Monday/Tuesday, August 25/26, 2014

 B2:  Pledge of Allegiance
       B2:  Media Blitz from Administration and Counseling -- about 10:20  Ms. Elzey

1. Turn in your disclosure signature sheet with the VIP form on the back filled out -- to the top wire basket, and have a book out, ready to read.
AND pick up your composition book.
AND  if you just brought your composition book today, bring it to me to have it checked off and to receive your folder/computer number.

2. iRead -- Individual Reading Time (15-20 minutes) 3. Sign up for your book choice if you haven't yet.  If you have, check to see whether the teacher has approved it. a novel of at least 100 pages  that is at your reading level  and that you haven't read before and that is is not on the DO NOT READ list. Sign up by August 27 (A-Day) or 28 (B-Day.              Watch for Ways a Character Can Change, and how a character in your book changed. Finish your book by September 17 (A-Day), September 18 (B-Day).  4. Receive book orders.   If you don't want them, leave them on your desk for the next class. Class Activation Code: GKLJW  First book order due date:  September 5, 2014.  I'll send in an order as soon as I get $20 or more in orders (combined from all students), and again when I get another $20 or more in orders.  Optional:  If interested, pick up 40 Book Challenge and/or Battle of the Books instructions and chart. (See the wire baskets by the big dictionary on the shelf with the hand-in-wire-baskets.)

Start of school through September Birthdays

5.  Set Up Composition Books   (10 minutes)        (Click here for instructions: Composition Book Set-Up) and  iSpellRight -- Add to your composition book under "Spelling."     1.  its/it's The dog buried its bone. It's alive.

6. iWriteRight: (5 minutes)

  

_____________________ CSI  American Fork Now Investigating:  Conventions in Sentences Investigation Your sentence:                         3. Nick Allen had plenty of ideas, and he knew what to do with them. List everything you observe about the above sentence.   It is a correct sentence (I hope), so you are not looking for errors (I hope).

 7.  iShow-What-I-Know: Pretest on Conventions       (20 minutes+)
           There are forty questions.  Do NOT write on the test paper. 

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40 Book Challenge 








If time:    

 8. Text Structure
Understanding_Text_Structures Revised.ppt
Text Structure 3 column notes.docx


If extra time, we will start on this:  
10.  
On the paper provided,  list all the types of balls you can think of.
Definition of "ball" for our purposes: a solid or hollow sphere or ovoid, especially one that is kicked, thrown, or hit in a game.


11. Beach Ball Text Structure 


Hacky-Sack Champion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2bPJnNLJNE