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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Today in Class: January 12th

Learning Goals 
1. Spell and know the meanings of homophone pairs.
2. Describe the different types of fiction genres.
3. Identify and describe the different parts of a story's plot.
4. Identify possessive nouns and use apostrophes correctly to make nouns possessive. 

Agenda
  • Warm-up: Possessive Nouns Review, Workbook Page 128
  • Grammar: Possessive Nouns Practice
  • Genres: Review homework pages 68 & 69 together
  • The City of Ember: Preview activity; Start reading Prologue ("The Instructions") and Chapter 1 ("Assignment Day")
Homework
1. Complete Homophone Project by Friday
2. Study for Unit 3, Week 5 word meaning quiz tomorrow