Today in ELA 2/4

Learning Goals:

~Use strategies to become an active reader, while reading Maniac Magee. 

~Compare/Contrast East and West Ends in Maniac.

Activities:

AM

Vocab Cards

Journal Questions

1)Why is Maniac upset with himself for crossing the finish line backwards when racing with Mars Bar?

2)Why are the McNabs building the pillbox?

3)Why does the pillbox bother Maniac so much?

PM

Vocab Cards

Journal Questions

1)Why is Maniac upset with himself for crossing the finish line backwards when racing with Mars Bar?

2)Why are the McNabs building the pillbox?

3)Why does the pillbox bother Maniac so much? 

Homework:

~Spelling: Rewrite 3Xs
~Read Maniac Chapters 40-42. 
~Experiment

Today in ELA 2/1

Learning Goals:

~Use strategies to become an active reader, while reading Maniac Magee. 

Activities:

AM

Journal Questions

1)Why does Maniac pretend Giant John McNab pitched him "the stopball"?
2)What does this phrase from Chapter 38: "For the McNabs, there was nothing free  about public education?"
PM

Journal Questions

1)Why does Maniac pretend Giant John McNab pitched him "the stopball"?
2)What does this phrase from Chapter 38: "For the McNabs, there was nothing free  about public education?" 

 

Homework:

~Read Maniac Chapters 37-40. 
~Experiment

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