December 1 - December 5, 2008

Monday 

1.  Bellringer
2.  Planners, page 48
3.  Journals - Descriptive - introduction.
4.  S&V - page 102, "Words from French."
Objective:  To take a pretest on the basic words taken from French words.
5.  Grammar - page 686
Objective:  To find the word or wrods that should be capitalized but are not.
6.  HW:  p. 107
Objective:  Circle the letters that should be capitalized

Tuesday

1.  Bellringer
2.  Planners, page 49
3.  Journals - Descriptive - first body paragraph
4.  S&V - page 103, "Words from French."
Objective:  To write the basic word that matches each definition using the spelling dictionary.
5.  Grammar - page 686-90.
Objective:  To write the sentences in exercise 6 using capital letters wherever they are needed.
6.  HW:  p. 109
Objective:  Circle the letters that should be capitalized

Wednesday

1.  Bellringer
2.  Planners, page 50
3.  Journals - Descriptive - second body paragraph
4.  S&V - page 104, "Words from French."
Objective:  To write the basic or review word that fits each clue and circle the letter that would appear in the box to figure out what the mystery word is.
5.  Grammar - page 686-90.
Objective:  To write the sentences in exercise 6 using capital letters wherever they are needed.
6.  HW:  p. 109
Objective:  Circle the letters that should be capitalized

Thursday

1.  Bellringer
2.  Planners, page 51
3.  Journals - Descriptive - third body paragraph
4.  S&V - page 105, "Words from French."
Objective:  To proofread a paragraph  for proper spelling, proper nouns, and proper adjectives.
5.  Grammar - page 690
Objective:  To proofread sentences for correct capitalization in "Review B."
6.  HW:  p. 110
Objective:  Circle the letters that should be capitalized

Friday

1.  Bellringer
2.  Check homework, page 110.
3.  S&V test, Unit 16.
4.  Journals - conclusion of descriptive essay.
5.  Hand back work.

 

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December 10 - 14, 2008

MONDAY
1.  Bellringer
2.  Planner - page 52
3.  Journal - Narrative essay - introduction
4.  S&V - Unit 17 pretest
Objective:  To take a pretest of unusual plural words
5.  Grammar - p. 691
Objective:  To correctly write the words that require capital letters in "Review C."
6.  HW:  NONE

TUESDAY

1.  Bellringer
2.  Planner - page 53
3.  Journal - Narrative essay - first body paragraph
4.  S&V - Unit 17, p. 109
Objective:  To write the basic word that matches each definition.
5.  Grammar - p. 694
Objective:  To correct the errors in "Review D"  by either changing capital letters to small letters or vice versa.
6.  HW:  NONE

WEDNESDAY

1.  Bellringer
2.  Planner - page 54
3.  Journal - Narrative essay - second body paragraph
4.  S&V - Unit 17, p. 109
Objective:  To write the basic word that matches each definition.
5.  Grammar - p. 694
Objective:  To correct the errors in "Review D"  by either changing capital letters to small letters or vice versa.
6.  HW:  NONE

ThURSDAY

1.  Bellringer
2.  Planner - page 55
3.  Journal - Narrative essay - third body paragraph
4.  S&V - Unit 17, p. 110
Objective:  To practice using the spelling dictionary & looking up parts of speech of certain vocabulary words.
5.  Grammar - p. 696, #1-12
Objective:  To correct the errors in "Review D"  by either changing capital letters to small letters or vice versa, or by writing "C" if it is correct.
6.  HW:  NONE

Friday

1.  Bellringer
2.  S&V test
3.   Journals - conclusion