Today in Class...6/1

Reminder: Portfolios due on June 10th! PPP's starting on Monday, June 7th.

Periods 1/3 and 5/7:
1. Memories...What are all of the memories (good and bad) Jonas has received so far?
2. Chapter 18...Read together (What is release?)
3. Lab: 1. Persuasive speech facts 2. Portfolios
HW: Chapters 18 and 19 complete...(Finish book by Friday)
No more blue sheets! (but expect a quick quiz or two..) Focus on portfolio.
Vocab test tomorrow!

Period 4 HW: Finish persuasive final drafts

Today in Class...5/28

Period 1/3 :
1. Persuasive speech to Elders...Find some facts to back up your position!
2. Vocabulary review
HW: Giver Chs 16 and 17 with blue sheet

Period 5/7:
1. Persuasive task...
2. Giver...
3. Vocab review
HW: Chs 16 and 17 with blue sheet

Period 4: Finish "Future Tense" questions

Today in Class...5/27

Periods 1/3 and 5/7:
1. Color....How important is it to us?
2. Discuss Ch's 11-13
3. Read on...
4. Persuasive task (for portfolio and for last marking period)
HW: Giver reading, Persuasive task outline....NO blue sheet tonight :)

Period 4 HW: Finish "Future Tense" questions

Today in Class...5/26

Periods 1/3 & 5/7:
1. Independent work time:
-Color association sheet
-Giver reading (11, 12, 13 due tom)
-blue sheet
-complete journal (due today)

2. Vocabulary
HW: Giver reading and blue sheet (11, 12, 13)

Today in Class...5/25

Periods 1/3 & 5/7:
1. Lab...Portfolios (blue sheet ready first!)
2. Finish vocab
3. Tomorrow: Science test for some...Independent work time, Butterfly pictures
HW: Giver Ch's 11, 12 & 13 by Thursday (w blue sheet)
Journal due tomorrow!

Period 4 HW: Vocab comics

Today in Class...5/24

Periods 1/3 & 5/7:
1. Pick another journal...due Wednesday
2. Chs 6-8 quick quiz
3. Moving on...What will Jonas discover about his community?
4. New vocabulary (11-20)
HW: Finish Ch 10 and blue sheet, Journal due Wednesday

Period 4 HW: Vocab comics 11-20

Today in Class...5/19

Periods 1/3, 5/7:
1. What are all of the rules, routines and procedures of Jonas's world? (Brainstorming)
2. Moving on in book (circle read)
3. Vocab "comics"
HW: Finish class reading, Journal choice due tomorrow

Today in Class...5/18

Period 1/3 &5/7:
(1. Period 5/7 only: Discuss "Lest We Forget")
1. New journal choices
2. Quick quiz Ch's 1-3
3. Read on..
4. New vocabulary (First 10 words)
HW: Finish Chapters 4 & 5 with blue sheet
Vocab dialogues

Period 4 HW: Complete "Lest We Forget" questions

Today in Class...5/17

Remember: Portfolio mid-point conferences on Thursday!

Period 1/3:
1. Discuss Chapter 1...What is strange about this world?
2. Chapter 2...What happens at "The Ceremony of Twelve?"
3. "Utopia"- What is it? Does it exist today?
HW: Read Chapter 3, continue to fill out "huh" sheet, Ch 1-3 quick quiz tom.

Period 5/7:
1. Discuss Chapter 1..What is strange about this world?
2. Chapter 2 &3...(Read independently)..What happens at "The Ceremony of 12?"
3. Lab time: Portfolios
HW: Read Chapters 2&3, continue to fill out "huh" sheet, quiz quiz tomorrow

Today in Class..5/14

All classes: Portfolio conferences coming up! Periods 1/3, 5/7 on Thursday! Period 4 on Monday!

Period 1/3:
1. Finish Freedom Writers
2. The Giver materials and start reading
HW: Fill out "huh" sheet and finish Chapter 1

Period 5/7:
1. Share "memories"
2. Read "Lest We Forget"- short story
3. The Giver materials...start reading!
HW: Fill out "huh" sheet and finish Chapter 1

Period 4: Finish persuasive first drafts, works cited and self-edit!