The week of December 12

Monday- Hand back The Breadwinner final tests and go over. Work on Christmas projects.

Tuesday- Good things and work on Christmas projects

Wednesday- Caught Ya, review complete sentences, and start presenting Christmas projects.

Thursday- Complete Sentence Assessment and present Christmas projects.

Friday- Read Out Loud, Caught Ya, and finish up any presentations

Homework:

Monday-Tuesday- work on Christmas Project

Wednesday- review complete sentences

Week of December 5

Monday- We will do Read Out Loud, Caught Ya, go over chapters 13-15 in the book, The Breadwinner, do some exercises on verbs and complete sentences, and discuss the Common Assessment over The Breadwinner which will be taken on Wednesday.

Tuesday-We will discuss good things, continue to work on complete sentences and verbs, and go over the Christmas project. The project will be a slideshow on Google Docs over different festivals and holidays celebrated around the world.

Wednesday- We will do Read Out Loud, Caught Ya, and the common assessment over The Breadwinner.

Thursday- We will discuss good things and allow the students to begin working on the Christmas project.

Friday- We will Read Out Loud, Caught Ya, and allow the students to continue working on their project. Students will present the project to the class next week.

Homework:

Monday- Avoiding Run-on sentences sheet

Tuesday- Any late work dealing with The Breadwinner

Wednesday-Friday- None :)

The week of Nov. 21

Monday- We will do Read Out Loud, Caught ya, study our vocabulary words from The Breadwinner, write a letter to Parvana in The Breadwinner, and silent read chapters 7-9 (due tomorrow).

Tuesday- We will go over chapters 7-9 in The Breadwinner, study vocabulary, go over a complete sentences PowerPoint and do a worksheet on sentence fragments. If there's extra time they can start reading chapters 10-12.

Wednesday- We will do Read Out Loud, Caught Ya, we'll take our second vocabulary quiz, hand out new vocabulary and silent read if there's extra time.

Homework-

Monday- chapters 7-9 and questions, study vocab.

Tuesday- study vocab.

Wednesday- read chapters 10-12 due next Wednesday

No school Thursday, Friday, and Monday. Happy Thanksgiving!

Week of November 14

Monday- We will do Read out Loud, Caught Ya, study vocabulary, discuss chapters 1-3 in The Breadwinner, and we'll do an exercise with sentence fragments and run on sentences. They will also get their next reading assignment (chapters 4-6) for The Breadwinner and questions (blue sheet). This is due on Friday.

Tuesday- We will start with silent reading, we'll study our vocabulary (quiz Thursday), and we'll go over a PowerPoint on run on sentences. Students will also get a worksheet on run on sentences.

Wednesday- We will be taking the SRI test (Scholastic Reading Inventory). This test gauges where there reading level is and gives them a lexile score for their result. We determine reading interventions based on the SRI scores. Students will have work time after they finish the test.

Thursday- We will take our vocabulary test, go over pronouns, and read from The Breadwinner. Students will also get new vocabulary words.

Friday- We will do Read Out Loud, Caught Ya Quiz #2- it will cover run on sentences and using commas and conjunctions, we'll discuss chapters 4-6 and will study our new vocab. words. Chapters 7-9 and questions will be due on Tuesday.

Homework-

Monday- study vocab., begin reading 4-6 and do the questions

Tuesday- study vocab., read and questions

Wednesday- study vocab., read and questions

Thursday- make sure 4-6 is read and the questions are done

Friday- Begin reading 7-9 (due Friday), and study new vocab.

The week of Nov. 7

Monday- We will do Read out Loud, Caught Ya, and we'll do an introduction to Afghanistan (the country, the people, what kids do there, and their culture). This is in preparation of reading The Breadwinner- a book we will begin as a class on Thursday.

Tuesday- Students will get their myths handed back to them, they'll take a pre-test on pronouns, and we'll learn some background information on the author of The Breadwinner, Debra Ellis.

Wednesday- We will do Read out Loud, Caught Ya, students will get vocabulary words for The Breadwinner, and we'll do a PowerPoint on pronouns

Thursday- Students will get their own copy of The Breadwinner, we will define who or what is a breadwinner, and students will get questions they'll need to answer over chapters 1-3. Reading chapters 1-3 will be due on Monday. If there's extra time, they will silent read.

Friday- We will do Read out Loud, Caught ya, study vocabulary, and we'll also go over pronouns.

Homework:

Monday- Finish up essay on Alexander the Great (if you haven't already done this)

Thursday- Read The Breadwinner (chapters 1-3 due on Monday), study vocabulary

Friday- Read The Breadwinner, study vocabulary

The week of October 31

Monday- Read out Loud, Caught Ya, go over learning targets for reading, writing, and speaking that we'll cover with this week's lesson (on Alexander the Great). We'll define what greatness is and read some background information on Alexander the Great.

Tuesday- Work with social studies class on the Alexander the Great lesson. We'll work on understanding the question- Is Alexander the Great really great? and we'll be reading through documents that can be used to support either side.

Wednesday- We have library and after that we will look at the documents and pick documents that support whether or not Alexander is great. We will have a debate versus Mrs. Striegle's class on whether Alexander the Great really was great or not- English will always debate that he wasn't, and social studies will always debate that he was.

Thursday- Work with social studies on organizing our ideas on Alexander, creating a thesis, and writing an outline.

Friday- Students will type their essay on Alexander the Great.

Homework-

Monday- Finish the final draft of the myth. It's due Tuesday.

Friday- Finish paper on Alexander the Great

Due to working with social studies on Tuesday and Thursday (our usual SSR days), we will not have a weekly reading report this week.

The week of October 24

Monday- Read out Loud, Caught Ya, share three introductions and pick the best one to start writing your myth with. Make sure rough draft has your exciting intro. and setting included from pre-writing. Also, make sure myth has dialogue, paragraphs, and a good plot line.

Tuesday- Share good news, practice editing and revisions with "Scared Nutty", go through your rough draft and pick a spot to "explode a moment" and elaborate on it. Also check your rough draft for word choice. If done, silent read.

Wednesday- Read out Loud, Caught Ya, and do peer editing for their myth. The final draft of the myth will be due on Tuesday (of next week). Final drafts should be double spaced when typed, or hand written, skipping lines, using black or blue ink. Make sure to include name and hour in the upper right hand corner, and to have a title centered at the top.

No school Thursday and Friday due to parent/teacher conferences Monday and Tuesday from 3:30-8:00. We hope to see you at conferences!

Homework-

Monday- work on rough draft of myth- due Tuesday

Tuesday- work on explode a moment and adding any additional words/phrases to myth

Wednesday- work on final draft of myth- due next Tuesday!