Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Wednesday/Thursday, February 13/14, 2019


Announcements and Reminders: Wednesday/Thursday, February 13/14, 2019
            


Our Valentine's Dance will be this Friday (February 15th) from 2:45-4:00pm.  
This dance is for all grades and the cost is $3.00. 

We have an A/B Day schedule coming up on February 20th.    You will receive a bell schedule next Monday.             


Important Reminders   
 If you have not handed in your waiver, get that signed and handed in.
Hand in your mini-bio if you haven't.   See the requirements on Skyward, or requirements and Mentor Texts on CANVAS. 

Also Due
  • 2/11 - 2/12   Continue to work on the body text of your chapter, adding sentence imitations. 
  • 2/7 - 2/8   Draft the body text of your chapter, adding transitions.
  • 2/5-2/6   Title Page and Introduction as explained on Canvas
  • 2/1-2/4   Turn in Research Questions.
  • 1/25       Turn in Observe, Question, Compare Graphic Organizer 
  •                  with Sentence Imitation on the Back.
See Canvas or Skyward for document downloads and more instructions.   
  • Finish the above first, then go to MyAccess to see your feedback and finish your introductory paragraph for your Outsiders argument essay.                

Freedom Festival

GREAT OPPORTUNITY:  AMERICAN FORK JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS COULD WIN UP TO $200 IN THE ANNUAL FREEDOM FESTIVAL ESSAY OR ART CONTEST. STUDENTS ARE INVITED TO CREATE AN ORIGINAL ESSAY OR ART WORK ON OUR 2019 THEME. "CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW ... ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM ... OF SPEECH OR OF THE PRESS.”  

Targets for Today:

I have put together parts A and B for the body text of my How They Croaked chapter, and I have blended them together as I typed them into my Google Doc.  I printed the Google Doc. 

Today’s  Agenda Wednesday/Thursday, February 13/14, 2019:


Writing Prompt:
Write in your composition book about
what happened on this family vacation. 



Some classes needed to work on sentence imitation and preparing sentences for their chapters.
How They Croaked Chapter ---
Students finished the cutting-up strategy, then typed their body text onto their Google Docs and printed them.

If You Were Absent:

For your How They Croaked chapter, CANVAS has each step.
Here's what the classes have completed so far on the  How They Croaked chapter: 
You selected a famous person.
You filled out the 

Research Questions Handout for How They Croaked, Volume 2

You created your 

You spent time 

Writing the Chapter, Parts A and B   

with about 1 1/2 pages for the part about the person's life (Part A)  and why he or she is famous, and about a half page about how the person died or about his or her health (Part B). 

Then you studied 

Transitions

You worked on 

Sentence Imitation

including writing some imitation sentences you will use in the chapter you are writing.   The class blog 
provides helps for identifying the parts of the sentences. 

Students cut apart their parts A and B and combined the two using transitions.  

Then students who were ready went to the computer lab for 

Vocabulary:
;
 Help and Enrichment 


A thought for you young people -- 
"No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it."
                                                                                       -- Mignon McLaughlin
Valentines' Vocabulary
in·fat·u·a·tion

Dictionary result for infatuation

/inˌfaCHəˈwāSH(ə)n/
noun
  1. an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone or something.

    "he had developed an infatuation with the girl"

in other words, a crush



More Mini-Bio Samples --
Thank you, Jane H. 

Thanks, Zane E.  
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