This Week

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Homework

Monday
Finish reading The All American Slurp and answer all questions 1-7

Tuesday
Finish reading Names/Nombres and answer all questions

Test on both stories on Wednesday

Homework

Monday 

Students need to update their Reader's Notebook.  How many novels have they read so far?  How many novels from each genre?  What do they need to read for the rest of the year?  Are they recording page numbers in the book?  Author? Title? Date Completed?  Was the novel easy? Just right? Challenging? 

Students also need to look over Grammar.  Do they know their helping verbs, being verbs, pronouns, nouns, articles and action verbs? Can they tell you what an adjective is? Interrogative Sentence? 


Tuesday

Students have a questionnaire that they are supposed to fill out that pertains to their family's culture and heritage. The questions are not limited to these....it is just a guideline.  They also have a family tree to work on.  This is due Friday.  They may be creative and bring in artifacts, visuals, or recordings.

Students must complete grammar practice sheets.

Students must organize Reader's Notebook. 

Wednesday

Work on project :)

Thursday
Project and Adjectives worksheet for 3rd core

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone enjoyed their much needed "Spring Break!"  This week we will be finishing our unit on Poetry and we will review our Grammar Program.  Hopefully, next week we will start our unit on "Embracing Heritage."

Homework

Monday
Please have students read at home. 
Students should study their notes on helping verbs, being verbs, articles, nouns, pronouns, and action verbs.

Tuesday
Core 1-Study Grammar!! Helping Verbs, Action & Being Verbs, Pronouns, Articles, Nouns

Friday
Some students need to complete worksheet 10 (all students in core 2)

Make-Up Work

Parents,
Please ask your child if they have turned in all of their make-up work for my class. 

Things that I am missing and that I sent home with students today:

• Arachne Questions (in literature book....literature book is also online)
• Arachne Test (open book)
• He Lion, Bruh Bear and Bruh Rabbit Test (open book)
• Grammar Worksheet 2, 3, 7
• Journal Response to Medusa's Head
• Hero Paper
• Cornell Notes for Poetry
• Write a Fable
• Being Verb and Pronoun Test (they must take tomorrow)
• 4 Poems that they wrote following the forms that we studied yesterday and today

All of this work is due tomorrow and I can not accept work after tomorrow. 

Homework

Monday

Finish Figurative Language Packet Core 1 & 2

Core 3: ABAB (rhyme scheme) Poem on things that frighten you :)

Tuesday
Finish Poetry Forms Packet and finish writing 4 poems
(I was out yesterday but this was their homework)

Wednesday
Make-up work, Poetry packets, Poems

Homework

Monday Read Novels!
Study Helping Verbs, Being Verbs and Pronouns.  You really need to know these :)

Tuesday
Read Novels

Wednesday & Thursday
Students did not have homework on these days.... except to read their novels (which is a nightly assignment).

Friday
Enjoy your weekend and Read :)

Homework

Monday
Read Novels

Tuesday
Know Helping Verbs

homework

Monday
Finish "He Lion, Bruh Bear and Bruh Rabbit" pg 845-850 and answer all questions (1-9)

I am so sorry but because I did not assign homework this week I forgot to add it to Tuesday and Wednesday!!

Thursday

Students need to make sure that they are finished with their fables. 

Homework

Monday

Know 12 Pronouns
Know 10 Being Verbs
Finish Main Idea practice sheets

Tuesday
You are writing your rough draft for the Hero Paper

Here is the outline:

Paragraph 1
Hook the reader and state the 2 reasons.

Paragraph 2
Reason 1 with details/events

Paragraph 3
Reason 2 with details/events

Paragraph 4
Conclusion...Remind me why this person is so important to you.

Wednesday
Final Draft of Hero Paper

Thursday
Finish Cornell notes
1st Core- study for Pronouns and being verbs test

Homework this week

Students should read their novels every night.

Students should know being verbs by Friday (am, is, are, was,were, be, been, being, become, seem)

Homework

Monday
Study Personal Pronouns (12)
Work on Weekly Essentials....no vocab this week
Read novels

Tuesday
Please bring in Progress Reports signed
Students received extra information to help with extra credit project due this Friday
Work on Weekly Essentials
Read Novel
Study Pronouns

Wednesday
study pronouns and work on weekly essentials.

Thursday
Students should be prepared to present their extra credit projects on Friday.
Weekly Essentials are due tomorrow.

Homework

Monday
Read Novel, finish Grammar worksheet if not completed in class, and finish myth.

Tuesday
Read Novel, finish Grammar worksheet if not completed in class, and finish myth.  Make sure Myth is final copy and has an illustration



Wednesday Finish Grammar worksheet, and read novel


Thursday
Know 12 pronouns for quiz, finish worksheet 4, and read novel

Next Week

I am meeting with students next week (hopefully, Monday) to discuss their Reader's Notebook and reading logs.  Students should be keeping up with these and reading every night at home.  Some students will need to work on their notebooks this weekend. There grade will be recorded as a test grade.  This is very important.  

Things I will be looking for:

Accurately recording novels in notebook:
Page numbers, Genre, Date completed, Author and Title
Number of novels read so far
Variety of Genres
Organization
Journal Responses
Reading Levels


I will also be sending home an orange sheet with their CFA scores (benchmarks) and Lexile Scores.  Please read over these, sign and return to school. 

Homework

Monday
Weekly Essentials but students do not have vocabulary this week because we are working on Grammar and Mythology.

Tuesday
Finish Grammar worksheet

Wednesday
Finish Grammar worksheet and work on weekly essentials