Friday/Tuesday, September 1/5, 2017

Announcements and Reminders: for September 1/5.  On September 5  and for the rest of the week we are on Cavetime Schedule. Pick up your composition book from the back. They are in the folders corresponding to your computer number.  Numbers 1-20 are in the crate, and 21 up are in the back of the drawer marked for B5-B7.  Don't forget to study for your spelling test on September 6/7:  Use this document to list your spelling words for our first test:  Personal Spelling Quiz List.doc Here are some suggestions for studying:  Procedure for Studying Spelling Words.doc This list may be helpful in gathering your spelling information: Teacher List.docx On September 5 we will have a fire drill during Cave Time.  Remember to go to your A1 class teacher on the playing fields.          No Cavetime  in Ms. Dorsey's room on September 6.  September 4 is  Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.                                                                                     -- https://www.dol.gov/general/laborday/history  Quotes about Labor                    “I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.” “Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration” “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” –Martin Luther King  “I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.” –John D. Rockefeller  “Nothing will work unless you do.” — Maya Angelou  “My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.” — Indira Gandhi  “The only place success comes before work is the dictionary.” –Vince Lombard  Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. – Ralph Ransom “A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.” – Albert Einstein

Targets for Today: I can notice how a sentence is put together. I can compare a two different stories and the characters in them. I can begin learning about several important elements of literature.

Today’s  Agenda: A1 to Computer Lab 202 --  about a half hour or so to paste your essays into MyAccess and finish them. A2, B5, B7 --   Self-Starter: 1. Set up your composition book.   ( and sign up for leading the pledge) 2.  Conventions in Sentences Investigations  Copy these sentences into your composition book under  CSI Sentences/Grammar. Label this CSI #1 and add today's date.  “I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.” Just below these sentences, write three or more things that you notice about the sentence -- English teacher sorts of things. 3.  Getting Ready for The Outsiders  Our First Class Novel: The Outsiders  We will watch a scene from the movie                       Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.    We will watch a short clip from the novel The Outsiders          by  S. E. Hinton.        Both of these movies are about "outsiders."         And, like you, the narrator of The Outsiders, at the beginning of the book, has just seen a movie with Paul Newman.   Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy                  C. Thomas Howell as Ponyboy Curtis A1, B5, B6 --  Today we will begin learning about some important Elements of Literature.  Discuss:  In the clip from The Outsiders (and in the clip from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), what are the. . .  characters setting  conflict protagonist antagonist  In your composition book, tape the chart on page 100.  We will fill it in together. Elements of Literature Element Definition Example—Butch and Sundance Example --  The Outsiders characters setting conflict protagonist antagonist If you were absent, see this post: Elements of Literature Chart 11-20-14

If You Were Absent: When you come back,  set up your composition book, then put the CSI sentences into your composition book, or you can do it at school once you join our Google Classroom. To join, go to your own school gmail, go up to the right-hand top, click on the "ninebox," select Classroom, click on the plus sign at the upper right to join a class, and enter the code that you get from Ms. Dorsey though a message on Skyward.  Here are the handouts for setting up your composition book: Composition Book Set-Up English 7 2017.docx Table of Contents for English Composition Book.docx  Don't forget to study for your spelling test on September 6/7:  Use this document to list your spelling words for our first test:  Personal Spelling Quiz List.doc Here are some suggestions for studying:  Procedure for Studying Spelling Words.doc This list may be helpful in gathering your spelling information: Teacher List.docx

Vocabulary: Elements of Literature characters: the people setting: the place and time it happens conflict: the problem protagonist:  the good guy or main character antagonist: the bad guy or enemy of the main character términos literarios Protagonista- personaje principal http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/s/a/sam50/vocabLIT.htm argumento plot events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another through cause and consequences clímax climax The most intense, exciting, or important point of something narrador narrator A person who narrates something, esp. a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem

Wednesday/Thursday, August 30/31, 2017

Announcements and Reminders  for Wednesday/Thursday, August 30/31, 2017:         Disclosure Document Signatures (and VIP form)  are due today.  Pick up the packet of articles and the instruction sheet from the front student desks. Are you studying for your spelling test next week?   One way to study is to break the names and words into parts: Example:  Sid - do - way                    tech -no-log -y     This list may be helpful in gathering your spelling information: Teacher List.docx Don't forget to hand in your disclosure signatures, VIP form (on the back of the disclosure signatures), and your composition book.   School Pictures will be taken during math classes on Thursday and Friday, August 31 and September 1. You should have received your picture packets.  If not, check with the main office, or Mrs. Dorsey.  Cavetime will begin on Tuesday, September 5.  Scholastic Book Orders:  If you'd like to order Scholastic Books online, and benefit our classroom, go to http://pcool.scholastic.com/parentordering/login.jsp, register, and enter code GKLJW. To order through me without going online, bring me the filled out order form and a check written to Scholastic Book Orders.  I'll be sending in orders on September 15, or sooner if I receive orders totalling $25 or more. Order forms are available on the back counter near the door. We will be working in the computer lab on August 30/31. Please make sure your parents have given you permission (on Skyward) to use computers and the Internet at school.   Don't forget to be studying for your spelling test on September 6/7.

Targets for Today: I can show what I know about writing an argument essay. I can do my best on an assessment of my reading skills.

Today’s  Agenda: 

Hand in (to the top wire basket if you brought them today) 
your disclosure document 
and composition book.

A1:  The RI was not working today.  We will do that later.
Also,  MyAccess was not working, so we will need to finish our essays on another day and transfer them to MyAccess. 
A2 will take the RI another day. 
B5 will take the RI another day.

Disclosure Document Signatures (and VIP form)  are due today. 

Today we go to the English Department's Computer Writing Lab.
We will (hopefully) complete two tasks:

1. Write an argument essay.

2. Take the  RI -- Reading Inventory -- an online  adaptive student assessment program that measures reading skills.  (If the RI is not working today, we will do it another day.)

Here are your instructions:  
Receive your folder/computer number,
and 
Receive a packet of information to use as you write your argument essay.
Leave your backpacks in the classroom,
Take a book to read in case you finish early, and a pencil for notes. 
Walk QUIETLY to the lab. 

Computer Writing Lab 224 --
is near Ms. Siddoway's classroom. 

In the lab we will have a quiet, individual working time. 
If you need help ask your teacher or Mrs. Dansie, our computer lab specialist. 

Sit down at your assigned computer.
Log in to the computer using your active directory login:
User name: What comes in your school email BEFORE the @
Password:  The password you set.


Log into MyAccess

Login Directions for MyAccess

Select the prompt about Teen Responsibility. 
You have one hour to write an argument essay. 

We will need to do the RI another day.   Then do the Reading Inventory Assessment.  (If it is working.) 
Log in to the RI using
Username: YourStudent #
Password:  YourStudentNumber@AFjh  (uppercase AF, lower case jh)

Taking the RI Test

sample question: 

If You Were Absent: See above.  You will need to schedule a time with Ms. Dorsey to take the computer lab tests.  Cavetime will be a possibility. Don't forget your spelling test on September 6/7.  Use this document to list your spelling words for our first test:  Personal Spelling Quiz List.doc Here are some suggestions for studying:  Procedure for Studying Spelling Words.doc A1:  The RI was not working today.  We will do that later. Also,  MyAccess was not working, so we will need to finish our essays on another day and transfer them to MyAccess.  A2 will take the RI another day.

Vocabulary: