Monday, April 20, 2015

While we are blocking (Q4)

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Reminder a weekly log will still be expected and collected. You MUST log your time reading the articles for the WWII project.

Don't forget permission slips for BOCES trip on Friday and to read 150 minutes!

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

State testing

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Logs are due on Monday
Permisison slips too
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Monday, April 13, 2015

Monday 4/13

As ELA tests will be administered tomorrow-we looked at the format of the tests that students will be sitting with the next three days.  We talked about how they would be graded and where students would report for the tests.

HW: Read/log/post it

Friday 4/10

We blocked today--we read for 15 minutes then found examples of each of the poetic devices from the sheet of 4 poems from Tuesday and from our own poems.

HW: read/log post it--logs collected Monday

Thursday 4/9

Today we shared our poems wiht one another and discussed what we liked about each others.  We also began looking at poetic devices and guessign at their definitions.  Fill this worksheet out with your guesses.

HW: Read log/post it

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Wednesday 5/8

Today we will discuss poetry as a genre--What is it? Where do we find it? What experience do we have with it?  Students will reflect in the reflections section of their notebooks on these questions after they read 4 poems that will serve as discussion starters.

HW:
1. Find a poem you like and want to share with your classmates bring it in as one of the following--photocopy it/copy it into your notebook/copy and paste it into a google doc
2. read/log/post it

Tuesday 5/7

Nice reading of your poetry today!

HW: read/log/post it

Monday 5/6

Welcome back from Spring break!  Today we finessed our poems, and looked at teh rubric that will be used ot assess them.  Practice up-you will presetn tomorrow.

I also collected logs from 3/16-4/6 and we started new ones from 4/6-4/13

HW: read/log/post it