August 2016 Mrs. Burchette

Homework and Important Dates: Thursday, August 18, 2016 Homework and Important Dates: Read 20 minutes nightly! The Giver Vocabulary– due Friday, August 19, 2016 Newsela Article– due Monday, August 22, 2016 USA Test Prep ELA #1– due Wednesday, August 24, 2016 Warm-Up: Update agenda and pick up your notebook. (I have not been able to cover all of them yet, so be careful when picking them up.) Record today’s journal topic on your table of contents: “Why do We Need a Purpose?”. Be sure to record the page number you are beginning today’s journal on as well as today’s date. Today’s prompt: Why do we need to establish a purpose for writing? What happens if we read for the wrong reasons? Journal Table of Contents Date Title Page 8/10/16 Do You Understand? 1  8/11/16 Book Character     8/18/16 Why do We Need a Purpose?

Thursday, August 18, 2016 Learning Target: I can develop an understanding of why establishing a purpose is important in reading. Today’s Agenda: Journal Purpose for Reading– The House

Thursday, August 18, 2016 Purpose for Reading “The House” Do not share your purpose! As you read “The House”, circle/underline everything that is important in the passage. What did you circle/underline as you read? What do you notice about what we circled/underlined? Why are there so many differences?

Thursday, August 18, 2016 Exit Ticket Now that we have completed our reading and discussion of “The House,” answer the following questions again: Why do we need to establish a purpose for reading? What happens if we read for the wrong reasons?

The Giver Vocabulary List #1 Complete Graphic Organizer Wednesday, August 17, 2016 The Giver Vocabulary List #1 Complete Graphic Organizer Palpable Interdependence Apprehensive Reprieve Pondered Relinquish Transgression Congregated Chastisement Meticulously Petulantly Profound Hoarded Retroactive Nondescript Crescendo Gravitating Benign Chortled Indolence