Agenda: Grab your Writer’s Notebooks!
1. Take out your reading log and your poetry homework!
2. Reading Logs due
3. Quickwrite: The Sea
4. The Cay: Chapter 1 and Comparing our Predictions
5. What are 3-2-1 Notes?
6. Social Studies: Chapter 1 Test and packet due
Homework:
The Cay Vocabulary: Definitions and Illustrations for “alabaster” through “Nazi” (You can download the vocab packet here: The Cay Vocab List
Agenda:
1. Quickwrite: Making Predictions
2. Sea Poems by Langston Hughes: Three Views of the Sea
3. Social Studies: Review Standards Assessment (p. 21 #1-9, 12)
4. Social Studies: Chapter 1 Review Game: Archaeologists vs Geographers
Homework:
1. Analyze “Death of an Old Seaman”
2. Reading Log due tomorrow!
3. Social Studies: Review for test tomorrow!
4. Social Studies: Chapter 1 packet due
You may download the packet info here: Chapter 1 Packet
Please check your grades on Edline.
Have a great long weekend! 🙂
Agenda: Grab ‘em!
Vocabulary Quiz #2
Wacky Weather News Reports: Highlighting a Great Sentence
Social Studies: Chapter 1 Standards Review
p. 21-22 #1-9 and 12
Homework:
Reading Log due Wednesday (200 minutes w/ parent signatures)
Social Studies: Chapter 1 Test Wednesday
Don’t forget to turn in PTA membership forms asap!
Make sure to share your magazine and cookie dough information packets with your families!
Agenda: Grab your Writer’s Notebook!
A Word about the Blog…
Quickwrite: Parts of Speech
Wacky Weather!
Review vocabutoons and vocabulary packet
Social Studies: Warm-Up and Review Chapter 1, Section 2 Homework
Homework:
Wacky weather news report due tomorrow (download the assignment here: Wacky Weather Report
Study for Vocabulary Quiz tomorrow
Social Studies: Chapter 1 Test Wednesday (9/30)
Agenda: GYWN!
Expanded Sentences
Introducing… Vocabutoons!
Social Studies: Chapter 1, Section 2 Notes
Homework:
Create ONE Vocabutoon for a difficult vocabulary word. Due tomorrow (see info below).
Finish expanded sentences (if not completed in class)
Vocabulary Week #2 packet due tomorrow
Vocabulary Quiz FRIDAY
Social Studies: Chapter 1, Section 2 Assessment p. 17 #1-4
1. Word + part of speech + definition
2. Tricky Link
3. Tricky Link Sentence
4. Tricky Link Cartoon
5. TWO samples sentences, unrelated to your tricky link
Here is my example:
agitated, adj.
In a state of anxiety or uneasiness; anxious, concerned, annoyed
Tricky Link: aging
Tricky Link Sentence:
“My aging grandmother becomes agitated when all us kids come over.”
Sample sentences:
*I was agitated when my cat was stuck in the tree, far out of my reach.
*I become agitated when I have piles of homework and only one hour to complete it all.
If you were unable to attend Back to School Night, you may download the presentation here: Humanities Back to School Night 09
Agenda: Grab ‘em!
Collect Sentence Smackdown homework
Quickwrite: Two Word Sentence Challenge
Expanded Sentences
Welcome your Parents to your Writer’s Notebook
Social Studies: Review Chapter 1, Section 1 Assessment
Homework:
Vocabulary Week #2 packet due THURSDAY
Vocabulary Quiz FRIDAY
Bring PTA Membership form
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