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Monday: TSW define vocabulary words and complete skills packet.
* Review Halloween short story assignment. Due Oct. 22nd.
* Listen to examples of student assignments

Tuesday: TSW review 3 different types of irony.
* Review Halloween writing assignment
* Orally define irony and write notes
* Identify irony in visual representations
* Compete group activity to identify irony in photographs and discuss
* Homework: Irony review worksheet (if applicable)

Wednesday: TSW review 3 different types of irony.
* Briefly discuss the different types of irony
* Begin reading “The Treasure of Lemon Brown”

Thursday: TSW continue previous lesson.
* Continue reading “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” and complete class discussion
* Homework: Complete questions at the end of the story
* Story and vocabulary quiz tomorrow

Friday: TSW review irony, reading comprehension, and vocabulary recognition.
* Complete “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” and irony quiz
* Complete vocabulary quiz
* Extra credit will be available after completion of quizzes

Lessons may change to meet the needs of my students.

Have a GREAT fall break! Enjoy the time off! :o)

Monday: TLW describe the two ways of life that developed in the Southern Colonies.
Chapter 4, Section 3 pages 113-119
* Read section 3, and define key terms
* Assign colonial reading packet.

Tuesday: TLW discuss why England wanted to regulate colonial trade.
Chapter 4, Section 4 pages 120-123
* Spanish
* Read section and define key terms

Wednesday: TLW describe education for colonial children.
Chapter 4, Section 5 pages 125-130
* Quiz section 3-4
* Complete group activitiy *bring art supplies*
* Homework: Read section 5 and define key terms

Thursday: TLW review for Chapter 4 test
Chapter 4, pages 113-130
* Oral review of chapter 4 using chapter summary sheets
** Bring hi-lighters

Friday: TLW evaluate concepts, facts, and skills presented in chapter 4.
Chapter 4
* Collect colonial reading packet
* Students will complete a matching, multiple choice, and essay test to demonstrate understanding concepts and skills learned in reading and discussing the settling of the new colonies
* Return graded papers

Lessons may change to meet the needs of my students.

Have a GREAT fall break! :o)

Monday: TLW complete weekly vocabulary packet
** Weekly vocabulary quiz will be Thursday this week.

Tuesday: TLW review various prewriting strategies in compostion writing.
* Class discussion about effective use of graphic organizers to properly categorize writing topics.
* Individual completion of graphic organizor to review concept and prepare for essay assignment
* 5 paragraph essay for homework; must include graphic organizor. Due Wednesday

Wednesday: TLW examine the use of setting as a character in a story.
* Collect essay assignment
* Define and give examples of setting used as a character in literature
* Read “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury
* Bring Holt Reader
* Complete questions in margins if not complete in class

Thursday: TLW review setting and vocabulary.
* Individual study time before quizzes
* Short quiz on “There Will Come Soft Rains” and setting
* Vocabulary Quiz

Friday: TLW review prior Language Arts knowledge
* Complete ThinkLink Language Arts practice test

Lessons may change to meet the needs of my students

Monday: TLW evaluate concepts presented in chapter 3.
* Students will complete a multiple choice, essay test to demonstrate understanding of the concepts presented in the discussions of explorations and colonization of the Americas

Tuesday: TLW discuss why the Puritans decided to leave England.
Chapter 4, Section 1 pages 102-107
* Read section 1 as a class and discuss main ideas
* Define key terms from page 102

Wednesday: TLW discuss life in the Middle Colonies.
Chapter 4, Section 2 pages 108-112
* Read section 2 orally, discussing main ideas and key terms
* Cooperative learning activity… bring art supplies

Thursday: TLW view how life was in the early colonies.
Chapter 4, Sections 1-2
* Present learning activity projects
* View video on colonial life

Friday: TLW review Social Studies fundaments and check for prior knowledge
* Complete ThinkLink social studies comprehension actitivies

Lessons may change to meet the needs of my students.

Monday: TLW complete weekly vocabulary packet.

Tuesday: TLW complete 5 paragraph essay.
* Review vocabulary packet
* Choose one of the following topics and complete 5 paragraph essay in class.
1. My life as an Language Arts teacher’s red pen…
2. My life as a microphone in a recording studio…
3. My life as a middle school student’s textbook…
* Examples will be read and discussed before assignment is given.

Wednesday: TLW review concept of compare and contrast.
* Notes on compare and contrast identification in literature.
* Read “The Monkey’s Paw” p. 85-99
* Complete class discussion

Thursday: TLW continue review of compare and contrast.
* Read “The Third Wish” p. 101-107
* Complete class discussion
* Complete Comparison Chart of two stories. p. 100 for homework

Friday: TLW review vocabulary and story information.
* Collect comparision chart and discuss
* Vocabulary and story quizzes
* Extra credit activity

Lessons may change to meet the needs of my students.

Monday: TLW explain the reasons for a northwest passage to Asia.
Chapter 3, Section 3 pages 81-86
* Students will read section 3 orally, taking notes on the main ideas and the key terms from page 81
* Map activity ** bring art supplies **

Tuesday: TLW identify challenges faced by the first English colonies in North America.
Chapter 3, Section 4 pages 87-91
* Read orally section 4, taking notes on the key terms listed on page 87, and discussing the main ideas
* Activity from page 91 ** bring art supplies **

Wednesday: TLW determine facts about the Navigation Acts and the Glorious Revolution.
Chapter 3, section 4 pages 87-91
* Students will complete a cooperative learning group project and share their findings
* Complete the Guided Reading and Review workbook page 30

Thursday: TLW describe how European states controlled or regulated religion.
Chapter 3, Section 5 pages 93-97
* Read orally section 5, taking notes on the key terms listed on page 93, and discuss
* Answer comprehension and critical thinking questions from page 97
*Complete workbook pages for chapter 3

Friday: TLW evaluate concepts presented in chapter 3.
* Students will complete a multiple choice, essay test to demonstrate understanding of the concepts presented in the discussions of explorations and colonization of the Americas

Lessons my change to meet the needs of my students.

Monday: TLW complete weekly vocabulary review packet

Tuesday: TLW pinpoint a cause-effect relationship using graphic organizers.
* Study multiple diagrams and charts showing the cause and effect relationship in different scenarios.
* Groups will complete own cause-effect graphic organizers using various examples
* Present organizers to class

Wednesday: TLW continue review of cause-effect relationships
* Read “Flowers for Algernon” in literature book
* Complete class discussion
* Answer Response and Analysis questions p. 64

Thursday: TLW continue review of cause-effect relationships
* Watch video “Charlie” based on book “Flowers for Algernon”

Friday: TLW review vocabulary fundamentals and cause-effect relationships
* Finish “Charlie” and discuss
* Short group review before vocabulary quiz
* Complete vocabulary quiz

Monday: TLW discuss impact of the voyage of Christopher Columbus.
Chapter 3, Section 1 pages 68-72
* Read section orally and discuss
* Define/discuss key terms from page 68
* Present Penny Timelines

Tuesday: TLW demonstrate understanding of concepts in chapter 2.
Chapter 2
* Spanish Lesson
* Review for chapter 2 test

Wednesday:TLW demonstrate understanding of concepts in Chapter 2.
* Using notes and workbook pages, complete comprehensive chapter 2 test

Thursday: TLW explore the role of treasure in the conquest of the Americas.
Chapter 3, Section 2 pages 74-80
* Read section 2 orally and discuss key terms
* Students will work in cooperative learning groups to create charts to demonstrate how treasure influenced Spanish exploration and conquest of the Americas

Friday: TLW describe what life was like for Native Americans under Spanish rule.
Chapter 3, Section 2 pages 74-80
* Sharing may continue from Thursday.
* Guided Reading and Review page 25-26

Lessons may change to meet the needs of my students.