week 10

Mystery Museum projects will be presented on Halloween day.  Please come and enjoy your student's hard work!!

Monday 10-28-13

9 week assessment Review

Hw:  M.M. and Halloween story

Tuesday

9 week assessment

Hw:  M.M. and Halloween story

Wednesday

M.M. workday

Hw:  M.M. and Halloween story

Thursday

M.M.

Hw:  M.M. and Halloween story

Friday

Peer evaluations

Halloween stories are due today!

Week 9

Monday

1.   Read personal narrative

2.  Assign personal narrative due Thursday

Hw:  personal narrative

Tuesday

1.   Color my personal narrative, then color yours

2.  Edgar A. Poe intro/documentary fill-in-the-blank notes

3.  Hw: library book tomorrow, color your personal narrative-due Thurs., vocab. Quiz Thursday

Wednesday

1.   Library day

2.  Accelerated Reader explanation

3.  Analogies

4.  “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” by Edgar Allan Poe

5.  Hw:  vocabulary quiz, colored personal narrative, and work on M.M. project

Thursday

1.   Quiz

2.  Collect colored personal narratives

3.  “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”

4.  Poe documentary cont’d, with fill-in-the-blank notes

Friday

Mystery museum WORKDAY! Bring materials to be productive during class time.

Week 8

Monday

October 14

Go over M.M. packet

Visit briefly with group

Hw:  M.M. research

 

 

Tuesday

New vocab list #5 (demo, dic, dox)--DueThurs.

List #4 vocab (cred, culp, crypt) quiz

Nonfiction articles “Somali Pirates”

Think-pair-share

Hw:  vocab #5 due Thursday

 

 

Wednesday

Share “Somali Pirates” articles

Personal Narrative Essay assigned due Friday

Analogies

Hw:  Personal Narrative, M.M. research, vocabulary HW due tomorrow

 

Thursday

Go over vocabulary hw

Finish analogies

 

Thesis statement

 

Hw:  M.M. research (work day tomorrow), personal narrative due Friday

 

Friday

Poetry Friday

M.M. work day

Hw:  vocabulary quiz Monday on list #5

Week 7

The Mystery Museum projects will be due October 31.  Parents will be invited to come to our museum during your student's class period.  I still need a few parent volunteers for October 31.  If you can only volunteer during your student's period, that is fine.  Please let me know if you can help out.

Monday

NO SCHOOL

 

Tuesday

“Harrison Bergeron” Handicaps due

Irony Review

Allusion

New Vocab list; vocab due Thursday

Hw:  Grammar, vocab.

 

Wednesday

Early Release

Work in M.M. groups

Hw:  Grammar, vocab

 

Thursday

Go over vocab #5

Personal Narrative assigned, due Monday

Satire

Genre Jeopardy

Hw:  Grammar, vocab, personal narrative, mystery museum

Friday

Work in M.M. groups in library