Reminder of Citizenship Standards

Reminder of Citizenship Standards

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Citizenship Grades:  Students will earn a citizenship grade based on this (school-wide) criteria.

American Fork Junior High Desired Results for Student Learning (DRSL’s) and Performance Indicators Civic and Social Responsibility
Performance in         Following School Rules    attendance, punctuality, dress, language  (Code of Conduct)          Integrity   honest, truthful, does own work         Respect     for faculty and staff, for other students, for physical facilities         Motivation     on task, prepared, turns in assignments, gets and does make-up work
O Outstanding	S  Satisfactory	N  Needs Improvement	U  Unsatisfactory
Helps Others	Responsible for Own Actions	Not Taking Responsibility for Own Actions	Hurts Others
compliments encourages recognizes contributes  supports  includes	consistent on-time prepared reliable respectful	blames disrupts tardy unprepared	truant uses put-downs harasses  disrespectful  tardy unprepared destructive excludes

Notes:
Social Emotional Learning:
know the value of giving more than they take, will be responsible for their own actions, and will know that they are an important part of our school community. 

know themselves better, relate better to others, and make responsible choices.

The English Teacher and Math

This is how I do math:

Using Apostrophes to Show Possession

Using Apostrophes to Show Possession

at GrammarBook.com

at the Purdue OWL

another link about apostrophes

Subject and Verb Agreement in Number

See Subject and Verb Agreement in Number  on this PB wiki page.

See also these links:
Rules and helps for subject-verb agreement from Purdue.


GrammarBook.com on subject-verb agreement

This site includes rules and quizzes. If you are assigned to complete the practice quizzes, this is the site to go to.

March 30/31, 2010

March 30/31, 2010
Bring your science fiction or fantasy book-of-the-month club book to class.

Practicing using apostrophes to show possession. 

Subject-Verb Agreement -- Individual quiz on subject-verb agreement (verbs agree with a singular or plural subject) to see if understand it yet.
Link: This site includes rules and quizzes. If you are assigned to complete the practice quizzes (or if you received less than 18/20 on the in-class quiz on March 30/31), this is the site to go to.  

Also, see examples of singular and plural at our PB wiki.

More Love That Dog and writing based on it.

Love That Dog assignments in your composition book:
Write a poem imitating "The Red Wheelbarrow."
Write a poem imitating "Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright."
Write a stanza imitating "Stopping By Woods":  "Whose woods these are, I think I know. . . "
List sounds you would hear in a place you know well. (Based on "Street Music.") 
Collect words and phrases you could use to describe a pet or another animal when it is sitting, running, sleeping, or performing some other action.
Write a poem imitating "Love That Boy."

See  Poems to Imitate, to be INSPIRED BY

Some classes have read the poem "A Slice of Life" and written in response to it.

A Slice of Life What's as confusing as last week's science lab? Can be as sweet as sugar? Then, sharp as a knife? Comes quickly But with no instructions on how to handle it? Can take you up to the stars Or throw you sprawling against a rock? Just when you think you've got it figured out, It takes an unexpected turn. Those who have lived it Either warn you about the dangers it brings, Or tell you to live it to the fullest, Perhaps you know what I am talking about. Don't let it pass by without making a mark Or saving a memory, because It will only come once, and soon the opportunities, The moments, the dreams Will all just be a slice of your past The piece of life that we call Adolescence. Katherine T. 1.  Write quickly for 2-3 minutes about all that this poem brings to mind for you.

 2. Borrow one line from the poem and write again, this time focusing on that line, using it as the basis as a passage that will perhaps be poetic. 
3. Write about what adolescence has been like for you so far.

ad·o·les·cence

 /ˌædlˈɛsəns/ Show Spelled[ad-l-es-uhns] 

–noun

1.

the transitional period between puberty and adulthood in human development, extending mainly over the teen years and terminating legally when the age of majority is reached; youth.

2.

the process or state of growing to maturity.

3.

a period or stage of development, as of a society, preceding maturity.

March 26/29, 2010

March 26/29, 2010
Bring your science fiction or fantasy book-of-the-month club book to class.

More on subject/verb agreement:  students individually or in pairs work on finding the subject (getting prepositional phrases out of the way), and choosing the correct verb to agree with the subject. 

Bring your book-of-the-month to read.

More poetry --read more of (and write more based on)  Love That Dog  See the poems at 

Poems to Imitate, to be INSPIRED BY

American Fork Junior High Writer's Conference

American Fork Junior High Writer's Conference

Friday April 2 during A1 and A2

Guest authors: Annette Lyon, Melissa Rowley, Debbie Rowley

If you would like to go, write a brief letter (handwritten in pen or pencil is fine) to Ms. Dorsey telling why you want to go, and why I should select you to go.  Turn in your letter as soon as possible -- no later than March 30. 

I am able to select about 14 students out of my 200 students.