Thursday, March 27, 2014

Thursday, March 27th

Periods 1-3
1) PW: How has working as a group on this practice test helped you? How has it hindered you? What can you do today to make it worthwhile?
2) Discussion
3) Collaborative STAAR
HW: none

Periods 4&5
1) Summary Review
2) Reading
3) Practice Summary
HW: Complete what isn't finished in class

Periods 6&8
1) Library- book check-out
2) Collaborative STAAR
HW: none

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Wednesday, March 26th

Periods 1-3
1) Collaborative STAAR
No HW

Periods 4&5
1) STAAR Review 2
2) STAAR Review 6
Finish for HW

Periods 6&8
1) Collaborative STAAR
No HW

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Tuesday, March 25th

Periods 1-3
1) PW: What strategies do you use when taking a test? What strategies should you use more?
2) Discussion
3) Collaborative Practice STAAR
HW: None

Periods 4&5
1) PW: What is a summary?
2) Discussion
3) Science World: Summaries
HW: None

Periods 6&8
1) Collaborative STAAR
HW: None

Friday, March 21, 2014

Friday, March 21st


Periods 1-3
1) Metaphor Group Work
2) Figurative Language Review Notes
HW: None

Periods 4&5
1) Metaphor Group Work
2) Figurative Language Review Notes
HW: None

Periods 6&8
1) Figurative Language Review Notes
2) Story Reading-Independent Reading
HW: Complete the Introduction

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Thursday, March 20th

Periods 1-3
1) Telling the Genres Apart Group Work
2) Discussion
3) Read Aloud/Think Aloud
HW: None

Periods 4&5
1) Read Aloud/PW: Tell me, in writing, the genres of the passages I'm reading aloud.
2) Discussion
3) Telling the Genres Apart Group Work
HW: None

Periods 6&8
1) Genre Study
2) Short Stories: Group Work
HW: None

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Wednesday, March 19th

Periods 1-3
1) PW: How do you tell between facts and opinions when you are reading?
2) Discussion
3) Read-Aloud
4) Group work
HW: None

Periods 4&5
1) PW: How do you tell between facts and opinions when you are reading?
2) Discussion
3) Read-Aloud
4) Group work
HW: None

Periods 6&8
1) Socratic Seminar
2) Group Work
No Homework

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Tuesday, March 18th

Periods 1-3
1) PW: When you are reading something, how do you determine what the main idea is?
2) Discussion
3) Images?
4) Main Idea Group Work
HW: Complete what is not finished in class.

Periods 4&5
1) PW: When you are reading something, how do you determine what the main idea is?
2) Discussion
3) Images?
4) Main Idea Group Work
HW: Complete what is not finished in class.

Periods 6&8
1) PW: What is the main idea of the image displayed? Why do you say this?
2) Discussion
3) Main Idea Group Work
4) Socratic Seminar
HW: None

Monday, March 17, 2014

Monday, March 17th

Welcome Back!

Periods 1-3
1) Power Write: Tell me about your spring break!
2) Discussion
3) Making Inferences
HW: Complete what isn't finished in class.

Periods 4&5
1) PW: Compose a limerick about Krueger (5-7 A, 5-7 A, 7-10 B, 7-10 B, 5-7 A)
2) Sharing (Happy St. Patrick's Day!)
3) Making Inferences
HW: Complete what isn't finished in class.

Periods 6&8
1) Making Inferences
2) Question Prep
3) Socratic Seminar
HW: None

Friday, March 7, 2014

Friday, March 7th

Periods 1-3
1) DBQ Writing
2) Course Protection
HW: Happy Spring Break!

Periods 4&5
1) Free Reading Friday

Periods 6&8
1) DBQ Writing
2) Course Protection

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Wednesday, March 5th

Periods 1&2
1) 505
2) DBQ Workshop
HW: None

Period 3
Benchmark

Period 4
Benchmark

Period 5
1) Finish Sharing
2) Special Activity

Periods 6&8
1) 505
2) DBQ Workshop
HW: Complete ASP!

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Tuesday, March 4th

ALL LATE WORK DUE TODAY!

Periods 1-2
1) Benchmark testing in Advisory

Period 3
1) October Sky

Periods 4&5
1) Coffee House Sharing

Periods 6&8
1) My Fair Lady
HW: Chapter 12

Monday, March 3, 2014

Monday, March 3rd

Periods 1-3
1) Essay/Test Check
(Help me hand out papers! Please put essays in your writing folders.)
(All late work MUST be turned in by TOMORROW to count!)
2) October Sky

Periods 4&5
1) PW: When you share your poems, how would you like the audience to react? What are you afraid of? What are you excited about?
2) Discussion/ Rules (Please help me hand out papers!)
3) Poetry Sharing
(All late work MUST be turned in by TOMORROW to count!)

Periods 6&8
1) SAR
2) Discussion (Help me hand essays back!)
(All late work MUST be turned in by TOMORROW to count!)
3) My Fair Lady