Week of 12/1/08 - 12/5/08

Monday: Progressive Forms; notes, practice, & worksheet

Tuesday: Perfect Tenses; notes, practice, & worksheet

Wednesday: Linking Verbs; notes, practice, & worksheet

Thursday: Irregular Verbs; notes, practice, & workshet

Friday: More Irregular Verbs; notes, practice, & worksheet

Week of 11/17/08 - 11/21/08

Monday: Main Verbs and Helping Verbs; notes, practice, and worksheets

Tuesday: Commas p. 174; notes and independent practice

Wednesday: Mixed Review worksheets and #1-20 all p. 176

Thursday: Progressive Forms p. 178; notes, practice, and worksheets

Friday: Mid-Unit 3 QUIZ p. 164-175

• action verbs
• direct and indirect objects
• verb tenses
• subject-verb agreement
• main and helping verbs
• commas

Week of 11/10/08 - 11/14/08

Monday: read library books or study for Reading test

Tuesday: beginning of Unit 3; Action Verbs; notes; practice; WS's

Wednesday: Direct and Indirect Objects; notes; and independent practice

Thursday: Verb Tenses; notes, and independent practice

Friday: Subject-Verb Agreement; notes; independent practice

Week of 11/3/08 - 11/7/08

Monday: Composition: Outlining p.118 (did not get to it last week); independent practice

Tuesday: Unit 2 Review #1-60 all p. 146 (test grade)

Wednesday: **pass party**; continue working on review

Thursday: UNIT 2 TEST

Friday: grade reviews

Week of 10/27/08 - 10/31/08

Monday: go over Mid-Unit 2 QUIZ together on promethean activeboard---I will show students where they made mistakes, and we will correct the quizzes together.

Tuesday: Common Errors with plurals & possessives p. 106; notes; & independent practice

Wednesday: Parts of a Book p. 114; notes; independent practice

Thursday: Vocabulary: How Language Changes p. 116; notes; independent practice

Friday: Composition: outlining p. 118; notes; independent practice

Week of 10/20/08 - 10/24/08

Monday: Mid-Unit 2 QUIZ (retake-test grade)

Tuesday: appositives; notes; & independent practice

Wednesday: combining sentences: nouns p. 100; notes; independent practice

Thursday: Titles of Works p. 102; notes; independent practice

Friday: Mixed Review #1-20; & worksheets

Week of 10/13/08 - 10/17/08

Monday: Mixed Review Unit 2 p. 94-95 #1-20 all

Tuesday: Mid-Unit 2 QUIZ

Wednesday: possessive nouns; notes; independent practice

Thursday: NOUNS Reteach

Friday: NOUNS Reteach; retake quiz on Monday

Week of Sept. 2-5, 2008

Monday: Labor Day School Holiday

Tuesday: Combining Sentences: Complex Sentences; guided practice and packet

Wednesday: Punctuating Sentences; practice and worksheets

Thursday: Mixed Review p. 12 & 13; do #1-20 all plus a couple of worksheets

Friday: Complete Subjects and Predicates; guided practice; independent work

Week of Aug. 25-29, 2008

Monday: Multiple Intelligence Test

Tuesday: read pg. 1 in Language Arts book; do Oral Warm-up, Read the model, describe favorite place and act it out

Wednesday: notes over Sentences and Sentence Fragments; guided practice; independent work

Thursday: Kinds of Sentences; guided practice; independent work

Friday: Combining Sentences: Compound Sentences; practice and independent study

Welcome to Middle School

Welcome incoming 6th graders. You are now beginning your experience in Middle School. I hope the journey is a fun one.