Date Homework
1/14/08 Team Meeting:
7 students turn in parent signatures
Mini-lesson on MLK.

Visions Unit 3: Courage.  "Life Doesn't Frighten Me", a poem  by Maya Angelou, p. 54-
Write new vocabulary in your Vocab. Notebook:
poem, poetry, stanza, rhyme, repetition, images; p. 162: recall, analyze, infer, make judgments, echo
Reread the poem.  Do Q & A from p. 162. (Copy the question & answer with complete sentences.)


 
1/15/08 Where's My Partner?" with "What I've Learned" sayings
Work on project
Return activity packets for "Tuck Everlasting"
 
1/16/08 Return descriptive writing. HOMEWORK #1:
Group 1: Revise your story based on the comments.  Staple your second draft on top of the first one.
Group 2: Write a story about a person you met.  Use adjectives to describe him or her.  Describe his or her physically as well as his/her personality.

MLK videoclip; Follow-up questions.
Homework #2: Finish the MLK questions. Use complete sentences.
Meet in the library tomorrow to learn Power Point.
1/17/08 Library per. 5-6: Learn Power Point
1/18/08 Visions biography excerpt:  "I Have a Dream"

Homework:
1. Finish pp. 67 and 70 from the "Tuck Everlasting" packet. 
2. Finish  pp. 201-204 from "I Have a Dream" activity packet, started as classwork.
3. Have fun this weekend!
                 Postponed:   TCI
: Chapter 9: The Teachings of Islam
                
Teamwork on newscasts
                
TCI: Chapter 10: Contributions of Muslims to World Civilization