Week at a Glance: May 12 – 16

Monday

Objectives:

  • Analyze the parts of a book review.

Daily Grammar Practice Week  26 (Monday – parts of speech).  Present book talks.  While you are listening to your classmates share about their books, add books to your Someday Books list.
Homework: Read a book of your choice for 15-30 minutes.

Tuesday

Objectives:

  • Present book talks.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 26 (Tuesday – sentence parts).  Present book talks.  While you are listening to your classmates share about their books, add books to your Someday Books list.
Homework: Read a book of your choice for 15-30 minutes.

Wednesday

Objectives:

  • Create a reading and writing plan for the summer.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 26 (Wednesday – clauses, sentence type and purpose). Here are some ways you can share what you are reading and writing over the summer:  visit my blog, join middle school group at GoodRead, create your own blog.  Write a blog post that describes how you will continue to share what you are reading and writing over the summer.  What are five books that you are interested in reading?
Homework: Read a book of your choice for 15 -30 minutes.

Thursday

Objectives:

  • Complete Language Arts Post Test.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 26 (Thursday – Correct capitalization and punctuation). Complete Language Arts Post Test.  Yes, it’s for a grade.

Friday

Objectives:

  • Set reading goals for the week.
  • Complete DGP Post Test.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 26 (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.  Complete DGP Post Test.
Homework:  Read 15-30 minutes in a book of your choice.

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