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
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 13-15
Wednesday 15 March 2017 for Periods 5 & 6 and Thursday 16 March 2017 for Periods 1, 2 & 7
Students listened to Chapter 14 of To Kill a Mockingbird and then took a quiz over Chapters 13 and 14.
After the quizzes, students spent ten minutes practicing their vocabulary on Membean.
Homework: Read Chapter 15 of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Students listened to Chapter 14 of To Kill a Mockingbird and then took a quiz over Chapters 13 and 14.
After the quizzes, students spent ten minutes practicing their vocabulary on Membean.
Homework: Read Chapter 15 of To Kill a Mockingbird.
To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 11-13
Tuesday 14 March 2017 for Periods 2, 5 & 6 and Wednesday 15 March 2017 for Periods 1 & 7
Students listened to Chapter 12 of To Kill a Mockingbird and then took a quiz over Chapters 11 and 12.
After the quizzes, students spent ten minutes practicing their vocabulary on Membean.
Homework: Read Chapter 13 of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Students listened to Chapter 12 of To Kill a Mockingbird and then took a quiz over Chapters 11 and 12.
After the quizzes, students spent ten minutes practicing their vocabulary on Membean.
Homework: Read Chapter 13 of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Monday, March 13, 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 9-11
Monday 13 March 2017 for Periods 1, 2, 5 & 6 and Tuesday 14 March 2017 for Period 7
Students listened to Chapter 10 of To Kill a Mockingbird and then took a quiz over Chapters 9 and 10.
After the quizzes, students spent ten minutes practicing their vocabulary on Membean.
Homework: Read Chapter 11 of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Students listened to Chapter 10 of To Kill a Mockingbird and then took a quiz over Chapters 9 and 10.
After the quizzes, students spent ten minutes practicing their vocabulary on Membean.
Homework: Read Chapter 11 of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Thursday, March 9, 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 7-9
Thursday 9 March 2017 for Periods 5 & 6 and Friday 10 March 2017 for Periods 1, 2, & 7
Students listened to an audio recording of Chapter 8 of To Kill a Mockingbird and then took quizzes over Chapters 7 and 8.
Students spent over ten minutes on Membean.
Homework: Read Chapter 9 of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Students listened to an audio recording of Chapter 8 of To Kill a Mockingbird and then took quizzes over Chapters 7 and 8.
Students spent over ten minutes on Membean.
Homework: Read Chapter 9 of To Kill a Mockingbird.
To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 5-7
Wednesday 8 March 2017 for Periods 5 & 6 and Thursday 9 March 2017 for Periods 1, 2, & 7
After listening to an audio recording of Chapter 6 of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, students took quizzes over Chapters 5 and 6.
Students spent ten minutes on vocabulary drills on Membean.
Homework: Read Chapter 7 of To Kill a Mockingbird.
After listening to an audio recording of Chapter 6 of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, students took quizzes over Chapters 5 and 6.
Students spent ten minutes on vocabulary drills on Membean.
Homework: Read Chapter 7 of To Kill a Mockingbird.
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