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Week 1: February 2nd-6th Day 1:Welcome/Get used to class and lockers Day 2: How I want to be respected Day 3: Rule writing/Agreeing Day 4: Class Meeting, FunFriday

Week 2: February 9th-13th Day 1: New Vocabulary and Homes Drawing Day 2: Cast Away 1 Day 3: Cast Away 2 Day 4: Cast Away finish, Home drawing/writing, Interviewing/Question Asking Day 5: Class Meeting/Fun Friday

Week 3: February 16th-20th Double class: (Toucan Monday, Macaw Tuesday, Parrot Wednesday): Hatchet Chapter 1 Day 1:Vocabulary and Set up IR Journal and Writer's Notebook Day 2:Interviewing/Question Formation Day 3: Free Writing/Finish Homes drawings and introductions Day 4 (Double): Discussion of Chapter 1-Read along for chapters 2 and 3 Day 5: Class Meeting/Fun Friday

Week 4: February 26th-27th Double class: (Toucan Monday, Macaw Tuesday, Parrot Wednesday): Day 1:No school! Day 2:No school! Day 3:No school! Day 4 (Double): Hatchet Chapter 3, Question formation Day 5: Catch up on work!

Week 5: March 2nd-6th Double class: (Toucan Monday, Macaw Tuesday, Parrot Wednesday): Hatchet Chapter 4 Day 1:Discussion: What is the difference between a resident and a stranger? Day 2: Hatchet Chapter 5 Day 3: Nation Project Day 4 (Double): Hatchet Chapter 6, Language Diagnostic Test Day 5: Class Meeting, Fun Friday

Week 6: March 9th-13th Double class: (Toucan Monday, Macaw Tuesday, Parrot Wednesday): Hatchet Chapter 7 Day 1:Introduction to [|Wikispace] Day 2:Purim (fun stuff) Day 3: In Library to investigate Encyclopedia articles Day 4 (Double): Hatchet Chapters 8, Question Writing for Interviews Day 5: Question writing, Nation projects, Buddies, Catch up on work!

Week 7: March 16th-20th Double class: (Toucan Monday, Macaw Tuesday, Parrot Wednesday): Hatchet Chapter 9 SIlent Reading Check Day 1:Vocabulary and Nation Project Day 2: St. Patrick's Day fun Day 3: Vocabulary and Nation Project Day 4 (Double): Hatchet Chapter 10, Interview Question writing Day 5: Class Meeting/Fun Friday

Week 8: March 23rd-27th Double class: (Toucan Monday, Macaw Tuesday, Parrot Wednesday): Hatchet Chapter 11 Day 1: In Library investigating Atlases Day 2: Creating Physical and Political Maps Day 3: Creating Wikispace pages about the nations Day 4 (Double): Hatchet Chapter 12, Writing Interview Questions Day 5: Catchup on work, Class Meeting, Fun Friday

Week 9: March 30th-April 3rd Double class: (Toucan Monday, Macaw Tuesday, Parrot Wednesday): Hatchet Chapter 13 Day 1: Attitudesia Day 2: Other tests Day 3: Test Prep Day 4 (Double): Test Day 5: Attitudesia (how to make a line graph

Week 10: April 6th-8th Day 1: Hatchet Chapter 14 Day 2: Hatchet Chapter 15 Day 3: Scrabble Blast

Week 11: April 13th-14th Day 1: Hatchet Chapter 16 Day 2: Class Meeting (Toucan only)

Week 12: April 22nd-24th Day 1: Chapter 17 of Hatchet Day 2: Chapter 18 of Hatchet (make survival guide for Hatchet) Day 3: Attitudesia project and Discuss grades

Week 13: April 27th-30th Double class: (Toucan Monday, Macaw Tuesday, Parrot Wednesday): Hatchet Chapter 19 and Epilogue Day 1: Survival guide from writing fix.com -- Brainstorm ideas Day 2: Interview writing Day 3: Check wikispace for Attitudesia deadlines Day 4 (Double): Learn Mapmaking software, practice with Mapmaking software Day 5: Holiday!!!

Week 14: May 4th-8th Double class: (Toucan Monday, Macaw Tuesday, Parrot Wednesday): Survival Guide Brainstorming and list-creating Day 1:Parent Teacher Conferences, Work on Attitudesia Day 2: Informational Class Meeting about Recife Day 3: Mini-Lesson on Ideas, Interview Writing Day 4 (Double): Conditional Sentences, Survival Guide Writing Day 5: Buddies or Fun Friday, Plus some Attitudesia work

Week 15: May 11th-15th Double class: (Toucan Monday, Macaw Tuesday, Parrot Wednesday): Interview Writing Day 1: Survival Guide Day 2:Computer Lab Work on Attitudesia Day 3: Laptop work on Attitudesia Day 4 (Double): Computer Lab to finish scanning, Conditional Lesson #2 with Lara Day 5: Vocab quiz, Class Meeting, Prepare for Recife

Week 16: May 18th-22nd We are in Recife! Friday (optional day): Watch the film Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Week 17: May 25-28th Holes Chapters 1-7 New Vocabulary: Reader's DIctionaries Continue Survival Guides, and Interview Write-Ups: Word Choice and Voice Conditional Sentences #2: Present Unreal

Week 18: June 1st-5th

Holes Chapters 8-15 8: Draw a Yellow Spotted Lizard based on the Description 9: Back at the Wreck Room: how do the others treat Stanley? 10: The Second Hole: How does Stanley use Prior Knowledge to make his second hole easier 11: Pig- Latin. Ake-may icknames-nay! 12: Tent D meeting: hmmm.. 13: KB? 14: The Warden: Excuse me? 15: The instructions: How does the Warden know so much?

Also this week: Continue vocabulary: Making crosswords using Discovery Puzzle Maker Study Vocabulary using studystack.com Finish up Interview write-ups and Survival Guide lists Attitudesia? Class Meeting/Fun Friday

Week 19: June 8th-10th Double Class: Conflict/Plot, Holes chapters 16-18, and Interview Revising Two short classes: Survival Guide Rubric review, and typing/formatting in the computer lab.

Week 20: June 15th-19th WEDNESDAY, 9:50-11:20 TEST!!!

Double Class: Holes chapters 19,20. Computer lab to review wikispaces/googledocs. for test. Day 1: Review for Test! Day 2: Review for Test! Thursday: Holes chapters 21-22, Conditional Sentences Friday: Class Meeting, Fun Friday

Week 21: June 22nd-26th Double Class: Holes 23-25 and Comp. Lab to finish Interviews and Survival Guides Day 1: Comp Lab again Day 2: Comp Lab again--Interviews and Survival Guides due Wednesday! Thursday: Holes 26-28 and Past Perfect tense Friday: Class Meeting/Fun Friday

Week 22: June 29th-30th Monday: Multiple Intelligences Tests online Tuesday: Personality Tests online