Thursday, February 19, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:


We will go to the media lab on Monday/Tuesday, 

so you may select a book for February/March if you haven't yet. 

 If you have, bring your book to read.

You can also read books on Overdrive through the sponsorship of our media center.

Go to http://alpine.lib.overdrive.com   
Select our school from the drop-down menu, 
then use your student number as a password.  

If you were absent:

1. Study the analogies illustrations. What sort of relationship is shown by each one. For example the Grandma is to Grandpa as Mom is to ___________ shows a wife to husband relationship.

2. Watch the video about three types of sentences:  simple, compound, and complex. 

     Pick up the quiz from the handouts box in our classroom or print a copy, and take the quiz.  Turn it in.

3.  See how far we got in The Outsiders and catch up during cave time or after school.

Book Assessment 

• If you did not yet hand in your book assessment, get it in as soon as possible.   Hand it in to the top wire basket.
• If you have handed it in, pick it up from the bottom wire basket.  Revise or redo if needed. 
• Some of the best (and earliest ones handed in) are on display on the bulletin board.  Look at those if you need help understanding how to do it. 

Here is the assignment paper in case you lost your:  
January-February Book Assessment.docx
January-February Book Assessment, Page 2.docx
Students received the book genre assignment in December and the assignment paper on January 20/21.
Sample for January Book Assignment
A Few Recommended Sources
* Pioneer Online Library -- go to our school homepage, click on Resources,
Select Pioneer Online Library,  
Search your subjects on World Book or
Student Resources in Context
* history.com -- Search for your topic
* pbs.org -- Search for your topic
Do not use Wikipedia or ask and answer sites.  
Do not use sites that discuss only the fictional story from the book -- such as Scholastic, Goodreads, etc. 

Next Book Assessment: 

February/March

Read a novel in your choice of a fictional genre: 

realistic, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, horror, 

historical, multicultural, classic, adventure, romance, humor, horror

 (Did I leave any out?)

Your assessment will involve noticing setting, characters, plot, conflict, point of view, and theme. 

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Today:

1. Individual Reading

2.  Briefly looking again at ANALOGIES: 

CSI  Sentence types --  Simple, Compound, Complex  (Later we'll look at Compound-Complex!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvhC0eSIb3g

Types of Sentences (Compared with Families)

Quiz:  Simple, Cmpd, Cmplx Quiz.docx  (If you were absent, you should print this and take it after watching the brief video.) After you have filled out your answers, you may check them here: Sentence Types Quiz Answers



3. Read from The Outsiders  
B5, P. From page 72 to page 88 to "Dally cussed under his breath. . . "(iTunes Chapter 6, 5:55)

B6, Page 41 "Cherry started walking . . . " to page -- setting to page 44 "Well, they've spotted us." to page 59, "He appeared. . . "  to page 79  "nothing real but. . . mist in the valley."

B7, Page 40 "You're not so smart at ten." to page 51  halfway to page 60 "He half dragged me." to page 75 -- [Outsiders page 45, track 2 -- minute 22:21]

And Create an 

Outsiders Timeline

time
setting
events and characters
in your composition book