Week of September 29th -- AUTHOR'S PURPOSE

All grade levels will be working on Author's Purpose. Writer's have several different reasons for writing:

• To Inform
• To Explain
• To Describe
• To Entertain
• To Persuade

We will address how to recognize/identify the author's purpose in different literary works.

GPS Standards:

ELAW5W1-4

ELAR6C2

ELA7RC1,2,4

PROGRESS REPORTS 9-26-08

Progress reports go home on 9/26/08. Please have your student return the signed report on MONDAY!

CALL FOR BOOKS!

CALL FOR BOOKS!! Please parents I'm begging here.... I need your discarded books. I cleaned out my daughters library and found 7 books for classroom checkout! THE CLASSROOM LIBRARY BENEFITS ALL STUDENTS...

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MYP Homework Week of Sept. 22

5th grade GIRLS:
Worksheet
Finish reading Money Hungry

5th grade BOYS:
Worksheet
Finish reading Blood is Thicker

6th grade GIRLS:
Finish reading Money Hungry
Worksheet

6th grade BOYS:
Finish reading Blood is Thicker
Worksheet

7th grade BOYS:
Finish reading Blood is Thicker
Worksheet

7th grade GIRLS:
Finish reading Money Hungry
Worksheet

MYP Readers! Week of Sept 22 - 26

This week will serve as a review for story elements, vocabulary words that we have had thus far and we will finish our novels. Students will complete all activities and rough drafts associated with their short stories read in class.

GPS Standards: http://www.georgiastandards.org/
ELA5R1 (a) (f)
ELA6R1 (e) (d)
ELA7R1 (b)

ANNOUNCEMENT:
October is here and we are ready to start our new class novels, this month we will read TWO novels, one novel I will provide and the other must be purchased. Please have your student’s novel in class by October 3, 2008. If you are having difficulty purchasing your novel, please email me or see me. Please visit the Barnes & Noble either on Moreland (next to the new Target) or Camp Creek, I have called and requested that they order additional books to have adequate inventory for you.

** Indicates the novel that I will provide.

5th grade GIRLS:
** Sacagawea: Girl of the Shining Mountains
Heaven by Angela Johnson

5th grade BOYS:
** Guns for General Washington
Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac,

6th grade GIRLS:
** Esperanza Rising
Standing Against the Wind, Traci L. Jones

6th grade BOYS:
** Escaping the Giant Wave
Taking Sides by Gary Soto

7th grade GIRLS:
** Journey to Topaz
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper

7th grade BOYS:
** Williawaw
Forged by Fire by Sharon Draper