April 4-8

Monday: Review an argument claim

• Go over "Analyzing Mentor Text" worksheet
• Put in groups of 4 to group write and argument.
• One student creates Google Doc and shares with team mates
• create a table with 1 column and 4 rows
• introduction, 2 supports, counterclaim and conclusion
• Each student type their own part of the argument
• Honors:  Start argument paper over "The Lady or the Tiger?" in Google Docs

4-11

Tuesday: Bellwork:  practice No Red Ink -- last time

• Go over "Athletics for All" article
• Finish Group argument.
• Read the argument like 1 argument paper.  
• Team leader email the link to Mrs. Berg --- don't "share"

Wednesday:

• No Red Ink Quiz
• Quiz over "Would You Eat This"
• 
  

Thursday:

• Look at winning arguments
• Review Figurative Language with Ppt and Today's Meet -- Personification
• Go to Piclits and create an account.
• Play with the drag and drop 
• Create a Piclits with figurative language-- 
• show teacher example on class blog
• students choose a picture and write a paragraph using one form of figurative language

Friday:

• Show students how to embed into their blog
• Read Piclits and make comments
• 
  

March 28-April 1

Monday:  Library

• Watch Honor's Powtoons about differences in words.  (watch on board-- SS has chrome)
• past
• scene
• altogether
• advice
• Go over Theme to "Button, Button"
• Go over Dave Berry Article
• Honors:  Do the other 3 words from Tuesday to have the entire class to read a discuss the article.
• Library

Tuesday

• Watch Honor's Powtoons about differences in words.
• good - well
• who - whom
• affect - effect
• Honors:  Read "Lady or the Tiger?"  and discuss with questions.
• Read Scope "Would you want to eat that"? 
• Groups discuss worksheet on tone, then go over in class 

Wednesday

• Watch Honor's Powtoons about differences in words.
• farther
• whose
• principal
• English:  Write pros and cons.  Write an introduction paragraph for an argument paper.  
• Honors:  Worksheet to choose a side and state a thesis 

Thursday

• Argument has a counter claim.  What is the "other side's" main argument?  How can you refute that?
• Read article and find:
• hook
• claim
• support
• counter claim
• conclusion
• Partner discuss counter claim for "putting bugs on a menu"
• Write introduction
• Practice No Red Ink

Friday:

• Write group argument -- Prize on Monday
• Turn in Worksheet

Mark 21-25

Monday:

• Remind of Power Hours if they want to work on their theme movie project
• Tone Lesson  print out sheets, have partners "act" out with correct voice to get the tone across. 
• Read Button, Button
• Each student write the theme for Button Button.

Tuesday Bell Work; Tone:  Give students a tone words and they write a paragraph, read it to class and class guess the tone.

• Read tone paragraphs
• Stations to  discuss "Button, Button"

Wednesday:  Bell work:  Write a paragraph with a chosen tone.

• Read Tone papers.  Turn in the paper with 2 tone paragraphs.  
• No Red Ink Quiz over pronouns 
• Write theme of "Button, Button" 
• 
  

Thursday

• Watch clip of Dave Barry, 8:20-10:30
• Discuss how things are funny to different people
• Honors: Tone of Scope article
• Read to students "Memories of Dating"
• Do worksheet

Friday
NO SCHOOL

March 14-18

Monday -- Library

• Pronoun School House Rock
• Activity: (15 min)
• In pairs students write pronouns on little squares of paper.  As many as they can in 1:30 min.
• Group with the most reads them off and other groups can add to theirs
• Divide the paper into 2 groups:  Singular and Plural Pronouns  - call on people to check some answers.  Go over the pronoun "you", go over "our and ours...etc"
• Divide the singular pile into singular and singular possessive.  Same with plural.  Check a few of the students.
• Sentence:  Mrs. Berg hugged Emily.  What pronoun could you used for Mrs. Berg and Emily.  Discuss pronouns for the subject and pronouns for the object.
• No red ink assignment on Pronouns
• Library

Tuesday Bell Work:  No Red Ink

• Show video on theme up to the 2:30 mark
• Write a summary and a theme for a section of a Disney/Pixar movie

Wednesday  

• No Red Ink -- 10 minutes
• Read each other's assignments from yesterday and comment on the theme and summary

Thursday  Bell Work:  No Red Ink 

• Go over pronouns
• Actively Learn lesson on Four O'Clock

Friday:

• No Red Ink quiz
• Go over questions on Actively Learn