Ms. Tilley's English/Language Arts Class
The North Star Team

Brief Description:  Students will be introduced to the Virtual School Tour lesson that will continue through October 7th.                                                                               

Journal Topic:    What did you learn on your field trip yesterday?                                                          

Activities:    What techniques do we utilize to create and present a video virtual school tour?  Students will be introduced to the Virtual School Tour lesson that will continue through October 7th.   Today, students will choose areas of the school they would like to highlight in a virtual tour, and begin to plan the script  on the mobile lap tops.                                                         

Homework:     Literature Report DUE October 7th.  Read 15 minutes nightly.                                                            

Brief Description:    Students will continue with the Virtual School Tour lesson.

Journal Topic:    Your Choice.                                                          

Activities:   What techniques do we utilize to create and present a video virtual school tour?   Today, students will continue to plan the script  for their section of the school on the mobile lap tops.                                                         

Homework:   Literature Report DUE October 7th.  Read 15 minutes nightly.

Brief Description:   Students will continue with the Virtual School Tour lesson.                                                                                

Journal Topic:    Describe an atrium, and include what you learned about atriums on the field trip.                                                         

Activities:  What techniques do we utilize to create and present a video virtual school tour?   Students will continue to plan the script  for their section of the school on the mobile lap tops.                                                                 

Homework:   Literature Report DUE October 7th.  Read 15 minutes nightly.

Brief Description:   Students will continue with the Virtual School Tour lesson.                                                                                                       

Journal Topic:  Things to do in October.                                                           

Activities:   What techniques do we utilize to create and present a video virtual school tour?   Students will video tape their section of the school.

Homework: Literature Report DUE October 7th.  Read 15 minutes nightly.

Brief Description:  Students will conclude the Virtual School Tour lesson.                                                                                                        

Journal Topic:  How is our school tour alike/different from Broad Creek's?           

Activities:  What techniques do we utilize to create and present a video virtual school tour?   Students will video tape their section of the school.                                                    

Homework: Read 15 minutes nightly.

Brief Description:  Introduce the October Poem of the Month - "Hope" by Emily Dickinson.   Read Chapter 7 in Gentle's Holler.                                                                              

Journal Topic:  What is happening in Gentle's Holler?                                         

Activities:   How can you evaluate what you are reading in Gentle's Holler? Introduce the October Poem of the Month - "Hope" by Emily Dickinson.  "Hope" is DUE to be recited by October 29th.  Read Chapter 7 in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.                                                                 

Homework: Poem of the Month DUE to recite by memory on October 24th.   Read 15 minutes nightly.

Brief Description:   Read Chapters 8 and 9 in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.                                                                                                                  

Journal Topic:    Your Choice.                                                          

Activities:  How can you evaluate what you are reading in Gentle's Holler?  Read Chapters 8 and 9 in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.                                                                          

Homework: Journals DUE 10/10.  Poem of the Month DUE to recite by memory on October 24th.   Read 15 minutes nightly.

Brief Description:   Media Center Lab for Star Reading Assessment and AR.                                                                               

Journal Topic:    none                                           

Activities:   What comprehension skills will you need to focus on this year?   Media Center Lab for Star Reading Assessment and AR.                                                                                                    

Homework: Poem of the Month DUE to recite by memory on October 24th.   Read 15 minutes nightly.

Brief Description:    Read Chapter 10 in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.                                                                                                   

Journal Topic:    What is the worse smell you have ever smelled?  Explain.                                                                         

Activities:   How can you evaluate what you are reading in Gentle's Holler?  Read Chapter 10 in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.                                                          

Homework: Poem of the Month DUE to recite by memory on October 24th.   Read 15 minutes nightly.  All AR tests MUST be taken by 10/24 to count for 1sr 9 weeks grading period.

Brief Description:   Media Center Lab for Star Reading Assessment and AR.                                                                                                          

Journal Topic:      Write "Hope".                                                         

Activities:     What comprehension skills will you need to focus on this year?   Media Center Lab for Star Reading Assessment and AR.                                                  

Homework: Poem of the Month DUE to recite by memory on October 24th.   Read 15 minutes nightly.  All AR tests MUST be taken by 10/24 to count for 1sr 9 weeks grading period.

Brief Description:  Students will continue with the Virtual School Tour lesson.                                                                                                       

Journal Topic:  none                                                          

Activities:  What techniques do we utilize to create and present a video virtual school tour?   Students will begin editing the video of their section of the school tour.                                                      

Homework: Poem of the Month DUE to recite by memory on October 24th.   Read 15 minutes nightly.  All AR tests MUST be taken by 10/24 to count for 1sr 9 weeks grading period.

Brief Description:   Students will continue with the Virtual School Tour lesson.                                                                                                      

Journal Topic:  Your Choice.                                                           

Activities:   What techniques do we utilize to create and present a video virtual school tour?   Students will edit the video of their section of the school tour.                                                        

Homework: Poem of the Month DUE to recite by memory on October 24th.   Read 15 minutes nightly.  All AR tests MUST be taken by 10/24 to count for 1sr 9 weeks grading period.

Brief Description:  Students will finish the Virtual School Tour lesson.                                                                                                      

Journal Topic:  none                                                       

Activities:  What techniques do we utilize to create and present a video virtual school tour?   Students will finish editing the video of their section of the school tour.                                                     

Homework: Poem of the Month DUE to recite by memory on October 24th.   Read 15 minutes nightly.  All AR tests MUST be taken by 10/24 to count for 1sr 9 weeks grading period.

Brief Description:  Students will watch the Virtual Tour and critique.  Read Chapter 11 in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.                                                                                                                                                                                    

Journal Topic:   Mondays are...                                                          

Activities:   How can you evaluate multi-media materials and what you are reading in Gentle's Holler?  Students will watch the Virtual Tour and critique.  Comments/suggestions about the video will be discussed.  Read Chapter 11 in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.                                                                       

Homework:  Poem of the Month DUE to recite by memory on October 24th.   Read 15 minutes nightly.  All AR tests MUST be taken by 10/24 to count for 1sr 9 weeks grading period.

Brief Description:    Media Center for Check Out, AR, and Study Island.                                                                               

Journal Topic:      Reactions to the School Virtual Tour segments.                                                        

Activities:       How will Media Center resources help your comprehension?  Media Center for Check Out, AR, and Study Island.   Distribute Star Reading Assessment results and discuss with students.  Have students take a copy home for parents, and have them sign in the agenda that the parents received that document.  Assign Newbery Bookshare due Nov. 4th.  Allow students to check out books and take AR tests.                                                                     

Homework:  Poem of the Month DUE to recite by memory on October 24th.   Read 15 minutes nightly.

Brief Description:     Read Chapters 12 and 13 in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.                                                                                                                                                                                      

Journal Topic:    What are you learning in Science?                                                          

Activities:     How can you evaluate what you are reading in Gentle's Holler?    Read Chapters 12 and 13 in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.                                                                    

Homework:  Poem of the Month DUE to recite by memory on October 24th.   Read 15 minutes nightly.

Brief Description:   Seminar on "Hope" by Emily Dickenson                                                                                

Journal Topic:    Your Choice.                                                          

Activities:    How can you evaluate poetry through seminar?  Seminar on "Hope" by Emily Dickenson.

Homework:    Poem of the Month DUE to recite by memory on October 24th.   Newbery Bookshare DUE Nov. 4th.  Read 15 minutes nightly.

Brief Description:    Recite from memory Poem of the Month, "Hope" by Emily Dickenson.   Read Chapters 14 in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.                                                                                                      

Journal Topic:    What are you learning in Social Studies?                                                          

Activities:    How are poetry and prose alike and/or different?  How can you evaluate what you are reading in Gentle's Holler?    Read Chapters 14 in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.                                                                                                                                              

Homework:  Newbery Bookshare DUE Nov. 4th.  Read 15 minutes nightly.

Brief Description:    Read Chapters 13 and 14 in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.                                                                                                                                                                             

Journal Topic:     What are you learning in Math?                                                         

Activities:   How can you evaluate what you are reading in Gentle's Holler? Read Chapters 13 and 14 in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.                                                     

Homework:  Newbery Bookshare DUE Nov. 4th.  Read 15 minutes nightly.

Brief Description:   Media Center for Check Out and work on Newbery Bookshare.  Read Chapter 15 in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.                                                                                                         

Journal Topic:  Tell about your Newbery book.                                                            

Activities:    How will Media Center resources help your comprehension?  Read Chapter 15 in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.  Students will check out books in the Media Center and use resources to help prepare Newbery Bookshares.                                                  

Homework:  Newbery Bookshare DUE Nov. 4th.  Read 15 minutes nightly.

Brief Description:   Introduction to Concrete Poetry.                                                                                

Journal Topic:    What do you know about bats?                                                          

Activities:     What is concrete poetry and how can that writing style help comprehension? Students will be introduced to concrete poetry and write Bat Concrete Poems to share and display.                                               

Homework:  Newbery Bookshare DUE Nov. 4th.  Read 15 minutes nightly.

Brief Description:    Read Chapters 16 and 17 in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.                                                                  

Journal Topic:     Your Choice.                                                         

Activities:   How can you evaluate what you are reading in Gentle's Holler?  Read Chapters 16 and 17 in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.                                                      

Homework:  Newbery Bookshare DUE Nov. 4th.  Read 15 minutes nightly.

Brief Description:  Read Chapters 18  in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.                                                                                   

Journal Topic:   Halloween Traditions.                                                           

Activities:   How can you evaluate what you are reading in Gentle's Holler?  Read Chapters 18  in Gentle's Holler in Literature Circles.                                                    

Homework:  Newbery Bookshare DUE Nov. 4th.  Read 15 minutes nightly.