Week of November 23rd

Monday IC: Students recite poetry! *Explore/read novel together in class*Treasure Island: Chapters 13 and 14

Sounder: Began Chapter 8* Students did a great job reciting their poetry today!

Monday HW: Gators must finish their pirate story using 5 of their vocabulary words

Tuesday IC: Explore/read novel in class, discussing the plot.*Make predictions!

Tuesday HW: Enjoy your break! Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Wednesday -Friday: No school! See you on Monday, November 30th!

Week of November 16th

Long-term assignments for Q2: AR quiz is due on December 10th! The genre for this novel is the student’s choice, but the novel must be the appropriate reading level. All of the students were given their reading levels and their suggested range. I wrote these levels and ranges in their agendas. I have explained to them the importance of reading at the upper end of the range. Please check with the CMS library to see if we have the AR quiz for your novel. ***Students will recite poems on November 23rd!

Tigers, Bulldogs, and Gators are currently reading Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Students may take their 12/10 AR quiz on this novel. Please try to purchase The Tiger Rising by the end of November. I moved the date back since Hooked on Books had to order more copies. We are going to complete a group project with the novel as soon as we finish Treasure Island.

The Vols are currently reading Sounder by William Armstrong. Students may take their 12/10 AR quiz on this novel.

All students will recite poetry on November 23rd! Tigers, Bulldogs, and Gators will recite “The Tiger” by William Blake. The Vols will recite “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” by Emily Dickinson.

Monday IC- Introduce clauses with BrainPop video*Complete group activity

Monday HW- Finish skill sheet on clauses

Tuesday IC- Library with Mrs. Petersen! Great lesson focusing on the following terms: bibliography, table of contents, appendix, jargon, index

Tuesday HW- Finish skill sheet if you did not on Monday night

Wednesday IC- Check clause skill sheet*Provide class practice with clauses*Read/explore novel

Wednesday HW- Finish clause skill sheet

Thursday IC- Check clause skill sheet*Review clauses*Read/explore novel, discussing the plot as it unfolds*Review novel vocabulary terms*Complete Making Meaning questions for novel and discuss answers

Thursday HW- *Quiz tomorrow on novel vocabulary and novel comprehension of material read this week.

Friday IC- Administer novel vocabulary and comprehension quiz*Provide class practice with clauses and appositives*Read/explore novel

Friday HW- Finish any classwork not finished in class today: clause skill sheet, appositive skill sheet*Study your poem! Students must recite poems on Monday!

Week of November 9th

Reminder: Field Trip money is due tomorrow, 11/10!

Long-term assignments for Q2: AR quiz is due on December 10th! The genre for this novel is the student’s choice, but the novel must be the appropriate reading level. All of the students were given their reading levels and their suggested range. I wrote these levels and ranges in their agendas. I have explained to them the importance of reading at the upper end of the range. Please check with the CMS library to see if we have the AR quiz for your novel. ***Students will recite poems on November 23rd!

The CMS Book Fair is tomorrow night at Barnes and Noble from 5-8! What a great night to get out and shop for books! We do not have school on Wednesday in honor of Veteran’s Day! Please support our school and attend the Book Fair Tuesday evening! I’d love to see you there!

Monday IC- Students will take the Think Link Two Assessment. All of our assessments are paper assessments this year. The results for the first assessment should be available soon.*Students will complete Making Meaning questions for their novels after the TL assessment.

Monday HW- Finish Making Meaning questions

Tuesday IC- Discuss Making Meaning questions*Read/explore our novels*Review vocabulary terms*Introduce appositives

Tuesday HW- Go to the CMS Book Fair at Barnes and Noble from 5-8! It’s going to be a FUN time! See you there!

Wednesday IC- Veteran’s Day (No school today)

Thursday IC- Read/explore our novels*Discuss the plot as it unfolds!*Review vocabulary terms for quiz tomorrow.*Review for comprehension quiz as well.*Review appositives

Thursday HW-Finish appositive skill sheet

Friday IC- Administer quiz on novel vocabulary terms*Administer novel comprehension quiz*Review appositives

Friday HW- none

Week of November 2nd

The CMS Book Fair is next Tuesday evening at Barnes and Noble in Collierville! What a great night to get out and shop for books! We don’t have school the next day since we are out for Veteran’s Day!

Long-term assignments for this nine- week period for all classes:

Students have finished their novel assessments for the classic or historical fiction novels. A few students still need to take an AR quiz on the novel, and these students need to try to go to the library during AM homeroom to do this.

Students are required to read a novel for AR this nine -week period just like the first nine -week period. This novel can be any genre, but it must be at least a 6.0(+) level for Tigers, Bulldogs, and Gators. The level must be 5.0(+) for the Volunteers. The students were given their reading levels, and I have explained to them that they should stay in the upper end of their range for this novel. The due date for ALL AR quizzes was sent home at the beginning of the year with the students. The best time to take an AR quiz is during AM homeroom.The due date for the AR novel quiz this nine-week period is December 10th.

Tigers, Bulldogs, and Gators: ***Reminder: Please purchase The Tiger Rising by this Friday, 11/6. We will read the novel at the END of the nine-week period and complete a group project with the novel. Hooked on Books behind Corky’s has copies of the novel.

VOLS: We started the novel Sounder today, 11/4. Students must bring their novel to class every day.

***My Enriched classes will be reading Treasure Island, and we are starting the novel on 11/3.

ALL students need to bring in a novel folder by Friday of this week. (pockets and brads) Students can take their 12/10 AR quiz on these novels.

Monday IC- Finish and proofread novel assessments

Monday HW-none

Tuesday IC- Vocabulary Review and quiz for Enriched LA classes* Standard LA will proofread novel assessments for errors.*Introduce novel

Tuesday HW- Write one paragraph predicting your novel’s plot.

Wednesday IC- Check prediction paragraphs*Introduce novels*Explore biographical information concerning the author.*Provide a glossary for novel vocabulary terms. ***Enriched classes had a quiz on the benevolent list today. Today was Club Picture Day, so students were coming and going throughout the day.

Wednesday HW- Remember to get a novel folder!

Thursday IC- Explore novel*Read novel together in class and discuss characters as we are introduced to them.

Thursday HW- Remember to get a novel folder!

Friday IC- Read novel together in class, stopping to discuss the plot as it unfolds. *Review vocabulary terms.

Friday HW- none