Date Homework
3/10/08
Read, discuss, and analyze the Roger Ebert movie review.  In your group:
Roger Ebert discusses why The Wizard of Oz resonates with people from all cultures.   He says that it has universal appeal.  What are the main points he makes?  Compose a group paragraph.
Advanced Oz crossword puzzle
Seating Chart change
HOMEWORK:
Do TCI Study Guide notes. Read assigned sections and complete that part of the Study Guide.
Group 1: 10.6            Group 2: 10.7        Group 3: 10.8            Group 4: 10.9
All students: Do 10.10 and 10.11            
3/11/08 TCI Ch. 10. Groups present Study Guide info.
Review key points of ch. 10 for Quiz. 
Students make posters (in groups of 2-3) of nine areas of Muslim Achievements
HOMEWORK:  Review ch. 10 for tomorrow's test. Use book and study guide.  Bring Visions tomorrow.
3/12/08 Present posters; review for test
TCI Ch. 10 Test; correct & return
Visions Red Unit 4 intro. pp. 222-223
Homework tonight: 1. Write vocabulary from the story in your Vocab. Notebook;    2. Do the first page of the packet for the selection "The Library Card" (Activity p. 121)
3/13/08 Beginning of Poetry Unit:  Poems by Carl Sandburg.  Personification, Metaphor, Simile, Imagery, Onomatopoeia.

Visions
Unit 4 Opener: "Discoveries".  Selections in this unit are from the following genres:  story, poem, non-fiction narrative, tale, and biography.
Story: "The Library Card"     Poem: "At the Library"
Skills: Repetition (or rephrasing), compare/contrast, taking notes, organizing, summarizing, relative clauses.
Vocabulary: excerpt,  admittance, vanish, waistband, presto, boggle, ambush, hitch,;
mongoose, locust, cicada, to sprint, to shed (v.t.), crawl, tingle, woozy, to page through, to flip through
HOMEWORK
1. Reread the story.  Study the vocabulary for a listening quiz.
2. Activity packet pp. 122, 124, & 126. 
3. Q & A from p. 234. Write on a separate paper, and use complete sentences.

 

3/14/08 Discuss Saint Patrick's Day.  Read aloud: "Helen From Cambodia".  Remember: Monday we have an Advisement challenge to wear green.
Whole class: Correct Visions activity pages 122, 124, and 126. 
Correct Q & A in Write-Around groups with group leader. The leader leads the discussion; correct one item, and pass the papers clockwise.  Put your initials in the left margin beside the items you correct.

TCI CH. 11

   
3/17/08 Happy Saint Patrick's Day.  Selections from "Riverdance"
Readings on St. Patrick.  Use a double-bubble to compare and contrast the two articles.
Limericks: syllables, rhyme, cadence.
Highlight stressed syllables.
Homework:
1. Bring your ISN tomorrow.
2. 2 questions on St. Patrick
3. Make a list of rhyming words
4. Make a draft of a limerick or find a limerick online (Make it clean!)
3/18/08 Check & collect homework (Limericks, 2 questions of reading, compare/contrast)
TCI CH. 11 The Crusades (Illustrate terms, do ISN)
Homework:1. Finish ISN p. 68
2. Study the SS vocab. for a listening quiz.
3. Answer study guide question # 1.
3/19/08 Collect homework;  Puzzle Day
Homework: Sequencing cartoon and story
3/20/08 Turn in homework;
Vocabulary Maps.  Sample word: judgment.  Make vocabulary maps for Ch. 11 terms: inquisition, ransom, expulsion.
Correct & review ISN p. 68 (most)

HOMEWORK:  1. Finish the headlines for ISN p. 68.
2. Study history vocabulary for a listening quiz.
3. Vocabulary maps, including a sentence for "judgment".

 question # 1 of the Crusades
3/21/08 Miss Stern substitutes
Homework check
Crusades chart
Correct question # 1 from the study guide