On Monday we:

• Reviewed the rules for capitalization and punctuation
• Read from “Shipwreck…”
• Homework: Read for 20 minutes

Tuesday we:

• Reviewed coordinate vs cumulative adjectives
• Read from “Shipwreck…”
• Homework: read for 20 minutes

What we did:

• Read “Shipwreck…”

Homework:

• Read for 20 minutes

“Shipwreck…” Class standings:

Period one has read up to and including chapter 11

Period two has read up to and including chapter 7

Period four has read up to and including chapter 7

Period six has read up to and including chapter 9

What we did:

• Finished art project on commonly confused words
• Read “Shipwreck…”

Homework:

• Read for 20 minutes

What we did:

• Art project on commonly confused words
• Read

Homework:

Read for 20 minutes

What we did:

• Learned about commonly confused words
• Practiced distinguishing between commonly confused words in a worksheet (see attached)

Homework:

• Read for 20 minutes
• Finish the commonly confused worksheet

commonly confused handout (1)

Words Commonly Confused Worksheet

What we did:

• Finished worksheet/went over worksheet on order of adjectives from Tuesday
• Worked on “American Gothic” stories
• Worksheet on coordinate vs cumulative adjectives
• Read up to and including chapter 4 of “Shipwreck. . .”

Homework: Read for 20 minutes

What we did:

• Brainstormed wants vs needs in a bell ringer
• discussed
• handed out book, “Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World”
• Read first chapter
• spent about 20 minutes finishing “Zoo” essay. “Zoo” essay will be graded tomorrow.
• When finished with “Zoo” essay students began working on “Narrative” essay based on Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” painting.

Homework:

• Read for 20 minutes
• finish “Zoo” essay if you need to

What we did yesterday and today:

• Worked on “Zoos = Yes or No?” essay and “American Gothic Narrative” essay on UtahWrite.com
• Collected reading logs (Friday)

Homework:

• Read for 20 minutes
• Both essays must have a score between 25 and 30 before you are “finished”

Revision ideas to help improve your score:

• Transitions
• Sentence types
• quotations!!
• “Diamond” words
• Add details to each paragraph
• Add paragraphs

What we did today:

• Corrected quizzes
• Lesson on coordinating vs cumulative adjectives and associated comma rules

Homework

• read for 20 minutes
• finish WS on adjectives
• Zoo essay will be due on Friday

*I missed half of Monday and all of Tuesday because of the flu. On those days, students took the redundancy quiz and  worked on the “Zoos: Yes or No?” essay.

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