November 13-16

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

SOLs: English 7.1, 7.2, 7.5, 7.8, 7.9

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

SOLs:  English-7.1, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6

1.Do Now-Comprehension Activity (page 12 in Advantage Reading)

2. Read the "History of Crayola Crayons" article.

3.  Reinforce chronological order

4.  Answer questions

5. Find number of occurrences for the following words

a.      Crayola (13)

b.      Crayons (20)

c.       Color (6)

d.      Coloring

e.      Children/child (3)

6. Find text structures with crayons.

7. Give out stickies and have them find two FAT questions to be answered.

8. Have students find one word they do NOT know the definition of, write on a sticky, and look up in a dictionary. 

9 Summarize the article with three DETAILS.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

SOLs: English 7.1, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6

1. Field Trip

2. Do Now-If you had the opportunity to give a random “act of kindness,”  what would it be and how would you give it?

3. Finish activities from Wednesday.

4. Have students do next three vocabulary words with 5 activities.

 Friday, November 16, 2012

SOLs: English-7.1, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6

1. Do Now-Reading Comprehension Activity in Advantage Reading-pages 15-16

2. Next slides on Organizational Patterns PowerPoint:  10-17

3. Read “The Central Park Zoo Escape”

4. Compare/Contrast article with the comprehension activity earlier

5. Four Big FAT questions that go along with the article (two for each article)

6. Go over on board

7. Answer questions to the “Central Park Zoo Escape”