1. Friday, February 17th 2017

2. What are we doing today? Bellwork: SILENTLY complete activity
Homework Checked: None
Classwork:
Grammar 23 Quiz: Demonstrative Adjectives
New York Times Picture
Word Generation – Doping in Professional Sports
Maniac Magee ch
Homework:
READ.
Finish anything you didn’t complete in class.
Get progress report signed

3. If I were the teacher, I would change…
Bellwork
Answer this question and continue writing about it. Make sure it is at least one paragraph (five sentences).
If I were the teacher, I would change…
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!

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

5. Grammar Quiz 23: Demonstrative adjectives
Try your best! You can do it!
Once you are done, flip it over and read an AR book silently.
Answers:

6. New York Times
What’s happening: Senator Charles E. Schumer walked through a room full of cots on his way to the Senate floor, where an all-night session was being held in July.
Write about how you react to this picture now that you know what is going on.

7. Word Generation – Who is responsible for doping in professional sports?
Make sure to COMPLETELY answer the question.
Use the five words from this week plus five from any other week:
Fundamental – (adjective) central; essential; basic
Alter – (verb) to change
Conflicted – (adjective) undecided; having feelings that clash
Substitute – (verb) to replace; (noun) an object or person used in place of something or someone else, a replacement
Compound – (noun) mixture; (verb) to complicate by adding to
Once you are finished, turn it in to the pink bucket.

8. Maniac magee ch. 38-40 continued
Maniac has eaten with three different families. Make a large Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the families: Beales, McNabs, and Pickwells.
Here is what yours should look like:
Beales
McNabs
Pickwells

9. d.e.a.r. time
Drop everything and read!

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

11. 3/12 – Daylight Savings (spring forward) 3/13-3/17 – Spring Break!
Announcements
2/20 – no school
3/6-10 – Case 21 exams
3/12 – Daylight Savings (spring forward)
3/13-3/17 – Spring Break!

12. 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)