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I hope everyone had a great Spring Break and you’re ready to finish the school year strong!

Monday:

• What is poetry and why do we have to study it?

Tuesday:

• Poetry Stations

Wednesday:

• Poetry Stations

Thursday:

• Poetry Stations

Friday:

• Test over Poetry

READING

Monday:

• Take Notes on Summarizing
• Practice with Partners

Tuesday:

• Take Notes on Paraphrasing
• Practice with Partners

Wednesday:

• Paraphrasing and Summarizing multiple choice type questions

Thursday:

• LIBRARY DAY

Friday:

• Quiz over Paraphrasing and Summarizing

ENGLISH

Monday:

• Take Notes over Closing Paragraph

Tuesday:

• Look at examples of closing paragraphs
• Revise and Edit Closing Paragraph from Essay

Wednesday:

• “Snowball” Fight Closing paragraph practice

Thursday:

• R.A.C.E. strategy for Short constructed response

Friday:

• Fun Creative Writing

READING

Monday: School Holiday

Tuesday:

• Identify Logical Fallacies and take notes

Wednesday:

• Identifying Logical Fallacies practice worksheet

Thursday:

• Create an advertisement using an assigned fallacy

Friday:

• Quiz over fallacies
• Present advertisements

 

READING

Monday:

• What is an Argumentative Text?
  • Curipod

Tuesday:

• SCOPE “Are Pro Athletes Overpaid?”

Wednesday:

• IXL Thesis Statements

Thursday:

• Library Day

Friday:

• Choose Argumentative Topic to research

ENGLISH/WRITING

Monday:

• “We Will Write” fun argumentative topics

Tuesday:

• Students will choose one of the SCOPE topics from reading class and begin writing an argumentative essay. Intro and thesis are due by Wednesday morning.

Wednesday:

• Continue working on argumentative essay. Body paragraphs due by Thursday
• Grades will be taken on thesis statement from Tuesday.

Thursday:

• Finish writing essay
• edit and revise own paper

Friday:

• Trade essay with partner and peer edit
• Make any changes to essay and turn it in for final grading.

 

READING

Monday: Teacher Workday

Tuesday: IXL Screener for Middle of Year snapshot

Wednesday: Finish IXL as needed, then work on assignments recommended

Thursday: Go over benchmark/make corrections

Friday: Informational Text introduction/practice

 

ENGLISH/WRITING

Monday: Teacher Workday

Tuesday: Grammar Practice

Wednesday: Flocabulary

Thursday: Look at essays from benchmark- how can we improve? Where did we go wrong/or right?

Friday: Fun Write Friday

READING: (Poetry Week)

Monday:

• Figurative Language and Poetry analysis Task Cards

Tuesday:

• Poetry Stations

Wednesday:

• Poetry Stations

Thursday:

• Poetry Stations

Friday:

• Test over Poetry

ENGLISH/WRITING

Monday:

• Writing an effective Conclusion

Tuesday:

• Practice with conclusion

Wednesday:

• ECR with focus on conclusion

Thursday:

• Continue with ECR

Friday:

• Free Write

 

READING:

Monday: Test Review over “The Outsiders”

Tuesday: Final Test over “The Outsiders”

Wednesday:

• Finish Test if needed
• Begin Watching “The Outsiders”
• work on worksheet over the differences between the book and movie

Thursday

• Continue watching “The Outsiders”

Friday

• Finish watching “The Outsiders”
• Complete worksheet comparing and contrasting the book with the movie

ENGLISH/WRITING

Monday:

• Discuss Short Constructed Response
• How do we know the difference?
• Practice Writing

Tuesday:

• Discuss Extended Constructed Response
• How do we know the difference?
• Practice Writing

Wednesday:

• Grammar Practice
• Editing

Thursday:

• Sentence Structure

Friday:

• Grammar Games

 

READING

Monday:

• Quizizz over Ch. 1&2 of The Outsiders
• Short Response question over Ch. 1&2
• IXL Diagnostic Snapshot

Tuesday:

• Complete IXL Diagnostic
• Read Ch. 3 of The Outsiders

Wednesday:

• Read Ch. 4 of The Outsiders

Thursday:

• DMAC test over fiction stories

Friday:

• Corrections to test as needed

ENGLISH/WRITING

Monday:

• Esteem Lesson 3 & 4

Tuesday:

• Esteem Lesson 5

Wednesday:

• Continue spooky story
• Begin planning out spooky house

Thursday:

• Work on story/project

Friday:

• Work on story/project

READING:

Monday:

• Go over test questions and discuss commonly missed items
• “The Outsiders” pre reading discussion

Tuesday:

• Read Ch. 1 of “The Outsiders”
• Discuss characters as we read

Wednesday:

• Read Ch. 2 of “The Outsiders”
• Begin plot diagram

Thursday:

• Library Day

Friday:

• Chapter 1 and 2 questions over “The Outsiders”

ENGLISH/WRITING

Monday:

• ESTEEM training Lesson 1

Tuesday:

• Test over 2nd set of 25 words in the 100 words every middle schooler should know
• ESTEEM training Lesson 2

Wednesday:

• Begin parts of speech stations (students will rotate through each station):
  • 1. Correct test from last week
  • 2. Work on parts of speech story with partner
  • 3. Adjectives
  • 4. Adverbs
  • 5. Prepositions
  • 6. Proper Nous
  • 7. Conjunctions
  • 8. Verbs

Thursday:

• Complete 3 stations

Friday:

• Complete last 3 stations

READING:

Monday:

• Setting/Plot Task Cards
• Read
• Make-up Work

Tuesday:

• DMAC Test over Fiction/Setting

Wednesday:

• We will begin reading Outsiders next week
• Stations over Background information

Thursday:

• Outsiders Stations

Friday:

• Outsiders Stations

ENGLISH:

Monday:

• Daily Warm-UP
• Practice next 25 words of 100 Words Every Middle Schooler should know (Test next Tuesday)

Tuesday:

• Daily Warm-UP
• DMAC Test over Revising/Editing

Wednesday:

• Begin creative writing story using parts of speech

Thursday:

• Continue working on story

Friday:

• Continue working on story
• Practice for Vocab test next Tuesday.