Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Whew! We worked hard today reveiwing grammar- direct objects, indirect objects, and predicate nominatives! We ran out of time to complete going over the vocab- so no test yet.. Will postone for now. Be sure to keep up with the novel reading!
Homework:
1. The Giver- Chapters 11-12
2. Complete grammar worksheets if you need the practice- quiz [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 17th, 2010 No Comments »
This week in class we continue to read our class novel, The Giver, and we looked at finding vocabulary words with context clues. We also reviewed uses of nouns, and learnes The Preposition Song. Keep singing it…!
Homework:
1. Read The Giver, Chapters 11,12
2. Vocabulary Test on Words 1-20, List 1. You must know the definition and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 5th, 2010 No Comments »
Homework:
1. Noun Chart- 6 types of names with an illustration for each.
2. Fill in the top half of the Nouns paper with types and examples, abstract noun endings and examples.
3. Read The Giver, chapters 1-3. As you read, find the Vocabulary Words 1-10 only, and list them on a piece of paper. Next to each [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
Having been out with the flu, I’m finally updating my blog. Thanks for your patience with this and updating grades. I hope to get a lot corrected this weekend so thank you in advance for your patience. The research projects are taking time to correct. Grades close next Thursday, and I will be meeting with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
Persuasive Research projects have been turned in (whew!) and we are on to new units. We will be starting a new Read aloud-Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo, and we will be staring a Science Fiction unit- short stories and The Giver by Lois Lowry. (students need to have this novel by next week). Our grammar [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 19th, 2010 No Comments »
Persuasive Research Papers are due on Monday, February 22 (B Day) and Tuesday, February 23 (A Day). Please look at your rubric (given to you in class) and the last Powerpoint on the Blog to check your requirements. I’m looking forward to reading the culmination of your writing and hard work!
Bring The Giver to class [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 16th, 2010 No Comments »
We are in the home stretch for our Persuasive Research papers. This week students will be putting together thier rough draft. Students should have come to school with notes (in their own words) from 4 sources. They worked on this all last week, and if they did not complete it, should have finished all notetaking [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 8th, 2010 No Comments »
This week we will finishing up our notes, reviewing outling skills, and writing our rough draft for our Persuasive Research paper. It is due Feb 22,23.
Homework:
1. Be sure you have handed in your outline for me to check your thesis and 3 reasons.
2. Now is the time to fill out your Million Word Challenge sheets [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 1st, 2010 No Comments »
We are in the library all week gathering information for our Persuasive Research papers. Students are choosing a wide variety of topics- it’s exciting to see them energized by their topics.
Homework:
1. Science Fiction/Fantasy Index Card Summaries due Tuesday (A Day) and Wed (B Day).
2. Spelling Unforgivables Test- A Day- Thursday, B Day- Wednesday. Study!
3. All [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2010 No Comments »
I ‘ve enjoyed meeting your parents this week. I think they really enjoyed looking through your writing folders and I had a few parents tear up when they read your awesome Where I’m From poems and the letters you wrote to them. We’re staring our persuasive writing projects this week. If you are unsure of [...]