Lesson Plans
16th and 17th Week
December 8 through December 19
Please note: I make my lesson plans extensive and with high expectations. If the
students are struggling and things do not go as quickly as planned, I scale back. You
may see activities that I planned for last week have been moved to the current week to
accommodate the pace of my learners.
Go to the “LINKS” section on my webpage to see the outline of the final review. If you
are interested in reviewing with your student, I will be glad to send work home. Please
e-mail me at cstavino@houstonisd.org
Thanks!
Students took some of the final review home with them Friday, and will take more
review materials home this week. PLEASE ask to see these and work with them on
these skills. Notify me IMMEDIATELY if you see that your son or daughter needs more
help from me. I will teach at lunch and after school Monday and Thursday.
Major Objectives:
Writing &
Writing Mechanics
 Students will paraphrase what they have read.
 Students will understand figurative language and use it in their writing.
(Idioms, similes, metaphors, personification, and onomatopoeia)
 Students will write and identify simple and compound sentences.
 Students will use commas correctly in sentences.
Vocabulary
 Students will continue to work on the vocabulary words for the final. The
words are:
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Impediment
Pedestrian
Emancipate
Spectator
Mobilize
Motivate
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Mobility
Affect
Empathy
Maturity
Salvage
Maimed
Alternatives
Incarceration
Recipient
Heinous
Mammoth
Forlorn
Downcast
Petite
Elated
Jublilant
Humorous
Cherish
Benevolent
Reading
 Students will read passages and answer comprehension questions correctly.
 Students will understand and identify elements of plot.
 Students will sequence the events of a reading passage.
Learning Activities the Week of December 8, 2014
Monday
 Students will define the following vocabulary words: empathy,
maturity, salvage, maimed, alternatives.
 Students will understand and use figurative language in their writing.
(Idioms, similes, metaphors, personification, and onomatopoeia)
Tuesday
 Students will define the following vocabulary words: incarceration,
recipient, heinous
 Students will identify the elements of plot in a short story.
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clarifying ideas, interpreti
 Students will identify and write simple and compound sentences.
Wednesday/
Thursday
 Students will summarize and paraphrase reading passages.
 Students will sequence events in a story.
 Students will answer comprehension questions correctly after reading
an assigned passage.
Friday
 Students will place commas correctly in their writing.
STUDENTS WILL COME HOME WITH VOCABULARY WORK THAT THEY MUST
COMPLETE AND TURN IN MONDAY.
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Lesson Plans
17th Week
December 15 through December 19
Monday
 Students will take a shortened practice test.
Tuesday
 Final for Periods 1 and 2
Wednesday
 Finals for Periods 3 and 4
Thursday
 Finals for Periods 5 and 6
Friday
 Final for Period 7 – Students go home at 10:00 a.m.