2-26-09

Previous Next = = = February 26, 2009 =

Reminders:

 * ===Mr. Devine will be in Night Library Mondays 3-6. ===
 * **All make up tests will be Mondays after school in the Night Library--tell me if you are going to be there and which test you need to make up.**

Directions:

 * 1) Get your notebook.
 * 2) Get your textbook.
 * 3) Get your Interactive Practice Book.
 * 4) Copy today's **learning objectives** and **homework**.

__Learning Objectives__ (copy in your planner)
Students will:
 * Learn to Make Connections.
 * Learn about plot devices.

**Homework:**

 * Complete Interactive Practice Book pages 172-175


 * 1. Complete Interactive Practice Book pages 172-175**
 * Students work in groups of 3 to 4. They have 20 minutes to finish all pages. After 20 minutes, we must move on and this becomes homework.
 * All group members must participate.
 * 2. Before Reading "Just Lather, That's All" page 467**
 * Read this with the students. Call on student volunteers to read.
 * Students must keep Cornell Notes on this and **EVERYTHING ELSE** we do today.
 * Keep notes on Plot Devices: Suspense and How to Make Connections.
 * Have students pay close attention to "How to Make Connections". While they read "Just Lather, That's All" students will be doing the double entry journal--HOWEVER, instead of doing it on paper, they will use sticky notes (in the top drawer in the black desk at the front of the room). They will write details and events on one sticky and their evaluations on the other sticky and stick them side by side in their textbook.
 * 3. Reading "Just Lather, That's All" pages 468-477**
 * Have student volunteers read aloud about the author on page 468.
 * Explain to students what lather means.
 * Play tracks 6, 7, and 8 on the CD player (the CD player in on my desk in my office, it already has the CD in it).
 * Have students read along with the recording.
 * Pause the recording every page or so--at an appropriate time--and have students practice the Make Connections strategy. Remind students that they are going to use sticky notes (pass them out to students as they need them--peel off a small chunk of them at a time for students) to record details from the story and their explanation of those events and details (show them page 467 again if they need a reminder).
 * Continue until the end of the story.
 * 4. [|Unit 5, Cluster 2 Quizlet]**
 * If there is time, turn on the computer projector and find this web page (see the address printed at the top of this page).
 * Click on the link above, it will take you to the vocabulary list for this section of the book.
 * Click on "Familiarize" and randomly call on students to give you the vocabulary words that match the definitions.
 * The words are on page 466 of their textbook if they need to see the words and definitions.