February 21st

Reading:  We continued our Poetry unit today. We took notes on the last 4 types of poems as well as the 3 terms we use to identify a poem’s structure. 

 

WritingWe finished making inferences about a character by analyzing the character Clark Kent from the show “Smallville”. Students completed a CER response explaining the character trait they inferred based on his actions and choices. Here are the sentence starters for those that did not finish:
We also worked on several practice pages for pronouns.

 

New lessons have been assigned on MobyMax to help us practice pronouns, conjunctions, and prepositions. ALL MOBYMAX IS DUE MARCH 15TH.

Homework:

  • 5 ReadTheory passed by Sunday! (every week) 
  • Read 100 minutes of your chapter book every week!! (about 20 minutes per day) – Read 2 full novels EVERY card marking
  • One-Pager #5  –  due March 22nd! Don’t wait until the last minute to begin these!
  • Moby Max Language lessons due March 15th
    • Adjectives and Adverbs
    • Comparative and Superlative Adverbs
    • Relative Pronouns and Adverbs
    • Subject, Object, and Possessive Pronouns
    • Reflexive Pronouns
    • Pronouns and Antecedents
    • Vague Pronouns
    • Conjunctions
    • Correlative Conjunctions
    • Prepositions
    • Prepositional Phrases