Week 7 10/20-10/24

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Week 7 10/20-10/24

 

Weekly Objective for Writing:

•  Understand capitalization and punctuation. 
• Apply capitalization and punctuation.
• Understand the affixes in-,un-,dis-, and mis.
• Apply the affixes in-,un-dis-, and mis.
• Brainstorm their narrative essay
• Acknowledge how they are getting graded on their narrative essay.

Weekly Reading Objective

• Vocabulary Unit 2
• Understand realistic fiction.
• Understand historical fiction.
• Identify characteristics of historical fiction.
• Identify characteristics of realistic fiction.

Question to ask the kids:

What does the affixes un-, dis-, in-, and miss mean?

Dates to remember: 

• Up to Chapter 12 due Wednesday 10/8/14
• Vocab test on Unit 2 Friday 10/24/14
• Pajama Day 10/31/14

Week 6 10/6-10/10

Week 6 10/6-10/10

 

Weekly Objective for Writing:

• ·         Remember  that contractions doesn’t and don’t should be treated as does not and do not
  ·         Understand that titles are usually singular, even when they include plural noun
  ·         Understand that verbs must agree with subjects, even when subjects come after the verb, as in “there are” sentences and questions
  ·         Understand that there are certain words that, though ending in “s,” are considered singular- dollar amounts, for example
  ·         Understand that collectives nouns are usually singular and take singular verbs, though there are exceptions
  ·         Understand that the pronouns some, all, most, any, and none may be either singular or plural, depending on whether they refer to a quantity or a number of things individually

Homework

• Monday
• Exercise D
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Exercise C & D

Weekly Reading Objective

• Identify figurative language
• Define figurative language
• List figurative language

Homework

• Monday
• Vocabulary 
• 
  

Question to ask the kids:

What are the different types of figurative language?

Day of the week at the school

Dates to remember: 

• Up to Chapter 12 due Wednesday 10/8/14
• Verb test Thursday 9/25/14
• Vocab test Friday 10/10/14
• Columbus Day Monday: No School