1. August 2016
Mrs. Burchette

2. Homework and Important Dates:
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Homework and Important Dates:
Read 20 minutes nightly!
The Giver Vocabulary– due Friday, August 19, 2016
Newsela Article– due Monday, August 22, 2016
USA Test Prep ELA #1– due Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Warm-Up:
Update agenda and pick up your notebook. (I have not been able to cover all of them yet, so be careful when picking them up.)
Record today’s journal topic on your table of contents: “Why do We Need a Purpose?”. Be sure to record the page number you are beginning today’s journal on as well as today’s date.
Today’s prompt: Why do we need to establish a purpose for writing? What happens if we read for the wrong reasons?
Journal
Table of Contents
Date
Title
Page
8/10/16
Do You Understand? 1
 8/11/16
Book Character 
 8/18/16
Why do We Need a Purpose?

3. Thursday, August 18, 2016
Learning Target: I can develop an understanding of why establishing a purpose is important in reading. Today’s Agenda: Journal Purpose for Reading– The House

4. Thursday, August 18, 2016 Purpose for Reading “The House”
Do not share your purpose!
As you read “The House”, circle/underline everything that is important in the passage.
What did you circle/underline as you read?
What do you notice about what we circled/underlined?
Why are there so many differences?

5. Thursday, August 18, 2016 Exit Ticket
Now that we have completed our reading and discussion of “The House,” answer the following questions again:
Why do we need to establish a purpose for reading?
What happens if we read for the wrong reasons?

6. The Giver Vocabulary List #1 Complete Graphic Organizer
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
The Giver Vocabulary List #1 Complete Graphic Organizer
Palpable
Interdependence
Apprehensive
Reprieve
Pondered
Relinquish
Transgression
Congregated
Chastisement
Meticulously
Petulantly
Profound
Hoarded
Retroactive
Nondescript
Crescendo
Gravitating
Benign
Chortled
Indolence