| 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.
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| 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 |