Week of 2/13: CMT prep and conferencing; team day Wednesday
Monday: Finish essays from last week in class, begin discussion of expository essay conferencing and CMT review
Homework: Pick an expository essay topic and plan in journal - clear thesis and three preview points (ideas + few possible details).
Tuesday: Begin conferencing and CMT review
Homework: Write a possible hook and ONE body paragraph for your expository essay (one you planned Monday night) in your journal. Due for class on Wednesday.
Wednesday: TEAM DAY!
Homework: see Tuesday
Thursday: share and peer check paragraphs and hooks; continue conferencing and CMT review
Homework: None
Friday: RAK project in-class share
Homework: none - have a wonderful and safe February break!
SUPER BOWL TREAT! RAK PROJECTS MAY BE TURNED IN 2/7 WITH NO ADDITIONAL PENALTY. I WILL ACCEPT MONDAY OR TUESDAY.
Week of 2/6: RRS 2 of third quarter, finish novel and readings, RAK project due Monday OR Tuesday, wrap up RAK unit with in class essay Wednesday and Thursday
Monday: Collect projects, continue novel
HW: RRS 2 due Friday
Tuesday: Finish novel and discuss; collect additional projects
HW: RRS 2 due Friday
Wednesday: Read poem and discuss themes/characters of unit - essay topic and graphic organizer
HW: RRS 2 due Friday
Thursday: in-class unit essay
HW: RRS 2 due tomorrow
Friday: continue essay and turn in
HW: None
Week of 1/30: No RRS, continue Tunes vocab/expository writing & Quest #2 on Friday, continue novel; RAK PROJECT DUE MONDAY 2/6
Monday: IN LIBRARY ALL CLASSES - BRING EVERYTHING TO TYPE ESSAY; Return RRS 3-2
HW: study for vocab quiz Friday (also will be quizzed on structure of expository essay); final copy of expository essay with all requirements due on Thursday
Tuesday: Return first vocab quest, discuss reading from last Friday and continue novel
HW: study for vocab quiz Friday (also will be quizzed on structure of expository essay); final copy of expository essay with all requirements due on Thursday
Wednesday: essay organization time and continue novel
HW: quiz Friday; essay due tomorrow
Thursday: collect essays, continue novel
HW: study for quiz tomorrow: second half of Tunes list and expository essay structure
Friday: vocab and expository essay structure quest; continue novel
HW: RAK PROJECT DUE MONDAY!
Week of 1/23: RRS 1 of the 3rd quarter, continue novel and expository writing, VOCAB QUEST WEDNESDAY!!! REMINDER THAT YOUR PROJECT IS DUE 2/6!
Monday: RRS 1 - TOW: tone; continue expository essays with body paragraph ideas, continue novel
HW: RRS and study vocab
Tuesday: review for vocab quiz, continue body paragraph organizers, continue novel
HW: RRS and study vocab
Wedneday: vocab quiz and concluding paragraph - Mrs. Lareau's final essay; novel if time
HW: RRS due Friday
Thursday: expository essay typing in library or computer lab
HW: RRS due tomorrow
Friday: RRS collection; novel reading and written reflection
HW: None, but vocab quiz on next group of words will be Wednesday, 2/1
Week of 1/16: Continue grammar, start expository writing, and note there will be a vocab quiz on first 18 words of novel on Wednesday, 1/25
Monday: no school
Tuesday: return/review comma quiz, begin semi-colons and colons, distrubute novel vocabulary, start novel
HW: semi-colon, colon, and dialogue packet AND bring in one small object that represents your identity or who you are in some way (should be smaller than a shoebox)
Wednesday: review packet, start identity assignment, and continue novel
HW: do hook/lead of each type for your object using the provided packet
Thursday: continue with identity essay and novel
HW: fill out organizer given in class - use my example on back to help!
Friday: share organizers and continue novel
HW: none, but you have a vocab quiz Wednesday AND your identity artifact essay will be due at the end of the week, so work on either of those if you want to!
Week of 1/9: COMMA QUIZ NOW TUESDAY (TOMORROW) 1/10 AS ANNOUNCED LAST WEEK IN CLASS SO YOU WON'T HAVE TWO QUIZZES FOR WEDNESDAY.
Homework for the week: Study for comma quiz and RRS3 (due Friday)
In class, we will be finishing commas and doing pre-readings and case studies for the novel we should be starting by Friday.
Week of 1/3: Commas and begin Random Act of Kindness Unit; there will be a comma quest on Wednesday, 1/11, on all rules in the comma packet
Monday: no school
Tuesday HW: do assigned comma sentences from comma packet
Wednesday HW: finish comma packet
Thursday HW: journal free write (to be assigned in class) and comma sheet
Friday HW: none
Week of 12/12: Finish traditional literature assessment, start allegory
Monday: Traditional Literature in-class story reading and analysis; return vocabulary pieces and confer/put in folder
HW: Final copy of Nature's Classroom essay due tomorrow - fully assembled as shown on directions on rubric!
Tuesday: turn in NC piece, finish reflection of Vocab piece, start vocab for allegory in groups
HW: Finish vocab; vocab and allegory assessment will be Tuesday, 12/20.
Wednesday: Review vocab and begin reading story
HW: Reading questions in journal about story so far
Thursday: Share responses/finish reading story and begin activities
HW: Story-related text connections
Friday: Continue story discussion/response
HW: None
Week of 12/5: Continue traditional literature; no RRS this week; QUIZ FRIDAY (SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS)
ROUGH DRAFT OF NATURE CLASSROOM WRITING PIECE DUE WEDNESDAY - USE ABSTRACT NOUN SHEET TO HELP!
quiz Friday on terms of the units - study the following sheets: Traditional Literature handout (whole sheet), Irony handout, point of view handout, and conflict handout
Week of 11/28: continue traditional literature and RRS 2 of the second marking period due Friday, 12/2.