Novels for ILA

We will be starting our first novel for ILA soon!  We will have class sets of books to use at school but if you want to annotate (take notes) or highlight anything in the book then you need to buy your own copy.  You will also not be allowed to take the books home with you, so if you want to read at home then you also need to purchase your own copy.

On Level: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Pre AP: The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg

Agenda 9/27-10/1

Objectives for the Week:
The students will be reviewing and identifying figurative language through the reading and writing of poetry.  They will be utilizing the writing process to compose their own original poems about school and will focus on figurative language elements.  The students will apply active reading strategies.  They will gather sources and paraphrase information during a research project on singer/songwriters.  They will learn about valid and reliable sources as well as how to properly use MLA citations.

Monday: 9/27

• SSR
• Poetry & Figurative Language
• Weekly Word Research (WWR)
• Research

Tuesday: 9/28

• SSR
• Poetry, Figurative Language, Theme, Illustrations
• WWR
• Research

Wednesday: 9/29

• SSR
• WWR
• Figurative Language Poem Due
• Library for Research Project: Singer/Songwriters
• Begin Research Packet
• MLA citation website: http://www.bibme.org/

Thursday: 9/30

• SSR
• WWR Due & Quiz over words
• Continue Research Packet
• Plagairism
• Dialect: Folktales (Text Pg. 829)

Friday: 10/1

• SSR
• Continue Research Packet
• Binder Check

Agenda 9/20 - 9/24

Objectives this week: The students will apply active reading strategies including summarizing, paraphrasing, making inferences using text evidence, and asking questions.  They will analyze the effects of author's choices on figurative language such as metaphors, similes, hyperbole, and personification.  They students will determine the meaning of words through affixes and will use the dictionary/glossary/thesaurus to help.  The students will continue to use capitalization and punctuation correctly.

Monday: 9/20 (LIBRARY DAY)

• SSR Connection - Characterization
• Weekly word research - Affixes
• Figurative Language
• Personification & Hyperbole
• Reading Selection to analyze figurative language
• On Level - "No Thank You" text pg. 640
• Pre AP - "The Fairies' Lullaby" text pg. 648

Tuesday: 9/21

• Retest for Prepositional Phrases Quiz @ 8:10 (can only retake if you came to tutorials last week)
• SSR Connection - Vocabulary
• Weekly word research - Affixes
• Figurative Language
• Simile & Metaphor
• Reading Selection to analyze figurative language
• On Level - "No Thank You" text pg. 640
• Pre AP - "The Fairies' Lullaby" text pg. 648

Wednesday: 9/22

• SSR Connection - Vocabulary
• Weekly Word Research - Affixes
• 6 + Traits of Writing Quiz
• Introduction of Poetry
• Reading selection to analyze for figurative language
• On Level - "Simile, Willow, and Gingko" text pg 587; all poems pg. 588-591
• Pre AP - " Poetry Collection 4" text pg. 592-597

Thursday: 9/23

• SSR Connection - Vocabulary
• Weekly Word Research - Affixes Quiz
• Dialogue & Compound Sentences Quiz
• Read passage and identify figurative language
• On Level - "The Race"
• Pre AP - "Perfect Love" & "Lady of the Harbor"
• Write own poem using figurative language

Friday: 9/24

• SSR Connection - Vocabulary
• Continue writing poem using figurative language (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification)

College Week! September 20-24

Tuesday- Wear your favorite University cap/hat with your Griffin spirit shirt

Wednesday- FRISCO ISD COLLEGE FAIR at Heritage High School from 6:00-8:00PM (All Griffin Parents and Students are encouraged to attend)

Thursday- Slide Show during lunch

Friday- Wear your favorite University shirt or colors; Video presentation on V-Brick

Retest for prepositional phrases

Tutorials for the retest will be Thursday morning at 8:10.  You must attend tutorials in order to take the retest which will be given on Tuesday morning, September 21st at 8:10.

New page added

If you need to use the online textbook make sure that you click on the page to the right that is labeled "Online Textbook"!

ON LEVEL: Imaginative Story Due THURSDAY!

ON LEVEL UPDATE!
Since the computers were not cooperating today during class, you will NOT have to turn in your imaginative story until Thursday, September 16th.  Make sure that you meet with your partner either before or after school in the computer lab or library so that you can finish typing your story!