Reading/Writing
Book reports are now past due. Students MUST come in to resource M/W/F or make arrangements to meet with Ms. Barnes before school, during lunch, or after school to complete the assignment.
Mon - There will be whole class work on context clues and a related worksheet/homework (yellow) will be due Wednesday.
Types of Context Clues:
replacement/synonyms
contrast/antonyms
common signal words
definition/description
cause and effect
items in a series
Tue/Wed - Students will read "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl (textbook p.72) and use a note sheet to list word, clues, guess, and definition. They are expected to complete a worksheet in class on foreshadowing (cream).
Thu/Fri - Students will read "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs (textbook p. 85). Concepts covered in class will be plot, context clues, visualization. Analysis will be done via a powerful paragraph which students will write in class Thursday and Friday.
