This week is crazy busy! Here is everything happening, please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
Tuesday, March 20- PASS Writing Test from 8:45- 11:30,
(Also, ANY MISSING WORK IS DUE TO MRS. RIGOT!)
Wednesday, March 21- PASS Writing Test from 8:45-11:30
Thursday, March 22- FIELD TRIP to play at Furman and Golden Corral
PASS Writing Test- Please make sure students are rested and here on time! This test involves giving student's a prompt, organizing their ideas, writing a first draft, then writing a final draft. Students need to try their best as this is practice for when they take it in 8th grade.
Notes:
- No reading log this week due to PASS WRITING
- Grades are due this week so all missing work must be turned in by Tuesday
- This week and last week we have been discussing persuasive writing and organization to prepare students for PASS testing.
HAPPY 2 weeks till Spring Break!!!
Monday, March 19, 2012
Sunday, March 4, 2012
March 5-9
Hello everyone! This week we are getting ready for MAP testing! It's hard to believe it's already here. Please make sure you get a lot of sleep and a good breakfast every morning this week! It's VERY important that you try your best so that we know what you need in terms of instruction next year.
GOOD LUCK!!!!
MAP SCHEDULE:
Monday- MATH MAP for Brook's 2,6, and 7th periods
Tuesday- MATH MAP for Brook's 9th period
Wednesday- ENGLISH MAP for my 2,6, and 7th periods
Thursday- ENGLISH MAP for my 9th period
GOOD LUCK!!!!
MAP SCHEDULE:
Monday- MATH MAP for Brook's 2,6, and 7th periods
Tuesday- MATH MAP for Brook's 9th period
Wednesday- ENGLISH MAP for my 2,6, and 7th periods
Thursday- ENGLISH MAP for my 9th period
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
PROPAGANDA
This Wednesday we are starting propaganda! Our focus will be on looking at how advertisers use bandwagoning and testimonial techniques to attract watchers. Students will be looking at what is bias and how it's used to make people believe certain things. Here are some commercials we will be looking at to start our unit off.
Bandwagon: making people want to do/buy something because others are doing it.
Bandwagon: making people want to do/buy something because others are doing it.
Testimonial: Listening to a "trustworthy" person's thoughts in order to convince you of something.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Poetry test week!
Poetry test this coming Friday!!! We will go over our study guide Wednesday, review Thursday, and test on Friday.
Monday and Tuesday we will be finishing up how to TP-CASST a poem and how to look for and identify figurative language.
For extra practice you can TP-CASST this poem, "maggie and milly and molly and may", by E.E. Cummings
Monday and Tuesday we will be finishing up how to TP-CASST a poem and how to look for and identify figurative language.
For extra practice you can TP-CASST this poem, "maggie and milly and molly and may", by E.E. Cummings
maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and
milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;
and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and
may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and
milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;
and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and
may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea
Sunday, January 22, 2012
No more roses are red....
We are starting POETRY! I love teaching poetry because usually my students are terrified at first but end up being very confident in writing and understanding it. We started last week by creating heart maps full of ideas and looking at the importance of vivid details, using "I", and making sure their poems have a point. Students are having a hard time understanding that poetry does not have to rhyme and is not always exactly about whatever the title is so we are changing it up this week (Jan. 23).
This week we are redirecting our focus using the TP-CASST system. This is a structured system to help students learn how to understand the title of a poem, paraphrasing, connotation, attitude, speaker, and theme.
We will have a quiz this Friday and a test next week.
This week we are redirecting our focus using the TP-CASST system. This is a structured system to help students learn how to understand the title of a poem, paraphrasing, connotation, attitude, speaker, and theme.
We will have a quiz this Friday and a test next week.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Our newest project!
Writing a Greek Myth
Now that you’ve learned about different Greek myths and the elements of a story, your goal now is to create your own illustrated Greek Myth to depict each of the story elements we’ve talked about in class. Your stories will be typed and bound in a book format, and you will be able to share them with the class.
· You will be creating your own Greek myth to share with the class
· Your myth must explain an event or thing in our world today that can be explained through your gods/goddesses
· You will create your own Greek god or goddess to be the main character in the story. This character must display characteristics that help explain the natural occurrence.
· You will create your own Greek god or goddess to be the main character in the story. This character must display characteristics that help explain the natural occurrence.
· Your final written paper must have a cast of ancient Greek characters, a Greek setting, a problem or situation, rising action, a climax, falling action, and a final resolution.
· Each of your pages should include a minimum of four sentences. There is a minimum of three pages for your story and a maximum of ten pages for your story.
· What you will turn into me:
- Brainstorming
- Purpose description
- Main character sketch
- Setting description
- Plot outline
- Rough draft with peer edit
- Final copy
Welcome back!! Jan 2-6
Hope everyone had a wonderful Winter Break! We are coming back strong with myth vs. legend and getting ready for semester exams. Exams start MONDAY!!! Please study all weekend and next week. I will be going over the study guide with students and uploading it to the blog Friday. The exam schedule for next week is as follows...
Monday- 2nd period exam, 9th period exam
Tuesday- 3rd period exam, 7th period exam
Wednesday- 6th period exam, 8th period exam
Please make sure you get a good night's rest and get here in time for breakfast!
Until our exam review on Friday we are comparing and contrasting myths with legends and working on writing our myths. I have attached the myth writing sheets we have started. Tomorrow we will be focusing on researching the event in our myth. Students had to figure out this sentence in order to write their myth: My myth explains why we have _________. We read the myth of Persephone which explained why we have seasons. We also read Pandora's Box which explains why we have hate, crime, disease, and hope in the world. Now it's thier turn to create a story that explains why we have something.
This website is great! The two we used to compare and contrast were "The witch in the bottle" (legend) and "Pandora's Box" (myth). http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/
Homework: Read and log twice this week. Total of an hour with parent signature. I always check them on Fridays.
*I let students make up missing reading by reading over break. If you see anything below 100 when looking at their reading log grades then they chose not to make it up. I spoke to each student individually and told them how much reading they had to make up.
Monday- 2nd period exam, 9th period exam
Tuesday- 3rd period exam, 7th period exam
Wednesday- 6th period exam, 8th period exam
Please make sure you get a good night's rest and get here in time for breakfast!
Until our exam review on Friday we are comparing and contrasting myths with legends and working on writing our myths. I have attached the myth writing sheets we have started. Tomorrow we will be focusing on researching the event in our myth. Students had to figure out this sentence in order to write their myth: My myth explains why we have _________. We read the myth of Persephone which explained why we have seasons. We also read Pandora's Box which explains why we have hate, crime, disease, and hope in the world. Now it's thier turn to create a story that explains why we have something.
This website is great! The two we used to compare and contrast were "The witch in the bottle" (legend) and "Pandora's Box" (myth). http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/
Homework: Read and log twice this week. Total of an hour with parent signature. I always check them on Fridays.
*I let students make up missing reading by reading over break. If you see anything below 100 when looking at their reading log grades then they chose not to make it up. I spoke to each student individually and told them how much reading they had to make up.
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