Welcome back!Happy Monday, everyone! Welcome back to school! We have our typical Monday work today; Jumpstart Journal, spelling pretest for Unit 16 and time to work on our spelling! And I have lots and lots of things to pass back to you. Second order of business is our new unit. We are starting A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Before we start reading it, however, we are going to be looking at some information behind the story. Each of you are going to be participating in a group research project. This serves two purposes: 1. We are going to begin the process of learning how to do research 2. We are going to learn more about the history of Charles Dicken's time to better help us understand the context of the story 3. We are going to learn to take notes in different formatting styles Tomorrow and Wednesday we will be in the library working with Ms. Paganis to help us learn how to do research, and help us to put together our research projects. You will get your groups, and have two full days to get your mini-research project finished.
You will present these research projects as we go through the story A Christmas Carol and read it out loud in class.
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Your typical Friday work is happening again today (for the last time this month! Woop woop!) We are going to correct our spelling homework, and take our Chapter 15 spelling test. I hope you studied! These are frequently misspelled words this week... Finally, we have arrived upon arguably the most famous Robert Frost poem ever "The Road Not Taken." We are going to read this poem today, and I want you all to be able to tell me it's meaning. What is this all about? Why does Robert Frost write this poem? What is the meaning of it? And why is that message so important? Lastly, we will go over our last page of our Usage packet. Be ready to have a possible Usage Quiz when you get back from break. Words matter! It's important to know how to use them correctly! Have a fantastic Thanksgiving Break! Be sure you are working on your Independent Reading Project; that is going to sneak up on you faster than you think!
Happy Thursday, everyone! We have reached our short day of the week! Woohoo! Today is our emergency book return day. If you have a book to return, or need to check out a book for the break, please head to the library today during class! UsageFor our usage activity today, we are going to be looking at the usage of the words leave-sit. Remember, words are important, and words matter. It's super important that we know how to use our words properly. Take a look at the worksheet we're doing: Poetry
This poem is the epitome of Robert Frost's strict structure. His poem is going to blow your mind. Listen closely to the rhyme scheme, and see if you can figure out what he's done with syllables and rhyme in this poem. And then, close your eyes, and listen to the words. Picture yourself in this field, with snow falling down on you, and you soaking up the silence, and just being in that space. It's a beautiful and amazing feeling. We haven't heard a poem that makes us feel more in that place with the speaker than this one. Parent/Teacher Conferences are tonight! Can't wait to see you there!
As we continue on our Robert Frost journey, we have now been through "The Pasture" and are on to work the fields. In "A Time to Talk" we see how Robert Frost interacts with other characters in his poetry. We are going to take a look at Frost's strict form in this poem again, and be talking about the meaning of this poem as well. What is a time to talk? Our last venture today will be to continue to talk about usage. We are going to be completing two pages of our usage packet. When do you I use this word? And how do I know?
Happy Tuesday to all! We are about to embark on a set of poems this week from one of the greatest poets of all time: Robert Frost. Robert Frost was the poet laureate of the United States at one point. This means he is appointed as the official poet of the land, and is requested to both write for and speak at major events around the country. Kind of a big deal... But here's more, if you want to know: Kind of amazing, right? I know. So we are going to be reading his poem called "The Pasture" today. Along with it, we are going to be writing our own poem following the same structure as Robert Frost. Like the video said, Frost was a stickler for structure! So pay attention to the directions! Our last activity today involves Homonyms. We are going to start picking up some grammar and usage again, and we are going to be focusing mostly on the usage part now. We went over capitalization, we do spelling, we went over punctuation, but how do we know if we are using the words properly? We're going to be focusing on homonym-type words, and weather or not they are being used correctly in the sentence. If you don't finish this in class today, the Usage: Accept-a lot worksheet. Good Monday Morning, everyone! We have a few things to finish up this fine day. First, we have our regularly scheduled Spelling Programming. We are staring Unit 15: Frequently Misspelled Words! This is going to be fun! Spelling is due Friday, November 20. This is your weekly reminder to attempt the extra credit Next order of business is finishing up the Highwayman Test. Both Blocks 2/3 and 7/8 are not finished, and today I will make sure you have time to finish that up. If there is time today, we are going to talk about synonyms and antonyms. I have a fun poem for us to right today involving those kinds of words. It shouldn't take long, and it's kind of fun to write. This week we will be reading all kinds of Robert Frost poetry. Be prepared to read and write a lot of poems this week! We have an action packed week of literary wonders!
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