March 18/19, 2009
Announcements:
1. Mr. Christensen will have all personal narratives back to students by the end of the first class period on the 18th. All revisions of these handed back papers have to be back to him on Friday, March 20th at the absolute latest.
a. If you did not hand it in by last Friday (the late deadline) you do not have the opportunity to revise.
2. Any work that was handed in after Thursday, March 12th has not yet been entered into the computer. It does take time to grade and enter scores. This is one of the reasons we have due dates and deadlines!
1. Students wrote in their composition books responses to the following questions:
What is was the most interesting/Fun thing that you did this term in English?
What one activity/thing would you cut if you had been teaching this term?
If you could give Mr. Christensen (or Ms. Dorsey) one piece of advice as a teacher, what would it be?
2. Students retook the SRI -- Scholastic Reading Inventory -- in the computer lab. Students whose scores show the need will be placed in a reading skills class in eighth grade as one of their electives. Do your best to show what you really know.
3. Students did a WebQuest to learn more about Ernest Shackleton and his expedition, and to show that they can use external and internal text structures to find information. If you are absent, see an adjoining post for the sites and questions from the WebQuest. You may do this at home and return your work.
-3rd Term -- What we did --
Read excerpts from "Survive the Savage Sea"
Non-fiction reading logs
book of the month reading
book of the month assessment
computer lab to learn about finding and citing sources
media center to find books
reading Words by Heart
watching Words by Heart video
Words by Heart hotseat
Forgiveness essay
Revising Forgiveness essay
Sharing Forgiveness essay
Learning how to cite sources
Leaning about Jim Crow laws
Making lie-lay poster
Learning about lie-lay verbs
Calvin and Hobbes cartoons
Learning about capitalization and punctuation
Watching Grammar Rock
Punctuation Takes a Vacation book and activity
Reading Ice Story
Watching Ice Story video
Learning about internal structure and external text features
