Activity of Week for June 4, 2018


Monday (June 4) -  Skits on Chapter book
Tuesday (June 5) - Finished skits
                               Corrected and collected Pronoun Packet

Week of May 29

Monday -  Holiday
Tuesday - Skit with visitor/helper
Wednesday - Chapter Book
Thursday - Pronouns
                  HW: p. 190 Exercise #9 
                          p. 191 Review C 
                          p. 192 Review D
                  Due: June 5 (Tuesday) 

Activities for Week of May 21, 2018

Monday -- Independent Work:  Students working 
                  on Final Chapter Book project.  
                 See Google Classroom for details.
Tuesday -- Chapter Book Reading
Wednesday -- Independent Work:  Students working 
                       on Final Chapter Book project.  
Thursday -- Substitute Teacher: Chapter Book Reading
Friday -- Pronoun HW: page 188 Exercise 8 

Week of May 14, 2018

Monday - SBAC Schedule
                 Collected ELA Notebook for final sweep

Tuesday -  Students were divided into 3 groups: (1) Pit Bull Rewrite (2) Tutors (3) Achieve 3000

Wednesday - Preparing for Final Project - Skit for Chapter book
                     Students selected team and chapter.
                     See Google Classroom for details.

Thursday - Pronouns
                  HW: page 186 Ex7 and Review B
                   Period 1 completed Pronoun HW correction from last 
                   week. Period 3 did not complete the same.  
                   Period 3 will do so on Friday.

Friday -  Pit Bull Rewrite is due today.
               Chapter book.

Content of Last Notebook Sweep  (Due May 14, 2018)

Notebook Sweep for May 2018

If you have been keeping up in class, then all these items should be in your notebook.

Item	Points	Actual Points
Brief Summary for “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”	1
Notes on another teen activist	1
Comparing two teen activist	5
Handout on Persuasive Strategies	1
Persuasive Strategies used in “Wild Animals Aren’t Pets”	1
Persuasive Strategies used in “Let People Own Exotic Animals”	1
Total	10

Week of May 7, 2018

May 7 (Monday) - SBAC ELA make up
May 8 (Tuesday) - Return and discussion of rewrites for the Argumentative Writing of Pit Bulls
May 9 (Wednesday) - Sub:  Achieve 3000 and time for rewrites
May 10 (Thursday) - Continuation of Pronouns
                                  HW: p. 184 Exercise 6


Last Notebook Sweep - Due May 14, 2018

April 30 -- Monday SBAC testing Schedule - We did the Performance Task
May 1    -- Tuesday SBAC Testing Schedule
                  We were not testing in class.
                  ELA - Continuation of Wild/Exotic Animals
                  SS - Unit 7 Section 1
May 2 -- Wednesday
                Continuation of Wild/Exotic Animals
May 3 -- Pronoun Packet
               HW: p. 182 Ex 4&5
                       p. 183  Review A
               Chapter Book
May 4 Friday -- Reading Comprehension Quiz on Wild/Exotic Animals

Activity for Week of April 23

Monday  - Debate on Exotic/Wild Animals


Tuesday -  Writing of first draft in notebook due
                   Student edited 5+ paragraph comparing two teen activists

Wednesday -  SBAC testing
                       SBAC schedule: Period 1, 3, and 5

Thursday - Pronoun Packet
                  HW p. 180 Exercise 3  1-10
                  Discussion -- Exotic/Wild Animals
                        Identify persuasive strategy        

Friday - SBAC schedule: Period 2, 4, and 6
             We have not testing in this class
             Substitute teacher
             Regular Class time for us  (We do not test on this day)
                  - Chapter Book

Activity for Week of April 16

Monday -  Practice SBAC test  (see Google Classroom for link)

Tuesday - Continuation of writing from last week.
                This writing assignment should be completed for next Tuesday.

Directions: First draft in notebook. Completed draft ready for next Tuesday.

First Paragraph: Explain teen activism (general definition)

Second Paragraph:  Short profile of Choice #1 (Alex or Malala)

Third Paragraph: Short profile of Choice #2 (teen from list of 11)

Fourth (or more) Paragraph:  Comparison (common/same)

Conclusion Paragraph (pick one contrast)

Bibliography (list):  See directions sheet or video

Reminder: Topic sentence MUST be the first sentence of each paragraph.

Wednesday: Collections Unit 4 -
Continued with passage comparison of page 223 and 224

Thursday Pronouns continued
Pronoun packet p. 180 Oral Practice 1
Modified directions: Identify the verb of the pronoun.
Chapter Book

Friday Debate on keeping exotic/wild animals as pets
Plan - Debate continues next Wednesday
Expect comprehension quiz next Friday

Activity for Week of April 9, 2018

Monday -  Homework if not completed in class: Achieve 3000
                  Article Name: Just a Story...or Is It?

Tuesday - Writing

Wednesday - Collection
                      Goal is to compare the following passages:
                      1) Wild Animals Aren't Pets
                      2) Let People Own Exotic

Thursday -  Grammar on Pronouns
                    HW: Pronoun Exercise 2 p. 179 of handout
                    Chapter Book "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind"

Friday - Collection

Homework Due April 10

See Google Classroom

Activity for week of March 26

Monday - Comprehension questions (collaborative ) on "Mammoth Shakes and Monster Waves"

Tuesday - Pit Bull papers due
                 Continuing with research information-based writing
                 Homework due April 10

Wednesday -  Comprehension quiz on "Mammoth Shakes and Monster Waves"

Thursday

Friday - Holiday

Homework Pronoun Packet

Due Next Thursday: March 29

Page 177 Sentences 10-20
Page 178 Exercise 1

Homework:  Final Draft of Pit Bull Paper
Due March 27
The following will be collected
- Performance Assessment workbook - completed pages 10-20 (please put your name on inside cover)
- First draft
- Final draft stapled to first draft

Activity for Week of March 19

Monday -- Review of Written Portrait and return
                  Achieve 3000 --- not HW

Tuesday -- PitBull writing (argumentative)
                  Due Next Tuesday (March 27)

Wednesday -  Collections - Prepare for collaborative comprehension on Friday

Thursday -- Introducing Pronouns
                -- The Boy Who Harness the Winds

Friday -  Rewrite of Written Portrait Due
           - Comprehension questions on "Mammoth Shakes and Monster Waves"

Written Portrait

If you earned a D or F, you must rewrite and submit by March 23 (Friday).
Those earning A to C may also rewrite.

Please come to lunch tutoring on Tuesday and Thursday for help!

Homework Due Next Tuesday March 20 -- First Draft Due

Argumentative Writing on Pit Bulls 

Use/reference Performance Assessment workbook

Paragraph 1: Intro
- Grabber sentence  (Hook)
- Claim (page 16)
- 1 sentence summary of each article

Paragraph 2 - 4:  Reasons
    The order is least to greatest importance in reasoning.

Paragraph 5 - Opposing Claim/ Counterargument (refute optional) 
                  <- Bonus points 4
            Begin paragraph with "Some people say..."

Paragraph 6 Conclusion - restate claim and resasons
                 - No NEW stuff
                 - Be careful to NOT be repetitive 



    

Activity Week of March 12

Monday -  Achieve 3000 - Hawaii's Early Settlers
Tuesday -  Performance Assessment page 16 & 17
                  Preparing for argumentative writing
Wednesday - Continued
Thursday - Career Day
Friday - Continued with writing
              First Draft about pit bulls due Tuesday (March 20)

Homework
Workbook: Performance Assessment

Page 16 and Page 17

We have discussed all of page 16.  You are to complete the Reason chart at the bottom based upon your claim.  Using the Reason chart complete the array on page 17. 
For page 17
- provide a brief sentence of your reason in the first column
- in the second column, name the article and the details that support the reason

Homework for Period 3
Workbook: Performance Assessment
Question #3 -  answer from the view point of articles 2,3, and 4.

Activity for week of March 5

Monday -  Achieve 3000 - Goodall's Work Continues
Tuesday - Benchmark - Augumentative Writing
                 Read and discussed 4 articles about pit bulls as pets

Activity  for Week of February 26, 2018

Monday -  Collection: Mammoth Shakes and Monster Waves
                 When we have discussion on reading material, this situation cannot be "recreated"
                 if the student is absent.  The student needs these discussion in order to be prepared
                 for comprehension quiz.

Tuesday -  1) Notebook Sweep
                  2) Editing written portrait

Wednesday - Collection

Thursday - 

Written Portrait
- Final copy on binder paper or copy paper  (yes, you may type it)
- Do NOT put final copy in notebook
- Please put YOUR NAME at the top of the paper.
   Include the period.
Due March 6

Homework: Achieve 3000
Article:  How Ideas Become Real

Week of February 12

Monday -  Finishing Four Sentence Project
                  Working on Written Portrait

Tuesday -  Achieve 3000 - How Ideas Become Real

Wednesday - Collections:  Mammoth Shakes and Monster Waves

Thursday -  The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Friday - Write summary on what read:  The Boy...
              Back to Collections

Notebook Sweep
Due February 27

Notebook Sweep on Teen Activism -  Total Points: 10
Homework is 4 points ... Grand Total is 14

Item	Points	Actual Points
Notes from video on Alex Lin	1
Notes from video on on Malala’s UN speech	1
Organized notes on Alex Lin	1
Notes on Community Service article	1
Second Source on Malala OR Alex Lin	1
Notes from video of Jon Stewart Interview with Malala	1
Blue Sheet	1
Written Portrait draft (3 paragraphs)	3

Written Portrait -- written in notebook
Due February 27

• What is especially significant or compelling about the person?  

           What is his or her legacy or contribution?  (Explain it.)

            Paragraph #1 - describe her or his activism

• What is surprising about the person? Any oddities?

           Paragraph 2- share your opinion (only in this paragraph)

• What story, anecdote, scene captures the person?

            Paragraph 3 - Share story of Malala being shot or Alex Lin's legislation or Sri Lanka

Class Activity for Week of February 5, 2018

Monday -  Substitute
Tuesday -  Additional research and beginning of portrait wrtiting
Wednesday -  Collections: The Wondrous World of  Wildlife Spies
Thursday -  Collections: The Wondrous World of  Wildlife Spies
Friday - Four Sentence Types Project - Performance

Homework:  Research-Based Information Writing 

Blue Sheet
Step 1 -  Takes notes on community service article
Step 2 -  Takes notes on either Malala OR Alex Lin

Due:  February 13

Project:  Four Sentence Types
Due: February 9 
Instructions can be found in Google Classroom.

Parents, please have your students show you Google Classroom.  Projects must be submitted through Google Classroom.  If projects are not in Google Classroom by deadline then the score is 0.

Sorry if this sounds harsh.  Several projects have been given through Google Classroom with some students still not submitting through this app.  Let's get our students very comfortable with technology!

Activity for Week of January 29, 2018

Monday - Finish discussion on "How Smart Are Animals?"
Tuesday -  Research-Based Information Writing -  More research
Wednesday - Online quiz on "How Smart Are Animals?"
Thursday - Grammar - 4 Types of Sentences

Test on "How Smart Are Animals?"
Wednesday: January 31, 2018
Study Tips
- Read it again!
- Look comprehension questions with classmates
   ( Form study group)

Homework: Due February 1 (Thursday)
Record in notebook:
Exclamatory Sentence
       1) Ends with an exclamation point! (exclamation mark)
       2) Express strong emotion

Close Reader:  Bats!
Page 29-33
Directions:
Identify the first 2 of these types of sentences.  Include page number:
(1) Declarative 
(2) Imperative
(3) Interrogatory
(4) Exclamatory

Project Due: TBA
Project: Four Types of Sentences
(1) Decide if you are going solo or in a duet or in a trio.
(2) Decide on your artistic name.
(3) Decide if your song is LIVE or video. 
     The video must be put into Google Classroom on time
     or it will be LIVE!
(4) More to come!

Class Activity for Week of January 22, 2018


Monday (1/22) - Achieve 3000  "An American Hero"
                           Homework if not completed in class.

Tuesday (1/23) - Model organization of note taking
                           Homework: Organize own notes on Alex Lin
                                                on binder paper.  Staple or tape
                                                (because Navraj can't figure it out) 
                                                binder paper
                                                into notebook.

Wednesday (1/24) - Collections:  "How smart are animals?"
                                 Collaborative Group - 
                                      answering comprehension questions.

Thursday (1/25) - Same as Wednesday

Friday (1/26) -  Grammar:  Exclamatory Sentence

Homework  -- Due January 25

Copy the following in your ELA notebook:
Interrogatory Sentence
1) Ends with a question mark ?
2) A sentence that asks a qustion
3) Some starting keywords: who, whom, what, where, how or begins with a "to be" verb

Use the workbook called Close Reader
Page 19 The Pod
1) Record the first TWO declarative sentence
2) Record the first TWO imperative sentence
3) Record the first TWO interrogatory sentence

Class Activity Week of January 17, 2018

Monday - January 15 - Holiday
Tuesday - January 16 - Substitute Teacher
                                      Close Reader Workbook
                                                Can Animals Think and Feel?
(page 25-28)
Wednesday - January 17 - Reading
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Thursday - January 18 - Poetry Writing 
                                       (see details on blog from January 18)

Homework
Poem
Directions:
1) pick a feeling
2) pick animal(s) (real or imaginary)
3) write a poem

Microwave Poetry Example
How to write it:
1) Prose
2) kept keywords
3) put animal into poem

Prose

I was very upset when I came back to school.  I heard from others that my students
were not well behaved.  I know that means only some were not well behaved
and that others probably were well behaved.  I would have preferred to be
in class with my students instead of planning a burial arrangements.

Microwave Poetry

very upset

Like a cat

back to school

Pricked my ears

I heard

my students not  behaved

some were not well behaved

others  well behaved

I  preferred

Like batting claws at a ball

be in class with my students

instead burial arrangements

No dogs

Another Example for HW

Grief

The grief you keep at bay

Like running away from a wolf

Don’t let it catch me

Don’t let it

Get it’s teeth

Into my neck

Then I’ll have to feel it

The pain

The grief

Homework

Imperative Sentence
+ Give a command or order or request an action.
   (usually begins with a verb)
+ Understood 'You..."
+ Ends with ! or . unless in a quotation then ","

Textbook: Collections
Story: The Mixer
1) Record in your notebook 5 imperative                    sentences (page 75 to 88)
2) Record the first 5 declarative sentences 
    on page 75

Class Activity for Week of January 8, 2018

Monday   Holiday

Tuesday  Period 1 Achieve 3000
               Period 3 Due to website problems access was failing.
               No article HW given.

                Note taking on Malala's UN speech

Nobel Peace Prize

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

               Optional Viewing:  United Nation Youth Assembly

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

             
Wednesday  Collections  pages 99-112

Thursday      Imperative Sentences and The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Friday   Continued with Collections

Homework

Clean up and update notes from Malala video.

Week's Activity

January 8, 2018 - Achieve 3000: Honoring Those Who Made a Difference

January 9, 2018

HW for Period 1 (only):  If Achieve 3000 is not completed in class, then it is HW.  The article is called

          Honoring People Who Make a Difference.

Period 3 did not have access during class so this is not their HW.

Literary Argument: The Three Little Pigs
If you received 17 or less out of 25 points, then you have earned a D or F.  

All D's and F's must improve on his/her paper and resubmit.  The higher score will be accepted.  All resubmits should be stapled to the first attempt.

Please attend writing clinic on January 9, 2018 (Tuesday) after school to get help with your paper.  You should already have a completed second attempt with improvements so we can discuss.

Declarative Sentences
- Ends with a period
- Gives information

In the Collections book, go to page 74.  Identify the first 5 declarative sentences on this page.  Record these 5 sentences in your notebook.  The title of this homework is "Declarative Sentences on page 74".

Homework:  Clean up and update your notes from Alex Lin video

Due to the large number of absences,  the activities of our ELA class will be documented here for a short term.

January 2, 2018  Achieve 3000 - The article is not being 
                                                     given as homework.
January 3, 2018  We began the genre of 
                            research-based information writing.
                            The focus topic is teen activism.
                            Student are taking intense notes 
                            on the following video:
http://inspiremykids.com/2011/alex-lin-turning-e-waste-into-e-treasure/

January 4, 2018   Students are developing note taking skills 
                          which they will need for the rest of their academic career.  
                          Today, the teacher demonstrated how to to take notes and
                          to clean up the notes for usage.

January 5, 2018  See blog from January 5 on Declarative Sentences.
                          Record how to identify Declarative Sentences into notebook.