Vocabulary Mastery Test

Study for ten minutes.

Return essays and progress reports and discuss them

Take Vocabulary Mastery Test.

Read "from Lincoln a Photobiography" on pages 769-778 and complete the Treatment, Scope, and Organization.

Homework: Finish book and form due Wednesday
Final draft of essay due Wednesday
Next book due 1/7/08

Finally start reading Harriet Tubman

Review Yes-No-Why and Vocabulary Matching Worksheet

Finally start reading "from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" on Pages 756-766 in The Language of Literature.

Complete Treatment, Scope, and Organization comparison chart as you read.


Homework:
Read your book and complete your book report form before 11/21.
Study flash cards alone or with a partner.
Vocabulary Test 11/19

Finish Harriet Tubman

Quick write: Write three sentences using context clues to show the meaning of the following words: wallow, ostentatiously, and jubilation.

pandemonium, remorse, and foreboding

Finish reading "from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" on Pages 756-766 in The Language of Literature.

Complete Treatment, Scope, and Organization comparison chart as you read.

Start Vocabulary Matching Worksheet and Yes-No-Why

Homework:

Read your book and complete your book report form before 11/21.
Study flash cards alone or with a partner.
Vocabulary Test 11/19
Finish Yes-No-Why and Vocabulary Matching Worksheet

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Read "from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad"

Make flash cards for disgruntled, oppression, and inarticulate.

Finish Writers' Workshop.

Read "from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" on Pages 756-766 in The Language of Literature.

Complete Treatment, Scope, and Organization comparison chart as you read.

Homework:

Read your book and complete your book report form before 11/21.
Study flash cards alone or with a partner.
Vocabulary Test 11/19

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Writers' Workshop

Make flash cards for ostentatiously, appalled, and jubilation.

Write a 5-paragraph expository essay about what you have learned during the Anne Frank unit. You may use your textbook as a resource in the classroom.

Have a partner edit your paper and complete the checklist. Consider checker's comments and write final draft on computer or with a pen, skipping lines according to Carnegie Standards for Written Work.

Essay checklist

Homework:

Finish final draft of expository essay.
Read your book and complete your book report form before 11/21.
Study flash cards alone or with a partner.
Vocabulary Test 11/19

Expository essay

Make flash cards for indignantly, zeal, and wallow.

Write a 5-paragraph expository essay about what you have learned during the Anne Frank unit. You may use your textbook as a resource in the classroom.

Outline of sample topic sentences:

Thesis: I learned about the Holocaust, Anne Frank, and Tolerance in English.

2nd Paragraph: First, I learned about the Holocaust.

3rd Paragraph: Second, I learned about Anne Frank.

4th Paragraph: Finally, I learned about tolerance.

Conclusion:...

Essay checklist

Homework:Read your book and complete your book report form before 11/21. Study flash cards alone or with a partner.

Flashcards!

Make flash cards for conspicuous, vile, and loathe.

Write a 5-paragraph expository essay about what you have learned during the Anne Frank unit. You may use your textbook as a resource in the classroom.

Essay checklist

Homework:Read your book and complete your book report form before 11/21.

New word form chart

Long write: Write one paragraph about the trip. Think about the bus ride, Powers Hall, and the park. Write another paragraph about the museum, the exhibits, and the chaperones. Write the last paragraph about what you learned.

Complete word form chart.

Finish Anne Frank.

word form chart

Homework: Read your book. Completed book reports due 11/21.
Study Island.

Museum of Tolerance

Field Trip!

Finish Anne Frank

Quick write: Anne Frank said, "I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are good at heart." Do you agree with that statement? Explain.

Finish 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. Bring book and form in everyday for a stamp and extra points!

11/6 Museum of Tolerance
11/21 Completed book report due. (Therefore, read nightly!)

Reading Comprehension Test

Take Reading Comprehension Test.

Homework: Pick book and read it
Finish any make-up work

More Anne Frank

Continue 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.

Continue The Diary of Anne Frank

Quick write: If you had a chance to meet a Holocaust survivor what questions would you ask him or her? Why?

Continue 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.

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."