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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Firchau: Language Arts (Week of September 5)

WRITING
This week we will continue exploring, discussing, and applying the writing process. We will continue to look at the process steps in detail. We will also continue working with declarative (statements), imperative (commands), interrogative (questions), and exclamatory (emotional statements) sentences.

READING
We will begin get read through chapter 5 of the novel, The Sign of the Beaver.

SPELLING
This week's vocabulary continues from chapters 1-5 of The Sign of the Beaver

rueful

surveyor

venturing

proprietor

solitary

vaguely

expedition

begrudgingly

mite

boggy

MONDAY:
No school - Enjoy your Labor Day!

TUESDAY:
Sentence types
Writing process.
Develop a process
Review vocabulary, procedures and assignment.

WEDNESDAY:
Sentence types
Review vocabulary procedures and assignment.
Read and discuss Sign of the Beaver
Complete chapter summary (create a title name for each chapter, 2-3 bullet-pointed main ideas of the chapter, and illustration of an inspirational part of the chapter)


THURSDAY:
Begin first writing piece
Mini-lesson, "Putting muscles in your verbs"

FRIDAY:
Read and discuss Sign of the Beaver
Complete chapter summary