Week of 11/30:  Week at a Glance:  Continue unit on traditional literature (fairy tales, folktales, myths, fables, and legends), RRS #3, no quiz this Friday 12/4, but there will be a larger "quest" on 12/11; no student vocab list this week (but still do RRS vocab!)

Vocabulary for week:  fact, opinion, inference, bias, active reading strategies (class handouts)

TOW:  inference

Monday, 11/30:  Return quizzes/RRS2/discuss/hand out RRS3, student vocabulary of week (handout/ discuss), RW

HW:  Read 20 minutes, do RRS (chart, sentences, weekly vocab)

Tuesday, 12/1:  Quick quiz (fact, opinion, inference), RW:  myths and active reading strategies

HW:  Read 20 minutes, do RRS (chart, sentences, weekly vocab)

Wednesday, 12/2:  Quick quiz (fact, opinion, inference), RW:  myths and active reading strategies

HW:  Read 20 minutes, do RRS (chart, sentences, weekly vocab)

Thursday, 12/3:  Quick quiz (fact, opinion, inference), RW:  legends and active reading strategies

HW:  Read 20 minutes, do RRS (chart, sentences, weekly vocab) - RRS 3 due tomorrow!!!

Friday, 12/4:   Quick quiz (fact, opinion, inference), RW:  legends and active reading strategies

HW:  none

Week of 11/23:  Have fun at Nature's Classroom!  Don't forget your journal and independent reading book!  Check announcements section for information on grades and your binder.  

Week at a Glance:  RRS 2, writing folder set-up, conjunctions, intro to Traditional Literature unit

Monday, 11/16:  Writing folders, zoo pieces/common errors, new RRS, student vocabulary, RW - check for genre; figure out definitions to traditional literature definitions.

HW:   Read 20 minutes, do RRS, look for two vocabulary words for week.   Draw picture for your period's vocab word and quizworthy sentence to explain.

Tuesday, 11/17:  Student vocab,  traditional literature vocab, conjunctions, RW

HW:  Read 20 minutes, do RRS, look for two vocabulary words for week + conjunctions sheet

Wednesday, 11/18:  review conjunctions, practice vocab in groups, RW 

HW:  Read 20 minutes, do RRS, look for two vocabulary words for week, study for quiz

Thursday 11/19:  review conjunctions, RRS check, RW

HW:  Read 20 minutes, do RRS (due tomorrow!), look for two vocabulary words for week + DO QUIZ PRACTICE SHEET to study for quiz on conjunctions, student vocabulary, and traditional literature words.

Friday, 11/20:  RRS 2 due TODAY AT START OF CLASS!!! Quiz on conjunctions + vocab:  traditional literature and student words, read two fables

HW:  Be sure to bring independent reading book (and requirements for journal/English B assignments) to Nature's Classroom!  

Week at a Glance:  RRS is back to English A!  This will be RRS 1 for the 2nd marking period and will be due Friday, 11/13.  The next required genre is anything BUT realistic fiction or non-fiction to tie in with the "Traditional Literature" unit starting 9/16.  That will primarily be your weekly homework for the next three weeks.  We will generate vocabulary Monday.  The other part of the week will be the remaining part of speech:  verbs.  There will be a quiz Friday on verbs as well as words of the week.

 

TOW:  verb  Use it in an RRS sentence like this:  An important verb in this chapter was singing.  Lisa, the main character, was singing a song and her sick friend Ellen found the energy to sing along with her which means she may be getting better.

Monday:   generate vocabulary through dictionary activity, distribute RRS 1, Explain types of verbs/do practice sheets as class

HW:  Read 20 minutes, do RRS, look for two vocabulary words for week

Tuesday:  discuss student vocabulary for the week, continue verbs, reader's workshop with journal response

HW:   Read 20 minutes, do RRS, look for two vocabulary words for week and do four vocab sentences.

Wednesday:  practice vocabulary, continue with verbs, reader's workshop with journal response

HW:  Read 20 minutes, do RRS, look for two vocabulary words for week, do verb sheet (both sides)

Thursday:  continue with verbs, reader's workshop with journal response, review for quiz

HW: read 20 minutes/do RRS, RRS 1 due tomorrow, study for quiz on student vocabulary, who/whom, and verbs, espcially verb packet and pronoun sheet for the who/whom.  Also look at the on line review sheets for verbs.

Friday:  Quiz on student vocabulary, and verbs, journal writing response and writing folder discussion/prep

Week at a glance:  finish out parts of speech unit, journal set-up for English A, and parts of speech quiz on Friday

Monday:   Review preposition/interjection sheet from post-quiz Friday.  Discuss journals and continue parts of speech

HW (for Wednesday):  parts of speech worksheets (prepositions pages in green packet (38,39,40,42,48) and white sheet from after quiz last Friday)  Reminder:  you started working on this after the quiz Friday and you have TWO nights to do it all!
 And don't forget:   ENGLISH A JOURNAL BY WEDNESDAY - DON'T FORGET YOU CAN GET ONE FROM ME FOR $1. This is a HW assignment.  You will be given a bronze slip if you don't produce a journal for use in English A by Wednesday.  From this point on they will stay in the classroom.

Tuesday:  No school for students

HW:  see Monday

Wednesday:  Parts of speech cont./journal response

HW:  parts of speech worksheets

Thursday:  parts of speech cont./journal response

HW:  review for tomorrow's final quiz on parts of speech

Friday:  Parts of speech quiz/journal response

HW:  None 

Week at a glance:  Bronx Zoo narratives (final draft with all parts) due Wednedsay, 10/28.  Class time will be continuing parts of speech unit with quiz on Friday on pronouns, prepositions,  and interjections. Don't forget to get a new journal for English A by Monday, 11/2 - details in announcements section.  Those who want to buy one for $1 can get one from me in ROOM 307.

Monday:  Rough draft re-check and reminder of necessary parts of paper for Wednesday turn-in.  Continue parts of speech with pronouns in green packet.

HW:  Pronoun sheets in packet - pages 85 and 86 - do not do bottom writing assignment on either page!!! /Final Draft of Bronx Zoo Story due Wednesday with all necessary parts

Tuesday:  Rough draft - final peer conference for editing and revising/Review pronoun sheet, continue work in packet (87, 88 (top)

HW:  Worksheets in packet (bottom of 88 and 89 - on page 89, do only 5, not 10 sentences) and remember Zoo story due tomorrow!

Wednesday:  Zoo Story turn in day   

HW: Two packets of pronoun sheets from class

Thursday:  Review/continue work with pronouns and interjections

Homework:  Review all grammar sheets of week for quiz tomorrow

Friday:  Quiz on pronouns (subject, object, indefinite)

HW:  None