Agenda, December 19

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can win a poetry game.
• I can win a snowball fight.

Today's Agenda:

1. Haiku Cards
2. Snowball Quiz

Agenda, December 18

• Due Now: Optional Honors Agreement
• Do Before the end of second lunch tomorrow: Students who have signed an Honors Agreement need to meet with me before school, after school, or during second lunch to discuss the contract. 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can plot like a pyramid.
• I can craft a thematic statement.
• I can support my opinion with evidence.

Today's Agenda:

1. Plot review
2. Thematic Statements
3. Thematic Paragraph

Agenda, December 17

• Due 12/18: Optional Honors Agreement
• Do Before 12/19: Students who have signed an Honors Agreement need to meet with me before school, after school, or during second lunch to discuss the contract. 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can brag.
• I can read closely and carefully.

Today's Agenda:

1. Who had the best weekend?
2. Choose your own adventure: "Jump Away" OR "Initiation"

Agenda, December 14

• Due Now: "The Follower" Notes
• Due 12/18: Optional Honors Agreement
• Do Before 12/19: Students who have signed an Honors Agreement need to meet with me before school, after school, or during second lunch to discuss the contract. 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can organize my belongings.
• I can play with words.

Today's Agenda:

1. Organization Friday!
2. "Initiation" Vocab

Agenda, December 12

• Due Now: "An American Childhood" Story Board
• Due 12/18: Optional Honors Agreement
• Do Before 12/19: Students who have signed an Honors Agreement need to meet with me before school, after school, or during second lunch to discuss the contract. 

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can correct my own grammar errors.
• I can take useful notes.
• I can compare and contrast to make a connection.

Today's Agenda:

1. The Grammar Decoder
2. Humor / Figurative Language in "The Follower," by Jack Gantos
3. Compare & Contrast Venn Diagram

Agenda, December 12

• Due Now: "An American Childhood" Story Board
• Due 12/18: Optional Honors Agreement

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can participate in a one-on-one conversation.
• I can use a freewrite to generate ideas.
• I can read closely and carefully.

Today's Agenda:

1. Freewrite #1: Tell us about a friend
2. "The Follower," by Jack Gantos

Agenda, December 10

• Late: Parent /guardian signature on class guidelines
• Late: Completed Name Tag (with at least three symbols and color)
• Late: Typed Writing from the Center 
• Due 12/18: Optional Honors Agreement

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can use a graphic organizer to analyze a story.
• I can capture the main ideas of a story.
• I can infer the theme of a story.

Today's Agenda:

1. Skills good readers use
2. "An American Childhood" and the plot pyramid
3. Inferring the theme
4. "An American Childhood" Storyboard

Agenda, December 10

• Late: Parent /guardian signature on class guidelines
• Late: Completed Name Tag (with at least three symbols and color)
• Due 12/18: Optional Honors Agreement

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can take useful notes.
• I can read closely and carefully.
• I can practice the skills good readers use. 

Today's Agenda:

1. How was your weekend?
2. What do you do well?
3. Skills good readers use
4. "An American Childhood," by Annie Dillard

Agenda, December 6

• Due Friday: Parent /guardian signature on class guidelines
• Due Friday: Completed Name Tag (with at least three symbols and color)
• Due 12/18: Optional Honors Agreement

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can use a freewrite to generate ideas.
• I can use symbols to communicate ideas.
• I can share my writing with my classmates. 

Today's Agenda:

1. Writing From the Center / Name Tag Work Time
2. Hits and Questions Fishbowl
3. Hits and Questions
4. Revision Time

Name Tag Directions:

• Fold your name tag like a book cover.
• Write your name large enough for me to see it from across the room.
• Include at least three symbols that represent your personality.
• Use color.

Agenda, December 5

• Due Friday: Parent /guardian signature on class guidelines
• Due 12/18: Optional Honors Agreement

Today's Learning Targets:

• I can use a freewrite to generate ideas.
• I can use symbols to communicate ideas.
• I can share my writing with my classmates. 

Today's Agenda:

1. The Honors Agreement
2. Writing From the Center
3. Name Tag Brainstorm
4. Name Tag Work Time

Name Tag Directions:

• Fold your name tag like a book cover.
• Write your name large enough for me to see it from across the room.
• Include at least three symbols that represent your personality.
• Use color.

Agenda, December 4

Due Friday: Parent /guardian signature on class guidelines.
  Today's Learning Targets:

• I can use a freewrite to generate ideas.
• I can practice close reading skills.
• I can use symbols to communicate ideas.
• I can write a properly punctuated sentence. 

Today's Agenda:

1. Class Rules! Read with a partner / Read with a pencil
2. Writing From the Center
3. Name Tag Brainstorm
4. Name Tag Work Time
5. Exit Ticket #1: Write the name you want us to use on the blank side of the index card. Make sure it's large, clear, and easy to read. On the lined side, write one interesting fact about yourself. Be sure to start with a capital letter and end with a period.

Name Tag Directions:

• Fold your name tag like a book cover.
• Write your name large enough for me to see it from across the room.
• Include at least three symbols that represent your personality.
• Use color.