Tuesday, May 24, 2016

May 26 -- Yearbook Day

Bring a good pen for signing, and plan ahead how you will sign. 


  • Don't write anything you will regret later. 
  • Don't cross out or draw on anyone's photo.  You would regret that later, too. 

Pick up and take any of your own composition book, posters, or other work you wish to take. Everything else will go to recycling. 

Modified Schedule for May 26th
Yearbook day

A1 8:15-9:45 Hand out yearbooks and watch Norm Lyde’s movie in the auditorium.  We will be called down. 
   We will see the movie before handing out the yearbooks.

A2 9:50-10:10

A3 10:15-10:35

A4 10:40-11:00

B1 11:05-11:25

B2 11:30-11:50

B3  11:55-12:15

B4 12:20-12:45

12:45-1:15 Lunch: Pizza and J-Dawgs

1:15-2:45 Outside yearbook signing


Hints for yearbook signing: .
http://www.wikihow.com/Sign-a-Yearbook





Tuesday/Wednesday, May 24/25, 2016


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Announcements and Reminders:
           
All late, revised, and extra credit work was due on Friday, May 20!
Bring treats on the 24/25!
You may take home your composition book today.
You may hand in your hall passes today if you haven't already. 

         Today please turn in all books checked out from our classroom.





Targets for Today:

I can read and comprehend historical fiction. 


Today’s  Agenda:



  • Clean up and get ready for summer:
  • Pick up composition books
  • Distribute graded work not picked up. 
  • Show Posters -- move around the room to see them.
  • Hand in hall passes.

Take your work.  Keep anything from this term until you have received your "report card" -- your final grade.


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  We will read from A Long Walk to Water, and view part of a fictional video  (about 24 minutes)  based on stories of children from South Sudan.





A Long Walk to Water

Salva's group crosses the Nile River, and then crosses the Akobo Desert.

Some members of the group share their water with strangers they find dying of thirst.

The group is robbed by armed men, then they kill Salva's uncle.

Meanwhile, at Nya's village the area between two trees is being cleared. 


With his uncle dead, the people he is traveling with treat him as if he is worthless.   He knows he is not. 

They arrive at the Itang Refugee Camp.  

A strange "red giraffe" (well digging equipment) is brought to Nya's village.

Salva is alone and sad in the refugee camp, but decides to use the lesson his uncle taught him -- to set small goals -- to just make it through one day at a time. 

Salva finds out that the refugee camp is being closed, and that all the refugees must leave Ethiopia, crossing a dangerous river, swollen by rains and inhabited by crocociles.

At Nya's village, the people continue to work on drilling and preparing a well, led by the "boss" who had brought the equipment and expertise.  


Salva has to swim the river, threatened by a hail of bullets and the hungry crocodiles.  Then he again had to walk and walk and walk. 

Crowds of boys begin to follow Salva. He organizes the group which grows to over 1200 boys.  He leads them to safely in Kenya.  It took a year and a half.

The well at Nya's village works! They have water!


For five years Salva lives in refugee camps, often very like a prison. 

Salva is chosen to travel to America, sponsored by a family and church. 

He and others like him are called the "Lost Boys." 


After the well is working, the village men begin clearing another spot of land for a school -- for boys and girls. 

Salva went to high school and college, preparing himself to return and help the people in Sudan. 

He receives a message that his father is alive, but ill.  


Salva travels to Sudan to find his father.  He does!   He finds out his mother is alive, too, but surrounded in the village once again by war.  Two of his brothers were dead.  

He finds out his father is sick from guinea worms. 

On the way back to the U.S., Salva decides he will help the people of Sudan by digging wells.  He has to overcome his fears to speak to crowds of people, raising money to dig the wells.  












At Nya's village, she speaks to the man who had helped her Nuer village dig the well.  He was a Dinka man named ____________.  







If You Were Absent:

See above.



Thursday, May 19, 2016

Friday/Monday, May 20/23, 2016




Announcements and Reminders:
           
All late, revised, and extra credit work was due on Friday, May 20!
If you have an F, see me.

Bring treats on the 24/25!
You may take home your composition book today.
You may hand in your hall passes today or next time. 

         Today please turn in all books checked out from our classroom.

Reminder: Figuratively Speaking Poster
By May 18/19 – for English class
Bring a photo of yourself DOING SOMETHING.
In class you will create a poster about that photo including 
(Change your assignment to ONE each of the following:)
-1 simile
-1 metaphor
-1 hyperbole
-1 personification
-1 onomotopia
-1 allusion
extra credit for alliteration (at least three repetitions of the sound)  
We will finish these today!  

Let me know if you did not take or finish the SRI test last time, let me know. 


Targets for Today:

I can recognize and write figurative language.
I can read and comprehend historical fiction. 


Today’s  Agenda:

  • Lab 202/classroom -- finish your figurative language poster.
  • If you did not take or finish the SRI last time, do that.

  We will read from A Long Walk to Water, and view more slideshows.

If You Were Absent:

See above.




Poised between going on and back, pulled
Both ways taut like a tight-rope walker,
Now bouncing tiptoe like a dropped ball,
Or a kid skipping rope, come on, come on!…
Taunts them, hovers like an ecstatic bird,
He’s only flirting, crowd him, crowd him,
(The Base Stealer by Robert Francis)

Metaphor:
  • The assignment was a breeze. (This implies that the assignment was not difficult.)
  • Her voice is music to his ears. (This implies that her voice makes him feel happy)
Personification: 
  • The wind whispered through dry grass.
  • The flowers danced in the gentle breeze.
  • Time and tide waits for none.
  • The fire swallowed the entire forest.
Onomatopoeia:
  • The buzzing bee flew away.
  • The sack fell into the river with a splash.
  • The books fell on the table with a loud thump.
  • He looked at the roaring sky.
  • The rustling leaves kept me awake.
Hyperbole:
  • My grandmother is as old as the hills.
  • Your suitcase weighs a ton!
  • She is as heavy as an elephant!
  • I am dying of shame.
  • I am trying to solve a million issues these days.
Allusion:
  • “Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.” – “Romeo” is a reference to Shakespeare’s Romeo, a passionate lover of Juliet, in “Romeo and Juliet”.
  • The rise in poverty will unlock the Pandora’s box of crimes. – This is an allusion to one of Greek Mythology’s origin myth, “Pandora’s box”.
  • “This place is like a Garden of Eden.” – This is a biblical allusion to the “garden of God” in the Book of Genesis.
Alliteration:
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.”


Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Wednesday/Thursday, May 18/19, 2016



Announcements and Reminders:
                 
Today please turn in all books checked out from our classroom.

Reminder: 

Figuratively Speaking Poster
By May 18/19 – for English class
Bring a photo of yourself DOING SOMETHING.
In class you will create a poster about that photo including 
(Change your assignment to ONE each of the following:)
-1 simile
-1 metaphor
-1 hyperbole
-1 personification
-1 onomotopia
-1 allusion
extra credit for alliteration (at least three repetitions of the sound)   
You will have time to finish next time. 



Today we will also retake the SRI Test  in Lab 202.


All late and revised work is due by this Friday, May 20.

If you have an F, see me.



Targets for Today:
I can recognize and write figurative language.
I can do my best on a test to determine  my reading level.




Today’s  Agenda:

The teacher will send students who have not finished the SAGE Reading test
to Computer Lab 224.

1. Review of figurative language
Simile and Metaphor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB0HrNdqJKQ (Not all of these are correct, but most are.)

Hyperbole

Personification


2. Go to  Lab 202 to take the SRI Test.  See the poster on the wall to access the test. 
Do your best on this test. 

3. When you finish, you may type up your figurative language for your poster or return to the room to work on your poster.   

4.  Create your figurative language poster!  
         If you do not have your photo with you today, go ahead and create the poster and bring the photo tomorrow to attach to your poster. 


You will have time to finish next time. 






If You Were Absent:

 See above. 




Sample picture and Figurative Language 
from the famous Ms. Dorsey

Though the night was as dark as pitch, 
seeing the play Nosferatu live on stage was a dream come true.
We were dying to meet the actor who played the title role.
You can tell that the camera loved us as we danced with the vampire after the show.
Thud, thud, stomp, stomp went our feet. 
This was a vampire who neither sparkled nor made girls swoon, 
but spending time with him was a thriller. 
Very soon the villainous, vigorous, voracious vampire 
vanished from view



We will work on this today, and
you will have time to finish next time. 

-1 simile
-1 metaphor
-1 hyperbole
-1 personification
-1 allusion

extra credit for alliteration (at least three repetitions of the sound

Monday, May 16, 2016




Friday, May 13, 2016

April Book Project





Revolution by Deborah Wiles
Miriam Zeidner







Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 
by Mildred D. Taylor
Elizabeth Bergeson


Sophia's War by Avi
Lucianna Harris















War Horse 
by Michael Morpurgo
Alea Carson









reBy Deborah Wiles

Revolution

By Deborah Wiles