Thursday, March 31, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                   Have a wonderful spring break next week! If you have not signed up for your book of the month -- do it today!  You will have tests on commas and word parts on April 14 or 15. Today cavetime will be held in Lab 224. Those of you who have been specially invited know who you are.

Targets for Today: I can analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events). -- Reading: Informational Text Standard 3 I can use commas correctly as I write sentences.  I can learn from reading historical/multicultural fiction. I can analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot). -- Reading: Literature Standard 3

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Individual Reading Time:  Read your nonfiction book, and work on your book of the month assignment. 2.  Commas! Pick up the first worksheet. Add commas where needed. Correct your work. Ask for the second worksheet. Add commas where needed. Correct your work. And so on. . . . You will have tests on commas and word parts on April 14 or 15. 3.  Practice your word parts!  (Use your chart or magical study guide.  Quiz a classmate.) 4.  A Long Walk to Water  -- read from the novel and discuss (especially how setting and circumstances influence the characters and how characters influence each other).  A barn in Sudan might look like this.  Building a Barn  Dinka Home Homes in Sudan gourd, hollowed out for use Women in Sudan, carrying water

If You Were Absent: See above

Testing:
B5

Scott B -- absent 3-31

Cody B  -- Finished

Michael S.  

B6

Daniel A 

Chloe P  -- Finished 

Fisher C 

B7

Miriam Z 

Ellie G

Images for A Long Walk to Water