Monday/Tuesday, May 16/17, 2-16

Please turn in all books checked out from our classroom 
by Wednesday, May 18 -- this Wednesday. 

Don't forget to bring your headphones 

for testing if you have them! 

Bring a pencil.

Bring a book to read in case you finish early.

You may work on your April book project, should you need to.

No cell phones allowed!

SAGE Testing this time and next

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Bring a pencil and if you brought headphones, bring them.

Sit at your folder number.

To log in -- use the login information on the whiteboard.

If that doesn't work, use your own login and then use the information on the whiteboard to get to the UTSecure browser:

Open Finder.

Select Applications.

Scroll down to select the UTSecure browser.

On the login screen, please enter your legal first name (not your nickname), your seven digit SSID [If you do not know your login information, see me.], and the Test Session ID I have given you into the appropriate areas. Then click the Sign In button.

• Please review the information on the screen, making sure your name and the test you are taking is shown. 
• If any of the information is incorrect, please raise your hand and I will help you; otherwise, select YES to continue. 
• Then please select the ELA Reading test.

• You will then be ready to take the ELA Reading test. This test is designed to measure your understanding of the Utah Standards for English Language Arts. 
• Today’s testing session will go until about five minutes before the end of the period. 
• If you do not finish during this testing session, you will be able to continue later, but will not be able to return to the questions you see during this session. 
• I will let you know when there are about five minutes left in the session. 
• On the next screen, you may scroll through a help page that describes how to use the SAGE software. You may return to that help page from any question by clicking on the “help” icon, which appears as a question mark in the upper right-hand corner of your screen.
•  If you find that you do not know how to use the system to enter your responses, please raise your hand and I will help you, but please remember that I will only show you how to use the system.
• If you use a pair of headphones from the school, please leave them plugged in when you leave.

You may see screens like this for the ELA test. 

Select the best answer:

Type in a correct answer:

SAGE Testing will be on May 12, 13, 16, 17: reading (poetry and prose), listening, conventions (grammar, capitalization, punctuation).
You can practice for the SAGE test at
https://login1.cloud2.tds.airast.org/student/V141/Pages/LoginShell.aspx?c=Utah_PT
Select Guest.
Select Grade Seven
Select Reading Language and Listening Grades 6-8



Just for fun:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMJdsQL_Bco   Kid Snippits 



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)   

This classroom is a no-kendama zone.