Week of Jan. 27-31

Hello.  This week students will be writing a 3-event adventure story.  The final copy will be due at the beginning of classtime on Friday.

Reminder--Book Talk will be on Wed., Feb. 12th.  All students must have completely finished reading their books by that day.

HOMEWORK:
 Mon--reading log due tomorrow
Tues--finish 1st draft of story
Wed--have grade check signed
Thur--final copy of story due tomorrow
Fri--read on Book Talk book

READING EXPLORATORY

We will work on contractions, possessive pronouns, and apostrophes this week.  We will also finish reading The Outsiders.

Homework:
Mon--no HW
Tues--none
Wed--have grade check signed; finish Ch. 9
Thur--finish reading Ch. 11
Fri--no HW

Week of Jan. 21-24

Hello!  This week we will be focusing on using quotation marks in dialogue in preparation for writing an adventure story.

All students will be checking out a new Book Talk book for third quarter on Tuesday.  Book Talk will be Wed., Feb. 12th, at 2:30; all books must be finished by then.  (We still need a leader for All of the Above.  If you can help, please contact Mrs. Bueno in the library.  Thank you!)

HOMEWORK:
Tues--start reading new Book Talk book
Wed--read at home
Thur--finish copy of dialogue in ink
Fri--read at home

READING EXPLORATORY
     We will continue on The Outsiders and focus on pronouns this week.

HOMEWORK:
Tues--WS 34
Wed--WS 4
Thur--WS 64
Fri--WS 38

Week of Jan. 13-17

Hello!  Maybe we'll have a full week of school!

This week we will continue our narrative poetry unit.  We'll finish "The Highwayman" and move on to "The Cremation of Sam McGee."

HOMEWORK:
Remember that all students are required to read at least 90 minutes per week outside of English class time and record it on the reading log.  Logs are collected and distributed on Tuesdays.

Mon--read at home
Tues--finish WS over "Cremation"
Wed--use study guide to study for test tomorrow
Thur--finish WS on "Blind Men"
Fri--finish final ink or typed copy of snow poem

READING EXPLORATORY

We will be reading The Outsiders as a class.  We will also be spending a few minutes each day focusing on parts of speech starting with nouns.
HOMEWORK:
Mon--none
Tues--WS 1/10 on nouns
Wed--WS Poss Nouns 1
Thur--none
Fri--WS Pronoun 3

Week of Jan 8-10th

Wow!  What a surprise! More snow days!   For the rest of this week we will be starting our narrative poetry unit.  We will begin working with "The Highwayman."

Homework:

Note--all students will be given a reading log on Wednesday for this week.  It will be collected next Tuesday.

Wed--have goal sheet signed
Thur--finish 2 worksheets
Fri--read at home and record it on the reading log

READING EXPLORATORY

We will work with the article "What Are You Afraid Of?"on Wednesday and Thursday. (Thursday is now the last day of the quarter.)

Homework:

Wed--finish writing a short story

Week of Jan. 2-3

Hello and happy new year!  I hope 2014 will be a great year for all.

We are looking for a parent volunteer to lead the Book Talk discussion for the book All of the Above on Wednesday, Feb. 12th from 2:00-2:30.  If you could help us with this, please contact Ms. Bueno in the Cherokee library at 523-7200 or nbueno@spsmail.org.  Thank you so very much!

This week we will be working with non-fiction articles about sharks, focusing on distinguishing author bias.

HOMEWORK:

Reminder--all students should have a self-selected independent reading book that they are reading both at school and at home.

Thurs--clean out all graded papers from the English folder and keep them at home.
Fri--Vocab WS p. 32/58

READING EXPLORATORY
       We will be working on making analogies on Thursday, and using the dictionary to find word etymologies on Friday.