Friday, May 25, 2018

Announcements and Reminders for Friday, May 25, 2018:                           Consider ahead what you are going to write in yearbooks.   Don't write anything that you will later regret.     NextTuesday will be Yearbook Day. You will go to all periods. Bring a pen you like to write with -- that will not bleed or smear.  A1 8:15-9:15 Hand out yearbooks A2 9:20-9:55 A3 10:00-10:35 A4 10:40-11:15 B1 11:20-11:55 Lunch 11:55-12:45 B2 12:50-1:25 B3 1:30-2:05 B4 2:10-2:45 On Wednesday we will finish watching Jungle Book and  clean the classroom.

Targets for Today: I can read, write about, and discuss literature, and create an artistic representation of the setting of The Graveyard Book.

Today’s  Agenda for Friday, May 25, 2018: Take your composition book today. Hand in your graveyard maps. Send me your ghoul gate photos. Finish reading The Graveyard Book.  Read from your own choice of books while you wait for the rest. From Paradise Lost   (Adam and Eve leaving the Garden of Eden) “The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. ― John Milton From the Graveyard Book (Bod leaving the cemetery)  "But between now and then (when he would take that ride with the Lady on the Grey Stallion),  there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open."  p. 307

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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Announcements and Reminders for Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Next time -- Friday --  bring treats if you'd like to! Complete and hand in your quotes from The Graveyard Book, and/or your Holes answers -- if you still need to. -- Cavetime this Week -- [For Cavetime on Wednesday, May 23, I will have a substitute, but you may still work in the classroom and hand in work.   May 23 is the last day to hand in late work, revised work, and extra credit, unless you have made other arrangements with me. [Thursday, May 24 will be a request day for Cavetime, but you may slip in at the beginning to hand in assignments. [There will be no Cavetime intervention on Friday, May 25, but you may still hand in work.

Targets for Today: I can read, write about, and discuss literature, and create an artistic representation of the setting of The Graveyard Book.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Listen to more of  The Graveyard Book http://www.mousecircus.com/videos/ from  Chapter 6, 24:54, page 188 --  Create your map of Bod's graveyard -- or the graveyard with its surroundings.  2.  Vote on stone rubbings.

If You Were Absent: See above.

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Monday, May 21, 2018

Announcements and Reminders for Monday, May 21, 2018: On Friday, bring treats if you'd like to! Complete and hand in your quotes from The Graveyard Book, and/or your Holes answers -- if you still need to.

Targets for Today: I can read, write about, and discuss literature, and create an artistic representation of the setting of The Graveyard Book.

Today’s  Agenda for Monday, May 21, 2018: 1. Listen to more of  The Graveyard Book http://www.mousecircus.com/videos/ from  Chapter 6, 24:54, page 188 --  to chapter 7, 13:37.  Create your map of Bod's graveyard -- or the graveyard with its surroundings.  2.  Vote on stone rubbings.

If You Were Absent on Monday, May 21, 2018: See above.

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Thursday, May 17, 2018

Announcements and Reminders:     Fieldtrip today!                         Remember to wear comfortable walking shoes and bring a jacket if it looks like it might be chilly.   Bring water, if you wish.  I thought this was a gnu because he knew about the weather, but it turns out it's a bison.

Targets for Today: I can make connections between literature and real-life experiences.  I can respectfully visit a cemetery.

Today’s  Agenda: Field trip to the Cemetery Do gravestone rubbings and look for a ghoul gate. Stick with a buddy. See Tuesday, May 15, 2018 for reminders about how to do stone rubbings, and about what to look for in a ghoul gate.

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