May 17-21Dates

Focus/Student skills

Specific Projects/Assignments

Anticipated Study/Test&Quiz Updates

• focus on learning styles

• ice-breaker

• self-characterization

• introduction/journal writing

• introduction vocabulary-(prefix/root/suffix)+words of the week

• introduce 8 parts of speech

 *journal entries

.    based on in class reading

.    crisis journal entry

.    cover journal assignment

* get supplies  -3 subject notebook,journal,pocket folder,looseleaf paper, pens&pencils

*class expectations/letter signed

*poster connection piece

*cover journals(due-9/18)

introductory notes on vocabulary strategies-

*read "The Birthday Box"  & poem on change

Please note : summer reading assessment will be completed the week of Sept. 28

• introduction characterization

• freewrite/journal

• vocabulary-(prefix/root/suffix)+words of the week

• subject/predicate (nouns + verbs)

     * book connection assigned

         due 10/16  

• assign self characterization piece using attribute web and "metaphor me" (honors)

 * Reading & vocab  begin "Zebra"

 *writing:  poster connection (all classes)

 *Metaphor Me (honors)

 *self-characterization using attribute web(all classes)

introductory notes on vocabulary strategies-

5 words of the week with web(pd9)

10 prefixes and roots for all(pd9)

introduction to grammar (8 parts of speech)

Quiz 9/29- characterization and plot line review and 8 POS and prefixes/roots

* Author focus on visualizing for reader    

*Focus on nouns and verbs

      * Finding subject and predicate

     *characterization

*plot line review notes

self-characterization using attribute web and "metaphor me"

• Writing reaction due 9/25 for honors English--based on the story "All The Years of Her Life"

This story provides an excellent model of contrast in its presentation of Mrs. Higgins--as the confident woman who impresses Mr. Carr and as the disconsolate mother alone in the kitchen.  Follow this model in developing one of the topics below devote one paragraph to what the character seems to be and a second para. to his/her real feelings.

1--shy girl/boy pretending to enjoy herself at at party then confessing her self-consciousness, later, when alone

2.  Parent pretending to be severe while scolding a child, but actually full of sympathy and tenderness.

3. a middle school speaker pretending to be confident, but actually quaking within

4. a football quarterback confidently predicting victory, but inwardly fearing defeat.

vocabulary webs

 *Reading  "Zebra", "All The Years of Her Life",

"Papa's Parrot" (reading assessment)--9/24, 9/25

  *Writing-complete self-characterization (attribute web), "silence" seed (J)

     work on personal  statement essay(pd9)

    sentence practice using sensory details and more specific nouns

grammar: subject and predicate notes, finding subj. & pred

vocab:  5 terms, 10 prefixes/roots

*identifying subject & predicate in diff. sentence types

*learning vocab through graphic representations

* writer's notebook (seed ideas)

summer reading assessment due-pd9

writing- summer reading assessment, personal statement essay

vocab: twelve more words for pd9, introduce first five words for pds1,2,5,8

grammar:  finding subject and predicate

We're almost there...   Happy Summer!

In class letter to incoming 6th graders

Final

writing: in class letter to incoming 6th graders

vocab&grammar: Scrabble&Jeopardy

distribute 8th grade graphic organizer for summer reading