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Week of Feb. 28-March 4

Language Arts - periods 5 & 7:

Next week we will be reviewing writing components that students should continue practicing. Lessons will be centered around comma use in writing, direct and indirect quotes. This focus will be useful for our research unit that will begin after Spring Break. Students will demonstrate their understanding of these grammatical components through a writing prompt at the end of the week. Students may or may not have language arts homework depending on how they do in class with the lessons as well as when we meet due to ISAT testing.

Reading - periods 6 & 8:

Students will finally find out how Sophie knows Bompie when we finish our classroom text The Wanderer. Students will have comprehension questions to answer to demonstrate their understanding of the chapters. Information about the next book report will be posted on next weeks blog.

Advanced Language Arts - period 2

Due to ISAT testing next week, I only meet with advanced LA 2 times! Next week we will begin our Pronoun unit. Review and teaching of lessons will take place in class and continue with practice through a few homework assignments. The assignments include a poem on Monday and a journal assignment which goes along with our classroom text The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

Advanced Reading - period 4

Again this class will only meet two times due to ISAT testing. Students will be ready to discuss Chapter 11-13 (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas)on Monday and continue reading in the text on Monday and Tuesday. We should be able to accomplish a few chapters next week. Tuesday they will have homework covering the chapter we get through. Look to the homework blog to give specific chapter assignments since this always changes due to what we can or cannot complete based on discussion.
Look for a complete description about the next book report on next weeks blog! I discussed requirements on Friday and students will receive a handout on Monday.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - Chapter 1-10 study guide

Vocabulary – know the following:

chaos
dominated
desolate
devise
dismissively
distaste
engaged
escapade
foreseeable
incredulous
presumed
retrieved
reverberated
rummaged
tolerant

Review ALL chapter study guides and discussion sheets

Understand:
simile
metaphor
idiom
personification
hyperbole

Period 6 & 8 Book Report Assignment - Greeting Card

Greeting Card Project

Directions:Think about the characters in your novel. Imagine that one character is sending a card to another character. What kind of card would they character send and why?

Choices of cards: Birthday, Sympathy, Thank You, Get Well, Friendship, Anniversary, Retirement, New Baby, Valentine's Day, Miss You

Task: There are TWO parts to this project.

1.Create a card to one character in your novel to another character.
2.On a separate sheet of paper, include the following:

The title and date of publication
In one paragraph, explain why you created the card you did.
In one paragraph, explain the importance of this choice and how the novel would be different if the card had actually been sent.

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