Date Homework
11/5/07 Blue Group: Halloween dictation test
Red & Green groups: Return dictation & writing tests
                               Organize and issue books
Read Aloud Anthology, Lesson 1 "The Birthday of Madeleine Blore"
(vocabulary: triumph, divine, dazzle, vanish, stupefy, crave, dejected fulfill)
Weekly Vocabulary for all: Calendar & Seasons: WBW pp. 18-19 and workbook
Everyday Activities I, p. 9
Green Group: Grammar workbook pp. 4-11
Red Group: Grammar Workbook pp. 4-11
Homework: Home Reading Log (Read 30 minutes, 5 times per week)  The log is due next Monday.
Study vocabulary from WBW & "Words to Watch"
Finish classwork.
11/6/07 Per. 1: Library visit to check out Reading Counts books & take Reading Counts quizzes
Read Aloud, Lesson 1, Day 2:  Concept Cards / Word Snapshots
                                            Word Chat & Shared Writing (Writer's Log pp. 2-3 for green and red groups)

Blue Group: Practice Everyday Activities (WBW p. 9)
                  Visions blue book, Unit B The Classroom

                 Red & Green  groups: Did not correct grammar workbooks pp. 4-11
                 Did not do: Time adverbs
Green Group: "Coyote" pp. 14-21
       Issued activity books
Red Group: "Antarctic Adventure" pp. 28-35
       Issued activity books
Collect Writer's Logs from 19 students in green and red groups.
Homework:
All:  Study WBW vocabulary for a test  (pp. 9 & 19)
All students bring Visions tomorrow.
Blue Group: Read Unit B "The Classroom"
Green Group: Read "Coyote" pp. 14-21 & do activity book pages 9-10
   Write the vocabulary in your Vocab. notebook.
Red Group: Read "Antarctic Adventure" pp. 28-35 and do Activity book pp. 17-18. Write all new vocabulary in your Vocab. notebook.
11/7/07 Quiz on WBW p. 9 (Everyday Activities)
Pass out Reading Counts Reports.
Veteran's Day: Nat'l Geographic "Arlington, field of Honor, parts 1-4 and 11 (introduction, training to guard the Tomb of the Unknown, and the ritual for changing of the guard)
Homework:
Read and study Veteran's Day
Get parent signature on Reading Counts Report

                                         (We did not do the following:  test WBW p. 19, Seasons)
                                                               Blue Group: Visions
                                                               Green & Red: Turn in grammar & activity books;
                                                                Read Aloud, Day 3: Rev it Up pp. 2-3;
                                                                 Rev Up Your Writing: Writer's Log p. 4
 
11/8/07 Collect signed Reading Counts reports
Catch up from yesterday: Give a written quiz on WBW p. 19 (Seasons & Time Expressions)
   (Use transparency)
Read Aloud Day 3: Word Chat (clapping)
Read Aloud, Day 4: Word Organizers
                             Rev Up Your Writing: Writer's Log, pp. 4-5
Word Organizers

HOMEWORK:1. Study the vocabulary from "Elements of Reading"   (triumph, divine, etc.)
Test tomorrow
2. Read and study "Veteran's Day"
3. Make the most of your opportunity to learn English.  Participate in English.
11/9/07 Warm up: Thank you for recycling
A Cache of Jewel: parts of speech
Green and Red groups:  Correct grammar packets pp. 4-11Blue Visions group: Do activity book, p. 28: conversation items in order.
Green & red groups: Rapid Review & Assessment (Quiz)

                               did not do: Read Aloud, Day 5: Writer's Log pp. 6-7.