Week 5 Day 5

• Enjoy Maddy's excellent Book Talk below. Listen to how well she uses BEVES and PEX to make her presentation both informative and engaging.

Enjoy some of the most engaging narrative stories. Listen carefully to see if team's accomplished the WILF..

• Strong lead
• Description of a place
• Description of a person
• Use of 4 appostives
• Use of 5 advanced vocabulary words

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBPJkU1yLFU


Student of the Week - Anisha

Week 5 Day 4

Complex Sentences

Watch this video and tackle the exercises below:



When trying these exercises - think about how many independent clauses (sentences) there are in the sentence. Tackle any three from the list below.
http://eslbee.com/cgi-bin/quiztest.cgi?simplecompoundorcomplex
http://eslbee.com/cgi-bin/quiztest.cgi?helenkeller
http://www.csus.edu/owl/index/sent/clause_quiz.htm
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sensort/index.html

 We will do ALOT more work over the year on these types of sentences. Do not worry if you do not completely understand all these questions at this time. We needed to cover the material quickly so we had a basic idea of  what types of sentences we can create. We will now spend most of the year mastering these sentence types (and more)!

Enjoy Rachel's and Anisha's  Sammy Snake winning Book Talks below:

Week 5 Day 3

Book Talks
Due Thur. How will your talk be unique? Have you followed the specific requirements given in the directions? Are you using BEVES and PEX to deliver your presentation in an engaigng way?
IF YOU ARE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH TECHNOLOGY, JUST DO YOUR PRESENTATION  IN THE OLD FASHION WAY BY STANDING UP AND TALKING ABOUT YOUR BOOK.

Math
Study Link 2.5 & Math Box 2.5

Narrative Movies
 We will now begin filming Friday. You should spent at least 20mins on your section tomight. Tomorrow, you should just need 30 mins as a team to put the finishing touches together. Make sure the story is told passionately using BEVES and PEX

Coming Tomorrow - (Optional)
Complex Sentences - Why not try doing some background research yourself before the session. How are compound and complex sentences different?

BELOW: POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT WEEK -Idea for final narrative paper -

Next week we will begin working on our final narrative paper for this unit. Use some time tonight to look at some old family movies and/or photographs and begin thinking about your seed topic for this paper. You will need an idea by next Thur. (This is a change to the information on the Week at a Glance Sheet)

Week 5 Day 2

Tonight is a thinking about the end of the week night. Each of you needs to priortize what you need to do first.

Math
Study Link 2.4

Choose what you need to do from below based on your individual progress so far:

• Work on your Book talk
• Work on your portion of the narrative movie. I hope to begin filming these by Thur or Fri afternoon.
• Remember the specific WILF for this assignment.

Optional
For those students volunterring to  participate on the student council, work on what you will say to the class to get people to vote for you.

Week 5 Day 1

Homework
Finish the Appostives worksheets. Consolidate your understanding by practicing with these exercises below.
http://www.eslbee.com/appositives.htm

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/appositive.htm 
Also watch the video.


Social Studies:

Based on our session on quality questioning today, i don't think you'll ever think about questions again the same way. Think about questioning techniques ever time you hear or ask a question in the future. Bonus plus points if you can response to a parent's question tonight by identifying explaining to them the type of question they asked and why they asked it. e.g.  mom- did you have a good day at school today? child-mom, I can tell you are asking an inference question because you can see a big smile on my face and you already know what I'm goning ot say. To earn the +1 you must write about your Q+A exchange. It must  be a real situation and not just set up to earn you +1

Math

Lesson 2.2 & 2.3 Study Link

RLA
Work on your Book Talk