10/28/08

Core Content topics to be covered in Unit 2

Identify main idea and supporting details, characteristics of short stories, novels, poetry or plays, identify and explain the use of literary elements ( setting, plot, characterization, theme point of view, make predictions, draw conclusions, make generalizations or inferences based on what is read.

2nd hour-3rd hour-8th hour  

Monday - Library visit and PAS practice quiz over literary elements

Tuesday-   Rereading "Wounded Wolf" and identifying literary elements found in the story.

Wednesday-  Characteristics of Poetry.  Today we will discuss the sound devices of rhyme, rhythm, repetition, onomatopoeia, and alliteration.

Thursday- Reading Workshop-  This is new to our schedule and will develop fully over the next few weeks.  We will use this time to read independently, read a book together or to work in small groups rewriting our open response with teacher direction.

Friday- Figurative language- similes, metaphors, personification.

5th hour- 7th hour

Monday-  Library - New AR point totals = 20 points for the 2nd nine week grading period.

Tuesday-  Assessment over the elements of fiction in "Wounded Wolf" 

Wednesday-  Characteristics of poetry. Gary Soto pg. 506 in text

Thursday- Reading Workshop.                                                            Begin "Where the Lillies Bloom"  We will focus on characterization and complex settings as well as our folk heritage in Kentucky.

Friday-  Figurative language-  similes, metaphors, and personification

Have a great Fall Break and we will see you on October 20, 2008.

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!

January 5, 2009

Periods 2/3  Today we started a new book called Accentuate the Negative

In Investigation 1 gives students experiences with positive and negative numbers, ordering, and informal operations in a variety of contexts so that subsequent formal work can be based on "what makes sense." Positive and negative numbers in the form of integers, fractions, and decimals are also represented on a number line.

Lesson 1.1 Playing Number Fever   In this lesson, students explore the use of  positive and negative numbers in applied settings and interpreting and write mathematical sentences.  Homework is on Page 16 (6,8) Page 20 (48)

Periods 5,7,8

Students worked on translations. A translation is a transformation in which each point of a figure moves the same distance and in the same direction.

Homework is a worksheet!