Thursday, March 31, 2011

3/5
1) Finish ELA Testing
2) Announcements
3) Make-up/ Free Read
4) Computer Lab 5th Period for BIG-6
HW: BRING ROT BOOKS!!!!!!!

6
1) Finish ELA Testing
2) Make-up
3) BIG-6

8/9
1) Finish ELA Testing
2) Announcements
3) Make-up/ Free Read
4) Computer Lab 9th Period for BIG-6
HW: BRING ROT BOOKS!!!!!!!

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

ALL CLASSES:

Book 2 of Practice ELA will begin today. We will work through the listening, and extended response parts today.


If you finish early, you may read quietly or go to the library to work on your BIG-6!


Bueno Suerte :)

HW: Bring in your Roll of Thunder books to turn in!

Monday, March 28, 2011

ALL CLASSES:

Practice ELA Test- BOOK 1

Please have your independent reading book with you for when you finish the test!

Do your best. We will be going over this enitre test in class, and it will be good for you to see what you need to improve on.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

All Classes:

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Unit Test!

Good Luck!

When you are finished: Please read your free-read SILENTLY!

Monday, March 21, 2011

3/5
1) Review
2) Free-Book
3) BU Testing- JK... LOL :) We will be going to the library, and then playing REVIEW JEOPARDY!
HW: Study

6
1) Jeopardy

8/9
1) Reading Ch. 12
2) Review
HW: Finish Ch. 12 & Notes

Friday, March 18, 2011

3/5
1) Journal: Did the ending surprise you? What happened to TJ?
2) Cliff Notes Check
3) You Decide: Computer Lab, Discussion, Free-Reading Friday (For P.3)
4) Computer Lab (P.5)
NO HW

6
1) Computer Lab

8/9
1) Journal: This chapter was full of suspense, name two events that leave you in suspense.
2) Cliff Notes Check
3) You Decide: Computer Lab, Discussion, Free-Reading Friday (For P.8)
4) Computer Lab (P.9)
NO HW

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

3/5
1) Journal: What happened to TJ? Summarize the events.
2) Cliff Notes Check and Discussion
3) Limerick/ Ch. 12
4) Computer Lab
HW: Ch. 12 and Cliff Notes

6
1) Computer Lab

8/9
1) Journal: Summarize Ch. 10
2) Cliff Notes Check, Discussion
3) Limerick/ CH. 11 (Listening)
4) Computer Lab
HW: Ch 11 and Cliff Notes

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

3/5
1) Journal: What does Hammer do to save the land? Would you be able to do this? How would you feel in this situation?
2) Check Ch. 10 Cliff Notes
3) Discussion
4) Begin Ch. 11
5) Computer Lab- Big-6
HW: Ch. 11 and Notes

6
1) Computer Lab- Big-6

8/9
1) Journal: What happens to Papa? Who is responsible for this?
2) Check Ch. 9 Cliff Notes
3) Discussion
4) Begin Ch. 10
5) Computer Lab- Big-6
HW: Ch. 10 and Notes

Friday, March 11, 2011

TGIF! Remember, you don't have school on Monday!

Goooooo 'Cuse! Beat those Huskies tonight!

3/5
1) Theme Handout- Go over
2) Reminders, Hand back vocab quizzes
3) Computer Lab
HW: Finish Ch. 10 if not done already and Cliff Notes

6
1) Computer Lab

8/9
1) Theme Handout- Go over
2) Reminders, Hand back vocab quizzes
3) Computer Lab
HW: Finish Ch. 9 if not done already and Cliff Notes

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Let's GO Orange!!! Beat that Red Storm!

GOOOOOOOOOOOO 'CUSE!

3/5
1) Journal: What happened to Papa?
2) Discussion/ Ch. 9 Notes Check
3) Computer Lab- Big-6
4) BU Testing
HW: Ch. 10 and Cliff Notes

6
1) BU Testing

8/9
1) BU Testing
2) Journal: Who visited Mama at school? What happened?
3) Discussion/ Ch. 8 Notes Check
4) Computer Lab- Big-6
HW: Ch. 9 and Cliff Notes

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

3/5
Guiding Question: Is life always fair? Are we ever truly treated equal?
1) Journal: What happens when Mr. Granger shows up at Cassie's school? Who does he come with? What does he notice?
2) Quiz
3) Discussion
4) Read-aloud- Chapter 9
HW: Finish Ch. 9 and Cliff Notes

6
Guiding Question: What are my next steps for the Big 6?
1) Journal: Where are you with your Big-6 project? How many note cards do you have done? What questions do you have?
2) Big-6
3) Theme HO- Go over

8/9
Guiding Question: What can I do to step up my effort in ELA?
1) Journal: What is one thing that you plan to do, starting today, to improve your grade/effort/attitude/work in ELA?
2) Chapter 7 CN Check/ Discussion
3) Begin Chapter 8
HW: Finish Ch. 8 and Cliff Notes

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

How about all of that snow!

I hope you enjoyed your day off- and you had some extra time to finish Chapter 7!

3/5 & 8/9
Guiding Question: What are some lessons that we can learn from reading the book?
1) Journal: What is one lesson that Cassie, or Stacy learns in Chapter 7?
2) Notes Check
3) Discussion/ Reminders
4) Begin Ch. 8/ Catch -up
HW: Chapter 8 and Cliff Notes

6
Guiding Question: How will we be successful in 8th grade English?
1) Journal: Choose one thing that you have done in English this year that has gone well, and something that you think could have gone better. Write about them.
2) Reminders/ Catch-up
3) ELA Exercise

Friday, March 4, 2011

Know, that if Mr. Miller writes your name down for any negative reason you will have an after school detention with me NEXT WEEK! No exceptions!

Hope you have a great day, and make a lot of progress on your Big-6 projects. NO GOOGLE :)

3/5 & 8/9

1) Take out your Cliff note packets, turn to the section that looks like a newspaper, and says Chapter’s 1-4 on top.

2) Read aloud together.

3) Discuss events up through Ch. 6

4) Reminder- Your Chapter 7 Cliff Notes are Due MONDAY!

5) Computer Lab- Big-6 Research (ASSIGNED SEATS)

HW: Ch. 7 and Cliff Notes

6

1) Attendance

2) Computer Lab- Big-6 Research (ASSIGNED SEATS)

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!

Thursday, March 3, 2011

BOOKAPALOOZA KICKOFF TONIGHT!

6-8pm at Barnes & Noble on Eerie Blvd.

You will get extra credit if I see you there!

ALSO: To support the theme in Notes from the Dog please WEAR PINK tomorrow!!!

3/5 & 8/9
Guiding Question: Once I have a topic for my research, what is my next step? How do I complete it?
1) Journal: What is your topic? How are you going to go about researching it? What are the steps you will take? What will you do if you get frustrated?
2) Check Cliff Notes
3) Reminders
4) Computer Lab
HW: DUE MONDAY: Read Chapter 7 and do your Cliff Notes.

6
Guiding Question: Once I have a topic for my research, what is my next step? How do I complete it?
1) Journal: What is your topic? How are you going to go about researching it? What are the steps you will take? What will you do if you get frustrated?
2) Computer Lab
3) Reminders
NO HW

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

3/5 & 8/9
Guiding Question: How do I make predictions with limited information?
1) Journal: What happens at the end of Chapter 5? What is Cassie's behavior like? Would you act that way?
2) Review/Discuss
3) Vocabulary Review
4) Vocabulary Test
5) Begin Ch. 6
HW: Finish Ch. 6 and do Cliff Notes

6
1) Last minute questions
2) Vocabulary Test
3) Sustained Silent Reading

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Today, all classes will begin the BIG 6 Research Project in the library.

JOURNAL: Please write three topics that you are interested in, and write one question you have about each topic.