Tammie Quisenberry

Due Tuesdays:  Foldable
Tentative Order of Foldable Lessons:  Lesson 11 – sequence of events, Lesson 12 – order of importance, Lesson 13 – cause and effect, Lesson 14 – unit test, Lesson 15 – compare and contrast, Lesson 16 – problem/solutions

Due Fridays:  Vocabulary Lesson
Lesson 11 due on Nov. 12, Lesson 12 due on Nov. 19, Lesson 13 due on Dec. 3, Lesson 14 due on Dec. 10, and Lesson 15 due on Dec. 16

Due Mondays:  Beginning with Quiz 11 on Monday, November 15, be prepared for a weekly quiz assessing (1) understanding of the week's vocabulary words and (2) ability to read for context clues.

Due Tuesdays:  Foldable
Tentative Order of Foldable Lessons:  Lesson 6 - alliteration, Lesson 7 - personification, Lesson 8 - hyperbole, Lesson 9 - perfect tense verb

Due Fridays:  Vocabulary Lesson
Lesson 6 due on Oct. 15, Lesson 7 due on Oct. 22, Lesson 8 due on Oct. 29, and Lesson 9 due on Nov. 5

Due Mondays:  Beginning with Quiz 6 on Monday, October 18, be prepared for a weekly quiz assessing (1) understanding of the week's vocabulary words and (2) ability to read for context clues.

Due Tuesdays:  Foldable
Tentative Order of Foldable Lessons:  Lesson 1 - compound sentence, Lesson 2 - simile, Lesson 3 - complex sentence, Lesson 4 - adjectival clause, Lesson 5 - metaphor

Due Fridays:  Vocabulary Lesson
Beginning with Lesson 1 due on Sept. 3, Lesson 2 on Sept. 10, Lesson 3 on Sept. 17, Lesson 4 on Sept. 24, Lesson 5 on Oct. 1, and so on.

Due Mondays:  Beginning with Quiz 2 on Monday Sept. 13, be prepared for a weekly quiz assessing (1) understanding of the week's vocabulary words, and (2) ability to read for context clues.

Work with a classmate to write a dialog that might occur between two of the characters described in "Swinging on a Star."  Format it as a script and convince two other of your classmates to act it out for the class.

• Listen to Bing Crosby sing "Swinging on a Star" and be ready to discuss your answer to the following question: 

      Would you like to be better than you are?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rATftJiWdkw&feature=related