4/16 Plan Problem-Solution Essay and begin writing introductory paragraph. HOMEWORK: Children's Authors ~ Punctuation.
4/17 Problem-Solution Essay ~ Introductory paragraph (1). HOMEWORK: Finish 1st paragraph; Read for IRR.
4/18 Problem-Solution Essay ~ Paragraph 2. HOMEWORK: Finish paragraph 2; Read for IRR.
4/19 Problem-Solution Essay ~ Paragraph 3. HOMEWORK: Finish paragraph 3; Parts of Speech review; IRR due tomorrow - on the sheet, totally completed,and signed by an adult.
4/20 IRR due! Problem-Solution Essay ~ Paragraph 4. HOMEWORK: Finish paragraph 4; Study parts of speech; Have a great weekend!
4/23 Problem-Solution Essay ~ Conclusion Paragraph (5). HOMEWORK: Finish paragraph 5; Have entire rough draft of essay in class Wednesday for revising and editing.
4/24 MATH FIELD TEST! Rough draft of essay. HOMEWORK: Rough draft of essay in class tomorrow for revising and editing; Study parts of speech.
4/25 Revise and edit essay ~ write final rough draft. HOMEWORK: Bring final rough draft of essay to class tomorrow for peer editing.
4/26 Peer editing of essays. HOMEWORK: Bring essays to class on Monday for typing in the computer lab.
4/27 FIELD TRIP TO MYRTLE BEACH! EARLY RELEASE DAY! HOMEWORK: Study parts of speech.
4/30 Computer Lab ~ type final copy of essays. HOMEWORK: Nouns & Pronouns.
5/1 Computer Lab ~ type final copy of essays. HOMEWORK: Verbs & Adverbs.
5/2 Computer Lab ~ Periods 1 and 6 Wordles; Periods 2 and 7 Study Island. HOMEWORK: Adjectives & Prepositions.
5/3 Computer Lab ~ Wordles. HOMEWORK: Conjunctions & Interjections; IRR due tomorrow; Parts of Speech quiz tomorrow.
5/4 IRR due today! Parts of Speech Quiz; Media Center. HOMEWORK: Read!!
PRACTICE WEBSITES! Reading and Grammar
http://www.funbrain.com/
Nouns
http://www.havefunteaching.com/songs-for-kids/grammar/noun-song
Pronouns
http://www.gamequarium.org/cgi-bin/search/linfo.cgi?id=3850
Adjectives
http://www.havefunteaching.com/songs-for-kids/grammar/adjective-song
Proofreading
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/index.html
Language Arts Quizzes
http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/language_arts/
Poetry
http://www.quia.com/quiz/449371.html
http://www.quia.com/hm/80390.html
http://www.allstarpuzzles.com/matchquiz/00143.html
Analogies
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/analogies/middle-school/middle-school-analogy-match/
Daniels Word of the Week 2011-2012
4.9
| succinct
| brief and to the point
| SUCCINCT is this week’s Word! Succinct means to use few but, clear details to give the listener or reader a clear image of what you’re saying. A synonym would be concise. Hmmm…would you say succinct is similar or different from summary?
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4.16
| summarize
| to briefly and concisely review the main points of something
| Does anyone ever ask you to write a summary? What is that exactly? Luckily, SUMMARIZE is our Word of the Week. Summarzing is telling a story while leaving all the details out – you focus only on the main points. Sometimes we call that “putting things in a nutshell.” You know how small half of a nutshell is -- it wouldn’t hold very much at all, would it? Well, the nutshell is a metaphor for a summary-- which should be brief and including only what’s really important! How can you use the term, summarize in all of your classes?
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4.23
| support
| provide evidence
| When someone asks you to SUPPORT your position, what they are asking you to do is to give them some valid reasons for what you want to do. Hmmmm, what does valid mean? In other words, you argue for it or uphold it. If you want your parents to let you stay up later on a school night, you’d better be prepared to support your request with reasons why. That’s the Word of the Week: SUPPORT.
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4.30
| synthesize
| to combine into a whole
| A suffix is 2-3 letters at the end of the word that will a-ffect its meaning. The suffix “ize” means to make or do & the definition of synthesize is to make or form by combining parts. Did you synthesize this explanation?
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5.7
| tactic
| strategy
| Have you considered your TACTIC for excelling on the EOGs? TACTIC is this week’s word, and it means strategy. Will you tackle the easier questions first and come back to the hard ones? Will you check every ten questions to be sure you have bubbled correctly? What TACTICS will you use to be successful? | noun
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5.14
| trace
| follow,track outline, list in steps
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| Here’s this week’s Word: TRACE. What does that mean? Well, on the test if the question asks you to trace the events leading up to something, what you need to look for is an answer that will list the order of events that led up to it. Sometimes we call that putting things in chronological order or sequencing. You go from the first thing that happened to the last.
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5.21
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| EOG TESTING – NO WOW
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5.28
| transition
| movement from one thing to another
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| Movement or change from one position to another is TRANSITION and it is this week’s Word! If you transition from middle to high school, what are you doing? Think all of the ways this word could be used in EACH of your classes and keep a tally this week.
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6.4
| verify
| prove
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| For the last year, we’ve been examining Words, 1 per week. Would you verify this to be true? Guess what – VERIFY is this week’s Word! It means to prove the truth with evidence or to confirm. Think about this, would confirm be considered a synonym or antonym to verify? Can you verify what you’ve learned from reviewing these words each week?
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