Lesson Plans
Third Nine Weeks
2009-10
Jan Bennitt
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Beethoven for your listening pleasure!
 Periods 1,2, and 5

Return Papers

Review Exam

Figurative Language Pre-Test
 Period 3:

Welcome

Lunch Procedure

Explore Fairy Tales “The Tinder
Box”
1st: 9:42-10:31
2nd: 10:35-11:23
Friday, January 8, 2010
 Periods 1,2, and 5


Finish reviewing the semester
test
The Rise of Empires pages
234-238

Sentence Variation Fact Sheet

New York Times Upfront: Read
pages 3-5 and 28-31
 Period Three:

Finish “The Tinder Box”

Develop a definition for a fairy
tale

Compare a “fairy tale” to a
myth, legend, and fantasy

Begin the Figurative Language
Pre-Test
Monday, January 11, 2010
 Periods 1,2, and 5:
 New York Times
Upfront: Read pages 35 and 28-31
 Complete “The Rise of
Empires” pages 234238
 Begin “The Cop and
the Anthem”
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
 Period 1,2, and 5:
 Return papers
 Clear folder
 Complete “The Cop
and the Anthem” and
“The Raffle Book”
 Punctuation Video
 Sentence Variation Fact
Sheet
 Punctuation PowerPoint
 Punctuation Practice
 Period Three
 Hans Christian Anderson
Video: Segment #1
 Hans Christian Anderson
Biography
 Thumbelina
 Fairy Tale must be in
class tomorrow
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
 Period 1,2, and 5:
 Return papers
 Clear folder
 Review “The Cop
and the Anthem”
and “The Raffle
Book”
 Begin Figurative
Language PreTest
 Period Three
 Hans Christian Anderson
Biography
 Thumbelina
 Create Fairy Tale Plot
Chart
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Report Cards (See Bell Schedule on next slide)
 Go over Figurative
Language Pre-Test
Part I; Do Part II
 Punctuation Video
 Punctuation
PowerPoint
 Sentence Variation
Fact Sheet
 Punctuation
Practice
 Period Three:
 Finish Thumbelina: Create
Plot Chart
 Hans Christian Anderson
Video: Part II
 Read Hans Christian
Anderson Biography
 Create plot chart for your
favorite fairy tale
Thursday Bell Schedule
 9:30 Homeroom—distribute report cards—report cards are in
homeroom teacher boxes.
9:38 exit homeroom
9:42 Begin 1st period
10:31 End 1st period
10:35 Begin 2nd period
11:23 End 2nd period
Friday, January 15, 2010
No School on Monday
 Commemorate Dr. Martin Luther
King: Reading Selection: “Letter
from the Birmingham Jail”
 Finish Figurative Language
Lesson; take post-test
 Period Three:
 Finish Thumbelina: Create Plot
Chart
 Hans Christian Anderson Video:
Part II
 Read Hans Christian Anderson
Biography
 Create plot chart for your favorite
fairy tale
 Begin Fairy Tale Movie Poster
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
 PowerPoint and handout: Nuts
and Bolts of Writing: Sentence
Combining Fact Sheet
 Sentence Combining and
punctuation practice: “Ten girls
tried out…” and “I worked out at
the gym…”
 Upfront: “Locked Away Forever”

Crime and Punishment
 Sixth Grade Reading:

Thumbelina Plot Chart
 Chart Your Fairy Tale
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Punctuation Practice: “I worked out
at the gym…”

“Upfront “Locked Up Forever”

Period 1 and 2 :


What is a Utopian Society?

Why is it difficult to create one?

What kind of laws would it have?
Period 5: Does everyone deserve a
fair trial and a competent defense?

Sixth Grade:

Read bio of Hans Christian
Andersen and take notes

Take Part I of the Figurative
Language Pre-Test

Take home the fairy tale to read if
I had to give you one

Have it read for tomorrow!
Thursday, January 21, 2010

Period 1 and 2:


“Effective Leads” PowerPoint

Introduction to Utopia


Free Write: Can there ever be a perfect
world?

Complete Anticipation Guide

Take notes from website
http://utopia.nypl.org/
Read Chapter One of The Giver
Period 5

Should juveniles be sentenced to life in
prison without parole?

“Effective Leads” PowerPoint

UpFront: They Sat Down to Stand Up

Finish Figurative Language PreTest

Create a plot chart for your fairy
tale.

Read your plot chart to a partner.

“Elements of Fiction” PowerPoint

Homework: Review Figurative
Language Errors for Post-Test
tomorrow
Friday, January 22, 2010

Period 1 and 2:

Grammar Quiz: Science, Music, and Art

“Effective Leads” PowerPoint Per. 2 from
“leads list”


Introduction to Utopia

Complete Anticipation Guide

Take notes from website
http://utopia.nypl.org/
Read Chapter One of The Giver

Period 5

Finish PowerPoint and take some notes

Rewrite your lead paragraph

UpFront: They Sat Down to Stand Up

Introduce PBS.org webquest

Take the Figurative Language Test

Finish the plot chart for your fairy tale.

Read your plot chart to a partner.

Take notes on the “Elements of Fiction”
PowerPoint

Next Week: Pre-Test and Reading
Center Orientation
Monday, January 25, 2010

Seventh Grade:

“The Badger…” Comma Practice

Finish your description of
characteristics of Utopia

Complete P-Point and re-write
Utopia Essay Lead


Notes on Utopian Societies
Eighth Grade

Return Papers

“The Badger…” Comma Practice

Upfront: “They sat down to stand
up…

www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow

Assign research and summary

Issue Books and begin reading

Sixth Grade:

Finish fairy tale plot chart

Take RFU Reading Center PreTest
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Seventh Grade:

Practice with appositives

Complete Utopia Essay Lead
Paragraph



Finish your description of
characteristics of Utopia
Notes on Utopian Societies
Quotes from Sparta:

“"Add a step forward to it." A
Spartan mother to her son when
he complained his sword was too
short.

Sixth Grade:

Complete RFU Placement Test

Self-Check

Complete fairy tale plot chart

Orientation to RFU

Eighth Grade:

Practice with appositives

Instructions for research
assignment

To Kill A Mockingbird page 1
Wednesday, January 27,2010

Quotes from Sparta

"Because we fight close to the
enemy." King Agesilaos when
asked why their swords were so
short.
Catchy, Huh? Let’s look at
some “Little Red Riding
Hooks…”
Seventh Grade:




Read about Lycurgus of Sparta
and his dream of a utopian state
Sixth Grade:

Read about Lycurgus of Sparta
and discuss what makes a great
leader

Eighth Grade:

Quotes from Sparta

"Because we fight close to the
enemy." King Agesilaos when
asked why their swords were so
short.

Catchy, Huh? Let’s look at
some “Little Red Riding
Hooks…”
To Kill A Mockingbird

Continue Chapter One
Continue Homework research

Thursday, January 28, 2010
Seventh Grade:

NP,app, practice

Finish the reading “Lycurgus, Father of
Sparta”.

Writing Assignment::



Eighth Grade

NP,app, practice

Writing Assignment::

Was Sparta an ideal place with perfect
laws, a “Utopia”? Use information from
yesterday’s reading to support your
answer. Write a strong lead. Use these
“Little Red Writing Hooks”.
Sixth Grade:

Finish the reading “Lycurgus, Father of
Sparta”.

Writing Assignment:

Was Lycurgus a good king? Use
information from yesterday’s reading
to support your answer. Write a strong
lead. Use these “Little Red Writing
Hooks”.
Was Lycurgus a good
king? Use information
from yesterday’s reading
to support your answer.
Write a strong lead. Use
these “Little Red Writing
Hooks”.

Continue chapter one of To Kill A
Mockingbird

Quotes from Sparta

"Either with it or upon it." Spartan
mothers to their sons in regards
to their shields.
Friday, January 29, 2010
 Quotes fro Sparta:

"Why is it you Spartan women
are the only ones who rule over
your men?" An Athenian
Woman. "Because we are the
only women too who give birth
to real men." a Spartan woman.
 Seventh Grade:

Apposotive Quiz

Utopia Pre-Reading Activities

The Giver Chapter One
 Sixth Grade

Return Papers

RFU Round #1

Gifted Hands: The Ben
Carson Story
 Eighth Grade

Appositive Quiz

To Kill A Mockingbird,
Chapter One
Monday, February 1, 2010


Seventh Grade:
New York Times Upfront:



Write a persuasive essay lead
paragraph.
Utopia Notes
SRA Center Round #1

The Ben Carson Story
Eighth Grade
Free Reading 15 minutes


Writing Workshop: ”Show, don’t tell!”


Debate page 22

New York Times Upfront:
Free Reading 15 minutes

Sixth Grade:
Writing Workshop: ”Show, don’t tell!”


Debate page 22
Write a persuasive essay lead
paragraph.
To Kill A Mockingbird: Chapter One

Timeline Research is due tomorrow,
but the deadline is extended until
Thursday.
Tuesday, 2/2/10


Seventh Grade:

Finish “Show, don’t tell.”

Write lead paragraph: Should we
reinstate the draft?

Grammar Practice: LB,S and ,embed,
“Beause I have branches and
leaves…”

The Giver: Chapter One
Sixth Grade:

Eighth Grade Writing: Show me the
Money!!

From Slide #5: Show, don’t tell.

Should we reinstate the draft?

Jamestown Reading Center: “Wild
Side: Bizarre Endings” Sample
Lesson

Grammar Practice: LB,S and ,embed,
“Beause I have branches and leaves…”

Gifted Hands, continue Chapter One

To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter One

Research DUE THURSDAY!!
Wednesday, 2-3-10

Seventh Grade:


Adverb Clause Practice (Take home
to study for Friday Quiz)

PowerPoint: Effective Conclusions

Continue The Giver

SGA Candy-Grams

Fifty Cents

Before School

At Lunch

Sixth Grade:

RFU Reading Center

Ben Carson
Eighth Grade:

Adverb Clause Practice (Take home
to study for Friday Quiz)

PowerPoint: Effective Conclusions

Continue To Kill A Mockingbird
TIMELINE RESEARCH DUE TOMORROW
Thursday, 2-4-10
 Language Arts

Grammar Practice

Persuasive PowerPoint

Write Conclusion to “Draft”
Essay
 Eighth Grade: Read Research to
the class
 Sixth Grade: MSS Reading
Center
 Ben Carson
2-5-10
 Seventh Grade:

Persuasive Essay
checklist/Review

Subordinate Clause quiz

The Giver: Chapter One
 Eighth Grade:

Turn in late research.

Subordinate Clause Quiz

Review Draft Plan for “Should
America Reinstate the Draft?”
Essay; write the conclusion
paragraph

Free Reading: New issue of
Upfront
 Sixth Grade:

RFU Center

Ben Carson
2-8-10 Monday

Seventh Grade: (Note: Period One will
not meet tomorrow because of Writes
Upon Request; You will report directly
to your testing group.

Sentence Rule of the Week: Complex
Sentences and sentence Connectors

Expository Writing PowerPoint

Read In Upfront Magazine

Discuss your reading

Sixth Grade:

SRA Center


Bizarre Endings: Lesson One


Collect Answer Sheet
Collect answer sheet
Eighth Grade

Sentence Rule of the Week: Complex
Sentences and sentence Connectors
Collect Research AssignmentReview
Draft Plan for “Should America
Reinstate the Draft?” Essay; write the
conclusion paragraph.
TKM: Chapter One
2-9-10
 Writes Upon Request First Period
and shortened Second Period.
 Second Period:

Camelot as a Utopian society:
The Sword in the Stone.
 Sixth Grade:

RFU (Collect)

Bizarre Endings Lesson 2:
Collect
 Eighth Grade:

Grammar Drill: Adverb Clauses

Jim Crow Stories: Student
Presentations

To Kill A Mockingbird: Complete
Chapter One
2-10-10
 Seventh Grade:
 Eighth Grade:

Grammar Drill: Adverb Clauses

Collect Jim Crow Research

Utopian Societies


The Giver Chapter Two
To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter
One; Complete Reading
Responses
 Sixth Period:
 Disasters Reading Center
2-11-10
 Seventh Grade:

Utopia Notes:

Age of Enlightenment

Gulliver’s Travels

Gulliver’s Travels video
 Sixth Grade:

Multiple Skills Series

Ben Carson
 Eighth Grade:

Chapter One Reading
Response
2-12-10
 Seventh Grade:
 Sixth Grade:

Complex Sentence Quiz

RFU Reading Center

Update Notes: Add notes on
Gulliver’s Travels

The Ben Carson Story

Age of Enlightenment Timeline
Activity
The Giver: Chapter One and
Two; Rules and Ceremonies
Chart
 Eighth Grade:

No Folders; Just books!

Video: 1931

To Kill A Mockingbird Study
Guide
Monday, 2-16-10
I will be out tomorrow; be respectful to your guest teacher,
Mr. Whitlow.
 Seventh Grade:

Second period: adverb clause
quiz

New Rule: S;sc,S Practice

The Giver: Read through
Chapter Four


 Sixth Grade:

MSS (Green Answer Sheet)

Bizarre Endings, Lesson Three

Distribute tomorrow’s RFU
 Eighth Grade:
Rules and Ceremonies
Chart

Return Research Drafts

New Rule: S;sc,S Practice
Chapter 1-5 Study Guide

To Kill A Mockingbird

Read through Chapter
Five.
Wednesday, 2-17-10
 Progress Reports

Return Signed Reports by
Friday
 Seventh Grade:

FCAT Review Test

The Giver Chapter 1-5 Study
Guide
 Sixth Grade:

RFU Center

Ben Carson
 Eighth Grade:

FCAT Review Test

To Kill A Mockingbird (TKM)
Chapter One Reading
Responses
Thursday, 2-18-10
 TURN IN SIGNED PROGRESS
REPORT
 Seventh Grade:

FCAT Practice Test

Mark the Text
 Sixth Grade:

Disasters Reading Center
 Eighth Grade

FCAT Practice Test

Mark the text.
Friday, 2-19-10
 Seventh Grade:
 Eighth Grade:

Turn in all FCAT Practice Tests

Collect Jim Crow drafts if ready

Quick Write: Sensory Words
and adventure

TKM Chapter 4 and 5

You are listening to 1930’s jazz
from the time of the novel

The Giver Chapters 1-5
Reading and Study Guides
Monday, 2-22-10
 Free Rice.com
 Seventh Grade:

Turn in FCAT Sample Test if
you took it home

The Giver- Chapter 1-5 Study
Guide

The Giver “Love” essay

Sharpen Up: Unit 8
 Sixth Grade:

SRA Reading Center

Bizarre Endings Lesson 3
(complete)
 Eighth Grade
 Catch-Up Day
FCAT Sample Test
TKM Reading #1
Green Bookpages xvi - xvii
Tuesday, 2-23-10
 Seventh Grade:
 Sixth Grade:

Free Rice Vocabulary

MSS

The Giver Chapter 1-5

Bizarre Endings Lesson 3

Work with a partner to
finish rules and
ceremonies chart and
reading guide

FCAT Sample Test Intensive
Analysis

The Giver: Love Essay
 Eighth Grade:

FCAT Sample Test Analysis

Extended Response Re-do

Time is almost up…
Thursday, 2-25-10
 Seventh Grade:

Free Rice

FCAT Sample Test Analysis
 Sixth Grade

Critical Reading Series Lesson
#3
 Eighth Grade:

New York Times Upfront:

Work with a partner to
complete the activities
2-26-10, Friday
 Seventh Grade:
 Eighth Grade:

Free Rice

Free Rice

Disttribute Test Item Analysis

Discuss Upfront Stories

Finish going over the test

To Kill A Mockingbird

Send Test Booklet home
 Sixth Grade:

RFU Reading Center

Ben Carson
3-1-10
 Seventh Grade:
 Sixth Grade:

Collect signed FCAT booklet

SRA Center

Free Rice Grammar and
Vocabulary

Bizarre Endings Selection #4

The Giver: Overview of what
will be on the final test

Announce Ch1-5 test on
Wednesday

Free Rice Grammar and
Vocabulary

NYTimes Upfront :

Critical Thinking Test Form #3

TKM Chapter One Character
Analysis:

Facebook Article and
graph activity
 Eighth Grade:

Discuss and Collect
3-2-10
 Seventh Grade:

Free Rice

Collect signed FCAT booklets

Sensory words Quick Write

The Future as Utopia: Science
Fiction…The Time Machine

Interpreting a Graph: Internet
Use (complete the activity)
 You’re COOL!
 Sixth Grade:

MSS Reading Center (New
Answer Sheet- Start with Unit
#10)

Bizarre Endings Lesson # 4
 Eighth Grade

Free Rice

Sensory Words Quick Write

To Kill A Mockingbird Selected
Scenes
3-3-10
Seventh Grade:


Sixth Grade:
Return Writes Upon Request

RFU Center (New Answer Sheet)
Descriptive paragraph: Describe
H.G. Well’s city of the future.

Sharpen Up: Inference and
Conclusion

The Giver: Quiz on Chapter 1-5

Upfront: Free Reading

Eighth Grade:

Quick Write: 1930’s Southern
Main Street

Discuss the rest of TKM Chapter
One Reading Responses

Read Chapter 6 and 7
A Southern Main Street 1930’s
3-4-10
 Seventh Grade:
 Complete The Giver Quiz


Interpreting a Graph: Internet Use
(complete the activity)
 Sixth Grade:

Disasters Selection # 4

Sharpen Up:
Critical Thinking Test #3 Questions
 Sharpen Up Unit 8: Author’s
Purpose

Inference from page 73

Author’s Purpose
 Eighth Grade:

Critical Thinking Test #3
Questions 15-40

Sharpen Up Unit 8: Author’s
Purpose
3-5-10

 Seventh Grade:
 Sharpen Up: Complete
Author’s Purpose
pages 101-105
 Poetry and Figurative
Language
 Pages 127 130
Sixth Grade:

RFU Reading Center

Sharpen Up: Complete
Inference and Conclusion p7782
Sharpen Up: Poetry and
Figurative Language pages
127-130

Eighth Grade:

Sharpen Up: Complete Author’s
Purpose pages 101-105
Review Poetry and Figurative
Language pages 127-130
3-8-10

Seventh Grade:




Sixth Grade:

SRA Reading Center (New Answer
Sheet)

Sharpen Up:
Sharpen Up: Complete Author’s
Purpose pages 101-105
Poetry and Figurative
Language

Pages 127-

130

Complete Inference and
Conclusion p77-82

Poetry and Figurative Language
pages 127-130
Eighth Grade:

NYTimes Upfront


Complete the graph activity and
reading questions
Sharpen Up:

Complete Author’s Purpose
pages 101-105

Review Poetry and Figurative
Language pages 127-130

Complete TKM Chapter One Reading
Responses

NYTimes Upfront

Complete the graph activity and
reading questions
3-09-10 FCAT Schedule
9:30-2:15: Testing Group
2:20-3:00 1st Period: The Time
Machine
3:05-3:45 2nd Period: The Time
Machine
3-10-10 FCAT Schedule
9:30-2:15: Testing Group
2:20-3:00 5th Period: Work on
timeline display
3:05-3:45 6th Period
Thursday, 3-11-10
 Seventh Grade:
 Eighth Grade

Free Rice

Prepare timeline presentation

Return Papers

Begin sharing

NY Times Upfront: Complete
the articles and discussion

Post as completed

TKM Chapter 8
 Sixth Grade:

Return Papers

Jamestown Series: New Book!
Friday, 3-12-10
Positive people are not afraid of trying difficult tasks. If you only try the easy
problems, you will never know the victory over the hard ones.

Seventh Grade:
Eighth Grade:

Free Rice

Review Quiz

NYTimes: Upfront

Presentations:



Free Speech

The Giver: Chapter 6-7

Chapter 6-9 Reading Guide
Sixth Grade:

Pi Day!!

RFU Center

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson
Story


Leslie Ceballos: Ku Klux
Klan and the Ratification
ogf the Fourteenth
Amendment

Tim Durning: The
Enforcement Acts and The
Civil Rights Act of 1875
To Kill A Mockingbird:

Chapter Eight
Answer the following Questions in complete sentences on your own paper:
 What political party did Abraham
Lincoln belong to?
 Why was the Freedman’s Bureau
created?
 What did the radical right-wing of
his party want him to do that he
didn’t want to do?
 How long was it supposed to
last?
 What was an abolitionist?
 Why didn’t President Andrew
Johnson want it to continue?
 In September of 1862, what
option did Lincoln give the
southern states to avoid losing
their slaves?
 Under President Johnson’s plan
for Reconstruction, what did the
southern states have to do to get
back in the Union?
 What was Lincoln’s top priority?
 What would the result have been
if Johnson had gotten his way?
 Why did Lincoln sign the
Emancipation Proclamation in
January of 1863?
 Who did northern voters put in
power in 1866, stopping
Johnson’s power?
Monday, 3-15-10
Happiness is a habit. Practice unhappy attitudes and become an unhappy person.
Don’t talk yourself into being unhappy. Let positive thoughts become your habits!
 Seventh Grade:
Eighth Grade:

Free Rice
Review Notes

The Giver Chapter 8-10
Presentations:

Complete Chapter 6-9
Guide
 Introduce SGA Essay Contest
 Sixth Grade:

SRA Center

Ben Carson
Brandon Graham: The
Hayes-Tilden Election
Kaniya Grady: The founding
of the Tuskeegee Institute
TKM: Chapter 8 and 9
Chapter 3-8 Open Book Test
The
Making
of
Heroes
“Democracy has not come easy for United States. A long and deadly civil war can attest to that.
Those who fill military roles believe the values of their country serve to make it a better country.
Many American lives have been affected by the fighting and loss of life in various wars around the
world in the past and today. Their heroism and why they fought for United States must never be
forgotten.”
www.usa-hero.com/military.html
What makes a hero?
One kind of hero is a military hero.
Are there military heroes in your family tree?
A website devoted to the stories of military heroes is http://www.usa-hero.com/military.html.
Read the page for General Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr. It will give you a good idea of the kinds of information you will want to include
in your essay.
Perhaps your father, brother, aunt, grandparent, cousin, sister, or great-grandparent has an untold story of military service. This is
your chance to write that story.
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Research that family hero. Interview him/her, your parents, and other family members who can help you with your
research. Create a list of his/her achievements, like those in General Davis’s biography.
Now choose the most meaningful achievements from the list to highlight in a 500 to 750-word essay about your family
hero.
You’ll want to write about your relationship to this hero and how the accomplishments of her/his service have inspired you
and your family.
Your finished document must be Arial 11 point font, 1 ½ spaced, and the text must be justified. The title must be centered
at the top and your name must be centered under the title.
Submit two copies of your essay to Mrs. Bennitt in room 41 no later than 1:00 on March 26th or submit the document
electronically, attached to an email to bennittj@leonschools.net by that same deadline.
Essays will be selected for publication in a booklet to be presented to our guests at the Raa Dinner Theater on April 22nd. A
panel of judges will choose a first-place winner from that booklet to receive a gold iPod Nano, provided by Pro Bank. The
second and third-place winners will each receive a $50.00 and $25.00 iTunes gift card respectively.
Tuesday, 3-16-10
“A positive person knows that the best preparation for
tomorrow is to do TODAY’S WORK SUPERBLY WELL!”
 Seventh Grade:
 Eighth Grade:

Period One: The Giver: Open
book quiz on chapters 1-8

Quick Write with Sentence
Variety
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Period Two: Read Chapter 8,9

TKM Chapter 8,9

Quick Write with Sentence
Variety
 Sixth Grade:

Multiple Skills Series Center

Ben Carson Chapter 6
 Announcements:

Spring Dance

Dinner Theater

Essay Contest
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
An Old Irish Blessing
May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields
and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.
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Seventh Grade:
Finish The Giver Test on Chapter
3-8
The Giver: Illustrated Words
For your assigned word:
Write the definition
Write a sentence using the word
that tells about something that
happens in the story or describes
something or someone in the story.
Draw an illustration of that
description.
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Sixth Grade:

RFU Center

Bizarre Endings: Lesson 5
Eighth Grade:

Finish Chapter 9 of TKM

Open Book Quiz: TKM Chapter
1-8

History/Culture Timeline Activity
Thursday, March 18, 2010
“A positive mental attitude is both taught and caught!”
LOST AND FOUND BY THE GYM TODAY ONLY!!!!
 Seventh Grade:

Present your illustrated words

Discuss your Essential Rules

More Utopian Societies

Video: “In Search of…ShangriLa”
 Sixth Grade:

Critical Reading Series!
 Eighth Grade:

Timeline Presentations and
Notes 1881-1900 Ida B. Wells
Flees Memphis and The Atlanta
Compromise Speech: Jamal
Douglas

Handout: Lynchings in America

Work on Open Book Quiz
Shangri-La
 Shangri-La is the name of a
fictional kingdom in a novel
written by James Conrad in
1932. The novel is called
Lost Horizon.
 It was based on the hindu
myth of Shambala, a place
said to be in the mountains
of Tibet.
 An expedition to find
Shambala was taken by
two South American monks,
disguised as Hindu
pilgrims, in the sixteenth
century.
 Father Andrate wrote an
account of their expedition.
Friday, March 19, 2010
When a positive person grows weary while in pursuit of his goal, he
stops to REST, not to quit!”

Seventh Grade:
Eighth Grade ;
Video: In Search of Shangri-La
Part II

Utopia Notes
Finish Open Book Test

Distribute The Giver Chapter 1014 Reading Guide

Begin Chapter 11 (Period 1) or
Chapter 10 (Period 2)
John Lewis, of the Buffalo Soldiers
Tenth Cavalry, “ Lakeland is a
beautiful little town, but with all its
beauty, it is hell for the colored
people who live here.”
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Sixth Grade:
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Review Bizarre Endings Lesson
5&6

Ben Carson Chapter 6

Timeline Presentations from Natalie Dix: Plessy v.
Ferguson and The Spanish-American War
TKM: Chapter Nine and Ten
Monday, March 22, 2010
"Try not to become a man of success. rather become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein
 Seventh Grade:

The Giver: Vocabulary Review
List #1,2,3 (Quiz tomorrow)

Continue The Giver
 Sixth Grade:

SRA Reading Center (New
Answer Sheet)

Ben Carson: Finish Chapter 7
 Eighth Grade:

Continue TKM to complete
chapter 10 and Chapter 9-10
Reading Response
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
 Seventh Grade:

Fictional Utopia: Brigadoon

The Giver: Vocabulary Quiz

Sentence Variety Activity

Finish Chapter 13
 Sixth Grade:

Bizarre Endings Lesson 7

MSS : Finish 14-18

Ben Carson: Finish Chapter
Seven
 Eighth Grade:

Timeline Presentations
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
Brandon Dugas: Williams
v. Mississippi and The
Wilmington Riots
TKM: Chapter Eleven: Mrs.
Dubose

Reading Response
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
 Seventh Grade

The Giver Vocabulary List #4

Complete Plato assignment
 Eighth Grade

TKM:
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 Sixth Grade:

MSS Lessons 10-18

Ben Carson : Chapter Eight

“College Choices”
Timeline Presentation

Emily Bolde: The
Blues

Finish Chapter Eleven

Chapter 9-10 Reading
Quiz (Open Book)
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Be sure that timeline
notes are complete!!
Thursday, March 25, 2010
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Seventh Grade:

Return/Make-up Vocabulary
Tests

Complete/Collect Plato
Assignment

The Giver : Chapter 14
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Essay: “Permission to Lie”
Sixth Grade:

Jamestown Series Center

Ben Carson: College Choices
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Eighth Grade:
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Collect Timeline notes and
summaries
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Choose the two events
from 1863- 1900 that you
find most important and
summarize them. Explain
why you think they are the
most significant events.
Staple the summaries to
the timeline notes and turn
them in.
Frontline: “A Class Divided”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontlin
e/shows/divided/
Friday, March 26, 2010

Seventh Grade:

(Period Two finish chapter 14)

Complete and collect Reading Guide
Ch 10-14

Essay: “Permission to Lie”
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Eighth Grade:
Frontline: “A Class Divided” Teaching the
adults
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sho
ws/divided/
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Sixth Grade:

Jamestown Reading Center

Ben Carson: Finish Chapter Nine

Character Sketch: Ben growing
up
Collect Timeline notes and summaries

Choose the two events from
1863- 1900 that you find most
important and summarize
them. Explain why you think
they are the most significant
events. Staple the summaries
to the timeline notes and turn
them in.