This week we will finish reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Students will take a quiz on Wednesday. Our field trip to see the play is Thursday. Friday students will be using Flipgrid to make a comparison between the text and the play.

 

Homework: Monday - read/listen to Stave IV, Tuesday - read/listen to Stave V, Wednesday - character analysis chart due and quiz

Welcome back from Fall Break!

 

Skills: point of view, summarization, theme, sensory images to develop meaning

 

We will begin this week by participating in thinking routines to set up our learning for this quarter. Students will read "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" by Walter Dean Meyers. Through the reading of this text, students will analyze Greg's changing perspective, author's word choice and how it develops sensory images, and determine the theme of the text. Students will take a quiz on Friday. 

 

Homework: complete any incomplete assignments from class, quiz over the text on Friday

This week we will have a field trip on Tuesday and library on Friday. On Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, students will be completing the cold read assessment. This will count as the final grade for the quarter. Students who are missing assignments must have them completed and turned in by the end of class on Thursday. 

 

Homework: none

 

This week, students will end the quarter by completing the cold read task. This will count as 100 points towards their final grade.

 

Skills: contrasting points of view, structure of a poem helps contribute to its meaning, and comparing a video and text on the same topic

 

This week, students will compare the point of view of characters in Blood on the River. They will read two poems, "Indian" and "Pocahontas," and write an argument explaining the importance of reading multiple perspectives on the same topic. On Wednesday and Thursday of this week students will be taking their Skills Assessment in Powerschool and completing the Section 4 Quiz. Friday students will read Chapter 9 from Written in Bone and compare the information to a video on the same topic.

 

Homework: Q1 Study Guide for Skills Assessment due Wednesday.