Periods 1, 4, 6, & 8
Students will continue to improve their grammar skills through daily paragraph editing. We will continue to apply the comma rules that we learned last week and will add a few new ones.
- Use quotation marks around a word or phrase being discussed.
- Example: The word "pinata" is written with a special letter.
- Use a hyphen between numbers in a fraction
- Example: One-half of the candies have walnuts, and one-quarter have almonds.
- Avoid run-on sentences. A run-on is a sentence in which two or more independent clauses (complete sentences) are joined without an appropriate punctuation or conjunction.
- Example: It is nearly half past five we cannot reach town before dark.
We will have a grammar quiz on Friday. On Thursday, we will take a practice assessment. Students will analyze the results of the practice assessment and highlight (on their study guides) what they need to work on for the quiz on Friday.
Students will begin reading "A Simple Act" this week. The narrative is located on page 10 of their textbook. Students will analyze the author's choice of using the third-person point of view. We will discuss the advantages of using third-person point of view when writing a narrative. Students will be asked to think of a recent anecdote in their lives and write a one-page account of it using third-person point of view. They will highlight details in their writing that would've been excluded in a first-person narrative. Class discussion will center around the wider perspective that is possible using third-person point of view.
There will be no homework this week unless a student fails to complete their work during class.
Attention Parents,
You can now access your student's textbook online. Go to www.pearsonrealize.com. The username is ns followed by your child's first initial and then their last name. Example: nsmfowler
The password is ns followed my period ____ Replace the underscore with whatever period I have your student. Example: nsperiod6
STUDY GUIDE for test NEXT WEEK on "A Simple Act"
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QyEaouZpowCrrCOm4A1NJnJa_mJtu_7awKqCjJlP158/edit?usp=sharing
PSSA SSR
Period 2
Students will read silently for the duration of the period. Students should have a book with them when they enter the classroom. Students are expected to read from bell to bell. As students begin to finish their first book, we will move into book recommendations.
Career Exploration
Periods 3 & 7
Students will reflect on their time with Friday's guest speaker, occupational therapist, Stephanie Fowler. We will move into the health science career cluster this week.
Additionally, we will finish the five part interview.
Students will begin reading "A Simple Act" this week. The narrative is located on page 10 of their textbook. Students will analyze the author's choice of using the third-person point of view. We will discuss the advantages of using third-person point of view when writing a narrative. Students will be asked to think of a recent anecdote in their lives and write a one-page account of it using third-person point of view. They will highlight details in their writing that would've been excluded in a first-person narrative. Class discussion will center around the wider perspective that is possible using third-person point of view.
There will be no homework this week unless a student fails to complete their work during class.
Attention Parents,
You can now access your student's textbook online. Go to www.pearsonrealize.com. The username is ns followed by your child's first initial and then their last name. Example: nsmfowler
The password is ns followed my period ____ Replace the underscore with whatever period I have your student. Example: nsperiod6
STUDY GUIDE for test NEXT WEEK on "A Simple Act"
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QyEaouZpowCrrCOm4A1NJnJa_mJtu_7awKqCjJlP158/edit?usp=sharing
PSSA SSR
Period 2
Students will read silently for the duration of the period. Students should have a book with them when they enter the classroom. Students are expected to read from bell to bell. As students begin to finish their first book, we will move into book recommendations.
Career Exploration
Periods 3 & 7
Students will reflect on their time with Friday's guest speaker, occupational therapist, Stephanie Fowler. We will move into the health science career cluster this week.
Additionally, we will finish the five part interview.
