Research-Based Information Writing

Complete the organizing of Malala notes as homework.  Make sure that these organized notes are in your ELA notebook.

Wordly Wise -  vocabulary building through definition and context

Schedule
January 26 Thursday    Section A
January 27 Friday         Section B
January 30 Monday      Section C (Sub Day)
January 31 Tuesday      Read passage in Section E
February 1 Wednesday Achieve 3000 in class
February 2 Thursday    Section D
February 3 Friday        We will do Section E in class.
February 6 Monday      Shabanu in class
February 7 Tuesday      Test Day

Achieve 3000
Article:  Check the Facts

If you finished all tabs, HURRAH!!!
If you did not finish all tabs, then please complete for homework.
If you cannot access Achieve 3000 from home, please come here (Room 7) at lunch time with your LUNCH!  You will finish it during lunch.   Thank you!

Please find the time to see/listen to the Nobel Peace Prize speech.

United Nation Youth Assembly--note taking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rNhZu3ttIU

Nobel Peace Prize- no notes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOqIotJrFVM

Before the Malala videos, we took notes on Alex Lin:
http://inspiremykids.com/2011/alex-lin-turning-e-waste-into-e-treasure/

Achieve3000 is a program that we began in December.

Students took a pretest in December.  The pretest provided the current Lexile of your student.  A Lexile score is a reflection of how well your student comprehends the passage that he/she read.  We will be using Achieve3000 every Wednesday.  The goal is to increase the current Lexile level.

Students are encourage to use Achieve3000 outside of school.  The Lexile level will only be affected when the assessments are taken at school.  However, please encourage your student to access Achieve3000 as much as possible so they can grow in their reading skills.

January 13, 2017

Spelling Time!

Friday (1/13) -  page 54 & 55
Tuesday( (1/17) - page 56
Wednesday (1/18 - Happy Birthday Cyrus' Sister!) - page 57
Thursday (1/19 - Happy Anniversary, Mrs. Lee!) - page  58
Friday (1/20) - page 59
Monday (1/23) - page 60 and 61
Tuesday (1/24) - page 62 and 63
Wednesday (1/25) - Spelling Quiz!!!

Final Personal Narrative is due Tuesday (January 17, 2017).
If you are done, you may submit it today.

January 4, 2017

Remember to do your grammar homework too!

If you did not finish your reflection in class, please finish at home.

Reflection

1. Find your first personal narrative in your notebook.
2. Read it. (Personal pronoun - it!!!)
3. Reflect- think and wonder how your style of writing personal narrative has changed!
4. Write a paragraph in your notebook starting with this sentence:

My style of writing personal narratives has changed.  

           (Explain how your style has changed.)

January 3, 2017

Grammar Week: Pronouns

Tuesday: Holt Handbook (Blue book) P 31 Oral Practice: Substituting Pronouns for Nouns (10 sentences)

Wednesday:  Exercise 5 Identifying Pronouns page 33 (10 sentences)

Thursday:  Exercise 6 Identifying Types of Pronoun p. 33 (10 sentences)

Friday: Exercise 7 Identifying Pronouns p. 35 (10 sentences)

Monday:  Review B p. 35 (10 sentences)

Tuesday: Exercise 8: Identifying Relative and Interrogative Pronouns p. 37 (10 sentences)

Wednesday: Quiz on Pronouns