Tuesday, December 18, 2007 NO COMPUTERS TODAY in AM Core! PM Core: Get them out.
LA: Visit to library.MORE practice with alliteration, personification, hyperbole. AM Core: Ray’s poetry lesson. PM Core: Poetry using figurative language.
SS: FINISH MAPPING.
HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: Alliterations, Personifications, Hyperboles, Simile, Metaphor
HOMEWORK FOR TOMORROW: BRING [...]
Monday, December 17, 2007 NO COMPUTERS TODAY. GET OUT A SHEET OF LINED PAPER. WRITE IN YOUR PLANNER.
LA: QUICK introduction of alliteration, personification, and hyperbole. Review of simile and metaphor. Prepare for community group poetry slam.
SS: Let’s finish the Australia maps this week.
HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: AM Core: favorite song [...]
Thursday, December 13, 2007 NO COMPUTERS TODAY!
LA: Community Group Poetry Slam practice! Reward time.
SS: Riverwalk party!
HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: NONE
HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEKEND: AM CORE ONLY – BRING LYRICS TO YOUR FAVORITE SONG!
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 GET YOUR COMPUTERS, CHECK YOUR EMAIL, Type and print your combined rhymed community group poetry. Print enough copies for your whole group.
LA: Review poetry terms with graded worksheet. Practice and and present community group poetry.
SS: Mapping: Australia
HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: FIVE SIMILES AND FIVE METAPHORS + [...]
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 GET YOUR COMPUTERS AND CHECK YOUR EMAIL. WRITE IN YOUR PLANNER.
LA; Review meter, stanza, rhyme scheme, Figurative Language.
SS: Mapping
HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: YOUR COMMUNITY GROUP MEMBER’S POEM.
HOMEWORK FOR TOMORROW: Write FIVE similes AND FIVE metaphors
Monday, December 10, 2007 NO COMPUTERS TODAY PUT YOUR “IDEAL WORLD POEMS BACK UP!
LA: FINISH movie + reflection on Community Unity Day. Silent discussion on poetry. Lesson on meter and rhyme.
SS: Mapping Australia. Let’s finish this week!
HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: Parent signature on reading note.
HOMEWORK DUE TOMORROW: Write a [...]
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2007 NO COMPUTERS. BE READY TO LISTEN!
LA/SS: COMMUNITY UNITY DAY EVENTS!
Ideal World poetry slam; Multicultural club presents, Lawson Inada, poet laureate of Oregon assembly.
HOMEWORK DUE TODAY; THREE QUESTIONS FOR LAWSON INADA
HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEKEND; READ FRI, SAT., SUN. WITH PARENT NOTE.
Thursday, December 6, 2007 GET OUT YOUR COMPUTERS OUT. CHECK YOUR EMAIL. BE READY TO LISTEN.
LA: Lawson Inada film; getting ready for Community Unity Day tomorrow, poetry website.
SS: Group “Ideal World” poem; Community Unity explanation circle.
HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: Paragraph about Ideal World.
HOMEWORK FOR TOMORROW: Bring three [...]
Wednesday, November 5, 2007 GET YOUR COMPUTERS, CHECK YOUR EMAIL, WRITE YOUR PLANNER, WORK ON YOUR FACE AND NEIGHBORHOOD POEMS.
LA: Debrief “Tomorrow” tests, poetry website with worksheet. Introduce Book Fair fundraiser.
SS: Sharing artifacts from Thailand and Cambodia, circle on school concerns.
HOMEWORK DUE today: NONE
HOMEWORK DUE TOMORROW: Ideal World paragraphs.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 GET YOUR COMPUTERS, CHECK YOUR EMAIL, THEN WORK ON YOUR “MY FACE” POEM. GET OUT YOUR HOMEWORK AND WRITE IN YOUR PLANNER.
LA: “My Neighborhood” poem construction.
SS: AM Core: What you want to know about S.E. Asia. PM Core: Finish mapping Australia.
HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: ESSAY ABOUT [...]