Monday, August 26, 2013
Grade 6 ELA:
> Play "I Have, Who Has?"
Homework: Complete a Reader's Companion for "Oscar and the Big Fish" or "The Giving Tree" and write 23 compound sentences using the sight words and/or advanced words.
DUE THURSDAY AT THE START OF CLASS
Grade 7(B) ELA Enrichment:
> Read sight words and advanced words and write dialogues between two of them
Grade 10 ELA:
> Play "I Have, Who Has?"
> Continue writing your own personal narrative inspired by "Prescilla with Wings"
Homework: Type and email to ak@webstaclecourse.com, either in the body of the email or as an attachment, your personal narrative. DUE TUESDAY 11:59PM (MIDNIGHT)
Tuesday, August 27, 2013y
Grade 6 ELA:
> Take a diagnostic exam -- multiple-choice and short essay
Grade 7(B) ELA Enrichment:
> Continue to write and then share dialogues between characters whose names are sight words
> Write a short short story with one of the sight (or advanced) words as the title
Grade 10 ELA:
> Read "The Concrete River" and discuss in groups the 15 Questions to Ask and Answer When Dissecting a Poem
Homework: Type and email to ak@webstaclecourse.com, either in the body of the email or as an attachment, your personal narrative. DUE TONIGHT AT 11:59PM (MIDNIGHT)
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Grade 6 ELA:
> Continue to take the diagnostic exam
HOMEWORK: Turn in a Reader's Companion for either "Oscar and the Big Fish" or "The Giving Tree" if you haven't already and 23 compound sentences using the sight and advanced words
Grade 7(A) ELA Enrichment:
> Write and then share dialogues between characters whose names are sight and advanced words
Grade 10:
> Continue to read and discuss "The Concrete River"
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Grade 6 ELA:
> Turn in homework
> Share aloud various types of sentences (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex)
Grade 7(A) ELA Enrichment:
> Continue to write and share dialgues whose names are sight and advanced words
Grade 10 ELA:
> Play "I Have Who Has?" with 44 literary terms
Homework: ATTEND BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT FOR 50/60 EXTRA CREDIT POINTS
Friday, August 30, 2013
Grade 6 ELA:
> Read aloud via call-and-response "Green Eggs and Ham" and discuss apparent literary devices
Grade 7(A) ELA Enrichment:
> Share and turn in dialogues.
Grade 10 ELA:
> Read aloud and discuss "Green Eggs and Ham" and discuss the author's use of literary devices, including meter: iambic tetrameter, trochaic tetrameter