8/31 Friday

1. Short Story Questions-You need to answer some text dependent questions about your short story. Remember to circle where your found your answers.

2. Pretest-Use this time to finish your pretest.

3. Vocabulary Activity-You have two activities to complete using your words for this week.

4. Short Story-You are to read a 2nd short story dealing with embarrassment.  We will then discuss how it differed from our first story.

8/30 Thursday

1. Warm-Up-In your Language Arts notebook, answer the following question. Make sure to date your post, fully explain your answer, and use complete sentences

2. Short Story Second Read-We are going to take a second look at our story. I will share what confused me while reading.

3. Short Story Questions-You need to answer some text dependent questions about your short story. Remember to circle where your found your answers.

4. Vocabulary PreTest-This is exactly what it sounds like it is!

5. CNN Student News-Take good notes and be prepared to discuss 

 6.  Junior Scholastic-Everybody gets a magazine. Read the mummy article on page 2-3. Create 3 multiple choice questions based on the article.
 
7. Unit 1-Back to our notes! 

8/29 Wednesday

1. Word Confusion-We are going to be using context clues to define unknown words!

2. Literature Genres-How many can you name?

3. Review-Let's review what we have learned so far.

4. Library Visit-Please do not waste your time!

5. Short Story First Read-We have our first story of the year.

6. CNN Student News-Take good notes and be prepared to discuss

7.  Junior Scholastic-Everybody gets a magazine. Read the mummy article on page 2-3. Create 3 multiple choice questions based on the article.

8. Unit 1-Back to our notes!