Caveman English: Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Monday, March 3, 2014

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Happy March!

Word of the day: frequent

"I frequently look for four-leaf clovers. I seldom find them."

Remember that frequent has two e's in it by remembering that e's are frequent in the word frequent.
You will see this word again later today.

Announcements and Reminders:
Your brochure based on your February Nonfiction book is due by this Thursday, March 6. You will need to finish it on your own time or during Cave Time.

If you did not finish your essay about cell phones, see me about taking your essay to finish it.

Today’s Agenda:
1. Individual Reading -- Your choice. You are looking for a book in any genre you wish that has 100 or more pages, is at your reading level, and will be approved by your parents/guardians and teacher. Watch next class time for the assignment to go with it.

2. Test Practice with Chrome Books
Go to http://sageportal.org/training-tests/
Follow the directions given by Ms. Dorsey and Mrs. Jones and the directions on the hand out. Hand-out: Practicing 3 with Practice Tests.docx

ChromeBooks --

At the right, check the sound, and if it is turned down or off, turn it up.
At the left, click on Apps, and select the only one.
Do not sign in. Click on the bicycle.
Select Utah and the test it offers.

3. If we have time -- More of How They Croaked

Authors make choices!

The tone/attitude they have toward their subject.
The facts they chose.
The conclusions they make based on those facts.

Last time we looked at Fictional Famous Last Words

Last time B7 did not read Chapter 1 yet.

King Tuthankamun

Last time B6 finished Chapter 1, B8 got to page 4-- Today B8 finished.

and (if there is time) Julius Caesar -- B6 began reading about Julius Caesar today, March 4.

Last time no one got to Julius Caesar -- except those murderous Senators!

If we get to them, here are the documents to go with the first two chapters of How They Croaked:
King Tut htc word choice and tone.docx

Julius Caesar Julius Caesar Questions.docx

If you were absent:
Come during Cave Time to read the chapters in How They Croaked and complete any worksheets for it.
If we got to them, here are the documents to go with the first two chapters of How They Croaked:
King Tut htc word choice and tone.docx
Julius Caesar Julius Caesar Questions.docx
Create your brochure on your own to hand in by Thursday. Use this template:
Lab 223:

Brochure Template for Nonfiction Book.docx

Use this one if the one above will not work on your computer:

Brochure Template for Nonfiction Book.doc

Here is the grading rubric for the brochure: Rubric for Nonfiction Brochure.docx
See previous posts for samples.
In case you need a copy of the worksheet for collecting information: The handout received February 7: Collecting Information for the Nonfiction Book Project.doc You do not have to finish the book BEFORE you create your project. Please do finish your book though, and be prepared to report it to me.

Go to http://sageportal.org/training-tests/ and familiarize yourself with the practice tests for this year's state testing.
Use this handout to learn more about the testing: Practicing 3 with Practice Tests.docx

If there is extra time, we'll see a lot! (We didn't have time to do this.)

My Favorite ALOT -- But Not a Correct Spelling!

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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Other Classes and Activities

Contact Ms. Dorsey at cdorsey@alpinedistrict.org

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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.

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My Favorite ALOT -- But Not a Correct Spelling!