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

Today in ELA 1/29

Learning Goals:

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

~Compare/Contrast East and West Ends in Maniac.

Activities:

AM

Literature Circles
Compare/Contrast: (Plan and Write a Contrast Paragraph for the East and West Ends of  Two Mills)

Journal Questions
1)Why do Maniac and Grayson do so much decorating for Christmas?
2)What does Grayson want to "say" to Maniac by giving the boy his old glove?
PM

Literature Circles
Compare/Contrast: (Plan and Write a Contrast Paragraph for the East and West Ends of  Two Mills)

Journal Questions
1)Why do Maniac and Grayson do so much decorating for Christmas?
2)What does Grayson want to "say" to Maniac by giving the boy his old glove?

 

Homework:

~Spelling: 1st and 2nd 5 Sentences
~Read Maniac Chapters 33-34. 
~Experiment

Today in ELA 1/28

Learning Goals:

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

~Compare/Contrast East and West Ends in Maniac.

Activities:

AM

Journal Questions
1)Why is The Little Engine That Could a good book for Grayson to read first?

2)At the end of Chapter 28, what does "I'm okay... I'm okay-and he knew that was the truth of it" mean?  What is this "truth"?
3)Why does Maniac paint a number on the outside of the Band Shell Room?  How does that relate to him looking at the Beales' address at the end of Chapter 12?
PM

Journal Questions
1)Why is The Little Engine That Could a good book for Grayson to read first?

2)At the end of Chapter 28, what does "I'm okay... I'm okay-and he knew that was the truth of it" mean?  What is this "truth"?
3)Why does Maniac paint a number on the outside of the Band Shell Room?  How does that relate to him looking at the Beales' address at the end of Chapter 12?

 

Homework:

~Spelling: Rewrite 3Xs Each
~Read Maniac Chapters 30-32.  Do Lit Role

Today in ELA 1/25

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)

Haiku

Zeps
Journal Questions
1)If you had to teach someone how to read, how would you go about it?  What books would you start with?
PM

Compare/Contrast: (Plan and Write a Contrast Paragraph for the East and West Ends of  Two Mills)

Haiku

Zeps
Journal Questions
1)If you had to teach someone how to read, how would you go about it?  What books would you start with?
 

Homework:

~Read Maniac Chapters 27-29

Today in ELA 1/24

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)

Haiku

Journal Questions
1)After Grayson gives Maniac the soup and the zep, what else does the boy want to eat?
2)Why doesn't Maniac want to go to school?
3)What  did Grayson ask Maniac about the people on the East Side.  Why was he shocked by the information Maniac shared?

PM

Haiku

Journal Questions
1)After Grayson gives Maniac the soup and the zep, what else does the boy want to eat?
2)Why doesn't Maniac want to go to school?
3)What  did Grayson ask Maniac about the people on the East Side.  Why was he shocked by the information Maniac shared? 

 

Homework:

~Read Chapters 25-26

Today in ELA 1/23

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

Activities:
AM
Onomatopoeia

Journal Questions
1)What idea does Amanda have for making everyone like Maniac?
2)What does Maniac do for ten minutes before trying to untie the knot?
3)Why does Maniac feel he has to leave the Beale family?
4)Why does Maniac leave town by walking down the center of Hector Street?
PM

Onomatopoeia
Journal Questions
1)What idea does Amanda have for making everyone like Maniac?
2)What does Maniac do for ten minutes before trying to untie the knot?
3)Why does Maniac feel he has to leave the Beale family?
4)Why does Maniac leave town by walking down the center of Hector Street? 

Homework:
~Read Chapters 22-24. 
Create a Cobble's Knot of your own.

Today in ELA 1/22

Learning Goals:
~Use strategies to become an active reader, while reading Maniac Magee. 
~Compare/Contrast life in Egypt with life in Modern Times.

Activities:
AM
Morning Meeting
CNN Student News

Spelling PreTest
Discuss Prejudice Prompt
Journal Questions
1)When the old man asks, "What happens when we go over there?" (pg. 61), what do you think he means? Make an assumption.
2)Who wrote (F)ISHBELLY GO HOME on the wall of the Beale’s house?
3)What did Amanda say that hurt maniac’s feeling so badly? Why do you think he felt so hurt?
PM

Spelling PreTest
Discuss Prejudice Prompt
Journal Questions
1)When the old man asks, "What happens when we go over there?" (pg. 61), what do you think he means? Make an assumption. 2)Who wrote (F)ISHBELLY GO HOME on the wall of the Beale’s house?
3)What did Amanda say that hurt maniac’s feeling so badly? Why do you think he felt so hurt?


Homework:
~Read Chapters 19-21.