September+Absent+Log

Please feel free to click on any of the dates below to download a copy of what was done in class on a particular day. In your warm-up journal-remember to write the date you were absent and the word "ABSENT"so that you get credit!If you missed a test/quiz, please see Miss Reed to make it up!Please See Miss Reed with any questions!

SEPTEMBER
 * ===August=== || ===October=== ||


 * **MONDAY** || TUESDAY || WEDNESDAY || THURSDAY || FRIDAY ||
 * 9/1/14

**Labor Day!** **SCHOOL CLOSED** || 9/2/14 > (#3 in NB-look in folder for yours) HOMEWORK: -Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log due 9/30 || 9/3/14 HOMEWORK: -Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log due 9/30 || 9/4/14
 * Gave out September Reading Logs
 * Went to the testing lab to take Fall Scantron Test
 * Received sheet to record scores (Letter "C" in NB)
 * Warm Up
 * Take roll
 * Hand out Reading Assessment
 * Read "The Path Through the Cemetery"
 * Complete the selected response section
 * Complete the Response to Text section
 * Collect
 * BLOCK 1-Finish Cloning Essays
 * Receive Scantron Scores as work
 * Blocks 2-5-6 Complete Back to Class WS on own paper. (#4 in NB)


 * Warm Up
 * Take roll
 * Introduce Class Dojo
 * Explain how to arrange desks
 * Instruct students to arrange desks and sit on floor
 * Complete Touchstones Lesson #1

HOMEWORK: -Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log due 9/30 || 9/5/14

HOMEWORK: -Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log due 9/30 || Learned how to set up warm up journals! See Miss Gaff or Miss Reed to do this!! HOMEWORK: -Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log due 9/30 || 9/9/14 HOMEWORK: -Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log due 9/30 || 9/10/14
 * Go over objective. Ask students if they have ever heard the word differentiation before? If not, do they see any words within the word differentiation that they recognize?
 * Ask students for words that describe how effective they are at a task. Plot those words on the Y axis. Least effective on the bottom to most effective on top.
 * Fill in tasks along X axis remind students a task is something they can practice and improve on.
 * Teacher complete the graph based on their skills.
 * Students complete their line graph (#6)
 * Students participate in a gallery walk to look for patterns on classmate’s graphs. Students should take a piece of paper (#7) to jot down note about the patterns they see.
 * Have a discussion on what patterns the students saw. Teacher will record the patterns the students saw.
 * In order for everyone to be successful in class what needs to happen?
 * Conclusion­ display fair is not always equal picture. On a piece of notebook paper, students need to explain how the picture relates to differentiation and today’s lesson. Students turn in paper. Hold class discussion
 * 9/8/14
 * Put students into groups
 * Hand out Cup Stacking Directions and Materials
 * Have students complete cup stacking activity
 * Have students answer questions for discussion
 * Answer group discussion questions on Cup Stacking Activity. (#8)
 * Next, hold a whole group discussion on the Cups Stacking Activity
 * Warm Up
 * Get Red Literature textbooks
 * Please get out a piece of paper and label it, “The Race Between Toad and Donkey” (put #9 in the upper right corner)
 * Handed out questions to be answered while reading
 * Read story and answer questions on own paper
 * Hand in answers
 * Warm Up
 * Take out a piece of paper & label it:

__Touchstones Lesson 2.__ (#10)


 * Complete Touchstones Lesson

HOMEWORK: -Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log due 9/30 || 9/11/14 -Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log due 9/30 || 9/12/14
 * Warm Up
 * Take attendance and submit
 * Take out Sentence Writing Folders
 * Take out piece of paper and Label it SENTENCE WRITING NOTES
 * Begin review of sentences & take notes
 * Hand out Example Sheet

-Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log due 9/30 ||
 * Warm Up
 * Take attendance and submit
 * Hand out Unit 1 Organizers (Letter "D"in NB)
 * Launch Unit 1
 * 9/15/14

HOMEWORK: -Study for Plot Quiz on Friday -Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log (#3) due 9/30 -Book Fair Thurs. -Open House Thurs night 6-8 || 9/16/14
 * Warm Up
 * Take attendance and submit
 * Hand out Writing Folders
 * Continue with Example Sets I-IV

HOMEWORK: -Study for Plot Quiz on Friday -Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log (#3) due 9/30 -Book Fair Thurs. -Open House Thurs night 6-8 || 9/17/14 HOMEWORK: -Study for Plot Quiz on Friday -Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log (#3) due 9/30 -Book Fair tomorrow -Open House tomorrow night 6-8 || 9/18/14 HOMEWORK: -Study for Plot Quiz TOMORROW -Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log (#3) due 9/30 -Open House TONIGHT 6-8 || 9/19/14 HOMEWORK: -Finish Questions (#11) and Plot Diagram (#14) for short story Seventh Grade -Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log due 9/30 ||
 * Warm Up
 * Take attendance and submit
 * Show Plot Diagram on Presenter and have students copy on own paper (Notes on Plot Diagram Letter "E" in NB)
 * Review stages of plot using transparency.
 * Have students fill in stage and definition.
 * Hand out textbooks and have students take out a piece of paper and label it “Seventh Grade” (#11)
 * Hand out questions
 * Instruct students to read “Seventh Grade” in the Lit. book pgs 30-38 and answer the questions from the worksheet on their own paper
 * After students have completed the story and questions, they are to complete a plot diagram on their own paper.
 * Warm Up
 * Take attendance and submit
 * Explain Dialectal Journals in detail
 * Set up Journals for Dialectal responses
 * Complete Journal Entry #1
 * Take out a piece of paper and label it "Touchstones Lesson 3" (#12)
 * Complete Touchstones Lesson 3
 * Warm Up
 * Take and Submit Attendance
 * Visit Book Fair B6 8:10 B5 9:20 B2 11:51 B1 1:35
 * Hand back/get out #11-Seventh Grade Answers
 * Hand out the questions for Seventh Grade
 * Finish reading and answering questions for story independently
 * Binder Check while kids are working
 * Warm Up
 * Take and Submit Attendance
 * Take Plot Quiz (#13)
 * Hand back Seventh Grade questions
 * Complete Questions
 * Make a blank plot diagram on own paper and label it: Plot Diagram for Seventh Grade
 * Make own diagram for short story (#14)
 * 9/22/14
 * Take and Submit Attendance
 * Collect #'s 13 & 14
 * Hand back quizzes
 * Hand out writing folders
 * Continue with Example Sets IV & V

HOMEWORK: -Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log due 9/30 || 9/23/14
 * Warm Up
 * Take and Submit Attendance
 * Take out a piece of paper and label it Touchstones Lesson 4 (#15)
 * Move desks
 * Complete Touchstones Lesson 4

HOMEWORK: -Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log due 9/30 || 9/24/14
 * Warm Up
 * Take and Submit Attendance
 * Take out a piece of paper and label it "The Scholarship Jacket" (#16)
 * Be sure you have a red literature book
 * Turn to page 216, Read the big question in Red, and the Key Idea
 * Discuss the Quickwrite (instead of writing)
 * Read the red Literary Analysis and blue Reading Skill sections aloud on page 217.
 * Read the story independently, and answer the questions in the margins (on the sides of the story). BE SURE TO LABEL each one on your paper as A, B, C..etc.
 * Put papers in your binder, IN the rings, in order
 * Read your novel silently

HOMEWORK: -Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log due 9/30 || 9/25/14

HOMEWORK: -Finish Reading Scholarship Jacket and answering questions out in margin Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log due 9/30 || 9/26/14
 * Warm Up
 * Take and Submit Attendance
 * Collect Scholarship Jacket Questions (#16) from those who are finished
 * Have students take out a piece of paper and fold it in half both way making 4 boxes on the from and 4 on the back.
 * Label it A Man Who Had No Eyes (#17)
 * Have students put a reading strategy in each box. (Predict/Question/Clarify/Question/Summarize/Evaluate/Visualize/Inference)
 * Hand out Blue Literature Books
 * Turn to Man Who Had No Eyes on page 6.
 * Read story aloud and stop along the way and have students fill in one of the reading strategy boxes

NO SCHOOL! PROFESSIONAL DAY!! ||
 * 9/29/14

HOMEWORK: -Read 20 minutes -Signed Reading Log due TOMORROW! || 9/30/14
 * Warm Up
 * Take and Submit Attendance
 * Collect Scholarship Jacket (#16) from those who had to finish it
 * Finish reading A Man Who Had No Eyes and completing reading strategy examples
 * COLLECT #17 (A Man Who Had No Eyes Reading Strategy Examples)
 * Kansas Writing-Copy meaning of Compound Sentences, how to join independent clauses, and coordinating conjunctions (fanboys)
 * Bl 1/Bl 6:Have students copy notes on Word Parts ("H" in NB)
 * Bl 6: Hand out Latin Root Charts
 * Block 6: Begin to instruct students on the 6 Latin Roots (ject/cred/fac,fact/capt/vers,vert/spect) and their meanings and have students fill in their charts. Place in Notebook

HOMEWORK: -Read 20 minutes ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Warm Up
 * Take and Submit Attendance
 * Collect Sept. Reading Logs
 * Kansas Writing Strategies
 * Review 2 ways to join two independent clauses
 * Review formula
 * Copy notes on Complex Sentences
 * Review formulas
 * Have students copy notes on Word Parts ("H" in NB)
 * Hand out Latin Root Charts ("H1" in NB)
 * Begin/continue to instruct students on the 6 Latin Roots (ject/cred/fac,fact/capt/vers,vert/spect) and their meanings and have students fill in their charts. Place in Notebook