Buddy: choose one word and make a creative presentation, meaningful sentence, definition and word on back
Giver Chapter 5-10
Work on packets
Sticky Notes with questions/statements for each chapter
Wednesday
Grammar pg 51-54
Giver Activity
Success Journals
Thursday
Journal
Giver
DOL due and review
Vocab Buddy due
Friday
Journals due
DOL/Vocab Quiz
Giver
Sept 19-23 POP QUIZ TUESDAY Ch 1-3
Monday- Tuesday
Journal:My mood today is....
SAT words:exasperate, discordant, volatile, distend, fecund, sage, vacuous
DOL: Jesse/Telephone
Vocab Buddy: Use TWO words, create a scene with an animal, write words and definition on the back
Greek and Latin
Animal - creative writing (Giver)
Venn Diagram - comparing our world to the Giver's World
Wednesday
Journal: If I were king or queen....
DOL/SAT
Animal writings due
Venn Diagram
Grammr Book 47-50 Types of Sentences
Thursday'
Journal:
SAT/DOL
Vocab Buddy Due
DOL Due and review
Present Animal Writings
Grammar
Library???
Greek and Latin Quiz
Friday
Journal: due
SAT/DOL quiz
Bring Library book
Giver
Grammar
Sept 12-16
BASKET PROJECT DUE WED SEPT 14
Monday
Journal: What if your life was a lie?
SAT: idyllic, amorous, corroborate, incandescent, decorous, juxtapose
DOL: Tarzan, Johnny Appleseed
Grammar WB pg 71-72 Appositives
Vocab Buddy: Choose one word, define, use in a meaningful sentence, create a scene involving a holiday.
Read THE GIVER
Tuesday
Journal: What makes you apprehensive?
SAT/DOL? Vocab Buddy
Grammar WB Verbs pg 74-75
READ THE GIVER and vocabulary
Wednesday
Journal
BASKETS DUE...no late grades, it is a project
Read THE GIVER and vocabulary
Thursday
Journal:
SAT/DOL
DOL due and review
Vocab Buddy due
Present projects
Read
Friday
Journals due
SAT/Vocab Quiz
READ THE GIVER
Present
Sept 5-9
Monday
Labor Day
Tuesday-Wednesday
Journal: What do you know about myths and legends?
SAT video
DOL Muppets and Lemony
Grammar pg 67
Basket Project...info and read book
Thursday
Journal: A world without color....
DOL due and review
SAT video
Vocab Buddy due
Greek and Latin Quiz
Literary Terms
Friday
Journals due
SAT /DOL Quiz
Literary Terms
Intro to The Giver
Freytag Triangle
August 29- Sept 3
Monday
Journal: If there was a rule I could change....
DOL E. Tower/Labor Day
SAT:
Vocab Buddy: Chose one word, create a scene, write a meaningful sentence on the front, word and definiton on the back
Greek and Latin words
WB (Grammar) pg 63- 64
Tuesday
Journal:
SAT/DOL
Grammar wb pg 64-65 nouns
Switch-a-roo
Short Stories...Freytag for Thank You Ma'am
Wednesday
Journal: If I Could
SAT / DOL
Grammar WB 65-66
Switch-a-roo
Book Fair
Thursday
Journal:
SAT/DOL
DOL due and review
Vocab Buddy due
Grammar
Switch-a-roo
GREEK AND LATIN QUIZ
Friday
Journal due
SAT/Vocab Quiz
Short Stories
Grammar
August 22 - 26
Monday
Welcome!
Go over Class Prcedures
Hand out books and workbooks
Journal: What Are Your Expectations and Goals for the Year?
DOL:
SAT Vocabulary
I'm Nobody poem
Animal in Me poem
Tuesday
Journal: How was your first day of school? Like? Dislikes?
SAt Vocabulary
Assessment: Theme, plot, etc
I'm Nobody poem (analyze, disect...)
Wednesday
Journal:
SAT Vocabulary
Assessment: Theme, plot, symbols, etc
Freytag Triangle
Thursday
Journal
DOL DUE
SAT Video
Animal in Me Poem
Literary Terminology Notes
Grammar: Noun, verbs, pronouns, sentence types, fragments, subject/predicate, etc....
Grammar WB p 61
Friday
Journals are due
SAT/DOL Quiz
Animal in Me Poems cont.....
Recite I'm Nobody
Grammar WB pg 61 (Nouns)
Continue working in Grammar WB
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