JUNE IS FINALLY HERE! MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY 1 Book Club Reading Day 2 Fragment “Smack Down” 3 Book Club Reading Day 4 How to Avoid the Dreaded Run On Sentence 5 Book Club Group Discussion Reading 8 Compound Sentences Turning into Splices? FANBOYS to the Rescue! 9 Book Club Reading Day 10 Introducing Your Sentence – AAAWUBBIS!! 11 Book Club Reading Day 12 Book Club Group Discussion Reading 15 Do You Need a Non- Essential Clause in your Sentence? 16 Book Club Reading Day 17 Series / Oxford / Harvard Comma 18 5 Best Entries Due Today! Book Club Group Discussion 19 Grade 8 Class Trip to ??? 22 Grammar Flipchart Creation 23 Celebration of School Success 24 Con’t 25 Con’t Grammar Flipchart Due! 26 Assessment & Evaluation Day – No school! 29 Last Day of School!

May 2009 MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY 1 Poetry Writing Workshop 4 Lab – Choose Final Poetry Writing Assessment 5 Writers’ Workshop (Project) 6 Con’t 7 All rough drafts drafted by Monday 8 In-service – No School! 11 Poetry Revisors’ Workshop Ss, Ms, & Personification 12 Con’t Delete the Weak Parts 13 Con’t Repetition 14 Con’t Line Breaks 15 Con’t White space All 2 nd /3 rd drafts WPed by Monday 18 Victoria Day – No School! 19 Mini on Editing Guided self & peer editing 20 Update poems and print FINAL DRAFT! Yippee! 21 Poetry Publishing & Beautification 22 Poetry Publishing & Beautification 25 Poetry Writers’ Workshop Assessment Due Independent Reading Day 26 Book Clubs!

September 2008 SUNDAYMONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAY 123 First Day! 4 -Class Outline -Info Index -Class library how-to 5 - Have your novel and dividers Have a duotang and your ELA binder - “Best Book EVER” 9 -Reading conferences 10 - Reading conferences 11 - Mini on BBE graphic organizer 12 - Continue on BBE organizer Mini on writing and presenting BBE - Guided reading 16 - Draft BBE speech 17 - BBE Computer Lab Time 18 - BBE Artist’s Workshop BBE to Herald’s Raise a Reader contest “Best Book EVER” Presentations Begin 23 - Create Readers’ and Writers’ Notebooks… 24 - Continue BBE Presentations 25 - Finish BBE Presentations - Homework: Personalize page 26 In-service!! Mini on Genre 30 Create Genre Group Presentations

October 2008 SUNDAYMONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAY 1 Continue Creating Genre Group Presentations 2 NOGGINS FARM TRIP! 3 Deliver Genre Presentations 4 56 Genre Presentations 7 Genre Presentations 8 Student Council Elections 9 Genre Bingo! 10 Stuck in Neutral Launch Mini on Predicting THANKSGIVING 14 ELA ASSESSMENT Mini on Predicting 15 ELA/MATH ASSESSMENT Mini on Reading with Expression 16 ELA/MATH ASSESSMENT 17 Mini on Background Knowledge CP Webquest (Homework for Monday) Correct CP Webquest Journal #1 21 WALK-N-READ-A- THON ALL MORNING! 22 Stuck in Neutral Chapters 1 & 2 Journal #2 23 Stuck in Neutral Chapters 3, 4, 5 Journal #3 24 Teachers’ Conference Day! Mini on Expression “Conversation Piece” 28 Chapters 6 & 7 Journal #4 Assignment 29 Mini on Writing Expectations Writer’s Workshop 30 Writer’s Workshop Conferences 31 Writer’s Workshop Conferences

November 2008 SUNDAYMONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAY 1 23 Journal #4 Assignment Due Chapters 8 & 9 4 Parent / Teacher Conferences 5 Mini on predicting Chapter 10 6 Chapter 11 7 Mini on Point of View Chapter Remembrance Day Project assigned 11 Remembrance Day 12 Remembrance Day Project handed in and shared 13 Mini on Foreshadowing Chapters 13 & 14 Journal #5 14 Chapters 15 & 16 Journal # Satisfied or Unsatisfied? 18 Mini on Bias Author’s Note 19 Revisit Anticipation Guide 20 Stuck in Neutral project assigned 21 Writer’s Workshop Conferences / Teachers’ PD Day 25 Writer’s Workshop Conferences 26 Writer’s Workshop Conferences / Word Processing 27 Writer’s Workshop Conferences / Word Processing 28 Assessment & Evaluation Day 29

December SUNDA Y MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURD AY 1 Stuck in Neutral project due! 2 S in N Presentations 3 S in N Presentations 4 Reader’s Workshop – Connecting 5 Reader’s Workshop - Connecting 6 78 Snow Day! Term Two Starts 9 R’s WS – “So What” Connections 10 R’s WS – “So What” Connections 11 Report Cards go home. R’s WS – Questioning “So What” Due 12 R’s WS - Summarizing R’s WS – Summarizing 16 R’s WS – Main Idea 17 R’s WS – Inferring 18 R’s WS - Synthesizing 19 Last day of school before Winter Break! Christmas Eve! 25 Christmas! New Year’s Eve !

January MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY 5 Magic of Three Writing Activity Reading Strategies Quiz 6 “On the Sidewalk Bleeding” Guided Reading & Comprehension activity 7 SS Reader’s WS Contract & Record 8 Mini lesson on conflict Review setting & point of view 9 Mini lesson on leads & plot SS Structure Supervisor 12 Mini lesson on resolution 13 Start “Structure Supervisor” 14 SS Elements Finish “Structure Supervisor” Start “Elements” 15 Finish “Elements” 16 Mini lesson on imagery SS Imagery Address 19 SS Reader’s WS -Finish reading -Finish assignments -Conference 20 SS Reader’s WS -Finish reading -Finish assignments -Conference 21 SS Reader’s WS -Finish reading -Finish assignments -Conference 22 SS Reader’s WS -Finish reading -Finish assignments -Conference 23 All Reader’s Workshop Assignments Due! SS Reading Rumination “Black Dog of Antigonish Harbour” by Steve Vernon 24 Visit from author Steve Vernon “Show not tell” prewrite 25 Mini on prewriting Synonyms for said reading hunt 26 Button prewrite Button character mash-up Button Add-a-line 27 Snow Day! 28 Mini on action verbs & reading hunt

February MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY 2 War picture prewrite Neat dialogue reading hunt 3 Mini on drafting Guidelines for SS Writing Contract Length conferences 4 Plot, conflict, and character outlines Write! 5 Write! Share! 6 Write! Share! 9 Mini on revision HW = Revise 10 Word process D#2 HW: Finish WPing 11 Revision help sheet HW: Revise again 12 Word process D#3 13 Paragraph mini HW: Revise again 16 Lead mini HW: Revise again 17 Word process D#4 18 Mini on editing Self-edit 19 Peer editing groups 20 Mini on dialogue HW: Perfect dialogue 23 Dialogue group edit 24 Mini on publishing Lab 25 Lab 26 Final SS Writing Contract due! 27

March 2009 MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY 2 Short Story DUE! 3 March Madness Mini 4 March Madness Oral reading conferences 5 March Madness Oral reading conferences 6 March Madness Oral reading conferences Self-Evaluation #1 9 March Madness Oral reading conferences Prove your Active Reading Quiz… 10 March Madness Oral reading conferences 11 March Madness Oral reading conferences 12 March Madness Oral reading conferences 13 March Madness Oral reading conferences Self-Evaluation #2 16 M B 17 A R 18 R E 19 C A 20 H K 23 March Madness DUE! 24 Don Aker’s visit 25 Non Fiction Reading Rumination (in folder) 26 Non Fiction Reading Rumination (in Reader’s Notebooks) 27 Assessment & Evaluation Day NO SCHOOL!

April 2009 MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY 30 Poetry Readers’ Workshop Launch! 31 SNOW DAY! 1 Poetry Log – 50 LPW Notices… 2 Con’t 3 Mini on similes, metaphors, personification 6 Practice Ss, Ms, Ps 7 “So, what’s a poem, anyways?” 8 Con’t 9 Mini on alliteration, onomatopoeia, and alliteration 10 Good Friday NO SCHOOL! 13 Easter Monday NO SCHOOL! 14 Con’t hunt for poetic tools 15 Mini on oral reading of poetry… 16 Poetic tools hunt 17 Con’t 20 Oral Pres. Begin 50 “Notices” Due! 21 Oral poem presentations… 22 Pier 21 Trip Lesley Choyce visits 23 Mini on Readers’ Workshop Final Assessment 24 Work on Assessment 27 R’s WS Final Assessment Due! 28 Poetry Writing Workshop 29 Con’t 30 Con’t 1 Con’t