Literature Assignments: After reading and discussing Robert Hayden's poem, "Those Winter Sundays," we viewed the short film adaptation on our website (see the link below). Students are to fill in the comparison and contrast chart to prepare for a short composition. See Jupiter for due dates. We also have started our vocabulary study for the year. Our words will come from the literature selections. Students will keep an ongoing stack of flashcards, and we will have quizzes whenever we learn 20 new words. Quizzes will be announced. See the link below for our first list. Writing Assignments: We continue to work with our sentence-composing exercises. This week will study the Opening Adverb and the Delayed Adverb strategies. Check in later this week for links to our assignments. Please complete IXL HH.8 and HH.9 to support our work. See Jupiter for due dates. Literature Assignments: Today, we read and discussed the poem "Those Winter Sundays." Students have been assigned #1-11 on the study guide. These are due Friday, 9-11-20, at the start of class. Scroll to the September 8, 2020, blog post for the links to the poem, study guide, and resources. Writing Assignments: This week we are working on Sentence-Composing Tool #3, the Opening Adverb. Please complete the assignments in the following order. See Jupiter calendar and grades for due dates. 1. Adverb Packet (from the Warriner's text) linked below. 2. IXL HH.4, HH.3, HH.5 3. Opening Adverb Exercises handout (linked below). 4. "The Preposition Song" is due tomorrow. Scroll to the September 8 blog post for the link. Independent Reading: Survey #2 is now open and due on Friday, September 11. Links can be found in the Independent Reading tab at the top of this website or in previous blog posts. Please feel free to email me with questions over assignments or to set up a phone conference. Thank you! Welcome back from Labor Day Weekend! Literature Assignments: We have completed our discussion of "The Medicine Bag" and turned in study guides. We also completed an in-class timed writing over both stories. Students who were absent can make up the timed writing when they return to class. They may prepare by studying the comparison/contrast chart on p. 4 at this link. On Wednesday, we will read the poem "Those Winter Sundays" and discuss it using the study guide questions linked below. Several resources are available on our class website to support this poem. Writing Assignments: We are reviewing adjectives and adverbs and practicing several sentence-composing tools. Last week, we worked on the Opening Adjective and the Delayed Adjective tools. Please complete the work in this order. 1. Adjective Packet (Warriner's text) linked as a pdf in the August 27 blog post. 2. IXL HH.1, HH.2, HH.6, HH.7 3. Opening Adjective Exercises Handout (linked below) 4. Delayed Adjective Exercises Handout (linked below) Please don't hesitate to email me with questions or to set up a phone conference if needed. In Writing class, we are also learning "The Preposition Song." It is sung to the tune of "Yankee Doodle Dandy." This is to be memorized and recited in class on Thursday, September 10, or when an absent student returns to class. Link to the lyrics below. Independent Reading:
We are now in our second week of our first independent reading project. Students are reading a fiction book of their choice and answering a series of four surveys. See the August 27 post for details and due dates. Survey #1 was due Friday, September 4. It remains open for anyone who needs to make it up. Survey #2 is now open and is due on Friday, September 11. |
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A Classroom Prayer
Holy Spirit, Giver of all good gifts, enter into my mind and heart. Give me the gift of knowledge and the grace to use it wisely. Help me in all my endeavors. Give me perseverance and fortitude. Help my memory, that I may remember what I learn and recall it when necessary. Guide me in the classroom.
O Jesus, You who are the Way, the Truth, and the Life, let me not be deceived by false teaching. Our Lady of Good Studies, pray for me. Amen. Mary, Undoer of Knots,
Pray for Us! A Prayer to Christ, the Divine Teacher
O source of all Wisdom, Christ the Teacher,
You are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Teach us to embrace the truths You have revealed to Your Church. Fill our souls with Your Grace that we may love God above all and our neighbors as ourselves. Christ Jesus, friend and Teacher most patient, bless us and teach us. O Light of the world, teach us always to follow You that we should not walk in darkness, but have forever the Light of Life! Amen. Archives
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