Tuesday/Wednesday, May 10/11, 2016

Don't forget to bring headphones next time for testing!

This Week: American Fork Junior High Presents

Yad Vashem: the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem

by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

The Strength of Our Spirit
By Cynthia Mercati

May 12 and 13 - 7:00PM
Recommended Donation: $1
AFJH Small Theatre

Announcements and Reminders: If you have handed in your March Book Project, and have not picked it up from the bottom wire basket, please do that now.                                                                    Put away kendamas and other toys BEFORE you come into the classroom.   Your book sign-ups were due on April 28/29.  Your book projects are due by May 12/13 -- next time!   See the "Required Reading" tab above.  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 Pick up your graded work from the bottom wire basket for your class.        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)

Targets for Today: I  can compare a fictional account with a nonfiction account of a time, place, or character. Reading: Literature Standard 9  Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history. I can read, understand, and enjoy poetry and prose through recognizing SOLILOQUY AND SONNET. . Reading: Literature Standard 5  Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning form   --  Form, in poetry, can be understood as the physical structure of the poem: the length of the lines, their rhythms, their system of rhymes and repetition. - See more at: http://www.poetryarchive.org/glossary/form#sthash.UnZ15YzY.dpuf structure  soliloquy sonnet

Today’s  Agenda: 1.  Independent Reading:  You will receive your points for reading  an historical fiction book.  Be in your seat reading by the time the bell rings. If needed, work on your book of the month project.  It is next time. View Sample Project 2.  SAGE TESTING begins next time. 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 A1. Practice Test for State Test. No Talking -- unless I have given you special permission! B-Day Classes --  End-Year Jeopardy

If You Were Absent: See above.

B7

Group 6 Zeidner Allen Blair Griffiths Preece

Group 4 Anderson Fuqua Manseau Olsen Rees

Group 3 Barlow Layne Blomquist Nelson Riggs

Group 5 Bergeson Marini Carhuatanta Prasad Ward, A

Group 1 Brailsford Steinbrenner Glauser Patino Ward, E

Group 2 Harris Thompson Griffin Nimer

B6

1 Ballstaedt Schade Sorensen Daniels Bona

2 Evans Shurtz Webb Dennis Card

3 Ghent Wagstaff Winkel Pillar Hawks

4 Lay Banks Deuel Rose Herbert

5 McCandless Lambert Odle Wilkerson Knighton

6 Mecham Nelson Stafford Anderson Sherwood

B5   Where did I mess up? 

1 Baird Evans Wilson Sanchez Harris

2 Bird Franson Covington Belt Schmuhl

3 Chapman Horton Zarate Brinkerhoff Graton

4 Christiansen Redd Gilgen Buker Green

5 Cooley Simmons Lowder Ireland Belnap

6 Cox Van Woerkom Thomson Jurado Gay Lundberg