06/18/08

Have a Great Summer!!!!!

06/17/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Games.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts:Physics: Motion program. Games.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Physics: Motion program.

06/16/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Conflict Resolution program. Compare and contrast donuts.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Social Studies: Greek Philosophies and The Odyssey programs. Compare and contrast cookies. Read Aloud.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Compare and contrast cookies.

06/13/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Reading: Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests. Writing: Compare/Contrast.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Reading: Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests. Writing: Compare/Contrast.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: The students participated in a class Olympics versus Mr. Vaughn's class.

06/12/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Gates MacGinitie Reading Assessment. Acrostic Poem: "High School."

Period 6: 6th Humanities: SpringBoard: "Rip Van Winkle" dramatic readings. Social Studies: The students worked on an original drawing for their myth/heroic tale.

Period 8: Creative Writing: SSR. The students worked on their cartoon summary of Dovey Coe.

06/11/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fast Track: Reading Assessments for current unit. Writing: Final draft of your choice of topic essay.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fast Track: "Abby Flies Again." Writing: Final draft of your choice of topic essay.

6th Period: 6th Humanities: SpringBoard: "Rip Van Winkle" Embedded Assessment. Social Studies: Final Draft of original myth.

06/10/08

Period 4: enriched Language Arts: Fast Track: Reading assessments for current unit. Writing: Final draft of choice essay.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: SpringBoard: Rip Van Winkle Embedded Assessment. The students practiced the last scene of the play. They will participate in a dramatic reading of the play on Thursday. Social Studies: The students worked on a draft of their original myth/heroic tale.

Period 8: Creative Writing: SSR. Freewrite. The students worked on the cartoon summary of Dovey Coe.

06/09/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fast Track: Princess Diamond. Writing: Prewrite and first draft of a paragraph with their choice of topic.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: Bar graphs, line graphs and circle graphs. Fast Track: And Saffi, Too. Prewrite and first draft of a paragraph with their choice of topic.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: SpringBoard: Rip Van Winkle. Social Studies: Chapter 9, section 3 questions. The students continued working on their original myth/heroic tale. We watched a program on Alexander the Great.

06/06/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: Inferences. Fast Track: "Talent Show." Writing: The students started an essay with their choice of topic.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: "Rip Van Winkle." Social Studies: "Hercules" and the students started writing an original myth.

Period 8: Creative Writing: SSR. Freewrite. The students worked on their cartoon of the novel, Dovey Coe.

06/05/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fast Track: Gemstones to Jewels. Writing: Final draft of essay.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: Graphic Organizers. Writing: Final draft of essay.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: "Rip Van Winkle." Read Aloud: "Hercules."

06/04/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Read Aloud: We finished Joey Pigza Loses Control. Study Skills: Context Clues. Fast Track: "Eva".

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: The students presented their embedded assessments. Read Aloud: "Hercules".

Period 8: Creative Writing: SSR. The students worked on their 5-paragraph essays.

06/03/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Read Aloud: We finished Joey Pigza Loses Control. Writing: The students worked on a prewrite organizer and a first draft of a new essay concerning an item that is meanigful to them.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: Context Clues. Writing: The students worked on a prewrite organizer and a first draft of a new essay concerning an item that is meanigful to them.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: Embedded Assessment. Read Aloud: "Hercules".

06/02/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control. Fast Track: The Block. Pre-Reading work for "Eva".

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: The students continued working on their presentations. Social Studies: Chapter 9, Section 3. Read Aloud: Hercules.

Period 8: Creative Writing: SSR. Freewrite. Persuasive essay for 3 causes.

05/30/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control. Fast Track: Pre-reading for new passage, "Gems to Jewels."

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: Test Taking Skills. Fast Track: "Courage."

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: Embedded Assessment page 206.

05/29/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: Follow Directions. The students went to the Gig Harbor High School presentation.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: Page 204. Social Studies: Chapter 9, section 2 questions, section 3 vocabulary.

Period 8: Creative Writing: SSR. Freewrite. Persuasion project.

05/28/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control. Fast Track: "The Jewels of Justice." The students read the passage and answered the 5 W questions (Who, What, Where, When and Why).

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: Follow Directions. Fast Track: Reading Assessments for current unit.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: Embedded Assessment #2, page 196. Social Studies: Chpater 9, Section 2 questions.

05/27/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: Test Taking Skills. Writing: Final Draft of the technology essay. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: Embedded Assessment page 196. Social Studies: Chapter 9, Section 2.

Period 8: Creative Writing: SSR. Freewrite. Read Aloud: Dovey Coe.

05/23/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: The students drew a picture of a scene from their original legend. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: Test Taking Skills-pages 39-40. Fast Track: "The Princess Diamond." Acrostic Poem: Memorial Day.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: Pages 196-97. Enbedded Assessment #2. Social Studies: Chapter 9, Section 2. Acrostic Poem: Memorial Day.

05/22/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: Computers. Writing: Prewrite and first draft of technology invention essay. The students drew a picture based upon a descriptive essay written by another student. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: pages 192-95. Social Studies: Chapter 9, Section 2 Vocabulary.

05/21/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fast Track: Diamonds and other Sparklers.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: Textbook skills. Fast Track: "Gemstones to Jewels." Read Aloud: "The Elian Gonzalez Story."

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. Greece: Chapter 9, Section 1questions. Atlas: Ancient Greece 16a & 16 b.  Read Aloud: "Lost at Sea" myth.

05/20/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: Computer Skills. Writing: The students wrote a final draft of their descriptive paragraph. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. The students corrected their answers on their China Unit test. Read Aloud: Greek Myth: "Apollo and Daphne."

Period 8: Creative Writing: SSR. Freewrite. Read Aloud: Dovey Coe. Writing: Happiness 101-due Thursday.

05/19/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control. The students wrote a final draft of the legend.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: Computer Skills. Fast Track: Pre-Reading work for a new passage, "Genstones to Jewels." Writing: Prewrite and first draft of new technology essay.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: pages 189-91. Social Studies: Chapter 9, Section 1.

05/16/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: Improving Memory. Fast Track: Pre-Reading work for "The Block". Writing: Prewriting and frist draft of descriptive paragraph.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: pages 188-189. Social Studies: We completed the K and W sections of our KWL chart. Read Aloud: Greek Myths.

Period 8: Creative Writing: SSR. Freewrite. Read Aloud: Dovey Coe. Writing: Happiness 101.

05/15/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fast Track: Reading Assessments for our current unit. Writing: The students continued working on their original legend. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: Improving Memory Skills. Writing: The students wrote a final draft of their community letter. Fast Track: The students read a passage, "Jewels of Justice", and answered the 5 W questions (Who, What, Where, When and Why).

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Read Aloud: "The Kidnapping: The story of Ceres and Proserpina, and The Great Bear". Geography: The students worked on a physical map of Ancient Greece. SpringBoard: Page 182.

05/14/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Improve Memory. Fast Track: The students read a passage, "Three Roads to Fame," and identified aspects of each story. Writing: The students wrote a final draft of their community essay. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: pages 180-81. Chapter 9, Section vocabulary. Read Aloud: "The Golden Touch", "The Weaving Contest", and "The Face in the Pool."

Period 8: Creative Writing: SSR. Freewrite.Tone/Mood lesson. Read Aloud: Dovey Coe.

05/13/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fast Track: "The Legend of the Venus Flytrap." Writing: The students began writing an original legend.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Mnemonic Devices: "Abbreviations." Fast Track: Pre-Reading work for the passage, "Jewels of Justice." Writing: Prewriting and first draft of cummunity essay. Read Aloud: We finished Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: The students took the unit test for the Ancient China unit. SSR. The students brainstormed about what they knew about Ancient Greece. We worked on the vocabulary for Chapter 9, Section 1.

05/12/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Mnemonic devices: Abbreviation. Fast Tarck: Pre-reading work for "Three Roads to Fame." Writing: Prewrite and first draft of community essay. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. The students took the make-up quiz on Chinese characters. We reviewed chapter 7, Ancient China, for our unit test tomorrow. SpringBoard: pages 175-76.

Period 8: Creative Writing: SSR. Freewrite. Read Aloud: Dovey Coe. Writing: Happiness 101.

05/09/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency Assessments. Fast Track: "The Legend of the Venus Flytrap." Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Mnemonic Devices: Acronyms. The students worked on their final draft of the comparison/contrast paragraphs for gems.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: The Great Wall/Silk Road program. We reviewed chpater 7, section 5 and the students answered questions for the section. They worked on taking notes for their study guide for the chapter 7 test on Tuesday.

05/08/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: The students started working on mnemonic devices. Today they worked wth acronyms. Writing: They wrote a final draft of their principal story and drew a picture of a scene from the story.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. We reviewed chpater 7, section 4. The students began working on chapter 7, section 5. SpringBoard: Page 172.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Read Aloud: Dovey Coe. Freewrite. The students shared their post cards. SSR.

05/07/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: The students worked on the final draft of their principal story.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: The students started working on mnemonic devices. They worked with rhyme today. Reading: The students wrote and answered questions to guide their reading of a passage, "Diamonds and other Sparklers." They wrote 2 paragraphs comparing and contrasting 2 gems. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: The students wrote a final draft of their embedded assessment #2 for unit #3. Social Studies: The students defined vocabulary for chapter 7, section 5.

05/06/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: Visualization part 2. Fast Track: Reading Assessments for current unit. Writing: first draft of principal's story.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. Chapter 7, Section 4 questions. SpringBoard: The students created a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting Stanley (the hero of Holes) and Maxx (the hero of Freak the Mighty).

Period 8: Creative Writing: SSR. Freewrite. The students finished working on their postcard project.

05/05/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control. Fast Track: "Helpful, Dangerous and Strange." Writing: The students continued working on their principal stories.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: Visualization part 2. Writing: Final draft of principal story with illustration.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: The students continued working on the embedded assessment #2 for unit #3. The first draft is due tomorrow. Social Studies: We went over the notes for chapter 7, section 4.

05/02/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Study Skills: Visualization. Fast Track: "Sabotage." Writing: Pre-write and first draft of narrative.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. Chinese characters quiz. SpringBoard: Embedded Assessment #2 for Unit 3.

Period 8: Creative Writing: SSR. Freewrite. Sequencing events from a passage. Read Aloud: Dovey Coe.

05/01/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Pre-Reading for "Helpful, Dangerous and Strange." Writing: Pre-write and first draft of narrative.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Pre-Reading for "Diamonds and other Sparklers." Writing: Pre-write and first draft of narrative. Study Skills: Visualization.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. We read the last chapter of Holes. Social Studies: The students worked on voabulary and read chapter 7, section 4.

04/30/08

Period 4: Enriched Langage Arts: The students worked on a poster advertising the race in the story they wrote on Friday.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. We continue to read Holes and fill out the lifelines.

Period 8: Creative Writing: SSR. Freewrite. The students worked on the final draft of their postcards.

04/29/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: The students went on the Humanities field trip to the Seattle Art Museum.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: The students took reading assessments for our current unit. The students drew an original picture for the legend they wrote on Friday. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: The students went on a field trip to the Seattle Art Museum. We viewed the Roman Art Exhibit and toured Uwajimaya Store. The students wrote paragraphs comparing and contrasting the Roman art with Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Chinese art we have previously studied. They also wrote a paragraph explaining the favorite part of the field trip.

04/28/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: The students worked on an original story about a race.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. We finished the program on Chinese inventions. We read chapter 43-44 in Holes.

Period 8: Creative Writing: SSR. Freewrite. The students worked on the vocabulary post card.

04/25/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. The students word processed a final draft of their rule essay.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. The students wrote an original legend.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: The students watched a program on inventions from Ancient China. They took notes on the material. We continued to read the novel, Holes.

04/24/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Final draft of rule essay. Fast Track: The students identified facts and opinions in a passage.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. The students identified new Chinese characters for place names. We read Holes, chapters 42-43.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Freewrite. The students shared their brochures. We finished Chicken Boy.

04/23/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner.Fast Track: "Meat-Eating Plants". Writing: Prewrite and first draft of rules essay.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner.Fast Track: "The Legend of the Venus Flytrap." SSR.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty. Lantern Project. Chinese Characters.

04/22/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fast Track: Pre-reading work for a new passage, "Powerful, Thrilling, ..." Writing: The students did pre-writing work and wrote a first draft for new prompt, "What rule would they change in school and why?"

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty. Social Studies: We looked at some Chinese characters and discussed Chinese writing.

Period 8: Creative Writing: SSR. The students worked on their brochure project.

04/21/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: Pre-Reading work for passage, "Man-Eating Plants." Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: "Helpful, Dangerous and Strange." The students read a passage and summarized it.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty. We read chapters 39-41.

04/18/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Fast Track: The students read a passage, "The Worst Ever Drag-Race Day," and identified figurative language used in the passage. (Personification, Metaphors, Similes and Hyperbole.) Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty. Social Studies: The students answered questions for chapter 7, section 3.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Freewrite. The students continued working on their brochures.

04/17/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: Clouded Leopard. After reading the passage, the students identified the main problem in the story, the events in the story leading to the solving of the problem and the problem's solution. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: The students worked on pre-reading activities for a passage, "Helpful, Dangerous, and Strange."

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty. SpringBoard: We read chapters 36-39. The students continued working on the lifeline assignment for these chapters.

04/16/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: The students worked with figurative language (personification, metaphors, similes and hyperbole). Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty. The students worked on their lantern projects.

Period 8: Creative Writing: The students worked on their brochures.

04/15/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: Pre-reading work for a new passage, "Clouded Leopard." Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: The students read a passage, "Man-Eater," and identified traits of the main character. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty. Social Studies: We read chapter 7, section 3 and took notes over the policies and achievements of the Qin Dynasty.

04/14/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track:  The students wrote a paragraph about their favorite past time. They worked on vocabulary and pre-reading work for our next passage. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty. The students began a life-line project for Holes. We read chapters 33-35 in the novel. The students worked on their lantern project.

Period 8: Creative Writing: SSR. Freewrite. The students organized their portfolios. Read Aloud: Chicken Boy.

04/11/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. The students wrote a final draft of thei essay. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. The students wrote a paragraph explaining how to do a task that had at least 10 steps. Fast Track: Pre-Reading for a passage, "Man-Eater." Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty. The students wrote a final draft of their Embedded Assessment #1 for this unit. The worked on their lantern project.

04/10/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with a partner. Fast Track: "Formula One." Writing: The students worked on a final draft of their essay.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty. Field Trip forms were handed out for our field trip to the Seattle Art Museum on Tuesday, 04/29/08. SpringBoard: The students wrote their first draft of their embedded assessment analyzing a villain in Holes. They worked on their lantern project.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Freewrite. The students worked on the final draft of their essay.

04/09/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: "Nearly or Surely Gone." The students read a passage and identified cause-and-effect relationships in the passage. Writing: The students worked on a first draft of their essay.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: "Man-Eating Plants." The students read a passage and completed a KWL chart. Writing: The students worked on a final draft of their essay.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty. SpringBoard: Embedded Assesment #1: Character Analysis of a Villain. The students worked on their lanterns.

04/08/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with new passage. Fast Track: We worked on vocabulary for new passage. Writing: The students worked on a prewriting organizer and a first draft for an essay explaining what life is like for them now.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty. SpringBoard: We read chapters 30-32 in Holes. Social Studies: The students worked on their Chinese lantern project.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Freewrite. The students worked on their essay.

04/07/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner-new passage. Fast Track: Pre-reading work for passage, "Nearly or Surely Gone." Writing: The students worked on a prewriting organizer for an essay explaining what life is like for them now.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner-new passage. Fast Track: Pre-reading work for passage, "Man-Eating Plants." Writing: The students worked on a prewriting organizer and a first draft for an essay explaining what life is like for them now.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty. SpringBoard: We read chapters 29-30 in Holes. Social Studies: The students defined vocabulary for section 3 of chapter 7. They wrote paragraphs using the vocabulary words.The students began work on a project making Chinese lanterns.

03/28/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Fast Track: Reading assessments for our current unit. Writing: Final draft and picture for gate story.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. Chinese Philosophies quiz. Holes-Chapters 26-28.

Period 8: Creative Writing: SSR. Freewrite. The students worked on figurative language skills and began writing a story about themselves in the future.

03/27/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Fast Track: The students read a passage, Race Against Time, and identifed character traits with supporting details.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Fast Track: The students took reading assessments for our current unit. Writing: The continued working on their posters. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: We reviewed the 3 philosophies, Confucianism, Daoism and Legalism. The students made their presentations. Chinese Philosophies Quiz Tomorrow!

03/26/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: Reading Assessments for current unit. Writing: Final draft of gate and key story.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. Chinese Philosophies questions. SpringBoard: We read chapters 23-24 in Holes. The students practice for their presentations.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Freewrite. The students worked on writing exciting leads and a narrative.

03/25/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: completed the work for the passage, "18 months in the Amazon." Writing: The students revised their favorite dessert essay.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: The students read a passage, "Clouded Leopard" and identified elements of the story such as character, setting, main problem, events, and resolution. The took a reading assessment for the first lesson in this unit. The started a poster persuading people to save endangered animals.

Perio 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. We reviewed the 3 Chinese philosophies for our quiz. The students were divided into groups to make a presentation on one of the philosophies.

03/24/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: "Shark Cage." Writing: The students revised their "gate and key" story.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. Social Studies: Chapter 7, Section 2. We read and took notes concerning 3 philosophies in China. The students will be taking a test on the philosophies on Friday. SpringBoard: We read chapter 22 in Holes. The students completed work on pages 154 & 156.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Freewrite. The students worked on editing and revising their "gate and key" story. Read Aloud: Chicken Boy.

03/21/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: "18 Months on the Amazon." The students read the passage and found the main ideas and supporting details. Writing: The students wrote a draft of their "Favorite Dessert" essay.

03/20/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: Pre-Reading work for passage, "Shark Cage". Writing: The students started working on a narrative.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. We read chapters 15-18 in Holes. The students continued to work on the charts on pages 154-55 in SpringBoard. The students continued to work on their Chinese Opera masks.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Freewrite. The students continued working on their narratives.

03/19/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: Pre-Reading work for "18 Months in the Amamzon." Writing: the students worked on a descriptive essay on their favorite dessert.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: The students read a passage, "Nearly and Surely Gone," and identified cause and effect relationships in the passage. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. We read chapters 13-14 in Holes. The students continued to complete the charts on pages 154-55. They started designing an original mask for a Chinese Opera.

03/18/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: the students read a passage, "Fabulous & Ferocious," and compared and contrasted information in the passage. Writing: The students wrote a final draft of their middle school challenges essay.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: page 153. We read chapters 11 & 12 in Holes. The students started filling in the charts on pages 154 & 155 in SpringBoard.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Freewrite. The students continued to work on their narrative.

03/17/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Writing: the students worked on a draft of their "great pet" essay.

03/13/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing with new passage. Fast Track: Pre-Reading work for passage, "Fabulous & Ferocious." Writing: Prewriting and first draft of middle school challenges essay.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: The students worked with partners to develop a list of the 10 main events in a subplot in Holes, chapter 7. After identifying the events, the students drew symbols to represent each event.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Freewrite. The students worked on a prewrite and first draft for a narrative prompt.

03/12/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing with new passage. Fast Track: Reading assessments for unit, " Treacherous Ice." Writing: The students started an expository essay for an animal that they think would make a great pet.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing with new passage. Fast Track: "Race Against Time." The students read a passage and made observations about a main character. The supported their observations with details from the passage. Writing: The students started an expository essay for an animal that they think would make a great pet. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. Social Studies: We started reading chapter 7, section 2 and taking notes on the passage. SpringBoard: pages 146 & 151.

03/11/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: The students worked on a final draft of the "Body of Water" story and illustration of climax in their story. They also worked on a final draft of their PE activities essay. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.  

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: We read chapter 7 in Holes and completed the appropriate parts of the charts on pages 146 and 148. The students also completed the first part of SpringBoard page 151. The students worked on their physical map of China. It is due tomorrow.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Freewrite. The students worked on a series of short prompts for narrative writing.

03/10/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Fast Track: "Over the Edge." The students wrote an invitation to someone of their choice.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Fast Track: "18 Months in the Amazon."

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: pages 149-50. The students started on a physical map of China.

03/07/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. The students started a story with a body of water as an important element.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. Personal philosophy discussion. The students watched a program on Chinese philosophies.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Freewrite. The students wrote a final draft of their fast food restaurant essays.

03/06/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: "To The Pole". Finding cause and effect relationships. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: Reading Assessments for the unit, "Treacherous Ice." SSR.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. We read chapters 5-6 in Holes and completed the appropriate sections on pages 146 and 148 in SpringBoard. The students answered questions regarding their beliefs about human nature and government.

03/05/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: "River Deep, River Black." The students worked on finding foreshadowing in a passage. The started a writing assignment persuading their PE teacher to add a new activity.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. The students worked on questions for chapter 7, section 1. They also worked on page 147 in SpringBoard.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Freewrite. The students worked on a persuasive essay for the prompt, "Should Fast Food Restaurants be limited by the Government?"

03/04/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. The students worked on a final draft of the PE activities essay. Fast Track: They began working on pre-reading activities for an article, "To The Pole."

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. The students made invitations using an invitation in a reading as a model. The students read a passage, "Over the Edge," and completed an assignment identifying the main problem and its solution in the story.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. The students researched several desert animals for our reaidng of the novel, Holes.

03/03/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. The students worked on their animal essays and illustrations.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: the students read chpaters 3 & 4 in Holes. They worked on pages 146 & 148 in the SpringBoard textbook. Social Studies: They worked on vocabulary for chapter 7, section 2.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Freewrite. The students continued working on their essays using strong nouns and verbs.

02/29/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Writing: the students began an essay proposing a new activity for their PE class. The students worked on a prewrite organizer and a first draft of their essay.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Final draft of their PE essay.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. The students read chapter 7, section 1 and worked on comprehension questions.

02/28/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with a partner. Fast Track: The students researched a fish and a marine mammal of their choice. They will be writing an essay about these animals next week.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard-page 144. The students wrote a final draft of their self-perception essay. We began the novel, Holes.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Freewrite. The students worked on a story using a picture as a starting point. Read Aloud: Chicken Boy.

02/27/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: The students read a passage, "Avalanche", and identified the main problem in the story, events leading to its resolution and the resolution. Writing: The students will be writing a persuasive essay for the prompt, "You PE teacher wants to improve the class. Suggest an activity that could be added to PE to improve the class or one activity to be removed." The students need to have chosen an activity by Friday. They will begin writing the essay on Friday.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: The students worked on a mini-lesson to start the period. They reviewed the literary terms onomatopoeia and alliteration. They wrote 10 original sentences (5 with onomatopoeia and 5 with alliteration). Next, the read a passage, "To The Pole," about Antarctica and identified cause-and-effect relationships in the passage.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: page 145. Social Studies: We read chapter 7, section 1 and completed a graphic organizer using information about the Shang Dynasty.

02/26/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with a partner. Fast Track: Ferocious Fish. The students read a passage and identified cause-and-effect relationships. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: pages 144-145. Social Studies: We starting reading chapter 7, section 1.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Freewrite. The students worked on writing a thematic essay.

02/25/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing with new passage. Fast Track: The students read a passage, "Titanic", and identified the main idea and supporting details for each section of the passage. They also identified the main idea for the entire passage.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing with new passage. Fast Track: The students read a passage, "Avalanche", and identified the main characters, setting, problem, events leading to a solution and the resolution of the problem. Writing: The students wrote a first draft of a persuasive essay entitled, "P.E. Activities." The students needed to recommend the addition of a new activity for P.E. or the deletion of a current P.E. activity. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza...

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. The students continued working on the population/area assignment. SpringBoard: The students continued working on the essay outlined on page 144.

02/15/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency. The students worked on a Venn diagram and essay comparing and contrasting a shark and a killer whale.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. Atlas pages 12a and 12b. SpringBoard: page 144-the students started working on the first paragraph for the essay. Geography: The students researched the top 10 countries of the world accroding to population and land area.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Freewrite. The students worked on writing an essay about something interesting from their life.

02/14/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Fast Track: The students read a story and analyzed a character from the story.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Fast Track: The students read a story about the Titanic and identified the main ideas and supporting details about each section of the story. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 7:  6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: pages 143-44. Page 143 and Parts 1 & 2 from page 144 are due tomorrow. 

02/13/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. The students watched 2 programs, one on sharks and one on killer whales, and took notes. They will be using the information for some comparison and contrast exercises on Friday.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard-pages 141-42. We finished watching the program on China. The students defined vocabulary for chapter 7, section 1. They used the vocabulary words in an original paragraph.

Period 8: Creative Writing: The students worked on a free-write. They shared their famous person information. We worked on using supporting details. The students created a card for someone in their life listing at least 5 reasons they appreciated this person.

02/12/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: "Anee Frank's Diary." The students began reading an article about Anne Frank and putting the events in the article in chronological order. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: Reading Assessments for "How Strong is Strong?" The students wrote acrostic poems for "President" and a mascot for a school or team.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: we continued reading the excerpts from "Bad Boy." We continued watching the program on China.

02/11/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. The students read Fast Track novels.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. Springboard-page 135 "Bad Boy". We started watching a program on China.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Freewrite. The students continued working on their three interesting details about a famous person of their choice.

02/08/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: The students read a passage, "Strongman." They made predictions during the story based upon information in the passage.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: The students read a passage, "More Than Meets The Eye." The students indentified characteristics of one of the characters in the story. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard-page 132. Egypt map.

02/07/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. The students read Fast Track novels.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Unit Test for Ancient Egypt. KWL-for unit on China.

Period 8: Creative Writing: 10-minute Free-write. The students worked on building details through brainstorming. They began a biographical essay on a famous person of their choice.

02/06/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: "The Strongman." Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Tracl: The Diary of Anne Frank." Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. The students worked on their maps of Egypt. We watched a program on Cleopatra. The Egypt Test has been postponed until tomorrow.

02/05/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. The students completed reading assessments for our current unit. The read silently in a book of their choosing.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. We played review baseball to review for our test on Ancient Egypt tomorrow.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Sharing time for the favorite place stories. The students completed a 10 minute free-write. We discussed personal exciting stories. After the discussion, the students began writing their story.

02/04/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fast Track: "Strong!" The students read a passage and completed a KWL chart. (K-what I know about a subject, W-what I want to know, and L-what I learned.) Afterwards, the students created a table of information about the members of the class. Next, we went to the library and the students checked out a book.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency. Fast Track: "Strongman." The students read and article and made predictions about the story based upon details in the story. Afterwards, the wrote a thank you letter from one of the characters to another. Next, we went to the library and the students checked out a book. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: Parallel Sentence Structure worksheet. The students began drawing a map of ancient Egypt.

02/01/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: The students wrote an essay comparing/contrasting a spider and an insect.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. The students shared their hieroglyphic messages. The wrote review questions for Chapter 4. Five original questions for each of the 4 sections. (20 total questions.)

Period 8: Creative Writing: The students wrote a final draft of their "favorite place" essay. They also drew an illustration of the place.

01/31/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing with new passage. Fast Track: Pre-Reading for "Strong!" Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing with new passage. Fast Track: Pre-Reading for "Strongman." Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. The students received a study guide for the test on Ancient Egypt. SpringBoard: pages 132-33.   We will have test for our unit on Ancient Egypt on Wednesday, 02/06/08.

01/30/08

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing with new passage. Writing: The students worked on a final draft of their "Freedom" essay. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. Egypt Project presentations. SpringBoard-page 133.

Period 8: Creative Writing: Introduction. Brainstorm-"What is good writing?" Assessment: The students started an essay for the topic, "What is your favorite place?" They organized their ideas using a graphic organizer and wrote a first draft of their essay.

01/29/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Writing: The students wrote a final draft of their "Freedom" essay. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Writing: The students wrote a final draft of their "Freedom" essay. Fast Track: "Strong!" The students read an article while completing a KWL chart. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. Egypt Projects presentations. SpringBoard: "The Mighty" page 133.

01/28/08

Period 2: Reading Independent: SSR/Fables.

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Fast Track: "The Mystery of the Unexplained Deaths."

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Egypt Project Presentations.

01/25/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: Using information they organized using a Venn diagram, the students wrote 2 paragraphs. One paragraph compared the main characters from 2 stories. The second paragraph contrasted the characters. Writing: They continued working in their "Freedom" essay. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: Pre-reading work for a passage, "Strong!" Writing: They continued working in their "Freedom" essay. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Social Studies: The students presented their Egypt projects. SpringBoard: The students worked on a revision of their Embedded Assessment #2 for unit #2. Afterwards, they worked on their Egyptian Art.

01/24/08

Period 2: Reading Independent: SSR/Fables. CO2 Car Races.

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: Pre-Reading for "The Mystery of the Unexplained Deaths." CO2 Car Races.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: page 132. Revision work on Embedded Assessment #2. Egypt Projects due tomorrow-Friday, January 25, 2008.

01/23/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: "Joanie". The students read a new story. Using information from the new story and a previous story, they compared and contrasted the main characters from each story using a Venn Diagram.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Reading Assessments for the current magazine. Writing: The students worked on their "Freedom" essays. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. We reviewed chapter 4, section 4. The students continued working on their hieroglyphic messages and their Egyptian Art projects. Egypt Projects due: Friday, January 25, 2008.

01/22/08

Period 2: Reading Independent: SSR/Fables. The students continued working on their original fable.

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. The students worked on 2 writing assignments for "Creepy Killers." Afterwards, they worked on their "Freedom" essay. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. The students worked on writing 5messages for classmates and translating the messages into Egyptian hieroglyphics. Afterwards, they started an original drawing using the Ancient Egyptian art style. Egypt Projects due: Friday, January 25, 2008.

01/18/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with a partner. We watched the finals of the Kopachuck Geography Bee. The students read the story, "Hardwood Wizard." The placed the events in Kobe Bryants life in order on a timeline.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with a partner. The students worked on 2 paragraphs comparing and contrasting the main characters in 2 of our stories. We watched a program on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. We watched a program on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The students answered questions for chapter 4, section 4. Egypt Projects due: Friday, January 25, 2008.

01/17/08

Period 2: Reading Independent: SSR. Read Aloud: Fable. Writing Assignment: The students started a writing assignment. They are writing an original fable dealing with a problem that a typical middle school student might face.

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with a partner. Fast Track: The students worked on the lesson for the passage, "Creepy Killers." Writing: They continued working on their "Freedom" essay. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza Loses Control. The sequal to Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Social Studies: Chapter 4, Section 3 review. The students worked on the vocabulary for Chapter 4, Section 4 and we read the part of the section dealing with hieroglyphics. The students wrote their names in hieroglyphics and worked on a cartouche of their name as if they were a pharaoh. Egypt Projects due: Friday, January 25, 2008.

01/16/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: "Hardwood Wizard", pre-reading activities. Writing: the students worked on a pre-writing organizer for an essay they will write explaining, "What is Freedom?" Read Aloud: The sequel to Joey Pigza.

01/15/08

Period 2: Reading Independent: SSR. Fables.

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing for a new passage. Cause-and-Effect-the students wrote three cause-and-effect chains with at least 4 elements. Fast Track: Pre-Reading: Creepy Killers. Writing: Pre-write organizer for an essay explaining "Freedom."

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: The students worked on a first draft of the Embedded Assessment #2 for Unit 2 on page 123. Social Studies: We finished reading section 3 of chapter 4. Egypt Projects due: Friday, January 25, 2008.

01/14/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing for a new passage. Reading Assessments. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing for a new passage. Reading Assessments. The students worked on a letter to a celebrity of their choice.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. Geo Bee. Chapter 4, Section 3. We began reaidng this section and taking notes. SpringBoard: The students worked on their comic of the main events in the "Tale of the Gentle Folk." The comic is due tomorrow. Egypt Projects due: Friday, January 25, 2008.

01/11/08

Period 2: Reading Independent: SSR. Read Aloud: Fables.

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Fast Track: "Danger Lurks Everywhere."

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: The students worked on identifying the main events in our story, "The Tale of the Gentle People." The students began drawing a comic of the main evenst of the story. Egypt Projects due: Friday, January 25, 2008.

01/10/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Fast Track: The students wrote a descriptive paragraph about the main character of our story, "Wheels for Legs." Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Fast Track: "Hardwood Wizard." Read Aloud: Fables.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: page 114. Geography Bee. Chapter 4, Section 3-Vocabulary. Egypt Projects due: Friday, January 25, 2008.

01/09/08

Period 2: Reading Indpendent: SSR. Read Aloud: Fable.

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Insect program. First Draft of insect decsriptive paragraph. Insect diagram.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: SpringBoard page 113. Review chpater 4, section 2 questions. Geography Bee. Egypt Projects due: Friday, January 25, 2008.

01/08/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: "Wheels for Legs." Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: The students wrote a description of the main character from "Wheels for Legs."

Period 7: 6th Humanities: The remaining group presented the Reader's Theatre performance or "Millionaire Miser." SpringBoard:The students work on page 110. We continued with the Geography Bee. Egypt Projects due: Friday, January 25, 2008.

01/07/08

Period 2: Reading Independent: SSR-Response.

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. The students read a passage, "The Weird World of Insects." After reading the passage, the students were given a series of statements. For each statement, the students stated whether the statement was a fact or an opinion. ext, they watched a program on insects and took notes for s writing assignment.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: SpringBoard page 109. Social Studies: The students answered questions for chapter 4, section 2. We continued with the Geography Bee. Egypt Projects due: Friday, January 25, 2008.

01/04/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. The students wrote final drafts of their goals and the "closet" story.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. The students wrote final drafts of their goals. Fast Track: The students read the story, "Wheels for Legs."

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: Groups 1 & 3 presented "The MIllionaire Miser." The Egypt Project options were discussed. The projects are due Friday, January 25, 2008. We watch the program, "Mummy Maker", on Discoverykids.com.  

01/03/08

Period 2: Reading Independent: SSR.

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. The students wrote a final draft for their essay on what item they would tak efrom their house during a fire. (Family and pets were already safe.) Fast Track: Pre-Reading for an article about insects.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. Chapter 4, Section 2-we finsihed reading and taking notes on the section. We began the Geography Bee. We held rounds 1-3 today.

01/02/08

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: Pre-Reading: "Wheels for Legs". Writing: Goals. The students wrote about what has gone well for them so far in middle school, and what has been difficult for them. Afterwards, they wrote 3 goals for themselves. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: Pre-Reading: "Wheels for Legs". Writing: Goals. The students wrote about what has gone well for them so far in middle school, and what has been difficult for them. Afterwards, they wrote 3 goals for themselves. Read Aloud: Fables.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: SpringBoard: Page 101. The students worked in groups of 3 reading sentences using specified tones of voice. Afterwards, the students were divided into groups of 11 and assigned parts for a Reader's Theatre presentation of "The Millionaire Miser" on Friday. Social Studies: We reviewed chapter 4, section 2 up to page 96.

12/19/07

Period 2: Reading Independent: Read Aloud: We finished Joey Pigza. SSR.

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Read Aloud: We finished Joey Pigza. The students drew a picture of their favorite scene in the novel. We watched a program on the science of motion and the students answered comprehension questions over the material.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. Read Aloud: We finished Skeleton Man. Afterwards, the students pretended that they worked for an advertising agency. They drew a picture from a scene in the novel to be used as part of an advertising campaign to sell the novel. Writing: The studnets wrote 3 acrostic poems

12/18/07

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Fast Track: "Basketball; Then and Now." Writing: Acrostic Poem.

12/17/07

Period 2: Reading Independent: SSR-Response. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing-new passage. Fast Track: fluency novels. Writing: Prewrite and first draft of expository essay for the prompt, " If your house was on fire, what one or two items would you like to take to safety? (Your family and pets are already safe. Also, you already have some personal items such as a toothbrush.)

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: "The MIllionaire Miser." Social Studies: Chapter 4, Section 2 Vocabulary. Read Aloud: Skeleton Man.

12/14/07

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Fast Track: Reading Assessments. Writing: the students started writing a narrative for the prompt, "There is a closet in your classroom that your teacher never opens. One day, you open it and ..."

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Writing: the students wrote a final draft for their narrative. Fast Track: Reading Assessments.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: "The Gathering of Wild Animals." Atlas-page 10b.

12/13/07

Period 2: Reading Independent: SSR.

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Writing: the students revised a previous paragraph. Fast Track: Reading Assessments continued. SSR. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. Ch. 4, Section 1 questions continued. SpringBoard: Proverbs pages 85-88. Page 89-the students chose 4 proverbs from the lists on pages 85-88 and complete the graphic organizer on page 89.

12/12/07

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: "UFO Spotters Club." The students read the article and identified the characters, setting and plot of the story.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: "UFO Spotters Club." The students read the article and identified the characters, setting and plot of the story. Writing: The students worked on the first draft and illustration for their narrative.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: SpringBoard: The students worked on the final draft of their narratives. Social Studies: The students began working on answering questions for Chapter 4, Section 1. We worked on incorporating the question into the answer to make a complete answer.

12/11/07

Period 2: Reading Independent: SSR-Response.

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: Reading Assessments for current unit. Writing: the students worked on further revisions for their essay on what age they would be if they could be any age. SSR.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: SpringBoard: the students worked on revising their embedded assessments using the suggestions from their partner (page 81). We finished taking notes for the program on ancient Egypt.

12/10/07

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. SpringBoard: the students read an article, "IFO". Using information in the article, the students identified different catagories of IFOs and described each one.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. SpringBoard: the students read an article, "IFO". Using information in the article, the students identified different catagories of IFOs and described each one. Writing: The students started a narrative for the prompt, "Your teacher has a closet in the room that is never opened. One day it is opened and..."

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Fast Track: pages 80-81. The students are working on the embedded assessment for this unit. They are writing a personal narrative about a change in their life. Social Studies: We continued taking notes from a program on ancient Egypt.

12/07/07

Period 2: Reading Independent: SSR-Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: "Mystery at Archie Bowler's". SSR.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. Read Aloud: Skeleton Man. SpringBoard: The students wrote the first draft of their Embedded Assessment. Program: The students took notes while watching a program on Ancient Egypt.

12/06/07

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Final draft of essay. Fast Track: "Close Call".

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. The students wrote a new ending for the story, "Close Call". They also drew an illustration for their new ending. The worked on a pre-reading activity for the next story, "IFO".

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard-pages 75-76. The students started prewriting for Embedded Assessment #2 for Unit 2. The students worked on an atlas assignment, page 10a.

12/05/07

Period 2: Reading Independent: SSR-Response. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Final draft of essay. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. SpringBoard: pages 73-74.

12/04/07

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: the students worked on a pre-reading for an article, "Close Call." Writing: The students wrote a first draft of their "favorite place" paragraph using a graphic organizer with spaces for a topic sentence, 4 supporting details and a concluding sentence. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with a partner. Writing: the students put the first draft of their "favorite place" paragraph into a graphic organizer. They wrote a final draft of the paragraph. Read Aloud: We finished Joey Pigza.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Social Studies: Chapter 4, Section 1-continued. We read the section and took notes identifying cause and effect relationships in the passage. The students took notes while watching a program on Ancient Egypt. SpringBoard: "Willie B."

12/03/07

Period 2: Reading Independent: SSR. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: we read an article, "Crushed by Nature". The students identified text elements and read the passage. Afterwards, the chose one of the events in the passage and wrote a story based upon the natural disaster they chose. Writing: The started on an expository writing assignment. They needed to complete a prewriting web organizer for an age they would like to be and why. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. The students shared their original sentences using at least 3 adjectives in each sentence. SpringBoard: pages 64 and 65.

11/30/07

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: The students completed a KWL chart (K-what they know/W-What they want to know/L-what they learned) for an article, "Strange in the Sky". Writing: The students worked on a pre-write web organizer for an essay about their favorite place.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. Fast Track: The students identified the characters, setting and plot for a story, "A Close Call."

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Channel One News. The students worked on a worksheet identifying adjectives and writing original sentences using adjectives.

11/29/07

Period 2: Reading Independent: SSR-Response. The students summarized their reading by writing a diary entry for the main character of the story. The entry needed to be written in first person and include all relevant information from the section.

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. The students wrote a final draft of their lesson story. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: The students defined vocabulary from Chapter 4, Section 1. We began reading and taking notes from the section. SpringBoard: pages 60-61.

11/28/07

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. The students wrote the final draft of their curfew essay.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency work with partner. The students wrote the final draft of their curfew essay. Fast Track: The students completed a KWL chart (K-what they know/W-What they want to know/L-what they learned) for an article, "Strange in the Sky".

Period 7: 6th Humanities: Geography Pre-Test. The students took a pre-test on the continents and oceans of the world. SpringBoard-page 59. The students wrote a narrative about one of the scenes from the Lion King as if they were either Simba or Nala. The story is due tomorrow.

11/27/07

Period 2: Reading Independent: SSR-Response. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza. 

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing-new passage. Writing: The students revised their lesson stories and drew illustrations for them.

Period 6: 6th Humanties: We completed our notes for the program on Egypt. SpringBoard-page 58. The students continued working on their maps of Mesopotamia. The maps are due tomorrow.

11/26/07

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing-cold read. Fast Track-pre-reading work for "Strange in the Sky". Writing: The students began an essay concerning whether or not they agreed with a proposed 8:00 PM curfew for people under 15. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing-cold read. Fast Track-pre-reading work for "Strange in the Sky". Writing: The students began an essay concerning whether or not they agreed with a proposed 8:00 PM curfew for people under 15. Read Aloud: Joey Pigza.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: SpringBoard: Pages 56-57. The students took notes from a program on Egypt.

11/21/07

Period 2: Reading Independent: SSR.

Period 4: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. The students continued working on their lesson stories.

Period 6: 6th Humanities: SpringBoard: Page 55. The students watched the final scenes from The Lion King and completed their notes.

11/20/07

Period 1: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Fast Track: "Futuristic Food Show." The students read an article and identified teh characters, setting, main problem in the story, the events leading to resolving the problem and its resolution.

Period 3: Enriched Language Arts: Fluency timing. Fast Track: Reading Assessment.

Period 7: 6th Humanities: SpringBoard page 55, segements 1 & 2.

11/19/07