Week at a Glance: February 24 – 28

Monday

Objectives:

  • Use sensory details to describe a place.

Daily Grammar Practice Week  13 (Monday – parts of speech).  Think of a place that is important to you.  It might be your bedroom.  It might be a spot outside that you like to visit.  It might be a place you go to be alone or a place you go to hang out with friends.  Use your five senses to brainstorm details to desribe this place and what you like to do there.  What is your feeling about this place?  What details help show that feeling?  Use those details to write a paragraph–or two–to desribe your place.
Homework:  Read 15-30 minutes in a book of your choice.  I have nominated seven bloggers/students for a Sunshine Award.  Each of them will then nominate seven more students.  Once you are nominated, complete the directions as given here and check out the other posts here.   Test over Group 7 and Group 8 vocabulary Friday.

Tuesday

Objectives:

  • Use RUPR to creat a plan for the writing prompt.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 13 (Tuesday – sentence parts).  Use the steps of RUPR to create a plan for the writing prompt.  I will time you for each step.  Spend 2-3 minutes reading the prompt and underlining the key words.  Then spend 10 minutes creating your plan for writing.  Once your plan is complete, work with a partner to revise your plan.  What other kinds of details can you add?
Homework: Read a book of your choice for 15-30 minutes.  I have nominated seven bloggers/students for a Sunshine Award.  Each of them will then nominate seven more students.  Once you are nominated, complete the directions as given here and check out the other posts here.   Test over Group 7 and Group 8 vocabulary Friday.

Wednesday

Objectives:

  • Use participles to focus on details in writing.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 13 (Wednesday – clauses, sentence type and purpose).  A participle is a verb ending in -ing (or -ed for a past participle).  Even though participles are formed from verbs, they work like adjectives in a sentence because they describe a noun.  We’ll look at some pictures and write sentences using participles or participle phrases to describe the picture.  Not only do participles allow you to zoom in on details in your writing, they also give your sentences more variety.
Homework: Read a book of your choice for 15 -30 minutes.  I have nominated seven bloggers/students for a Sunshine Award.  Each of them will then nominate seven more students.  Once you are nominated, complete the directions as given here and check out the other posts here.   Test over Group 7 and Group 8 vocabulary Friday.

Thursday

Objectives:

  • Write a blog post.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 13 (Thursday – Correct capitalization and punctuation).   I will check Writer’s Notebooks/Blogs for your writing during the month of February next week.  You should have your posts about making up snow days and the Sunshine Award.  In your notebooks, you should have the writing plan we did in class and the synonyms for said and walk.  You should have at least two writings of your choice as well.  Today, you may finish up any and all of the assignments you need.  I will also work with those of you who did not quite get the questions on the Sierra Oscar Sierra story.
Homework: Read 15-30 minutes in a book of your choice.  I have nominated seven bloggers/students for a Sunshine Award.  Each of them will then nominate seven more students.  Once you are nominated, complete the directions as given here and check out the other posts here.   Test over Group 7 and Group 8 vocabulary Friday.

Friday

Objectives:

  • Set reading goals for the week.
  • Test over Group 7 and Group 8 Vocabulary.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 13 (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. After you finish your reading, tell your partner what you read today.  If you can’t remember anything you read, you are reading too fast.  Vocabulary test today over Groups 7 and 8 Greek roots.
Homework:  Read 15-30 minutes in a book of your choice.  I have nominated seven bloggers/students for a Sunshine Award.  Each of them will then nominate seven more students.  Once you are nominated, complete the directions as given here and check out the other posts here.  Test over Group 7 and Group 8 vocabulary Friday.

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