Ms. Cox

Week of May 18

Monday - Return Literature book.  We will have a scavenger hunt on our novel study.  We will participate in a skim dictionary activity.

Tuesday-  Complete Daily Grammar Practice - weeks 28, 29 and 30.  We will read the play J.R.R. Tolkien and do skills.

Wednesday - We will start the culminating activity with our novel study.

Thursday - We will complete the novel study activity.

Friday- We will study myths and myth writing. 

Week of May 11

We will be Novel reading all week.

Monday - AR points due - Media Center.

Tuesday-  Review quiz - eight parts of speech.

Wednesday - Review grammar test.

Thursday -Wag textbook returned.  Story Pyramid, Character writing and Illustration.

Friday- Latin America Day.

Please bring $1.00 for mailing of report cards--homeroom students.

Always come to class with your novel.  We respect everyone's right to read uninterrupted everyday in class. Your homework is to read for at least a half hour every day.

Week of May 4

Parents and students:  Information regarding the swine flu from the CDC has been placed on the Cobb County School District web site. http://www.cobbk12.org/centraloffice/studentsupport/schoolhealth/20090501_SwineFlu_Notice.htm   We are encouraging students to wash their hands and to carry individual sized hand sanitizer in purses, etc.   Our school always has soap, hot water and paper towels.  In addition, most of us have hand sanitizer on our desks for student use.  Please speak with your student at home about the importance of washing hands, covering mouths when sneezing, etc.

Monday - Vocabulary quiz. We will be reading our class novel.

Tuesday -  Quiz on the play Is That Your Final Answer?

Wednesday - We will work on DGP week #28.

Thursday - We will review adjectives and adverbs.

Friday- We will write a Mother's Day tribute. We will study two plays Treasure Island and J.R.R. Tolkien. It's Field Day!

Always come to class with your novel.  We respect everyone's right to read uninterrupted everyday in class. Your homework is to read for at least a half hour every day.

Week of April 27

Monday - We will continue reading and interpreting the play The Phantom Tollbooth.

Tuesday -  See The Phantom Tollbooth movie.

Wednesday - Continue with the movie.

Thursday - We will work on DGP weeks #26 and #27, DGP vocabulary, and do the play Is That Your Final Answer?

Friday- We will review and do overhead activities on direct and indirect objects.

Always come to class with your novel.  We respect everyone's right to read uninterrupted everyday in class. Your homework is to read for at least a half hour every day.

Week of April 20

This will be DGP week #26. Your homework is to read for at least a half hour every day. 

Monday - We will continue our review for the CRCT.

Tuesday -  We will begin reading the play in our Literature book, The Phantom Tollbooth. We will discuss the first act of the play and answer and interpret questions pertaining to the play.

Wednesday - We will continue with the play.  We will move on to the second act.

Thursday - We will finish reading the play and analyze it.

Friday- We will watch the movie, The Phantom Tollbooth.  We will compare/contrast the movie to the written play.

Always come to class with your novel.  We respect everyone's right to read uninterrupted everyday in class.

Week of April 13

This will be DGP week #27. Your homework is to read for at least a half hour every day. 

Monday - We will go to the Media Center for CRCT review.

Tuesday -  Media Center for CRCT review on-line.

Wednesday - We will continue in the the Media Center by going over CRCT post-test review answers.

Thursday - Media Center Computer Lab.

Friday- Media Center Computer Lab review of direct/indirect object and appositives.

Always come to class with your novel.  We respect everyone's right to read uninterrupted everyday in class.

Week of March 30

This will be DGP week #26. Your homework is to read for at least a half hour every day. 

Monday - We will have our vocabulary quiz on 25 Dracula words.  We need to only know the definitions, not the part of speech.  We will share our Dracula booklets.  The booklets need to have the word, definition, part of speech, and creative drawing.

Tuesday - We will sing our Helping Verb song. It can be sung individually or with a partner.  We will review direct/indirect objects with overhead activities and a worksheet packet.

Wednesday - We will continue our CRCT grammar and practice tests. We will review verbs with a study guide for the test on verbs tomorrow.  

Thursday -  We will have our test on verbs.  We will read a short story in our Literature book.

Friday- We will work on our week #26 DGP.  We will review commas and appositives.

Always come to class with your novel.  We respect everyone's right to read uninterrupted everyday in class.

Week of March 23

This will be DGP week #25. Your homework is to read for at least a half hour every day. 

Monday - We will meet in the computer lab in the media center.  We will review the correct format for typing a paper.  We will type our compare/contrast  responses to selected current issues.  This will give us a chance to creatively express our viewpoints.

Tuesday - We will continue our grammar unit on verbs.  We will review the Dracula vocabulary word definitions. 

Wednesday - We will continue our CRCT grammar and practice tests. We will start to make a booklet of our vocabulary words.  We will learn the Helping Verb song.

Thursday -  We will continue our study of verbs.  We will continue to work on our vocabulary  booklet. We will practice the Helping Verb song.   

Friday- We will share our vocabulary booklets.  We will continue our study of verbs.

Always come to class with your novel.  We respect everyone's right to read uninterrupted everyday in class.

Week of March 16

This will be DGP week #24. Your homework is to read for at least a half hour every day. 

Monday - We will be introduced to the play Dracula.  We will go over the definitions of the vocabulary words.  Students will look up the words in dictionaries to determine the parts of speech using context clues.

Tuesday - We will write a cooperative Leprechaun story and share our stories to celebrate St. Patrick's Day!.

Wednesday - We will continue our CRCT grammar and practice tests.

Thursday -  Play parts will be assigned.  We will begin our Dracula play after discussing the background information of Dracula.

Friday - Dracula play continued.

Monday March 23- We will meet in the computer lab to type our creative writing on compare / contrast.

Always come to class with your novel.  We respect everyone's right to read uninterrupted everyday in class.

Week of March 9

This will be DGP week #23. Your homework is to read for at least a half hour every day. 

Monday - We will practice the correct usage of quotation marks on a variety of overheads.  We will share our compare/contrast essays.

Tuesday - We will continue our study of quotations and review for our quotation test.

Wednesday - We will do CRCT practice tests.

Thursday -  We will have a quotation quiz and have some fun writing a Leprechaun interview.

Friday - We will share our written Leprechaun interviews.

Always come to class with your novel.  We respect everyone's right to read uninterrupted everyday in class.