| ***These are the supplies students should bring to class everyday:
1) Agenda/Planner
2) Language Arts Binder (Includes: Tabbed section, notebook paper,
3 subject spiral notebook, and red folder)
3) Pencil
4) Pen
***Any unfinished school work will be homework.
Agenda:
*January*
Monday 5th:
No School!
Tuesday 6th:
1) Take 5
2) Expectations Review
3) Vocabulary #9 list
4) Vocabulary #9 Advertisement
Wednesday 7th:
1) Vocabulary #9 Practice
2) Class Spelling Bee
3) Review fomatting techniques- if there is time :)
Thursday 8th:
1) HOG Review
2) HOG worksheet #15
Friday 9th:
1) Vocabulary #9 Test
2) Keyboarding basics
*December*
Monday 15th:
1) Take 5
2) Review for final exam
Tuesday 16th:
1) Preposition worksheets pg.23-24 and pg.6-7
Wednesday 17th:
1) Final exam
Thursday 18th:
1) What is a counter argument?
2) Write your own counter argument
Friday 19th:
1) Agora and BB game
Monday 8th:
1) Take 5
2) Persuasive Essay Prescriptive Guide- complete introduction and 1st body
paragraph
Tuesday 9th:
1) Persuasive Essay Prescriptive Guide- complete 2nd and 3rd body paragraph
Wednesday 10th:
1) Persuasive Essay Prescriptive Guide- complete conclusion
2) Self editing, peer editing, and revising
Thursday 11th:
1) Complete guided notes about prepositions
2) Preposition Paper Airplanes- writing sentences with prepositions
Friday 12th:
1) Preposition written practice pg. 70-73
Monday 1st:
1) Take 5
2) Hot seat board races to review Adverbs and Adjectives
3) Adverb and Adjective written practice pg. 142-143
Tuesday 2nd:
1) Adverbs and Adjectives Test
Wednesday 3rd:
1) All About Persuasive Writing lesson
2) Review Rubric for Persuasive Essay
Thursday 4th:
1) Pros and Cons for three possible topics
2) Pair Share with Pros and Cons
3) Choose topic
Friday 5th:
1) Research in library
*November*
Monday 24th:
1) HOG Quiz #3
Tuesday 25th:
1) Review quiz and other papers
Monday 17th:
1) Take 5
2) Comparative and Superlative Worksheet
3) Vocabulary Review #5-8 Word Scramble
Tuesday 18th:
1) Adverb review worksheet pgs. 62-65
Wednesday 19th:
1) Comparative and Superlative review worksheet pg. 67
Thursday 20th:
1) HOG #10
Friday 21st:
1) Vocabulary Review Test #5-8
2) Receive graded papers
Monday 10th:
1) Take 5
2) Vocabulary #8 list
Tuesday 11th:
1) HOG #8a
Wednesday 12th:
1) Take notes on Superlative and Comparative Adjectives and Adverbs
2) Superlative and Comparative Activity
3) Superlative and Comparative written practice assignment
Thursday 13th:
1) HOG #9
Friday 14th:
1) Vocabulary #8 Test
2) Receive graded papers
Monday 3rd:
1) Take 5
2) Vocabulary #7 list
Tuesday 4th:
1) Adverbs are Flexible notes
2) Adverb Simon Says
3) Adverb assignment
Wednesday 5th:
1) HOG #7
Thursday 6th:
1) Adverb or Adjective notes
2) Adverb or Adjective assignment
Friday 7th:
1) Vocabulary #7 test
2) Receive graded papers and discuss
*October*
Monday 27th:
1) Take 5
2) Simile and metaphor notes
3) Simile and metaphor charades with a twist!
Tuesday 28th:
1) Idiom Practice assignment
2) Hyperbole and personification notes
3) Flippn' Fun with Hyperboles and personification
Wednesday 29th:
1) Simile and metaphor practice assignment
2) Figurative language poem using Watsons Go to Birmingham characters
Thursday 30th:
1) Hyperbole and personification practice assignment
2) Idiom Day! Idiom presentations!
Friday 31st:
No School- Halloween!
Monday 20th:
1) No School- Fall Break!
Tuesday 21st:
1) Take 5
2) Vocabulary #6
Wednesday 22nd:
1) HOG #6
Thursday 24th:
1) Idiom notes
2) Idiom activity
3) Idiom worksheet
Friday 25th:
1) Vocabulary test #6
2) Receive graded papers
Monday 13th:
1) Take 5
2) Discover reflexive and intensive pronouns
3) Practice identifying reflexive and intensive pronouns with HOG #4
Tuesday 14th:
1) Review reflexive and intensive pronouns with HOG #4
2) Practice relfexive and intensive pronouns with a worksheet
Wednesday 15th:
1) HOG Quiz #2
2) Word Winks for fun!
Thursday 16th:
No School
Friday 17th:
No School
***Compare Contrast Essays due A.S.A.P.!!!!
Monday 6th:
1) Take 5
2) Descriptive Activity
3) Four Square brainstorming assignment for descriptive story about a trip
to the stone age
4) Compare/Contrast Essay conferences
Tuesday 7th:
1) Write the rough draft for the descriptive story
Wednesday 8th:
1) Create a name tag for the gathering
2) Peer and group edit rough drafts
Thursday 9th:
1) Write the final drafts for the stories
2) Read and share the stories in small groups
Friday 10th:
1) The Gathering
*September*
***Remember: Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, double spaced, and your heading
in the top right hand corner. If your printer doesn't work, email a copy to
Miss Thompson, or save a copy to a jump drive or CD and bring it to school
so we can print it Monday.
***To double space: Before you start typing, click on Format, click on
Paragraph, click on the Line Spacing drop down box, and choose "double".
Monday 29th:
1) Take 5
2) Vocabulary #5
3) Essays due!
Tuesday 30th:
1) HOG #3 activity- Contractions
Wednesday 1st:
1) Possessive Nouns assignment
Thursday 2nd:
1) HOG #5 activity- Adjectives
Friday 3rd:
1) Vocabulary #5 Test
2) Receive graded papers
Monday 22nd:
1) Take 5
2) Vocab. review #1-4
3) Compare/Contrast lesson
4) Brainstorm for compare/contrast essay
5) Receive rubric for compare/contrast essay
Tuesday 23rd:
1) "Writing Strong Leads" lesson
2) Outline compare/contrast essay
Wednesday 24th:
1) Complete prescriptive guide for compare/contrast essay
2) Begin rough drafts for compare/contrast essay
Thursday 25th:
1) Finish rough drafts for compare/contrast essay
2) Begin the editing and revising stage for compare/contrast essay
Friday 26th:
1) Vocabulary Review Test #1-4
2) Finish editing and revising stage for compare/contrast essay
3) Type compare/contrast drafts at home over the weekend!
***Remember: Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, double spaced, and your heading
in the top right hand corner. If your printer doesn't work, email a copy to
Miss Thompson, or save a copy to a jump drive or CD and bring it to school
so we can print it Monday.
***To double space: Before you start typing, click on Format, click on
Paragraph, click on the Line Spacing drop down box, and choose "double".
Monday 15th:
1) Take 5
2) Vocabulary #4
3) Practice dictionary skills with Mrs. Simer
Tuesday 16th:
1) Plural nouns activity
2) Plural nouns assignment
Wednesday 17th:
1) H.O.G. assessment #1
Thursday 18th:
1) Essay Expectations
Friday 19th:
1) Vocabulary #4 Test
2) Receive graded papers
Monday 8th:
1) Vocabulary #3 activity
Tuesday 9th:
1) HOG #1-a
2) HOG #1-b
Wednesday 10th:
1) HOG #2
Thursday 11th:
1) Review verbs and verb phrases assignment
Friday 12th:
1) Vocabulary #3 Test
2) Receive graded papers
Monday 1st:
1) No School!
Tuesday 2nd:
1) Take 5 opening
2) Vocabulary list #2
3) Vocabulary #2 story assignment
Wednesday 3rd:
1) Sentence fragment notes
2) Forget the fragments puzzle piece assignment
Thursday 4th:
1) Run on sentence notes
2) Roll out the run on's activity
Friday 5th:
1) Vocabulary #2 Test
2) Receive graded papers to discuss and correct
*August*
Monday 25th:
1) Take 5 opening
2) Vocabulary list #1
3) Pantomime activity
Tuesday 26th:
1) Classifying sentences notes
2) Caricature assignment
Wednesday 27th:
1) HOG introduction
2) HOG lesson #1
Thursday 28th:
1) HOG lesson #1 (continued)
2) HOG lesson #2
Friday 29th:
1) Vocabulary test #1
2) Receive graded papers to discuss and correct
Monday 18th:
1) Journal entry
2) Take 5 opening
3) Look at teacher web
4) Pre-test
Tuesday 19th:
1) D.O.L.
2) Subjects and Predicates activity and practice page
Wednesday 20th:
1) Brainstorming activity
2) Constructing complete sentences
Thursday 21st:
1) Grouping sentences, transitions, and constructing paragraphs activity
Friday 22nd:
1) Classifying sentences
2) Caricature art activity
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