Lesson Plan: Monday January 27th 2014

Art:

Using CorelDraw, draw a 3.5" circle, 3" circle 2.5" circle and a 2" circle. Add center lines both horizontally and vertically to each circle.

Computer Science:

Download the file your created in the art lesson above to your thumb drive and print the page on Chuck's computer.

Math:

Take the sheet you created in art and calculate the circumference and area of each of the 4 circles.

Now that you have speakers, finish the Time for Learning math lesson on angles that we started on Friday.

Reading:

Continue reading in your Micheal Philps book for 30 minutes.

Social Studies:

Finish reading the instructions for your globe. Review  the things about the globe that we covered on Friday.

Pick a Character from the Greek God Tree link below and read the Wiki.
http://ludios.org/greekgods/

LANGUAGE ARTS: 

1/27/2014:  Poetry

 Read the poem “Father William” by Lewis Carroll found at Location 1479 in the book (on Kindle) What Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know and answer the following questions:

 

1.  The four questions the youth asked Father William are:

 

1. “Do you think at your age it is right to incessantly _________________________________________________________?

 

2. What is the reason for doing a _________________________________?

 

3. How did you manage to finish goose with the _____________________

 

__________________________________________________________?

 

            d.         How did you balance ________________________________________?

 

2. What were the comments the youth made about Father William?

 

1. His hair: _________________________________________________

 

2. His size: _________________________________________________

 

3. His jaws: _________________________________________________

 

4. His age: __________________________________________________

 3.   True or false:

          a.    Father William was a lawyer?     T        F

 

b.   Father William used an ointment to keep his arms and legs strong.  T    F

 

4. Define the following words:

 

1. incessantly __________________________________________________

 

2. limbs _______________________________________________________

 

3. ointment ____________________________________________________

 

4. clever ______________________________________________________

5. What does the expression “give yourself airs” mean?  ______________________

6. What literary work is the writer of this poem most famous for?  (If you don’t know what a literary work is, look it up. 

     7.  What is a “pen name?” _________________________________________.

 

Today you are going to write a poem.  The title will be “The Feeling Poem.”    It will have eight lines.  Follow the steps below to write your poem:

 

§         Line one: Name an emotion “______________________________

§         Line two: “Smells like ___________________________________

§         Line three: “Tastes like __________________________________

§         Line four: “Sounds like __________________________________

§         Line five: “Feels like ____________________________________

§         Line six: “Feels like_____________________________________

§         Line seven: “Feels like___________________________________

§         Line eight: Name the emotion again.________________________

 

Now you are a poet!  Give yourself a pen name. __________________________.

 IDIOMS:

On time4learning.com, click on “language arts,” then on “vocabulary” and then on “idioms.”  Complete the lesson and then do the Idioms Quiz.