Week of January 10-14

January 10-14 Language Arts

Hi there,
We are going to use this site, since you all cannot post on “blogspot” while at school.  I want to make sure every student has an opportunity to post on my blog, whether you have computer access at home or not.

Monday
January 10
(Periods 3, 4, and 7)
Due Today
-Literature Circle #1 is due (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5)
-Vocabulary is due
Class time:
-Share Literature circle work
-Discuss text
Hw:  discussion Questions for chapters 1-9 are due Friday
Literature Circle #2 due Friday, January 13


Periods 2 and 5
Due Today:
-Rob’s Eulogy
Class Time:
-share speeches for Rob’s funeral
-Discuss author’s style more
-Read in novel TOAT
-Vocabulary discovery (Select 10 words from the reading that you wouldn’t normally use in your writing or speech.  Write the page number where the word is located.  Define the word.  Then, you’ll have to write a descriptive story using the words correctly)  Due Friday

Hw:  Read in your I.R. novel
Lit circle #1 due Wednesday
vocabulary story due Friday


Tuesday
January 11, 2011
periods 3, 4, 7
Class Time:
-quiz on chapters 1-5
-Whole-Class Discussion
-Online Blog
-Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

 Hw:  Finish Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs; write online blog post; read in novel; Lit circle #2 due Friday; Study guide questions due Friday

Periods 2 and 5
Class Time-Whole class discussion
Hw:  vocabulary; literature circle #2 due TOMORROW!
Read in your I.R. book


Wednesday
Periods 3, 4, and 7
-Blue Diamond
-Read Silently in THOTS
Hw:  Read in THOTS
Literature Circle #2 due Friday
Discussion questions pgs 1-91 Friday
Online Blog due Thursday

Periods 2, and 5
-Literature Circle #1
-Blue Diamond
-Read TOAT
Hw:  vocabulary due Friday!!  read in your I.R. book


Thursday
-Grammar (ALL)
-Grammar Blue Diamond (ALL)


Friday
periods 3, 4, and 7
Due today:
Literature Circle job #2
Discussion questions pgs 1-91
-Literature Circle #2 due
(Share in Lit Circle Groups_
-author’s style
Periods 2 and 5
Due today:
vocabulary writing pieces
I.R. reading (30 pgs min.)
-Webquest (Media Center)
-I.R. blog #2 (next 30 pgs due)
Hw:  read I.R. book