Friday/Monday, January 26/29, 2018

Announcements and Reminders for Friday/Monday, January 26/29, 2018: No, not that kind of "slide show"! Changes in due dates:    Your slideshows for How They Croaked are due TODAY. The Conventions and Spelling Test will be given January 26/29 -- today!  Share your book projects with me by January 26/29.   You will share your book projects with your classmates in class on February 1/2. If you have not taken your last Conventions and Spelling test, come to a Cavetime. Retakes are also available now.  Study first! Congratulations to those who participated in the  school talent show!  You were great!

Targets for Today:           ✣  I can recognize several types of phrases.  ✣  I can correctly spell commonly confused words.  ✣  I can read, research, and present. (How They Croaked Project)             -- I can use reliable and useful sources for research.               -- I can select important ideas and facts from my research.             -- I can read and then paraphrase to present.              -- I can successfully teach my classmates what I have learned.                         When I present,  my classmates will be able to hear me,                         and I will be able to tell, not just read, about my famous person.

Today’s  Agenda: Conventions and Spelling Tests   Phrases  your/you're, there/their/they're Receive the information for the tests next week:   Conventions of the Week #3.docx Presentations  Be prepared to present your slideshow.  There will be no time to prepare in class.  Be prepared to present when you are called up.   Bring your blue rubric to the teacher.  You will take notes (quiz questions and answers) on each presentation.    You will lose points if you are not a respectful and attentive audience member.

If You Were Absent: Be prepared to present when you return to class if you have not already.   Pick up or print out a copy of the handout for Conventions/Spelling Tests #3.  Conventions of the Week #3.docx     Slideshow:  Be prepared to present when you return to class.  How They Croaked Teaching Project Rubric.docx  Link to the Sample Slideshow:   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oSWW8nZtqYtPpTyOqjjbghkZiHUBw9VU3gZIvPP1IhM/edit?usp=sharing Creating Citations.docx   Book Project:  Look at a sample:  Jan Feb BookoftheMonth 2017 Sample.docx or February Book of the Month,Sample 2 For the rubric and other information, look under the Required Reading/Book Assessment Tab above.

Vocabulary: Types of phrases:  noun, verb, adjective, adverb, prepositional (with extra credit for infinitive, gerund, participle, absolute) Types of sentences by purpose: declarative/ statements imperative/ commands or requests interrogative/ questions exclamatory/ exclamations paraphrase cite/citations

Presented today - B5: 

Preston O

Summer T

Jayla P

Jordan A

Kairi S

Keira S

Kaslee R 

Camilo F 

Grace Pitcher

B7 

B7 -- Present: 

Kennedy S  Marie Curie

Tayton L  Mozart

Alexandra C  Pocahontas

Hadli J  Dickens

Ethan P  -- Garfield

Deegan C  Napoleon

Tristan W  Columbus

Brock Di  Galileo

Marisoi V   Poe

Emily G   Elizabeth 1

Just for fun:  

New Harry Potter Story -- Not Really

Wednesday/Thursday, January 24/25, 2018

Announcements and Reminders: No, not that kind of "slide show"! Changes in due dates:    Your slideshows for How They Croaked are due TODAY. The Conventions and Spelling Test will be given today:  January 26/29.   Share your book projects with me by January 26/29.   You will share your book projects with your classmates in class on February 1/2. If you have not taken your last Conventions and Spelling test, come to a Cavetime. Retakes are also available now.  Study first! Congratulations to those who participated in the  school talent show!  You were great!

Targets for Today: ✣  I can read, research, and present. (How They Croaked Project)             -- I can use reliable and useful sources for research.               -- I can select important ideas and facts from my research.             -- I can read and then paraphrase to present.              -- I can successfully teach my classmates what I have learned.                         When I present,  my classmates will be able to hear me,                         and I will be able to tell, not just read, about my famous person.

Today’s  Agenda: Prepare to present your slideshow.  Be prepared to present when you are called up.   You will take notes (quiz questions and answers) on each presentation.    You will lose points if you are not a respectful and attentive audience member.

If You Were Absent: Be prepared to present when you return to class.  How They Croaked Teaching Project Rubric.docx  Link to the Sample Slideshow:   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oSWW8nZtqYtPpTyOqjjbghkZiHUBw9VU3gZIvPP1IhM/edit?usp=sharing Creating Citations.docx   Book Project:  Look at a sample:  Jan Feb BookoftheMonth 2017 Sample.docx or February Book of the Month,Sample 2 For the rubric and other information, look under the Required Reading/Book Assessment Tab above.

Vocabulary:

Just for fun:

New Harry Potter Story -- Not Really

Suggested Answers for Investigation by Sentence Combining 2/20-21

Make the following pairs of sentences into single complex sentences by making one of the clauses dependent upon the other.  Use a different subordinating conjunction for each combination.
Use AAAWWEUBBISS words. 

1. People begin to recycle. They generate much less trash. 

When people begin to recycle, they generate much less trash.
If people begin to recycle, they generate much less trash.


2.  Joshua politely asked his mother. She would not give him any money.

Even though Joshua politely asked his mother, she would not give him any money.
Although Joshua politely asked his mother, she would not give him any money.

3.   It snowed so much yesterday.  The drive to Salt Lake City was frightening. 

 After it snowed so much yesterday, the drive to Salt Lake City was frightening. 
 Since it snowed so much yesterday, the drive to Salt Lake City was frightening. 

Sentences for Practice Using Transitions -- Suggested Answers

Group Practice! Write your revised sentences in your Writer’s Notebook under Notes and Quickwrites.  Show relationships among each set of sentences using words (transitions) that show the relationships among the parts. You will most likely want to combine some of the sentences. 

Below are SOME of the ways you could do this.  You may have some that are equally as good, or even better. 

1.         Harry’s aunt and uncle hate him. They are scared of his magic.

They left him alone that summer.
Harry's aunt and uncle hate him because they are scared of his magic. 
Therefore, they left him alone that summer. 
(or) 
Harry's aunt and uncle hate him and are scared of his magic, so they left him alone that summer. 

2.         Hermione is the brightest witch her age. She is difficult to get along with.
Hermione is the brightest witch her age, but she is difficult to get along with. 
(or) 
Hermione is the brightest witch her age. However, she is difficult to get along with.  

3.         Polyjuice Potion lets people who drink it look like someone else. Harry and Ron drank some Polyjuice Potion. They were able to sneak into the Slytherin common room and spy on Draco.

Polyjuice Potion lets people who drink it look like someone else.  When Harry and Ron drank some Polyjuice Potion, they were able to sneak into the Slytherin common room and spy on Draco.
(or)
Whereas Polyjuice Potion lets people who drink it look like someone else,  Harry and Ron drank some Polyjuice Potion, and they were able to sneak into the Slytherin common room and spy on Draco.

4.         I think Snape is a good teacher. He pushes his students to work hard. He knows his subject. He doesn’t smile. He saves Harry’s life, which is most important.

I think Snape is a good teacher because he pushes his students to work hard and he knows his subject. He doesn’t smile, but he saves Harry’s life, which is most important.
(or) 
I think Snape is a good teacher since he pushes his students to work hard.  In addition, he knows his subject. He doesn’t smile. However, he saves Harry’s life, which is most important.

5.         It is a good thing that Hermione married Ron. Her biggest fights were always with Ron. Harry was too self-centered to notice her.


It is a good thing that Hermione married Ron. Her biggest fights were always with Ron because Harry was too self-centered to notice her.

It is a good thing that Hermione married Ron because her biggest fights were always with him. On the other hand, Harry was too self-centered to notice her.

Monday/Tuesday, January 22/23, 2018

Announcements and Reminders: Tuesday:  Cavetime is the Talent Show for Seventh Grade. Weekly Conventions   Your conventions test on phrases and the spelling words your/you're and their/there/they're will be next time.     See the bottom of this post for study helps.   Book-of-the-Month             Don't forget to be reading your historical fiction book, and finding out the nonfiction behind the fictional book.   You should have already signed up. Share your Google Doc with me as soon as you've finished it.  They are due Jan. 24/25, but since we are running late with our slideshows, I will extend the dates for the book-of-the-month one classtime each. Look at a sample:  Jan Feb BookoftheMonth 2017 Sample.docx or February Book of the Month,Sample 2 For the rubric and other information, look under the Required Reading/Book Assessment Tab above.  _________________________________ How They Croaked Slideshow     Your slideshow was due by the end of the period last Thursday/Friday.  I extended that to late Friday night.  Because so many students have still not finished and shared their slideshows, we will use part of today as time to finish up.  Some will present today, others next time.  If you have not shared your slideshow with me, do so by the end of the period today.  I will provide comments to help you prepare to present.  You need fifteen (15) facts altogether:  5 important dates on the timeline, 5 or more facts from your outside source, 5 or more facts from the book.   Before you present, duplicate your quiz slide, and move one copy to right after your title slide.  This is so the students will what answers to be looking for -- a good teaching technique.   How They Croaked Teaching Project Rubric.docx  Link to the Sample Slideshow:   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oSWW8nZtqYtPpTyOqjjbghkZiHUBw9VU3gZIvPP1IhM/edit?usp=sharing Creating Citations.docx   Posted on Skyward: The How They Croaked Slideshow Assignment was due yesterday and today.  Each student will present (teach their classmates about their famous person) on Monday and Tuesday.  Slideshows should have been shared with me, but can still be finished and edited prior to presentations.  See the rubric attached to the assignment on Skyward. I'm seeing a lot of capitalization errors.  Here is some help:   Capitalization

Targets for Today:  ✣  I can read, research, and present. (How They Croaked Project)             -- I can use reliable and useful sources for research.               -- I can select important ideas and facts from my research.             -- I can read and then paraphrase to present.              -- I can successfully teach my classmates what I have learned.            ✣  I can recognize several types of phrases.  ✣  I can correctly spell commonly confused words.

Today’s  Agenda: I.  Conventions in Sentences Investigations Phrases    Copy each sentence, underlining the phrase, and labeling it with the type of phrase that is. Label it with today's date and CSI #17.   Ask yourself, "What part of speech is the phrase acting as?" 1) Aunt Audrey's drooling dog always gives me a wet and sloppy greeting.  (Both of the phrases in #1 are the same type.) 2)  The spider in our classroom window has just caught a fat fly.  (This has two correct answers.) 3)  Selena should have been driving more carefully.   4)  The spider jumped into Ms. Dorsey's hair. (This has two correct answers.) Spelling:  their/they're/there, your/you're, its/it's, to/too/two  A bit of Sparkle!   Presentations:  We had one or two presentations as examples for everyone.  Students were then given time to finish up their presentations.  Please share your presentation with me as soon as you can.

If You Were Absent:

Vocabulary:

Enrichment

Prepositions

Phrases and Clauses

Here are some links to learning more about phrases and clauses:
phrases:  http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/phrase.htm
noun phrase:  http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/nounphrase.htm
verb phrase:  http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/verbphrase.htm

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/syntax-sentences-and-clauses/phrases-and-clauses/v/phrases-and-clauses-syntax-khan-academy
then --
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/syntax-sentences-and-clauses/phrases-and-clauses/e/introduction-to-phrases-and-clauses

Gerund Phrases:
http://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/nouns/gerund-phrase/

Infinitive Phrases:
http://www.k12reader.com/term/infinitive-phrase/