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Monday May 5 
Read the Outsiders and Script 
 
Tuesday May 6 
Renaissance Field Trip 
Reading in Literature Book for AR points 
 
Wednesday May 7 
• Media Center 
• Reading Logs due 
• Script Writing 
 
Thursday May 8 
• Finish Scripts and turn in 
• Read the Outsiders and the Giver 
 
Friday May 10 
Believer’s Day 

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Monday 
• Watch PowerPoint on plot structure 
• Bag Skits 
 
Tuesday 
• Media Center 
• Read Outsiders 
 
Wednesday 
• Give rubric and assign jobs 
• Begin brainstorming for plot elements 
• Read Outsiders 
 
Thursday 
• Write 
• Read play 
 
Friday 
• Write  
• Read 

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Monday 
• Watch Seeker Movie 
 
Tuesday—Reading Log Due  
• Finish Movie 
• Talk in groups to make a list of the differences between the movie and the book and then explain why they did that. Pick 4 of the list of 10 differences and write why you think that it was changed in the movie 
• What sometimes changes when you go from the book to the movie? 
• 1, 2, and 5 write Dialogue Prompt #1 
• 3 read The Outsiders 
 
Wednesday—Progress Reports go home 
 
• Go over Dialogue rules and prompts from the day before 
• Do Dialogue Prompt #2 
• Read Outsiders 
• Quiz on the Outsiders/ Giver (2nd , 1st and 5th quiz 2, 3rd quiz 3) 
 
Thursday 
• Dialogue continuing—Fred and Mary 
• Read Outsiders (give 1, 2, and 5 quiz if they get that far)  
 
Friday 
• Read Monsters on Maple Street 
• Talk about elements of a play—what makes a play different from other kinds of writing? (PowerPoint?) 
 

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W1 
Monday: CRCT Reading 
• Finish reviewing 
• PowerPoint on Adjective and Adverb Clauses and Commas 
• Take vote on next book (The Giver, The Outsiders) 
 
Tuesday: CRCT ELA 
Library 
Writing Prompt 
Start Reading Book 
 
Wednesday: CRCT Math 
Talk about Plays and what makes something a play 
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street 
 
Thursday: CRCT Science 
Read The Outsiders 
 
Friday: CRCT Social Studies 
Read The Outsiders 
 
 

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Monday 4/7  
• Wordwall: Underlying messages 
• Review Flashcards 
• CRCT pages: Analogy and Idioms pages 136-139 
• Check your progress pages 174-177 
• Game 
 
Tuesday 4/8 Reading Log Due!! 
• Wordwall: Inference 
• Review Flashcards 
• Mini-lesson: Context Clues 
• CRCT pages: Determining Word Meanings 140-143 
• Jeopardy 
 
Wednesday 4/9 
• Wordwall: Context Clues 
• Review Flashcards 
• Mini-lesson: Homonyms 
• CRCT pages: Homonyms page 186-189 
 
Thursday 4/10 
• Wordwall: Idiom 
• Review Flashcards 
• CRCT pages: 182-185 
• Game 
• Work on trouble spots 
 
Friday 4/11 AR assessment due! 
• Wordwall: Analogy 
• Mixed Review CRCT pages 190-202 
• Jeopardy 

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Two more weeks until the CRCT! Please encourage your student to do his/her best these next weeks as we are reviewing important terms and information. 
 
Monday 3/31 
• Word Wall: plot 
• Pronoun / Antecedent Agreement: page 594 and 73-74 
• Personification 
• Review Flashcards 
 
Tuesday 4/1 READING LOG DUE! 
• Word Wall: antagonist/ protagonist 
• Standard Agreements CRCT 166 
• Onomatopoeia (handout or find faster assignment) 
• Sparkle with Review terms 
 
Wednesday 4/2 
• Word Wall: dynamic/ static characters 
• Verb Tense 
• Jeopardy figurative language, sentence structure, adjective or adverb, superlative or comparative, Story elements, 
 
Thursday 4/3 
• Word Wall: external/internal conflict 
• Verb Tenses CRCT page 170-172 
• Poetry, stanza, internal rhyme 
• Poem and questions  
 
Friday 4/4 
• Word Wall: Thesis 
• CRCT page 68-69 Sound, figurative language and graphics 
• Charades or other review game 

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