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Weekly Assignments
August
30-September 3, 2010
(subject to change; be sure to verify with your
teacher)
This Week
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Monday |
1. BW: Use your
flash cards to study Literary
Elements.
(Reminder: Literary Elements test on Wednesday)!
2. Read and discuss A Mother's View--newspaper
article.
3. Writer's Notebook: Write a response to
the article.
4. Complete Wordly Wise #2--due Thursday;
test Friday.
5. Complete the Adapt, Learn, Grow
activity--paragraphs due Wednesday.
6. Grammar Lesson: complete workbook pages 5-7
7. HW: Complete grammar (due Tuesday),
paragraph (due Wednesday), and Wordly Wise
(due Thursday). |
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Tuesday |
1. BW: Add the
vocabulary words from The Adventure of
the Speckled Band to your Short Story
Vocabulary list.
3. Read The Adventure of the Speckled
Band--TB page 106.
4. Take The Adventure of the Speckled
Band quiz.
6. HW: Study for Literary Elements
quiz and complete the Adapt, Learn, Grow
paragraph. |
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Wednesday |
1. BW: Use your
flash cards to study Literary
Elements.
2. Take the Literary Elements quiz.
3. Present author notes, Edgar Allen Poe.
4. Read excerpt from Poe book.
5. Grammar Lesson: complete workbook pages
8-10.
6. HW: Complete grammar and complete
Wordly Wise #2. |
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Thursday |
1. BW: Add the
vocabulary words from The Tell-Tale Heart
to your Short Story Vocabulary list.
2. Complete the anticipation guide for
The Tell-Tale Heart.
3. Read The Tell-Tale Heart.
4. Grammar Lesson: review workbook pages
8-10; complete workbook pages ________.
5. HW: Study for Wordly Wise #2 and
complete grammar. |
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Friday |
1. BW: Quiz Cram
2. Take Wordly Wise #2 test.
3. Review Literary Elements test.
4. Group Activity: Analyze The Tell-Tale
Heart literary elements. (Group 1--plot
elements; Group 2--characterization; Group
3--other: mood, theme, etc.; Group
4--symbols). |
Last
Week
August
23-27, 2010
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Monday |
1. BW:
Student Search
2. Share All About Me collages.
3. Complete Wordly Wise #1--due
Thursday/quiz Friday.
4. HW: Complete Literary Elements
8-21. |
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Tuesday |
1. BW:
Textbook Scavenger Hunt
2. Present/take notes on Short
Stories PowerPoint.
3. Review Reading Strategies handout.
4. Review/play Literary Elements
bingo--test next Wednesday.
5. HW: Complete Wordly Wise #1. |
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Wednesday |
1. BW:
Learning Styles Reflection Inventory.
2. Present Writer's Notebook
information.
3. Make Literary Elements note cards.
4. Record the vocabulary words for
Raymond's Run--pgs. 38-47.
5. HW: Complete the pre-reading handout for
Raymond's Run. |
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Thursday |
1. BW: Review
Wordly Wise #1.
2. Discuss The Reading to Learn Process
& Active vs. Passive Reader Traits.
3. Read Raymond's Run--pgs. 38-47.
4. HW: Write a new ending for Raymond's
Run--assignment on page 49 in the
textbook. |
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Friday |
1. BW: Quiz Cram
2. Take Wordly Wise #1 test.
3. Complete the Literary Elements
flash cards.
4. Draw and label a plot diagram of
Raymond's Run.
5. Grammar Lesson:__________________
6. Meet with partners to study Literary
Elements flash cards. |
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