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December 16 - 20
Tuesday + Thursday:
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"For Pete's Snake" - by Ellen Conford (three class periods) ​
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We will read this short story together as a class and students will be required to follow along in their books
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In reading and analyzing this short story, we will discuss plot diagrams, how they are structured, and what goes into them (short story elements). Students will also get the chance to complete a plot diagram for this short story! ​This will be the central assignment for this short story!
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Friday:
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Our last day together before the break
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Today we will say our goodbye's and have a Christmas themed farewell!
December 9 - 13
Tuesday:
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"Zoo" by Edward D. Hoch
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We had poor attendance on Friday, so we will read this short story again (which will act as a good review for those that were here on Friday)
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There is a significant plot twist in this story, so we will discuss this and work through the reading comprehension questions together as a class
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5 Point Summary - We will begin on this assignment, since we were unable to last week!
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Students will summarize the key events of this short story ​
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We will identify the first and last events together as a class, then it will be the students' responsibility to fill in the three in the middle!
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Thursday:
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"For Pete's Snake" by Ellen Conford
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This short story is significantly longer than the others we have read, so it may take the entire class to read it. ​
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We will get as far as we can though and discuss the story after we've read it together!
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Friday:
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Continue with "For Pete's Snake"
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Discuss the reading comprehension questions and outline the general plot of the story for students ​
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Their assignment for this short story will be to complete a plot diagram!
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We will work towards this and continue it next week!
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December 2 - 6
Tuesday:
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Short Stories!
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Brainstorm short story elements together on the board and identify the key terms that will be used throughout this unit​
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Allow students time to fill in their short story elements note page
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For today's class we will engage in the following:
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Pre-reading questions ​and context videos
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Listen and follow along as I read "The Hockey Sweater" by Roch Carrier
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Reading Comprehension Questions
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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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Follow up with "The Hockey Sweater" and ask students to hand in their reading comprehension booklets/compare and contrast assignments.
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For the remaining time in today's class we will engage in the following:
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Pre-reading questions
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Listen and follow along as I read "Zoo" by Edward D. Hoch
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Reading Comprehension Questions
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5 Point Summary - for this activity students will summarize the short story by identifying five important parts of the story!
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Friday:
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Continue with "Zoo" summary
November 25 - 29
Tuesday:
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POETRY PORTFOLIOS ARE DUE TODAY
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They must include the following: ​
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Title Page ​
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Bio Poem
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Limerick
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Acrostic
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Haiku
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Tanka
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Review Day
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For today's class, I will model how to effectively set up a study guide for students. ​
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As I show them on the board, students will need to follow along and fill in their own study guides for their upcoming Poetry Unit Test on Thursday
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Students will review figurative language, rhyme and rhyme scheme, and poetry forms!
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Thursday:
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Poetry Unit Test
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Students will write their Unit Test for poetry today. The Test will be read aloud to students ​
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Short Stories!
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Once students have finished their Poetry Unit Test, we will switch gears and begin our next unit on short stories.
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For the remainder of class time today, we will brainstorm key elements that are found in short stories (characters, setting, plot, etc.)
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Students will fill in a note page on these concepts!
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Friday:
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Read "The Hockey Sweater" by Roch Carrier
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Discuss the story
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Give students reading comprehension questions on this short story and take them up!
November 18 - 22
Tuesday:
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Allow students approximately 20 minutes to complete their acrostic poems
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Provide students with a rubric for their poems - this will be what is used to grade each one of their completed poems that are in their Poetry Portfolios!
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Haikus
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Students will be provided with notes on what haikus look like, what they are generally all about, and what the typical structure and rules are for these poems.
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Students will have the remaining class time to get started on their haikus.
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Thursday:
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Haikus
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Allow students approximately 20 minutes to complete their haiku poems
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Tanka Poems!
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Students will be introduced to their final form of poetry for this unit. Students will learn about what . a Tanka poem is, what is is about, and they will get the opportunity to follow a guiding template in order to create their own original poem.
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Students will have the remaining class time to work on their Tanka poems!
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Friday:
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Catch Up Day!
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Students will have today's class to finalize their poetry portfolios! Students must make sure they are finished the following poems (and their title page): ​
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Title Page
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Bio Poem ​
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Limerick
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Acrostic
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Haiku
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Tanka
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Students should be using the rubric they were provided earlier this week to ensure they are completing their work to the best of their ability. Make sure to look at presentation, requirements, and the overall poem!
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POETRY PORTFOLIOS ARE DUE TUESDAY NOVEMBER 26th
November 11 - 15
Tuesday:
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NO SCHOOL
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Thursday:
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Limerick Poems ​
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Quick Review: We will do a refresher of what limericks are and the specific rules that need to be followed when writing them!
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Students will then have the remaining class time to work on their limerick poems
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Student will not get any more class time to work on these, so they must be completed by the end of class time today. Good copy portfolio pages will be provided to students
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Friday:
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Acrostic Poems!
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Students will be provided with notes on what acrostic poems look like, what they are about, and what the general rules are for the structure of these poems!
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Students will then have the remaining class time to work on their own acrostic poems. These need to be 100% original!!
November 4 - 8
Tuesday:
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Begin reading another book to students
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Today's class will focus on Rhyme and Rhyme Scheme
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Students will be provided notes on these basic concepts and we will do practice poems to ensure students get time to work though these fundamentals of poetry.
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Thursday:
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Limerick Poems ​
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Students will review the rules and fundamentals of Limerick poems. Students will be provided notes and a step b y step guide to writing these types of poems!
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Students will then have the remaining class time to write their own limerick poems!
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Friday:
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Student Faith Retreat
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Students will not have regular classes today
October 28 - November 1
Tuesday:
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Now that we have covered figurative language for our poetry unit, we are going to begin looking at different forms of poetry!
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For today's class students will be introduced to a type of poem that can be used to introduce yourself to others! This type of poem is called the Bio Poem!
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Students will get the whole period to work on a rough draft of this poem, as well as to work on their final/good copies for their portfolios!
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Thursday:
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​HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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For today's class, students will have time to finish their Bio Poems, as well as work on their Title Pages for their poetry portfolios!
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Today's class is going to be pretty relaxed and light hearted! We are going to have a little Halloween party and have a good time together!
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Make sure you come to school for a special treat today!
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Friday:
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Catch Up Day!
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Today's class will be a catch up period for students who are missing assignments in L.A.
October 21 - 25
Tuesday:
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Alliteration Ice Cream Cones (continued)
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Students were introduced to this assignment Friday. They will have all of today's class to work on completing their alliteration ice cream cones!
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Thursday:
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Students will get 10 minutes to finish what they can of the Alliteration Ice Cream Cone assignment. Whatever they finish in that 10 minutes will be handed in.
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Figurative Language Matching Assignment!
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For the rest of today's class students will put their knowledge of figurative language to the test! Students will be provided with a cut and paste activity where they need to match a phrase to the correct use of figurative language (either alliteration, metaphor, simile, or onomatopoeia.
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If students were not here for today's class, they will need to stay in at lunch to complete the assignment
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Friday:
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NO SCHOOL
October 14 - 18
Tuesday:
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Figurative Language!
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This week we will begin discussing figurative language. Specifically we will talk about similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and perhaps hyperbole and personification!
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For each figurative language form we will watch a video and complete an accompanying activity to practice using these figures of speech.
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Students will be provided with a handout that they can follow along to as we work through these essential terms for our poetry unit!
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For today's class, we will most likely only get through similes and metaphors!
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To review these two terms we will create Paint Chip Poems together (we may need to do this on Thursday, depending on the time we have left in class!)
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Paint Chip Poems consist of students working together to create poems about particular colours. Each student must write a line for a poem that relates to the colour and uses either a metaphor or simile in the line. We then compile all of the students' lines together to make a complete poem!
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Thursday:
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Follow up on our Paint Chip Poems!
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Continue our discussion and notes on figurative language, specifically onomatopoeia and alliteration!
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Follow along to the note booklet and complete accompanying activities as we go!
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Introduce students to the Alliteration Ice Cream Cones assignment. Students must use alliteration to describe five different flavors of ice cream! "Sizzling Strawberry Sunshine" could be a possible example that repeats the "s" sound. The second portion of this assignment is to decorate/colour the ice cream scoops to visually represent the alliteration!
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Friday:
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Allow students time to finish their Alliteration Ice Cream Cones!
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Bio Poems! (If time permits I will have the class start on their bio poem. This particular poem guides students through various prompts to fill out in order to create a poem that is personal to them!
October 7 - 11
Tuesday:
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For today's class we are going to focus on editing and revising our "Best Part of Me" paragraphs before we type up our good copies!
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Students will be provided with a handout that details some ways that we can revise and edit our work.
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In addition to looking at this handout and using it as a tool, I want students to get the opportunity to work with some partners and get some feedback on their writing. We will have a discussion prior to doing this where we talk about what is acceptable advice to give someone and what is not okay to say. Students will be provided with the TAG method of critiquing.
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T = Tell your partner something you liked
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A = Ask your partner a question
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G = Give your partner a suggestion
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After explaining the process, allow students time to work with a partner and share their feedback
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Thursday:
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Today we will have the whole period to type up our good copies of our "Best Part of Me" assignments
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Students will be asked to follow along to the projector so they are able to format their document correctly. Students will be asked to double space their writing, use 12 point font, use Times New Roman, and indent their paragraphs. This will all be demonstrated to students as we begin typing up our good copies.
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Friday:
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Begin poetry!!!
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For today's class we will do a fun activity related to poetry that gets students interested and engaged in the discovery process!
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Structure of the Activity:
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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!
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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.
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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 30 - October 4
Tuesday:
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Today's class will be interrupted by a Fire Drill scheduled to occur @10:00am
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Quick review of sentences!
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What goes into writing a good paragraph? As a class we will have a discussion and brainstorming session related to paragraph structure. Students will take down notes as we discuss this topic.
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Once we have taken the time to discuss paragraph structure, students will be introduced to their first writing assignment, "The Best Part of Me!"
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For this assignment, students must write about what they believe is the best part of them. Before students get time to write, we will do a classroom brainstorming session about what could possibly be the best part of someone. Then students will have to choose the part of themselves that they think is best, and begin writing!
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Thursday:
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Continue working on our "Best Part of Me!" assignment. Depending on how far we get today with our rough drafts, we will begin looking at the editing process! Once we have gone through some editing and review strategies, students will get the opportunity to type up their good copies for this assignment.
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We will be going to our Opening Mass during our L.A. period today
September 23-27
Tuesday:
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For today's class we will be looking at sentence structure and two different types of sentences (simple and compound sentences).
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Students will be provided with notes related to sentence structure and the two forms we are looking at. Then we will do a review/practice activity where students must work together in small groups/pairs in order to identify the two different types of sentences.
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NO SCHOOL
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Friday:
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NO SCHOOL
September 16-20
Tuesday:
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Grammar - Parts of Speech Flip Booklet. In this activity students will review and practice identifying nouns, verbs, adjectives, and proper nouns.
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Grammar - Parts of Speech Matching Activity. Once we have finished our flip booklets, we will move onto our next review activity that includes matching and organizing a baggie full of words into their proper spots on a grid. There are four sections on the grid (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and proper nouns). Students will work individually or with a partner to match the words from their baggies to the correct column on their grid charts. This exercise is a practice (formative) round where students will be able to ask a partner and myself for help. During our next class, however, we will have a similar activity that is for marks. Students will be provided with a new set of words that they will have to paste onto a grid and submit at the end of class!
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Thursday:
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For the remainder of today's class students will work individually on their Grammar - Parts of Speech Matching Assignment that is due at the end of the period.
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If a student finishes early they may silently read till the end of class.
September 9-13
Tuesday & Thursday:
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Complete a reading comprehension booklet to gage where students are at for the beginning of our school year together
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Once the students have had the opportunity to complete the comprehension booklet on their own, we will then complete the same booklet using a different strategy. I will read the passage and questions aloud for students, and then they will respond individually. We will compare and contrast the two different ways of approaching reading comprehension to see which is best for this class.
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During the second time around, I will discuss important terms and concepts that are highlighted in each of the reading comprehension passages, as well as some different reading strategies they can use. This will allow them to better comprehend not only the passage they are reading, but also what the questions are asking.
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Friday:
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Grammar - Parts of Speech Handout - Students will be provided with a handout that reviews adjectives, verbs, nouns, and articles. We will work our way through this handout as a class.
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Next week we will look to do some more tactile work with these review concepts!
September 3-6
Thursday:
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Go over the course outline and expectations
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Begin by introducing ourselves to one another through our "Me Bag" activity. Today will be a sharing day
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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
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Reading Comprehension Booklet
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Friday:
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Sign out a library book (tentative)
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Introduce journals and silent reading procedures (Renaissance Reader)
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Most of our Friday's will be solely designated for silent reading and journaling