Week of October 1-5

    Monday, October 1, 2012

    1.       Daily Oral Language

2.       Brainpop-Fact or Opinion

3.      Go over PowerPoint-fact or opinion

4.      Go over website on fact or opinion with activity

    5.  Fact or Opinions game

    6.  Fact or Opinions worksheet 

    Tuesday, October 2, 2012

    SOLs: English-7.1, 7.4, 7.5

1. Interactive Achievement test.

2. Tone and Mood-BrainPop

3. Talk about tone and mood .

4. Give a list of tone/mood key words to students and go over.

5. Go over list.

6. Have students write 5 keywords about their mood/tone for the day.

7. Put up picture of man in picture to explain tone/mood

8. Watch movie trailer for Avengers.  Have students write 5 mood/tone phrases for trailer.

9. Watch the movie trailer for Titanic.  Have students write 5 mood/tone phrases for trailer.

     Wednesday, October 2, 2012

     SOLs:  English 7.1, 7.9

1.       Do Now:  Journal Entry-What was your favorite childhood toy and why?

2.       Introduce Adjectives with PowerPoint presentation

3.      Activity on Adjectives

4.      New vocabulary roots/suffixes/prefixes

5.      Create flashcards

6.      New date for book chats:  November 2^nd.

Thursday, October 3, 2012

SOLs: English-7.1, 7.2, 7.9

1.       Do Now: Daily Oral Language

2.       Have students start on grammar project-creating a restaurant and menu in pairs (in replacement of a test)

Friday-NO SCHOOL