Assignments

Activities & Resources

Monday, March 22, 2010:

1. Warm up--Students will do page 17 in their warm up booklet. These warm ups focus on reading skills addressed by the TAKS test. We will discuss the warm up as a class, re-teaching with a mini lesson if necessary.

2. Quiz over chapters 6-14 in the novel

3. Summarization--Students will do one final summarization strategy today. It is one we have done before with a previous novel. Students will use the Somebody Wanted But So Then (SWBST) strategy. They will read a passage called "The Cougar Gazette" and fill out the SWBST chart. They will then take their information from the chart and turn it into a paragraph summarizing the passage.

4. Students will work on answering at least 1 of their 7 analysis questions for Search for the Shadowman today. They must show me at least one question answered on an index card before the end of class today. We will be doing this all week long, so by Friday, students should have 5 of the 7 questions answered.

HOMEWORK: none
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010:

1. Warm up--Students will do page 18 in their warm up booklet. These warm ups focus on reading skills addressed by the TAKS test. We will discuss the warm up as a class, re-teaching with a mini lesson if necessary.

2. Summarization--Students will complete an assessment on summarization today (test grade).

3. Students will work on answering at least 1 of their 7 analysis questions for Search for the Shadowman today. They must show me at least one question answered on an index card before the end of class today. We will be doing this all week long, so by Friday, students should have 5 of the 7 questions answered.

HOMEWORK: Finish second question for novel if needed.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010:

1. Warm up--Students will do page 19 in their warm up booklet. These warm ups focus on reading skills addressed by the TAKS test. We will discuss the warm up as a class, re-teaching with a mini lesson if necessary.

2. Power point presentation to introduce inferencing/generalizations/drawing conclusions

HOMEWORK: story analysis questions
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Thursday, March 25, 2010:

1. Warm up--Students will do page 20 in their warm up booklet. These warm ups focus on reading skills addressed by the TAKS test. We will discuss the warm up as a class, re-teaching with a mini lesson if necessary.

2. Students will work on answering at least 1 of their 7 analysis questions for Search for the Shadowman today. They must show me at least one question answered on an index card before the end of class today. We will be doing this all week long, so by Friday, students should have 5 of the 7 questions answered.

3. We will review the concept of making inferences and drawing conclusions. We will be using a book titled "The Wretched Stone" to practice these concepts. As the teacher reads, students will keep a "log" of their information and thinking. Students will share this information with a partner after reading. They will then answer a set of questions on their paper dealing with inferencing and drawing conclusions. This will be turned in when finished.

HOMEWORK: story analysis questions
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Friday, March 26, 2010:

1. Warm up--Students will do page 21 in their warm up booklet. These warm ups focus on reading skills addressed by the TAKS test. We will discuss the warm up as a class, re-teaching with a mini lesson if necessary.

3. Making Generalizations (Kamico book--page 405)--Students will do an activity today that focuses on making generalizations. We will discuss what a generalization is and go over an example on the overhead together. Students will be given a number of different statements and will be asked to make a generalization based on these statements. We will then talk about statements that would not be good generalizations for this scenario. Students will then work with a partner to come up with five specific statements that support a generalization that will be given to them. They will fill out a graphic organizer to do this. If time permits, students will then share their statements with the class, and the class will try to come up with the generalization. Each student is to turn in their graphic organizer for a daily grade.

HOMEWORK: none

Assessment

warm up--daily grade

roving assessment during activities

summary activities--daily grades

oral assessment during discussion of Pre-AP novel

summary assessment--test grade

Accommodations/Modifications

Modifications made according to IEP's.