3rd Six Weeks

Week 5

   December 12-16, 2016

"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Stone upon stone is the structure built."

MONDAY, December 12

* Finish up final draft of bilingual essay

* Continue going over benchmark test 

TUESDAY, December 13

*Continue going over weakest SE's

* Give feedback to students about expository essay

WEDNESDAY, December 14

* Continue going over benchmark test.

* Continue giving feedback of expository essay.

 THURSDAY, December 15

* Research and explanation of Christmas symbols.

    

 FRIDAY,December 16

   * CHRISTMAS SOCIALS

                                                                     

                                                                     

ATTENTION!!!

4th BOOK REPORT with summary

due on Wednesday, January 11, 2017 

                                                

3rd Six Weeks

Week 4

   December 5-9, 2016

"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Stone upon stone is the structure built."

MONDAY, December 5

* Math benchmark

TUESDAY, December 6

*Reading benchmark

WEDNESDAY, December 7

* Writing benchmar

 THURSDAY, December 8

* Go over benchmark test

    

 FRIDAY,December 9

 * Go over benchmark test

                                                                     

                                                                    ATTENTION 

REVIEW FOR DISTRICT BENCHMARK! WE WANT TO BE ALL ON LEVEL  III!

                                          

                                                                            

3rd Six Weeks

Week 3

   November 28-December 2, 2016

"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Stone upon stone is the structure built."

MONDAY, November 28

* Quotable Quotes

* Students practice with using transitional words correctly

TUESDAY, November 29

*Quotable Quotes

* Students take a pre-benchmark test

WEDNESDAY, November 30

* Quotable Quotes

* Students continue to take the pre-benchmark test

   

     THURSDAY, December 1

* Qutable Quotes

* Students go over the pre-benchmark test

    

    FRIDAY,December 2

    * Quotable Quotes

    * Students continue to go over pre-benchmark test

ATTENTION!!!

Book report # 3 due on Tuesday, November 29!!!

3rd Six Weeks

Week 2

   November 14-17, 2016

"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Stone upon stone is the structure built."

MONDAY, November 14

* Quotable Quotes

* Students continue to present their analysis of the expository essays assigned to them.

TUESDAY, November 15

* Students are given an expository prompt to brainstorm.

* They start making an outline of their ideas.

WEDNESDAY, November 16

* Quotable Quotes

* Students start writing the introduction of their essay.

* A mini-lesson is given about writing the controlling idea.

* Students will also write their first body paragraph.

   

     THURSDAY, November 17

* Qutable Quotes

   * Students write the body and conclusion of their essay.

    

    FRIDAY,November 18

    * MOVIE DAY

ATTENTION!!!

Book summary is due Monday, November 14!

3rd Six Weeks

Week 1

   November 7-11 , 2016

"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Stone upon stone is the structure built."

MONDAY, November 7 

* Staff development: Unlocking the Secret, MPC, 8:00-4:00

TUESDAY, November 8

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: Friendships of Abraham Lincoln

* Show the students again the structure of the expository essay and the strategies that accompany those:introduction-the attention grabbers; body-reason, explanation, example, link (REEL); conclusion-insight,rephrase,summary,advice (IRSA), concrete, abstract (CA)

* Show the strategies at work in a model essay.

* Show more examples of accomplished essays from scoring guide and point out how the authors successfully used the strategies.

WEDNESDAY, November 9

* Great Lives, Great Deeds on Lincoln

* Continue the expository essay modeling

   * Students now brainstorm a prompt.

   * A mini-lesson on magnifying: picking one topic

   

     THURSDAY, November 10

    * Great Lives, Great Deeds on Lincoln

    * Students outline the brainstormed ideas.

    * A mini-lesson on telescoping: staying on topic

    

    FRIDAY,November 11

    * Great Lives, Great Deeds on Lincoln

    * Students start writing the first draft.

EXPOSITORY STRUCTURE

2nd Six Weeks

Week 5

   October 31-November 4, 2016

"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Stone upon stone is the structure built."

MONDAY, October 31  

* Quotable Quotes

* Introduce and explain dialogue rules

* Practice

* Review capitalization with some words that can be titles or just plain common nouns.

* Explain and show the structure of the body paragraph with REEL (reason, explanation, example, link)

 

TUESDAY, November 1

* Quotable Quotes

* Review sentence combining, subject-verb agreement, and other grammar miscellaneous (i.e.,spelling)

WEDNESDAY, November 2

 * Quotable Quotes

* Continue review of  subject-verb agreement,etc. 

    

   THURSDAY, November 3

    *SIX-WEEKS TEST 

   

    FRIDAY,November 4

    * Go over six-weeks test.

 

 

 

  

                                                                        ATTENTION!!!!

                                                 STUDY FOR THE SIX-WEEKS TEST ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3!