Day One
Membean: fifteen minutes
Vocabulary Test
Review for To Kill a Mockingbird Test One (vocabulary & characters)
Homework: Study for test one.
Day Two
Membean: ten minutes
To Kill a Mockingbird Test One (vocabulary & characters)
Review for To Kill a Mockingbird Test Two (plot & setting)
Homework: Study for test two.
Day Three
To Kill a Mockingbird Test Two (plot & setting)
Membean: ten minutes
Begin reading Book 1 of Mary Pope Osborne's Tales from the Odyssey
Homework: None
Day Four
Membean: ten minutes
Continue reading Book 1 of Mary Pope Osborne's Tales from the Odyssey
Homework: None
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Monday, April 10, 2017
Viewing To Kill A Mockingbird & Favorite Poem
Monday 10 April 2017 for Periods 1, 2, 5, & 6 and Tuesday 11 April 2017 for Period 7
Poem of the Day: Alicia Ostriker's "April"
Membean Practice: 15 minutes
Vocabulary Test 5 (Individualized for each student)
Viewing:
Students began viewing To Kill a Mockingbird last week and continued viewing today as part of a review of the novel as a whole.
Homework: Print out a copy of your favorite poem (or copy it out neatly by hand). Write a half-page explanation of what makes the poem you selected special to you. Your explanation needs to be a minimum of a half-page, double-spaced, 12-point font (MLA format).
Poem of the Day: Alicia Ostriker's "April"
Membean Practice: 15 minutes
Vocabulary Test 5 (Individualized for each student)
Viewing:
Students began viewing To Kill a Mockingbird last week and continued viewing today as part of a review of the novel as a whole.
Homework: Print out a copy of your favorite poem (or copy it out neatly by hand). Write a half-page explanation of what makes the poem you selected special to you. Your explanation needs to be a minimum of a half-page, double-spaced, 12-point font (MLA format).
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
The Final Chapters of To Kill a Mockingbird
Tuesday 4 April 2017 for Periods 2, 5 & 6 and Wednesday 5 April 2017 for Periods 1 & 7
Poem of the Day: Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Students gathered at the classroom windows to look at emerging tree leaves while Mr. Stone read Frost's poem. Many of the students were familiar with the poem from reading S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders.
Quiz: Chapter 28 of To Kill a Mockingbird (No quiz was given over Chapter 27.)
Students listened to Chapters 29 and 30.
Depending on the class period, students completed ten minutes of vocabulary practice on Membean. Since vacation the Wifi connection at school has been unreliable.
Homework: Finish reading the last chapter of the novel and complete any missing Membean minutes. (Students should have completed twenty-five minutes by this point of the week.)
Poem of the Day: Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Students gathered at the classroom windows to look at emerging tree leaves while Mr. Stone read Frost's poem. Many of the students were familiar with the poem from reading S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders.
Quiz: Chapter 28 of To Kill a Mockingbird (No quiz was given over Chapter 27.)
Students listened to Chapters 29 and 30.
Depending on the class period, students completed ten minutes of vocabulary practice on Membean. Since vacation the Wifi connection at school has been unreliable.
Homework: Finish reading the last chapter of the novel and complete any missing Membean minutes. (Students should have completed twenty-five minutes by this point of the week.)
Chapter 27-28 To Kill a Mockingbird
Monday 3 April 2017 for Periods 1, 2, 5, & 6 and Tuesday 4 April 2017 for Period 7
April is National Poetry Month. Mr. Stone will be reading a poem at the beginning of each class period in April in celebration.
Poem of the Day: Billy Collin's "Introduction to Poetry"
Students listened to Chapter 27 of To Kill a Mockingbird and were to complete fifteen minutes of vocabulary practice on Membean.
Homework: Read Chapter 28 and complete any vocabulary practice not completed during class time.
April is National Poetry Month. Mr. Stone will be reading a poem at the beginning of each class period in April in celebration.
Poem of the Day: Billy Collin's "Introduction to Poetry"
Students listened to Chapter 27 of To Kill a Mockingbird and were to complete fifteen minutes of vocabulary practice on Membean.
Homework: Read Chapter 28 and complete any vocabulary practice not completed during class time.
Blog Lapse
My apologies for the lapse in the blog. I was out of town for my father's funeral.
Sincerely,
Mr. Stone
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