Week of 5/5 - 5/9/08

Wow!  The last three weeks are here!! Time has certainly flown.

All classes will be doing a novel study.  First period will read Nothing But the Truth by Avi, and 2nd/4th periods will read The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 

1st Period: 
Monday - preview and About the Author.  No homework. 
Tuesday - overview of how the novel study will occur, vocabulary for the first few chapters, and reading to page 19.  There will be a quiz tomorrow on commas...here are the review activities:  Download commas_page_1.jpg Download commas_page_2.jpg Download commas_page_3.jpg Download commas_page_4.jpg Download commas_page_5.jpg Download commas_page_6.jpg Download commas_page_7.jpg Download commas_page_8.jpg   
Wednesday - Friday...We read through chapter 10 of NBTT and working on vocabulary.

2nd/4th Period: 
Monday - prevew the author and the elements of mystery.  No homework.
Tuesday - overview of how the novel study will occur, and reading the first 2 chapters.  There will be a comma quiz tomorrow.  You may want to review the comma review activities posted under 1st period above. 
Wednesday - Friday - read ch's 1-3 and re-created the crime scene from the clues in chapters 2-3.