BLOG 1-14 --1-25 (2WEEKS DUE DATES/QTR. 3)

Fields/Davis Academy

Due Dates/Quarter 3

Mon. 1-14 – Al l classes: Man in the Moon Marigold TEST; bring your books or printed copies to turn in!!!                                                                

I will assign “For Esme –with Love and Squalor” to be read by 1-16 (purple/orange/pink) and by 1-17 (blue). ALWAYS EXPECT A QUIZ OVER A READING ASSIGNMENT.  I will not remind  you again… just know.  I will hand out study sheet for grammar test on 1-18 (if I have not already done so).  Be sure to add to that sheet: be able to identify sentences according to their structure (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex) and adjective clauses.  I did not know when I printed the sheet that we would get as far as we have…

 

Tues. 1-15 – Purple/blue: grammar questions re: anything on study sheet…?

 

Wed. 1-16 – Purple/orange/pink:  HONORS has Man in Moon… papers due.  Discuss “Esme.”  ASSIGN: “Just Before the War with the Eskimos” to be read by 1-22 (purple/blue) and by 1-23 (Orange/pink).

 

Thurs. 1-17 – Blue/Orange/Pink: Discuss “Esme.”

 

Fri. 1-18 – All classes:  Grammar test

 

Mon. 1-21 – MLK holiday

 

 

Tues.  1-22 – Purple/blue: Finish discussing “Esme;” Discuss “Just Before the War with the Eskimos.”  ASSIGN Catcher, pp. 1-46 due 1-30 (purple/orange/pink); due 1-31 (blue).

 

Wed. 1-23 – Purple/orange/pink: Many of your teachers will be out of class and in various vertical team meetings this week; today is the day I will be in meetings much of the day.  At this point, I do not know the specific  times, so I do not know if there will be a sub for your class or not.  Thus, BRING your Catcher books; you will have SILENT time for reading in class – and I do emphasize that word SILENT, my dears…J (“Don’t make me pull this car over and come back there!” J)        

 

Thurs. 1-24 – Blue/orange/pink: Finish discussing “Esme” if we have not; discuss “Just Before the War.”

 

Fri. 1-25 – All classes: Grammar re: adjective clauses and everything else studied thus far;

COMMA rules re: non-essential adjective clauses; HAND OUT DIRECTIONS for BOOK of CHOICE READING; hand out info for parents; hand out rubrics.