October 28: Today we read chapter 16 in Percy Jackson. Remember, the end of the quarter is on Thursday. All grades are updated, so check skyward.
October 29: Today we read chapters 17-20 in Percy Jackson
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October 21: Today we read up to the end of chapter 11 in Percy Jackson.
October 22: Today we worked on creating and identifying simple, compound and complex sentences. Remember you have a quiz tomorrow! October 23: Quiz Today (read Chapter 12-14 in Percy) October 24: Today we read and summarized chapters 13-15 in Percy Jackson. October 25: Rise and Stretch October 14: Today we started the fall benchmark for the district. We worked on the pre-writing and drafting of the argument paper.
October 15: Today we wrote the fall benchmark in the computer labs. October 16: October 17-18: Fall Break October 7: Today we learned about complex sentences and completed a worksheet on sentence structure. We also summarized chapter 6 of Percy Jackson
October 8: Today we were in the computer labs researching Greek Gods for our Greek God writing assignment. Don't forget your sentence structure quiz tomorrow.
October 9: Today we took our sentence structure quiz
October 10: Today we worked on the pre-writing for our Greek God research paper. The research paper got pushed back so we aren't outlining and writing the paper until the first week of November! Don't loose your research papers! October 11: Rise and Stretch (You are awesome if you did yoga with me today!) September 30: Today we collection day for Student-Led Conferences. If you were absent make sure you talk to Ms. Nielsen about getting your artifacts for this class. We also talked about plot pyramids and discussed how a plot pyramid works. October 1: Today we read the first chapter of Percy Jackson, talked about simple sentences and received our Purple Percy Packets (great alliteration!) October 2: Today we read the chapters 2-3 in Percy Jackson and talked about compound sentences. October 3: Today we read chapter 4 in Percy Jackson October 4: NO SCHOOL!
September 23: Today we talked about similes and metaphors. Remember a simile compares 2 things using like or as and a metaphor compares 2 things without using like or as! September 24: Today we learned about the program MYAccess and started typing the final draft of our heart map papers. Here is all the MYAccess information you guys need: Website: www.myaccess.com Username: Passed out to you by Ms. Nielsen. It is your password and numbers Password: Student ID Prompt: "Cherished Memories **Remember to edit for details, description, punctuation, capitalization, transitions, conclusions, hooks, and paragraphing** *You can check your score whenever you want, just hit SUBMIT, then FINAL SUMBIT--to go back to revise, click on assignment then start revision *~*~*~*~ PAPER IS DUE ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27! *~*~*~*~ September 25: Today we were in the computer labs working on the final draft of your heart map papers. September 26: We introduced Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief today and discussed Greek Gods and Mythological Creatures.
September 27: Today we discussed the 5 elements of fiction; Plot, Setting, Character, Point of View, and Theme.
September 16: Today we worked on revising our heart map essays in class. We also took a quiz on the 4 traits of writing we have been discussing so far.
September 17: Today we finished talking about the last 2 traits of writing, sentence fluency and conventions. Don't forget there is a quiz tomorrow! September 18: 6 traits of writing Quiz September 19: SRI test September 20: Rise and Stretch September 9: Today we worked in class on the 2nd trait of writing; organization. We talked about writing good hooks (opening lines to papers and stories to "hook" the reader).
September 10: Today we continued work on organization and we discussed transitions. We read the story "Cat Bathing as a Martial Art" to identify good transitions in writing. September 11: Today we finished talking about organization by discussing conclusions. We talked about how to write good conclusions and practiced writing conclusions for 2 articles that had poor conclusion. September 12: Today we talked about using good voice in writing and the different tones of voice that could be used. We wrote a 1/2 page story about different prompts using specific tones of voice (happy, sad, horrified, etc.) September 13: Today we talked about word choice and using great "salsa words" in your writing, we finished the day by completing a write-up about your favorite toy from your childhood. *Don't forget to turn in your heart map and your heart map writing from last week! They are due on Monday (September 3)*
Monday: No School Tuesday: Library Day--learn how to check out a book and a little bit about plagiarism! Wednesday: Code of Conduct Assembly, and Pod Meetings. Welcome to the MINION POD!! Thursday: Today we begin working on rubrics and the writing process--HANDOUTS: Writing Process Notes, Lime Green Rubric Paper Friday: Today we began going through the 6 traits of writing. We focused on ideas and discussed how adding details to your writing will improve it an give you a higher score on your writing assignments. Monday: Field trip to the Natural History Museum
Tuesday: Read Epilogue of And Then There Were None. Work on Character Casting Worksheet Wednesday: Read Manuscript of And Then There Were None. Work on Character casting worksheet. Thursday: Friday: |