Announcements and Reminders:
-- State Core Testing will be next week -- April 21/22, 23/24. Come prepared to do your best!
-- April/May Book Assignment: You may use a novel you have been reading during the last
month, or another you will read during the next few weeks.
Your choice of a fictional genre:
realistic, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, horror,
historical, multicultural, classic, adventure, romance, humor, horror
(Did I leave any out?)
Here is the list of
Books Not Allowed for the Outside Reading Assignment
Sign up by April 17, 2015 -- Due May by 8, 2015
Watch for the Assignment Handout today.
Watch for setting, protagonist, point of view, antagonist, conflict, complications, theme,
and other literary elements.
Watch for setting, protagonist, point of view, antagonist, conflict, complications, theme,
and other literary elements.
-- If you need to retake your word part test, plan to take it on April 29 or 30 in CaveTime.
See me if you were not here to take the first time.
-- If you have not finished the District Writing test, do it THIS WEEK!
See me if you were not here to take the first time.
-- If you have not finished the District Writing test, do it THIS WEEK!
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| April 15 -- Jackie Robinson made his major league debut on April 15, Opening Day in 1947, Robinson's first season in the Major Leagues. |
Individual Reading Time
Receive your book assignment for your book of the month.
Commas -- pages 2 and 3
Poetry: More about Poetry!
If you were absent, we made simple folded books and took notes on the Poetry Terms PowerPoint.
A1 made their booklets, took notes, and got through the white chart with types of meter, and identified the meter for "Del-i-cate, del-i-cate, del-i-cate" from "The Base Stealer".
Today A1 finished correcting the volleyball passage.
B5 "down" up to #4 on worksheet
B6 Jim Bridger through Order of Events
B7 Did Pluto, down down to China (Didn't do China)
B7 Did Pluto, down down to China (Didn't do China)
