 Language Arts with Mrs. Wildes
Happy New Year
Read 25 Q2 Deadline – January 18th
Week of January 3rd – 6th
Tues. - 1/3
** Check In
* resolutions
* favorite gift
* highlight
** Independent Work Day
* book approvals
* Written Response - story maps
* Project Response – story wheels
** Teacher / Student Conferences
HW - read 30+,
Q2 deadline 1/18 – all 4 responses due
– 1story wheel & 3 written
Weds. – 1/4
** Grammar
* Sentence structure notes
* comma splices
* fragments
** Nothing But the Truth
* Anticipation Guide #19
Your point of view on issues and themes
related to the novel
HW - read 30+
Thurs. - 1/5
** Nothing But the Truth
* finish Anticipation Guide discussion
* Novel introduction notes #19
** Guiding question – What is truth?
** begin Nothing But the Truth
* Read Aloud – assigned roles
* Discussion
HW - read 30+
Fri.- 1/6
** Nothing But the Truth
* Read Aloud – assigned roles
* Discussion
HW - read 30+,
bring music and instruments for the Star Spangled Banner
Week of January 9th – 13th
Mon.- 1/9
** The Star's Spangled Banner
* History
* Poetry Analysis
* Band students & instruments
* Singing
** Vocabulary – Nothing But the Truth Chapters 1-12
* Definitions & Discussion
* Complete word list - #20
* Word Interaction – Enhancement (#7)
HW - read 30+
5 vocabulary items (use #7)
Vocabulary Quiz next Weds. (1/18)
Tues. - 1/10
** Nothing But the Truth
* Read Aloud – assigned roles
* Discussion
HW - read 30+
Vocabulary Quiz (1/18)
Weds. - 1/11
** Nothing But the Truth
* Read Aloud – assigned roles
* Discussion
HW - read 30+
Vocabulary Quiz (1/18)
Thurs. - 1/12
** Goal Setting
* Warm up In 10 years, I would feel ______ if …
* SMART goals
* Philip’s model
* Student brainstorm #21
** Teacher / Student Conferences
HW - read 30+, finish SMART goal brainstorm
Vocabulary Quiz next Weds. (1/18)
Fri. - 1/13
** Telephone – what happens to the truth as it travels?
** Nothing But the Truth
* Read Aloud – assigned roles
* Discussion
HW - read 30+
Q2 R25 deadline AND Vocabulary Quiz (1/18)
Week of January 16th – 20th
Mon. - 1/16
** Martin Luther King Day **
Tues. - 1/17
** Complete and transfer goals to final copy
** Independent Work Day
* book approvals
* Written Response
* Project Response – 1 story wheel (if not completed already)
HW - read 30+
Q2 R25 deadline (4 responses due)
Study for Vocabulary Quiz
Weds. - 1/18
** Q2 Deadline Check - collect folders
** WORDO boards
** Continue Final Goal conferences
HW - read 30+
Vocabulary Quiz tomorrow
Thurs. - 1/19
** WORDO review
** Vocabulary Quiz Nothing But the Truth List #1
HW - read 30+
Fri. - 1/20
** Warm Up
* Objective truth
* Media Reporting
** Nothing But the Truth
* Read Aloud – assigned roles
* Discussion
HW - read 30+
Mon. - 1/23
** NBT Vocabulary – Chapters 13-19
* Definitions & Discussion
* Complete word list - #22
* Word Interaction – Enhancement (#7)
HW - read 30+, 5 vocabulary items (use #7)
Vocabulary Quiz next Tues. (1/31)
Long Term Project - Read 25 ...
** students will be responsible for 4 books & 4 responses / quarter.
** 3 responses will be written
** 1 response will be project-based
Q1 Project response: Story Wheel. Students have the guidelines in their reading folders.
Midterm Deadline ** December 6th **
** 2 Independent Reading responses
(1 written / 1 Story Wheel) due
Quarter 2 Deadline ** January 18th **
** All 4 Reading Responses Due
(3 written / 1 Story Wheel)
Just a Reminder:
Reading response assignments are in student reading folders which remain in the classroom - it is the student's responsibility to take home guidelines and handouts when they finish a book and to return those papers to their folders after completion.
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