Tuesday, November 30

6th grade:
•Review the story "My First Dive with the Dolphins" (peer tutor)
•Make a study guide for the test over "My First Dive..."

7th grade:
•Review the story "A Retrieved Reformation" (peer tutor)
•Make a study guide for the test over "A Retrieved Reformation"

*Tests over the story tomorrow!
*AR is due December 20th

Monday, November 29

6th and 7th grade:
•Unit 13 Spelling Pre-Test (see lists below)
•Go to the library
•AR

*AR is due December 20th

6th grade:
mapped
piloting
permitting
beginning
bothered
limited
forgetting
reasoning
preferred
equaled
wondering
slipped
listening
fitting
pardoned
shoveling
favored
knitting
answered
modeling

7th grade:
flame
flammable
ignite
ignition
precise
precision
meter
metric
microscope
microscopic
grave
gravity
grateful
gratitude
revise
revision
athlete
athletic
humane
humanity

Tuesday, November 23

6th grade:
•Thanksgiving Review Activity:
-Write down the 5 dolphins and one characteristic of each
-Complete the Thanksgiving Word Search

7th grade:
•Thanksgiving Review Activity:
-Define the nine terms we've studied so far this year
-Complete the Thanksgiving Word Search

*AR is due December 20th

Monday, November 22

6th grade:
•Responding Options over "My First Dive with the Dolphins" (pp. 73 and):
-from Personal Response to Critical Analysis #'s 1-6
-Literary Concepts
-Words to Know

7th grade:
•Responding Options over "A Retrieved Reformation" (pp. 35 and 36):
-from Personal Response to Critical Analysis #'s 1-6
-Literary Concepts
-Words to Know

*AR is due December 20th

Friday, November 19

6th and 7th grade:
•Unit 11 Spelling Test
•Reading Journals
•AR

*AR is due December 20th

Thursday, November 18

6th grade:
•Read the Dolphin Fact Sheet
•Organize the information in a list
•Using the list, write an essay over dolphins

7th grade:
•Review "A Retrieved Reformation"
•Complete a Story Map over "A Retrieved Reformation"
•Complete a 5 W's chart over the story

*AR is due December 10th

Wednesday, November 17

6th and 7th grade:
•Thanksgiving Author's Purpose Activity

*AR is due December 20th

Tuesday, November 16

6th grade:
•Complete the 3rd column of the KWL chart over Dolphins
•Author's Purpose practice activity (due in class)

7th grade:
•Author's Purpose Lab Activity:
-copy and paste the following web address:
http://wps.ablongman.com/long_henry_er_1/0,7989,1130503-,00.html

•Author's Purpose practice activity (due in class)

Monday, November 15

6th and 7th grade:
•Unit 11 Spelling Pre-test (list below)
•Go to the library
•AR

6th grade:
lawyer
dentist
author
system
custom
method
standard
admit
supply
whisper
tennis
instant
burden
rescue
banquet
bullet
surface
journey
laundry
campus

7th grade:
desert
dessert
access
excess
continual
continuous
hardy
hearty
reality
realty
bizarre
bazaar
formally
formerly
hurdle
hurtle
prescribe
proscribe
conscious
conscience

Friday, November 12

6th grade:
•Research and find 8 facts about dolphins
•Vocabulary Skillbuilder Activity over "My First Dive with the Dolphins"
•Fall Author's Purpose Activity

7th grade:
•Fall Author's Purpose Activity

*No Spelling this week!

Thursday, November 11

6th grade:
•Research Dolphins online and write down 8 facts
•Complete a Characteristics Chart for the 5 dolphins in the story
•Vocabulary Skillbuilder "My First Dive with the Dolphins"

7th grade:
•Research men's fashions in the late 1800's
•Draw a sketch of an example
•Strategic Reading Activity over "A Retrieved Reformation"
•Vocabulary Skillbuilder Activity over "A Retrieved Reformation"

Wednesday, November 10

6th grade:
•Finish reading "My First Dive with the Dolphins"
•Complete a Summary over the story without using the book (due at the end of the hour)
•AR

7th grade:
•Finish reading "A Retrieved Reformation"
•Complete a Summary over the story without using the book (due at the end of the hour)
•AR

Tuesday, November 9

6th grade:
•Discuss and take notes over Author's Purpose
•Preview the story "My First Dive with the Dolphins"
•Author's Purpose Practice (due tomorrow)

7th grade:
•Discuss and take notes over Author's Purpose
•Preview the story "A Retrieved Reformation"
•Author's Purpose Practice (due tomorrow)

Monday, November 8

6th grade:
•Author's Purpose Sample Activity
•Author's Purpose Practice Test
•AR

7th grade:
•COGaT testing
•No homework

*NO Spelling this week!

Friday, November 5

6th and 7th grade:
•Unit 10 Spelling Test
•Reading Journals
•AR

Thursday, November 4

6th grade:
•Pre-reading Activity: KWL chart over Dolphins
•Author's Purpose online game (Battleship)


7th grade:
•Complete ITBS testing

Wednesday, November 3

6th and 7th grade:
•"Word Ladder" Spelling Activity (Unit 10 Spelling Test on Friday)
•Go to the library
•AR

Tuesday, November 2

6th grade:
•ITBS testing

7th grade:
•Author's Purpose Battleship game online
•AR

Monday, November 1

6th and 7th grade:
•ITBS testing