August 2011 Mrs. Jones’ homepage
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15	16 Inservice/Teacher Prep	17	18 Staff Development	19 Work Day
22 Staff Development	23 Work Day Open House	24 First Day of school OHANA activities all day	25 Introduction activities and assignments	26 Library – check out Finish paragraphs from Thursday
29 RC Reading strategy: “Following Directions” Literature book “Charles”	30 RC Continue with “Charles”	31 Lab: intro to my web page “Charles” quiz on Quia. Short writing assignment: memory from early elementary school

September 2011 Mrs. Jones’ Homepage
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						RC “The Young Witch Hunters” p. 23 in US: Change and Challenge		RC Finish with “The Young Witch Hunters” Lab: quiz on Quia Freewrite: someone who was not treated fairly
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Labor Day		Library for check in/out Read short play in class Reading Strategy on Idioms RC		Lab: test prep & grammar practice RC “Time of Most Distress” p. 8		RC Finish “Time of Most Distress” and begin “from Smallpox” p. 16		Lab: quiz over two selections on Quia. Create inoculations party invitations
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Library: data base lesson on disease		Lab: type summary of Monday’s lesson. Finish inoculation invitations		RC Reading strategy Primary/Secondary source activity Timeline on Franklin Finish smallpox worksheet		Lab: test prep & grammar practice Class: read “Paul Revere” p. 305 Discuss fig. lang. Reading strategy on bias		Lab: quiz on Quia on Paul Revere Non-fiction article on Paul Revere’s horse & questions. Listen to song; compare. Class: Read “Slave Ship” Reading strategy: Primary source
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Library: check in / out Class: “Slave Ship” questions		RC Read “Johnny Appleseed” Comma worksheet Discuss postage stamp essay		Library for research on postage stamp essay.		Library for research		Lab: Work on postage stamp essay * click below for example* Example Essay
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		Lab: SRI Finish postage stamp essay and/or test prep Reading strategy: symbols Comma practice		Grade commas MAZE test Read “Masters seek runaway slave” and do questions		Lab: test prep and grammar practice Reading strategy: Nancy Ward “Your Rights and Mine” questions		Lab: quiz on “Your Rights and Mine” and grammar practice Lit book: “Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall”
October 2011 Mrs. Jones’ Homepage
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Continue with “Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall” Do short descriptive paragraph	Lab: quiz on Quia over “Leaves” Type descriptive paragraph Test prep & grammar practice RC		RC Reading Strategy :legends of the modern world Urban Legends: “The Girl in the Lavender Dress”		RC Continue with “The Girl in the Lavender Dress”		Lab: quiz on Quia & grammar practice Library for check in/out RC
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Lab: leveled text with superstitions	Begin “Flowers for Algernon”		Continue with “Algernon”		Lab: quiz on Quia over story Work on Algernon projects in classroom (ink blots)		Library: research for Algernon project Lab: continue working on the project
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RC Algernon	Algernon				Algernon		Algernon End of the 9 weeks
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Begin The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Pre-reading activities Begin chapts 1 & 2 Conferences	Novel; chpts 1-2 Conferences		Novel – read 3-4		RED RIBBON DAY		No School
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Novel

November 2011 Mrs. Jones’ Homepage
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	Novel Discuss 3 &4; irony Read 5-7	Novel Finish 5-7; write character description	Novel Lab: type character description & do fig. lang. from Tom Sawyer worksheets	Novel Finish worksheets from Thursday & continue reading chpts. 8-10
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Inservice – No School	Novel Read 8-10	novel: read 12 discuss home remedies read 13-17	novel quiz chpts. 4-12	Veterans Day celebration novel: finish 13 -17
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Novel quiz 13-17	Novel DI on Temperance	read final chapters in novel DI with cave article CMS Picture retakes @ 10:30	Read to the end of novel	finish novel discuss project
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Library lesson on validity of sites	research on Twain	24 Gobble	25 Gobble	26 Gobble
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RC video	video RC	Lab: test prep and grammar Literature book: “Glow in the Dark: p. 504

December 2011 Mrs. Jones’ homepage
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			1 Literature book: “Glow in the Dark” p. 504	2 Finish from literature book
5 Lab: letters from Santa	6 Lab: Letters from Santa RC	7 Lab: SRI & Letters from Santa	8 Finish Santa letters (fold, stamp, …)	9 MAZE Continue with folding, stamp… Read “Debbie”: wkshts 242,243 RCBM
12 grade worksheets “Gift of the Magi”	13 “The Perfect Gift” Comp/contr. 2 stories RC	14 ReadingStrategy:”Theatre Owners” “Winter Solstice”	15 “Welcome Aboard”	16 Reader’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol”
19 video	20 video	21 CMS Talent show @ 12:00 End of 1^st semester	Dec. 22 Christmas Break Jan. 4

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2 No school –Christmas break	3 No school - Inservice	4 Begin western themed lit. Article on cattle drives “Sancho”	5 Lab: test prep. “Sancho”	6 finish with “Sancho”
9 Lab: quiz on “Sancho” test prep. review formative test	10 “Western Wagons” Non-fiction article on Civil War	11 Lab: formative test: narrative 2 “Drummer Boy of Shilo”	12 handout & questions	13 “Captain, My Captain” “Episode of War”
16 Inservice – no school	17 begin Civil War study read Nightjohn	18 Lab: review for state assessments Nightjohn Winter sports & organizations pictures @ 2:00	19 finish with Nightjohn	20 Lab: Persuasive formative #2 finish with Nightjohn
23 United States: Change and Challenge p. 117 & 132	24 Lab: test prep finish Monday’s readings and questions	25 Begin “Harriet Tubman” in Literature book Casual Portraits @ 8:20	26 Lab: review last weeks formative “Harriet Tubman” in lit. book Winter sports pictures @ noon.	27 “Harriet Tubman”
30 Lab: Persuasive formative Finish “Harriet Tubman”	31 US Change & Challenge What a foolish Boy, p. 127

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