Thursday, January 30, 2020

Agenda-

1. Take out a pen and your writer’s notebook
2.  Continue our Gratitude is an Attitude Unit. Click here for our unit slideshow: Gratitude Unit 2020
3. Discuss the character survey and results. Click here for survey: VIA-Character-Strengths-Discussion-Survey (1)
4. Discuss Gratitude. Watch short video Nature, Beauty, and Gratitude.

Homework-

Print out Goodreads comments from the month of January (there are 4 of them if you completed your reading each week). Staple the rubric to the top of your printed out comments- due tomorrow.

Vocabulary Unit 5- annotate for main ideas- due Monday.

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading.

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Agenda-

1. Take out a pen and your writer’s notebook
2.  Gratitude is an Attitude Unit. Take Character Survey…Click here for survey: VIA-Character-Strengths-Discussion-Survey (1)
3. Discuss and write about character results. Click here for character strength poster: Character Strengths Poster
4. Watch short video and discuss the science of character.

Homework-

Print out Goodreads comments from the month of January (there are 4 of them if you completed your reading each week). Staple the rubric to the top of your printed out comments- due on Friday.

Vocabulary Unit 5- annotate for main ideas- due Monday.

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading.

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Agenda-

1. Turn in your typed, draft essay. Staple your final draft on top of your in-class rough draft.
2. Take out a pen and your writer’s notebook
3. Grammar Tuesday- Adjectives
4. Begin Gratitude is an Attitude Unit. Click here for writing response: Writing Response for Gratitude
5. Read for independent reading or work on Vocabulary, if time permits.

Homework-

Vocabulary Unit 5- annotate for main ideas- due Monday.

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading.

Monday, January 27, 2020

Agenda-

1. Take out a pen and your iPad/Chromebook
2. Goodreads Comment. Click here for the prompt: Goodreads Prompts 2019-2020
3. Vocabulary Unit 5- annotate for main ideas
4. Read for independent reading if time permits.

Homework-

Typed and printed ACC essay due tomorrow.

Vocabulary Unit 5- annotate for main ideas- due Monday.

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading.

Friday, January 24, 2020

Agenda-

1. Take out your iPad/Chromebook, your essay Help Sheet and Formatting Sheet, your essay, your edit sheet, and colorful pens
2.  Click here for the slideshow: ACC Essay Edit and Revision Tasks 2020
3. Finish working on the Editing Tasks sheet and type a final draft of your ACC essay.
4. Read for independent reading if time permits

Homework-

Typed and printed ACC essay due Tuesday.

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Agenda-

1. Turn in your Spelling Unit 5
2. Take out your iPad/Chromebook, your essay Help Sheet and Formatting Sheet, your essay, your edit sheet, and colorful pens
3. Go over Revision Tasks. Click here for the slideshow: ACC Essay Edit and Revision Tasks 2020
4. Finish working on the Editing Tasks sheet and type a final draft of your body paragraph. Then follow the steps for editing and typing your other paragraphs.
5. Read for independent reading if time permits

Homework-

Typed and printed ACC essay due Tuesday.

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Agenda-

1. Take out your iPad/Chromebook, your essay Help Sheet and Formatting Sheet, and colorful pens
2. Go over Editing Tasks. Click here for the slideshow: ACC Essay Edit and Revision Tasks 2020
3. Work on the Editing Tasks sheet and type a final draft of your body paragraph
4. Read for independent reading if time permits

** Today during lunch is the make up day for the Vocabulary Quiz if you were absent.

Homework-

Spelling Unit 5 due tomorrow.

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Agenda-

1. Take out your iPad/Chromebook and a pen
2. Goodreads comment. Click here for the Goodreads prompt: Goodreads Prompts 2019-2020
3. Spelling Unit 5
4. Read for independent reading if time permits

** Tomorrow during lunch is the make up day for the Vocabulary Quiz if you were absent.

Homework-

Spelling Unit 5 due Thursday.

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading

Friday, January 17, 2020

Agenda-

1. Turn in your Vocabulary Unit 4 packet to the basket up front
2. Take the Vocabulary Quiz
3. Read for your independent reading. You will have a Goodreads comment on Tuesday since there is no school on Monday.

Homework-

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading

Thursday, January 16, 2020

Agenda-

1. Take out lined paper, a pen, your essay help sheet, essay format sheet, and your writer’s notebook.
2. Writing Day 2 of your in-class essay. Remember this is your last day to work on this in class. You are doing the best you can to finish. This is a draft, and won’t look and sound like a final draft and that is okay!
3. For A Christmas Carol script to find your evidence, click here: ACC script
4. If you finish your essay before the end of class, read for your independent reading or study for the Vocabulary quiz tomorrow.

Homework-

Vocabulary Unit 4 Quiz tomorrow.

Read 40+ pages, due every Monday, of your Independent Reading