Monday - Today
we will continue to work on Big6
research reports.
Here are the updated deadlines (it's
taking longer than we anticipated):
- Big6 Steps 1-5: Mon, 1/31/05
- Notes: Fri, 2/4/05
- First Draft: Tues, 2/8/05
- Final Draft: Wed, 2/9/05
HW - Do some research and
note-taking at home. This week's reading
logs were sent home
and they are due Friday.
Tuesday - Big6
research report first draft needs to be completed today.
HW - Finish your first draft.
Wednesday - Peer
edit the first drafts of the Big6
research report and begin working on your second
and final draft.
HW - Work on your final draft.
It's due Friday!
Thursday - Students
decided to make posters of the needs and solutions we brainstormed
this morning so they worked on that today.
HW - Finish the final draft
of your Big6
report today.
Friday - Turn
in the final
drafts and the reading
logs! When turning
in the final
drafts for the Big6 research projects, staple all
your work like this:
Today we will take a look
at a great poem by Alfred
Noyes, The Highwayman. Students
will hear it, then they will be assigned different parts
to memorize. The class will then read their memorized parts
to hear the whole poem again.
HW - None