This week we are reviewing informational text features.

Students will complete a thinking map to help organize their information on Thursday.

We will previewing “What Do You Know About Sharks?” and constructing frayer vocabulary maps.

Summer Learning (for ALL students)

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Have a great summer!

This week we are focusing on characteristics of a Legend.  We read “Young Arthur” last week and are reading “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” this week.

Comprehension questions 1-7 on page 703 are due by the end of the week.

In order to access the Language Arts text online google myhrw, click the My HRW-Holt, Rinehart and Winston, then use the following:

username:  poisson@dearborn

password:  caballero

We are presently working on informational text structure with a focus on position and evidence (argument).

This week we will be reading “What Do You Know About Sharks?,” found on page 908.

Vocabulary words for this selection:

aquatic, ecosystem, decimate, carcass, diffuse, buoyancy

Vocabulary maps that pertain to the reading selection are due Wednesday at the beginning of class (we started them on Monday).

Questions page 915 (1-6) due Monday October 9th, extra credit #7 page 915

Test on “What Do You Know About Sharks”  will be Tuesday October 10th.

We are beginning our week with NWEA testing.  We hope to be complete by Wednesday.  Following NWEA testing we will be reviewing informational text features as well as informational text structures, this will lead us to our first reading from our textbook, “Great White Sharks”.

Good Morning!

It’s been a great start to the new school year, we have some great classes.  We are looking forward to having a wonderful year.

Presently in class we are working on district assessments that are used for planning purposes.  Next week we will start with NWEA testing on Monday and Tuesday.

Have a fabulous weekend.

Mrs. Poisson and Mrs. Caballero

This week we will be finishing up our unit on myths and legends with a reading of “Crispin” page 707 in our text.

Tuesday we will work on vocabulary:

genuflect

reverence

altar

serf

traitor

lurking

steward

distraught

*fuedal system

*great mortality

Reading and discussion of the story will follow.

Questions 1-5 page 715 are due Thursday (remember CER).

Test Friday

We are reading “Young Arthur,” discussing chronological order in the story as well as legend characteristics.

Questions 1-6 page 687 are due by Friday.

This week we are finishing up our argumentative essays then starting a new story, “Young Arthur” page 682.

Monday vocabulary-

grievous

homage

reclaim

dismount

flinching

upstart

melancholy

taskmaster