| Date | Homework |
| 3/31/08 | Per. 1-2: Get in groups right away to continue Visions. Blue Group: Test on Unit 2. (Nanase will not take the test. She will work on Word by Word, www.eslreadingsmart.com, or the listening center during the test.) Lime Green Group: Homework check: Activity pp. 13-14. Writing activity from the textbook p. 25. Use Activity p. 15 to check your work. Review skills for a test Tuesday. Forest Green Group: Homework check: Writing assignment from the top of page 175. Use Activity page 95 for checking writing. Peer editing. Correct Activity p. 96. review skills for a test Tuesday. HOMEWORK: Lime Green Group: 1. Study the chapter for a test tomorrow. (pp. 14-25) 2. Rewrite your animal creation story. Write neatly in ink or type it. Double space. Draw and color a picture to go with your story. HOMEWORK: Forest Green Group: 1. Finish your opinion paragraph about Zlata's Diary. Include at least 4 details from the story. Double space. use paragraph form. Write neatly in ink or type. 2. Study for the Visions tests tomorrow. (pp. 162-175) EVERYONE, REMEMBER: Home Reading Log is due this Wednesday. Read 30 minutes, 5 days each week. Get a parent signature. Per. 3: Continue oral presentations David Z, Chie, Pejman, Risa, Pedrum. |
| 4/1/08 | Warm up:
April Fool's Day: the history of April Fool's Day Activity during independent time: Can you find the mistakes in the Norman Rockwell picture? Home Reading Log # 1 due today (green form). HRL #2 (white form) is due the Wed. after we return from Spring break. |
| 4/2/08 | Whole Class Lesson today Homework check and correct: WBW Prepositions of Movement, p. 129 Quick review of types of trees (deciduous and conifer) and parts of trees, p. 156. "Peach Boy", retold by Gail Sakurai: Read aloud. Literature chart (setting, main characters, conflict, climax, & resolution) Visions selection, "Peach Boy". Intro. to story: goals. Text structure: play (drama) Read silently and listen to the story. Homework: Do Activity packet pp. 97-98 (vocabulary and using exclamation marks) |
| 4/3/08 | Text structure: narrative vs. drama (See p. 178) Skills: cause and effect Homework check; correct pp. 97-98 New Vocabulary. Reread story. Classwork: Q & A from p. 186. Begin in class on notebook paper. Use complete sentences. Problems and Resolutions (text p. 187) and Activity page 99 Homework: Understanding the story: Q & A p. 186. Problems and resolutions p. 187 (packet p. 99) |
| Minimum Day : "Peach Boy" from Visions (green book) 1. Attendance; send note to the office 2. Homework check: Student aide So Yeon may check and stamp students' homework. Write names of anyone who didn't do it. See above.) 3. Play the audio CD (track 14) and read silently while it plays. 4. Review vocabulary (see chart paper below front white board). 5. Do students remember the story? Play the game of "Pass the fly". Throw it to someone and they tell a new idea, in order. Continue until the story is complete. 6. Correct the homework: Q & A p. 186. Students trade papers to correct. Discuss & turn in work. Activity packet p. 99: Problems and Resolutions 7. Skill: Building Reading Fluency, TE page 186 More, If time: 8. Synonyms (text p. 188; Activity packet p. 100) 9. Compound sentences (text p. 188, Activity p. 101-102) 9. Classify fruits and vegetables TE p. 189 (packet p. 104) (See Word by Word Picture Dictionary pp. 48-49 for good pictures) 10.Write a summary of Peach Boy. See TE and student book p. 189 (Students use packet p. 103 to check their work) Happy Vacation! Clean up before dismissal Homework: White Home reading Log due Wed. April 16th. |