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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Today in ELA 1/31

Learning Goals:
~Use strategies to become an active reader, while reading Maniac Magee
~Compare/Contrast East and West Ends in Maniac.

Activities:
AM
Compare/Contrast: (Plan and Write a Contrast Paragraph for the East and West Ends of  Two Mills)
Journal Questions
1)Anaylyze the meaning of the statement:  "Dreams pursued memories, courted and danced and coupled with them and they became one, and the gaunt, beseeching phantoms that called to him had the rag-wrapped feet of Washington's regulars and the faces of his mother and father and Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan and the Beales and Earl Grayson.  In that bedeviled army there would be no more recruits.  No one else would orphan him."

2)How does Maniac get Russell and Piper to go with him?
PM
Compare/Contrast: (Plan and Write a Contrast Paragraph for the East and West Ends of  Two Mills)
Journal Questions
1)Anaylyze the meaning of the statement:  "Dreams pursued memories, courted and danced and coupled with them and they became one, and the gaunt, beseeching phantoms that called to him had the rag-wrapped feet of Washington's regulars and the faces of his mother and father and Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan and the Beales and Earl Grayson.  In that bedeviled army there would be no more recruits.  No one else would orphan him."

2)How does Maniac get Russell and Piper to go with him?
 


Homework:
~Spelling: ABC Order
~Read Maniac Chapters 35-36. 
~Experiment