• Students completed vocabulary for December
• Students began reading December in The Wednesday Wars
• We added to our Character Keys and Figurative Language Logs

•  None!

 

 

 

 

DEADLINE FOR ESSAY EXTENDED! Due at the end of the period on Wednesday 4/2

 

• Students continued to complete the essay outline using their research
• Students checked in with Ms. R. after finishing their outlines
• Students began completing their final drafts, using their outlines and rubric as guides

• Print RL #14- read 20 minutes and complete 2 boxes

• Students continued to complete the essay outline using their research

• RL#13 is due neat, signed, and thoughtfully complete

• Students continued to complete the essay outline using their research

• Read for 20 minutes and complete 2 boxes on RL#13

• Students completed StudySync mini lessons on the following topics
  • thesis statement
  • supporting detail

• Read for 20 minutes and complete 2 boxes on RL#13 (distributed in class)

 

No Homework Night- Enjoy!

 

Reminders:

• We completed a close read and annotation of Celebrities as Heroes on StudySync

• Print RL #12 + complete 2 boxes
• Freedom Walkers  books due on Thursday
• Prepare your binder for Binder Check #3 on Thursday

• We completed our first read of Celebrities as Heroes on StudySync

•  RL#11 due: signed, neat, and thoughtfully complete
• Make sure that you have completed and submitted "Lift Every Voice and Sing" on StudySync (assigned the week before break)

• We began a first read of Celebrities as Heroes on StudySync

• Read for 20 min and complete 2 boxes on RL#11
• Make sure that you have completed and submitted "Lift Every Voice and Sing" on StudySync (assigned the week before break)

 

 

• Go over ch. 4 vocab
• Read ch. 4
• VIP passages activity

• Read 20 min (no RL this week)

• We completed a graphic organizer on the women profiled in Ch.1-3
• Students completed WN #10, using their completed graphic organizers
• Students who finished early completed ch. 4 Frayer cards

• None!

• We completed WN 39: Jo Ann Robinson
• We began making Frayer Model note cards for Ch. 1 vocabulary words

• RL# 10- read 20 minutes and complete 2 boxes
• Binder Check 2- Trimester 2 (Binder Check will occur on TOMORROW 3/1)

• We completed our second read of The Story Behind the Bus
• Students participated in small group and whole group discussions based on their annotation of the text
• Students checked out copies of our new text,Freedom Walkers, from the MIS library

• Print RL# 9- read 20 minutes and complete 2 boxes

• We introduced the next article in our Heroes unit: The Story Behind the Bus
• Students completed some background research on Plessy vs. Ferguson using the 4 links posted to Ms. Rieder's edlio page. We will discuss our research findings in class tomorrow

• Print RL# 8- read 20 minutes and complete 2 boxes

• We completed the Close Read of Rosa Parks: My Story
  • We double checked our notes and annotations
  • We participated in a class discussion based on focus questions, using our notes to support our claims with evidence

• Complete RL#7: make sure that it is neat, signed, and complete

• We completed a mini lesson on Connotation vs. Denotation
• We used the information we learned form the mini lesson as we continued our discussion on Rosa Parks: My Story 

• Print RL-7: Read 20 minutes and complete 2 boxes
• Make sure that your Rosa Parks: My Story questions and WN #6 are completed 

• We previewed and completed the first read of an excerpt from Rosa Parks: My Story

• Print RL-6: Read 20 minutes and complete 2 boxes

 

 

Sentence types: declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative

Simple and compound sentences

Subject, predicate

Fragments and run-ons

• We continued drafting our memoirs

• Work on memoir
• Reminder: Open note grammar quiz on Thursday

 

 

Reminder: Open note grammar quiz on Thursday

Sentence types: declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative

Simple and compound sentences

Subject, predicate

Fragments and run-ons

 

• We handed in our "Letters to Self"
• We participated in a gallery walk of Yellow Ribbon writing pieces composed by students
• We continued discussing Yellow Ribbon Week themes, reading an article on how not to be a bystander (posted in POSTS)
• Students completed a writer's notebook in response to the bystander article

• Fragments and Run-Ons worksheet

• Complete and PRINT "letter to self"
  • 2 paragraphs (6 sentence minimum per paragraph)
  • typed
  • 12 pt., Times New Roman font
  • double space

• We stamped and corrected last night's grammar HW
• We began an activity using our childhood photos

• Grammar work 
  • pg. 57-58: Write F for fragment. If the sentence is complete, write it out and  underline the complete subject and complete predicate.
  • pg. 59-60: Only write "R" for run ons. Do not do Exercise 2

 

• We completed WN#2- Winter Break, Break it Down
• We shared our writing

• Print RL- 5
• Read 20 minutes and complete 2 boxes 
• Completed RL-5 due FRIDAY

• Students worked on their Hatchet Survival Pamphlet project in groups (deadline moved to  FRIDAY, December 8)

• Continue working on your Trimester 1 book project (due Friday, December 8)

• Students worked on their Hatchet Survival Pamphlet project in groups (due at the end of class Thursday, December 7)

• Continue working on your Trimester 1 book project (due Friday, December 8)

• Students worked on their Hatchet Survival Pamphlet project in groups (due at the end of class Thursday, December 7)

• Continue working on your Trimester 1 book project (due Friday, December 8)

• We continued the following lesson from yesterday:
  • We completed a close read of Sandra Cisneros' short story, Eleven
    • After the close read, Students completed mini lessons about the story using chrome- books and their online textbook
• We went over the options for Trimester 1 book projects

• Choose your book project
• Print out the sheet for the project you choose (bring to class TOMORROW!)

 

REMINDER: Your outside reading book for trimester 1 should be read by Monday, November 27

• We completed an activity where we compared Brian from Hatchet to Jackie Robinson, from I Never had it Made
• We continues reading Ch. 16 of Hatchet

• Read 20 minutes (no reading log this week)
• There will be a quiz on the ACE method (Answer, Cite, Explain) on Thursday. We will prepare in class.

REMINDER: Your outside reading book for trimester 1 should be read by Monday, November 27

 

• We completed an ACE question for Chapter 8 of Hatchet
• We continued reading chapters 9-10 of Hatchet.

• We continued our discussion about I Never Had it Made, an excerpt from Jackie Robinson's autobiography
• We set up our vocab sheet for chapters 8-12 of Hatchet
• We read chapter 8 in Hatchet

• Read and record 20 minutes on RL #4 
• Complete 2 boxes on RL #4

• RL #3 due tomorrow
  
  • signed
  • neat
  • complete

• Read and record 20 minutes  for RL #3 (due Friday)
• Complete 2 boxes on RL #3 

• We practiced the ACE method on a question from chapter 2 of Hatchet
• We continued reading chapters 4-5 of Hatchet.
• We began recording CH 4-7 vocab (stored in current unit section of LA binder)

• Read and record 20 minutes  for RL #3
• Complete 2 boxes on RL #3 

• RL #2 is due tomorrow!
  • Neat
  • Complete
  • Signed by parent or guardian

• Spend 20 minutes working on RL #2 (due on FRIDAY)

• Spend 20 minutes working on RL #2 (due on FRIDAY)

• Spend 20 minutes working on RL #2 (due on FRIDAY)

READING LOG #1 (45 MINUTES ONLY) IS DUE Tomorrow

READING LOG #1 (45 MINUTES ONLY) IS DUE ON FRIDAY

READING LOG #1 (45 MINUTES ONLY) IS DUE ON FRIDAY

 

 

Choose a book for your LA 6 reading log. It must be

• a novel
• 100+ pages 
• at your reading level

 

Choose a book for your LA 6 reading log. It must be

• a novel
• 100+ pages 
• at your reading level

 

              (see below for StudySync login directions)

 

 

 

 

• Bring in a photo of yourself (aged 4-10).  We will be using this photo to inspire a mini memoir :). Make sure you are comfortable writing about the photo and showing it to those who will read your finished piece.

• Bring in a photo of yourself (aged 4-10).  We will be using this photo to inspire a mini memoir :). Make sure you are comfortable writing about the photo and showing it to those who will read your finished piece.