June+29,+2009

Identify the meanings/spellings of 8 different vocabulary words
Determine the correct ways to write a business letter. Practice Inferences in text.

Week #4, Day #1 Warm-up Sentences: (write on the white board as is and have students correct raising their hands and giving you the answers) 1. have you ever read boys' life, a magazine 2. dr parks founded the broken bone write away (This is to make sure students understand and can recognize capital letters and periods at the beginning and end of sentences. Believe it or not, a lot of students still have trouble with this, so it is good to reinforce it.)

Today's Agenda:
1. 2 Sentence Warm-up. (Write 2 sentences on the board and teach students that each day they will come in and copy the sentences, then correct any mistakes. They will need to hand in these papers at the end of each week. Also, students should label nouns and verbs starting this week. Underline nouns and circle verbs. 2. Pass out Vocabulary List #4 to students and read each word to them while they listen to the sound of each word. Have students repeat the word and spelling of each word. Have students translate these words and discuss the meanings of each using simple words that students can remember. In other words, do a word association with students so they can equate the vocabulary word with a word they already know. 3. Introduce Business Writing: Use textbook pages 580-581 discuss the topic of writing a business letter with students. You can write some notes on the board for students to copy, so that they have an idea of when, why and how to write a business letter. 4. Go through page 415 with students and discuss the way to make inferences in a given story. Review this concept as much as possible until students understand and can follow this concept. Have students scan for vocabulary for words they do not know for the next story on pages 417-426. 5. You may get to this part today, but you should review "Drama" because these students have not seen this type of writing yet. So, just explain the way to read a play so that they understand it when they read it themselves. You can practice this as a class first, but eventually they will do this in groups.