Tuesday, May 30th

Agenda

Return Vocabulary 

Discuss 6, 7, and 8

Huckleberry Finn-Imitating Twain's style
Make a copy of THIS and write your own description of Huck from a DIFFERENT point of view. . You must maintain the same number of sentences, sentence patterns, and style as much as possible. 


To DO

Read 9, 10, and 11.  Quiz tomorrow!  Keep vocabulary from 1-2.  Do not lose it.  

Friday, May 26th

Yay!

It's Friday!

Agenda

Please fill in this Google Form for your Newsela AOW

Work on THIS padlet with your table

Turn in vocabulary for 1-4. 

Discuss chapter 5.

Read 6

TO DO

Read 7 

Thursday, May 25th

Agenda


Warm up for vocabulary

Tom's maturity-Three scenes

Discuss 3 and 4 

Compare Tom and Aunt Polly

TO DO
I have posted the text of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the vocabulary, and the word map in the SIDE bar of this blog.  Read 5 and 6 Vocabulary for 1-4 will be due tomorrow.

Wednesday, May 24th

Agenda

Warm up for vocabulary
Click HERE for the Padlet Activity

Skits-Illustrate the theme from chapter 2 in a creative way

Read 3

TO DO

Read 4 and do vocabulary for 3 and 4. I will collect the vocab for 1-4 TOMORROW

Newsela quiz

Tuesday, May 23rd

Tom Sawyer
Growing Up/Maturity
Idioms/Slang
Vocabulary-Here is the Word Map
Vocabulary List for the Book-Complete Word Maps for HIGHLIGHTED words but study all words

TO DO

Read Newsela article by Friday and take a quiz
Finish vocabulary word maps for chapters 1 and 2 by TOMORROW

Monday, May 22nd

Goals: To gain background knowledge before reading Tom Sawyer. This will help us enjoy and appreciate the novel.

Video about Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer Days from PBS This is a slideshow with excerpts from Twain’s autobiography, as well as photos, and interesting tidbits about growing up during this time

Predictions about Novel-Slideshow

Mark Twain Quotes- More MT quotes

Friday, May 20th

Thank Ms. Smith for teaching you!

Agenda

Finish book
Grudgeball