Wednesday -- Open School Night

• 1st - Science with Ms. Galan.  They got a good report with the exception of one boy in the classroom.  
• 2nd and 3rd- We started by playing a bit of catch-up by looking at who had missed what quizzes on AR.  Then we did a quick 10 minute reading comprehension check on an article called "Volcano!".  This was actually about 20 minutes, but who is counting.  Then we worked on ReadyGen Lesson 4A.3.   First we READ Chapters 7–8, pp. 57–85 Lunch Money.  Our READING FOCUS was readers understand the elements of narrative texts and how to use them to determine the theme of the story.  Our WRITING FOCUS was to write dialogue between two or more characters who work together to come up with creative solutions to a problem.  We went a little over because we had to do 3 days of vocabulary instead of one day.
• 4th - MOSL Prep!   We did practice short response questions that mimic the MOSL questions using our book LUNCH MONEY as the source.   The students had to write a short response using the RACE method on the positive aspects of Greg's love of money, and then another with the negative aspects of Greg's love of money.  We then went over how to RESTATE the question, ANSWER the questions, CITE two text details, and then EXPLAIN how these details support your Answer (claim).  We ended by talking about the extended response that they would have to do for homework.
• 5th - GoMath Chapter 11 Performance Task 
• 6th - Lunch/Recess
• 7th - Collected Social Studies Homework and then watched the second half of Liberty Kids "The Intolerable Acts" and discussed exactly what were the Intolerable Acts.




• The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.  The Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.

• Then we started watching the next episode called "United We Stand" where people are getting fed up with the way they are being treated and are started to act like a united group of colonies instead of 13 independent colonies.  

Homework:

Reading:  Lunch Money Chapter 1-6 Comprehension Check and Quick Write

Reading: Independent Reading Book 30-45 minutes

Writing:  Practice writing dialogue between two characters in  your journal

Writing:  MOSL Extended Response / Essay writing