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February 22, 2007
Reading HW is for students to write the sentences and answers for the " Vocabulary Study" on pages 214-215.
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February 21, 2007
This is a short school week.
Wednesday 2/21
Students review appositive phrases, prepositional phrases, and process check the Fun Facts section of their magazines.
Students take a pop quiz covering appositive phrases and adjective and adverb phrases.
Thursday, 2/22
Students become familiar with participles and participial phrases.
Text Writing and Grammar pgs. 437-440.
HW - Workbook pgs. 75-78.
Friday, 2/23
Check HW from Workbook pgs. 75-78
Reference skills lesson with Mrs. Hendrix in the media center.
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It is Wed. and a short school week.
Wednesday, 2/21
Students read and discuss in Scott Foresman Literature "Harriet Tubman" pgs. 204-215.
Review of Vocabulary skills
HW are the sections "Making Connections" and "Vocabulary Study" pgs. 214-215.
Thursday, 2/22
Students review the HW
Students work on a comprehension and vocabulary skill packet of the story "Harriet Tubman"
Friday, 2/23
Practice of comprehension skill "Making Inferences"
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February 14, 2007
Lesson Plans for Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007
Advanced Language Arts, Mrs. Kaplan, periods 1, 3, 6, 7
Essential Question?
How does the learner apply the conventions and grammar into written format?
Materials:
Writing and Grammar Book
pgs. 433-434
“Using Prepositional Phrases That Act as Adjectives”
“Using Prepositional Phrases as Adverbs”
Read and study the explanations, then
Write Ex. 3, 4, 5, and 6
Skill sheets on Prepositional phrases as Adjectives and Adverbs
(Students may finish for HW or you may start checking work with students if time is available)
Lesson Plans for Friday, Feb. 16, 2007
Advanced Language Arts, Mrs. Kaplan, Periods 1, 3, 6, 7
Materials:
Writing and Grammar Book
Pgs. 434-435
“Using Appositives in Phrases”
Read and study explanations
Write Ex. 7 and 8
Workbook pgs. 79-80
(Students may finish for HW or you may start checking work with students if time is available)
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February 13, 2007
We are beginning our grammar unit on the verbals: gerunds, participles, and infinitives.
Homework tonight is to finish pg. 431 in the Writing and Grammar book.
Grammar work on "Chapter 20" will continue for the next three weeks.
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February 12, 2007
Today students shared the Valentine's y stories they wrote.
On Tuesday, a rough draft of their expository article for the magazine is due.
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Here is the agenda for Reading class.
Remember, progress reports go home this Wednesday.
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February 09, 2007
I am attaching two items for the magazine project. The next process check is for the expository article due on Tuesday the 13th.
The first is the rubric for the final project.
Rubric for Magazine Unit.doc
The second is a checklist for this project with the process timeline.
Checklist for Magazine Project.doc
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February 05, 2007
Students today read the article on the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, 1957.
They have 4 excerpts from the story to respond to in a short written reflection of WHY?
Good Luck!
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February 02, 2007
Below is the reading class agenda for the week of 2/5/07:
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On Friday, students turned in their drafts for the advertisement section of the magazines; I was thoroughly impressed. Students took extra care in exhibiting creativity, accuracy, and task completion on this part of the assignment. Our next part will be the expository article, and the instructions will be discussed on Monday.
I am attaching the overall agenda for this week beginning 2/5/07:
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