OCTOBER 2012

 

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

 

 

 

 

1

Vocab Exam:

Chapters 19 and 20

 

 

 

2

Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

 

 

 

 

 

3

Benchmark Test

Unit One

 

HW:  Read and take notes p. 218-219

4

Note-taking from oral presentations

 

 

5

Reading Day!

6

7

 

8

Vocab Exam:

Chapters 21 and 22

 

Writing Process overview

 

 

9

Review Writing Process Notes and note-taking skills

 

Prewriting

 

HW:  Complete first page of blue   writing packet

10

Drafting

 

Writer’s Workshop:

 “Show don’t  tell”

 

HW:  Complete draft for 10/16

11

Reading Day!

No Blue Team today

12

NEOEA DAY
No School Students

13

14

 

15

Vocab Exam:

Chapters 23 and 24

 

 

Blue Team book Talks

16

Writer’s Workshop:

 

Revise for pronouns

(Replace)

 

 

 

 

 

17

Writer’s Workshop:

 

Revise for dialogue (Add)

 

HW: Bring in a sample of good writing on Monday

18

Reading Day!

 

HW:  rewrite draft for Monday.

19

Red Team:  Sensory Language Writing Day!

 

No Blue Team or Team White today

 

End of 1st Grading Period

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22

Vocab Exam:

Unit Four

 

(Blue – revise for dialogue)

 

Six Trait Revision – Good Writing

 

HW:  Final Paper Due Friday 10/26

23

On the Edge of Survival cluster one – shared inquiry:

“To Fall in the Dark Void”

 

HW:  Finish worksheet

24

Shared Inquiry: 

“The Wilding”

 

 

25

Shared Inquiry: 

Finish “Wilding”

HW:  Read and answer study questions for Pregame – Top of the Fourth of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon due on 11/1

 

26

Reading Day!

 

No Red Team today

 

Final Autobiographical Narrative due

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29

Vocab Exam:

Survival Concept Vocabulary

 

“Paul Revere’s Ride”

30

 

 

Calamity Day

31

No Blue Team today

 

 

 

 

Calamity Day