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.