DOL: Abbreviation, comma splice, capitalization, comma (introductory clause)

In 1968 an oil company heiress left 4.3 million dollars to her

150 or so dogs, when the dogs died the money went to the auburn

university school of veterinary medicine.

JOURNAL: Choose a character from a book that you have read to

focus on for this week’s journal entries. For today, choose a decision

that character had to make that was difficult for him/her. Briefly

describe the events leading up to the decision and tell why you

the character made the decision.

DIAGRAMMING: Enter all dates into your agenda.

Current Events

Agendas - Homework Helps

Community Service - Reminder

Map Project - Reminder and questions - due Dec. 12

Sentence diagramming

Tom Sawyer - Background and discussion

Story writing

Colony project or mind maps

DOL: Punctuation (appositive), Usage (right word), verb tense

Eric the Red the Norseman who discovered Greenland

gived the continent that name to make it seam like an

attractive place to live.

JOURNAL: If the character you have chosen to focus on this

week had made a different decision, what would that have been?

How do you suppose the different decision would have effected

those around him/her?

DIAGRAMMING: Aren't you glad to be back at school?

Current events

Sentence diagramming

Story elements

Mind maps

Colonies projects

DOL: End punctuation, pronoun (Reflexive), colon (to introduce

What music group called theirselves by the following

names, the Quarrymen, Johnny and the moondogs the moonshiners

and Long John and the Silver Beetles.

JOURNAL: Why is it so hard for some members of a family to get along?

What conflicts lead to family differences which are never resolved?

DIAGRAMMING: Winter and Spring breaks remind me of summer vacation.

Current events

Sentence diagramming

Story elements

Mind maps

Colonies projects

DOL: Misplaced Modifier, Adverb, Abbreviation,

This a.m. Andre painted a real gorgeous picture

of the sunrise in his pajamas.

JOURNAL: What themes would be good topics for the

character you chose at the beginning of the week?

DIAGRAMMING: The colonies began to build their own identities.

Current Events - December 7 - the "day that will live in infamy"

Tom Sawyer - Discuss. Readers' Theater?

Current events

Story elements

Mind maps

Colonies projects

DOL: Incomplete comparison, Plural, Abbreviation

More turkies are raised in California than in any state in the U.S.

JOURNAL: Making my map has been . . .

DIAGRAMMING: We are ready to go to the store.

Current events

Spelling test

Turn in DOL, Journal, Diagramming, Spelling test and homework

Story elements

Mind maps

Colonies projects