Today in Class...12/22

Periods 1/3 and 5/7:

1. Circle poems
2. Share parable projects!

HW: none
(Stay after school for any catch up on projects!!)

Period 4:
HW: none

Today in Class...12/21

Period 1/3:
1. The Giving Tree...closure/ What is free verse?
2. More poetry...
3. Library/lab (Free reading books and finishing touches on projects?)


Period 5/7:
1. The Giving Tree...free verse
2. Library/computers (books and last minute project fixes)
HW: Giving Tree journal #2

Today in Class...12/17

Periods 1/3 and 5/7:
1. Finish Man vs. Wild...Alaska survival
2. Poetry workshop:
-alliteration
-childhood poems
3. Lab- photostories (Sharing in class next Tuesday and Wednesday!)

HW: Finish childhood poem

Period 4:
HW: Purple skills book pages 411 & 412

Today in Class...12/16

Periods 1/3 & 5/7:
1. Share poems
2. Hypothermia article
3. Intro to "Survival Unit": Video...How to survive extreme conditions in Alaska
HW: Finish video sheet

Period 4:
1. Lab (finish research and picture collecting)
2. Posters

Today in Class...12/15

Periods 1/3 and 5/7:
1. Poetry Workshop:
-Finish simile and metaphor work and go over
(5 sense poems)
-More original metaphor poems: Childhood and Family/Friends poems

2. Lab- photostory project con.
*Make sure you use your grading sheet to check that everything is done correctly!
*Finished?...Extra credit photstory opportunity

HW: Finish Childhood and Family poems

Today in Class...12/11

*It's the last day of Marking Period 2! Lunch today is your last chance for any make up/back work!

Period 1/3 and 5/7:
1. "Clean up" time....
2. Poetry workshop: similes and metaphors
3. Lab- parable projects

HW: Finish literature circle book and role

Today in Class...12/10

Periods 1/3 and 5/7:
1. Go over 3 Little Pigs
2. Poetry workshop: Similes and Metaphors (part I)
3. Lab: Photostory project
Importing and arranging pictures
Adding text to story

HW: Period 1/3: Finish free reading book! Groups meeting briefly on Monday, powerball/pearl essay turned in tomorrow

Period 5/7: Make sure powerball/pearl essay is in by tomorrow!

Period 4 HW: None

Today in Class...12/9

Periods 1/3 and 5/7: (shortened periods)
1. Listening practice...(Another example of money not always buying happiness!)
2. Go over Charles/Red Chief
3. POETRY!! YIPEEE!

HW: Finish 3 little pig questions

Period 4:
1. The Last Leaf
HW: Last chance for journals! stay after school or at lunch

Today in Class...12/8

Periods 1/3 and 5/7:
1. "Charles"...another story with irony
2. Storyboard complete? Ticket to computer...collecting pictures

ALL CLASSES: Finish Charles/Ransom worksheet

Today in Class...12/7

Periods 1/3 and 5/7:
1. "The Ransom of Red Chief"- O.Henry
2. Parable project: Storyboards
HW: Finish storyboard

Period 4:
1. "Charles"
HW: Finish Charles/Red Chief worksheet

Today in Class...12/4

Periods 1/3 and 5/7:
1. Finish written response and color-coding
2. New in-class project! Photostory 3- Be your own writer, graphics specialist AND producer!

HW: Finish writing parable

Period 4:
1. "The Last Leaf"- O.Henry
HW: free read

Today in Class...12/3

Periods 1/3 and 5/7:
1. Write a stellar written response! The Pearl/Powerball
2. O.Henry
3. "The Last Leaf"...Listen and draw!

HW: Complete or improve inspiration journal (Irony journal #2) if not finished

Period4:
1. Prized possessions
2. The Gift of the Magi
HW: Irony journal #2 due Monday

Today in Class...12/2

Periods 1/3 and 5/7:
1. Non-fiction article..Powerball (con.)
What makes for a GREAT written response?
2. Your most prized possessions...
3. "The Gift of the Magi" by O.Henry... one of our favorites!!

HW: Irony Journal #2- Greatest inspiration

Period 4:
1. Your most prized possessions
2. "The Gift of the Magi"
HW: Journal #2- Greatest inspiration

Today in Class...12/1

Periods 1/3, 5/7:
1. A true life Pearl story?
2. (lit circles period 3)
3. Irony

HW: Journal: prized possession

Period 4:
1. Present parables
2. Irony
HW: prized possession journal