Caveman English: October 9/10

Friday, October 5, 2012

October 9/10

Big News!!!!!

The due dates for the Basic 8, Book #2 Assessment have been extended!
Have your passages on the blue sheet approved, then your rough draft (white sheet) approved -- all by October 19.
(Sooner is better!)
Then you MUST have your cube done and ready to present by Monday, October 22 for A-Day and Tuesday, October 23 for B-Day.
Don't forget to write the paragraph about your cube and have it ready for the 22nd or 23rd.
The term ends on Friday, October 26, and no late work is accepted during that last week so the 22nd and 23rd are firm deadlines.

Reminder: The final test on the commonly confused words will still be on the 16th and 17th.

We will also do a composition book check on that day.

Composition Book Check #2

1. Learning about transitions -- Create a transition collection.

2. Computer lab to type, revise, and edit your comparison or contrast paragraph about two family members. Add transitions.
See the handout.

CompareContrastParagraphPrompt(1).docx

Transitions.docx

PowerPoint: Paragraph3 Compare Contrast.pptx(1).pptx

You may write and revise these at home on MyAccess: https://www.myaccess.com/

through October 12 -- this Friday.

o Username: same as Skyward Username

o 5 letters of last name,

o 3 letters of first name, 000 (or 001, 003, etc.)

o Password: Student ID# (lunch number)

Using MY Access to Improve Your Writing

3. Reading Time

4. iWrite: Window/Mirror October 9/10

Is the character in your novel you’re learning about more of a mirror or more of a window to you? (Is the character a lot like you -- a mirror? How? Or is reading about this character more like looking at a different type of person through a window?)

5. iWriteRight: to/too/two

Our very own two to too posters.pptx

to/too/two posters

6. If we have extra time, we might be able to listen to The Outsiders.
5. iLearn,Listen,Read: The Outsiders
Listen to/Follow along with The Outsiders

A1 -- Today we read from page 72 (16:29) to page 75 -- page break -- (We Crouched 22:23)

A3 -- Today we read from page 74 (19:48) to page (none today)

A4 -- Today we read from page 75 (22:22) to page

B7 -- Today we read from the top of page 65 ("We Crouched" 5:10) to page
B8 -- Today we read from page78, about 2/3 of the way down (28:20) to page

Writing a Great Comparison or Contrast Paragraph
Remember the Hamburger!

Hamburger Paragraph

Paragraphs -- Let's Make Sure You Understand

Transition Words for Comparison/Contrast Paragraphs

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Important Reminder:

Basic 8, Book #2 Assessment -- Character Cube

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Extra Credit Poem Memorization: Nothing Gold Can Stay

or

Extra Credit - A Poem in Honor of the Weather Today

or

Extra Credit -- The Road Not Taken

Contact Ms. Dorsey at cdorsey@alpinedistrict.org
If you leave messages on Skyward, it may take days or weeks for me to get them, so please use email if you'd like a timely reply.

"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://www.myaccess.com/

Other Classes and Activities

Contact Ms. Dorsey at cdorsey@alpinedistrict.org

Find MyAccess for writing assignments at
http://www.myaccess.com/

This is the English Class Blog.
If you're looking for Ms. Dorsey's other classes and activities, here are the links:

For Reading 7 go to
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.

Caveman English

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Friday, October 5, 2012

October 9/10

Composition Book Check #2

Using MY Access to Improve Your Writing

to/too/two posters

Hamburger Paragraph

Paragraphs -- Let's Make Sure You Understand

Transition Words for Comparison/Contrast Paragraphs

_______________________________________

Important Reminder:

Basic 8, Book #2 Assessment -- Character Cube

See also the tab above for Required Reading for more information, including more examples.

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Extra Credit Poem Memorization: Nothing Gold Can Stay

or

Extra Credit - A Poem in Honor of the Weather Today

or

Extra Credit -- The Road Not Taken