Monday/Tuesday, August 31/September 1, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:             Get your grades up BEFORE we begin the Cave Time schedule (September 8?). You will want to have a colored slip so you can choose your activities during Cave Time!   Remember to be reading your book for the September Book-of-the-Month assignment:  Book of the Month Assignment.docx Also, remember to learn how to ALWAYS recognize when these words are spelled correctly: your/you're, there/their/they're.                                                       School pictures will be taken this Thursday and Friday during your math class. If you have not finished or taken the Literary Terms Pretest, see me, please.

Targets for Today: I will participate appropriately in class       activities.          (Utah State Core Language Arts: Speaking and Listening, Standard 1) I will practice thinking about how correct sentences are put together.  (Utah State Core Language Arts: Language, Standard 1-2) I will show what I know about reading and comprehending literature and informational text by taking the Scholastic Reading Inventory test to determine my own lexile level.  (Utah State Core Language Arts: Reading: Literature and Reading: Informational  , Standard 10) or   I will understand what a plot is, and be able to explain the parts of a plot.         (Utah State Core Language Arts:  Reading Literature, Standard 3)  I can select and read books at my own reading level.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Complete this activity:     CSI: American Fork     Copy this sentence into your composition book on the next page in your Notes and QuickWrites, and list everything that you notice about the sentence, and/or you may label the parts of the sentence: 3. Priscilla has Monk in a hammerlock ("Priscilla and  the Wimps"). Sample Things to Notice in Sentence #3 Learn More: Prepositions 2.   Student Stars  3.  Spelling Words for this week: (test on September 4 and 8)          your/you’re          there/their/they’re Click here:  Your/You're and There/They're/Their 4.  A1: Take the SRI (Scholastic Reading Inventory). Taking the SRI Test Take along your book to read. The rest of the classes will do this on Thursday? 4. B5, B6, B7 -- Fill in the plot map for "Priscilla and the Wimps." 6. Add these words on the page:   protagonist    antagonist   conflict     Types of conflict: person vs. self person vs. person person vs. society person vs. technology person vs. nature person vs. the unknown/supernatural    5. Media Center to find books for the Book of the Month, or to read your own Book of the Month book.

If You Were Absent: