Quarter 2
Week 19: Dec 8-12
📖Novel Study:
None for a while. Please make to to have your HMH book as will be reading from here for a while.
📚Reading Concepts
We will be reading/working on My Favorite Chaperone, Spirit Walking in the Tundra, and New Immigrants Share Their Stories.
Analyze plot, Analyze character, Analyze themes, Analyze imagery, Evaluate a documentary, Analyze text elements, Compare purposes
💬Language Concepts
Daily Language Review, IXL Skills- Use dictionary definitions (DD.4); Identify plurals, singular possessives, and pluaral possessives (HH.3); Form the singular or plural possessive (DD.4)
✍️Writing Concepts
Recall details to inform others, use vocabulary words within writing, write from different perspectives
🏠Possible homework
IXLs DD.4, HH.3, HH.4 to 90%
Quarter 2
Week 18: Dec 1-5
📖Novel Study
None for a little while. We will be working with the HMH textbook instead.
📚Reading Concepts
We will be reading/working with The Book of Unknown Americans and My Favorite Chaperone
Analyze plot, Analyze themes, Analyze character
💬Language Concepts
Daily Language Review, IXL Skills: Use the correct frequently confused word (T.4), Use dictionary entries (DD.3), Suggest appropriate revisions (T.5)
Vocab Practice for "from The Book of Unknown Americans"
Vocab Practice for "My Favorite Chaperone"
✍️Writing Concepts
Recall details to inform others, use vocabulary words within writing, write from different perspectives
🏠Possible homework
IXLs T.4, DD.3, T.5 to 90%
Quarter 2
Week 17: Nov 24-28
No School 11/26 to 28: Fall Break
📖Novel Study
None for a little while. We will be working with the HMH textbook instead.
📚Reading Concepts
We will be reading/working with Roller Coasters, King Chameleon and the Animals, and The Hare and the Tortoise
Cite text evidence, moral, define words based on context, analogies, character traits/story structure, archetypes, situational irony
💬Language Concepts
Daily Language Review, IXL Skills: NONE due to it being such a short week
✍️Writing Concepts
Recall details to inform others, use vocabulary words within writing, write from different perspectives
🏠Possible homework
None predicted
Quarter 2
Week 16: Nov 17-21
📖Novel Study
None for a little while. We will be working with the HMH textbook instead.
📚Reading Concepts
We will be reading/working with The Harlem Renaissance, Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, The Wreck of the Golden Mary, The Gift of the Magi.
Cite text evidence, determine setting, determine author's purpose, analyze structure
💬Language Concepts
Daily Language Review, IXL Skills: Use relative pronouns: who and whom (JJ.7),Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, that (JJ.8), Combine sentences using relative clauses GG.5
✍️Writing Concepts
Recall details to inform others, use vocabulary words within writing, write from different perspectives
🏠Possible homework
IXL Skills: JJ.7, JJ.8, and GG.5 to at least 90% due one week from date of assignment
Quarter 2
Week 15: Nov 10-14
📖Novel Study
None for a little while. We will be working with the HMH textbook instead.
📚Reading Concepts
We will be reading/working with Short Circuit, Online Identity, How Video Games are Getting Inside Your Head and Wallet, and Hidden Tricks Advertisers Use to Sell You Stuff
Make connections, determine meaning of phrases, cite text evidence, determine central idea, analyze connections, determine author's purpose, development of main idea, determine meaning of words using context cluse
💬Language Concepts
Daily Language Review, IXL Skills: None due to the larger writing piece
✍️Writing Concepts
HMH prompt- write an argument
🏠Possible homework
Writing not finished in class. I will be giving time in class each day for writing though.
Quarter 2
Week 14: Nov 3-7
📖Novel Study
None for a little while. We will be working with the HMH textbook instead.
📚Reading Concepts
We will be reading/working with Army Eyes 3-D Printed Food for Soldiers, Interflora, Sonnet 43, The Automation Paradox, and Heads up, Humans
Analyze structure, anlayze irony, analyze claim and evidence, analyze graphic features, analyze evidence, analyze rhetoric, compare arguments
💬Language Concepts
Daily Language Review, IXL Skills: Identify supporting details in information texts (Q.1) Alphabetical order (DD.1), Use guide words (DD.2)
✍️Writing Concepts
Recall details to inform others, use vocabulary words within writing, write from different perspectives
🏠Possible homework
IXL Skills: Q.1, DD.1, DD.2 to at least 90% due one week from date of assignment
Quarter 2
Week 13: Oct 20-24
📖Novel Study
None for a little while. We will be working with the HMH textbook instead.
📚Reading Concepts
We will be reading/working with "Wild Geese", "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance", "The Brave Little Toaster", and "Are Bionic Superhumans on the Horizon?"
Determine theme, analyze character, compare/contrast, determine central idea, cite text evidence, analyze connections, analyze structure, analyze plot, analyze science fiction, discuss with a small group, identify central ideas and details, analyze organization
💬Language Concepts
Daily Language Review, IXL Skills: Use the correct frequently confused word (T.1), Words with re- (V.2), What does the punctuation suggest? (SS.1)
✍️Writing Concepts
Use alliterations with in writing, explain family traditions, use imagery to describe what is going on around you
🏠Possible homework
IXL Skills: T.1, V.2, SS.1 to at least 90% due one week from date of assignment
Quarter 2
Week 11: Oct 13-15
No School Thursday, Oct 16 and Friday, Oct 17 due to Parent-Teacher Conferences
📖Novel Study
None for a little while. We will be working with the HMH textbook instead.
📚Reading Concepts
We will be reading/working with "Outsmart Your Smart Phone" by Catherine Steiner-Adair
Analyze claim and evidence, identify counterclaims, analyze structure, analyze rhetorical devices, compare arguments
💬Language Concepts
Daily Language Review, IXL Skills: Compare/contrast in informational texts (E.3), Identify thesis statements (O.1), Determine if it is a phrase or a clause(GG.1)
Poetry explanation, journal entries about reading
🏠Possible homework
IXL skills E.3, 0.1, GG.1--> due one week after it has been assigned with a score of at least 90%