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Showing posts with label Contrast Two Mills. Show all posts
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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

Monday, January 28, 2013

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