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 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 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 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 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 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 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