Bailey's Big News

"Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

Today we finished the HOMOPHONE TEST, then listened to another short story.

Click here to find the text for "The Celebrated Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain...
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/frog.html

Click here to LISTEN to the story.  You have to play each SEGMENT one at a time.
http://www.thoughtaudio.com/titlelist/0015-twain/index.html

HOMEWORK
Answer these questions about the story we read today:
1.  What is the moral of the story?
2. How does Mark Twain use setting, characters, language, and events to create humor?
3. How is the story different from the other (4) that we have read?

HOMOPHONE Test

Friday is the HOMOPHONE TEST.

It is NOT a traditional spelling test.  Students were given (20) spelling/vocabulary words, and have been adding homophones to them for the past week.  They were instructed to add words from homework sheet 19, 20/ 21 and Ex. 24, 25 from the Grammar textbook.
THIS will be their STUDY GUIDE.

Here is a short list of other HOMOGRAPHS that students can also review:
volume - sound level, # of books in a set
ring - sound of bell; jewelry for finger
scale - outside of a fish; to climb; a tool for measurement
record - music albums; official papers
mind - obey: think about: brain: take care of
quarter - 1/2; 25cents; a living area/room/space
account - the telling of events; money put in bank
run - a score in baseball; to move quickly
admit - to accept; to confess; to allow entry
field - an open area of land; an area of study
grave - a tomb for the dead; sadness; severe

"The Monkey's Paw"

Thursday's DOL
1. prepositional phrases
2. verb phrase
3. object of the preposition
4. direct objects

We read the short story, "The Monkey's Paw".  Here is a copy of the story:
http://www.americanliterature.com/SS/SS19.HTML

If you would like to hear the story, here is the link..GO TO the MP3 format below the story summary.....BE PATIENT!
http://librivox.org/the-monkeys-paw-by-ww-jacobs/

Short Story, "The Diamond Necklace"

This week's DOL sentence
Their mother won a medal for her creative hospital website, but donated it to the patients because they had helped her with her study.

Wed. DOL   Type of sentence, independent clause, dependent clause, complete subject, compound predicate, list the pronouns and antecedents.

Today, we listened to the story entitled, "The Diamond Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant.  Here is a copy of the story so students can revisit it:
http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/gdemaupassant/bl-gdemaup-diamond.htm

Here is another site that contains the AUDIO of the story. Go down to the 4th story and select the MP3 file to listen to....HAPPY READING!
http://librivox.org/short-story-collection-002/

HOMEWORK
Complete a PLOT diagram on "The Diamond Necklace".

Short Story, "Tell Tale Heart"

This week's DOL
Their mother won a medal for her creative hospital website, but donated it to the patients because they helped her with her study.

On Monday, we read "Tell Tale Heart" (see attached story)
http://www.pambytes.com/poe/stories/heart.html
Students listened to the story as they followed along.
NO HOMEWORK

On Tuesday, we worked on a graphic organizer for "The Tell Tale Heart" and completed a POP QUIZ.  Students used time in class to work on their HOMOPHONE LIST for Friday's test.
HOMEWORK
1. Create a list of homophones that include spelling words, words from homophone 19/20 and 21/22, Grammar textbook, page 710 homework, and CLASS LECTURES.
2.  Grammar workbook, page 710, Exercises 24 and 25

REPORT CARDS TODAY

Today.......Monday, October 22nd, students will receive REPORT CARDS for Quarter 1. They will SIGN OUT the report cards and need to return them signed ASAP.

Thanks

Friday, Oct. 19th

DOL Quiz

POST Test, Quarter 1

HOMEWORK
Homophone Spelling sheet, 21,22
Students ALSO need to keep a list of ALL homophones from homework sheets and classroom discussions.  There is a HOMOPHONE TEST on Friday, 10/26 and it will include homophones from homework assignments and class lectures.  Students can use their HOMOPHONE LISTS as a STUDY GUIDE.

This week....

This week's DOL
My favorite teacher, Ms. Jones, teaches math in the morning, science in the afternoon, and reading for a small group in the afternoon program.

Monday - correct
Tuesday - parts of speech
Wednesday - type of sentence, subject, predicate, direct object
Thursday - prepositional phrases
Friday - DOL QUIZ

On Tuesday and Wednesday, we took a WRITING ASSESSMENT.
Thursday - Spelling assignments on memory devices.
HOMEWORK

Homophone sheet 19, 20 - memory devices
DOL Quiz tomorrow

Memory devices are tricks we use to spell and remember homophones.

Example:  heard – if you cross out the H and D, you have EAR –

you hear with your ears.  This memory game helps you remember how to spell HEARD

New Homophone Spelling Words

Here are the spelling/vocabulary words that were given on Monday, 10/15.

there, their, they're, herd, heard, capital, capitol, principal, principle, wear, where, strait, straight,  compliment, complement, idle, idol, two, too, to

Friday, Oct. 12th

On Friday we took our spelling test and students handed in their weekly DOL(#8).

We also took a POP QUIZ on the short story, "Rikki-tikki-tavi".  Students were allowed to use their notes, the story, and their completed plot diagram that was handed back.  The quiz included 20 multiple choice questions and for one question, students had to reproduce their plot diagram (this was no problem for the students that had completed it for homework last week).

HOMEWORK
SHORT STORIES due on Monday, Oct. 15th!
We have been working ALL WEEK on short stories.  Students received their writing assignment on Friday, Oct. 5th and worked on it EVERYDAY from Oct. 8-12. 
Please look over the requirements.  The short stories should be typed-double-spaced OR hand-written in INK (except for the mini book group).