Today in Class...1/29

Today is the end of Marking Period 3!
Period 1/3:
1. Thematic writing...earn a treat for well-developed body paragraphs!
2. Quiet reading day: Library (for those ready who are ready)
HW: NONE! :)
(get a free reading book if you do not have one)

Period 5/7:
1. Quiet reading day: Libarary
2. Video: White Fang
HW: NONE! :)

Period 4 HW: None

Today in Class...1/27

Period 1/3:
1. "Buffy" short answer color-coding
2. (Card for Mrs. Popek)
3. Themes in TSB
4. TSB discussion time
HW: Next 15 pages of TSB

Period 5/7:
1. Call Jeopardy!
2. Discuss end/Read end together (closure)
3. Thematic webs (groups)
HW: Call test tomorrow!

Today in Class...1/26

Period 1/3:
1. "Buffy" short response
2. Grade/assignment sheets...Thursday is last day for any make up work!
3. Man vs. Wild (finish)
4. TSB reading time
HW: TSB reading

Period 5/7:
1. "Buffy" short response
2. Call catch up time
3. Grade/assignment sheets
HW: Finish Call by tomorrow, Test Thurs!!

BONUS 9!

Make a list of all of the survival stories we've read, watched or discussed so far in this unit. Which one was the most amazing to you? Explain your choice. Submit your answer to Mrs. Law by Thursday, Jan. 28th for 5 bonus points! First three to submit receive a prize!

Today in Class...1/25

Period 1/3:
1. "Buffy"- listening practice
2. TSB: "Say something", moving on...Can Cole be trusted to try again?
HW: Island journal due tom., TSB reading

Period 5/7:
1. "Buffy"- listening practice
2. Call: "Say something", moving on....How does Buck prove his devotion to John?
HW: Finish book by Wed, island journal due tom., CALL TEST THURS.

Period 4 HW: Island journal, finish book by Wed, Call TEST THURS

Today in Class...1/22

Period 1/3:
1. Vocabulary test (5 minutes to look over words!)
2. Catch up on reading, homework or journal (due Tuesday)
2. TSB reading time...group? independent?

HW: TSB 16, 17, 18 and packet page 19
Journal due Tuesday

Period 5/7:
1. Vocab test (5 min study time)
2. purple books
3. Call time
HW: Call ch 6 with guide Monday

Today in Class..1/20

Period 1/3:
1. Vocabulary review: revolving posters
2. Characterization- What type of person is Cole?
3. 14 & 15
HW: Chapters 16, 17 & 18 with Chapter questions (p. 19) due Monday

Period 5/7:
1. Go over fill-ins
2. Revolving posters: Vocab review
3. Call Ch 5 discussion...What is Jack London's message about inexperience in the Klondike?
HW: Chapter 6 due Monday with guide/sled

Period 4 HW: Chapter 6 due Monday with guide and sled

Today in Class 1/20

Period 1/3:
1. Finish/go over vocabulary (reading time if done)
2. The new "purple book"
3. Conflict in TSB
4. PART 2: TSB (popcorn reading)

HW: Read TSB Chs 14 & 15, Vocab test Friday

Period 5/7:
1. Characters of C.O.W activity
2. Vocabulary
3. Purple book

HW: Ch 5 and chapter guide/sled, Vocab test Friday

Period 4 HW: Call packet pages 13 and 17

Today in Class...1/19

Period 1/3:
1. Vocab fill-ins and word families
2. TSB: Ball of Knowledge 9-12
3. TSB con...
HW: TSB journal and reading

Period 5/7:
1. Chapters 3 and 4..Who is on our sled team?
2. Chapter 5
3. Purple books
HW: Finish Ch 5 with guide and sled by

Period 4: Finish Ch 5 Call with guide

Today in Class...1/14

Period 1/3:
1. Go over vocab & next activity
2. Hypothermia...what do you remember?
3. Does a spirit bear really exist?
4. Reading time...What would you eat if you were starving on an island?
HW: TSB 9,10,11 Friday, TSB quiz Fri, Journal due Monday

Period 5/7:
1. Vocabulary
2. Purple books
3. C.O.W activity, catch up on reading
HW: Chapter 3 due Friday, quiz 1-3 Friday

Period 4: Chapter 4 due Friday with guide

Today in Class...1/13

Period 1/3:
1. Vocabulary work time
2. Chapter questions 6,7,8
3. Present character poems
4. Popcorn reading...Ch 9

HW: Finish chapter guide sheet (p 12), ReadChs 9,10 and 11 for Friday (QUIZ FRI!)

Period 5/7:
1. Vocabulary work time
2. Purple books
3. Call Ch 2 discuss
4. Ch 3....
HW: Chapter 3 Call due Friday with sled and ch guide...QUIZ 1-3 Fri!

Today in Class...1/12

Period 1/3:
1. New vocabulary (con.)
2. Beck Weathers/ Everest
3. Characters in TSB...activity
4. TSB reading time

HW: Chs 6,7,8 TSB due tomorrow with packet page

Period 5/7:
1. Beck Weathers/Everest
2. Vocabulary
3. New purple grammar/skills books
4. Time for Call reading
HW: Call Ch 2 with guide and sleds

Per 4: Call ch 3 due Wed, Quiz 1-3 Wed

Today in Class...1/11

Period 1/3:
1. New vocabulary: survival unit
2. TSB: Discuss 3,4,5
3. Finish Everest video
HW: Read TSB Chs 6, 7, 8 by Wed.- Be ready for another book quiz

Period 5/7:
1. New vocabulary
2. Call Ch 1: Discuss
3. Finish Everest video
HW: Read Call Ch 2 by Wednesday with ch guide and updated dog sleds

Period 4: Chapter 3 Call by Wed. with guide and finish graphic organizer

Today in Class...1/8

Periods 1/3 and 5/7:
1. Beck Weathers: A Survival Story (non-fiction)
What happens when you are left for dead on the top of Mt. Everest?
2. Everest: video

HW: Period 1/3: TSB Chs 3, 4, 5
Period 5/7: Call Ch1 with guide and "Buck's Travels"

Period 4: Call Ch 2 with chapter guide, dog sled and study guide questions

Today in Class..1/7

Period 1/3:
1. Poetry quiz
2. TSB: Discuss Ch's 1&2...
Is Cole Matthews capable of change?
Hw: Chapters 3, 4 &5 TSB due Monday

Period 5/7:
1. Poetry quiz
2. Call of Wild: pre-reading
3. Start novel!
HW: Chapter 1 and chapter guide due Monday

Period 4 HW: Call chapter 2 with guide due Monday

Today in Class...1/6

Period 1/3:
1. Poetry:
-share
-hyperbole
-poems for fun!
2. TSB:
- Ben M.'s North Pole adventure
-Chapter 1: Quick check
-Moving on..
HW: Finish Chapter 2 TSB and do study guide questions (p. 8 in packet)

Period 5/7:
1. Poetry:
-share
-hyperbole
-poems for fun!
2. "Klondike fever"-video
3. Webquest share
HW: Finish Klondike fever sheet

Period 4 HW: Chapter 1 with study guide due tomorrow

Today in Class...1/5

Period 1/3:
1. handbacks: journals and lit circle packets...Didn't get one back? What is your plan?
2. Poetry:
-share/collect poems
-haikus
-p.o.s poem, form poem
3. TSB: (Touching Spirit Bear)
Go over book preview
Finish North Pole Adventure
HW: TSB Chapter 1

Period 5/7:
1. Poetry workshop
2. Finish Lab Research
3. C.O.W pre-reading activities
HW: COW journal

Period 4:
HW: Call of the Wild Chapter 1 with chapter 1 guide

Today in Class...1/4/2010!!!

Welcome back! Happy New Year!
*Please find your childhood poems that you wrote before break...

Period 1/3:
1. Poetry con....
(childhood, acrostic, and new terms...)
2. Starting our new novel of the survival unit...
Who is Ben Mikaelsen?
What is this book all about?
HW: Touching Spirit Bear reading

Period 5/7:
(Please locate your childhood poems that you wrote before break)
1. Poetry con...
2. Jack London/Call of Wild pre-reading web research (LAB)
HW: Get/read free reading book....will be checked tomorrow!

Period 4:
1. Klondike fever (video)
HW: Day in the life of a......(point of view/perspective journal)