Ms. Allen’s Reading Corner

MONDAY:

Warm-Up: Complete and check “Editor-in-Chief” #14.
Class work: Review week verb pattern: passive voice. Continue work on “Letting Verbs Do the Work” in the On Target workbooks. Complete exercises 2 & 3 (16-17).
Homework: None

TUESDAY:

Warm-Up: Complete and check “Editor-in-Chief” #15.
Class work: Review week verb pattern: linking verbs. Continue work on “Letting Verbs Do the Work” in the On Target workbooks. Complete exercises 4-5 (18-19).
Homework: None

WEDNESDAY:

Warm-Up: Are secrets harmless or harmful? How do you know? Are children’s secrets different from the secrets adults might keep? If you think so, provide and example of how they differ. Write about any personal experiences you’ve had with sharing or keeping a secret. (1/2 page minimum)
Class work: Assign parts and introduce play. The read aloud “Secrets to Keep” (16-25) in READ magazine. If time allows, read “Confidences and Betrayals” (4-7).
Homework: None

THURSDAY:

Warm-Up: Return grades papers.
Class work: Finish “Letting Verbs Do the Work” in the On Target workbook: warm up T-chart and exercises 1-10 (15-22). Make sure exercises are clearly identified, correctly ordered, and stapled. Turn in on wall by period’s end.
Homework: Finish identifying the verbs in your “Best Friend” essay, either by highlighting them or listing them on a separate sheet of paper. Remember that “to + a verb” is NOT a verb. Also look carefully at words ending in -ing. Although these words looks as if they may be verbs, they often are not. Once this has bee done, count the number of times you used linking verbs and the number of times you used a passive voice verb. Write these totals on the top of your planning sheet. These will be collected on Friday.

FRIDAY:

Warm-Up: Collect “Best Friend” essays.
Class work:   Write a thirty-five minute timed expository essay using the following prompt:

Writing Situation: Imagine that you can travel to any place in time.  You could return to the past, remain in the present, or journey into the future.  Where would you like to go?  Why would you choose to visit there?

Directions for Writing: Before you write think about the past, the present, and the future.  Consider all the  places that have existed in the past, still exist today, and may exist in the future.

Now write an essay to tell the reader where you would go in time and why you would wish to visit there. Support your ideas  with examples and details.

Homework: None