The next few weeks will pass by quickly with P-T Conferences, PBiS celebrations, Veteran's Day presentations and much more. Please pay careful attention in class so that you are keeping up with your work.
It's a NEW quarter...you are all 'A' students!!! It's up to you to keep it that way. Your teachers are here to support you when you need it.
READING
7TH GRADE READING
Monday:
This will be an outline workday with completed outlines being due on Tuesday at the beginning of class. Some of you may need to work on your outline as homework!
Tuesday:
We will read from Scholastic's Action Magazine today. We will work on cause and effect.
Wednesday:
Students will get their outlines back today and begin working on their rough drafts which will be due on Friday. YOU WILL HAVE ONE CLASS DAY TO WORK ON THIS, THE REMAINDER OF THE ROUGH DRAFT WILL BE TYPED AS HOMEWORK.
Thursday:
We will begin a new novel unit today...title to be announced.
Friday:
Research paper rough drafts are due today at the beginning of class. We will continue with the introduction to our new novel unit.
8TH GRADE READING
Monday:
Students will begin class by reading a poem by Robert Frost. We will then discuss the poems relation to the book, The Outsiders and discuss chapter 5 of the same book. Students will be assigned to write a reflection based on the relationship they see between the poem and the book. They will also begin working on the reading of chapters 6 and 7 which will be due on Wednesday.
Tuesday:
Students will identify to themselves what they consider their best and worst qualities, we will follow this by working in pairs to write BioPoems based on the character, Ponyboy. We will continue our work on the reading of chapters 6 and 7 which will be due tomorrow along with assigned questions.
Wednesday:
Class will begin by reading the displayed tabloid article individually. Students will be assigned small groups to write a tabloid style article about two given situations. We will discuss chapters 6 and 7. Students will begin reading chapters 8 and 9 which will be due on Friday.
Thursday:
Half of the group will share their Tabloid Stories. They will then be given time to work on the reading of chapters 8 and 9 with assigned questions due Friday.
Friday:
We will finish the sharing of Tabloid Stories, discuss chapter 8 and 9, and begin reading chapters 10 and 11 with assigned questions. Chapters 10 and 11 will be due on Monday.
6TH GRADE READING
Monday:
Students will learn and work with vocabulary for the week's story. We will work on partner reading and complete Practice Book page 37.
Tuesday:
Today we read aloud pages 99 - 110 in our reading books. Students will write a newspaper article based on the story we read in class.
Wednesday:
Students will read a short story today that connects to our unit story read on Tuesday using a science theme. We will study words with prefixes and complete practice book page 39.
Thursday:
We will do a fun activity today using a reader's theatre based on a Science Fiction movie.
Friday:
No class today due to PBiS celebrations.
6TH GRADE LANGUAGE-There will be no DOL this week.
Monday;
Students will begin a new vocabulary theme by copying the posted word into their binders, followed by class discussion and the writing of a student friendly definition. We will also begin our study of a new spelling list by reading words aloud, copying them into our planners, and completing Practice Book pages 43. We will talk about characteristics of descriptive writing.
HOMEWORK: Practice book pages 40 and 43; spelling and nouns
Tuesday:
We will add another word to this week's vocabulary theme and complete a Practice Book spelling page with a partner. Next we will work on completing a graphic organizer for descriptive writing.
HOMEWORK: Practice book page 44 and a rough draft for descriptive writing
Wednesday:
Class will begin by copying and defining a third vocabulary word for the week. We will learn about appositives and complete Practice Book page 45 about appositives together.
HOMEWORK: Complete Practice Book page 42 in preparation for the test which will be on THURSDAY this week.
Thursday:
We will add one more vocabulary word to our week's theme today followed by the weekly spelling test. Following the test we will work on rules for titles and quotations.
Friday:
No class today due to PBiS celebrations.
7TH GRADE LANGUAGE-There will be no DOL this week.
Monday:
We will begin a new vocabulary unit today; students will copy the word into their binders and we will develop a student friendly, class definition.
Next, we will discuss simple and compound sentences.
HOMEWORK: Students will be re-doing a worksheet they were previously assigned to get a better grade.
Tuesday:
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Friday:
There will be no class today due to PBiS celebrations.
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