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Q4-Week of 02 April 2024
Language Arts - Hours 1, 3, 4, 6, & 7 Common Core Standards
Welcome to another week full of opportunities to increase your knowledge bank and
build a FIRM foundation for your educational career . . .
build a FIRM foundation for your educational career . . .
EFFORT = ACHIEVEMENT . . . see every angle, make obstacles challenges to make you better, and play to win!
Aiming for a three on our learning scale . . .
Monday |
Easter Monday - last day of break! |
Students should be able to say: I can do the following:
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Tues |
1. Return books if needed and pass back final work from Ghost Canoe and IXL Q3 results. 2. Students try logging into CommonLit and see if the three assignments are in their portal. NO WORK IS DUE IN COMMONLIT AS OF NOW. DO NOT DO ANY OF THE ASSIGNED WORK YET. 3. IXL Q4 diagnostics in class and due today or right away tomorrow. NO IXL skill work to be done until I print the diagnostic reports! 4. Begin poetry unit - poetry terminology - get through 1-5 by tomorrow. See G.C. for copies of documents. |
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Students should be able to say: I can do the following:
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Wed. |
1. Snow day. |
Thurs. |
1. IXL gaps in reading skills and poetry terminology (2-5) and definition (1) review. Connection made between "concentrated" poetry and "diluted" prose:
Connection made between "concentrated" poetry and "diluted" prose. |
Students should be able to say: I can do the following:
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Friday |
First hour behind due to jazz band at NMU... 1. IXL reading skills gaps 2. Review the definition of poetry, a concentrated form of writing that is imaginative, emotional, and the words are chosen for sound and syllables. Poetry is meant to be though-provoking. Frozen orange juice concentrate . . . samples. 3. IXL for syllable division skill and discussion of beats in lines of poems which will lead to feet and meter next week. 4. Tercet vs. triplet stanzas . . . 5. Rhyme scheme (patterns of rhyme) - see double sided handout (on G.C. if you lost or left your copy at school). |
Students should be able to say: I can do the following:
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