Friday, November 27, 2015

Week 17: November 30-December 4

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all enjoyed a long weekend and enjoyed time with family and friends. I'm sure thankful for what I do as a teacher and for the amazing students I teach!
  
I'm happy to be back from a fantastic conference and I've got all sort of great knowledge to better teach students. I also shipped home around 100 books from publishing houses to share too--students are pretty excited about that! I'm looking forward to getting back into "A Long Walk to Water" and give students meaningful writing practice. I'm trying to be more deliberate in grading as far as that which demonstrates skill will be academic and anything that is practice of a skill will be effort. Bear in mind that midterm is December 10, so please keep an eye on grades and let me know if there are questions. I appreciate the continued support and truly enjoy each day that I teach your child!!

Week 17 Schedule
November 30-December 4

Monday, November 30th
Genre of the Week: Beehive Nominees
Free Reading
Free Write: "I Want My Teacher to Know..."
ACES/OREOS Identification & Analysis
December Newspaper Launch: Honors
Thanksgiving Reading Challenge DUE
Book #2 Due/#3 for Honors

Tuesday, December 1st
Chapters 7-8 Long Walk to Water
Free Write: Problems
Free Reading

Wednesday, December 2nd
Free Reading
Chapter 9: Long Walk to Water
Close Reading

Thursday, December 3rd
Chapters 10-11 Long Walk to Water
Notice and Note: Tough Questions
Free Reading

Friday, December 4th
Chapters 12-13 Long Walk to Water
Paired Text: First Person Narrative Lost Boy Story
Free Write
Free Reading
Honors: Newspaper Day (Long Walk to Water home assignment)

1 comment:

  1. Yeah! Conference sounds amazing. Thanks for the books. Happy Thanksgiving. We appreciate everything you do for our students!

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