Tuesday, January 24th 2017

What are we doing today? Bellwork: SILENTLY complete activity Homework Checked: None Classwork: Grammar Practice 20: Using Who and Whom Maniac Magee Chapters 14-15 MM Worksheet Homework: READ. Finish anything you didn’t complete in class.

Bellwork Answer this question and write more about it in the bellwork section of your binder. Make sure it is at least one paragraph (five sentences). 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. What would you do if you suddenly woke up in another country and no one could understand a word you said? After you finish writing, silently get out an AR book and READ!!! 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!

Grammar Practice 20: Using Who and Whom Work by yourself to complete the practice side of your grammar sheet. DO NOT write the sentence and answer or explain it for the last five. Only choose the correct word. You may use your notes. We will go over it as a class. Answers: Whom; object of preposition Who; subject Whom; direct object Who Whom

Maniac magee Ch. 14&15 With a partner, quietly read chapters 14 and 15. Pause after reading chapter 14 and discuss this question: Has anyone ever called you by a name other than your given name? What is that name? How or why did you earn it? Do you like that name, or would you rather be known by your given name? Continue to read chapter 15. After reading chapter 15, you and your partner try to figure out what this quote is foreshadowing: “Maniac loved almost everything about his new life. But everything did not love him back.” Answers: The Beale’s dog Hands Down Knots A The Things Maniac Loved : Words that Create Imagery : The sense or senses that the imagery appeals to Early Morning : Red brick rows of houses, even the windows resting from faces, the cool silent sidewalks, water running : sight and sound Pancake batter : sound of pancake batter hissing on the griddle : sound Church : a church called Bethany – when the minister would thump on the pulpit and the people would call out “Amen” and the choir would swing this way and swing that way and would sing “Hallelujah!” : sight and sound The fourth of July block party : when the whole East End converged for a day and night of games and music and grilled chicken and ribs and sweet-potato pie and dancing until the last firecracker and then some. : smells, tastes, sound The colors of the East End : He kept looking and looking, and the colors he found were gingersnap and light fudge and dark fudge and acorn and butter rum and cinnamon and burnt orange. But never licorice, which, to him, was real black. : sight

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

Announcements 2/3 – halfway point of 3rd 9-weeks 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) 3. LINE UP (if everything is not clean and quiet, you will not be able to leave my room)