1. Upcoming, Important Dates:
01/26/2018
Upcoming, Important Dates:
Add these dates to your agenda, as they apply to you:
THIS WEEK:
Get your blue Panther Card signed and returned!
Friday – Schoolwide Geography Bee
- Wear your Converse shoes!
- Glow Lunch
- Garden Goods on sale $1 a bag
NEXT WEEK:
Mon. (01/29) – Super Hero T-shirt day - $1
Wednesday (01/31) – School Store takes orders
Thursday (02/01)– Talent Show Rehearsal (4:30-6:00)
Friday (02/02) – Talent Show Rehearsal - 6:00
If you are not eating, you must read something of your choice.
HOMEROOM = SILENCE

2. Language Arts – Warm Up 01/25/18
Novel Studies – “Maniac Magee” (3rd/6th)
First, open your SpringBoard textbook to page 104.
On the chart, cross out “Salamanca Tree Hiddle” and write “Jeffrey ‘Maniac’ Magee”. Then, cross out “Phoebe Winterbottom” and write “Amanda Beale”.
Then, complete the Characterization Notes chart based on both of these characters. Yes, you may refer back to the book.
If you finish early, you may return to your double-entry journals. They will be checked today!
Quiz today over standards RL3 and L1.

3. Language Arts – Warm Up 01/25/18
Novel Studies – “Walk Two Moons” (4th)
First, open your SpringBoard textbook to page 104.
Then, complete the Characterization Notes chart based on both of these characters. Yes, you may refer back to the book.
If you finish early, you may return to your double-entry journals. They will be checked today!
Quiz today over standards RL3 and L1.

4. Language Arts – Warm Up 01/25/18
Novel Studies – “Freak the Mighty” (5th)
First, open your SpringBoard textbook to page 104.
On the chart, cross out “Salamanca Tree Hiddle” and write “Freak”. Then, cross out “Phoebe Winterbottom” and write “Maxwell”.
Then, complete the Characterization Notes chart based on both of these characters. Yes, you may refer back to the book.
If you finish early, you may return to your double-entry journals. They will be checked today!
Quiz today over standards RL3 and L1.

5. Language Arts – Work Session 01/26/18
Essential Questions: How can talking and working with others help one analyze a novel? How do internal and external forces help people grow?
Standard: ELASE6RI1 – Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Learning Targets: Identify claims. Elect your position on these claims. Support your claim with logical reasoning and relevant evidence.

6. Language Arts – Work Session 01/26/18
Novel Studies
3rd/6th – “Maniac Magee” – Ch. 6 (p. 20)
As we read, have your double-entry journal (p. 109) out and be ready to write down the page number of a passage that stands out to you.
You can come back and write the passage down later, as long as you know which page to revisit.
If you need additional double-entry pages, they are available on the front table. Add them beginning on page 111 and continue in order (pages 112, 113, 114, etc.).

7. Language Arts – Work Session 01/26/18
Novel Studies
4th – “Walk Two Moons” – Ch. 5 (p. 22)
As we read, have your double-entry journal (p. 109) out and be ready to write down the page number of a passage that stands out to you.
You can come back and write the passage down later, as long as you know which page to revisit.
If you need additional double-entry pages, they are available on the front table. Add them beginning on page 111 and continue in order (pages 112, 113, 114, etc.).

8. Language Arts – Work Session 01/26/18
Novel Studies
5th – “Freak the Mighty” – Ch. 5 (p. 21)
As we read, have your double-entry journal (p. 109) out and be ready to write down the page number of a passage that stands out to you.
You can come back and write the passage down later, as long as you know which page to revisit.
If you need additional double-entry pages, they are available on the front table. Add them beginning on page 111 and continue in order (pages 112, 113, 114, etc.).

9. Language Arts – Work Session 01/26/18
Quiz
DO NOT WRITE ON YOUR QUIZ!
Instead, write your answers on a sheet of notebook paper.
Then, when a remote is available, put your answers into your iRespond remote.
You may check Synergy later to see your score.
When you finish, double-entry journals, work on your independent literature circle work (your role and the artful artist part), or any incomplete folder work you may have.
I am checking double-entry journals today!

10. Language Arts – Work Session 01/26/18
Double-Entry Journals
Draw a line under yesterday’s double-entry journal.
Use your “Sentence Starters for Reader Response” on page 110 of your I.A.N. to help you with the personal response portion of your double—entry journals.
Use only ONE SIDE of your double-entry rubric to score yourself based on your double-entry journals so far.
You will be scored on these double-entry journals on Wednesdays and Fridays, beginning today!
Keep your rubric in your reading portfolio folder.

11. Language Arts – Closing Session 01/26/18
Novel Studies – Literature Circles
Complete work on your role based on what we read today.
I will collect these completed sheets (front and back) on Mondays and Thursdays beginning Thursday (02/01).
Double-entry journals will be checked on Wednesdays and Fridays, beginning this Friday (01/26).
Homework:
Complete any incomplete folder work or double-entry journals.
Verbs Quiz – Tuesday
Novel Quiz - Friday
Biblionasium – Postponed – T.B.A.