| | | Language Arts
| Social Studies
| Dec 1-5
| Week 14 Start of Trimester 2
| Spell 15
Baucis & Philemon
1 Child's Labor of Love
| Ancient Israel Ch 3.3
Chapter Wrap Up & Assessment
| Dec 8-12
| Week 15 Mr. Curry's 50th Birthday (Dec 8)
| Lit Ch 3 Review
Special Spelling List (no packet)
| Ancient India Ch 4.1
View Section
Lesson Notes
and the Quiz 4.1
Studyguide
(.pdf file)
| Dec 15-19
| Week 16 Dec 19th 1PM Dismissal for Winter Break
| Special Lit Unit
Gift of the Magi
A Christmas Carol
Spelling Bee In Class Test
| Ancient India 4.2
pages 246-253
4.2 Crossword
| Dec 22-Jan 2
| Winter Break
| | | January 5-9, 2009
| Week 17
| Hatchet Unit
| Ancient India 4.3
pages 259-267
| January 12-16
| Week 18
| Hatchet Unit
| Chapter
4 Review
Ch.
4 Review web (.pdf)
Ch 4 "Who Wants to
be a Smarty Pants" Game (,ppt)
Chapter 4 Review & Test
| January 20-23
| Week 19
January 19th: ML King Holiday January 20th: Inauguration
| Hatchet Unit
| Launch Ch 5 Ancient China
5.1 China's 1st Civilization
pages 276-283 NTG 79-85
| January 26-30
| Week 20
| Hatchet Project due
| 5.2 Life in Ancient China
pages 285-291 NTG 86-89
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| February 2-6
| Week 21
| Literature
❑ The Gold Cadillac pp. 174–188
❑ Focus On: questions and activities p. 187 Scaffold Responses
Informational Materials
❑ Separate but Never Equal pp. 189–192
❑ Reading Informational Materials p. 189
❑ Focus On: questions and activity p. 192
Expository Writing
"How To
Essay"
Students
will write a 500+ word essay describing "how to do"
something Web site
Pre-writing
Rough Draft / Proofread /Revision
Final Draft as a word processing document with clip art added (due Feb 10). Sample
1 Sample 2
Spelling
Lesson 18 - ance/ence
Word Search | Crossword
|
absence
allowance
ambulance
appearance
assistance
assurance
conference
difference
importance
|
independence
insistance
instance
insurance
intelligence
obedience
persistence
presence
reluctance |
| 5.3 Qin & Han Dynasties
Pages 294-303 NTG 90-94 | February 9-13
| Week 22
| Literature
❑ Medusa’s Head and Perseus and the
Gorgon’s Head pp. 208–223
❑ Before You Read pp. 208–209
❑ Focus On: quest/summary p. 222
Spelling
Unit 21 : prefixes con- and com-
Word Search |
Crossword
confusing,
commence, commotion,
commercial, communicate,
communities,
communication, committee, continuation,
contingent,
communicated, consequences,
conviction,
commanded, commonly, considered, continued,
commander, commit, constitution
| Ch 5 Review & Test | Feb 16-20
| Presidents' Day Vacation
| | | February 23-27
| Week 23
| Literature
❑ He Lion, Bruh Bear, and Bruh Rabbit and The Fox and the Crow and The Wolf and the House Dog pp. 224–233
❑ Focus : questions/activities p. 232
❑ Vocabulary: p. 233
❑ Grammar Link: To, Too, and Two p. 233
CH 4 Standards Review
❑ Reading Informational Materials
pp. 234–235
❑ Test Practice: Vocabulary p. 236
❑ Chapter 4 Literature Test
Chapter 4 Review and
Assessment Review novel,
novella, short story, myth, folk tale, and fable.
Spelling:
Unit 22
-ant / -ent
Word Search |
Crossword
absent,
important,current, president, elephant,
confident, instant, element, servant, excellent, opponent, permanent,
assistant, innocent, significant,sufficient, moment, patient, impatient, frequent
| Group Research Presentations on assigned JIGSAW section of Ch 6
The First Americans & The Mayan People
Ch. 6 Overview Presentation
| | | | | | March 2-6
| Week 24
| Literature
❑ Storm pp. 244–253
❑ Focus On: questions/Rewrite a scene from Storm's 1st person POV p. 252
❑ Vocabulary: Prefixes p. 253
❑ Grammar Link: Using Good and Well
Correctly p. 253
Informational Materials
❑ Connecting and Clarifying Main Ideas:
Storm and Bringing Tang Home and
Where the Heart Is pp. 254–261
❑ Reading Informational Materials p. 254
❑ Focus On: questions and activity p. 260
Unit 24 VCV
Patterns Word Search
| Crossword
CLIMATE, GOPHER, PALACE, PROFIT,
TALENT, WEAPON, COMIC, LINEN,
PLEASANT, SIREN, TOKEN, FRIGID,
NOVEL, PRISON, SPIRAL, TREASON
| Launch Unit 3: Greece and Rome
Ch 7.1: The Early Greeks
Pages 336-343 NTG 103-110 | | March 9-13
| Week 25
| Literature
❑ Brother pp. 262–268
❑ Focus On: questions/activities p.267
❑ Vocabulary: Antonyms and Finding
Synonyms p. 268
Informational Material
❑ Connecting and Clarifying Main Ideas:
Brother and The Brother I Never Had
pp. 269–273
❑ Reading Informational Materials
pp. 269–270
❑ Focus On: questions p. 272
Spelling: Unit 25 VCV
Patterns
Word Search
| Crossword
allies
banner
chaos
platform
clever
crystal
display
empty
| fatal
funnel
gather
habithotel
orphan
oval
suspense
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| Ch 7.2 Sparta and Athens
Pages 344-350 NTG 111-115
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