English 7H per. 4 (Period 4) Assignments

Agenda for Thursday, 5/30

1) Return of work/Gradesheets
2) Planning Video

Homework: None

Parents—students were given gradesheets in class today. Electronic gradesheets will be emailed home this evening.

Agenda for Wednesday, 5/29

1) Quickwrite
Write 10 questions you have about 8th grade
2) The dictionary game

Homework:
None

Agenda for Tuesday, 5/28

1) Quickwrite
Write ten things you wish you had known about 7th grade before the year began.


Homework:
None

Agenda for Friday, 5/24

1) The Way Thigns Go
2) Cog
3) This Too Shall Pass

Homework:
Who is Rube Goldberg?

Agenda for Thursday, 5/23

1) Quickwrite (NB):
Tell me everything you know about music

2) Word roots by Aria

Homework: Update notebook

Agenda for Wednesday, 5/22

1) Post Haikus on the board
2) Return textbooks
3) Ordeal by Cheque

Homework: None

Agenda for Tuesday, 5/21

1) Haiku

Homework: Write two haiku and put them in your google notebook.

Agenda for Monday, 5/20

1) Quickwrite:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
Is this a poem?
I don't know.

Write whether the above four lines are a poem or not.

2) Syllables

Homework: None

Agenda for Thursday, 5/16

1) Write Persuasive Essay

Homework:
The Persuasive Essay Final Draft is due in class tomorrow (Friday). Remember that it needs to be printed on the computer in 12-point Palatino or Times font. If you do not have a working printer, handwrite it neatly and bring in a note from your parents that you don't have a working printer.

Agenda for Wednesday, 5/15

1) Review of Depth and Complexity

2) Writing the persuasive essay

Homework: Today we began writing the persuasive essay in class. We will have most of the period tomorrow to keep working on it, and the final draft is due on Friday.

Agenda for Tuesday, 5/14

1) Review Essay Instructions and Grader
2) Begin Essay Worksheet

Homework: Finish Essay Worksheet

Agenda for Monday, 5/13

1) Review Observation evidence for persuasive essay
2) Finish in-class surveys
3) Counterarguments

Homework: None

The Persuasive Essay will be due Friday, 5/17. We will go over the instructions and grading rubric in class on Tuesday.

Agenda for Wednesday, 5/8

1) Persuasive Essay Topics
2) Survey questions
3) Surveys

Homework:
None

Agenda for Tuesday, 4/30

1) Quickwrite (NB):
If you could ask some higher power one of each type of question, what questions would you ask?
Who
What
When
Where
Why
How

2) Test prep

Homework: Update notebook

Agenda for Friday, 4/26

1) Friday Free Write (NB)

2) The last parts of speech lesson of the year

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Thursday 4/25

1) Quickwrite: (NB)
What is your favorite word?
Why?
What is your least favorite word?
Why?

2) Parts of speech

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Monday 4/23

1) Quickwrite (NB):
Invent your own candy.

2) Review test prep


Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Friday, 4/19

1) Idioms test

Homework:
None

Note: I was out of class on Friday as we were moving.

Agenda for Wednesday, 4/17

1) The Opinion Game (part 1)

2) Parts of Speech: Verb


Homework:
None
Test on Context Clues Friday.

Agenda for Tuesday, 4/16

1) Quickwrite (NB)
Write about your favorite toy from when you were little.

2) Write sentence for Idiom Test

3) Parts of Speech: Noun

Homework:
Update notebook
Idiom test Friday

Agenda for Monday, 4/15

1) Monday Free Write (NB)
2) Review Test Prep

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Friday, 4/12

1) Prepare persuasive presentation
2) Persuasive challenge: The best animal in the world

Homework:
None

Agenda for Tuesday, 4/9

1) Quickwrite (NB):
How often do you wash your hands?

2) World of Washcraft


Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Monday, 4/8

1) Quickwrite (NB):
In 10 years, what will you remember about 7th grade?

2) Test Prep

Agenda for Friday, 4/5

1) Friday Free Write (NB)
2) Persuasive techniques part 2 (NB)

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Thursday, 4/4

1) Quickwrite (NB):
What tricks do you use to persuade people
2) Name your trick.
3) Persuasive Techniques (NB)

Homework: Update notebook

Agenda for Wednesday, 4/3

1) Hamburger Test

Homework: None

PS this was a practice test and does not count for a grade. No hamburgers were harmed in the making of this test.

Agenda for Tuesday, 4/2

1) Review Test Prep
2) Question Types
3) Fast Food Pioneers

Homework due tomorrow:
Write a CST-style question based on the Fast Food Pioneers handout. Must have a question and four answers, only one of which is correct.

Agenda for Friday, 3/22

1) Quickwrite (NB):
Rank each of the following, with one sentence about the best part of each:
Win the lottery
Become famous
Stay thin forever
Your friends and family have to do what you say
Eat nothing but ice cream (with no health consequences)
All your enemies suffer

2) Counterargument

3) Dove video

Agenda for Wednesday, 3/20

1) Persuasive Anticipation
2) Persuasive survey

Homework:
None

Agenda for Tuesday, 3/19

1) Test prep: editing and revision (NB)

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Monday, 3/18

1) Quickwrite (NB):
I wish 7th graders would _______.

2 Persuasive Topics (NB)

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Thursday, 3/14
(Minimum Day)

1) The history of the Universe

Homework: None

Agenda for Wednesday, 3/13

1) Quickwrite:
What stresses you out?

2) Correcting Sentences

3) Syllables

Homework: None

Agenda for Tuesday, 3/12

1) Test Prep: Find the Line


Homework:
Academy Project due Thursday

Agenda for Monday, 3/11

1) Quickwrite (NB):
What will your life be like when you are 50?

2) Return of work

3) Academy Project reminder

Homework:
Update notebook
Academy Project due Thursday at Open House

Agenda for Friday, 3/8

1) The Test of Three
2) Word roots #2 (NB)
3) Book fair

Homework due Monday:
Update notebook

Agenda for Wednesday, 3/6

1) Finish District Assessment
2) Review Figurative Language

Homework:
None

Agenda for Tuesday, 3/5

1) Six-word stories
2) Write a six-word story

Homework:
None

Agenda for Mondday, 3/4

1) Evaluating district assessment
2) Quickwrite (NB):

What do you want to be able to do in 10 years.

Homework:
None

Agenda for Friday, 3/1

1) Finish District Assessment

Homework:
None

Agenda for Thursday, 2/28

1) District Assessment #3.

This assessment will take all day today and tomorrow. It's a good warmup for the Star writing test which the students will take on Tuesday.

Homework:
None

Agenda for Wednesday, 2/27

1) Following the Prompt (NB)
Persuasive
Response to Literature
Narrative

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Tuesday, 2/26

1) Peer Review of Summaries
2) Group summary of Frogs and Toads (NB)

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Monday, 2/25

1) Quickwrite (NB):
Explain your favorite game.

2) Return of work

3) Test Prep: Summarize article (either the Toads article or the Frogs article)

Homework due tomorrow:
Update notebook
Print out article summary and bring to class

Agenda for Thursday, 2/21

1) Quickwrite (NB):
You just downloaded a new app that can send a message back in time. The message can only go to you and can only have 6 words maximum. When would you send the message and what would it be?

2) Martin Luther King Letter from a Birmingham Jail (NB)

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Wednesday, 2/20

1) Quickwrite (NB):
List all the groups that you belong to. For each group, write a sentence about being part of that group.

2) Standard paragraph about you and the groups you belong to


Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Tuesday, 2/19

1) Quickwrite (NB):
Make a list of different groups of kids here at Hale.
For each group, give a one-sentence description.
(Example: Jocks—kids who are good at sports)

2) Group Identity

3) Review test prep

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Friday, 2/15

1) Peer review essays
2) Grade Essay
3) Return Books

Homework: None

Enjoy your three-day weekend.

Agenda for Thursday, 2/14

1) Review Essay Grader
2) Write Rough Draft

Homework:
Essay final draft due tomorrow.
Remember: Bring in the essay (printed on the computer), the character chart, and the grader, stapled together (in that order).

Agenda for Wednesday, 2/13

1) Quickwrite: (NB)
What about you has changed the most since last year? What caused you to change?
2) Essay Evidence

Homework:
The Essay is due Friday; the rough draft will be written in class on Thursday
The Character Chart must be handed in with the essay

Agenda for Tuesday, 2/12

1) Read and Review Essay instructions
2) Character Chart

Homework:
The Essay is due Friday; the rough draft will be written in class on Thursday
The Character Chart must be handed in with the essay

Agenda for Monday, 2/11

1) Quickwrite (NB)
What about you needs to change?
What will it take for you to change?
What will you have to learn to change?
How will you know when you have changed?

2) Review test prep

3) Character Chart

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Friday:

1) Friday (almost) Free Write:
The Outsiders

2) Outsiders Trivia Challenge

Homework:
None

Agenda for Thursday, 2/7

1) Write quiz question
2) Diamante chapter 12 (NB)
3) Chapter 12 quiz

Homework: Update notebook

Note: The diamante assignment will be graded this weekend. Here are the criteria for a perfect 12 out of 12:

all 12 diamantes
no typos
perfectly executed: right number of words, all lines straight from the book with no editing
Each chapter labeled (chapter 1, etc.)
Center the diamantes

The diamantes need to be in your google notebook by tomorrow (Friday).

Agenda for Wednesday, 2/6

1) Write quiz questions
2) Diamante chapter 11 (NB)
3) Chapter 11 quiz
4) Plot and Characterization

Homework:
Read Chapter 12; chapter quiz tomorrow
Update notebook with Diamante

Agenda for Tuesday, 2/5

1) Write quiz questions
2) Diamante chapter 10 (NB)
3) Chapter 10 quiz
4) Plot and Characterization

Homework:
Read Chapter 11; chapter quiz tomorrow
Update notebook with Diamante

Agenda for Monday, 2/4

1) Write quiz questions
2) Diamante chapter 9 (NB)
3) Chapter 9 quiz
4) Plot and Characterization

Homework:
Read Chapter 10; chapter quiz tomorrow
Update notebook with Diamante

Agenda for Friday, 2/1

1) Write quiz questions
2) Diamante chapter 8 (NB)
3) Chapter 8 quiz
4) Plot and Characterization

Homework:
Read Chapter 9; chapter quiz tomorrow
Update notebook with Diamante

Agenda for Wednesday, 1/29

1) Write quiz questions
2) Diamante chapter 6 (NB)
3) Chapter 6 quiz
4) Plot and Characterization

Homework:
Read Chapter 7; chapter quiz tomorrow
Update notebook with Diamante

Agenda for Thursday, 1/30

1) Write quiz questions
2) Diamante chapter 7 (NB)
3) Chapter 7 quiz
4) Plot and Characterization

Homework:
Read Chapter 8; chapter quiz tomorrow
Update notebook with Diamante

Agenda for Tuesday, 1/28

1) Write quiz questions
2) Diamante chapter 5 (NB)
3) Chapter 5 quiz
4) Plot and Characterization

Homework:
Read Chapter 6; chapter quiz tomorrow
Update notebook with Diamante

Agenda for Monday, 1/28

1) Write quiz questions
2) Diamante chapter 4 (NB)
3) Chapter 4 quiz
4) Plot and Characterization

Homework:
Read Chapter 5; chapter quiz tomorrow
Update notebook with Diamante

Agenda for Friday, 1/25

1) Write quiz questions
2) Diamante chapter 3 (NB)
3) Chapter 3 quiz
4) Plot and Characterization

Homework:
Read Chapter 4; chapter quiz tomorrow
Update notebook with Diamante

Agenda for Thursday, 1/24

1) Write quiz questions
2) Diamante chapter 2 (NB)
3) Chapter 2 quiz
4) Plot and Characterization

Homework:
Read Chapter 3; chapter quiz tomorrow
Update notebook with Diamante

Agenda for Wednesday, 1/23

1) Write quiz questions
2) Diamante chapter 1 (NB)
3) Chapter 1 quiz
4) Plot and Characterization

Homework:
Read Chapter 2; chapter quiz tomorrow
Update notebook with Diamante

Agenda for Tuesday, 1/22

1) Outsiders Anticipation

2) Return Veldt Anticipation

3) Pass out books


Homework:
Read Chapter 1 of The Outsiders
Chapter quiz tomorrow

Agenda for Thursday, 1/17

1) Read "The Veldt" pp 5–6

2) Discuss events that advance the plot

3) Characterization: evidence that Peter is spoiled

Homework:
None tonight—bring all pages to class tomorrow.

Agenda for Tuesday, 1/15

1) The Veldt pp 1-2

2) Analyzing the plot

3) Analyzing the characters


Homework: None

Agenda for Monday, 1/14

1) Outsiders letter to go home
2) Veldt Anticipation
3) Technology Review

Homework: bring the outsiders letter to your parents.

Agenda for Friday, 1/11

1) Quickwrite (NB):
What is the simplest thing in the world?
What is the most complicated thing in the world?

2) The Hay Theory of History (NB)

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Thursday, 1/10

1) New Seating Chart.

2) Place Modifiers correctly (NB)

3) Draw parts of speech (NB)


Homework: Update notebook

Agenda for Wednesday, 1/9

1) Read excerpt from Fast Food Nation

2) Summarize excerpt (NB)

3) Write Diamante poem (NB)

4) Place Modifiers Correctly

Homework: Update notebook

Agenda for Tuesday, 1/8

1) Informational texts: reading a test (NB)

2) Place Modifiers Correctly


Homework: Update notebook

Agenda for Monday, 1/7

1) Welcome back

2) Quickwrite (NB):
How will 2013 be different from 2012?

3) Seating chart

4) Test prep: reading comprehension

Agenda for Wednesday, 12/5

1) Grade Feature Article

Homework:
None

Last day to turn in missing or revised work is 12/10.

Agenda for Tuesday, 12/4

1) Review Feature Article instructions
2) Write Feature Article or share and peer review

Homework:
Feature article due tomorrow (Wednesday, 12/5)

Agenda for Monday, 12/3

1) Makeup Assignments
2) Writing the Lead
3) Quotation Punctuation (NB)

Homework:
Feature Article due Wednesday 12/5

Agenda for Friday, 11/30

1) Friday Free Write (NB)
Pick your own quickwrite topic and write for 5 minutes.
2) Passing out Gradesheets
3) Writing 10 interview questions for the Feature Article (NB)
Suggested question topics:
Who
What
When
Where
Why
How
What was surprising
Do you do anything differently now to prepare for or avoid the dangerous situation
4) Review quotation punctuation

Homework:
Update Notebook

Feature Article is due Wednesday, 12/5
Everyone should have their interview completed by Monday 12/3

The last day to turn in work for the first semester is Monday, 12/10.

Agenda for Thursday, 11/29

1) Questionwrite (NB)
2) Interview practice (NB)
3) Summarizing/Paraphrasing (NB)

Homework: Update Notebook

Feature Article is due Wednesday 12/5

Agenda for Wednesday, 11/28


1) Review Feature Article Instructions

2) Creating a Works Cited list using easybib.com

Homework:
Due tomorrow: None
The Feature Article is due Wednesday, 12/5

Agenda for Tuesday, 11/27

1) Read sample Feature Article
2) Feature Article Instructions

HW: Schedule the Feature Article interview
You do not have to complete the interview—we will have time in class to write the interview questions and go over the process. But you should know who you will interview, what was their dangerous situation, and when the interview will take place.

Agenda for Monday, 11/26

1) Finish Extreme Earth Oral Presentations (NB)
2) Quickwrite (NB):
How nervous were you during your oral presentation?
3) Introduce Feature Article

Homework:
Update notebook
Choose Feature Article Interview subject. You do not have to conduct the interview yet, but you should know who you are going to interview and what was their dangerous situation.

Note:
There is a makeup assignment for the Active v Passive quiz, posted at the link below:

Agenda for Friday, 11/16

1) Extreme Earth Oral Presentations (NB)

Homework:
Update notebook with notes from presentations. If you were absent, put a note in your google notebook saying that you were absent on this day.

Anyone who did not give their presentation today will go after Thanksgiving break.

Agenda for Thursday, 11/15

1) Extreme Earth Oral Presentations (NB)

Homework:
Update notebook with notes from presentations. If you were absent, put a note in your google notebook saying that you were absent on this day.

Anyone who did not give their presentation will go tomorrow (or after Thanksgiving break).

Agenda for Wednesday, 11/14

1) Quickwrite (NB):
How scared are you about having to give an oral presentation in class?
Why?

2) Extreme Earth Instructions

3) The truth about Wikipedia

Homework:
Oral Presentations are due Tomorrow (Thursday)

Agenda for Tuesday, 11/13

1) Quickwrite (NB):
What is the furthest you've ever been away from your home?

2) Extreme Earth Sample Presentation

3) Extreme Earth topics

Homework: Update Notebook

Agenda for Friday, 11/9

1) Quiz
2) Splunge

Homework:
None

Agenda for Wednesday, 11/7

1) Quickwrite (NB):
If you were a superhero, what would be your superpowers, name, outfit, and weakness.

2) Sentence Types (continued) (NB):


Homework:
Update notebook

There will be a quiz on sentence types and sentence combining on Friday.

Agenda for Thursday, 11/8

1) Quickwrite (NB):
Pick any name.
Write 10 sentences that include that name.

2) Sentence Combining

Homework:
Update notebook

Quiz tomorrow.
10 Questions:
5 questions with a sentence, you must identify if it is a V, SV, SVO, or SVDOIO sentence.
5 questions with a sentence, you must identify if it is a simple, compound, or complex sentence.

V: Verb only
SV: Subject Verb
SVO: Subject Verb Object
SVDOIO: Subject Verb DirectObject IndirectObject

Simple Sentence: One (independent) clause.
Compound Sentence: Two or more independent clauses.
Complex Sentence: One independent and 
at least one dependent clause

Agenda for Tuesday, 11/6

1) Quickwrite (NB):
Who are you voting for as president?
Why?

2) Sentence Types (NB)

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Monday, 11/5

1) Quickwrite (NB):
Write 5 good quickwrite topics

2) Return of graded work and gradesheets

3) Sentence Combining

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Thursday, 11/1

1) Quickwrite (NB):
Write down everything you remember about Parts of Speech.

2) Return of work
The last day for missing or makeup work to count on the 15-week report card is tomorrow.

3) Review Parts of Speech for the quiz tomorrow.


Homework:
Update notebook
Quiz tomorrow

The Quiz in on three parts of speech:
1) Noun—a person, place, or thing
2) Adjective—a word that describes a noun
3) Verb—an action

Agenda for Wednesday, 10/31

1) Ghost Storyline

Homework:
None—Happy Halloween!

Agenda for Tuesday, 10/30

1) Quickwrite (NB):
Imagine you just got your driver's license. Describe your first drive.

2) Clarifying Word Meanings

Homework:
Update notebook


The notes students took for today's lesson on Clarifying Word Meanings were collected and graded. Some kids did not do an adequate job of taking notes in class and scored poorly on this.

Here are the notes for any student who needs to make up this work:


Clarifying Word Meanings

1) Contrast
The sentence includes the opposite of the word.


Try it with:
Happy
Nice
Athletic

2) Example
The sentence includes several examples of the word.


Try it with:
School
Cheese
Movie

3) Definition
The sentence includes the definition of the word.


Try it with:
School
Cheese
Movie

Agenda for Monday, 10/29

1) Quickwrite (NB):
Tell me a rumor that you heard about:
a) Me (Mr. McCabe)
b) Yourself
c) A famous person

2) Review websites
Hint: They're all fake.

Agenda for Friday, 10/26

1) Websites: Real or Fake

2) The Gwigle Game


Homework:
None

Splunge for Thursday, 10/25

1) Splunge (NB):
What is your favorite game
2) Splunge

Splunge due tomorrow:
Update splunge

Agenda for Wednesday, 10/24

1) Quickwrite (NB):
People think I'm _____, just because I'm ______, but really I'm ______.

2) Bias and stereotypes

Homework:
Update google notebook

Agenda for Tuesday, 10/23

1) Quickwrite 1 (NB):
Who are you?

2) Quickwrite 2 (NB):
Who do you think you are?

3) Quickwrite 3 (NB):
Who do you want to be?

Homework:
Update google notebook.

Agenda for Monday, 10/22

1) Quickwrite (NB):

What is the scariest thing you ever experienced?

2) Interview (NB):

2a) Questions
2b) Answers


Homework due tomorrow:
Update notebook

Agenda for Friday, 10/19

1) Grading Job Letter

2) Super Slow Motion Jiggly Stuff

Homework:
None

Agenda for Thursday, 10/18

1) Quickwrite (NB):

What is your dream job?
What is your best-case non-dream job?

2) Review Job Letter assignment

Homework:
Job Letter due tomorrow (Friday, 10/19)
Update notebook

Agenda for Wednesday, 10/17

1) Quickwrite (NB):
If you could have one wish, which would it be and why?
•Win the lottery

•Become Famous

•Thin forever

•Get your way all the time

•Eat nothing but ice cream

•All your enemies suffer

2) Counterargument (NB):

3) Letter Format

Homework:
Update notebook
Remember the Job Letter is due Friday.

Agenda for Tuesday, 10/16

1) Quickwrite (NB):
If you were hiring someone for a job, what would you want to know about them? What questions would you ask to find out?

2) Job Letter Instructions

Homework:
Update google notebook

Job Letter is due Friday, 10/19

Agenda for Monday, 10/15

1) Quickwrite 1 (NB)
Who would hire you?

2) Quickwrite 2 (NB)
What would they hire you to do?


Homework:
Update Google Notebook.

This week we will be writing a Business Letter, asking for a job interview, This will be due Friday, 10/19.

Agenda for Friday, 10/12

1) Gallery

Homework due Monday:
None

The Short Story was turned in today. If not, turn it in as soon as possible. Every day late is another full grade off.

Agenda for Thursday, 10/11/12

1) Review Short Story instructions
2) Surprise Endings
3) Punctuating Quotes

Homework:
The Short Story is due tomorrow. Bring it in printed out for the gallery.

Agenda for Wednesday, 10/10

1) Write the Climax (SS)
2) Peer Review
3) Return of the common assessment

Homework:
Update Short Story document on Google Drive.

Remember that the Short Story final draft is due, printed, on Friday, 10/12.

Agenda for Tuesday, 10/9

1) Review Short Story instructions

2) Write Rising Action (SS)

3) Peer Review

Homework:
Update Short Story document on Google Drive

Agenda for Monday, 10/8

1) Short Story instructions and Grader
2) Writing the Intro (SS)

Homework:
Create the Short Story document and add the intro you wrote in class

The Short Story is due Friday, 10/12.

Agenda for Thursday, 10/4

1) District assessment

Homework:
None
This is a 2-day assessment and will continue tomorrow.

Note to parents: The district assessment is designed to mimic the CST, so there is no study guide. The questions are taken from everything we've learned so far this semester, so the best way for students to prepare is to review their Notebook document on their Google Drive.

Agenda for Wednesday, 10/3

1) Quickwrite (NB):
What do your friends think about you and say aboutyou? How do they treat you?

2) Characterization (NB)

Homework:
Update notebook
Review notebook to prepare for district assessment tomorrow and Friday.

Agenda for Tuesday, 10/2

1) Quickwrite (NB):
What is the best ending of any book/movie you have ever read/seen? What happens in it? Why is it so great?
2) Climax and Resolution (NB)

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Friday, 9/28

1) Quickwrite (NB):
How good are you at taking tests and quizzes? How do you study?

2) Active v Passive Voice Quiz

3) Character Triangle (NB)
Write down three character traits for the main character of your story. One of the traits must be negative. For example, your character could be Strong, and Brave, but Lazy.

Agenda for Thursday, 9/27

1) Quickwrite (NB):
Who or what is keeping you from getting what you want most?

2) Review Active v Passive Voice

3) Conflict (NB)

Homework:
Quiz on Active v Passive Voice tomorrow (Friday, 9/28)
Update notebook

Agenda for Tuesday, 9/25

1) Quickwrite (NB):
How active are you?
How many different ways are there to be active?
Rank them all.

2) Active v Passive Voice (NB)

Homework:
Update notebook.
Active v Passive Voice Quiz Friday 9/28.

Agenda for Monday, 9/24

1) Quickwrite (NB):
What is your favorite fictional character?
Why do you like him or her so much?
In what ways are you like him or her?
In what ways are you different?

2) Your Protagonist (NB)
Name:

Where is he or she in life?
What does he or she do during the day?
What is his or her home situation?

How did he or she get to this point?

Homework:
Update notebook.

Agenda for Friday, 9/21

1) Buy an iPhone 5 (JK)
2) Quickwrite (NB)
What is your strongest intelligence?
What is your weakest?
Which one do you wish was stronger?
How can you make it stronger?
3) Standard Paragraph (NB)
My strongest intelligence is _____.

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Thursday, 9/20

1) Quickwrite (NB)
What is the thing you most want in the world that you just can't get?
2) Correct MC
3) Multiple Intelligences (NB)

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Wednesday, 9/19

1) Common Assessment 1

Homework:
None

Agenda for Tuesday, 9/18

1) Quickwrite (NB):
How do you study for tests?
How well does that work for you?
How do good students study for tests?

2) Studying for the test (NB)

3) Third person: Limited v Omniscient


Homework due tomorrow:
Update notebook
The Narrative Test is tomorrow

Agenda for Friday, 9/14 (Minimum day)

1) Wearing a Raincoat (NB)

Homework:
Update notebook with two detail/comment pairs

Agenda for Thursday, 9/13

1) Practice Test (NB)

Homework:
Update notebook with the standard paragraph, based on the graphic organizer.

The real test will be this coming Wednesday.

Agenda for Wednesday, 9/12

1) Quickwrite (NB)
Describe your last great meal.
2) Pronoun Trouble (NB)

Homework: Update Notebook

Agenda for Tuesday, 9/11

1) Quickwrite (NB)
What is the longest-ago thing you can remember?
2) Simple Subjects (NB)

Homework:
Update notebook
Please delete the "Hello" document from your Google Drive.

Agenda for Monday, 9/10

1) Quickwrite (NB):
I am _______.
Do 20 times.

2) Standard paragraph (NB)

Homework: Update notebook

Agenda for Friday, 9/7

1) Gradesheets
2) Textbooks
3) Character Assertions (NB)
Make three assertions about your personality (I am _____).
For each assertion, write down one fact from your life that proves it.

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Thursday, 9/6

1) All Summer in a Day
2) The Train is Leaving the Station

Homework:
Make sure your Notebook Document assignment is done properly.

Agenda for Wednesday, 9/5

1) Quickwrite (NB)
What is the longest you ever waited for something? What happened when you finally got it (or didn't)?
2) All Summer in a Day

Agenda for Tuesday, 9/4

1) Note about grades:
Gradesheets will go home this week.
2) Quickwrite (NB)
My [brother/sister/best friend/etc.] is like a/an _____.
3) Figurative Language

Homework:
Update notebook

Agenda for Thursday 8/30 (minimum day)

1) Parts of Speech of the 100 most common words in English

Homework:
Nothing from today. The assignment to create, name, and share the notebook document is due today.

Agenda for Monday, 8/27

1) Quickwrite (NB)
Write down every slang word you know.

2) Parts of Speech (NB)

Homework due Thursday:
1) Create a new google document
2) Call it:

Notebook 4 Your Name

(remember: first and last names)

3) Everything that you write in class, type it into this document.
We will use this document all year long. Everytime I ask you to write anything in your notebook in class, you will enter that into your Notebook file that evening.

Keep your notebook file up to date. I may grade them at any time.

Agenda for Wednesday, 8/29

1) Quickwrite: (NB)
What is your favorite word?
Why?
What is your least favorite word?
Why?
2) Parts of Speech 2 (NB)

Homework:
Update notebook document

Remember the assignment to create, name, and share a notebook document is due Thursday.

Agenda for Tuesday, 8/28

1) Return of Anticipation and Google Drive grades
2) Quickwrite (NB)
Write down 100 random words.

Homework:
Notebook file on Google Drive due Thursday.
Update your notebook file

Agenda for Friday, 8/24

1) Quickwrite
What do you see when you look around
2) The Standard Paragraph
3) How do Boys and Girls bully differently?

Homework due Monday:
None

Agenda for Thursday, 8/23

1) Priscilla and the Wimps

2) Book fair

Homework due Friday:
The Google Drive assignment is due Friday.

Agenda for Wednesday, 8/22

1) Quickwrite
Write ten sentences: one word, two words, three words, etc., up to a ten-word sentence.
2) Subject and Predicate

Homework:
None for today—Google Drive assignment due Friday

Agenda for Monday, 8/20

1) Quickwrite
Summarize the book you read for the summer reading assignment.
2) Summer Reading Challenge

Homework:
The Infamous (not really) Google Drive Assignment is due Friday. (See attached pdf)

Agenda for Tuesday, 8/21

1) Quickwrite:
What was your favorite fairy tale when you were a kid? Why did you like it? What do you think of it now?
2) Little Red Riding Hood

Homework:
Nothing new -- the Google Drive assignment is due Friday.

Agenda for Friday, 8/17

1) Collect Course Content Letters
2) The Pledge of Allegiance
3) Storyline

Homework Due Monday:
The Signed Course Content Letter, and your parent/guardian email address entered into the online system.

Both The Course Content Letter an the link to enter your email address on are my home page.