Friday, January 27th 2017

What are we doing today? Bellwork: SILENTLY complete activity Homework Checked: None Classwork: New York Times Picture Grammar Quiz 20: Using Who and Whom Maniac Magee Ch. 16-20 Word Generation – When Should Someone be Considered an Adult Homework: READ. Finish anything you didn’t complete in class. Get progress report signed

Bellwork Finish this sentence and continue the story. Make sure it is at least one paragraph (five sentences). This morning I looked out my window and to my great surprise I saw… After you have finished writing, study for your grammar quiz! Make sure to put the date beside your response and keep all bellwork responses for the week on the same page. They will be due the first day of the following week. Be sure to stay organized and keep up! Make sure to put the date beside your response and keep all bellwork responses for the week on the same page. They will be due the first day of the following week. Be sure to stay organized and keep up!

Remove everything that is not a pencil from your desk. Clear Your Desks Remove everything that is not a pencil from your desk.

Grammar Quiz 20: Using Who and Whom Try your best! You can do it! Once you are done, flip it over and read an AR book silently. Answers: B; object of preposition C; subject C; direct object D; object of preposition A; Whom are you inviting? B; Joe, whom you know, will go. A; Who invented lightning rods? C; You know who will do the best job.

New York Times What’s happening: Yulia passing a radiation- metering checkpoint at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant Write about how you react to this picture now that you know what is going on.

Maniac Magee Ch. 9&10 With a partner, read chapter 9 and try to figure out what this simile from the end of the chapter means: “The Cobras were laughing because they figured the dumb, scraggly runt would get out of the East End in about as good shape as a bare big toe in a convention of snapping turtles.” As a class, we will read chapter 10. After reading chapter 10, we will make a T-chart to figure out: What made Mars Bar think he was “bad”? Why did the lady win the glare contest?

Maniac Magee We will go over answers for chapters 14&15 As a class we will begin reading chapters 16-21 As we read, be sure to complete the comprehension questions. After each chapter, we will pause to complete a quickwrite. Put all of them on the same page.

Quickwrites Chapter 16 “But there it was, piling up around him: dislike. Not from everybody. But enough. And Maniac couldn’t see it. And then all of a sudden, he could.” Explain what Maniac is seeing at the end of this chapter. Cite your evidence from the book. Chapter 17 How do experiences of prejudice affect Maniac? Chapter 18 What was the purpose of the argument between Amanda and Maniac? Chapter 20 (none for 19) What does this quote mean? “He would need the touch of a surgeon, the alertness of an owl, the cunning of three foxes, and the foresight of a grand master in chess.” Chapter 21 Why did Maniac walk – not run – out of town?

Word Generation – When Should Someone be Considered an Adult Make sure to COMPLETELY answer the question. Use the five words from this week plus five from any other week: Guideline Mature Ambiguous Due Status

Homework READ YOUR AR BOOKS!!!!! Finish what you didn’t finish in class Get progress report signed

Announcements 1/30 – Maniac Magee Part 1 Test 2/3 – halfway point of 3rd 9-weeks 2/8 – Official progress reports go home 2/20 – no school 3/6-10 – Case 21 exams 3/12 – Daylight Savings (spring forward) 3/13-3/17 – Spring Break!

1. PACK UP (and put your backpack in your seat) 2 1. PACK UP (and put your backpack in your seat) 2. CLEAN UP (check for assignments, C Block) 3. LINE UP (if everything is not clean and quiet, you will not be able to leave my room)