Monday, January 30, 2017

1/30 [MO], 2017 - Giver CH 4

7th GRADE "MAKER'S EXPERIENCE" FIELD TRIP
coming up next Tuesday-Thursday
FEBRUARY 7-8-9
9:30-1:30, all expenses paid (including school sack lunch)
* bring your own lunch from home if you wish
PERMISSION SLIPS TO GO HOME THIS WEEK
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END OF THE QUARTER THIS WEEK
-- get all make up vocab work in by Monday (last chance!!!!!)

I.  GIVER notes
A.  - teacher led notes, UTOPIA cornell-style notes
      - what is, how is, how does Giver author present a utopia?
      - discuss in groups how the Community might be presented as a utopia

B.  - EUPHEMISMS & LANGUAGE in the GIVER
      - teacher led notes, Cornell-style
      - discuss in groups/list examples of words used as euphemisms in the Giver


II.  GIVER, chapter 4
- read/SSR
- review Q's at end of chapter
- teacher led example of more detailed, extended answers with proof from text


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HOMEWORK -- kind of a dead week/ make up week w/ end of grading period
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__  continue to read 20-30 minutes Free Choice Book (finish by next Tuesday)
      UNLESS it's super long and small print; talk with teacher

__  begin/continue to think about ICONS for ICON BOOK TALK (be ready by Fri. 2/10)
      review list of literary elements to cover written in your tracker!!!

__  begin 1-2 Free Choice Book VOCAB (10 due by Monday)
      focus on 1st few chapters
      more than 10 counts for make up / extra credit
       (a) word; (b) part of speech; (c) definition of word; (d) sentence in which word appears;
       (e) explanation/context/comments about what's happening in story where word appears

COMING UP NEXT WEEK:
___ start thinking about Castles!  Will be due first week of March (TBD)

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