JUNE IS FINALLY HERE!MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

1Book Club Reading

Day

2Fragment

“Smack Down”

3Book Club

Reading Day

4How to Avoid the Dreaded Run On

Sentence

5Book Club Group

DiscussionReading

8Compound

Sentences Turning into Splices?

FANBOYS to the Rescue!

9Book Club

Reading Day

10Introducing

Your Sentence – AAAWUBBIS!!

11Book Club

Reading Day

12Book Club Group

DiscussionReading

15Do You Need a Non-Essential

Clause in your Sentence?

16Book Club

Reading Day

17Series / Oxford / Harvard Comma

185 Best Entries

Due Today!Book Club Group

Discussion

19Grade 8 Class

Trip to ???

22Grammar Flipchart

Creation

23Celebration of

School Success

24Con’t

25Con’t

Grammar Flipchart Due!

26Assessment &

Evaluation Day – No school!

29Last Day of

School!

May 2009

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

1Poetry Writing

Workshop

4Lab – Choose Final

Poetry Writing Assessment

5Writers’

Workshop(Project)

6Con’t

7All rough drafts

drafted by Monday

8In-service – No

School!

11Poetry Revisors’

WorkshopSs, Ms, &

Personification

12Con’t

Delete the Weak Parts

13Con’t

Repetition

14Con’t

Line Breaks

15Con’t

White spaceAll 2nd/3rd drafts

WPed by Monday

18Victoria Day – No

School!

19Mini on Editing

Guided self & peer editing

20Update poems

and print FINAL DRAFT! Yippee!

21Poetry Publishing & Beautification

22Poetry

Publishing & Beautification

25Poetry Writers’

Workshop Assessment Due

Independent Reading Day

26Book Clubs!

27 28 29

September 2008SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 2 3First Day!

4-Class Outline-Info Index-Class library how-to

5- Have your novel and dividers

6

7 8-Have a duotang and your ELA binder - “Best Book EVER”

9-Reading conferences

10- Reading conferences

11- Mini on BBE graphic organizer

12- Continue on BBE organizer

13

14 15-Mini on writing and presenting BBE- Guided reading

16- Draft BBE speech

17- BBE Computer Lab Time

18- BBE Artist’s Workshop

19- Email BBE to Herald’s Raise a Reader contest

20

21 22- “Best Book EVER” Presentations Begin

23- Create Readers’ and Writers’ Notebooks…

24- Continue BBE Presentations

25- Finish BBE Presentations- Homework: Personalize page

26In-service!!

27

28 29Mini on Genre

30Create Genre Group Presentations

October 2008SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1Continue Creating Genre Group Presentations

2NOGGINS FARM TRIP!

3Deliver Genre Presentations

4

5 6Genre Presentations

7Genre Presentations

8Student Council Elections

9Genre Bingo!

10Stuck in Neutral Launch

Mini on Predicting

11

12 13THANKSGIVING

14ELA ASSESSMENTMini on Predicting

15ELA/MATH ASSESSMENTMini on Reading with Expression

16ELA/MATH ASSESSMENT

17Mini on Background KnowledgeCP Webquest (Homework for Monday)

18

19 20Correct CP WebquestJournal #1

21WALK-N-READ-

A-THON ALL MORNING!

22Stuck in Neutral Chapters 1 & 2Journal #2

23Stuck in Neutral Chapters 3, 4, 5Journal #3

24Teachers’

Conference Day!

25

26 27Mini on Expression“Conversation Piece”

28Chapters 6 & 7Journal #4 Assignment

29Mini on Writing ExpectationsWriter’s Workshop

30Writer’s Workshop Conferences

31Writer’s Workshop Conferences

November 2008SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1

2 3Journal #4 Assignment DueChapters 8 & 9

4Parent / Teacher Conferences

5Mini on predictingChapter 10

6Chapter 11

7Mini on Point of ViewChapter 12

8

9 10Remembrance Day Project assigned

11Remembrance Day

12Remembrance Day Project handed in and shared

13Mini on ForeshadowingChapters 13 & 14Journal #5

14Chapters 15 & 16Journal #6

15

16 17Satisfied or Unsatisfied?

18Mini on BiasAuthor’s Note

19Revisit Anticipation Guide

20Stuck in Neutral project assigned

21Writer’s Workshop Conferences

22

23/30

24Teachers’ PD Day

25Writer’s Workshop Conferences

26Writer’s Workshop Conferences / Word Processing

27Writer’s Workshop Conferences / Word Processing

28Assessment & Evaluation Day

29

DecemberSUND

AYMONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATUR

DAY

1Stuck in Neutral

project due!

2S in N

Presentations

3S in N

Presentations

4Reader’s

Workshop – Connecting

5Reader’s

Workshop - Connecting

6

7 8Snow Day!Term Two

Starts

9R’s WS –

“So What” Connections

10R’s WS –

“So What” Connections

11Report Cards

go home.R’s WS –

Questioning“So What”

Due

12R’s WS -

Summarizing

13

14 15R’s WS –

Summarizing

16R’s WS – Main Idea

17R’s WS – Inferring

18R’s WS -

Synthesizing

19Last day of

school before Winter Break!

20

21 22 23 24Christmas

Eve!

25Christmas!

26 27

28 29 30 31New Year’s

Eve!

JanuaryMONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

5Magic of Three Writing Activity

Reading Strategies Quiz

6“On the

Sidewalk Bleeding”

Guided Reading &

Comprehension activity

7SS Reader’s

WS Contract & Record

8Mini lesson on

conflictReview setting

& point of view

9Mini lesson on

leads & plotSS Structure

Supervisor

12Mini lesson on

resolution

13Start “Structure

Supervisor”

14SS Elements

Finish “Structure Supervisor”

Start “Elements”

15Finish

“Elements”

16Mini lesson on

imagerySS Imagery

Address

19SS Reader’s WS

-Finish reading-Finish assignments

-Conference

20SS Reader’s WS

-Finish reading-Finish assignments

-Conference

21SS Reader’s WS

-Finish reading-Finish assignments

-Conference

22SS Reader’s WS

-Finish reading-Finish

assignments-Conference

23All Reader’s

Workshop Assignments Due!

SS Reading Rumination

“Black Dog of Antigonish Harbour”

by Steve Vernon

24Visit from author

Steve Vernon“Show not tell”

prewrite

25Mini on

prewritingSynonyms for

said reading hunt

26Button prewrite

Button character mash-up

Button Add-a-line

27Snow Day!

28Mini on action

verbs & reading hunt

February

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

2War picture

prewriteNeat dialogue reading hunt

3Mini on drafting

Guidelines for SS Writing

ContractLength

conferences

4Plot, conflict,

and character outlines

Write!

5Write!Share!

6Write!Share!

9Mini on revision

HW = Revise

10Word process

D#2HW: Finish

WPing

11Revision help

sheetHW: Revise

again

12Word process

D#3

13Paragraph mini

HW: Revise again

16Lead mini

HW: Revise again

17Word process

D#4

18Mini on editing

Self-edit

19Peer editing

groups

20Mini on dialogue

HW: Perfect dialogue

23Dialogue group

edit

24Mini on

publishingLab

25Lab

26Final SS Writing

Contract due!

27

March 2009

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

2Short Story DUE!

3March Madness

Mini

4March Madness

Oral reading conferences

5March Madness

Oral reading conferences

6March Madness

Oral reading conferences

Self-Evaluation #1

9March Madness

Oral reading conferences

Prove your Active Reading Quiz…

10March Madness

Oral reading conferences

11March Madness

Oral reading conferences

12March Madness

Oral reading conferences

13March Madness

Oral reading conferences

Self-Evaluation #2

16M

B

17A

R

18R

E

19C

A

20H

K

23March Madness

DUE!

24Don Aker’s

visit

25Non Fiction

Reading Rumination (in

folder)

26Non Fiction

Reading Rumination (in

Reader’s Notebooks)

27Assessment &

Evaluation DayNO SCHOOL!

April 2009

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

30Poetry Readers’

Workshop Launch!

31SNOW DAY!

1Poetry Log – 50 LPW Notices…

2Con’t

3Mini on similes,

metaphors, personification

6Practice Ss, Ms, Ps

7“So, what’s a

poem, anyways?”

8Con’t

9Mini on

alliteration, onomatopoeia, and alliteration

10Good Friday

NO SCHOOL!

13Easter Monday

NO SCHOOL!

14Con’t hunt for

poetic tools

15Mini on oral

reading of poetry…

16Poetic tools hunt

17Con’t

20Oral Pres. Begin

50 “Notices” Due!

21Oral poem

presentations…

22Pier 21 Trip

Lesley Choyce visits

23Mini on Readers’

Workshop Final Assessment

24Work on

Assessment

27R’s WS Final

Assessment Due!

28Poetry Writing

Workshop

29Con’t

30Con’t

1Con’t