1. Upcoming, Important Dates:
02/09/2018
Upcoming, Important Dates:
Add these dates to your agenda, as they apply to you:
THIS WEEK:
Return your progress reports!
NEXT WEEK:
Mon. (02/12) – PTSA Members Jeans Day
Tues. (02/13) – Chick-fil-A Spirit Night 5-9
- Science Night 6-8
- Valentine’s orders are due in the safe
Wednesday (02/14) – Workplace Wednesday
- Valentine’s Day
Thurs. (02/15) – McTeacher Night 5-7
Friday (02/16)– Valentine’s Dance (4:30-6:00)
Sat. (02/17) – No Saturday tutoring
If you are not eating, you must read something of your choice.
HOMEROOM = SILENCE

2. Language Arts – Warm Up 02/09/18
Study! – Chapters 6-10 – Quiz in five minutes!
First, submit your completed “The Carpenter” packet, literature circles sheet, adjectives sheet, “Making Predictions” sheet, “Inferences Worksheet 6” and/or Short Essay to the homework bin.
Then, review your study guide.
Your quiz is in five minutes!

3. Language Arts – Warm Up 02/09/18
Quiz #2 Chapters 6-10
Do not write on the quiz.
Put your answers into iRespond.
Lay your I.A.N. open to your 6th & 7th double-entry journals so that I may check them as you take your quiz.
Once you finish your quiz, read silently or finish incomplete work.

4. Language Arts – Work Session 02/09/18
Essential Questions: How can talking and working with others help one analyze a novel? How do internal and external forces help people grow?
Standard: ELASE6RL1 – 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.

5. Language Arts – Work Session 02/09/18
Novel Studies
3rd/6th – “Maniac Magee” – Ch. 18 (p. ??)
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.).

6. Language Arts – Work Session 02/09/18
Novel Studies
4th – “Walk Two Moons” – Ch. 14 (p. 78)
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 02/09/18
Novel Studies
5th – “Freak the Mighty” – Ch. 13 (p. 80)
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 02/09/18
Double-Entry Journals
Draw a line under your last double-entry journal. You should start your EIGHTH entry today.
Be sure to label this entry as the sixth entry.
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.
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.).
You will be scored on these double-entry journals on Wednesdays and Fridays.

9. Language Arts – Closing Session 02/09/18
Novel Studies – Literature Circles
Complete work on your role and the Artful Artist portion based on what we have read so far.
I will collect these completed sheets (front and back) on Mondays and Thursdays.
Double-entry journals will be checked every Wednesdays and Fridays.
Homework:
Complete any incomplete double-entry journals.
Complete any incomplete folder work or double-entry journals.
Biblionasium & Book Check-outs – 03/02