Announcements
- Check Your Gmail!
DO Now - None
Learning Target(s)
- I can practice using SOAPSTone and TREES to answer and analyze questions on the NYS ELA Exam.
- I know what room I am in for the ELA.
Mini-Lesson: Review
- Using last year's ELA from Friday review the steps to go through when answers Short Response and Paired Text Questions on the ELA.
- General Tips
- 1. Answering MCQs
- Read over the MCQs first.
- Actively Read the text
- Answer the questions
- Stuck? What kind of MCQ is it? Process of Elimination. Educated Guess.
- 2. Short Answer Questions
- Read the stem.
- Think about what the question is asking you.
- How many pieces of evidence do you need?
- Use EE EE
- Write TREES down the side of your response.
- Fill it in.
- Always explain your evidence... This proves... because...
- 3. Extended Responses
- Same steps as above but use TR EE EE EE EE S
Work Time
- Practice using Book 3 of last years ELA
Assessment / Homework
- Get a good night sleep and eat breakfast.
- Prepare your family ahead of time.
- Get to school early.
- Bring pens and sharp pencils to the testing room.
TUESDAY through THURSDAY C-Day: Make Your Own Book! PERIODS 4 & 6 Only
Announcements
- Check your Gmail.
- All grades are closed for the marking period.
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DO Now - None
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Learning Target(s)
- I can create an online poem.
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Mini-Lesson: How to Login to StoryBird.com
- How to Login
- Model of a poem.
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Work Time
- Create your own StoryBird.com poem.
- Ideas: Mother's Day, Best Friend, Special Person in My Life,
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Assessment / Homework
- None
On their way to their new home, a young girl, Chihiro, and her parents stumble into what appears to be an abandoned theme park. But all is not as it seems, as the theme park is a bath-house for the spirits, and not a place where humans are welcome. Chihiro must fend for herself and rescue her parents, as they have been turned to pigs as punishment for eating the food meant for the gods.
