Date Homework
1/21/08 Martin Luther King Day: No school
1/22/08 Welcome our new students
Library per. 1-2.  Work on your biography: Accomplishments.
WBW Transportation p. 124;
Homework: 1. Finish your biography paragraph about accomplishments.
2. Do WBW workbook for Transportation
3. Bring all Visions books to class for inventory.
Postponed: Correct Long Walk Home Q & A
  Test on MLK
   Visions Groupwork
   Blue Group: Last time: We did pp. 62-73 and workbook 54- 58 (blends)      
   Green Group: Finish "Why the Rooster...".     pp. 57-59.
1/23/08 Warm up: Transportation vocabulary from WBW p. 124
Visions groupwork:
Blue: Last time: We did pp. 62-73 and workbook 54- 58 (blends)      
Green Group: Inventory textbooks.
Finish "Why the Rooster...".     pp. 57-59.
Reread the story and listen to the CD.  Do activity pages 60-62 (words with multiple meanings, direct object pronouns, pronoun referents); Correct Q & A from p. 114; turn in for grading.
In groups of 3, write a fable about an animal that teaches a moral. 
     See Visions p. 117.
HOMEWORK: 
 Green Group: 1. Study VB #19 Transportation and WBW p. 124 for an oral quiz tomorrow. Know all the words on p. 19.  Be able to tell 10 of the words from p. 124. 
2. Brainstorm ideas for your fable.  Animal characters & 3 possible morals. (See p. 117)
Blue Group: 
1. Write your letter to your grandparent about your school.
2. Study words with "a" from the dictionary and write a sentence using the words.
1/24/08 1. Vocabulary for RSJ Choice

2. Correct WBW workbook for page 124

3. Oral vocabulary quiz: Transportation
   (all words from VB 19; 10 words from WBW p. 124)
 

Groupwork: Green group: Share homework ideas; Work on your fable in groups of 3. Use planning sheet. Type it up and present as Reader's Theatre.
Blue Group: Share your letter; correct using the format for a friendly letter; Share vocabulary learned from the picture dictionary.
HOMEWORK: Green Group: Work on your fable.  Call your partners on the phone.  Finish writing your fable and bring a copy of it tomorrow.
All: Finish transportation testing tomorrow.
1/25/08 Transportation testing
Structure of the 5-paragraph essay.  Use highlighters. Discuss thesis statement, topic sentences, and supporting details.

HOMEWORK:
1. Write your introduction and body paragraphs. (childhood; goals; challenges & accomplishments).  Double-space.
2. Underline your thesis statement and topic sentences with a pencil. Highlight the 3 body paragraphs using 3 different colors.




Postponed:
Green group: Homework points for draft of fable; Peer edit fable; Prepare illustration and script for Reader's Theatre.
Finish correcting "Long Walk Home" Q & A; collect;