1. Collected writing portfolios and writing reflection assignment.

2. Worked on SS lessons in preparation for Outside Reading assignment:

-Story Elements

-Theme

-Story Structure

 

HW: Finish SS lessons and OR book. Bring your book to class on Monday!

1. Adjective quiz

 

2. Work on portfolio

 

3. Class raffle

 

HW: Finish writing portfolio (due tomorrow) and read OR

1. Scored the Other Side of the Sky notebook.

2. Corrected Posttest in Adjectives grammar packet.

3. Discussed new Trimester 1 Portfolio Writing Assignment (due Friday 12/14)

 

HW: Read OR book (need to be finished with it by Monday 12/17--please bring book to class for upcoming project)

1. Correct 5.3 and 5.4 grammar

2. Review Other Side of Sky writing in SS

3. Review sample peer essays as class

4. Peer review 3 writings using post-it-notes

5. Work on revisions in 2nd draft.

 

HW: Print out 1st/2nd draft/3 changes in writing, finish Proofreading section in grammar packet pg. 152-153 & complete Blast and Textual Evidence SS assignments

1. Reviewed skill focus annotations and writing prompt graphic organizers in groups. Shared out.

 

2. Graded 5.1 and 5.2 grammar answers.

 

3. Worked on writing prompt from "The Other Side of the Sky" in BOTH 365 and SS. Submit in SS when completed and complete peer reviews.

 

HW: Finish the writing assignment (located in Close Read in SS) and complete grammar lessons 5.3 and 5.4 (1-10 each).

1. Discuss annotations from The Other Side...

 

2. Complete Close Read: The Other Side: Vocabulary, Skill Focus Questions (highlight in text) and Reading Comprehension only.

 

3. Complete grammar lessons 5.1 & 5.2 (adjectives #1-10)

 

HW: Complete any unfinished work from class

1. Score Notebooks

 

2. Read "The Other Side of the Sky" and complete Level 1, 2 and 3 (Think questions)

 

HW: Finish annotations

1. Edited Barrio Boy writing assignment via post-it-note activity.

2. Reviewed possible revisions and suggestions to make while reviewing peer work.

3. Revised own writing and make (3) changes in 365. Listed the changes at bottom of 2nd draft and highlighted in text.

4. New grammar lessons: Adjectives Unit 5.

 

HW: Finish pretest in Adjective packet #1-20 only pgs. 142-143

1. Reviewed focus questions 1-5 in groups along with annotations.

2. Completed graphic organizer before writing Barrio Boy prompt.

3. Worked on Close Read: Barrio Boy writing prompt (in 365) and then submitted in SS.

 

HW: Make sure to finish writing and submit in SS

1. Shared out level 1, 2 and 3 annotations and discussed.

 

2. Worked on Barrio Boy: Close Read assignment: Vocab, Focus Questions (in the Read section) and Reading Comprehension.

 

3. Complete Blast assignment: In Pursuit

 

4. Complete Skill Lesson: Central/Main Idea

 

HW: Finish whatever you did not complete in class

1. Collected The Giver essay rewrite (with 3 changes noted on the bottom)

 

2. Corrected verb grammar quiz

 

3. Introduced new unit "What makes a person undertake a mission?"

 

HW: Read Barrio Boy in SS BOOK (page 5) and make Level 1 annotations (blue), Level 2 annotations (yellow) and Level 3 (pink) Think questions.

1. Verb quiz

2. Reviewed "exmeplar" Giver essays and then made (3) revisions to own essay.

3. Type Giver essay into 365 account with at least (3) changes from 1st draft to 2nd draft. List changes at bottom of essay.

4. Read OR book

 

HW: Bring printed revision of The Giver essay to class on Monday 11/26!

1. Completed StudySync notebook check.

2. Corrected Unit 3 review.

3. Worked on NEW verb SS lessons online (used as review for quiz tomorrow):

-Irregular Verbs I

-Indirect Objects

-Direct Objects

-Transitive/Intransitive Verbs

 

HW: Finish SS lessons and study for quiz tomorrow!