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 * Wednesday 10-21-15**

Read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, complete worksheet and make a plot line.


 * Tuesday 10-20-15**

Watched "Time Enough at Last" and wrote a paragraph about it using the SEED writing model and identified the conflict.

Time Enough at Last is from the Twilight Zone because?. For example?. Another example? As a result?.


 * Monday 10-19-15**

Watched "The Odyssey of Flight 33" and wrote a paragraph about it using the SEED writing model and identified the conflict.

The Odyssey of Flight 33 is from the Twilight Zone because?. For example?. Another example? As a result?.


 * Friday 10-16-15**

Read and work on IXL


 * Thursday 10-15-15**

Write a compare/contrast over the Twilight Zone Episodes.


 * Wednesday 10-14-15**

Watched the original TV episode.


 * Tuesday 10-13-15**

Read Monsters Are Due on Maple Street pages 695-710 and completed questions 1-6.


 * Monday 10-12-15**

Read Monsters Are Due on Maple Street pages 695-710 and completed questions 1-6.


 * Friday 10-9-15**

IXL all the OO's. OO.1-OO.5


 * Thursday 10-8-15**

Read three stories in the literature book and answered questions.


 * Wednesday 10-7-15**

Finish READ Magazine and the worksheet.


 * Tuesday 10-6-15**

Read the READ Magazine story, Disas-Tour, Inc. and complete the worksheet.


 * Monday 10-5-15**

Read the READ Magazine story, Disas-Tour, Inc. and complete the worksheet.


 * Friday 10-2-15**

Complete worksheet, In-Line Time. Read a library book.


 * Thursday 10-1-15**

Finished Rikki Tikki Tavi video, took a test, completed a figurative language worksheet.


 * Wednesday 9-30-15**

Finished Rikki Tikki Tavi and started the video.


 * Tuesday 9-29-15**

Took the NWEA assessment


 * Monday 9-28-15**

Read Rikki Tikki Tavi and made a plot line.


 * Friday 9-25-15**

Read a library book or finish Cinderella plot lines.


 * Thursday 9-24-15**

Read a Cinderella story and complete a plot line.

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0510a.html

http://www.lowvilleacademy.org/webpages/MBlow/cinderella.cfm?subpage=868111


 * Wednesday 9-23-15**

Read Cinderella. Completed the a plot line.


 * Tuesday 9-22-15**

Read Cinderella by Charles Perrault. Completed the a plot line.


 * Monday 9-21-15**

Read Yeh-Shen p. 829 and made a plot line.


 * Friday 9-18-15**

Read a library book.


 * Thursday 9-17-15**

Read Algonquin Cinderella p. 825. Made a plot line and took notes.


 * Wednesday 9-16-15**

Read Pecos Bill and took a quiz.


 * Tuesday 9-15-15**

IXL SS.1 and SS.4


 * Monday 9-14-15**

Read a folk tale and write a short review and summary.


 * Friday 9-11-15**

Read a library book!


 * Thursday 9-10-15**

Paul Bunyan

Each sentence or sentences below is an example of figurative language. Please label it and explain your answer.

10.All at once his eyes flew open. 11.He started to run along the riverbed, splashing through the mud. 12.Each minute seemed like an hour. 13.Remember, she was an ox, not a hog. 14.This was the worst snowstorm in the world.
 * 1) It snows so fast and hard that a town can be covered up before you can say, “Jack Frost.”
 * 2) As Paul and Babe got closer, they saw the men perched like birds on the top of the trees.
 * 3) He went from tree to tree, picking his men off the branches like so many apples.
 * 4) In fact, the way Soupy Sim stirred the soup was to paddle around the kettle in a canoe.
 * 5) It smoked and hissed.
 * 6) Babe would tug and pull, and the tree would fly out of the snow like a rabbit out of a hole.
 * 7) With a happy twinkle in her eye, she hopped up and landed on the steep slope.
 * 8) “Whoopie!” Cried the men as they watched Babe zoom down the hill. SPLASH!
 * 9) Paul ran out to Babe and told her what she had to do. Babe’s eyes opened wide.


 * Wednesday 9-9-15**

Finish figurative language assignment about me. Read Pal Bunyan story and took a quiz.


 * Tuesday 9-8-15**

Write a figurative language example about yourself for each of the following!

//** Figurative Language Definitions **//

// Analogy - a comparison made between two things to show how they are alike. (extended simile or metaphor) //

// Alliteration – the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words. Example: Shelly sees scrapbooking as a sensational source of pictures. //

// Hyperbole – an extreme exaggeration (I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.) //

// Idiom – a phrase that conveys a meaning different from the exact definition of the words used in it. (You’re driving me up a wall!) //

// Irony - a contrast between what is expected and what actually occurs. //

// Metaphor – a figure of speech that compares two things which are basically unlike. (example: Justin is a real bear in the morning.) //

// Onomatopoeia – the use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning. (buzz, boom, tick tock) //

// Personification – giving human qualities to nonhuman objects or beings. //

// Simile – a comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as” //


 * Friday 9-4-15**

Read your library book!


 * Thursday 9-3-15**

Define analogy and write 3 analogies. Draw a picture to go with one of your examples. Define idiom and write 3 idioms. Draw a picture to go with one of your examples. Define hyperbole and write 3 hyperbole examples. Draw a picture to go with one of your examples. Define onomatopoeia and write 3 onomatopoeia examples. Draw a picture to go with one of your examples. Use the following link for definitions and examples Figurative Language


 * Wednesday 9-2-15**

Define simile and write 3 similes. Draw a picture to go with one of your examples. Define metaphor and write 3 metaphors. Draw a picture to go with one of your examples. Use the following link for definitions and examples Figurative Language

Make and share a folder on Drive with me, jwilliams@usd313.org

When naming the folder: Last, First hour reading