Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Homework due tomorrow, Wednesday, December 9^th : Students should read from chapter 14 to chapter 19 of the Island of the Blue Dolphins, and then complete their Literature Circle tasks for that week.


Homework due, Thursday, December 10^th : Students should prepare for their spelling quiz. They should bring in five sentences, each containing a one of their spelling words.

Ongoing Homework: Students should remember to read for thirty minutes each evening. Reading the assigned novel does count towards the nightly reading. Remember there are no restrictions on what you choose to read, as long as you make sure you get your assigned reading done. Please remember to record the date, the title of what you read, and how many pages you read on your Reading Journal entry form. Please turn in your entry forms on Friday, so that I can review how your reading is going. I will return them to you on Monday. I would encourage you to keep up with your reading over the weekend.


Today during writing workshop we completed a lesson on using quotation marks to signal dialogue. The students then got a chance to use what they had learned by punctuating a paragraph that contained dialogue between two characters.