Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The Week of May 23

Monday- Caught Ya, read chapter 8 of The Outsiders in a group, and finish interjections.

Tuesday- Read out loud, go over interjections, present glogs, and begin preposition practice. HW- preposition practice

Wednesday- Silent reading chapter 9 of The Outsiders, caught ya, conjunction practice, and begin song in group. HW- chapter 9 due Thursday.

Thursday- Quiz over 7-9, finish song and present, go over conjunctions, silent read chapter 10.

Friday- Quiz over prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections, discussion questions over chapter 10.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Week of May 16

Monday- Read out loud, Caught Ya, go over discussion questions in groups, and brainstorm attributes of heroes.

Tuesday- Silent reading- The Outsiders chapter 7, practice prepositions, explain inferences, and go over 2 inferences in chapter 7. Finish brainstorm on heroes.

Wednesday- Read out loud, Caught ya, begin Glogster assignment on heroes

Thursday- work on Glogster assignment, when done work on interjection and conjunction exercises

Friday- Finish Glogster assignment and present to class.


Thursday, May 5, 2011

Week of May 9

Monday- Read Out Loud, Pronoun review, silent reading for chapter 5 of The Outsiders. Wanted Poster is due today.

Tuesday- Pronoun quiz, "Nothing Gold Can Stay"- go over poem, and work on a response to a student writing sample.

Wednesday- Read Out Loud, Caught Ya, Preposition PowerPoint, introduce friendly letter (like Soda wrote to Ponyboy). Get address, envelope, and stamp from home. Letter is due Friday.

Thursday- Silent reading- chapter 6, work on prepositions, and work on letter.

Friday- Read Out Loud, Caught Ya, CPS quiz over chapters 4-6, and discussion questions over chapter 6. The letter is due today.


Week of May 2

Monday- Read Out Loud, Caught Ya, work on analogies, and read chapter three of The Outsiders.
Tuesday- Silent reading, Caught Ya, go over adverb test, and explain pronouns (PowerPoint)
Wednesday- Read Out Loud, Caught Ya, CPS quiz over chapters 1-3 in The Outsiders, journal entry on two quotes from chapter three- choose one to write about.
Thursday- Caught Ya, analogy quiz, silent reading, pronoun practice (due Friday), and introduce Wanted Poster for either Johnny or Ponyboy in The Outsiders (due Monday).
Friday- Read Out Loud, Caught Ya, go over pronoun practice, identity activity, finish chapter 4 and begin chapter 5 in The Outsiders.