Signing up for your book is due by March 11.
Your assignment is to read your book and create for it an external text feature it does not already have. See the tab above for Book-of-the-Month.
Your comparing and contrasting paragraphs should be done and handed in or posted on the wiki. The yellow papers are in the folders at the back of the room. If you'd rather do it on the wiki, and you don't already have a page, ask me to make one for you.
This was our final assessment on Words By Heart. It is also a final assessment on writing paragraphs. You may revise and resubmit, if you resubmit with the papers/paragraphs that were already graded. This must be done by March 18.
Two comparingcontrasting paragraphs.doc
7th Grade Paragraph Rubric General.docHere is a site that gives clear explanations of writing comparing and contrasting paragraphs.
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/fwalters/compcont.html
Examples of Comparison and Contrast Paragraphs
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Today:
Bell-Ringer: Subject-Verb agreement and journal entry
Subject-Verb Agreement: When Prepositional Phrases Confuse the Issue
Here is the handout: SV Agree with Prep Phrases.doc
Prepositions
A great grammar link (with some errors, but it has Yoda!)
http://www.lordalford.com/grammar/grammarevil.htm#2
In your composition book,
Write about a time when you were cold. Where were you? When was it? How long were you cold? How did you get warm? I should be shivering by the time I finish reading this!
Spelling Test on the suffix "pre-" and the meaning and words that go with it. Extra credit is available.
New Assignment:
Vocabulary/Spelling #16 Test on March 11, 2011
Suffix to study: -ment which means state of or result of an action
Notice that -ment turns words (usually verbs) into nouns.
1. government gov - ern - ment
Extra credit: “Govern” comes from a Latin word meaning “to steer” as in steering a ship.
2. equipment e – quip – ment
Extra credit: “Equip” comes from an Old Norse (Scandinavia/Norwegian) word meaning “ship” because it originally had to do with fitting out (preparing everything needed for) a ship.
3. environment en-vi-ron-ment
Extra credit: “En” means “in.” “Viron” comes from “around, circle, turn.”
4. amendment a-mend-ment
Extra credit: “Amend” means to “correct, or to free from fault.” (It has “mend” in it.)
Do you know about any of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States?
external text feature notes - whole class.doc
Watch part of the video
Book-of-the-Month: See the assignment at the Book-of-the-Month tab above.
See rubrics here: Bk of Mnth Rubrics 2 for External Text Features.doc
Deadline for your project: March 22
The points will go on this term's grade, and the term ends March 25.___________________________________
Teacher's notes:
crew
external text features
essential questions
Video -- start at 59:25
stop-skip 1:09 Shackleton's journal entry
begin 1:12
stop-skip 1:21:11 - 1:21:48
1:23 Christmas celebration
1:24:41 Shackleton talking with crew member sad about being away from family
stop-skip 1:29:42 -- 20 questions to 1:31:17
Originally Published 2/28/2011
