T:  Theme

C:  

• Proverbs
• Spelling 33
• Thought Book
• The Outsiders

T:  Novella

C: 

H: 

T:  Point of View

C:

• Beauty & the Beast 
• Spelling Lesson 27
• The Pearl - chapter 3
• Types of sentences:  simple, compound, complex

T: Poetry

C:

• Review Poetry Terms -
• Spelling Lesson 23
• Thought book

Homework

• Poetry Collection - Due tomorrow!
• Thought Book - Booker T. Washington - Due Friday
• Cartoon Vocabulary - candor and docile - Due Friday (attached)
• Spelling Lesson 23 - Due Friday (attached)

T:  Poetry

C:

• Poetry Notes
• Spelling Lesson 21 (attached)
• Thought book
• Poetry Collection (see attached)

H:

• Spelling Lesson 21 - Due Friday
• Thought book
• Poetry Collection - attached - Due Feb. 20, 2013

 Thought of the Week:

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent."  John Donne

Big Question:  WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO COMMUNICATE?

T:  Vocabulary & Spelling

C:

• Introduction to Unit 4 - Page 570
• Big Question Vocabulary - page 570-571
• Spelling Lesson 19
• TB & CV - Due Friday - Choose your own thought
• DSAT 3 - Take another look at it !

H:

• Spelling Lesson 19 - Due Friday - Quiz Friday - Lesson 19 attached
• Poetry Terms - page 574-575 - Notes/note cards...create terms study guide. Due Thursday.
• Thought book- choose your own thought
• Cartoon - caucus and congenial - Due Friday.

BIG QUESTION?  WHAT SHOULD WE LEARN?

T:  Fact & Opinion

C:

• Introduction to "All Together Now" pages 493-497.
• Spelling Lesson 17 (attached)
• Prepositions - worksheet attached
•  Spelling Lesson 17 - Compound Words - (attached) Due Friday.
• Cartoon Vocabulary - guile and citadel (attached) -Due Friday

H: 

Writing Assignment: New Year's Goals!  Write at least 3 paragraphs!  Due Wednesday!
Thought Book and Cartoon Due Friday
Spelling lesson 17 - Due Friday.
Read "All Together Now" pages 493-497.

Thought of the Week:

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity." Louis Pasteur

Big Question:  What should we learn? 

T:  Types of Nonfiction

C: 

• What Makes a Rembrandt? pages 412- 419 -Pearson texbook.  You can also access onilne at www.pearsonsuccessnet.com  (Unit 3)
• Spelling Lesson 16 (attached)
• Cartoon Vocabulary - irascible and cower (attached)
• Prepositions -

H:

• Answer questions 1 - 3 (all parts) on page 419 - "What Makes a Rembrandt?" Due tomorrow.
• Spelling Lesson 16 - Due Friday (Quiz Friday)
• Thought Book - Aesop -Due Friday
• Read for pleasure

Thought of the Week - Dec. 10 - 14

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Aesop

Does every conflict have a winner?

T:  Unit 2 review

C:

• Review plot
• modifiers
• Spelling L-15 (attached)
• TB
• Cartoon - domain and intervene (attached)
• Vocab. Quiz

H:

• Study class notes and Pearson Unit 2
• TB and CV due Friday
• Spelling lesson 15 Due Friday - Quiz Friday
• ELA - DSAT 2 - This Wednesday.

"True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere." Unknown

Big Question: Does every conflict have a winner?

T:  Writing and Irony

C:

• Read "After Twenty Years" - pages 372-377 (test on Friday for 1st period and 6th period). (Test on Wed. for 4th period)
• Writing Standard 1.7 - revise writing.

•  Cartoon Vocabulary:  ambiance and petulant (attached)
• Spelling Lesson 14 - Due Friday -Quiz Friday (attached)
• Thought book

H: 

• Read pages 282- 286 - Informational Text - "Mongoose on the Loose" - Magazine article.  Due tomorrow! 
• adverbs worksheet - Due tomorrow.
• Spelling Lesson 14 - Due Friday.
• Thought book and Cartoon - due Friday
• Re-read "After Twenty Years" pages 372-377.

Thought of the week: "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret;
it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye."
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery~   The Little Prince   French writer (1900 - 1944)

Definition of irony:

T:  Conflict

C:

• Amigo Brothers test (1st and 6th periods)
• Finish Phantom Tollbooth (4th)
• Read "After Twenty Years"  -  pages 371-37 - Open book test tomorrow

H: 

• Cartoon vocabulary test - 20 words (attached)

Big Question: Does every conflict have a winner? 

(This week and next week are going to be a little unusual.  We have Sally Adams, district technology teacher, coming to our class on Friday to show us how to get the most out of Chrome books. She will have a class set of Chrome books for us to use. Students will take spelling quiz 13 and Amigo Brothers test on Thursday. We only have two instructional days next week).

T:  Conflict

C:

• Amigo Brothers 320-333 - Introduction, vocab, begin reading
• Spelling Lesson 13 (attached)
• Finish idioms
• Diagraming sentences - pages 25 & 26 (attached)

H:

• Read "Amigo Brothers" pages 320 -330. Don't forget that you can access it at www.pearsonsuccessnet.com (Login:  HAC login and Password:  Capitalize first initial of last name + ID number (  Steve.Young   and PW:  Y20134949. 
• Spelling Lesson 13  -Due Thursday!
• Review Cartoon vocabulary for test on Tuesday, Nov. 20 .  You must know word, link, definition.  No new cartoon this week.
• Memorize one of the thoughts and be able to recite it in class.  I will call on students this week and next week to recite.  No new thought this week.

T: Comparing Literary Works

C: 

• Read "Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto - pages 290 - 295
• Notes
• Study vocabulary
• Spell Lesson 11
• Idioms
• Diagraming sentences

H:

• Diagraming sentences pages 20 & 21 (attached) - Due tomorrow!
• Read "Melting Pot" - pages 296 - 301 and reread "Seventh Grade"
• Thought book - J.F. Kennedy
• Cartoon Vocabulary - veer

"And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." President John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)

BIG QUESTION:  DOES EVERY CONFLICT HAVE A WINNER?

T:  Comparing Literary Works

C:

• Comparing Idioms - introduction page 288
• Story vocabulary  - page 288
• Spelling Lesson 11 - (attached)
• Cartoon Vocabulary - veer and elapse (attached)

• Finish team posters and points

H:

• Diagraming sentences - pages 18 & 19 (started in class). Due tomorrow.
• Spelling Lesson 11 - Due Friday
• Thought book and Cartoon due Friday
• Study idioms
• Read - 25 AR points due by end of quarter.

Happy 2nd Quarter! 

T:  Short Story

C: 

• Characterization : Rikki Tikki Tavi-
• Spelling Lesson 10
• Diagrammnig Sentences
• Spelling Bee tryouts

H:

• Diagramming sentences - practice sheet - due tomorrow
• Reread Rikki Tikki - Test tomorrow.  First test of the 2nd quarter! 
• Spelling Lesson 10 -Due Friday
• Thought book and Cartoon -Due Friday

Thought of the week:

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die; the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

(New Message)

T:  Standards Assessment:  R 1.3, R 2.1, R 2.2, R 3.5, W 1.7,

C:

• DSAT 1  :) 
• Intro to writer's workshop - narrative
• Library

H:

• Spelling Lesson 8 - Due Friday - attached
• Cartoon vocabulary - wane and alienate (attached) - Due Friday
• Writer's workshop - rough draft narrative due Friday (prompt and guided questions attached)
• Thought Book - Due Friday

Thought of the week:

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. " Henry David Thoreau

T:  Standards Review: R 1.3, R 2.1, R 2.2, R 3.5, W 1.7,

C:

• DSAT - Pre-test
• Pronoun antecedent quiz
• Spell Lesson 8

H: 

• Read pages 152- 153 - Test Practice:  Reading: Answer questions 1-4 on page 152 and questions 1-4 on page 153.  Due tomorrow
• Spelling Lesson 8 - Due Friday
• Thought Book - Cartoon Due Friday
• DSAT - Practice Test - Review

Thought of the week:

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. " Henry David Thoreau

T:  Comparing Literary Works

C:

• Read "Stolen Day" - pages 168-175
• Vocabulary -Big Question and story
• Pronouns/Antecedent  (attached)

H: Everything is due Friday...

• Reading Warm-up B - (attached) "Stolen Day..."
• Spelling Lesson 7
• Thought Book - Mya Angelou
• cartoon - fortutious and grandiose (attached)
• Vocabulary - Big Question/Story words

T:  Characterization

C:

• vocabulary - pages 160 -175
• Spelling Lesson 7
• Thought Book -
• Cartoon Vocabulary
• Pronouns - Possessive

H:

• Vocabulary worksheet due Friday
• Spelling Lesson 7 due Friday
• Thought book & Cartoon Vocabulary due Friday

"When people show you who they are, believe them."  Mya Angelou

T: Author's Purpose - Historical Content

C:

• (period 1) - My First Free Summer - Pages 130- 137
• (period 4 and 6) -Introduction to "from Angela's Ashes" pages 140-149
• Pronouns - packet
• Thought book & Cartoon

H:

• Thought Book - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Cartoon - histrionic &
• Spelling Lesson 5 Quiz - Wednesday (no new spelling list this week)

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is your greatest accomplishment."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

T:  Author's Purpose

C: 

• Introduction to "All Summer in a Day" pages 100-111
• Vocabulary
• Spelling Lesson 5 -
• Thought book & Cartoon Vocabulary

H: 

• Read "All Summer in a Day" pages 100 -111
• Study vocabulary words on page 100.
• Spelling Lesson 5 - Due Friday
• Thought book - Due Friday
• Cartoon Vocabulary - callous & somber
• Character poster due Friday! 

Thought:

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
Henry David Thoreau

T:  Comparing Fiction and NonFiction

C: 

• Read "A Day's Wait" - pages 86-91
• Complete Venn Diagram - Comparing "from Barrio Boy" and "A Day's Wait."
• Workbook pages 32 & 33

H:

• Workbook pages 34 and 35
• Spelling Lesson 4 - Due Friday - Quiz Friday
• Thought book and Cartoon Due Friday
• Read

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T:  Comparing Fiction and NonFiction

C:

• Cornell Notes - Pages 78-79
• Vocabulary
• Read - from Barrio Boy page 80- 85.
• Critical Thinking - page 85
• Spelling Lesson Lesson 4 (attached)
• Cartoon Vocabulary - nepotism & permeate (attached)
• Thought book

H :

• Finish Critical Thinking Questions on page 85 - Due Tomorrow
• Diagramming sentences pages 10 & 11 - Due tomorrow

• Spelling Lesson 4 - Due Thursday - Test Thursday
• Cartoon Vocabulary - Due Thursday - Quiz Thursday

• Thought Book- Due Friday

 Thought of the Week:

 "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."
Ernest Hemingway