Week at a Glance: March 17 – 21

Monday

Objectives:

  • Finish vocabulary presentations.

Daily Grammar Practice Week  13 (Monday – parts of speech).  Second period will be taking the social studies portion of ISTEP today.  After the test is finished, I will read from Notes from the Dog by Gary Paulsen to 2nd and 6th periods.  I will read from Moonbird by Phillip Hoose to 1st, 3rd, 4th periods.  I will read from Endangeredby Eliot Shafer to 7th period.  Students who did not get to present their skit for their vocabulary word will do so today.  .
Homework:  Read 15-30 minutes in a book of your choice.

Tuesday

Objectives:

  • Avoid dangling participles and misplaced modifiers.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 13 (Tuesday – sentence parts).   What is a dangling participle or misplace modifier?  Watch this video to find out:  Grammar Pop Dangling Participles.  Then we will correct twenty sentences that may or may not have dangling participles or other misplaced modifiers.  You can find the quiz at Chomp Chomp.
Homework: Read a book of your choice for 15-30 minutes.

Wednesday

Objectives:

  • Create illustrations of dangling participles.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 14 (Wednesday – clauses, sentence type and purpose). Dangling participles can lead to some pretty silly sentences.  Choose one of the dangling participles from the sentence I give you.  Draw a picture  that shows the silly meaning of the sentence.  Your picture should include the original sentence, a picture that illustrates the unintended meaning, and the corrected sentence.
Homework: Read a book of your choice for 15 -30 minutes.

Thursday

Objectives:

  • Write about your reading.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 14 (Thursday – Correct capitalization and punctuation).  Think about the books you have read and books you want to read.  Write at least a 150 word blog post giving at least two books in each of the following categories:  1) Books to read – these are books you haven’t read yet, but that you want to read.  2) Books to reread – These are books that you read and loved enough to want to read again.  3)  Books not to read – These are books that you don’t want to waste your time reading, even if everyone else loves them.  Explain why your chose the two books in each category, and include pictures of the books.  Make sure you edit and proofread before publishing.  Check out this post for further directions.

Friday

Objectives:

  • Set reading goals for the week.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 14 (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.
Homework:  Read 15-30 minutes in a book of your choice.

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