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Lesson Plans Sheri Edwards 5/18
Welcome!
Note: Writing Lessons for grades 5, 6, 7, 8 are the same.
Remember that the whiteboard is for special computer pens only, not markers. Please use the chart stand for markers/whiteboard.
Computer work is assigned; therefore, no computers on days with substitutes.
Schedule:
7:45-9:00 Prep (Student breakfast 7:45-8:12; student Jump Start 8:15-9:00
9:05-10:00 Reading Grade 8
10:05-11:00 Writing Grade 8
11:05-12:00 Writing Grade 7 (lunch rotates with the homeroom teacher; see schedule)
12:53-1:47 Writing Grade 6
1:52-2:40 Writing Grade 5
2:40-2:45 Homeroom Grade 8 (Notes home/dismissal -- dismiss sports through hallway and bus/walkers through outside door)
Fire Alarm:
To the left of the outside door is the folder with directions, class list and red/green signal cards.
For help, the teachers in this wing, starting next door, are:
Tracie Merrill next door, Math Teacher, ext 35
Head Teacher, Dean Erickson, Social Studies 36
Jama VanBrunt, Science 26
Terrie Sanger, Resource Room 19
Nancy Armstrong-Montes, Fourth Grade 30
Also see:
Office 10
John Adkins 12
Opportunity, Erika Kelly, 22
Note: State texting schedule may require that you keep the eighth grade until noon. The lessons for grade 8 take that into account; please check with another 5-8 teacher for information.
9:05-10:00 Reading Grade 8
Ask students to draw a picture of themselves doing what they hope to be doing in five years. Write a sentence caption explaining their sketch.
Ask students what they think the world will be like in 100 years. Discuss.
Hand out the READ magazine Strange Worlds. Ask students to turn to pages 22-25, “The Fickle World of the Future.” Ask them to take turns reading paragraph by paragraph, discussing the author’s information. Ask them to think of one invention they would really like to see in the future. Ask students to draw the picture of their invention and write a sentence caption explaining their invention.
10:05-11:00 Writing Grade 8
Ask students to look at “Writing into the Future,” pages 26-31. Read the introduction (page 26) together. Then ask students to partner up to read two of the four essays with a partner. Make sure all four essays will be read. While reading, students should list the ideas, inventions, and activities each essay describes for the future.
Students should then meet as a whole class again and share their notes with the other partner groups.
As a class discuss what might be feasible in the future. Which would they choose and why?
Students should use one activity or invention from the essays or from their own mind and write a paragraph describing that activity or invention.
If grade 8 until 12:00
Ask students if they have ever judged people before getting to know them? Can that be hurtful? Explain their answers.
Read the play “The One-Eyed Man is King” pages 4-13 from the READ magazine Strange Worlds, with students taking turns as actors. Do:
Ask students to choose: 1) rewrite the ending of the play, 2) re-write one scene with themselves as a new character in the play, 3) write a summary of the events in the story.
Collect magazines and all work.
11:05-12:00 Writing Grade 7 (if testing is done)
12:53-1:47 Writing Grade 6
1:52-2:40 Writing Grade 5
Ask students if they have ever judged people before getting to know them? Can that be hurtful? Explain their answers.
Read the play “The One-Eyed Man is King” pages 4-13 from the READ magazine Strange Worlds, with students taking turns as actors. Do:
Ask students to choose: 1) rewrite the ending of the play, 2) re-write one scene with themselves as a new character in the play, 3) write a summary of the events in the story.
Collect magazines and all work.
Thank you :)
2:40-2:45 Homeroom Grade 8 (Notes home/dismissal -- dismiss sports through hallway and bus/walkers through outside door)
Thank you.
Lesson Plans Sheri Edwards 5/14
Welcome!
Note: Writing Lessons for grades 5, 6, 7, 8 are the same.
Remember that the whiteboard is for special computer pens only, not markers. Please use the chart stand for markers/whiteboard.
Computer work is assigned; therefore, no computers on days with substitutes.
7:45-9:00 Prep (Student breakfast 7:45-8:12; student JumpStart 8:15-9:00
9:05-10:00 Reading Grade 8
10:05-11:00 Writing Grade 8
11:05-12:00 Writing Grade 7 (lunch rotates with the homeroom teacher; see schedule)
12:53-1:47 Writing Grade 6
1:52-2:40 Writing Grade 5
2:40-2:45 Homeroom Grade 8 (Notes home/dismissal -- dismiss sports through hallway and bus/walkers through outside door)
Fire Alarm:
To the left of the outside door is the folder with directions, class list and red/green signal cards.
For help, the teachers in this wing, starting next door, are:
Tracie Merrill next door, Math Teacher, ext 35
Head Teacher, Dean Erickson, Social Studies 36
Jama VanBrunt, Science 26
Terrie Sanger, Resource Room 19
Nancy Armstrong-Montes, Fourth Grade 30
Also see:
Office 10
John Adkins 12
Opportunity, Erika Kelly, 22
Ask students to draw a picture about the play we have been reading, “Anne Frank.” Students should write a sentence caption explaining their picture. Share and discuss (including why they chose that picture).
Hand out the Junior Scholastic magazine. Turn to the play, “Surviving the Holocaust.” (pages 14-17). Ask students to take turns as actors and read the play, looking for similarities and differences in the facts we’ve already learned.
After finishing the play, ask students to draw a Venn Diagram with once circle about “Holland” and another about “Poland.” Students should find the similarities and differences between the facts learned about the two counties under Nazi control.
Students should write a compare/contrast composition about what they learned about Holland and Poland. (At least two paragraphs)
Hand out the Anne Frank handout for students to complete.
Collect magazines, picture/captions, Venn Diagrams, composition, handout.
Explain to students that today they will take an end of the year essay test on persuasive writing. Students should read the prompt carefully (read it to them before handing out the booklets and yellow papers.) Make sure students understand the prompt. Make sure they put their names on all the pages.
Remind the students that they should spend at least ten minutes prewriting, then write their first draft on the yellow papers, and to finally write their final draft in the booklet on the appropriate page.
They will be graded on prewritng and first draft.
Students should finish their first draft today. Collect all work.
10 minutes prewrite (lots of details, examples, strong verbs, reasons)
25 minutes first draft
15 minutes quick-revise of first draft on first draft (names, action, dialogue, sights, sounds, dialogue)
Monday: Final draft
Thank you :)
2:40-2:45 Homeroom Grade 8 (Notes home/dismissal -- dismiss sports through hallway and bus/walkers through outside door)
Thank you.