Lesson Plans for 2023-24 *Tentative—Subject to Change
April 1-5, 2024 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: Monday Mistakes
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Tuesday Terms—Using context clues to identify the definition of terms.
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Wednesday Wise words—understanding and infering the meaning of a quote.
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Thursday thoughts—What age do you consider to be old? Do you think age is just a number? Give reasons why.
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Friday |
Bell Ringer: Friday Figurative Language
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Mar.25-29, 2024 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: Monday Mistakes
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Tuesday Terms—Using context clues to identify the definition of terms.
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Wednesday Wise words—understanding and infering the meaning of a quote.
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Thursday thoughts—What age do you consider to be old? Do you think age is just a number? Give reasons why.
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Friday |
Good Friday—No School |
Mar.18-22, 2024 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: Monday Mistakes
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Tuesday Terms—Using context clues to identify the definition of terms.
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Wednesday Wise words—understanding and infering the meaning of a quote.
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Thursday thoughts—What age do you consider to be old? Do you think age is just a number? Give reasons why.
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Friday |
Bell Ringer : Friday Figurative language—
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Mar.4-8, 2024 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: Monday Mistakes
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Tuesday Terms—Using context clues to identify the definition of terms.
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Wednesday Wise words—understanding and infering the meaning of a quote.
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Thursday thoughts—What age do you consider to be old? Do you think age is just a number? Give reasons why.
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Friday |
Bell Ringer : Friday Figurative language—
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Feb.26-Mar. 1, 2024 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: Monday Mistakes
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Tuesday Terms—Using context clues to identify the definition of terms.
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Wednesday Wise words—understanding and infering the meaning of a quote.
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Thursday thoughts—What age do you consider to be old? Do you think age is just a number? Give reasons why.
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Friday |
Bell Ringer : Friday Figurative language—
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Feb.19-23, 2024 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
No School |
Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Tuesday Terms—Using context clues to identify the definition of terms.
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Wednesday Wise words—understanding and infering the meaning of a quote.
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Thursday thoughts—What age do you consider to be old? Do you think age is just a number? Give reasons why.
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Friday |
Bell Ringer : Friday Figurative language—
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Feb.12-16, 2024 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: Monday Mistakes—correct the grammar mistakes.
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Tuesday Terms—Using context clues to identify the definition of terms.
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Wednesday Wise words—understanding and infering the meaning of a quote.
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Thursday |
Reading STAAR Benchmark |
Friday |
No School |
Feb.5-9, 2024 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: How important is academic growth to you?
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: What will you do to make sure you do your very best on this test?
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Free Wrie a half of a page. |
Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Keep journals open to identify 10 differences between the book and the movie.
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Friday |
Bell Ringer: Keep journal open to identify 10 differences between the book and the movie.
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Jan. 29-Feb.2, 2024 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: What was the point of the story about Mrs. Jones and the vacuum cleaner? Use the RACE process.
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Why did Jenner leave?
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: How do you explain the 7 dead rats in the hardware store? |
Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Who was preventing the rats from moving the Frisby’s home? Why?
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Friday |
Bell Ringer: Do you think the rats succeeded in their new home?
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Jan. 22-26, 2024 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: How do you explain the 7 dead rats at the hardware store?
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Make a prediction about what will happen next in the story. |
Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Why do you think the men want to capture the rats?
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Friday |
Bell Ringer: Do you think it is okay that the rats were used for experimentation?
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Jan. 15-19, 2024 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Why do you think the owl recognized Mrs. Frisby’s husband?
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: What evidence is there that these rats are intelligent?
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Why do you think the men want to capture the rats?
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Friday |
Bell Ringer: How do you explain the 7 dead rats at the hardware store?
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Jan. 8-12, 2024 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
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Tuesday |
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Why do you think Mrs. Frisby was willing to help Jeremy? What does this tell you about the kind of mouse she is? |
Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Do you think Mr. Fitzgibbon would plow up the Frisby's home if he knew it were there? Why or why not? |
Friday |
Bell Ringer: What advice would you have given Mrs. Frisby when the owl asked her to come into his house? Why? |
Dec. 18-22, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
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Tuesday |
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Wednesday |
FINALS |
Thursday |
FINALS |
Friday |
Merry Christmas |
Dec. 11-15, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: Free Write
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Vocabulary for Chapters 13-14 of Brian’s Winter
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Comprehenion questions in packet for Brian’s Winter Ch. 13-14
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Write a short summary of what happened in the reading.
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Friday |
Bell Ringer: Free Write
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Dec. 4-8, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: Free Write
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Vocabulary for Chapters 7-9 of Brian’s Winter
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Comprehenion questions in packet for Brian’s Winter Ch. 7-9
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Write a short summary of what happened in the reading.
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Friday |
UIL Meet at NTCC
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Nov. 27-Dec. 1, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: Grammar practice
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Grammar practice
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Grammar practice
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Write a short summary of what happened in the first reading.
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Friday |
Bell Ringer: Describe the characters so far in the novel.
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Nov. 13-17, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: Grammar practice
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Grammar practice
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Grammar practice
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Free Write
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Friday |
Bell Ringer: What are you most thankful for?
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Nov. 6-Nov.10, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: Capitalization and Punctuation practice
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Capitalization and Punctuation practice
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Write a 3-4 sentence summary of what we read in the last section of Skeleton Creek.
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Which protagonist do you relate most to? Why?
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Friday |
Bell Ringer: Free Write
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Oct.30-Nov.3, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
No School |
Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Previously on Skeleton creek...p.1-60, Give a brief summary of what has happened so far.
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Puctuation and Capitalization #13 & 14. Refer to slide in Google classroom feed. 1.iReady Individual Skills Practice |
Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Puctuation and Capitalization #15 & 16. Refer to slide in Google classroom feed. 1.iReady Individual Skills Practice |
Friday |
Bell Ringer: Write a breif summary of what happened in the last video we watched.
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Oct. 23-27, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: Puctuation and Capitalization #7 & 8. Refer to slide in Google classroom feed. 1.iReady Individual Skills Practice |
Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Puctuation and Capitalization #9 & 10. Refer to slide in Google classroom feed. 1.Unit 1: Determining/Analyzing Central Idea and Details
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Puctuation and Capitalization #11 & 12. Refer to slide in Google classroom feed.
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: What happened in the House of Usher video that Sarah made in Skeleton Creek?
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Friday |
Bell Ringer: Write a breif summary of what happened in the last reading.
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Oct. 16-20, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: Puctuation and Capitalization #3 & 4. Refer to slide in Google classroom feed. 1.iReady Diagnostc Test |
Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Puctuation and Capitalization #5 & 6. Refer to slide in Google classroom feed. 1.iReady Diagnostc Test |
Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: What happened in the House of Usher video that Sarah made in Skeleton Creek?
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Compare Ryan and Sarah. How are they the same and how are they different?
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Friday |
Bell Ringer: Puctuation and Capitalization #3 & 4. Refer to slide in Google classroom feed.
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Oct. 9-13, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
No school |
Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Sentence Fragments...Write down your answer and your proof.
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Free Write
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Write a short summary of the nonfiction book that you read. 2-3 sentences
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Friday |
Bell Ringer: Correct the sentence…Ali needed to go to the supermarket, she was preparing for the slumber party that weekend.
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Oct. 2-6, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: Watch the viseo over sentence fragments. Write down the sentence fragment. Correct it.
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Tuesday Warm-up—Sentence Fragments...Write down your answer and your proof.
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Wednesday Warm-up—Sentence Fragments...Write down your answer and your proof.
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Thursday Warm-up—Sentence Fragments...Write down your answer and your proof.
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Friday |
NO SCHOOL |
Sept. 25-29, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: Watch the viseo over commas splices. Write down the comma splice sentence. What is needed to correct it?
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: IWhat is the most effective way to combine sentences 3-4?
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Rewrite sentence 24 correctly.
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Combine sentences 7-8.
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Friday |
Bell Ringer: Revise sentence 26.
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Sept. 18-22, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: “The planets have been read wrongly before now, even by the centaurs. I hope this is one of those times.” Explain this quote. What do the planets show? Why does Firenze show this?
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: In 3-4 sentences, summarize the obstacles the trio had to pass to get to the Stone.
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Why was Harry able to gain the Sorcerer’s Stone but Quirrell and Voldemort could not?
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: At the end of the novel, the narrator is concluding the book to show that everyone has a happy ending. Give 3 examples of this. 1. RLA STAAR Vocabulary--Blooket |
Friday |
Bell Ringer: FREE Write
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Sept. 11-15, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: Write a letter home decribing what it would be like during your first couple of weeks at Hogwarts if you were there.
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: What did Harry see when trying to get his book back from Snape?
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: What did Harry and Ron see in the “Mirror of Erised?” What can you infer that this says about them?
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Describe the Philosopher’s Stone. Why does the trio believe Snape wants to find it? 1. Read Chapter 15
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Friday |
Bell Ringer: How did the trio get rid of Norbert the dragon?
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Sept. 4-8, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
NO School: Labor Day |
Tuesday |
No School—Teacher Inservice |
Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Making Connections—What house would the sorting hat put you in and why?
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Personification—“His broomstick was rising higher and higher and started to drift lazily towards the Forbidden Forest and out of sight.” Explain what object is being personified an the human-like qualityin this quote. 1. Finsh Ch. 9
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Friday |
Bell Ringer: Hermione is described as a “know-it-all.” Provide examples from the text that shows this.
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Aug. 28-Sept. 1, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: HOw does Hagrid’s appearance differ from his personality?
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Setting plays an important role in reading. Describe, in detail, one of the magical shops in Diagon Alley.
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: Ron vs. Draco—Descrie their character traits.
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Free Write 1. Continue Assessment |
Friday |
Bell Ringer: Make an inference about why you think Harry decided not to befriend Draco.
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August 21-25, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: Write a few sentences about your weekend.
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Make a prediction about the beginning of the novel.
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: What characters are standing out to you so far?
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Create a quick plot summary of events for the first 4 chapters.
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Friday |
Bell Ringer: How do you think Harry feels about his circumstances? How would you feel?
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August 14-18, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Bell Ringer: Write a few sentences about your weekend.
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Tuesday |
Bell Ringer: Make a prediction about the beginning of the novel.
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Wednesday |
Bell Ringer: What characters are standing out to you so far?
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Thursday |
Bell Ringer: Create a quick plot summary of events for the first 4 chapters.
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Friday |
Bell Ringer: How do you think Harry feels about his circumstances? How would you feel?
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August 14-18, 2023 | Lessons for the Week |
Monday |
Meet the Teacher 5:00-6:30 p.m. |
Tuesday |
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Wednesday |
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Thursday |
1st Day of School
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Friday |
2nd Day of School
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