Friday, June 3rd
- Presentations by 8 students, 8 more on Monday and the last 8 on Wednesday
- Swapped out time for Math - Review Slide Show
- Available for referral in the Pages & Files Section
Thursday, June 2nd
- Started the Creative Writing portion of the Final Exam
- Pics for inspiration
- Brainstorming
- Start the rough copy
Tuesday, May 31st
- Finished up working on the rough draft of the speech
- Practice speech
- Picked presentation dates
- Thursday, Friday, Monday or Wednesday - be prepared on your day with your good copy done
May 24th - May 31st classes
- Collected Book Jacket
- Worked on the speech - videos, outlining, writing, revising
Tuesday, May 24th
- 45-minute work session
- Work on your book jacket or your dialogue snap shot (see below for due dates)
- Introduced the theme for the Final Exam
- How Do We Make Our Dreams Come True?
- Small and whole group discussions
- Introductory Activity - Match Game
- We will be working on the Final Exam for the rest of the periods until the end of the year (not many now)!
Thursday, May 19th
- Returned and reviewed two reading quizzes - get them signed by your parents
- Dialogue Snap Shot Assignment
- Reviewed the rules for writing dialogue
- Brainstormed an idea
- Wrote the rough draft
- Good Copy of the Dialogue Snap Shot
- Due: Thursday, May 26th
- MLA Formatting
- Word Count at the bottom of the page
- Good Copy of the Book Jacket Project
- We will have 45 minutes on Tuesday to work on one or both of these projects
Wednesday, May 18th
- Started novel project - creating a book jacket for the sequel to the novel Secrets of the Realm
Monday, May 16th
- Novel test (last one!)
- Finished response to "The Nest"
- If you did not complete it in class, be sure to come at lunch one day this week to finish
Friday, May 13th
- Reviewed the Exam Schedule (which was emailed to kids & parents this week)
- How to read it, what noon busses are, how tutorials work
- Worked on the response
- 17 days of class left (~12 English classes)
- Finish novel & complete the project
- Start Exam in class - finish in the exam period
- Wednesday, June15th from 9 - 11:15
Wednesday, May 11th
- Field Trip to the Science Center
Monday, May 9th
- Novel Quiz from 37 - 49
- Complete the book for next Monday
- No KIM or reaction this week
- Worked on Response
- Finished looking over leads
- Started writing
Thursday, May 5th
- Finished the Summary vs Theme Activity
- Started a response to "The Nest"
- Read the story
- Started filling in the box chart
Tuesday, May 3rd
- Wrote our novel test
- Next Reading Quiz - Monday, May 9th from Chapter 37 to the end of Chapter 48
- Returned and reviewed the 2nd reading quiz - get it signed by your parents
- Finished the Summary vs Theme Activity
Monday, May 2nd
- Finished ranking sample response paragraphs - Personal & Text Connections
- Summary vs Theme Activity
- Watch the short video - write a one to two sentence summary & a possible theme for the video
- Will finish next class after the novel quiz
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