LESSON PLANS APRIL 7 – 11

***ASK YOUR CHILD ABOUT NEW TUTORING LISTS FOR THE NEXT

TWO WEEKS (1ST PERIOD, DEAR TIME, 4TH PERIOD).

TEKS/STATE READINESS AND SUPPORTING STANDARDS:

7.01,7.02, 7.03, 7.05, 7.07, 7.09, 7.10

MONDAY, APRIL 7

Homework – reading practice – due Thursday

Class starter – fears of the 1950’s; Rod Serling ­ author

Read/discuss – drama ­ “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”

Answer vocabulary/comprehension questions

TUESDAY, APRIL 8

Homework – reading practice – due Thursday

Class starter – activity – literary elements – drama

Apply Drama TEKS to “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9

Class starter – review literary elements – focus on drama elements

Review types of STAAR questions on drama from Reading Benchmark

Independent practice – comprehending drama

THURSDAY, APIL 10

Class starter – highlight important words in “Non­fiction Literary Elements”

Review pre­reading strategies for non­fiction

Read/discuss – non­fiction passage

Students answer vocabulary/comprehension questions

FRIDAY, APRIL 11

Class starter – review literary elements – focus on non­fiction

Practice – non­fiction reading skills

LESSON PLANS FEBRUARY 18 ­ 21

Parents, please replenish your child’s school supplies.

***We are really needing pencils and grading pens.

TEKS/STAAR READINESS/SUPPORTING STANDARDS

7.01, 7.02, 7.10, 7.14, 7.17, 7.19, 7.20, 7.21

TUESDAY, FEB. 18

Homework – Sentence subject/predicate; memorize helping verbs

Class starter – action verbs

***A new look at expository writing:

Step 1:  How to Read a Prompt

Practice reading expository prompts, including the ones for the benchmark

Students will begin an evaluation of their own writing

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19

Homework – Compound subject/predicate; memorize helping verbs

Class starter – state of being/linking verbs

***A new look at expository writing:

Step 2:  Comparing/contrasting student benchmark expository

writing with an exemplary piece of STAAR expository writing

Step 3:  Organizing ideas for expository writing

Students will continue an evaluation of their own writing and rewrite

as warranted

THURSDAY, FEB. 20

Homework – memorize helping verbs – quiz Friday

Class Starter – action and linking verbs

***A new look at expository writing:

Step 4:  Writing an introduction (hook and controlling idea)

Students will continue an evaluation of their own writing and rewrite

as warranted

FRIDAY, FEB. 21

Class starter – matching activity – organizational patterns

Non­fiction Friday – ways authors organize

Parents please be aware of our policy with regard to work missed after an absence. The student who is absent is expected to come to his/her teachers before 7:40 to gather work missed and/or to take missed tests. Failure to do so will result in a Lunch Crunch until the student does come to morning tutoring to catch up. Mr. Hinkle assures us that all the buses are here before the 7:40 cut off time. If you bring your child to school, he/she is held to the same time frame. This is the only way we can one-on-one explain to our students what he/she has missed. Class time is dedicated to moving on with those who were here and not a time for the teacher to stop the next day’s lesson to talk to a student about what he/she missed.

Also, be aware that I integrate extra credit incentives into my class curriculum and; therefore, do not give extra credit at the end of the six weeks. My incentives and lunch crunch should give your child every opportunity to pass and to do well in my ELA classroom.

Thank you for your interest and support.

LESSON PLANS OCT. 21 – 25

TEKS/STAAR READINESS AND SUPPORTING STANDARDS:

7.01, 7.02, 7.03, 7.06, 7.10, 7.19, 7.21

MONDAY, OCT. 21

Theme: Gift of the Magi

Correct theme writing assignment from Friday

TUESDAY, OCT. 22

Finish grading spelling homework part 1

Homework – finish spelling packet

Class starter: video – author Rudyard Kipling

Pre-reading process – “Rikki-tikki-tavi”

Guided practice – setting/conflict

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23

Grade part 2 spelling

Homework – spelling review

Class starter: video – mongoose/cobra

Students read “Rikki-tikki-tavi” and answer voc./compreh. ques.

THURSDAY, OCT. 24

Class starter: spelling review

Correct spelling review

Independent practice – setting/conflict

FRIDAY, OCT. 25 (substitute teacher for Terry & Cline – Writing workshop in Kema, Texas)

Class starter: study for spelling test

Test over spelling rules

Practice – comprehending non-fiction