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7JH

December 16 - 20

 

REMINDER: YOUR LAST DAY TO HAND IN ANY LATE ASSIGNMENTS IS TUESDAY DECEMBER 17th, OTHERWISE THOSE ASSIGNMENTS BECOME ZEROS (1/x)

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Tuesday:​

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  • Traditional Blackfoot Stories - Final Project 

    • Today is your final day to complete your Short Story Final Project 

    • Your Dodecahedron template must be completed and handed in today, as I need to grade them all before Thursday's class! 

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Thursday: 

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  • For today's class all students will have their final projects handed back to them, along with their grade for it. 

  • Students will then have the time to assemble their dodecahedrons 

  • We will hang them from the ceiling tiles in our room once everyone is finished! 

  • Today we will also have a going away party/relaxing end to our day together, since we won't see each other for very long on Friday! 

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Friday: 

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  • Students will not have regular classes today

December 9 - 13

Tuesday:​

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  • The Following Assignments Should be Completed and Handed in: 

    • "The Hockey Sweater" ​

      • Reading Comprehension ​

      • Compare and Contrast Assignment 

      • Formal Letter 

    • "Zoo"

      • Reading Comprehension ​

      • 50 Word Tweet 

    • "For Pete's Snake" 

      • Reading Comprehension ​

      • Plot Diagram 

    • "All is Calm"

      • Reading Comprehension Booklet ​

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  • For our remaining time together till the Christmas break, students will be working on their final project for our short story unit! 

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  • Traditional Blackfoot Stories - Final Project 

    • For this project, students will be exposed to 4 different traditional Blackfoot stories. Students will also get the opportunity to listen to the stories in Blackfoot! â€‹

    • Students will need to select one out of the four short stories to do their project on, in which they will identify characters, plot elements, and visually represent important moments in the story! 

    • Students will be provided with a handout that details all of the requirements for this project 

    • The final product (dodecahedron) will be assembled on Thursday December 19th and displayed around the classroom! 

    • Students will be introduced to the stories today and listen to them all. Then they will get started on the planning page for their project!

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Thursday: 

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  • Short Story Test 

    • Students will write a Test on the terms and concepts we have covered in our short story unit. ​

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  • Work Time on Final Project 

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Friday: 

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  • Work Time on Final Project 

December 2 - 6

Tuesday:​

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  • 50 Word Retell Tweet 

    • Allow students approximatley 10 minutes to finish their tweets

    • ​Allow students approximately 10 minutes to edit their tweets and have them appraised by a peer in class. This peer should be checking that their partner's work had all the needed story elements incorporated into their tweets. 
    • Once students have checked each other's work, they will transfer their work onto a good copy slip of paper and we will post these on a twitter bulletin board. â€‹

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  • "For Pete's Snake" by Ellen Conford 
    • For the second half of class, students will participate in the following: ​
      • Pre-reading notes/discussion ​
      • Follow along and listen as I read the short story aloud 
      • Reading comprehension questions 
      • Get started on their assignment for this short story, the "Plot Diagram"

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Thursday: 

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  • Plot Diagram - Work Period (1st period)

    • Students will have the first period to complete their plot diagrams for the short story "For Pete's Snake" ​

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  • "All is Calm" by Ann Walsh 

    • For the second half of class, students will participate in the following: ​

      • Pre-reading notes​

      • Individually read the short story 

      • Complete the short story reading comprehension booklet 

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Friday: 

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  • Catch up Period 

    • For today's class, students will have a catch up day, where they must ensure they have all short story assignments completed and handed in. The list of things that need to be handed in are below: ​​

      • "The Hockey Sweater" ​

        • Reading comprehension ​

        • Compare and Contrast Assignment â€‹â€‹

        • Formal Letter

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      • "Zoo"

        • Reading Comprehension ​

        • 50 Word Retell Tweet 

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      • "For Pete's Snake" 

        • Reading Comprehension ​

        • Plot Diagram â€‹â€‹

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      • "All is Calm 

        • Reading comprehension booklet ​

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NOTE: WE WILL HAVE A SHORT STORY TEST ON THURSDAY DECEMBER 12​

November 18 - 22

Tuesday:

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  • EVERYTHING POETRY RELATED IS DUE TODAY:

    • Poetry Portfolio ​

    • Poetry Final Project Part 1 (Google Classroom) - These were all shared back to you on Friday so you could look over your responses to make sure you were 100% confident with your work.

    • Poetry Final Project Part 2 (Mood Collage and Presentation) - Completed collages are due Monday and those of you who have not presented to me will need to do so Tuesday during lunch. 

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  • Short Stories! 

    • Brainstorm short story elements together on the board and identify the key terms that will be used throughout this unit​

    • Allow students time to fill in their short story elements note page 

    • For today's class we will engage in the following:

      • Pre-reading questions ​

      • Individual reading time of the short story, "The Hockey Sweater" by Roch Carrier 

      • Reading Comprehension 

      • Compare and Contrast Assignment - for this activity we will watch the short film adaptation of this short story and compare the two! Students will need to identify the similarities and differences between the two. The video is below

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Thursday: 

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  • Formal Letter - Work Period 

  • Depending on how the work period goes, we will start the next story either later today, or right off the bat tomorrow! 

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Friday: 

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  • For today's class we will cover the following:

    • Pre-reading questions and notes 

    • Read "Zoo" by Edward D. Hoch​ to students 

    • Twitter Tweet Assignment - for this assignment students need to retell the short story, "Zoo" in 50 words or less to create a "tweet" about it. 

    • Reading Comprehension 

    • Next week, students will start on a (very) short story writing assignment where they need to experiment with perspective/point of view shifts in their story. 

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November 18 - 22

Tuesday:

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  • COMPLETED Poetry Portfolios are DUE TODAY

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  • Please bring your acceptable devices to class today!

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  • Today students will be introduced to their Final Project for our Poetry Unit. The project has two components to it. The first is an analysis of a song. Students will be provided with a variety of songs to choose from. They will need to choose one and analyze it using the TPDAT strategy. The analysis portion of this project will be completed through Google Classroom! The second part of the project is for students to create a visual component! Students will consider the mood/tone of the song they chose, and they will need to produce a collage that matches that tone! 

  • Students will be provided with the handout/instructions for this assignment through Google Classroom. The collage will be the only piece of the project that is handed in separately from the Google Classroom document! 

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  • Students will have today's double period to work on the analysis portion of their project. If they finish the analysis portion before the end of the day, they will need to start considering their collage. What types of colours will you try and find? What sort of images could you include to help visually represent the mood of the song you chose?

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  • Students should be completed the analysis portion of their final project by the end of today's double period. If it is not completed by the end of class today, it is now for homework, and must be completed and submitted onto Google Classroom by Monday November 25th at 3:00pm.

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Thursday: 

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  • Final Project - Collage Work Period 

  • Students should have the analysis done for the song of their choosing. Now, they must use the materials provided to them in order to create their collages! Guidelines will be put on the board for students to refer back to during their work time. 

  • Collages should be completed at the end of this double period! 

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Friday: 

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  • For today's class students will share their collages with the class. Instead of having students write a description of their collages, they will just have to give a brief explanation verbally to the class! For this oral component of the collage, students will need to explain why they chose the colours and images that they did and why they thought these elements would accurately match the tone of their song! 

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  • NOTE: 

    • EVERYTHING POETRY RELATED IS DUE MONDAY​ NOVEMBER 25th 

      • Poetry Portfolio ​

      • Poetry Final Project Part 1 (Google Classroom) - These have all been shared back to you so you can look over your responses and make sure you have done your best work

      • Poetry Final Project Part 2 (Mood Collage and Presentation) - Completed collages are due Monday and those of you who have not presented to me will need to do so Monday during lunch. 

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November 11 - 15

Tuesday:

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  • NO SCHOOL â€‹

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Thursday: 

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  • Poetry Portfolios 

  • Students will get 20 minutes to finalize their portfolios! Students were provided last week with a rubric that their poetry portfolio pages will be graded on. Overall written work, conventions, requirements, and presentation will all be graded. 

  • COMPLETED Poetry Portfolios are DUE TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19th

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  • How Do We Analyze Poetry?

  • Students will work through a handout where we analyze a poem together using the TPDAT acronym! The handout will detail exactly how students can approach beginning to analyze a poem. This will help them with their final project for poetry, where they will be asked to analyze a song and its lyrics!

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Friday: 

 

  • COMPLETED Poetry Portfolios are DUE TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19th

  • Poetry Unit Test Today  

  • Students will have the entire 40 minutes to write their poetry unit test! 

  • If students finish early, they may silently read or study for their social quiz 

November 4 - 8

Tuesday:

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  • Concrete Poems! 

  • Students will be introduced to concrete poems. We will follow the same procedure with this poetry type. We will learn about the rules/fundamentals of this poetic form, and then students will have the remainder of class time to work on their original concrete poems! 

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Thursday: 

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  • Blackout Poetry! 

  • Students will be introduced to blackout poetry. We will follow the same procedure with this poetry type. We will learn about the rules/fundamentals of this poetic form, and then students will have the remainder of class time to work on their original concrete poems! 

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  • REMINDERS: 

  • Poetry Unit Test Friday November 15th

  • Poetry Portfolios are due Friday November 15th

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Friday: 

 

  • Student Faith Retreat 

  • Students will not have regular classes today 

October 28 - November 1

Tuesday:

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  • Haikus! 

  • For today's double period together, we will review the fundamentals of haikus and get the opportunity to write our own! Students will get the entire first 40 minute period to write their own haikus and create good copies for them, and then we will have a Haiku Open Mic! 

  • For the Open Mic, students will be asked to present their favourite haiku that they have written to the class. Students will receive a participation grade for this portion of the haiku assignment. Projection of voice and taking their time will be two important criteria for this mini presentation! 

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Thursday: 

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  • We will not be having class today due to the Halloween Assembly that is occurring during periods 7 and 8

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Friday: 

 

  • Tanka Poems! 

  • Tanka (Tonka) means "short poem" in Japanese! 

  • Since today is a short period together, we will look at what a Tanka poem is and students will be allowed the entire class to work through their original Tanka poems! 

  • Tanka poems follow a pretty specific format, so students will be provided with notes on what the rules and fundamentals are! Students will be provided with a good copy portfolio page for their Tanka poem to complete during this class as well! 

October 21 - 25

Tuesday:

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  • For today's class, students will put their knowledge of rhyme scheme and different types rhyme to the test! (It's not actually a test, don't worry!) 

  • Today we are going to learn about Limericks!

  • Students will be taught about limericks and the proper format and rhyme scheme of a limerick. Once we have looked at the structure and a few examples, students will get the time to write their own! 

  • These poems will be added to our ongoing portfolios, so students will need to transfer their final draft of their limerick onto a good copy portfolio page that will be provided! 

  • Today's whole double period is dedicated to limericks, so students should be able to complete this assignment in class

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Thursday: 

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  • Acrostic Poems!

  • For today's class we will experiment with acrostic poems! 

  • We will start small and look at examples before we get started, then I will ask students to write more in depth and longer acrostic poems. These poems tend to go quickly, so I will encourage students to write multiple! 

  • Of course, this will be part of our ongoing poetry portfolio, so students must produce a good copy by the end of class! 

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Friday: 

 

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October 14 - 18

Tuesday:

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  • Hand out student portfolios for our poetry unit. As we work through various forms of poetry, students will be asked to write their own and keep them in their portfolios! 

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  • Bio Poems! - A poem all about you!

  • Today's class will be a relaxing and easy going class to ease students back into the poetry mindset. For the bio poem, students will be guided through various prompts in order to complete a poem that describes who they are. Students will be asked to write a rough draft on the back of their handout, then they will receive a good copy that has the correct template for students to follow along to. 

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  • Poetry Portfolio Title Page

  • When students finish their bio poems, they may spend the rest of class decorating their title page for their portfolios!

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Thursday: 

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  • Idioms! 

  • We will return briefly to figurative language to do an activity related to idioms. For this fun exercise, students will be asked to visually represent an idiom and also research to understand it's meaning! 

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Friday: 

 

  • For today's class we are going to work on some new key concepts for our poetry unit, specifically: 

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  • Stanzas

  • Repetition 

  • Rhyme Sceme

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  • Students will be guided through these key concepts and provided notes for them. We will go through multiple examples on the board for looking at stanzas and rhyme scheme! 

  • If time permits, students will be introduced to their next assignment that focuses on identifying rhyme scheme! 

October 7 - 11

Tuesday + Thursday:

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  • To start off our week together, we will be exploring figurative language! In using figurative language we go beyond the literal meaning of our words. For today's class (and most likely Thursday's as well), we will review and learn about...

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  • Personification

  • Alliteration

  • Hyperbole

  • Simile 

  • Metaphor 

  • Onomatopoeia 

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  • For each topic there will be an informational video presented and an accompanying activity that will need to be completed! Throughout these videos and activities, we will have plenty of opportunities for students to ask questions and for students to work together with their peers!

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Friday: 

 

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  • Students will have the first half of today's class to finish up any remaining work from earlier in the week. 

  • The second half of class will consist of students writing a short Figurative Language Quiz that reviews the figurative language elements we have looked at all week. 

September 30 - October 4

Tuesday: 

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  • "The Best Part of Me" - Last week, everyone who was in class was able to finish their rough copies, so the first half of today's class will be dedicated to looking at the review and editing process. Then students will have the remainder of class to type up their good copies and share them with me through google docs.

  • Tentative Due Date: Students should be able to edit and review their work, as well as type up a good copy during today's class. Students who are feeling rushed or need some extra time will be able to work on it as homework, but it will be due Wednesday October 2!

 

Thursday: 

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  • No L.A classes today, as we have our Chocolate Assembly during periods 7 & 8.

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Friday: 

 

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  • Begin poetry!!!

  • For today's class we will do a fun activity related to poetry that gets students interested and engaged in the discovery process!

  • Structure of the Activity:

  • Students will all be given a slip of paper that has a random line or word from a pre-selected poem. Then, students will stand up, walk around the room to their peers, and they will have to read aloud what their word or line says. The trick is to only say what is on your slip of paper. Once you have read your word or line aloud and listened to the other person's word or line, you must then go up to the next person and continue sharing. This process will continue for approximately 5 minutes!

  • Then students will be split into groups and given a large piece of paper where they can write their predictions down. They must consider what they read aloud and what they heard from their peers in order to make an inference about what the poem is saying and what it means.

  • Once students have had time to work in their groups, we will have a class discussion about the poem and get student perspectives on it. Then I will reveal the complete poem to the students and we will see if we were on the right track or if we were completely off!

September 23-27

Tuesday: 

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  • Students will work together in pairs in order to work through a paragraph structure handout. They will need to work together to identify the positive and negative qualities presented in a variety of paragraphs. We will have discussions about these qualities in order to establish a list of good qualities to incorporate in our paragraphs.

  • Students will be introduced to their first writing assignment of the school year 

  • "The Best Part of Me" - Students will be required to write one paragraph double spaced for this assignment. In it they need to write about what they think is the best part of them! There will be specific requirements for this assignment that will be laid out in a rubric for the students. Things like proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar are standard criteria that will be applied to this assignment! A detailed rubric will be provided to students when the assignment is introduced. 

  • The due date for this assignment will be determined later, depending on how well we work on Tuesday.

 

Thursday: 

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September 9-13

Tuesday: 

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  • Ask those who have not handed in their Grammar booklets to do so. I need to take them in and grade the final page as a minor quiz. 

  • Today's class will be dedicated to working through a Sentence Structure Flip Book. For this assignment we will review and cover concepts like simple, complex, compound sentences, etc. We will work through each type of sentence and the proper sentence structure as a class. There will be opportunities for students to work through some of the booklet individually as well. We will discuss what examples of these sentences look like and why it is important to understand these fundamentals of writing! 

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PAGE ORDER FOR SENTENCE STRUCTURE FLIP BOOK

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  • 1 - Title Page 

  • 2 - Key Terms 

  • 3 - Simple Sentences 

  • 4 - Compound Sentences 

  • 5 - Complex Sentences 

  • 6 - Compound - Complex Sentences 

  • 7 - Cut and Paste Page 

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Thursday:

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  • Sentence structure review. I felt as though this class would benefit from some further exposure/review of sentence structure and the different types of sentences. 

  • Students will receive a one-page graphic organizer that explains some key terms in a different way. Once we have gone through the notes, we will play jeopardy together in order to review!

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Friday: 

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  • Teamwork Triathlon

  • No Classes!

September 9-13

Tuesday: 

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  • Reading Comprehension Booklet - to gage where students are at with their reading comprehension skills! 

  • Spelling Test Bingo - to review not only the spelling words, but also their definitions. Students will gain a better understanding of these terms and will be able to confidently add them to their vocabulary

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Thursday:

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  • Work through our Grammar - Parts of Speech Handout. In it, we will review adjectives, verbs, adverbs, nouns (proper and common), as well as articles. Students will be expected to follow along as we review these terms. They must also work through the practice activities that are in the booklet to gain more confidence using these words and being able to identify them. 

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Friday: 

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  • Finish our Grammar - Parts of Speech Booklet. 

  • Collectively go through the booklet to ensure students have accurate notes to refer back to throughout their school year. 

  • Students will submit their booklets, as I will grade the final page 

September 3-6

Thursday: 

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  • Begin by introducing ourselves to one another through our "Me Bag" activity. 

  • Go over the course outline and expectations

  • Begin some review and practice activities to gage where students are at for the beginning of our school year together 


 Review + Practice 

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  • Spelling Test 

  • Reading Comprehension Booklet 

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Friday:

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  • Sign out a library book 

  • Introduce journals and silent reading 

  • Some of our Friday's will be solely designated for silent reading (Renaissance Reader) and journaling

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