The last full week before our break. I don't know about you, but I am tired, but you need to stay focused and then we can relax. Wednesday is our Cobb County Checkpoint for the first semester. We will be taking it on the i-Responds. It is only 20 questions.
Please bring in cans for the canned food drive to help Must Ministries. Please help others have a good holiday season. I will give positives to my homeroom students if they bring in cans. If the homeroom has the highest number of cans/boxes, we can win a holiday donut party.
Mid-term on Monday, 12/19 - It will consist of 25 language arts and 25 reading questions. There should be no problem with completing this in the class period if students do not waste time. If you would like to do additional practice, here is a list of workbook pages that will help you review. I will have answer sheets available to self-correct. These are not a grade: Pages 16, 34-35, 37-38, 46-47, 52-53, 55-56, 68-69,130-131, and 140. Study sessions on Wednesday, 12/14 and Monday, 12/19. I will also be available for individual help on Thursday, 12/15.
Friday, 12/16 -Reviewed homework and discussed dramatization. Began reading/listening to the drama version of "A Christmas Carol." We will continue with this next week. Reminded students about AR/Reading logs due 12/20. Attached is the form if it is lost Download READING LOGAC.97.2003 doc Download Reading Log XTRA page. If the reflection is not good (summary instead of connection, or does not answer connection), I will not count the pages. Midterm Monday, 12/19 - Students received the study guide yesterday. Also on my blog. Homework: Study for midterm and READ.
Thursday, 12/15-Did BrainPop today to review some grammar, conjunctions, clauses, prepositions. I also showed one on Charles Dickens since we will be reading "A Christmas Carol" shortly. Went over drama vocabulary and discussed what is needed to take a short story and/or novel and do a dramatization. Homework: Reader's Journey, pages 424-425. Also handed out study guide which lists what is on the midterm and where to find additional information in either their workbooks or Reader's Journey. Attached is the study guide: Download AC Study Guide for Mid
Wednesday, 12/14-Today we took the Checkpoint for ELA today. It was 20 questions. We then worked in class on homework for tonight that will reinforce the beginning of our work with drama. We will continue to review for the midterm on Monday, but we will begin discussing drama and reading the play, A Christmas Carol. Homework: In the Reader's Journey, read and complete all work on pages 372-373, 382-385. This will be for a Reading grade. I expect the work to be complete and good.
Tuesday, 12/13 - Today we reviewed and graded our homework on indefinite pronouns and tricky nouns (collective, numbers, etc.) as they work with subject/verb agreement. We then saw a short power point on misplaced and dangling modifiers. Download Misplaced Modifiers Intro-cobb. Homework: READ - REMEMBER ALL AR TESTS AND READING REFLECTIONS ARE DUE NEXT TUESDAY 12/20. NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED! Complete worksheets on participial phrases and particples to review for Checkpoint and Mid-term.
Monday, 12/12 - Students took a sentence structure quiz. It was taken on i-Respond to practice for the upcoming Checkpoint on Wednesday. Students had the ability to see their score and go back in and increase their grade. Homework: Pages 172-176 in their Grammar Workbook. We will check it tomorrow. READ - REMEMBER ALL AR TESTS AND READING REFLECTIONS ARE DUE NEXT TUESDAY 12/20. NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED!
Here are some games to play to practice sentence structure:
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sensort/index_pre.html
http://www.quia.com/rr/126726.html