DR. HARPER’S PLANS AND AGENDAS
LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES,
AND STUDY SKILLS
October 15-19, 2012
LANGUAGE ARTS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012
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Learning: I can organize my
Showcase Portfolio and explain how
to conduct my Student-Led
Conference.
 Word
of the Day (Verbs):
 Attack – to launch a physical
assault, with or without weapons.
Sentence example:
LANGUAGE ARTS, P. 2
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012
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Prompt:
 Today is “National Grouch Day.” If
someone around you is being a grouch,
what are some ways that you could
cheer them up and help them be in a
better mood?
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LANGUAGE ARTS, P. 3
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012
 Proofreading
Sentences:
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everyone in our class like to play
computer games
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nobody thinks that dinasors is
boring
LANGUAGE ARTS, P. 4
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012
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Complete SLC Portfolio Work
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Language Arts
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Pick 3 Literature Tests
 All Summer in a Day Test
 All American Slurp
 Baucis and Philemon
 The Bracelet
 Suit Helps Girl
 Wind People
Social Studies
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2 Tests
1 Study Guide
1 Biography Activity
1 Chapter Review/Cornell Notes
Sixth Grade Formative Assessment
Writing Sample
LANGUAGE ARTS, P. 5
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012
Read/discuss conference procedures.
 Read/discuss conference evaluation.
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Explain to partner the procedures for
Student-Led Conferences.
Check Proofreading Sentences from
October 8-12.
SOCIAL STUDIES
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15
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Target Learning: I can listen carefully and complete notes on
project presentations.
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Presidential Election 2012:
http://magazines.scholastic.com/election-2012
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Video: The Race for the Presidency.
Who is running for president/vice-president?
When is election day?
Why is 2012 an election year?
Present Chapter 2 Storyboard Projects.
Taking notes on each student’s project.
Note Outline:
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Name of Presenter:
Project style:
Main topics covered:
Overall presentation of project:
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Excellent Satisfactory
Needs Improvement
STUDY SKILLS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012
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Target Learning: I can demonstrate how to use
a Venn diagram to organize information.
Teacher Edition: 5-60.
Complete your timeline (organizational chart,
p. 53) on the article Life Cycle of a Frog, SE p.
57.
Share in table groups.
Write a reflection explaining any changes you
would make the next time you create a timeline
of events.
Read Inside the Outsiders, Executive Functions,
p. 58 and create a Venn diagram to compare
and contrast the characters.
LANGUAGE ARTS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
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Target Learning: I can use Think Pair Share to
explain how to identify the theme of a story.
Word of the Day:
Occur – to happen; take place.
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LANGUAGE ARTS, P. 2
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
Writing Prompt:
 Today is National Dictionary Day. Explain to a
classmate, in writing, how to look up the word
“dictionary” in the dictionary.
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LANGUAGE ARTS, P. 3
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
 Proofreading
Sentences:
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adam frozed in fear when the
beast eated a mapel tree in one gulp
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would you feel lonley if you never
gone to skool at all
LANGUAGE ARTS, P. 4
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
Target Learning Instruction:
 The Emperor’s New Clothes, Before You
Read the Fairy Tale, p. 135.
 Think Pair Share (Review procedures using
PPT (Wiki resources))-
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Literary Focus—Theme: Getting the Message:
1. What do we call the message of a story?
2. What do we call the sequence of events in a
story?
3. What is a generalization?
4. What do you have to do to make a statement
about the theme of The Emperor’s New Clothes?
LANGUAGE ARTS, P. 5
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
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Target Learning Instruction (continued from
Tuesday):
The emperor in this story loves clothes. Think
about how you would describe your fashion
style. Is it classic? Wild? Preppy? Grunge? Hiphop? Country?
Why do you think people love to wear certain
clothes—and dislike wearing others?
Jot down words that describe the clothes you
most like to wear.
Evaluate Think Pair Share strategy using
reflection questions from PPT.
SOCIAL STUDIES
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
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Target Learning: I can describe the first semester
team project and the roles, tasks, and responsibilities
needed to complete the project.
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Presidential Election 2012:
http://magazines.scholastic.com/election-2012
Why do we have presidential debates?
When are this year’s debates?
What is the electoral college?
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Review team building skills (Wiki PPT):
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Cooperation and collaboration.
 Team roles, tasks, responsibilities.
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SOCIAL STUDIES, P. 2
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
Discuss team project:
 http://ancientcivilizations6.wikispaces.com/Team
+Research+Projects
Comparing and Contrasting Societies,
Ancient Civilizations textbook, pp. 48-49.
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Assign team roles, tasks, and responsibilities.
 Review tasks needed to complete the
project(slide #21).
 Create a timeline and due dates for completing
tasks.
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STUDY SKILLS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
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Target Learning: I can demonstrate how to use
a Venn diagram to organize information.
Teacher Edition: 5-60.
Complete Venn diagrams from the article Inside
the Outsiders, EF p. 58.
Share in groups.
Write a reflection explaining how the Venn
diagram helped you learn information.
Review all note taking graphic organizers used.
Write another reflection describing the graphic
organizer you liked the best, how you will use it in the
future, and why you think it will help you remember
more information.
LANGUAGE ARTS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
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Target Learning: Target Learning: I can use
context clues to define and identify the parts of
speech of vocabulary from the story The
Emperors New Clothes.
Word of the Day:
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Complete – having all parts or elements;
lacking nothing.
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Sentence:
LANGUAGE ARTS, P. 2
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
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Writing Prompt: Many baseball fans were
surprised when the World Series game they
were watching was interrupted by the 1989
San Francisco Earthquake. Write about five
(5) facts you know about the cause of
earthquakes and summarize them in your
own words.
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LANGUAGE ARTS, P. 3
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
 Proofreading
Sentences:
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many people belief that soon
books will exist only on computers
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margie longed for the time when
chilren learned together in one class
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LANGUAGE ARTS, P. 4
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
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Target Learning Instruction: Write the
definition and part of speech of each word as
used in context in the story The Emperors New
Clothes.
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Vocabulary review:
Canopy (p. 140)
Chamberlains (p. 140)
Courtiers (p. 140)
Dreadful (p. 139)
Exquisite (p. 138)
Fumbled (p. 140)
Procession (p. 139)
Swindler (p. 137)
Train (p. 140)
Weavers (p. 137)
SOCIAL STUDIES
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
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Target Learning: I can work collaboratively with my team
to develop a plan for completing the first semester team
project.
Presidential Election 2012:
http://magazines.scholastic.com/election-2012
Video: The Race is On.
What is a political party?
What are red states and blue states?
What are third parties?
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Teams work to develop a topic and task assignment
plan for their first semester project (see next slide)…
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Introduction to Mesopotamia:
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Timeline
Chapter 3:1 Cornell Notes
FIRST SEMESTER TEAM PROJECT,
TEXTBOOK, PP. 48-49
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Topic and task assignments. Due Date:
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List of Resources. Due Date:
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Note cards. Due Date:
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Outline for paper. Due Date:
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Rough draft. Due Date:
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Final copy. Due Date:
STUDY SKILLS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
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Target Learning: I can record notes in a twocolumn format, differentiate the main idea from
supporting details, and compare and contrast the
content and organization of reading selections.
Executive Functions TE p. 5-69 and 5-70.
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Discuss:
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Why is it important to have the main idea and details in
your notes?
What should your notes look like?
Brainstorming: Why would organizing notes be useful?
Plan: Using Cornell Notes system, EF p. 59
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Review the organizational structure
Using the Cornell Notes template, EF p. 60 take notes on
the article Surf’s Up from
http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3757607
SURFS UP!!
LANGUAGE ARTS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
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Target Learning: I can create a cause and
effect chart to identify the theme of The
Emperors New Clothes.
Word of the Day:
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Acquire – to come into possession or ownership
of.
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Sentence:
LANGUAGE ARTS, P. 2
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
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Writing Prompt: On this day in 1767, the
Mason-Dixon Line was established. This
line was very symbolic in the minds of the
people of a young nation struggling over
slavery. List everything you know about
slavery and this time period.
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LANGUAGE ARTS, P. 3
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
 Proofreading
Sentences:
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him and his bestest frend found a
time capsule burried in an emty lot
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lisa and me will research the live
of emily dickinson
LANGUAGE ARTS, P. 4
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
Target Learning Instruction:
 Vocabulary puzzle review, worksheet, p. 68
 Cause/Effect Chart:
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Cause
Effect
Guided reading with audio CD.
 Complete/discuss cause effect chart.
 Review vocabulary.
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SOCIAL STUDIES
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
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Target Learning: I can explain how the rivers of
Southwest Asia supported the growth of
civilization. HSS 6.1.3.
Presidential Election 2012:
http://magazines.scholastic.com/election-2012
What is absentee voting?
What is meant by bipartisan?
What is the Electoral College?
Check/discuss Cornell Notes for Main Ideas one
and two.
Complete assessment questions using Cornell
Notes. Turn both in tomorrow.
STUDY SKILLS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012
MINIMUM DAY SCHEDULE
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Target Learning: I can take three-column notes
connected to classroom curriculum.
Discussion: Promoting engaged listening and active
learning.
Why are notes important?
 Why is it important to think about the way we take
notes?
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Preview: Read p. 61 and discuss the 3 column
notes on The Constitution.
Prepare:
Page 62—complete notes using current or
approaching social studies lesson.
 Discuss how to write personal connection (review
three-column notes sample, TE p. 5-75.
 Turn-in completed work.
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LANGUAGE ARTS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2012
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Target Learning: I can demonstrate my
understanding of the vocabulary and events that
support the theme from The Emperors New
Clothes.
Word of the Day:
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Require – to ask for authoritatively.
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Sentence:
LANGUAGE ARTS, P. 2
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2012
Writing Prompt:
 The Star Spangled Banner was first sung on this
day in 1814. This song, which is our National
Anthem, is sung at a number of different events.
Explain why it’s important to carry on the
tradition of singing this song.
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LANGUAGE ARTS, P. 3
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2012
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Proofreading Sentences:
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Check/Discuss/Turn-In.
Target Learning Instruction:
Theme chart, worksheet, p. 110.
 Vocabulary close quiz, worksheet, p. 73.
 Literary Response and Analysis, worksheet pp.
49-51.
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Features of themes:
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The story contains different lessons or themes.
What do you think the main theme of the story
is? How do the characters, their actions, and
images from the story convey this theme?
Support answers with details from the story.
SOCIAL STUDIES
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2012
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Presidential Election 2012:
http://magazines.scholastic.com/election2012
Video: The Presidency.
 Discuss the importance of the U. S. Presidency.
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Check/discuss Chapter 3:1 assessment
questions.
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Complete Chapter 3:1 Study Guide.
Write a proposal for an irrigation system that will divert
flood waters and benefit riverbank farmers.
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WRITING A PROPOSAL FOR AN
IRRIGATION SYSTEM
Name of Project:
 Purpose of the Project:
 Materials Needed:
 Timeline for Completing Project:
 Benefits:
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HINT: Mention the elements of irrigation
mentioned in chapter 3, section 1
STUDY SKILLS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2012
Target Learning: I can create a study plan
based on upcoming projects and tests.
 Student Guide, pp. 64-71.
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Think Pair Share:
 Do you ever think about when you will study
for a test? How will you study? How long
should you spend preparing for a test?
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Complete: The Best Way for me to Study for a
Test, Student Guide, pp. 68-69.
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Share results.