Monday, September 13, 2010

Journal Entry #12: You are a lost item.  Write a page describing yourself, who you belonged to and how you were lost.  Tell us what has happened to you since you became lost.
Classwork: Share Journal Entries; Share Preposition Park Posters, Marzano Words: third person omniscient, third person limited.
Homework: LWB (Literature Workbook), “The Amigo Brothers,” pp. 92-100. Do all activities in the blue shaded areas. This is due on Wednesday.

Friday, September 10, 2010

Journal Entry: None.
Classwork: Continue making your poster. Remember to label at least 10 areas of the park with DIFFERENT prepositional phrases: beside the lake, in the water, across the bridge, near the ticket booth, etc. The list of prepositions is in your class notes in Grammar 13.1.
Homework: Finish your preposition park posters if you did not turn it in today.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Journal Entry: None.
Classwork: You are to create a poster of a park. Be creative with your idea of a park: recreational park, amusement park, skate park, park with a water spring, or even a golf course. You may create a paint ball park or laser tag park, but you must not draw violence or death. Label at least 10 areas of the park with DIFFERENT prepositional phrases: beside the lake, in the water, across the bridge, near the ticket booth, etc. A list of prepositions is in your class notes in Grammar 13.1.
Homework: Reading Logs are due on Friday.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Journal Entry: None. Use the first 10 minutes of class to prepare your group to present the short story.Classwork: Each group will present their short story with appropriate sound effects. Class Notes: Grammar 13.1, Prepositions and prepositional Phrases.
Homework: None. Don’t forget Friday’s Reading Log.

Prepositions - Class Notes 13.1

A Preposition is a word that relates a noun or a pronoun to some other word in a sentence.

Commonly Used Prepositions

about   at      down   of      to               

above   before  during off     toward

across  behind  for    on      under

after   below   from   out     until

against beneath in     outside up

along   beside  inside over    upon

among   between into   since   with

around  beyond  like   through within

as      by      near   without throughout

Compound Prepositions

according to  aside from  in front of  instead of

across from   because of  in place of  on account of

along with    far from    in spite of  on top of

A prepositional phrase is a group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun, which is called the object of the preposition.

Friday, September 3, 2010

Journal Entry: None.
Classwork: Get into groups and share Journal Entry #11; Group Activity.

1. Each person will share their homework story.
2. Group members will share ideas to improve each story by making it funnier, scarier, easier to understand, etc.
3. Each group will pick the story that they think is best to present to the class.

• Facilitators keep group on task.
• Recorders keep notes for presentation in Step 3.
• Reporters will read the story in Step 3.
• Encouragers maintain a positive setting.

Homework: None. Don’t forget to visit www.mrgarner.us to download, print or copy a new reading log for next week.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Journal Entry #11: Write a very short story (an anecdote) about one of your homework excuses from Journal Entry #10.  It should be no less than one page, but no more than two pages long.
Classwork: Share homework stories.
Homework: None tonight. Remember to do your reading log.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Journal Entry #10: List 10 crazy reasons why you couldn’t do your homework.
Classwork: Share journal entries (friendly letters) from yesterday; Quiz on parts of a friendly letter; Demonstrate downloading a journal entry cover.
Homework: None.
Reading Logs are due on Friday.
Journal entries 1-10 are due tomorrow. If you download and print the cover page from my website, you will get 5% extra credit.