Distribute letter to parents about Museum of Tolerance.

Finish Anne Frank Biography.

Start The Diary of Anne Frank on page 447 in The Language of Literature.

Homework and key dates: Pick a book to read and fill out a book form by 11/2 for 10 points.
11/6 Museum of Tolerance
11/21 Completed book report due.

Anne Frank

Every student will be issued post-it-notes. On post-it notes labeled "K," list what you know about World War II, the Holocaust, and Anne Frank. On post-it notes labeled "W," list what you would like to know. As you view the video write what you learned on post-it notes labeled, "L."



View Anne Frank Biography video.




Homework and dates to remember:
Earn a ribbon on all four StudyIsland assignments.
Pick a book by the end of the week. Book report due 11/23.
Make up testing 10/31 before or after school, lunch or nutrition.
Museum of Tolerance 11/6

More Assessment

Take the assessment

Homework:Pick a book to read and stop by study island

District Mandated Periodic Assessment

Take the assessment

Read this article, "Riordan backs Carson charter school," in the Daily Breeze in which Carnegie students and parents are quoted.

So this guy was driving down a country road to his brother's house when he accidently hit a pig. He tried to rationalize simply driving on, but thought better of it and called the police. The dispatcher told him that he'd have to pay $300 fine and to wait for a police officer to arrive. He decided that $300 was too much money to pay for hitting a pig, so he didn't wait for the officer and drove on to his brother's house....

Homework: Choose a book to read.

Finish Heritage Wheels (again)

Distribute progress reports

Finish Heritage Wheels

Three individuals known for their naivete were taking a walk in the country when they came upon a line of tracks.

The first naive man said, "Those must be deer tracks!"

The second naive man said, "No, stupid, anyone can tell those are rabbit tracks!"

The third naive man said, "No, you idiots, those are horse tracks!"

They where still arguing ten minutes later when a ...

Homework:

Finish Wheel; Ineptitude Joke

Complete the Heritage Wheel.


This is an example of ineptitude.

A guy walks into work, and both of his ears are all bandaged up. The boss says, "What happened to your ears?"

He says, "Yesterday I was ironing a shirt when the phone rang and shhh! I accidentally answered the iron."

The boss says, "Well, that explains one ear, but what happened to your other ear?"

...

Homework:

Heritage Wheel

Quick Write: Write about how you can improve your grade in this class. Think about class work, study habits, and homework as you write.

Complete the Heritage Wheel.

Vocabulary Mastery Test

Take Vocabulary Mastery Test



Homework: Complete this organizer for "Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" and "Block Party"--due Monday.

Test moved to Friday!

Complete this organizer for "Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" and "Block Party."

Review Heritage Wheel Rubric

Review vocabulary worksheet.


Homework: Beautify one word chart. Review vocabulary worksheet at home. Study for Friday's Vocabulary Test.

PSAT Day

Complete this organizer for "Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" and "Block Party."

Review Heritage Wheel Rubric

Review vocabulary worksheet.


Homework: Beautify one word chart. Review vocabulary worksheet at home. Study for Thursday's Vocabulary Test.

Finish Heritage Organizer; Start Heritage Wheel

Write some paragraphs about your own heritage, background, culture, and beliefs. Consider things like food, religion, and holidays as you write.

Complete this organizer for "Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" and "Block Party."



Homework: Beautify one word chart. Start vocabulary worksheet at home. Study for Thursday's Vocabulary Test.

New procedures

Review new classroom procedures:

Copy agenda and homework immediately after taking your seat.

Do the first activity

Review PSAT

Complete this organizer for "Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" and "Block Party."

Word slides 4-6

Word slides 1-3

Homework: Extra Credit for creative displays on word charts

Review Psat

Review PSAT

Complete this organizer for "Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" and "Block Party."

Word slides 4-6

Word slides 1-3

Homework: Extra Credit for creative displays on word charts

Progress Monitoring Test

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.

The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.

The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.

Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human, it was physically impossible.

The little girl said, "When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah".

The teacher asked, "What if Jonah went to hell?"

The little girl replied, "Then you ask him".


Take test.

Complete graphic organizers.




Homework: Put some creativity into one of the three word charts. Extra Creativity points will be awarded for creative sentences and pictures.

Start organizers for "Block Party" and "Summer of the Beautiful White Horse"

Complete this organizer for "Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" and "Block Party."

Word slides 4-6

Word slides 1-3

Homework: Study for Thursday's test on spelling of this unit's words, commas, underlining, quotation marks, setting, theme, character, dialogue, plot, "Summer of the Beautiful White Horse," "The Great Rat Hunt," and "Block Party."

Finish story time

Complete proportional/analogy word chart.

Finish "Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" and "Block Party."

More on our Crazy English Language

There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?

One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? Is it an odd, or an end?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?

Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.

That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

P.S. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?

Homework: Study for Thursday's test on spelling of this unit's words, commas, underlining, quotation marks, setting, theme, character, dialogue, plot, "Summer of the Beautiful White Horse," "The Great Rat Hunt," and "Block Party."

naivete/syndrome word chart

Complete naivete/syndrome word chart.

Read and discuss "Summer of the Beautiful White Horse."

Read "Block Party."

Homework: Read "Block Party."

Finally another word chart

Collect all heritage organizers.

Finish and collect word form chart.

Start naivete word chart.

Read "Summer of the Beautiful White Horse."

Homework:

Culture, heritage, attitudes, and traditions

Do exercise about underlining and quotation marks.

Complete culture, heritage, attitudes, and traditions organizer
for "The Great Rat Hunt."


Homework: Read "Summer of the Beautiful White Horse."

Noun 1. xanthosis - an abnormal yellow discoloration of the skin

Italics or Quotation Marks

Do exercise to fill in the thesis statement and two topic sentences.

Discuss thesis and topic sentences.

Do exercise about underlining and quotation marks on page 558 in Writing and Skills.

Write each of the following sentences. Use quotation marks or underlining wherever they are required.

1. Do you like stories like The Lady, or the Tiger which leave the reader up in the air?

2. Rosa must memorize This Land Is Your Land; This Land is My Land for our program on folk music.

3. Who's responsible for the saying: It's Greek to me?

4. The first daily comic strip, called Mr. Mutt, began in 1907 in the San Fransisco Chronicle.

5. Hard work and integrity, the speaker commented, have always marked this nation's progress.

6. My grandfather has a copy of the Tribune issue that announced the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

7. I learned to make this flute from a pamphlet called Make Your Own Musical Instruments.

8. Did you know that Theresea's short story will be in the May issue of Creative Writer, the magazine we get at school?

9. Dad got the whole family tickets for the musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

10. One of my favorite television programs, Nova, is broadcast on PBS.

Complete culture, heritage, attitudes, and traditions organizer for "The Great Rat Hunt."

Make sure you have turned in the following.

Questions 1 -7 about "The Great Rat Hunt" on page 115.

Vocabulary on page 116.

Paragraphs about three funny things in "The Great Rat Hunt."

Three facts about Lawrence Yep.

Finish "The Great Rat Hunt"

Finish the questions and vocabulary at the end of the story. Finish finding three humorous things in the story. All work will be collected within 14 minutes. If you finish start reading "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse."

Return recurring theme essays.

Do exercise to fill in the thesis statement and two topic sentences.

Discuss thesis and topic sentences.

Do exercise about underlining and quotation marks.

Complete culture, heritage, attitudes, and traditions organizer for "The Great Rat Hunt."



Homework: Read "Summer of the Beautiful White Horse."

The Great Rat Hunt

We will be learning about three different types of humor in literature: humor in situations, dialogue, and action. Describe humorous dialogue, situations, or actions in your life. Explain why they are funny.

Reasons Why The English Language Is Hard To Learn:

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
present the present.

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.

19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?



Read "The Great Rat Hunt."



Homework: Find 3 facts about Laurence Yep and write them down in complete sentences.
Write down your sources.