Monday

Objectives:

• Set goals for the new semester and write a blog post explaining your goal.

Daily Grammar Practice Week  11 (Monday – parts of speech).  For the first of this week’s journal/blog writing, you do need to write a blog post on our class blog.  Check out the post I wrote, A New Year:  A Reading Roadmap or One Little Word for the writing prompt.  Yes, you have to pick one of these topics to write about today.  For your second writing this week, you may write about a topic of your choice.  Your post needs to be at least 150 words.  Check the bottom of the text box when you are writing it, and it gives you a word count.  Remember you need to write twice this week either in your Notebook or on the class blog
Homework:  Read 15-30 minutes in a book of your choice.  1st period will turn in Writer’s Notebooks for a writing check.  Writing on the blog counts, too!  You should have six entries for December.

Tuesday

Objectives:

• Write a quality comment on at least three blogs.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 11 (Tuesday – sentence parts).  Follow the directions to under the top Student Blogging Connection post to leave a link to your blog post in the comments.  Then click on the link for at least three classmates and leave a quality comment for them.  A quality comment continues the conversation.  First, read the blog post and think about what the writer shares.  Ask a question for further information.  Share a similar experience or more information about the topic.  Point out something specific that the writer has done well.  Remember to use correct capitalization and punctuation!
Homework: Read a book of your choice for 15-30 minutes.   2nd period will turn in Writer’s Notebooks for a writing check.  Writing on the blog counts, too!  You should have six entries for December.

Wednesday

Objectives:

• Complete benchmark assessment.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 11 (Wednesday – clauses, sentence type and purpose).  Go to my.hrw.com and log in with your username and password (on the narrow strip of paper you fastened to your binder).  Complete Assessment Practice Unit 4.
Homework: Read a book of your choice for 15 -30 minutes.   3rd period will turn in Writer’s Notebooks for a writing check.  Writing on the blog counts, too!  You should have six entries for December.

Thursday

Objectives:

• Use participles to give detail to writing.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 11 (Thursday – Correct capitalization and punctuation).  A participle is a verb ending in -ing (or -ed/past tense) that is used as an adjective.  We will look at several pictures and brainstorm participles and participle phrases that describe the action of the picture.  Then write a sentence using your favorite participle to describe the picture.  
Homework: Read 15-30 minutes in a book of your choice.   4th period will turn in Writer’s Notebooks for a writing check.  Writing on the blog counts, too!  You should have six entries for December.

Friday

Objectives:

• Set reading goals for the week.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 11 (Friday – Sentence diagramming).    Fill out the reading goal slip with the title and author of your book and write down what page you begin on.  Read for 10 minutes and write down what page you end on.  Subtract the beginning page from the ending page to find out how many pages you read in 10 minutes.  Multiply that number by 6 to discover how many pages you should be able to read in 1 hour.  Double that answer to find out how many pages you should be able to read in 2 hours.  That is your reading goal for the week.  If you finish or switch to a book that has a very different reading rate, you will need to redo your goal and let me know the new one.
Homework:  Read 15-30 minutes in a book of your choice.   6th and 7th periods will turn in Writer’s Notebooks for a writing check.  Writing on the blog counts, too!  You should have six entries for December.