Wednesday, January 25, 2012

1/24/12 - TU

* * * AUCTION MASK-MAKING CONTINUES !!!
They're looking great!

Today's activities are, again,  geared so that students can work freely
AND still participate with mask-making without falling behind

I. VOCABULARY for this week (brief few minutes)
* No regular work packet this week
- take a few minutes to look over time tracker, organize self, look over homework
- 30 words from *last* three chapters of independent reading book
- include sentence in which word appears
- write out word, word part, and definition
* due Friday (we discussed how much to work on per night)

* extra credit opportunities for more words (with icons/illustrations)

II.  view STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
* Focus on speach strategies, allusion, reference, structure of speech
- view first ten minutes or so of President Obama's SotUA
- dissect, discuss how he approached this speech, implications, etc.

III. OUTSIDERS
- work quietly finishing, then discuss in groups study questions CH 1
- #  3, 5, 7  are to be written in spirals, however
- begin reading Chpt 2 (teacher read aloud)
- write key word list as directed by teacher


* * * * 
HOMEWORK
* * * * 
___  FINISH  INDEPENDENT READING BOOK (finish by TH)
___  FINISH  BOOK RPT on Ind. Rdng Book (due TH)
___  look over/start ATLAS pages 36-37/ write 4-5 observations (due FR)
___  finish/continue. Rdng Book; begin 6-8 VOCAB WORDS from last three chapters (due FR)


** Please note that students have and will have time during class to work on all homework assignments, which should allow them to get ahead on "homework"

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