1. February 25 th to March 1st

2.   Write out the sentence and identify parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, etc.) standing on a ladder i slipped and broke a window Daily Grammar Practice – Monday notes

3.   Please complete the vocabulary worksheet with prefixes fore-, pre-, and post- Vocabulary – before & after

4.   Adapted Interactive Reader pages 254 – 257.  Worksheet 1 – Sound Devices  Worksheet 2 – Question Support Poetry Close Reading

5.   Write out the sentence and identify sentence parts (subject, verb – transitive/intransitive, direct/indirect object, etc.) standing on a ladder i slipped and broke a window Daily Grammar Practice – Tuesday notes

6.   Identify the clauses (dependent/independent) and sentence type (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex). standing on a ladder i slipped and broke a window Daily Grammar Practice – Wednesday notes

7.   You need a partner for this exercise. Each partner should write one sentence for each vocabulary word, inserting blanks where the words would appear.  The sentences should be in a random order, not in the order in which the words appear on the worksheet.  You will exchange papers with your partner and fill in the blanks on your partners’ paper with the vocabulary word.  The partner with the most correct responses wins a treat! Vocabulary Review – Partner challenge

8.   After reviewing the TPFASTT worksheet, choose one of the poems we have just read and analyze it on a separate piece of paper – to be turned in! Analyzing Poetry - TPFASTT

9.   Add punctuation and capitalization: commas, semicolons, apostrophes, underlining, quotation marks, etc. standing on a ladder i slipped and broke a window Daily Grammar Practice – Thursday notes

10.   Add punctuation and capitalization: commas, semicolons, apostrophes, underlining, quotation marks, etc. Standing on a ladder, I slipped and broke a window. Daily Grammar Practice – Thursday notes

11.   Please use the next 25 minutes to review and answer the questions on your study guide. We will go over them together, but these questions are still YOUR responsibility. Study Guide – Poetry Unit

12.   Please review this week’s vocabulary words –some of them will be included on the test tomorrow.  Please don’t forget to bring your poetry unit study guide home and review it tonight!  If you did not bring back your signed progress report today, remember to bring it in tomorrow for a 90%. REMINDERS

13.  INDEPENDENT READING  Please get the book that you selected for independent reading and read SILENTLY for the next 20 minutes.  When I tell you that time is up, please fill out your worksheet (a summary or your thoughts on what you read – at least 5 sentences NOT copied from the book) and put it in your IR folder.