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Week of Feb. 15 and 22

2/17/2016

Read 8/21-9/13 by Friday 2/19. Read 9/15-10/2 by Wednesday 2/24 and complete only Golden Lines Passage. You do not need to write a thick question and there are no vocabulary activities.
I posted the Final Essay directions on the 4th grade page. It is also linked below:
Final Essay Directions

Weeks of Feb. 8 and 15

2/10/2016

Read 8/1 - 8/19 and complete entries. Vocabulary words are: perilous (107), loans (109) and stoking (116). DUE FRIDAY MORNING (2/12). No class, but I will pick-up your folders.

Read 8/21-9/13 by Friday, February 19. NO ENTRIES ARE DUE FOR THE WEEK OF FEB. 15.

Update - Feb. 1-5

2/1/2016

If you want to watch the Fort Laramie video, please visit this link: http://archive.cyark.org/fort-laramie-intro

You will have the entire class period on Wednesday to work on your entry for this week. Be prepared to work the entire class period by reading 7/7-7/31 by Wednesday's class. Mark a passage for which you will write your GOLDEN LINE analysis. Mark a passage or two for your THICK questions.

Bring your other creative writing journals to work on, too.

We will meet in the ALO classroom on Wednesday and not the BASEP room.

Homework DUE Friday, Feb. 5

1/29/2016

Read 7/7-7/31 and complete response entries (GOLDEN LINES/PASSAGES and explanation, Thick question/s, and vocabulary activities). The vocabulary activities are debased (96) and beholden (101).

HW / QUIZ Updates

1/22/2016

Read 6/22-7/6 and complete Reader Response entries.
These include:

the selection of a Golden Lines/Passage.
the explanation for and analysis of the Golden Lines/Passage.
definitions and sentences or pictures for corralled (p. 67), posterity (p. 81), and behemoth (p. 85)
1-2 THICK questions.

On Wednesday, Jan. 27 we will have a quiz. It will cover the following:

vocabulary words
the phrase "seeing the elephant"
figurative language

On Monday, January 25 we will review for the quiz, so you all should be well-prepared.

HW DUE Friday, Jan. 22

1/15/2016

Read entries 6/12-6/20 and complete journal response entries.
Vocabulary: sparing (46), dispatched (49)

Week 2 - Jan. 11-15

1/11/2016

HW DUE Friday :
Read 5/27-6/11 and complete a Reading Response Entry.
This includes: a Golden Lines/Passage and explanation, 1-2 THICK questions, and vocabulary activities for blasphemy (p. 24).

This week the students will explore the euphemism "seeing the elephant" which was a popular phrase used by emigrants on the Oregon Trail and forty-niners traveling to California for the gold rush.
We will explore the covered wagons emigrants used as transportation.
We will research some topics that we come across in the novel such as cholera and the Pawnee Indians.

Week 1 - January 6-8

1/6/2016

The second session of ALO is part of the Walk to Read Unit in 4th grade. Students met for the first time this week and were introduced to the novel Jedediah Barstow: An Emigrant on the Oregon Trail (Levine).
HOMEWORK - DUE FRIDAY, Jan. 7 Read journal entries 5/12-5/26.

All Summer in a Day Critical Response to Focus Question (paragraph) DUE Friday, Nov. 13

11/8/2015

Write a critical response to the focus question for All Summer in a Day.
FOCUS Question: Why do the children ostracize, or exclude, Margot?

All Summer in a Day, Ray Bradbury DUE Friday, Nov. 6

11/4/2015

Today we read Ray Bradbury's short story, "All Summer in a Day." Before Friday's class, reread the story and come prepared to discuss the story. Write a focus question about the story.

All Summer in a Day

Focus Questions/Interpretive Questions resource sheet