Ms. Allen’s Reading Corner

MONDAY:

Warm-Up: Complete word puzzle on overhead. Distribute “Editor-in-Chief” packets.
Class work: Distribute, introduce, and explain vocabulary units and weekly procedures. Guidelines and word lists were also distributed in class. The vocabulary #1 written assignment is as follows:

Your parents have sent you to a boarding school far, far away. This boarding school could be any kind of boarding school: military school, wizardry school, fine arts school, athletic training school, etc. After having been there for 2 weeks, you write your parent(s) a letter in which you describe the school, your classes, and the people you’ve met. Tell them what’s been going on since your arrival. Use your imagination. Be creative! Use specific details. Remember the minimum page length. Follow the format of a friendly letter (763). Be sure to include the heading for the letter. DUE THURSDAY.

Begin working on vocabulary #1 written assignment.
Homework: Work on vocabulary #1 written assignment (due Thursday).

TUESDAY:

Warm-Up: Complete “Quick Write” (16) in your literature book. (1/2 page minimum). Then read the remainder of page 16.
Class work: Introduce and read “Broken Chain” (17-24). Then answer ?’s 1-6 in CRS and complete the “Writing” activity on page 26. Turn in on wall by the period’s end.
Homework: Work on vocabulary #1 written assignment (due Thursday).

WEDNESDAY:

Warm-Up: Complete and check “Editor-in-Chief” #1 & #2.
Class work: Complete the following pages in your Holt Reader: Pages 6-18. Due by period’s end.
Homework: Work on vocabulary #1 written assignment (due Thursday).

THURSDAY:

Warm-Up: Complete and check “Editor-in-Chief” #3 & #4.
Class work: Take story quiz over “Broken Chain.” Then review vocabulary #1 in groups using written assignments.
Homework: Study for vocabulary #1 quiz.

FRIDAY:

Warm-Up: Return grades papers/Prepare paper for vocabulary #1 quiz.
Class work: Take vocabulary #1 quiz.  Introduce vocabulary #2 words and its related written assignment:

Yarns and tall tales:  Stories told in common language about impossible happenings.  Select a theme from one of the following or create a tall tale topic of your own and stretch it into an outrageous and unbelievable yarn:

* How an elephant’s trunk became the first fire truck.
* How a dinosaur’s sneeze started breezes.
* How a grandfather’s clock became the first wristwatch.
* How an anteater invented the first trumpet.
* How a tickle bone was discovered.
* How a spider became a spider monkey.
* How a hole became the Grand Canyon.

Be imaginative and use specific details.  Your tall tale should be told from third-person point of view, written in a simple dialect, and contain exaggeration.  Your tale’s hero or protagonist should be “larger than life.”  DUE THURSDAY. FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES IN YOUR BINDER.
Homework:  Work on vocabulary #2 written assignment (due Thursday, 1/17).

MONDAY

Warm-Up: None
Class work: Take story quiz over “The Medicine Bag.”  Show & Tell:  Share the single item you would pass down to your child and read your written description.  (See homework assigned on Friday December 14th.)
Homework: None

TUESDAY:

Warm-Up: none
Class work: Begin watching film, Christmas on Division Street.
Homework: None

WEDNESDAY:

Warm-Up: None
Class work: Finish watching film, Christmas on Division Street. Discussion to follow as time permits.
Homework: None

THURSDAY:

Warm-Up: None
Class work:  Complete holiday puzzles and participate in holiday activities.
Homework: None

FRIDAY:

Happy Holidays!!!!!!!!!!

MONDAY

Warm-Up: None
Class work: Continue watching film, Charley.
Homework: None

TUESDAY:

Warm-Up: What are the 3 most important things you can think of to ensure world peace? List your 3 choices and explain your reasons for each one. Be sure to explain the effect each of the things would have. (1/2 page minimum)
Class work: Read aloud the play, “The Day the War Stopped” (12-21) in READ magazine. Discuss related “Wrap-Up” (22) if time permits.
Homework: None

WEDNESDAY:

Warm-Up: None
Class work: Finish watching film, Charley. Discussion to follow as time permits.
Homework: None

THURSDAY:

Warm-Up: Coming of Age – “Today I’m and adult.” When will you say those words? In some families and cultures the passage into adulthood is marked by a ceremony, such as the Jewish bar mitzvah ot bat mitzvah ritual. In others, you’re recognized as an adult when you get a driver’s license, finish high school or college, or get your first job. Write about your own “coming of age.” Did it or will it include any special rituals? Who was or will be involved? Does more than one event mark adulthood for you? (1/2 page minimum)
Class work: Introduce and read “The Medicine Bag” (759-770). Then take related “Check Test” over the story.
Homework: Complete ALL of page 772, this includes the “Reading Check” box and ?’s 1-5. Answers should be in CRS.

FRIDAY:

Warm-Up:  Where do your grandparents live?  Do they or did they live with relatives,  on their own, ind a nursing home, etc.?  How often do you  get to spend time with  them?  Freewrite about your grandparent(s).    (1/2 page minimum)
Class Work:  Read “An Hour with Abuelo” (773-779).  Add the written work on page 780 (following the story) to your written work for “The Medicine Bag.”  This must be turned in by the period’s end.
Homework:  Grandpa’s father’s medicine bag contains several items of importance to him or to his people/his family.  Imagine, that like Martin, you have a pouch that you can open just once, to add one item to pass on to your child.  SHOW & TELL MONDAY.  You must have the following:

1.  actual item; photo of item; full-page, full-color illustration of item

2.  description of item and explanation of item’s significance/importance  This must be in final form.  Minimum lengths:  1/2 page if typed, 1 page if handwritten in ink.

MONDAY

Warm-Up: Would you rather be the most popular person in your school or the smartest person in your school? Why? What are the advantages and disadvantages of popularity? What are the advantages and disadvantages of intelligence? (1/2 page minimum)
Class work: Introduce and read Part 1 of “Flowers for Algernon” (32+). Homework: None

TUESDAY:

Warm-Up: What sacrifices to people make to fit in? List as many examples as you can.
Class work: Continue reading Part 1 of “Flowers for Algernon” (32-49). Take related “Check Test.” Discuss ?’s 3, 4, & 5 (50). Then begin reading Part 2 of “Flowers for Algernon.”
Homework: None

WEDNESDAY:

Warm-Up: None
Class work: Finish reading Part 2 of “Flowers for Algernon” (51+). Take related “Check Test.”  Working with a partner,  begin answering ?’s 1-11 and “Critical Response” #3 & #4 in CRS (248-249) in Ms. Allen’s blue literature book.
Homework: None

THURSDAY:

Warm-Up: Draw and label a plot peak for “Flowers for Algernon.”
Class work:  Continue working with a partner on yesterday’s written assignment: answer ?’s 1-11 and “Critical Response” #3 & #4 in CRS (248-249) in Ms. Allen’s blue literature book.  Turn in on wall when finished.  Then begin working individually on the story handout.
Homework: Story quiz over “Flowers for Algernon” tomorrow.

FRIDAY:

Warm-Up: None
Class work: Take story quiz over “Flowers for Algernon.”  Begin watching “Charly.”  Make inkblots.
Homework: None