Caveman English: Monday, March 7, 2011

Monday, March 7, 2011

Reminders: Last day to hand in late and revised work for this term is March 18.

Book sign-ups are due by March 11.
Your Book-of -the-Month Project is due March 22. Examples for External Text Features

See rubrics here: Bk of Mnth Rubrics 2 for External Text Features.doc

BYOB on Friday. Bring Your Own Book. You will have time to read or to work on your external text feature for your Book-of-the-Month Project.
See the tab above for Book-of -the-Month Project.
Study your spelling for the suffix "-ment." Spelling for March 11 and March 18

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 was due March 3, and revisions may be handed in by March 18.

Two comparingcontrasting paragraphs.doc

7th Grade Paragraph Rubric General.doc

Here is a site that gives clear explanations of writing comparing and contrasting paragraphs.
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/fwalters/compcont.html

And here are some Examples of Comparison and Contrast Paragraphs

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Bell-Ringer: New Seating in "Lifeboats"
More subject-verb agreement. Subject-Verb agreement practice student sentences.doc

Ice Story -- Book and DVD
Work in Groups

About Shackleton's Crew: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/1914/team.html

A1    Book to chapter 3 Video   to break for Shackleton's log or looking at map
A2    Book page 22 Video None (technical difficulties)
A3    Book page chapter 2    Video skipped 20 questions --   to trying to break ice
A4    Book     to chapter 3 Video to ice "just slush" -- shoveling coal

The Merchant Navy is the maritime register of the United Kingdom, and describes the seagoing commercial interests of UK-registered ships and their crews. Merchant Navy vessels fly the Red Ensign, and are regulated by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Navy_%28United_Kingdom%29
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Essential Questions for Ice Story:
What is courage?
What does it take to survive?
What makes an effective leader? a hero?
How could we apply what we learn from past stories of survival to preparing for trials in our lives?

Academic:
Why do we read?
How can we make our reading more effective?

What is nonfiction?
How can we use external text features to improve our reading and writing?
How can we use internal text structures to improve our reading and writing?

Products:
Create a new external text feature for your own Book-of-the-Month.
Read and write effective paragraphs with specific internal text structures
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Reminder: Your March Book of the Month Project -- one external text feature -- is due on March 22. The score goes on this term, so even if you are late, get it in by Thursday, March 24. Grades go in to the district on March 25.
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Teacher notes
Boat Crews -- New Seating
quizzes
external text feature assignments -- sticky notes
      timeline
      glossary
      who's who
      what's where
     text box
Samples

Inquiry -- survival --

Originally Published 3/3/2011

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"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."

"Empathy is really important... Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential." -- Jane Goodall

"I’d wish you luck [in your writing], but good writing depends on conscious choices, not luck. Make good choices."

-- Bret Stephens, writer for the New York Times

Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough said, “Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.”

"As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn’t come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others." -- Dalai Lama

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

-James Madison, welcoming us all back to school

"Perseverance is not a long race: it is many short races one after the other." --Walter Elliot

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Thomas Huxley

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. -- Anthony J. D'Angelo

“Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”
― Sydney Harris

Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, The American Notebooks, 184

--notable-quotes.com

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself." -- Edmund Lee

What I've Been Reading -- Fall 2012

"Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you." - From the Mixed Up Files of Ms. Basil E. Frankweiler

"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."
-John Berger

“Think of education
as a garden
where questions
grow.”
Anna Devere Smith

". . . success is not a function of fame or PR, but of hard work and discipline." President Barak Obama

"The future is not a gift. It is an achievement." Robert Kennedy as quoted by President Obama

A great grammar link (with some errors, but it has Yoda!)
http://www.lordalford.com/grammar/grammarevil.htm#2

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http://cavereading.blogspot.com/

For Creative Writing go to
http://cavewriting.blogspot.com/

For Mock Trial go to
http://cavemocktrial.blogspot.com/

Here's a site with word games, etc.:
http://www.fun-with-words.com

Play a punctuation game at
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/grammar2.htm

Wonder how to pronounce author names? Go to http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronounce.cgi?aid=3090
and begin with a very popular author. Use the search to find others.

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Monday, March 7, 2011

Monday, March 7, 2011

Two comparingcontrasting paragraphs.doc