Monday

• Students will begin the day with the Monday Grammar Warm-Up focusing on the difference between Two, Too, and To.  This week, will focus on the use and proof of "Two"  Students will be introduced to the proof and attempt to use and prove their use of the word in a brief writing response.  Volunteers will share sentences from their writing.  Students will then document their understanding in their Writer's and Reader's Notebooks.

• Students will then complete a directed reading activity with the very short story, "Cemetery Path" by Leonard Q. Ross.  Students will complete a "Think Link" chart as we read and then examine the elements of the plot of this story by completing a plot diagram. 

• Students who finish their day working on their independent reading work for the week or with the completion of an i-Ready reading lesson.

Homework: Students should read their independent reading novel for 30 minutes tonight and document their reading on their reading log. Four new Word Work words are also due by the end of the week. 

Tuesday

• Students will experience a brief overview of the Quiz Correction process, which they may use to recover partial credit from a quiz grade that they want to improve.

• Students will then review yesterday's reading before collaboratively planning and writing a response to "Cemetery Path."  Students will collect evidence from the story to support an observation about the author's characterization of one of the main characters from the story.  We will review the ABCs of constructed responses and collaboratively respond to the given prompt.  Confident students may go their own way with this prompt or may note the model response as we slowly go through the drafting of our response.

• Students who finish their day working on their independent reading work for the week or with the completion of an i-Ready reading lesson.

Wednesday

• Students will begin class with a mini-lesson on collaborative conversations.

• They will then be introduced to the question they will answer for their constructed response and discuss the possible approaches with fellow classmates.

• Students will then begin collecting evidence to support their approach to the prompt.

• Students who finish their day working on their independent reading work for the week or with the completion of an i-Ready reading lesson.

Thursday

• The Thursday Poetry Warm-Up will involve a reading and analysis of "Maybe Dat Youwr Problem Too" by Jim Hall.  Students will then complete a written response to the poem attempting to figure out the author's message.  Results will be shared and discussed.

• Students will then review our work from Tuesday's class with the response to "Cemetery Path" before moving on to the written response they will complete independently on "Rikki-tikki-tavi.  We will examine the question again and the planning process before students are given the time to begin planning for themselves.

• Students who collect the necessary evidence to begin their responses may begin to draft their work.

• Students who finish their day working on their independent reading work for the week or with the completion of an i-Ready reading lesson.

Friday

• Students will begin class the Friday Funny Bone activity.  This is an inferential activity where students examine a Gary Larson cartoon, draw conclusions about it, and construct a possible caption that attempts to not only make sense out of the image, but also make it funny.

• Students will review the the peer review process before finishing their work on their responses for the "Rikki-tikki-tavi" question.

• Students who finish their papers and five peer reviews use remaining time to complete their Week in Review and any other unfinished business for the week.

Homework: Students who have completed their independent reading work for the week have no additional homework.