Lesson Plans April 14-17
Homework – Read AR book for 30 minutes each night. Deadline for AR test for this marking period is April 25. Next library time is next week. Midterm grades are to come back signed. Washington DC Permission slips and $25 are to be into your homeroom teacher by April 18th.
Poetry Challenge: April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate we are having a poem writing and performing challenge. Write a poem using one of the following themes and perform it for the class on April 28th. The best poets go on to perform at the HOB First Annual Poetry Slam! Themes: growing up, friendship, bad day, favorite things.
Monday – Finish Poetry unit and Short Story unit. Poetry. Copy poem “The Kiss” Write a reflection based on the 3 r’s - rhyme, rhythm and repetition, the concepts we have been studying for the past 3 weeks. Finish reading the poems in this chapter including “Song” Nothing Gold Can Stay”, “Fireworks,” and “Full Fathom Five”. Then answer the questions on pages 125-128, #1-15 and turn into the tray. Short story – Finish reading Raymond’s Run, pages 67-76 then read lesson 2, Characters in Action, page 82-83. Do Exercise B, questions #1-2 on page 83. Turn into the tray.
Tuesday – Copy poem “I am Nobody – Who are You?” and do reflection. Poetry – Review of poetry questions #1-15. Poetry short answer questions. Presentations of Blog. Protopage – finish presentations.
Wednesday – Raymond’s Run questions and lesson.
Thursday – Student blogs on Edublogs.org. Blog Guidelines, lessons and how to start demonstrated.
Friday – Students log on and create their own blogs sending me their blog URL.
