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)