Week of November 29, 2010

Welcome back! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving break. We have two full weeks before the Christmas break, and we have a lot to do!
**We will again complete a vocabulary journal for a quiz and a homework grade. Students should make a list of 20 words from the reading they don't know, make a context-based guess about the meaning of the word, then look up and define the word from the dictionary. Due Friday.

MONDAY
All: Read! Chapters 15 - 17 of TKAM
HW: Answer the reading comprehension questions for chapters 15 - 17 with complete sentences in your notebook. You are either answering only the odd or the even questions based on your last name.

TUESDAY
Blue & Green: Read! Chapters 18 & 19
Red: Read! Chapter 18
All: Complete reading comp questions for your assigned chapters in the same manner as Monday night.

WEDNESDAY
Red: Read chapter 19 & work on questions
Green: Read chapter 20, work on questions, and model notes
All: Open response: How does the description of the Maycomb County courthouse foreshadow the verdict of the trial? Graphic organizer in class.
HW: Final draft of open response.

THURSDAY
All: Read up through chapter 21.
HW: Notes on chapter 21

FRIDAY
All: Review all chapter questions. Vocabulary journals are due.
Read chapter 22 in class.
SHOP HOMEWORK: Read chapters 23-25 and take notes on the worksheets as modeled.