Tuesday
Students will check out and recheck their library books.
Students will read chapter 5 of Number the Starsl.
Wednesday – Friday
Holiday
TEKS: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6, 6.8, 6.9, 6.13, 6.26
Monday
Students will newspaper articles and select the 1 headline that best describes the main idea of the article.
Tuesday
Students will check out and recheck their library books.
Students will make a parts of speech fold-able focusing on nouns today. We will add the other parts of speech in subsequent days to come. Students will write its definition, write a sentence using a noun/nouns from their own writing, and then they will copy a sentence from their book using nouns.
Wednesday
Early release
Students will finish working on their parts of speech foldable.
Thursday
Students will respond to their ePals pen pals. Students will be able to detect adjectives in a passage.
Friday
Students will read a couple of nonfiction article at Tween Tribune and answer a critical thinking question.
TEKS: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 6.14, 6.19, 6.20, 6.21, 6.26, 6.28
Monday
Students will journal.
We will discuss the academic vocabulary for plays. We will read The Mad Tea Party.
Students will be able to discuss main idea of a passage.
Tuesday
Journal entry
Students will check out and recheck their library books.
We will continue reading the play.
Wednesday
Journal
Students will take a capitalization test.
Thursday
Journal
Capitalization probe
Subject-verb probe
Students will log onto ePals and send emails.
Friday
Journal
The students will be able to read a non fiction article on Tween Tribune and answer critical thinking question.
We will discuss the mood of the play and the use of personification.
TEKS: 6.1, 6.2, 6.5, 6.7, 6.8 6.9, 6.13, 6.14, 6.17, 6.19, 6.20, 6.21, 6.23, 6.24, 6.25, 6.26, 6.28
Monday
Students will connect with Edmodo and practice doing discussion posts.
We will also discuss our character sketch of each of the 3 dominant characters.
We will read chapters 3 – 5 of Dollhouse Murders.
Tuesday
The students will read chapters 6 – 9 of Dollhouse Murders while beginning their character sketch.
We will go to the library.
Wednesday
We will review the requirements of a complete sentence. We will do a Mimio lesson together.
We will read chapters 10 – 14 of Dollhouse Murders.
Thursday
We will read chapters 15 – 17.
As a class we will read and discuss the non-fiction Scope magazine together.
Friday
Students will take a test over vocabulary words from Dollhouse Murders.
I will teach the students how to devise higher-level questions for fishbowl discussion. I will show the students a video of a class utilizing this type of discussion.
TEKS: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 6.13, 6.14, 6.19, 6.20, 6.21, 6.26, 6.27, 6.28
You have now spent a week at White Oak Middle School. I would like for you to tell me about a memorable moment that you had last week. Please comment to this discussion telling about a moment and explaining it. You should actually have about three or four sentences.