Week of September 1-4
Wednesday Sept.2nd- Fill out forms, review rules and expectations, and
discuss curriculum
Thursday Sept. 3rd- Pass out textbooks and do Student Inventory
September 7th-11th
9/8 Read Lean On Me Textbook Do Board questions
9/9 Go over questions Copy notes for Swallowing Stones Begin Reading
9/10 4Sight Tests
9/11 4Sight Tests
September 14th-18th
9/14 Copy vocabulary homing transversing ricochets vulnerable parallel raspy
manslaughter lunge unobstructed accessory Begin reading "And Sarah Laughed"
9/15 Finish "And Sarah Laughed" Copy board questions
9/16 Go over question Read novel "Swallowing Stones" Take home quiz
9/17 Turn in quiz Continue reading "Swallowing Stones" Study for Vocabulary
quiz
9/18 Vocabulary Quiz Continue reading "Swallowing Stones"
September 21st-25th
9/21 Copy vocabulary trajectory cordoned drone methodically impede steep
sacred potpourri veneer gurney Textbook Read "Justin Lebo" Copy board
questions
9/22 Go over questions Textbook read "Starfix" Copy questions
9/23 Go over questions Read "Swallowing Stones"
Sept. 28th-Oct.2nd
9/28 Wrap up Friday's work Begin reading "Barrio Boy"
9/29 Vocabulary Words accommodate awkward metallic scavenge anxiety
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Read "Barrio Boy" and copy board questions
9/30 PSSA Coach Book Get Pg.11 signed and complete Ch.1 for next Wednesday
Oct.7th
Read Swallowing Stones
10/01 Read Swallowing Stones
10/02 Vocabulary Quiz and read Swallowing Stones
Week of October 5th-9th
Monday Vocabulary extend resemble vain humid remote(n) commit quitch
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Read"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" Pgs. 30-39 Do board questions
Tues. Correct board questions Read "Scaffolding" and do board questions
Wed. PSSA Coach Book Ch.1 Due Begin Ch.2
Thurs. Vocab. defs. and quiz
Read Swallowing Stones
Week of October 12th-16th
Monday-Columbus Day No School
Tuesday vocabulary definitions and quiz due Friday
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Read "Neighbors" Textbook Pgs. 78-85 Do board questions
Wednesday-PSSA Coach Book Do Ch.2 complete for homework
Thursday-Read Swallowing Stones Complete Worksheet for homework
Friday- Vocabulary Quiz and read Swallowing Stones
Week of October 19th-23rd
Monday Read "Oliver Hyde's Dishcloth Concert" and do questions
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Tuesday Read "Winter Hibiscus" Questions due on Friday
Wednesday-PSSA Coach Book Complete Chapter 3
Thursday- Read Swallowing Stones
Friday- Vocab.Definitions and Quiz Read Swallowing Stones Begin Swallowing
Stones Chapter Questions Worksheets Due Thursday Oct.29th.
Nov.2nd-6th
Monday-Read Swallowing Stones Copy Vocabulary remorse jostling goatee
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Tuesday- Read Swallowing Stones and copy Board questions=Due Friday
1.What happens to Jenna at the movie theater?
2.Who helps her?
3. What does Michael find out that Darcy did to Amy?
4. How does Darcy break up with Michael?
5. Why do Joe and Michael meet in the baseball park?
6. What does Jenna tell Andrea she wants to do the the killer?
7. Describe the letter from Amy to Jenna?
8. What strange things happen around the Ward house?
9. How does Josh influence the police?
10. Describe the car accident.
11. What is Jenna doing when she helps with her father's closet?
12. Describe the police investigation so far.
Wednesday-PSSA Coach Book Ch.5 Do Chapter 5 Test for homework
Thursday-continue reading Swallowing Stones
Friday- Vocabulary Quiz and finish Swallowing Stones
Week of Nov. 9th-13th
Monday-
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voracious Protestant equilibrium
Read "Tell-Tale Heart Do board questions 1. Whgat is the significance
of the title? 2. What aspect of the old man bothers the narrator the most?
3. What effect does the beating of the old man's heart have on the
narrator? 4. Why does the narrator hear the dead man's heart? 5. Do you
think the police purposely extend their stay ? Explain
Tuesday-Read "Monkey's Paw" Do board questions 1. What is the spell on the
monkey's paw? Who put the spell on it? 2. Do you think the monkey's paw
really moves in Mr. White's hand? 3. What do you notice about the amount of
compensation Maw and Meggins offers? 4. What is the second wish? 5.What is
the third wish?
Wednesday-Veteran's Day No School
Thursday-Swallowing Stones Test Begin 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Friday-Read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Week of November 16th-20th
Monday 4Sight Test
Tuesday 4Sight Test
Wednesday-Parent/Teacher Conferences
Thursday-Read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Friday-Read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Vocabulary-DEFINITIONS AND QUIZ ON MONDAY 11/23/09
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Week of November 21-23
Monday-Vocabulary quiz Read "Duffy's Jacket" and do board questions
1. How does the narrator's mother explain Duffy's being scatterbrained?
2. Why does the narrator's mother and Aunt Elise take the children camping?
3. what is meant by 'a walking memo pad'? 4. What is scrawled on the
bedroom wall? 5. What does the Sentinel of the Woods do when he finds the
children?
Read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Tuesday- Read "The Dinner Party" and do board questions
Finish 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Wednesday Watch 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea movie
THANKSGIVING BREAK
READ RUNNING BROOK OF HORROR
