Miss Patton - B102 - 8th Grade English

This year is flying by already! I really enjoy teaching the class of 2016!

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December 19th - 21st

Monday - Spelling Bee

Tuesday - 2nd Quarter Test

Wednesday - 2nd Quarter Test

December 12th - 16th

Monday - Begin Flocabulary Unit #4

Tuesday - Finish Flocabulary Unit #4

Wednesday - Check Flocab Unit #4 and play Sparkle to review for Vocab Quiz #3

Thursday - Vocab #3 quiz and go over Spelling Bee study words 

Friday - Make vocabulary book (86 words we've studied so far this year to use in writing and everyday life)

December 5th - 9th

Monday - Pass out study list for Spelling Bee. Go through vocabulary words

Tuesday - Revise/edit essay using Writer's Checklist

Wednesday - All essays due at the end of the hour!

Thursday - Most common essay mistakes (notes and discussion)

Friday - Business letters to Santa

November 28th - December 2nd

Monday - Writing Test notes

Tuesday - Writing Test notes and 4 square example

Wednesday - 4 square practice for Most Memorable Teacher essay

Thursday - Complete 4 square and begin essay over most memorable teacher

Friday - Continue essays

November 21st - 22nd

Monday - Check Adjectives packet

Tuesday - Review adjectives; adjectives scavenger hunt/scattegories

November 14th - 18th

Monday - Begin Flocabulary Unit #3

Tuesday - Continue Flocabulary Unit #3

Wednesday - Finish and check Flocabulary Unit #3 and take Vocab Quiz #2

Thursday - Begin adjectives packet

Friday - Finish adjectives packet (to be graded on Monday!!)

November 7th - 11th

Monday - Review, take and check Vocab Quiz #1

Tuesday - Pass back work, review, continue creative writing

Wednesday - Scattegories and Adjectives scavenger hunt

Thursday - Veteran's day Acrostic poems

Friday - Veteran's day discussion and Scattegories

October 31st - November 4th

Monday - Begin Flocabulary Unit #2

Tuesday - Continue Vocab #2

Wednesday - Finish Vocab #2

Thursday - Check Vocab #2 and begin creative writing

Friday - Creative writing

October 24th - 28th

Monday - Fall Break essay

Tuesday - Go over 1st Quarter essay test and make corrections/revisions

Wednesday - Go over Fall Break essays and make improvements

Thursday - Writing notes

Friday - NO SCHOOL

October 17th - 21st

Monday - Review for 1st quarter test

Tuesday - 1st quarter test - hours 2, 3, and 4

Wednesday - 1st quarter test - hours 7 and 8

Thursday - FALL BREAK!

Friday - FALL BREAK!

October 10th - 14th 

Monday - Week in Rap and Introduction to Flocabulary

Tuesday - Vocab #1

Wednesday - Finish Vocab #1 - HOMEWORK IF NOT COMPLETED

Thursday - Check Vocab #1 and play word game

Friday - Review for 1st quarter test

October 3rd - 7th

Monday - Sentence Structure review

Tuesday - Finish Sentence Structure review

Wednesday - Finish Cloud essays

Thursday - EXPLORE test - all day

Friday - Independent/Dependent clause notes

September 26th - 30th

Monday - Parts of Speech quiz

Tuesday - Grade assignments/grade check

Wednesday - Pop quiz (parts of speech and sentence structure)

Thursday - Review

Friday - Cloud Essay - contest

September 19th - 23rd

Monday - Parts of Speech notes/review

Tuesday - Sentence Structure

Wednesday - Sentence Structure

Thursday - Sentence Structure

Friday - Helping Verb review

September 12th - 16th

Monday- write a page worth of song lyrics

Tuesday- find and highlight nouns, verbs, and pronouns in the song lyrics you copied

Wednesday- find and highlight adjectives and adverbs in the song lyrics you copied

Thursday- find and highlight prepositions, interjections, and conjunctions

Friday- Parts of Speech review - School House Rock

 September 6th - 9th

Tuesday- publishing (turn narrative essay into an illustrated "I Am" poem)

Wednesday- publishing

Thursday- "I Am" Poems due

Friday- Finish poems and write a page worth of song lyrics (for a future assignment)

August 29th - September 2nd

Monday- writing process

Tuesday- prewriting (Obsession narrative)

Wednesday- drafting

Thursday- drafting

Friday- revising/editing/evaluating

 August 24th - 26th

Wednesday- handbook

Thursday- procedures

Friday- pre test