This Week!!

Check out this site for Figurative Language


http://mrswarnerarlington.weebly.com/figurative-language.html

Figurative Language Practice
https://jeopardylabs.com/play/mrsthomas-figurative-language-game

http://www.timeforkids.com/homework-helper/study-helper/figurative-language

The Case of the Speckled Band

http://scope.scholastic.com/resource/uploads_scope/scope-vault/pdfs/SCOPE-092412-Play.pdf

The full version of The Case of the Speckled Band
http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/acdoyle/bl-acdoyle-speck.htm

This Week

Students will be going on a field trip this week to the Botanical Garden in Brunswick County.  For homework, students will be required to finish work from the classes that they attend during the day.

In my class, we are reading "The Girl Who Discovered the Dinosaurs". They may look at the article here:

http://scope.scholastic.com/resource/uploads_scope/issues/040114/pdfs/SCOPE-040114-Nonfiction.pdf

This week

Sorry but I was not able to access my website this week so I could not update my homework.

Students do/did not have homework for Monday-Wednesday.


Learning about Author's Purpose:

http://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?v=ECE0I0AeXXE



The Red-Headed League

http://scope.scholastic.com/resource/uploads_scope/issues/020114/pdfs/SCOPE-020114-Play.pdf

This Week

We have started our new and last unit "Figure it Out." This is our mystery unit.  Students will be able to identify the elements of mystery, to describe appropriate vocabulary (Detective's Dictionary), analyze a mystery, formulate a theory and solve the mystery.  Students will also look at several scientific mysteries.

Please review this short video on the mystery genre.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yePQGZ-vVdI