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Homework – Read AR book.

Monday – Review Test To Build a Fire – grades.  Make up for test and book review.   Review of Protopage. Give back work – portfolios.

Tuesday - Poem “Arpil Fools Day”   Protopage work.  Criteria for rubric. Students share.

Wednesday – Poems – from text Best Poems.  Unit 4, “Rhythm, Rhyme and Repetition:.  pg 105-124. Read the information and the poems and discuss in teams. Find a poem that your team wants to recite out loud. Practice.   

Thur – Poem from text – Best Poems. Discuss poems. Take poem quiz on 125-128. Teams perform poems. 

Fri - Protopage gallery.

April Fool’s Day

Mackenzie put a whoopie cushion

on the teacher's chair.

Makayla told the teacher

that a bug was in her hair.

Alyssa brought an apple

with a purple gummy worm

and gave it to the teacher

just to see if she would squirm.

Elijah left a piece of plastic

dog doo on the floor,

and Vincent put some plastic vomit

in the teacher's drawer.

Amanda put a goldfish

in the teacher's drinking glass.

These April Fool's Day pranks

are ones that you could use in class.

Before you go and try them, though,

there's something I should mention:

The teacher wasn't fooling

when she put us in detention.

–Kenn Nesbitt 

       Write three or four paragraphs that summarize the book. Include a brief description of the book’s characters, plot, setting and theme.  If the book is non-fiction, summarize the ideas presented and give examples of what you learned.

Write your opinion of the book and give a recommendation. Examples of themes: love, war, survival, lessons learned, friendship, adventure Write your book review in Word, save it to your file, revise and edit it. Print it out and put it in the tray then copy and paste it in the comment section of my blog.

    Some Bunny Loves YOU!

Homework – Read and study for Fire Test. Bring book to class on Thursday for Book Review.

Mon – Poem: Shamrock.  “To Build a Fire” – review questions and answers – creating your own study guide.

Tue – New grading system review: 5=A, 4=B, 3=C, 2=D, 1=do over.   So far graded item this marking period (5th) are

1. To Build a Fire – 2 column notes
2. Questions #1-8 done in class for review
3. Fire test.  Today- Fire Test

Wed – Library – exchange books and take AR tests.  Readers Handbook – read Comparing and Contrasting. 383-388.  Do a compare and contrast chart using Scrooge and the Grinch. 

Thursday – Bring book to class.  Book review. 

HOMEWORK – Read AR book for 30 minutes each night. Bring the book to class and you can read when you are finished with state testing. Finish your final essay, a special day, and turn it into the tray this week.  Write down the title of your favorite book that you have read this year and also the author.

Testing begins Wed of this week. We will work on the unit To Build a Fire around the testing this week.   See the plan for this below.