Reading
Lesson Plans
March 28 – April
Monday – March 28, 2011
Poetry
Figurative language – simile, metaphor, personification and symbols
Reading skill: conclusions
Poetry Collection 1: Life, The Courage That My Mother Had, and Loo Wit. Review vocabulary. Read the poems answer the reading skills and literary analysis questions, think about selection question page 540, 2,3,4,7,8,9
Tuesday-March 29, 2011
Read and discuss the poems going over questions. Identify types of figurative language in the poems. Quiz on internet phschool.com---code ema-6404
Wednesday – March 30, 2011
Go over quiz
Take a practice test using Progress Monitoring Assessment Book, page 43 – 52. Use actual testing procedures. Go over test at 2 o’clock.
Thursday – March 31, 2011
Take practice test on Spelling and Language skills. Using actual testing procedures, page 64 – 75. Go over at 2 o’clock.
Friday – April 1, 2011
Poetry Collection 2: Mother to Son, The Village Blacksmith, and Fog....review vocabulary... answer literary analysis, reading skills,and reading check questions. Use a graphic organizer to connect details from the poem “Mother to Son.” Identify the types of figurative language in each poem.
Monday – April 4, 2011
Go over the three poems from Friday. Read the poems and discuss them orally and go over questions. On line quiz at phschools.com code ema-6405.
Monitoring your progress....page 551 and 533 Drawing Conclusions. Grammar lesson page 532, infinitives and infinitive phrases and page 550 appositives and appositives phrases. Do and go over in class.
Tuesday – April 5, 2011
Practice ITBS
Wednesday – April 6, 2011
Go over practice ITBS test
Thursday- April 7, 20ll
Narrative Poetry: The Highwayman, The Cremation of Sam McGee, and How I Learned English,,,, read each poem looking of the charateristics of a narrative poem, answer reading check, reading analysis and literary analysis questions.
Friday –April 8, 2011
Read each of the poems orally....discuss the characteristics of a narrative poem...go over questions. Create a chart comparing the characteristics of the three poems, page 569. on line quiz ema-6404.
Monday – April 9, 2011
Practice test.....benchmark 1 test....
Tuesday –April 10, 2011
Go over practice test
Wednesday- April 11, 2011
Reading and Vocabulary Skills Review...page 570-571
Poetry Collection 1, Sarah Cynthia-Sylvia Stout, Weather, One. Reading skills paraphrase....literary analysis....sound devices...onomatopoeia, alliteration, repetition. ...read each poem looking for the sound devices that fit each....thinking about selection page 586, 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9.
Thursday – April 12, 2011
Read each of the poems outloud...identify the sound devices in each...go over questions... on line quiz ema-6407.
Friday – April 13, 2011
Practice test.....Unit 5