Friday, January 13th 2017

What are we doing today? Bellwork: SILENTLY complete activity Homework Checked: None Classwork: New York Times Picture Grammar Quiz 18: Possessive Pronouns Quickwrite Maniac Magee Ch. 3&4 Homework: READ. Finish anything you didn’t complete in class.

Bellwork Answer this question. Make sure it is at least one paragraph (five sentences). If you could give any gift in the world, what would you give and to whom? 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 18: Pronouns and Antecedents Try your best! You can do it! Once you are done, flip it over and read an AR book silently. Answers: B, its C, his A, your D, their C, hers D, our B, hers A, my A, our C, its

New York Times What’s happening: Sheep were herded by their owners through downtown Madrid on Sunday as shepherds demonstrated the need to keep ancient grazing grounds from being overtaken by urban sprawl. Write about your reactions to what is happening in the photo in your NYT section of your binder.

Metaphors In your notes section on a clean sheet of paper, write what you believe a metaphor is. Metaphor – a figure of speech in which a word or phrase meaning one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a similarity between them

Maniac Magee Ch. 5 Find a partner. Take turns reading through chapter 5. As you find the answers to the questions, fill them out. Complete the rest of the sheet with your partner. Answers: He was thrown into the Finsterwald’s yard by high school boys On the Finsterwald’s front steps Metaphor: Finsterwald’s backyard was a graveyard of tennis balls and baseballs and footballs and frisbees and model airplanes and on way boomerangs.

Quickwrite On a separate sheet of paper, answer the following questions: What is meant by “cool times ten” as it is used in this chapter? Cite evidence to prove Maniac is “cool times ten.” Have you ever met anyone whom you would describe as “cool times ten?” Who? What made you think the person was so cool?

Homework READ YOUR AR BOOKS!!!!! Finish what you didn’t finish in class

Announcements 1/13: Last day to bring in care package items 1/16: Martin Luther King Jr. Day (no school)

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) 3. LINE UP (if everything is not clean and quiet, you will not be able to leave my room)