Mary Wells
Student Classroom Schedule
Daily Agenda
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Week One: July 19-22 Monday ☼ Course Introduction/Classroom Orientation ☼ Fractions Review ☼ Writing Sample ☼ Review Parts of Speech ☼ Reading Comprehension: Understanding What We Read Tuesday ☼ Decimals and Money ☼ Decimals: Place Value ☼ Comparing and Rounding Decimals ☼ Preview: Writing Effective Paragraphs ☼ Review Simple Sentence. Fragmented Sentence ☼ Write a Paragraph Summary ☼ Reading Comprehension: Fiction Main Ideas Wednesday ☼ ☼ Relating decimals to fractions ☼ Capitalization & Spelling Rules ☼ Rewrite Writing Sample Paragraph ☼ Reading Comprehension Skills: Fiction Main Ideas/Summary Thursday ☼ Review for Quizzes ☼ Math Quiz ☼ Lang Quiz |
Week Two: July 26-29 Monday ☼ Individual Student Conferences ☼ Decimals: add/subtract ☼ Metric Conversion ☼ Conjunctions/Modifiers ☼ Noun Phrase/Verb Phrase/Prep Phrase ☼ Reading Comprehension Skills: Making Inferences Tuesday ☼ Individual Student Conferences ☼ Decimals: multiply/divide ☼ More on Metric Conversion ☼ Review Writing Conventions ☼ Using Commas in Simple Sentences ☼ Write to assigned topic ☼ Reading Comprehension Skills: Editorial Cartoons (Interpreting Graphic Info) Wednesday ☼ Individual Student Conferences ☼ Decimals: Word Problems ☼ Reading Line Graphs ☼ Compound Sentences ☼ Other Comma Uses ☼ Writing Letters (& other authentic texts) ☼ Reading Comprehension: Draw Conclusions Thursday ☼ Individual Student Conferences ☼ Review for Quizzes ☼ Math Quiz ☼ Language Quiz ☼ Words in Context |
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Week Three: August 2-5 Monday ☼ Ratios and Proportion ☼ Using a Map Scale ☼ Practice Compound Sentences ☼ Verb Tense ☼ Writing Paragraphs with Organization ☼ Reading Comprehension Skills: Non-Fiction Main Ideas/Summarizing Tuesday ☼ Mean, Median, Mode ☼ Percent Basics ☼ More on Verb Tense ☼ Writing a Resume and Cover Letter ☼ Reading Comprehension Skills: Main Ideas/Supporting ideas Wednesday ☼ Relating Percents, Fractions, and Decimals ☼ Changing Percents and Decimals ☼ Changing Percents and Fractions ☼ Practice Writing Developed Paragraphs ☼ Reading Comprehension Skills: Paraphrasing Thursday ☼ Review for Quizzes ☼ Math Quiz ☼ Lang Quiz |
Week Four: August 9-12 Monday ☼ The Percentage Formula ☼ Solve for the part, whole, percent ☼ Reading a Bar Graph ☼ Subject/Verb Agreement ☼ Writing Developed Paragraphs ☼ Reading Comprehension Skills: Non-Fiction Unstated Main Ideas Tuesday ☼ Simple Interest ☼ Sales Tax and Discounts ☼ Reading a Bar Graph ☼ Complex Sentences ☼ Practice Paragraph Writing ☼ Reading Comprehension Skills: Make Inferences Wednesday ☼ Compound Interest ☼ Subject/Verb Agreement ☼ Combining Paragraphs ☼ Draw Conclusions Thursday ☼ Review for Quizzes ☼ Math Quiz ☼ Lang Quiz |
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Week Five: August 16-19 Monday ☼ Individual Student Conferences ☼ Solving for Rate (percentage) ☼ Practice Complex Sentence ☼ Review Comma Uses ☼ Writing to a prompt ☼ Reading Comprehension Skills: Making Predictions Tuesday ☼ Individual Student Conferences ☼ Percentage Saved/Owed ☼ Practice writing effective sentences ☼ More on Commas ☼ Writing a Personal Letter/Business Letter ☼ Reading Comprehension Skills: Making Predictions-cont Wednesday ☼ Individual Student Conferences ☼ Budgets and Circle Graphs ☼ Subject/Verb Agreement ☼ More on Commas ☼ Writing a Review (Opinion) ☼ Reading Comprehension Skills: Non-Fiction Fact vs. Opinion Thursday ☼ Review for Quizzes ☼ Math Quiz ☼ Lang Quiz |
Week Six: August 23-26 Monday ☼ Scientific Notation ☼ Dangling/Misplaced Modifiers ☼ Dividing Paragraphs ☼ Reading Comprehension Skills: Compare & Contrast Tuesday ☼ Solving for the Base (whole) ☼ Selling at a Discount ☼ Using Transitions ☼ Practice Paragraph Unity and Cohesion ☼ Reading Comprehension Skills: Analyzing Data/Cause & Effect Wednesday ☼ Earning Commission ☼ Reading a Double Bar Graph ☼ Job Applications & Filling Out Forms ☼ Reading Comprehension Skills: Drama Elements of Drama Thursday ☼ Review for Quizzes ☼ Math Quiz ☼ Lang Quiz |
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Week Seven: August 30-Sept 2 Monday ☼ Percent of Change ☼Reading Circle Graphs ☼ Practice Sentence Structure ☼ Writing a Response Homework Assign: Write a Response ☼ Reading Comprehension: Poetry Literal vs. Figurative Language Tuesday ☼ Finding the Original Amount ☼ The Writer’s Craft ☼ Writing Fiction/Story ☼ Reading Comprehension Story Elements Wednesday ☼ Finding the Final Amount ☼ Writing Poetry ☼ Elements of Poetry ☼ Reading Comprehension: Poetry Elements Thursday ☼ Review for Quizzes ☼ Math Quiz ☼ Lang Quiz |
Week Eight: Sept 6-9 Monday ☼ Review: Decimals ☼ Review Sentence Structures ☼ Review Writing Paragraphs ☼ Reading Comprehension: Editorial Cartoons Interpreting Graphic Information Tuesday ☼ Review Percentages ☼ Review Elements of Fiction ☼ Review Elements of Non-Fiction ☼ Review Elements of Poetry ☼ Review Elements of Drama Wednesday Homework Assign DUE: Write a Response ☼ Course
Exit Exam Math Test Language Test Thursday ☼ Individual
Conferencing & Academic Advising |