The Accelerated Reader Home Reading Log is due every Monday morning. It is expected that the students read 120 minutes a week.
(past months have been placed at the bottom of the page)
May
| Date | Assignment |
|---|---|
| May 10/12 | Find an article about child homelessness or poverty - due Monday the 14th |
June
| Date | Assignment |
|---|---|
September
| Date | Assignment |
|---|---|
| Sept. 12/11 | Home Reading Log due next Monday |
| Sept. 22/11 | HR Log due Monday. Name poem overdue |
| Sept 26/11 | HR Log due Monday. Teaching Listening activity. |
| Sept. 28/11 | Raise a Reader - Stop, Drop and Read day |
| Sept. 30/11 | Began rough draft of Personal Profile ( Assessment Rubric). Will have time to finish on Monday. |
October
| Date | Assignment |
|---|---|
| Oct.4/11 | First draft of the personal profile is due on Thursday. |
| Oct. 5/11 | What I learned about reading reflection is due Thursday. |
| Oct. 11/11 | Personal Profile/Writing sample is due on Friday. The lab is booked Friday to finish up. |
| Oct. 19/11 | Non Fiction and Fiction text feature venn diagram due in class |
| Oct. 20/11 | Seymour Simon needs help! Text feature activity due Monday ( class time was provided). |
| Oct. 25/11 | Read. Text Features Quiz. |
| Oct. 31/11 | Wonder Object - Questioning activity. Homework is to read. |
November
| Date | Assignment |
|---|---|
| Nov. 2/11 | Wander and Wonder Observation and Questions ( goal deep thinking) |
| Nov. 4/11 | Began a Remembrance day poem. Will be continued tomorrow. |
| Nov. 7/11 | Organized our Remembrance Day words into a List poem. Tomorrow we will work on the visual presentation of our good copy. Students are encouraged to be creative and think outside the box on how they would like their poem to look. |
| Nov. 14/11 | Questioning on the Occupy Protests. Hand in in the 4 deep questions and what you have discovered. |
| Nov. 23/11 | First day of writing strategies. Where do ideas come from - Brain Pockets activity. Leftovers if not completed in class time ( plenty of class time was allocated). |
| Nov. 24/11 | OWI of picture with the Fireman. Wonder questions are due tomorrow. |
| Nov. 28/11 | 6 minute solution and story structure notes. No homework. |
| Nov. 30/11 | 6 minute solution, finished story structure notes and silent read. |
December
| Date | Assignment |
|---|---|
| Dec.2/11 | 6 minute solution. Began the the technical power in our writing power unit. Today's subject was adding details. read the story "Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street" and created story strips for a story about me. the focus was on adding details. Story strip is due on Tuesday. There was ample class time provided. |
| Dec. 6/11 | Created a story strip for "A Winter's Day" due on Thursday. |
| Dec. 12/ 11 | "A Winter's Day" first draft MUST be done for Wednesday |
| Dec. 13/11 | Men Wanted - Sir Ernest Schackleton's Antarctic expedition, finish the OWI. |
January
| Date | Assignment |
|---|---|
| Jan 4/12 | Simile worksheet due Thursday. This week's writing focus is similes. |
| Jan 5/12 | Syria Inferences - will have more class time. Due January 11 |
| Jan 9/12 | Syria Inferences due on Jan 11. |
| Jan 10/12 | Worked on Simile story, should be ready to conference on Thursday. |
| Jan 24/12 | Conferenced on our stories today. Some people are 12 days lat on completing their rough draft and need to be ready to edit on Thursday. |
February
| Date | Assignment |
|---|---|
| Feb 1/12 | Second draft must be completed and corrections made for Friday. |
| Feb14/12 | Costa Concordia - Turn it into a Question assignment - Due Thursday |
| Feb 16/12 | Text structure notes - tomorrow we will go over how to make a speech |
| Feb 27/12 | Turn it into a Question - A Small Step Forward: 2011 Durban Conference due Tuesday the 28th. |
March
| Date | Assignment |
|---|---|
April
| Date | Assignment |
|---|---|
| April 2/12 | |
| April 11/12 | Journal entry - Five deep thinking questions. |