Monday, August 19, 2013
Grade 6 ELA:
> Complete and review the Reader's Companion for "Oscar and the Big Fish" and "The Giving Tree."
Grade 7(B) ELA Enrichment:
> Read "Oscar and the Big Fish" and discuss key vocabulary and central theme
Grade 10 ELA:
> Continue writing your own personal narrative inspired by "Prescilla with Wings"
For ideas on how to write a set-up that is replete with sensory details and which foreshadows -- albeit ambiguously -- what is to come later, read the first few paragraphs of Roald Dahl's "Lamb to the Slaughter."
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Grade 6 ELA:
> Complete a Reader's Companion for "The Giving Tree"
> Preview this Menu of Literary Techniques
Grade 7(C) ELA Enrichment:
> Read "Oscar and the Big Fish" and discuss key vocabulary and central theme
> Also go over this Menu of Literary Techniques
Grade 10 ELA:
> Menu of Literary Techniques and discuss how they relate to your narrative
> Continue writing your personal narrative
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Grade 6 ELA:
> Complete and turn in a Reader's Companion for "Oscar and the Big Fish" OR "The Giving Tree"
> Read aloud sight words and advanced practice words
Grade 7(A) ELA Enrichment:
> Read "Oscar and the Big Fish" and discuss key vocabulary and central theme
> Also go over this Menu of Literary Techniques
Grade 10:
> Continue writing your personal narrative
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Grade 6 ELA and Grade 7 ELA Enrichment::
> Learn about sentence types and write 23 compound sentences
Grade 10 ELA:
> Review a peer's narrative then heed the advice of your peer in the revision of your own narrative
Friday, August 23, 2013
Grade 6 ELA and Grade 7 ELA Enrichment::
> Continue to learn about sentence types and to write 23 compound sentences
Grade 10 ELA:
> Play "I Have Who Has?" with 44 literary terms