1. Write for 10 minutes.
2. Stay on the prompt.
3. Write towards half of a page.
4. Mark as complete when done.

Write about your spring break.

Write about your spring break.

Write about your spring break.

We worked on brainstorming some ideas for our information/explanatory paper yesterday.  Today, we will work on our introductory paragraph and thesis statement.

Use this to study parts of the Elegy and facts about Cesar Chavez and how he changed our world.

You may use my headphones to listen to this story.  

1. Complete Vocabulary
2. Follow the writing prompt - compare two stories
3. Check the rubric for expectations.

You may use my headphones to listen to this story.  After you read it, complete the quiz questions.  You will be comparing this story to The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales.

How were your student-led conferences?

Please use Skyward to fill out the Tab Labeled Unit 1.  We will also fill out the tab labeled data this week. We will set reading, writing, grammar, speaking and listening goals.

Compare the book to the movie.

What three values are most important to you and why? Write continuously for 10 minutes.

Attach your slides here.

Please define the vocabulary and answer the THINK questions.

Open Topic

Please remember to follow the process for defining your words:
Find the word in the book
Make an educated guess as to what it means based on context
Look up the word to see if you are correct
Use the word in a sentence.

Then answer the THINK questions using the RACE strategy.

Please remember to follow the process for defining your words:
Find the word in the book
Make an educated guess as to what it means based on context
Look up the word to see if you are correct
Use the word in a sentence.

Then answer the THINK questions using the RACE strategy.

Attached are directions, templates, and a rubric for your Hero Project.  Try to get it finished before Friday to allow me time to frame them.

Study the words and then take the test.  Let me know your score.  Thanks,

Define the vocabulary words and use them in a sentence or a story.  Answer the THINK questions using the RACE strategy.

Practice the vocabulary with cards or games.  Then take the test.  Share your score with me.  :)  Have fun.

Please define the vocabulary and answer the THINK questions.

What is your favorite animal?  Why?

Reflect on your ELA NWEA score.  What would you like to tell me?

Open Topic

As we read chapters 1-5, please answer the THINK questions and Vocabulary.

As I walked down the hall by the locker rooms...

After the mini-lesson, use the notes to help you complete the assignment.

Please remember that you need to answer the questions in Study Sync with RACE strategy answers.  There is a big poster in the front of the room that you can use to help with sentence starters.  The Vocabulary questions want you to determine what the word means from the context that it was used in the text and then look up the answer in the dictionary to check for accuracy.  

I miss you all very much and hope to be back Friday!!  

Independently read Feed and fill out Access 4 as you read.  After you read, answer the THINK questions using the RACE strategy. Turn in Access 4 papers to the sub at the end of 7th.  


Complete IXL diagnostic when you are finished.

Please begin writing your narrative story on a rough draft Word document.  Edit, revise, and have a peer edit your paper.  Turn in a final, published version when you are done.

Remember, your story needs to have a setting, characters, rising action, conflict (unjust situation), climax, resolution, and falling action.
It needs to be organized with an obvious plot.  I cannot wait to read your stories.

You may attach assignments completed digitally here.  If you do it with paper, turn it into me and submit the assignment with a note.

Free Write

1. Read the information about Prewrite (Study Sync).
2. Complete the PDF in Kami.
3. Check over work for completeness and accuracy.
4. Mark as turned in when finished.

If you could invent a new holiday, what would it be? How would it be celebrated? When would it be?

Read the Adverb Notes and complete the assignment.

Free Write

1. Read the correct section of notes.
2. Complete each section of the assignment.
3. Follow directions CAREFULLY.
4. Make sure to use proper Capitalization and Punctuation.

Create a monster and write a short story about it.

Journal Entry Topic: What things upset you or others you know?  What do you do to regulate yourself?

We will be working on these together for the next few weeks.  Remember these are for Student-Led conferences, so keep everything professional.  

1. Read the notes on Articles within the Adjectives notes.
2. Complete each section carefully, reading the directions.
3. Double check work.
4. Submit when finished.

What would you do if the dinner served to you in a fancy restaurant, came with a fly in the mashed potatoes?
Write for the entire 10 minutes.

Using the slides to guide your thinking, tell me what your perfect society would look like.

Take notes on the Adjectives notes - 1st part and then do the adjectives worksheet.

What would you do if you could travel anywhere in the world for free?  Write for the entire 10 minutes.

This template is designed to help you organize your five-paragraph essay.  When you are finished you need to put it into your essay without the template.

Open Topic

Open Topic

The house was so quiet, but then I heard...

Continue taking notes in your notebook on pronouns.  Review the section on Indefinite and Relative pronouns.  Complete the worksheet.

Review your notes and take Quiz#4.  

After you take your notes, please complete the attached assignment.

When do you think a person becomes an adult? Why?  Write for 10 minutes

Review your notes and take this quiz.  If you handwrite your notes, you may use them.

Work on your notes and then finish the worksheet.

Listen carefully as I go through an example of how to use the template for your two-paragraph essay.  You will be using this to organize your thoughts before you write your essay.

Discuss your TV-watching habits.  Do you watch any Reality TV?  If so, which shows?

Review your notes on the kinds of sentences and nouns and take the attached test.  If you handwrite the notes, you may use them.  :)

After you take notes on the first part of your grammar lesson on pronouns and antecendents, fill out the worksheet and turn it in.

Review your nouns notes and focus on common and proper nouns.  Answer the questions on the worksheet.

Would you rather go to a public school or a private school?  Explain

Today we will annotate as a group.

Review your nouns notes or rewatch the video.  Then complete the assignment.

Open topics mean you can write for 10 minutes continuously about anything.

After you take notes on nouns, compete the attached assignment.

Read the instructions carefully and submit them when you are finished.

What was your favorite childhood toy?

Journal Entry #1- Write a SMART goal for quarter 1. Why this goal and how are you going to accomplish it? 
S-Specific
M- Measurable
A- Attainable 
R- Realistic
T- Timely

Please begin to design your Here's Looking at Me Flier.  If you don't finish today, it is okay, you will have time next week.