All students will be working toward grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.
Monday – Students will read aloud teacher selected stories and answer the comprehension questions.
Tuesday – Figurative language – Hyperbole – Students will read a Tall Tale and find examples of hyperbole.
Wednesday – Personification – Classes will read poems with the use of personification.
Thursday – Students will match figurative language terms. Test review.
Friday – poetry test
All students will be working toward grade level TEKS according to their IEP’s.
Classes will begin a figurative language/ poetry unit.
Monday – Go over poetry terms and definitions. Students will read a collection of idioms and discuss the meanings.
Tuesday – Alliteration – Students will read several poems that use alliteration. They will write phrases focusing on repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
Wednesday – Rhyme – End rhyme – Students will read poems and identify the rhyming words in the poems.
Thursday – rhyming patterns – students will analyze various poems for rhyming patterns.
Friday – Students will write a short poem using alliteration or end rhyme.
Students will be working towards grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.
Students will begin a novel unit which will last for two weeks. The 6th & 7th grade will read Alistare Owl, the 8th grade will read The Giver.
6th & 7th grade – Genre – Fiction – Read/Listen to chapters 1-5, begin characterization chart, graph plot chart,and infer the mood through the use of figurative language.
8th grade – Genre – Science Fiction/Fantasy – Read/listen to chapters 1-11, Vocabulary and Concepts: theme, motif, symbols – Students will recognize the importance of memory, relationship between pain and pleasure, and the importance of the individual. Students will chart and explain the characters personality traits and development throughout the novel.
Students will be working towards their grade level TEKS according to their IEPs.
Reading
All classes will begin the novel, The Cay, by Theodore Taylor. All classes will record notes on the story characters, setting, point of view, conflicts, theme, and events during the course of the novel onto a graphic organizer.
Monday
I will introduce the novel and the vocabulary prejudice and discrimination. The students will look up the meanings in a dictionary and write the meaning into their own words. Students will listen to chapters 1-3. Students will chart plot elements onto graphic organizer.
Tuesday
Listen to chapters 4-6. students will chart plot elements onto graphic organizer. Students will answer questions to chapters 1-6.
Wednesday – Early Release Day
Listen to chapters 7-9. Chart plot elements, and answer questions to the chapters.
Thursday
Listen to chapters 10-13, chart plot elements, and answer questions.
Friday
The students will record the important details that they have learned about Philip and Timothy using the active reading chart.
English
Monday
Students will gather research data to support their position on the persuasive paragraph.
Tuesday
Students will begin typing their slide presentation.
Thursday
Mrs. Kindig out – Will have a sub.
Grammar – Comma usage
Friday
Students will import images onto their slide presentation.
The classes will continue writing their expository paper on Christmas Around the World. The students will edit, reflect on their writing, and share their final writing with their classmates. The students will give an oral presentation, using their visual aide, to Mrs. Coones’ class on Tuesday/Wednesday.
English
Wednesday – Adjectives that tell how many
Thursday – Adjectives that tell what kind
Friday – Adjectives that compare
Reading
We will read The Polar Express on Wednesday – Friday
6 th Grade – Students will complete a time-line and retell the story. 7th and 8th Grade – students will focus on the author’s use of sensory imagery to convey mood.
The culminating activity will be to watch the movie, comparing the books elements of imagery to the film.
The classes will begin working on the semester project of Christmas Around the World. I will provide internet sites focusing on five countries. The students this week will gather data from the internet, organize their data using an outline, begin writing their rough draft. I expect to spend about a week and a half on the project. The culminating activity will be a presentation of their report using a visual aide.
English – Focus on Verbs
Monday – Present tense
Tuesday – Past tense
Wednesday – Past tense W/ ied
Thursday – Helping verbs
Friday- Irregular verbs
*All students will be working toward their grade level TEKS according to their I.E.P.s