Many of these books would work for our September/October Book Assignment!
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Announcements and Reminders:
Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Here's some piratical vocabulary: Pirate Talk
By the way, my favorite pirate book is Pirates! by Celia Rees which is an historical fiction book about women pirates (women who become pirates) in the Caribbean. It's a long book, but very exciting, and is recommended for students in 6th through 9th grade.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/harpercollins/11-literary-first-lines-pirated-9npd
Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day!Here's some piratical vocabulary: Pirate Talk
By the way, my favorite pirate book is Pirates! by Celia Rees which is an historical fiction book about women pirates (women who become pirates) in the Caribbean. It's a long book, but very exciting, and is recommended for students in 6th through 9th grade.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/harpercollins/11-literary-first-lines-pirated-9npd
Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held
today from 3:30 to 7:30.
If you did not finish the Edmodo assignment -- answering two questions about The Outsiders -- in class, finish it outside of class as soon as possible.
- Scholastic book orders are due by September 25. Class Activation Code: GKLJW https://clubs2.scholastic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/LogonForm
- Consider entering the PTSA Reflections contest. Extra Credit Opportunity!
- You should have your Book of the Month Basic 8 book read by today, September 19, so you will have time to write your assignment. You may hand in a hard copy, or complete it on Edmodo, either before or on September 23 -- next Monday.
- Pick up your composition book.
2. iRead: Individual reading time: Read quietly and individually. You could find books on the shelves, but it's best if you are reading your book for your assignment.
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CSI American Fork
Now Investigating: Conventions in Sentences Investigation
Label in your composition book: CSI #1
- What do you notice about these sentences?
- What do they have in common?
- Write down at least three things you notice about them.
The sentences:
Avon, a rather small snail, reads a book every day.
-- Avi, The End of the Beginning (2004)
Ty, a defensive back, was only a few yards from her.
- from the Echo Falls series by Peter Abrahams
Why Are the Commas There?
In your composition book, label the next page
"When Do We Use Commas?"
"When Do We Use Commas?"
Chose one of these sentences to copy. Why are the commas in these two sentences?
Reason #1 to Use Commas
- appositives http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/596/01/
- nonessential elements http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/05/
- Set it off with commas if you could pull it out and the sentence would still be complete.
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Information for your next Book Assignment:
--- Contemporary Realistic Fiction
The project will be focused on a main character in your book.
--- Sign up by September 27.
When you are finished with your first book assignment, pick up the blue packet for the September/October book assignment.
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The Outsiders
character
plot
Fact or Opinion
1. Ponyboy is good-looking.
2. Johnny told Ponyboy that he was good looking.
3. Murder is the worst trouble you could get into.
4. Soda and Steve and Two-Bit's behavior in church was embarrassing.
5. Ponyboy felt embarrassed by Soda and Steve and Two-Bit's behavior in church.
B5 to middle of page 70, p.46 Track 2, 12:59
B6 to page 82 iTunes page 45, track 2, 34:32
B7 to page 64, iTunes page 45, track 2, 4:21 ? Check? "Shoot, you are too."
B8 to page 70, after 1st paragraph, iTunes page 45, track 2, 12:59
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Announcements and Reminders:
| If you did not finish the Edmodo assignment -- answering two questions about The Outsiders -- in class, finish it outside of class as soon as possible. |
- Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held September 19 --this Thursday from 3:30 to 7:30.
- Scholastic book orders are due by September 25. Class Activation Code: GKLJW https://clubs2.scholastic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/LogonForm
- Consider entering the PTSA Reflections contest. Extra Credit Opportunity!
- You should have your Book of the Month Basic 8 book read by this Thursday, September 19, so you will have time to write your assignment. You may hand in a hard copy, or complete it on Edmodo, either before or on September 23 -- next Monday.
2. iRead: Individual reading time: Read quietly and individually. You could find books on the shelves, but it's best if you are reading your book for your assignment.
3. for B8 -- Capitalization Lesson with Ian. http://www.sanchezclass.com/capitalization-punctuation.htm
B8 did this instead of the exercise below.
3. What do you notice? In your composition book, list two or three (or more) things you notice as you read this passage. Your noticings can be about what it says or how it says it. They can be about ideas or about grammar. Does anything surprise you? Label this "Constitution" and add today's date.
The Constitution is the highest law in the United States. All other laws come from the Constitution in some way. The Constitution also provides the framework for the government of the United States. It creates things like the Presidency, the Congress, and the Supreme Court. Each state has its own constitution that is the highest law for the state, but even then, the United States Constitution is higher.
The Constitution is a document written by a group of men in 1787. From May to September of 1787, those men, known as the Framers, met in Philadelphia and discussed what should be in the Constitution. We actually have old copies of the document they created. The master copies are stored at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. In 2003, the Rotunda, where the Constitution is displayed, was rebuilt, and anyone can go and see the actual Constitution.
The Constitution is a document written by a group of men in 1787. From May to September of 1787, those men, known as the Framers, met in Philadelphia and discussed what should be in the Constitution. We actually have old copies of the document they created. The master copies are stored at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. In 2003, the Rotunda, where the Constitution is displayed, was rebuilt, and anyone can go and see the actual Constitution.
adapted from http://www.usconstitution.net/constkids.html
4. Constitution Day! Fact or Opinion?
Take notes on the video, jotting down IMPORTANT IDEAS AND FACTS.
5. Play Fact or Opinion
We are not looking for whether something is true or not.
We are looking at whether something is provable or if it is just an opinion or feeling.
Fact or Opinion? What Makes Either?
Constitution Day Materials:
http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/page/key-constitutional-concepts
Annenburg 0 - 1:01:48, skip , 4:10 or 4:12
http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/page/the-story-of-the-bill-of-rightshttp://www.jackmillercenter.org/educational-resources/other-programs/?gclid=CISH85_gzrkCFctAMgodrkIAHA
http://www.constitutionday.com/index.html
http://www.history.org/media/videoplayer/?cat=vodcast&file=ConstitutionDay
http://edsitement.neh.gov/constitution-day
6. The Outsiders
Our First Class Novel: The Outsiders
Watch for an inciting incident = what really starts the conflict -- the problem(s).
What complications come up?
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| Plot Map In a novel there may be more than one climax. |
B5 to p. 59 top of page, iTunes page 45, track 1 23:05
B6 to page 71 iTunes page 45, track 2, 14:42
B7 to page 53, iTunes page 45, track 1, 12:56 end of chapter
B8 to page 61, iTunes page 45, track 1, 26:48
B6 to page 71 iTunes page 45, track 2, 14:42
B7 to page 53, iTunes page 45, track 1, 12:56 end of chapter
B8 to page 61, iTunes page 45, track 1, 26:48
Capitalization
Possible Activity for Taking Notes/Viewing/Constitution Day:- In a group of two or three, pick your best idea or fact from the segment you watched.
- Your group joins another group to pick the best of your two chosen ideas or facts.
- Bring it to Ms. Dorsey.
- She will call out the ideas or facts that have been chosen. If yours has already been taken, your group will select another. Bring it to Ms. Dorsey.
- If it is approved, have your group member with the best handwriting write it on the provided sheet.
Fact or Opinion? What Makes Either?
Fact or Opinion?
♦You can check the truth of a fact. A fact is not debatable. It is either true or false.♦Different people could have different opinions. Opinions are debatable.♦When you say you or someone else thinks or
believes something, you are expressing a fact, even though what you think or believe may not be a fact. It is a fact that you think or believe that. Confusing, huh?!
Note: This is not asking whether a statement is true or not,
just whether it expresses a fact or opinion.
Clue words to show opinion: feel, believe, always, never, none,
most, least, best, worst, should.
http://www.st.cr.k12.ia.us/reading/fact_and_opinion.htm
Ways to show what you know:
Stand up if the statement expresses a fact. Stay seated if it is an opinion.
Write an F on the whiteboard if it is fact, an O if it is an opinion.
Practice: http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/page/key-constitutional-concepts
The National Constitution Center is in Philadelphia.
Before our Constitution was established, rulers thought it took armies to control their people.
Our Founding Fathers believed it took a constitution to control the people, and that the
people would accept it and follow its law.
Our Founding Fathers were brilliant.
The Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776.
(A1 to here)
The Articles of Confederation led to more conflict among the new states.
It was silly for the states to call their first union a "league of friendship."
The original states saw themselves as sovereign (independent) nations.
By 1787, New York State was planning a military attack on Connecticut and New Jersey.
-- 6:50 ______________________
What were the Articles of Confederation?
Shay's Rebellion was a breakdown of law and order.
A narrator in this film thinks that for General Washington, Shay's Rebellion was the low point of the whole Confederation period.
The Constitutional Convention was held in Philadelphia.
James Madison was brilliant.
George Washington was indispensable in 1787. (That means they couldn't succeed without him.)
George Washington was famous throughout the world in 1787.
10:00 ___________________________
The men at the Constitutional Convention had not been authorized (given the power) to create a new constitution.
The representatives from the state of Virginia thought they should throw out the Articles of Confederation and write a whole new constitution.
There were sixty-six men at the constitutional convention in Philadelphia.
The Constitutional Convention decided to meet in secret.
Meeting in secret was a terrible decision.
Our system of government is like a giant game of rock/paper/scissors.
One of the narrators in this film says that it is as if the Constitution was written to make making laws difficult.
A2 worked to here.
Powerful governments are dangerous.
13:40 -- Executive Branch
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Bill of Rights
The people who made the video we watched say that the Constitution was not preordained (established by God and meant to succeed for hundreds of years).
The first amendment wasn't part of the original Constitution.
The Federalists thought that it was important to protect individuals from the states.
The Anti-Federalists believed in strong local power.
King George was a tyrant.
There are no photos from the Revolutionary War.
Individual rights should be protected.
Thomas Jefferson is often called the Father of the Constitution.
4:54
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Book Trailer for "Fortunately the Milk"
I am rather fond of Neil Gaiman. Here he is introducing "Fortunately the Milk."
Have you read Coraline?
How about The Graveyard Book?
Friday, September 13, 2013
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How are you coming on your book for the book project? You should have it read by September 19, and be ready to turn in your written work by the end of class on September 23.
Book orders: We have $11 worth of orders turned in so far, so we need only $9 to send in the order early!
Then we can send in another order on the 25th! You DO NOT need your composition book today. Do get out your reading book. If you do not finish the Edmodo assignment -- answering two questions about The Outsiders -- in class, it becomes homework. |
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Take the
MyAccess District Test
Do NOT try to take or finish this test at home. This test is to be completed entirely under the supervision of your teacher. Thank you.
"Class Set" means you do not write on the papers,
and you do leave it when you go.
Take to Computer Lab 223 (by Ms. Eddington, nearest to us):
-- the green direction sheet
-- your individual book to read
To do in the lab:
- Complete the district writing test.
- Complete the SRI (computer reading test) if you did not finish it before. See the poster for log-in information.
- Answer the two questions about Outsiders on Edmodo. There will be Outsiders books in the lab.
- If you still have time, read your individual book.
log into Edmodo and answer these two prompts:
lastnamefirstname
student number
To answer, click on the Turn In button, then type your answer in the box provided "Type your responses here. . . ."
Turn it in by clicking on "Turn in Assignment."
Spend any extra time reading your Book of the Month Book or working on the assignment on Edmodo that goes with it.
Spend any extra time reading your Book of the Month Book or working on the assignment on Edmodo that goes with it.
Prompts:
Outsiders - Chapter 1-- Family Relationships
Outsiders - Chapter 2 -- Common Life Experiences
Ponyboy's reply to the first prompt: [The numbers in brackets are for the pages in the book where he says something like these things.]
Darry doesn't like me! Yah, he works long and hard [2], and doesn't have time to do much of anything fun. He has to do all of that because of me and Soda, and now that Soda has dropped out, it's just mostly because of me. So no wonder he resents me and gets so mad at me whatever I do.
Darry is hard and firm and rarely grins at all. He's always hollering at me, and treating me like I'm six instead of fourteen. [2] And he's always rough with me without meaning to be! [6] He gets so mad because I don't use my head, don't seem to have common sense, and he always uses his head. [13] He expects so much of me, too. If I bring home B's, he wants A's. If I bring home A's I'd better make sure they stay A's. [13]
Soda understands about everything. I love Soda more than I've ever loved anybody. He's happy-go-lucky and always grinning. [2] He stands up for me to Darry, and somehow he gets away with it. Soda and I share a room and one bed since that's all we've got. That's okay 'cuz it gives us a chance to confide in each other. I sure hope Soda sticks around until I've finished school so he can keep Darry off my back. [18]
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