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Thursday, March 31, 2016

Announcements and Reminders: Are you writing anonymous notes?                                                                    If you didn't collect pictures and information about your assigned place from Walk Two Moons, please do that as soon as possible, and send it or share it with Ms. D. As of today, missing that assignment is affecting your grade. If you were absent that day, here are your assignments: Brittany Fryer:  Lewiston, Idaho Kaeli J Schmuhl  Coeur d'Alene, Idaho  Will March go out like a lion or out like a lamb?

Targets for Today: We will do some sustained reading for enjoyment. We will write and talk about what we have read.  We will continue reading Walk Two Moons.

Today’s  Agenda:  1. Individual Reading Time: Choose your own materials. 2. Share your responses --  -- Appointment Clock -- 6 o'clock 3. Composition book check Composition Book Check for Lit. 7 You should have written at least a quarter of a page about your book for each of the following days. _______/ 5 points   for March 21 _______/ 5 points   for March 23 _______/ 5 points   for March 25 _______/ 5 points   for March 29 _______/ 5 points   for March 31 _______/20  Total  on March 31    You can make these up by reading extra times and writing about what you read each time,     +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Read from  Walk Two Moons from page 129 to  Wa

If You Were Absent: See above.

Tuesday, March 29, 2015

Announcements and Reminders: Are you writing anonymous notes?                                                                    If you didn't collect pictures and information about your assigned place from Walk Two Moons, please do that as soon as possible, and send it or share it with Ms. D. If you were absent that day, here are your assignments: Brittany Fryer:  Lewiston, Idaho Kaeli J Schmuhl  Coeur d'Alene, Idaho  Will March go out like a lion or out like a lamb?

Targets for Today: We will do some sustained reading for enjoyment. We will write and talk about what we have read.  We will continue reading Walk Two Moons.

Today’s  Agenda:  1. Individual Reading Time: Choose your own materials. 2.  Write a response -- using one of the prompts you haven't used yet.  3. Share your responses --  -- Appointment Clock -- 5 o'clock +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Read from  Walk Two Moons from page 98 to The Little Horse Is Newly e.e. cummings the little horse is newlY Born)he knows nothing,and feels everything;all around whom is perfectly a strange ness(Of sun light and of fragrance and of Singing)is ev erywhere(a welcom ing dream:is amazing) a worlD.and in this world lies:smoothbeautifuL ly folded;a(brea thing a gro Wing)silence,who; is:somE oNe. Watch book trailers:  http://www.dentonisd.org/Page/334

If You Were Absent: See above.

Readers Understand!

Friday, March 25, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                   If you didn't collect pictures and information about your assigned place from Walk Two Moons, please do that as soon as possible, and send it or share it with Ms. D. If you were absent that day, here are your assignments: Brittany Fryer:  Lewiston, Idaho Kaeli J Schmuhl  Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Targets for Today: We will do some sustained reading for enjoyment. We will write and talk about what we have read.  We will continue reading Walk Two Moons.

Today’s  Agenda:  1. Individual Reading Time: Choose your own materials. 2.  Write a response -- using one of the prompts you haven't used yet.  3. Share your responses --  -- Appointment Clock -- 4 o'clock +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Read from  Walk Two Moons from  page 70 to page 98. Watch book trailers:  http://www.dentonisd.org/Page/334

If You Were Absent: See above.

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                                                                                     If you didn't collect pictures and information about your assigned place from Walk Two Moons, please do that as soon as possible, and send it or share it with Ms. D.  If you were absent that day, here are your assignments: Brittany Fryer:  Lewiston, Idaho Kaeli J Schmuhl  Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Targets for Today: We will do some sustained reading for enjoyment. We will write and talk about what we have read.  We will continue reading Walk Two Moons.

Today’s  Agenda:  Find your new seat -- the ones you picked last time. 1. Individual Reading Time: Choose your own materials. 2.  Write a response -- using one of the prompts you haven't used yet.  3. Share your responses --  -- Appointment Clock -- 3 o'clock +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Read from  Walk Two Moons from page 46 to page 70. Watch book trailers:  http://www.dentonisd.org/Page/334

If You Were Absent: See above.

Monday, March 21, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                   Happy Term 4!

Targets for Today: We will do some sustained reading for enjoyment. We will write and talk about what we have read.  We will continue reading Walk Two Moons.

Today’s  Agenda: Select a new seat. 1. Individual Reading Time: Choose your own materials. 2.  Write a response -- using one of the prompts you haven't used yet.  3. Share your responses --  -- Appointment Clock -- 2 o'clock +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Read from  Walk Two Moons from page 15.

If You Were Absent:

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                    If you haven't handed in your composition book check  or your brief report on Stargirling/Starboying,  hand it in today.  Term 3 ends March 18.  All late work, revisions, and extra credit should have  been turned in  by March 11.    Hand in your unused hall passes for extra credit -- if you won't be using them this time.

Targets for Today: We will do some sustained reading for enjoyment. We will notice words and phrases and sentences in the books we read.  We will build background knowledge -- schema for our reading. We will begin reading Walk Two Moons.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Individual Reading Time: Choose your own materials. 2.  Write a response.  3. Share your responses -- Pick your partner -- Appointment Clock -- 1 o'clock +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Begin Walk Two Moons. “Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.”  ― Steve Martin Assignments for building background  https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=zR-OKp-T8h4M.kuoR35RhnN1c&hl=en_US Bybanks, Kentucky Euclid, Ohio Chicago, Illinois Madison, Wisconsin The Wisconsin Dells Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota The Missouri River in South Dakota The Badlands and Mount Rushmore in South Dakota Old Faithful in Wyoming Coeur d'Alene in Idaho Lewiston in Idaho

If You Were Absent: See above. Your assignments: Brittany Fryer:  Lewiston, Idaho Kaeli J Schmuhl  Coeur d'Alene, Idaho