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 anita_odonohue@chino.k12.ca.us.

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May 27: (1) "Belinda and the Beast" (2) " The Monkey's Paw" (3)"Rumplestiltskin" (4) "Don Pasquale" (5) "Little Red Riding Hood- the real story" (6)

May 26:(1) "Adventures of Robin Hood" part 2 (2) "The dventure of the Speckled Band" (3) "Belinda and the Beast"(4) "The Monkey's Paw"

May 25: (1) "Adventures of Robin Hood" to p 60 col 1. (2) "The Importance of Being Earnest" part 2 (3) "The Trouble With Tribbles" part 2 (4)"The Emperor's New Clothes" (5) "The adventure of the Norwood Builder" (6) The Emperor's New Clothes"

May 24: (1) "The Adventure of Six Napoleons" (2)"The Importance of Being Earnest" p 56 proposal (3) "The Trouble With Tribbles"p.8 Scene 6. 

May 21: (1) "Cyano de Bergerac" part 2 ; "9 1 1" (2)"Puppy Love"; "Awards Graduation" (3) "Mikado" (4) "The Town That Couldn't Wake Up" part 2; "Belling the Cat" (5) "Romeo and Juliet" part 2 

May 20: (1) "Cyrano deBergerac" (2) Earthquake Drill (3)"Case of the Glass Slippers" (4)" The Town that Couldn't Wake Up" up to Scene 3 p30 (5) "Romeo & Juliet"(p65 col 1 bottom nar)

May 19: (1)"Legend of Sleepy Hollow"  (2) "Macbeth" (3) "A Tale of Two Cities" (4) "9  1  1" (5) "The Baltimore Plot" (6) "The Town That Couldn't Wake Up"

May 18: Hard bound text book: "from 'Uprising'" "Yetta" p28 and "Jane" p291 Analyze Point of View p 303 Compare and Contrast: Genres p303; Analyze Text p304 1,2.

May17: "Poems About Nature": CLOSE READER p.55-60 (1) "A Dog's Best Friend" (2) " A Touch of Magic" (3)"The School for Wives"(4)" Stone Soup" (5) "The Importance of Being Earnest" part 2 (6) "Hamlet" part 2

May 14: "Women in Aviation" Hard Text p43-48 (1)"Million Dollar Recipe" (2) "Hamlet" part 2 (3) "Romeo & Juliet at the Williamsburg Theater" (4) "The Purloined Letter"(5) "The Importance of Being Earnest" to p.60 (6) "Hamlet" Part one to p. 74 col 2.

May 13: "Arachna" : Close Reader p 17-22; (1) "The Test" (2) "Hamlet" (3) "The Test" (4) "Thief" (5) "Heart of a Stranger"  (6) "Heart of a Stranger"

May 12: "Flight of Icarus" Hard bound text p31-34; "Finding Your Everest" Close Reader p13-16 ;;(1) "An Enemy of the People"; (2) "Rumplestiltskin" (3) "Stone Soup"; (4) " Freedom Riders" ; (5) "Pirates of Penzance" (6) Receive Yearbook

 May 11: Theater Study: PLAYS (1)"Thief" (2)"Million Dollar Recipe"            (3)"Huck Finn" (4)"The Roll Out"(5) "The Bald Soprano" (6) "The Bald Soprano"

May 10 "Rogue Wave" (Hard text p 3-14) (Per 4: Close Reader: Finding your Everest: Close Reader p13-16)

May 7 Hard bound Text: p307-315  " Craig Kielberger Reflects working Toward Peace"  (In your journal or on a piece of paper WRITE: Collaboration Quesion on p 312;   and answer " What is your Gift?")

May 6 Close reader: p107-112  "Difference Maker: John Bergman and Popcorn Park"

May 5- Hard text: "Earth (A Gift Shop)" p249-254

May 4- Hard Text: Always Wanting More" p 233-239 WRITE "Collaboration Question on p 236 in Google Classroom.

May 3- Plays: Per 1: "Not Worth A Continental" ; Per2: "Night On Bear Mountain" Per. 3: " Pinocchio"; Per.4 : "Puppy Love" Per. 5 : "A Year of Poems & "Ms. Riding Hood" Per. 6: " Old Mc Donald" & "New Shoes" NO MAKE-UP NEEDED FOR ABSENT STUDENTS ON MAY 3.

April 30 "He-y, Come On Out" Close reader  p 87-92

April 29  "Labels and Illusions" Close reader p83-86

April 28 CLOSE READER: "Teenagers and New Technology" everything on p.77-82

April26-Close reader: from "Polar Dream" p.45-50 do all the underlining, circling, vocabulary (in the margin), and questions IN YOUR BOOK.

April 27- Write : "A Nature Experience" (1 paragraph: Write about your own personal experience in nature.  Submit in Google classroom.)

April 23- Read "The Hidden Southwest: The Arch Hunters" in your Close reader p51-54: Do all the underlining, circling, vocabulary (in the margin), and questions IN YOUR BOOK.

April 22-Read "Big Rocks Balancing Acts" P157-164 from our text or on-line reader. Discuss Collaboration Question on p.164.

April20-23 "Sorry Wrong Number" Read: p.111-124;125-126 ( WRITE : Performance Task p126: In google classroom)

April 19- Lexile Tests 

April 19- Wednesday Wars Critique Due!

April 12-16

Wednesday Wars February-May

 April 6- 9

Wednesday Wars December-January

March 22-26

"October" and "November" In Wednesday Wars (Hands on book)

March 15-March17

Finish The Outsiders  Chap 10-12  Write Critique

March 8-March 12

The Outsiders Chap 6-9

Answer Chap. 6 Ques.

February 16- March 5

The Outsiders (in Materials Section)

Make a list of the characters

Read chapters 1-5

Answer Quote 1 and Quote 2 in Classwork

 INSPIRATIONAL BOOK  PRESENTATION 

February 11-12

Finish OUR TOWN

Cite the text, explain how you relate to Thorten Wilder's quote

Other quick writes

February 9-10

Essential Standards Test #3 

February 4-5, 8

Our Town (Materials section)

February 1-3 

Brian's Song film

January 25-29

Finish Brian's Song Part One and Two

Turn in writing on "Brian's Song:themes, evidence, and explanations"

January 21-22, Brian's Song ( in Materials section in Google classroom ) p.285-295 

January 19-20, Second Step, Theater Games

January 14-15, Lexile Test

January 12-13, IAB Test (Reading Info Text)

January 11, 2021

Brian's Song: p282-p285 + Notes on first theme from p 285

January 6-8 2021

Book Presentation: Your name, Title of humorous (funny) book, Author, Read a sentence

"Brian's Song: Act One to last sentence on p.282 (go to "Materials" section under classroom) Read twice.

December 14-December 17

Excerpts of "A Christmas Carol"

1) Satire

2) George C Scott's 1984 film

3) Close Reader

 PROGRESS REPORT CARD

December 7- December 11

Finish "A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley" (in materials section in google classroom)

List 4 scenes where Present takes Scrooge to learn 4 lessons.

Complete Book Presentations on Setting (time and place)

November 30-December 4

Read: "Scrooge and Marley:A Christmas Carol" in "Materials" section

1) Take 3 question quiz on Scene 1

2) Take 4 question quiz on Scene 2

3) Ghost of Christmas Past (Essay of 4 scenes Past showed Scrooge)

Book Presentation: Give setting : Time and Place.

November 16-20

"Thanksgiving at Rubino's" (in materials section in Google Classsroom)

1. Write a one sentence summary.

2. Write a one sentence theme.

Close Reader: "Saving the Lost"

1. Read p 31-34

2. In your Close Reader do #1-6, & Short Response.  Be sure to annotate and do vocabulary words in the margin.

3. IMPORTANT: Write the main idea by citing the text with the author's name in Google Classroom.

Period 3:

1. Read "Mother of Thanksgiving"

2. State a fact that you learned about Thanksgiving from this play.

November 9-13

Second Step District Lesson Plan

Essential Standards Test #2

 November 2-6

Book Presentation

"The STORY Machine" Period 1 & 2 & 3 & 4: to p 65; Period 5 & 6 FINISHED. 

"Cinderella" finished Period 5 & 6

Theater Games/ Conflict exercises/ Expert game

After reading "Heartbeat" p25-30 in Close reader, WRITE A DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTER "HEARTBEAT" and submit in google classroom to Mrs. O'Donohue for credit.

Trimester One:

October 27-30

"The Story Machine" by Isaac Asimov (per 5 & 6) to p.68

Journal Writing

Wiseman of Bagdad

Gratitude Scattergories

Theater Games

October 27 : asynchronus "Heartbeat" in close reader

October 26:

Lexile test Reading Inventory

October 18-22:

Common Formative Assessment: RI.8 I can trace and evaluate an argument

"Why Exploring the Ocean is Mankind's Next Giant Leap" Collections text p.193-196; ques p. 198 1-6, vocab p 199 1-4.

from "Living in the Dark" p 201-208. Ques p210 1-6

October 12-16:

"Once I Chased a Butterfly" summary and theme

Close Reader: Pages 67-74 "Stinging Tentacles Offer Hint of Ocean's Decline" Do ALL questions, annotations, and vocabulary.  Be ready to submit any page upon Teacher request in google classroom. In Google Classroom submit: Page 74 Question 9: Reread lines 139-144. Restate what Antonio Lopez says in your own words.

October 5-9:

Autobiographical Incident:

Rough Draft: written in hands on journal

Revision Draft: written in hands on journal

Final Draft: submitted in Google Classroom

Theater Vocabulary Quiz (oral); Improvisations; In Materials in Google Classroom: Captain Potato

September 28-Oct. 2

9/28: Second Step Lesson : Roadblocks

9/29-9/30: IAB State Test: Research: Evaluating Sources

10/1-10/2: IAB Make up Tests

10/1-10/2: Read "A Day at the Dickersons". Write summary. 

September 20-24

Second Book Presentation

Journal writing

Theater Games

Research State Student ID for ABI tests

SEPTEMBER 14-18

WATCH YOUTUBE: "Famous Failures" and "Ordinary People Do Extraordinary Things"

Guess the people, write names of people next to your guess, when they are revealed.  Choose one  to  write a few sentences on "who surprised you the most and why" IN YOUR JOURNAL :

CLOSE READER P 63-66 "Is Space Exploration Worth The Cost?" by Joan Vernikos:Read, annotate, look up vocabulary words definitions that are in the margin, answer all questions throughout story in complete sentences.  

September 8-12:

JFK Speech: "Dedication ofthe Aerospace Medical Health Center"

Read HARD text p. 185-188

D0 P. 190 Ques. 1-6 ( complete sentences )

D0 P 191 Ques. 1-4 

  Aug 31-Sept 4:

 Read first short story in Close Reader, p.3, "Big Things Come in Small Packages."

Annotate story in hands-on Close Reader according to the directions in the story. p.3-12. Next, answer all questions (p.3-12) in hands on Close Reader. 

Next , Listen to the on-line version of the story in our tile: (Holt MacDougal On-line My HRW) in Classlink. In google classroom write the answer to "Short Response" p. 12. 

 August 10-14