No School - Hastings Middle School

Monday
February 20
Tuesday
February 21
Wednesday
February 22
Thursday
February 23
Day 2
Day 1
Day 2
•Whole group:
Recognize Rhythm RM
47
•RM 52 Due
-whole group discussion
•Big Question & Authors
pg. 566-567
•Assign: Literary
Analysis RM 52 (due
tomorrow)
•Sea-Fever/The
Village Blacksmith
B/C Selection Test
•Something Told the
Wild Geese/Change
Literature book 566-573
-Literature analysis
discussion
No School
•Partner Activity:
Imagery RM 67
-whole group discussion
following
President’s
Day
Friday
February 24
Day 1
•Something Told the
Wild Geese/Change
Literature Book 566-573
•Whole group:
Understanding repetition
RM 69
•Partner activity:
Conveying Mood RM 73
-class discussion
following
Flush
by Carl Hiassen
Flush
by Carl Hiassen
Flush
by Carl Hiassen
Realistic Fiction
Realistic Fiction
Realistic Fiction
External Conflict
•Bullet notes due
•Review The Cay
external example
•Assign: Rough
draft of external
conflict
Internal Conflict
•Rough draft of external conflict due
•Discuss The Cay internal example
paragraph
•Students use text and take notes
•Assign: Minimum of 6 bullet notes
regarding internal conflict
Internal Conflict
•Bullet notes due
•Review The Cay
internal example
•Assign: Rough
draft of internal
conflict
Monday
March 5
Day 2
Tuesday
March 6
Wednesday
March 7
Day 1
Day 2
•Spelling Lesson 12
•Spelling Lesson 12 due
•Literary Analysis RM
109 due
-whole group discussion
•Vocab. Prediction
•Big Question & Authors
pg. 594-595
•Windshield
Wiper/Night Journey
Selection Test B/C
•I’m Nobody/Who Are
you?/The Moon is
Tired/Mooses Literature
Book 594-601
•I’m Nobody/Who Are
you?/The Moon is
Tired/Mooses Literature
Book 594-601
•Partner Activity: Make
Inferences RM 145
-discussion following
Assign: Literary
Analysis Rm 150 (due
tomorrow)
Think of book for
book talk on
Friday!
Friday
March 9
Day 1
•Literary Analysis RM
150 due
-whole group discussion
Day 2
•Spelling Lesson 12 Test
•I’m Nobody/Who Are
you?/The Moon is
Tired/Mooses Selection
Test B/C
Book Talk Today!
Each student shares
one book that he/she
would recommend to
read.
•Partner Activity:
Figurative Language RM
143
City of Ember
Typed Conflict Essay Due
by Jeanne DuPrau
Science Fiction
•Chapter 1:
Assignment Day
•Chapter 2: A
Message to the Mayor
•Update “Literature
Log”
Thursday
March 8
NWEA
READING TEST
Lab 133
City of Ember
by Jeanne DuPrau
Science Fiction
•Literature Group Discussion
•Chapter 3: Under Ember
•Chapter 4: Something Lost, Nothing Found
•Update “Literature Log”