Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Thursday, Feb. 28

Periods 1, 2, 4
1. Finish Selective Underlining

Periods 6-7
1. Review parts of speech
2. Identify parts of speech in a song
Group read while answering questions
7. FCAT questions in Rewards and Fluency
8. Summary writing/target notes

Wednesday, Feb. 27

Periods 1, 2, 4
1. Read-On

Periods 6-7
1. Odyssey
2. SSR
3. I-journal

Tuesday, February 26

Periods 1, 2, 4
1. Finish questions and target notes from Friday
2. Begin S.U.

Periods 6-7
1. Fluency
2. Word wall
3. Read aloud
4. Finish G.O.
6. Finish Mad Libs

Monday, February 25, 2008

Monday, Feb. 25

Periods 1, 2, 4
1. Copy editing test
2. Finish target notes and questions from friday
3. Begin S.U.

Periods 6-7
1. Fun with Mad Libs
2. Create your own Mad Lib
3. Word wall review (fig language words plus Rewards)
3. Fluency
4. Read aloud

Friday, February 22, 2008

Friday, Feb. 22

Periods 1, 2, 4
1. Teacher read of Impact story
2. Complete target notes of story while reading with a partner
3. Complete questions with partner

Periods 6-7
1. Copy editing test
2. Reading for endurance
3. Complete graphic organizer while reading story with partner

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Thursday, Feb. 21

Periods 1, 2, 4
1. Read-On

Periods 6-7
1. Odyssey
2. SSR
3. I-Journal

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Wednesday, Feb. 20

Periods 1, 2, 4
1. Figurative language practice
2. Review word wall
3. Finish pre-reading activity from yesterday
4. Read Impact story for fluency
5. Teacher read

Periods 6-7
1. Grammar lesson (bad, badly)
2. Fluency
3. Read aloud
4. Hypothetical scenario (background knowledge of British empire)
5. Review lists 1-3
6. Fluency for endurance (Rewards Plus)
7. SSR
8. I-Journal

Tuesday, Feb. 19

Periods 1, 2, 4
1. Pre-reading activity (watch PBS documentary while completing worksheet)

Periods 6-7
1. Pre-reading activity (watch Gulliver's Travels and then write one-page summary)

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Thursday, Feb. 14

Periods 1, 2, 4
1. Read-On

Periods 6-7
1. Odyssey

Wednesday, Feb. 13

Period 1
1. Catch-up day

Periods 2, 4
1. Guest speaker

Periods 6-7
1. Grammar quiz
2. News of the day
3. Fluency
4. Catch up day
5. SSR

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Tuesday, Feb. 12

Periods 1, 2, 4
Testing

Periods 6, 7
1. Create podcast on Garage Band

Monday, February 11, 2008

Monday, Feb. 11

Periods 1, 2, 4
1. Finish scripts
2. Finish summaries

Periods 6-7
1. Grammar quiz
2. Fluency
3. Read-aloud
4. Time to study for vocab quiz
5. Vocab quiz
6. New vocab
7. Complete VIS

Friday, Feb. 8

Periods 1, 2, 4
1. Read-On

Periods 6-7
1. Fluency
2. Grammar quiz
3. Read aloud
4. SSR
5. I-journal

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Thursday, Feb. 7

Periods 1, 2, 4
1. Grammar quiz
2. Finish slides

Periods 6, 7
1. Grammar quiz
2. Fluency
3. Finish similes/metaphors
4. Finish podcast slides/take pictures

Thursday, Feb. 7

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Wednesday, Feb. 6

Periods 1, 2, 4
1. Finish similes from yesterday
2. Create eight metaphors using the form provided

Periods 6-7
1. Today in the news
2. Grammar quiz
3. Finish similes
4. Begin metaphors

Tuesday, Feb. 5

Periods 1, 2, 4
1. Grammar quiz
2. Create eight similes using the form provided

Periods 6-7
1. Grammar quiz
2. Create eight similes using the form provided
3. Fluency
4. SSR
5. Journal

Friday, February 1, 2008

Monday, Feb. 4

Periods 1, 2, 4
1. Read on reading improvement program

Periods 6-7
1. Odyssey
2. Grammar quiz
3. SSR
4. Journal on SSR

Friday, Feb. 1

Periods 1, 2,4
1. Finish writing podcast script

Periods 6-7
1. Grammar quiz
2. Finish podcast script
3. SSR
4. Journal

Thursday, Jan. 31

Periods 1, 2, 4
1. Explain the podcast project
2. Begin writing podcast script using a story from the pink AMSCO book

Periods 6, 7
1. Grammar quiz
2. Fluency
3. Explain podcast project
4. Begin writing podcast script
5. SSR