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Powell Lesson Language Arts Lesson Plans for 2007-2008
Week of April 14, 2008
Magnet
Topic -
1. Review verbals
2. Exs. 6-10 and C pages 106-112 -Holt Handbook
3. GUM 103-107
Tradidional
1. CRCT Reading Terms Review
The following items are ones that you may need to understand for the Reading CRCT Test. Match them to either an example below.
Folktale
Myth
Fable
Tall tale
Drama
Essay
Biography
Autobiography
Fiction
Nonfiction
Conflict
Climax
Resolution
Point of view
Tone
Character
Subplot
Parallel episodes
Theme
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Symbols
Meter
Imagery
1. Sheep are even-toed, hoofed animals. They are cud-chewing animals with the upper incisor teeth missing and with a four-compartmented stomach. They have paired, hollow, unbranched horns that are not shed. The horns of the adult male, or ram, are massive and spirally curved. The horns of the adult female, or ewe, are short and only slightly curved.
2. Green Eggs and Ham, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Simpsons
3. Elements of Literature, Grammar Usage and Mechanics, Holt Handbook
4. Arnold vs. Double Churches
5. My brother had, in 1720 or 1721, begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in America, and was called the New England Courant. The only one before it was the Boston News-Letter. I remember his being dissuaded by some of his friends from the undertaking, as not likely to succeed, one newspaper being, in their judgment, enough for America. At this time (1771) there are not less than five-and-twenty. He went on, however, with the undertaking, and after having worked in composing the types and printing off the sheets, I was employed to carry the papers thro' the streets to the customers.
6. Athena was the Olympian goddess of crafts and the domestic arts and also those of war; patron goddess of Athens. Athena was born from Zeus's head and was originally the Great Goddess in the form of a bird. She aided the heroes Perseus, Jason, Cadmus and Heracles in their quests.
7. When Mrs. Ledford told her side of the story to Dr. Massa, it was evident that she thought George needed to be suspended.
8. Plop, plop/fizz, fizz/ Oh what a relief it is
9. You are a monster
10. The hare was once boasting of his speed before the other animals. "I have never yet been beaten," said he, "when I put forth my full speed. I challenge anyone here to race with me."
The tortoise said quietly, "I accept your challenge."
"That is a good joke," said the hare. "I could dance around you all the way."
"Keep your boasting until you've beaten," answered the tortoise. "Shall we race?"
So a course was fixed and a start was made. The hare darted almost out of sight at once, but soon stopped and, to show his contempt for the tortoise, lay down to have a nap. The tortoise plodded on and plodded on, and when the hare awoke from his nap, he saw the tortoise nearing the finish line, and he could not catch up in time to save the race.
Plodding wins the race.
11. Charles’s mother finds out that there is not a boy named Charles in the class.
12. Many years ago, there was an Emperor, who was so excessively fond of new clothes, that he spent all his money in dress. He did not trouble himself in the least about his soldiers; nor did he care to go either to the theatre or the chase, except for the opportunities then afforded him for displaying his new clothes. He had a different suit for each hour of the day; and as of any other king or emperor, one is accustomed to say, "he is sitting in council," it was always said of him, "The Emperor is sitting in his wardrobe."
13. In Snow White and the Seven Dwarves the apple represents evil.
14. My mom is better than your mom.
The oatmeal she makes is so good for me I could bench press 100 pounds when I was five.
15. Betty Botter bought a beaver.
But the beastly beaver bit her.
So she bought a biting badger.
And the badger bit the beaver.
Since the badger bit the beaver,
now the beaver will not bite her.
So 'twas better Betty Botter
bought a beaver-biting badger.
16. And they lived happily ever after.
17. I’ll try to tell you my story, but you probably won’t understand my words. No one understands because no one is as smart as I. You all have such little brains that have so little in them. How you manage to get through a day, I don’t know. You are all so stupid.
18. Cinderella, Big Bird, Alice, the Big Bad Wolf, Pinocchio
19. Cinderella’s stepsisters plot with their evil mother to make Cinderella's life miserable
20. The scene shows a policeman investigating the scene of a murder looking at his watch that says 12:00 a.m and the shifts to a new scene where the murderer is in his basement plotting his next murder.
21. Now Davy Crockett was headed home after a successful night hunting when the dawn froze up so solid. Being a smart man, he knew he had to do something quick or the earth was a goner. He had a freshly killed bear on his back, so he whipped it off, climbed right up on those rays of sunlight and began beating the hot bear carcass against the ice blocks which were squashing the sun. Soon a gush of hot oil burst out of the bear and it melted the ice. Davy gave the sun a good hard kick to get it started, and the sun's heat unfroze the earth and started it spinning again. So Davy lit his pipe on the sun, shouldered the bear, slid himself down the sun rays before they melted and took a bit of sunrise home in his pocket.
22. JULIET
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
ROMEO
[Aside] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
23. Playing chess with Ashley is like trying to outsmart a computer.
24. it’s the beat
25. She heard her heart beating in her ears as the hot, dry wind ruffled her faded blue dress.
26. The tires screamed as the driver skid across the raceway.
27. Little Red Riding hood discovers that her grandmother is really a wolf in her grandmother’s clothes.
28. Basketball player, born in New York City, USA. He played with the Chicago Bulls from 1984, and was named as the National Basketball Association's Most Valuable Player in 1988, 1991, 1992, 1996, and 1997. A member of the USA Olympic gold medal-winning team in 1984 and 1992, he holds the record for most points in an NBA play-off game (63), against Boston in 1986, and scored over 50 points in a game on 34 occasions
Week of March 31, 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
Magnet
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Chapter 3 Passing the Georgia CRCT Language Arts
Traditional
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Chapter 9 Passing the Georgia CRCT Language Arts
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Magnet
1. Check Complements handout
2. Participles Exs. 4, 5., and B Holt Handbook
2. GUM 94-97
4. WOD Vocabulary, WOD Spelling Test, Organization Test Wednesday
Traditional
1. Continue Chapter 9 Passing the Georgia CRCT Language Arts
2. WOD Vocabulary Test, WOD Spelling Test, and Organization Test Wednesday
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
1. WOD Spelling
2. WOD Vocabulary Test
3. Organization Test
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Magnet
1. Check GUM 94-97
2. Exs. 6,7,9, and 10 Holt Handbook
3. GUM 103-106
Friday, April 4, 2008
1. CRCT Lab - All students must complete the following tests
These tests may be worked on at home but must be completed by Monday, April 14 for the Wednesday, April 16 Progress Report
Magnet
2007 GA Benchmark 7th Reading/Language Arts 2007-08-1
2007 GA Benchmark 7th Reading/English Lange. Arts 2007-08-2
8Powell language Arts Research & Writing
PowellInformationalMediaLiteracy
8Powell Language Arts Conventions
Powell Reading Grade 7
Powell 7th Grade Language Arts
Powell Reading for Literacy Comprehension
Traditional
2007 GA Benchmark 7th Reading/Language Arts 2007-08-1
2007 GA Benchmark 7th Reading/English Lange. Arts 2007-08-2
8Powell language Arts Research & Writing
PowellInformationalMediaLiteracy
8Powell Language Arts Conventions
Powell Reading Grade 7
Powell Reading for Literacy Comprehension
Powell 7th Grade Language Arts BONUS
Week of March 17, 2007
Monday, March 17, 2008
Magnet
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Check GUM 72-73
4. Review E, Chapter Review A-E pages 90-92
Holt Handbook classwork/homework
Tradtional
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Discovering answers in
the GA Driver's Manual
Students will use a manual
downloaded from the internet
to answer 20 questions. This
will be done in student groups
of three.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Magnet
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Check Review E, Chapter
Review A-C pages 90-92
Tradtional
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Discovering answers in
the GA Driver's Manual
Students will use a manual
downloaded from the internet
to answer 20 questions. This
will be done in student groups
of three.
Week of March 10, 2008
Monday, March 10 is a Teacher Planning Day.
Students will not attend school.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Magnet
ELA8C1 The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats.
ELA8R2 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
4. Review parts of speech
5. Identify sentence complements in
Exercises 1, 2, 3, and Review A pages 78-84 in Holt Grammar Handbook
6. Identify sentence complements in Grammar Usage Handbook pages 71-76
Traditional
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Discovering answers in
the GA Driver's Manual
Students will use a manual
downloaded from the internet
to answer 20 questions. This
will be done in student groups
of three.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Magnet
ELA8C1 The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats.
ELA8R2 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Turn in a go over Exercises 1, 2, 3, and Review A pages 78-84 in Holt Grammar Handbook
4. Do GUM 71-75
5. Review Subject Complements and complete
exercises 4, 5 B, and C on pages 85-89
Traditional
1. MUGSHOT
2. WOD
3. Discovering answers in
the GA Driver's Manual
Students will use a manual
downloaded from the internet
to answer 20 questions. This
will be done in student groups
of three.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Magnet
ELA8C1 The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats.
ELA8R2 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Turn in and go over Review Subject Complements and complete
exercises 4, 5 B, and C on pages 85-89
4. Complete GUM - 76-80 - subject complements
5. Do Chapter Review - pages 91-
Traditional
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a
warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
ELA8R2 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Present characters who show mood, tone, and author's
purpose
4. Analyze the difference between fiction and nonfiction
by studying examples
Friday, March 14, 2008
Magnet
ELA8C1 The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats.
ELA8R2 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Turn in and go over GUM 76-80
4. Go over Chapter Review
5. Create - Complements Poem
5. Complete Chapter Review - pages 81-83
Traditional
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a
warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
ELA8R2 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Determine the literay genre
of a piece of writing -by analyzing
examples
Week of March 3, 2008
Monday, March 3, 2008
Magnet
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a
warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
ELA8C1 The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats.
ELA8R2 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Turn in "The Dentist" questions and discuss
4. Watch I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and complete I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Poetic Analysis ( handout below)
Poetic Device Analysis of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings video
Maya Angelou is known for her use of poetic devices in her writing.
While watching the video "I Know How the Caged Bird Sings" give examples of the following and original examples of your own.
. Give an example of Onomatopoeia from the video
. Give an example of a simile from the video
. Give an example of a hyperbole from the video
. Give an example of allusion from the video
. Give an example of rhyme from the video
. Give an example of imagery from the video
. Give an example of a symbol from the video
. Give an example of personification from the video
5. Study for WOD Spelling Test, WOD Vocabulary Test, Organization Test on Tuesday
Traditional
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a
warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
ELA8C1 The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats.
ELA8R2 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Go over pages 27-32 in 8th Grade CRCT in Reading
4. Go over Author's purpose pages 39-45 8th Grade CRCT in Reading
5. Study for WOD Spelling Test, WOD Vocabulary Test, Organization Test on Tuesday
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Magnet and Traditional
ELA8C1 The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats.
ELA8R2 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. WOD Spelling Test
4. WOD Vocabulary Test
5. Organization Test
6. Read AR
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a
warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
ELA8C1 The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats.
ELA8R2 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.
Magnet
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Turn in “The Power of Nonviolence” questions and discuss
4. Compare and Contrast - "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
by Paul Dunbar, Maya Angelou and "Caged Bird" by Alicia Keyes
using contrast/comparison chart
Traditional
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a
warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Examine author's mood, setting, and tone pages 45-53
in Eighth Grade CRCT in Reading
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Magnet
ELA8C1 The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Turn in “The Moustache”
4. Go over CRCT MAP Tests analyzing questions missed
Traditional
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a
warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Go over CRCT MAP Tests analyzing questions missed
Friday, March 7, 2008
Magnet and Traditional
All Standards
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. CRCT Review - Computer Lab
Week of February 25, 2008
These plans have been revised as I was out sick from Tuesday, February 26 – February 28
Monday, February 25, 2008 – Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Magnet and Traditional
All Language Arts and Reading Standards are addressed by MAP Tests on Monday and Tuesday -
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. MAP Test Reading./MAP Testing Language Arts
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Magnet
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a
warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational
texts.
ELA8C1 The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of
the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application
of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats.
1. Read “The Power of Nonviolence” pages 677-682 Elements of Literature
And answer questions at the end of the selection – hold paper
2. Read AR
3. Study for WOD Spelling Test, WOD Vocabulary Test, and Organization Test on Friday
Traditional
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a
warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational
texts.
1. Read and do exercises in 8th Grade CRCT Reading Practice –
Examine author’s purpose – pages 39-45 – hold your papers
2. Read AR
3. Study for WOD Spelling Test, WOD Vocabulary Test, and Organization
Test on Friday
Thursday, February 26, 2008
Magnet and Traditional
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a
warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational
texts.
ELA8C1 The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of
the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats.
1. Finish Wednesday’s assignment
2. Read “The Moustache, page 139-146 in the Elements of Literature textbook
And answer all questions at the end of the selection. Hold your papers.
3. Read AR
Friday, February 29, 2008
Magnet and Traditional
All standards will be addressed.Tests Scheduled for Today Are Postponed unit Tuesday, March 4
1. Go to Computer Lab and work on 6th Grade Language Arts and Reading Benchmarks tests.
Week of February 18, 2008
Monday is President's Day and a school holiday.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Magnet
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Finish figurative language sheet
4. Read "The Dentist" from classroom
copies and answer questions
Traditional
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Finish and check
figurative language worksheet/
Wednesday, February 20 - Friday, February 22, 2008
Magnet
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. check Figurative language sheet
4. Finish "The Dentist" and answer
questions
Traditional
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Pages 27-32
Week of February 11, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Magnet
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. turn in "Flowers for Algernon"
4. work on red sheet on Figurative language
found below
Figurative Language – Write the figure of speech(s)
1. You’ve got diamonds and I’ve got spades/You’ve got pills and I’ve got razor blades
2. In his “I have a Dream Speech” King refers to the Bible
3. Falling in love was easy for her/ All she had to do was look into his big beautiful baby blues
4. The wallpaper was brown with the nicotine of thousands of cigarettes.
5. It’s just my imagination running away with me.
6. Now, I’m a napalm bomb baby, just guaranteed to blow your mind
7. His eyes pulled her into his soul.
8. I can still taste the wedding cake/ I can still feel the sugar melt on my tongue after all these years.
9. Ain’t no sun since you been gone.
10. Betty Botter bought some butter.
11. Baby, Baby, Baby, I love you.
12. Like a duct tape/ yo’re there fer your man
13. You are the wind beneath my wings
14. clear as crystal/sharp as a knife
15. nine nice nuns eating gnats nuts and cigarette butts
16. Well, so here I am at the end of the road/ Where do I go from here?
17. Yo’re as satisfactory as okry/jist a-frying in the pan
18. Yore complexion, it’s perfection/like the best vinyl siding
19. The microwave timer told me it was time to get my popcorn
20. The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell
21. His feet were as big as boats.
22. The dying plant bends/ And drips its dew to the ground
23. My English teacher wants me to use imagination/ So I go to math class and let my mind go on vacation!
24. A flea and a fly in a flue/Were caught so what could they do?
25. The trees stood still
26. What do oceans do at night? /Do they tease and tickle the bottom of boats?
27. The soft sighing of the sea
28. The snow crunched beneath our feet
29. The tropical storm slept for two days
30. Her is a curtain of black silk
31. The crack of the bat could be hear in the next field
32. I’m her machine and she can push all the buttons,/she can push any button I was programmed through
33. All the waiters in your grand café leave their tables when you blink
34. I’ll either come back a bum or a king, baby, I don’t know
35. Sunday came out and trashed me again
36. Sweet Virginia Cigarette burning in my hand, well, you used to me a friend of mine, but now I understand
37. Be Better baby, but believe me, it’s the next best thing.
38. Once upon a time in the land of misty satin dreams
39. I’ve seen those big machines come rolling through the quiet pines
40. The willow is like an etching fine-lined against the sky.
41. On special occasions, when you shave under yore arms,/well, I'm in hawg heaven, and awed by yore charms.
42. Yo're as cute as a junebug a-buzzin' overhead. /You ain't mean like those far ants I found in my bed
43. Me 'n' you's like a Moon Pie with a RC cold drank,
we go together like a skunk goes with stank.
44. Some men, they buy chocolate for Valentine's Day; /They git it at Wal-Mart, it's romantic that way.
45. Some men git roses on that special day from the cooler at Kroger./"That's impressive," I say.
46. You have all yore teeth,/For which I am proud,
47. Me 'n' you's like a Moon Pie,/With a RC cold drunk,/We go together,
Like a skunk goes with stunk.
48. I’m glad God made Adam he made Eve/Cause wit out ya sweetheart I couldn’t breathe
49. I love you the way you cracked yore knuckles and suck yo’re dentures/life fer us is jes always an adventure
50. The the purdiest gal in the whole wide world/ And of course I’m the handsomest guy/life for us is better than rhubarb pie
Traditional - Monday, February 11, 2008
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Check Holt Reader questions
through page 324
4. Go over Green personification sheet
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Magnet
1. Wod
2. MUGSHOT
3. Finish Red Sheet
Traditional
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Work on Red Figurative Language
worksheet
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Magnet
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Read "Mrs. Flowers"
in the Elements of Literature
and answer questions 3-5, 7 and
find five examples of imagery in the
story and write them down
Traditional
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Work on Red Figurative Language
worksheet
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Magnet and Traditional
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Turn in "Mrs. Flowers"
questions and imagery examples
4. Work on Figurative Language Worksheet
See worksheet below
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE WORKSHEET
1. The wind whistled through the trees.
2. I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
3. She was as quiet as a mouse.
4. I have told you a million times.
5. His face was an open book.
6. He is as strong as an ox.
7. The stars looked down from the sky.
8. Her smile is a ray of bright sunshine.
9. His bedroom is a pig’s sty.
10. She was pretty as a picture in her new dress.
11. She was the goddess of his dreams
12. The little lavender lace dress with the wide white bow.
13. “This will be the day when all God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning ‘My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.’ “
14. Swish, cupids arrow pierced my heart
15. He is the devil in Prada suit
16. At first the hot burning coal felt like a piece of ice in her hand – It was a burning cold.
17. Little Larry loves language
18. My students are better than any other students in the world!
19. The girls danced in the bright yellow sunlight
20. He gurgled, gasped, and took his last breath
21. The birds were singing their morning song, but I didn’t want to hear it.
22. I must admit they have a rockin' band
Man they was blowing like a hurricane
23. Five long years I thought you were my man
But I found out I'm just a link in your chain
24. Oh but how can I how can I how can I
Give you all the things I have
If you're tying both of my hands
25. You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
26. Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
27. Where do broken hearts go
Can they find their way home
Back to the open arms
28. The summer had inhaled
And held its breath too long
29. Why does the sun go on shining
Why does the sea rush to shore
Don't they know it's the end of the world
'Cause you don't love me any more
30. You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time.
31. I feel my temperature rising
Higher higher
It's burning through to my soul
32. But I feel fine
Cause your kisses lift me higher
33. Like a sweet song of a choir
34. And you light my morning sky
With burning love
35.
Blank
36. feel my temperature rising
Help me, I'm flaming
I must be a hundred and nine
Burning, burning, burning
And nothing can cool me
I just might turn into smoke
37. I'm just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
38. On a cold and gray Chicago mornin'
A poor little baby child is born
In the ghetto
39. I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
40. The animal’s eyes were embers in the dark night. From the mountaintop view people below appeared to be ants. _
41. He was a rock throughout the terrible ordeal.
42. The tree branches grabbed at him as he ran through the forest
43. The sun chased the clouds away.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Magnet and Traditional
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Go to computer lab
Do both of the 6th grade
Benchmark language arts and
reading tests
Week of February 4, 2008
Monday, February 4, 2008
Magnet
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Finish and turn in similes, metaphors, and personification
handout
4. Work on 50 Poetice Devices handout
Traditional
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Personifications handout
Tuesday, February 5 - Friday, February 8. 2008
Magnet
What are the advantages and disadvantages
of popularity? of intelligence?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Read "Flowers for Algernon" in
Elements of Literature textbook
page 45
4. Answer questions 2-9 and a-d on page 61
5. Continue reading and answer questions 1-8 and a-e
on pg. 74
Traditional
Essential Question - What must we do
to understand the meaning of all types
of literature and reading materials.
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Do pages 306-337
Holt Interactive Reader
classroom textbook - Do work
on your own paper.
Week of January 28, 2008
Monday, January 28,
Essential Question: What is figurative language and do we need
it in our everyday lives?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Poetic Devices Handout and
Valentine Poem due Wednesday(Magnet- traditional later in week) - handout below and an example with one literary device illustrated
4. Read AR
Poetic Devices and Valentines – Due Wednesday, January 30 for Magnet only - Traditional will be due later in week
Simile – A simile is a comparison using “as” or “like.”
Love is like an ocean rolling over me.
Metaphor - A metaphor is a comparison that does not use “as” or “like.”
Love is a tree with many branches.
Personification – Personification is giving to inanimate objects the characteristics of life.
Love whispers in your ear
The sweetest sounds that one can hear
Alliteration – Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
Love lightly leaps.
Hyperbole – Hyperbole is exaggeration for dramatic effect.
Love makes you ten feet tall.
Onomatopoeia – Onomatopoeia is the use of words to imitate sounds.
Love is an explosions of joy – pop, pow, bam, wham
Symbols- Symbols are words that have meaning in themselves but suggest other meanings as well.
The cold wind of her stare blew out his fire
Meter- The rhythm of a poem is the meter or the pattern of the beat or stresses.
It's all I have to bring to-day
by Emily Dickinson
It's all I have to bring to-day,
This, and my heart beside,
This, and my heart, and all the fields,
And all the meadows wide.
Be sure you count, should I forget, --
Someone the sum could tell, --
This, and my heart, and all the bees
Which in the clover dwell
Imagery - To make an imaginary world seem real, an author often makes use of words and phrases that appeal to the senses. These words and phrases, called images help a reader mentally experience what the author wants the reader to experience.
Love smells like a newly opened flower on the first day of spring
Rhyme – Rhyme is the repetition of sound.
Love sure can stink
When the one you love is a fink!
Rhyme Scheme - Rhyme is the repetition of vowel sounds. End rhymes are rhymes are at the end of lines. The pattern of end rhymes is called a rhyme scheme.
I never dreamed of
A man who can’t dance
I never dreamed of
A man without romance
I never dreamed of
The man I love
Internal Rhyme – Internal rhyme are rhymes within lines.
He’s my love sent from above
You must use the poetic devices to create some Valentine poetry.
1. Create a line or more that has a metaphor.
2. Create a line or more that has a simile.
3. Create a line or more that has personification.
4. Create a line or more that has alliteration.
5. Create a line or more that has hyperbole.
6. Create a line or more that has onomatopoeia
7. Create a line or more that has imagery.
8. Create a line or more that has a symbol.
9. Now create a valentine poem that uses three poetic devices. Create a card or valentine, decorate it and place your poem on it. Underline and label your three poetic devices. On the back, explain your poem, identify the poetic devices and explain them also.
An example
The Right Equation
You and Me
What a strange equation
A positive and a negative
Looking to solve the problem
you + me = what?
Are you greater?
Am I prime?
Add us together and find the answer
You + Me = yesterday + today + tomorrow
Searching for the answers and solutions
And finding an important friendship in the process
This poem is a metaphor that compares a friendship to a math equation. There are several metaphors throughout the poem that deal with math and the relationship between the two people.
• One person is compared to a positive number while the other is compared to a negative number – This could mean that one person has a positive outlook on life and the other as negative outlook on life.
• The question is asked whether one is greater or one is prime. This is comparing the two to numbers and asking if one could be a greater number or a greater person than the other. It also asks if one could be like a prime number which is a play on the math term prime which in this case could also refer to another definition of the word prime which means the best.
• The friendship is compared to the solution of a math problem. The solution is friendship
• The math problem itself could also represent life and our relationship to others.
There are many more interpretations of the lines of this poem that offer more metaphors.
Tuesday, January 29, 2006
Essential Question: What is figurative language and do we
need it in our every day lives?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Work on poetic device
sentence strips - magnet
3. Continue work on poetic
device worksheet - traditional
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Essential Question: What is figurative language and do we
need it in our every day lives?
Magnet
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Turn in Valentines
4. Identify poetic devices in poems
5. personification, simile, metaphor
handout
Traditional
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. work on similes
4. work on original valentine poems
that have three poetic devices
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Essential Question: What is figurative language and do we need
it in our everyday lives?
Magnet
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Go over poetic devices in poems
4. personification, simile, metaphor handout
Traditional
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Work on original valentine poems
that have three poetic devices
Friday, February 1, 2008
What is figurative language and do we need
it in our everyday lives?
Magnet
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Complete personification, simile, metaphor handout
Traditional
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Complete Valentine poems and turn in
Week of January 21, 2008
Monday, is a school holiday.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Essential Question - What skills are required for me to pass the Georgia CRCT?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Take Pretest - Passing the Georgia
CRCT
4. Word of the Day Vocabulary Test, Word of the Day
Spelling Test, Organization Test - Wednesday
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
1. WOD Spelling Test
2. WOD Vocabulary Test
3. Organization Test
4. Finish CRCT Practice Test
Wednesday, Januray 23, 2008
1. CRCT Spelling Test
2. CRCT Word of the Day Test
3. Organization Test
Thursday, January 24, 2008
1. Finish CRCT Practice Test
2. Read AR
Friday, January 25, 2008
1. Literary Terms Puzzles
Week of January 14, 2008
Monday, January 14 - Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Essential Question: What are the differences between expository writing and persuasive writing?
Essential Question: How do you write an expository paper?
Essential Question: How do you write a persuasive paper?
Essential Question: What are the requirements of the Georgia Middle Grades Writing Test
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Review for Georgia Middle Grades Writing Test
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
The Writing Test was today and took up over three periods. The two classes that did meet read their AR books.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Essential Question- Why do we read?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Read AR
Friday, January 18, 2008
Essential Question - What is expected on the Georgia CRCT Reading Test?
Essential Question - What is expected on the Georgia CRCT Language Arts Test?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Go to lab to work on CRCT and to learn the
new school network process.
Wednesday, January
Week of January 7, 2008
Monday, January 7, 2008
Teacher Planning Day - Students Do Not Attend
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Essential Question: What are the differences between expository writing and persuasive writing?
Essential Question: How do you write an expository paper?
Essential Question: How do you write a persuasive paper?
Essential Question: What are the requirements of the Georgia Middle Grades Writing Test
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Go over the differences between expository writing and persuasive writing using the class set of Writing Assessment Workbooks
4. Go over the requirements and directions for the Georgia Middle Grades Writing Assessment
The Georgia Middle Grades Writing Assessment will be Wednesday, January 16. This week we will do a practice writing test and continue to work on expository and persuasive writing.
Wednesday, January 9 - Thursday, January 10, 2008
Essential Question: What are the differences between expository writing and persuasive writing?
Essential Question: How do you write an expository paper?
Essential Question: How do you write a persuasive paper?
Essential Question: What are the requirements of the Georgia Middle Grades Writing Test
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Using the materials provided in class (copies of the actual writing test format - follow the directions and procedures for the Georgia Middle Grades Writing Test to write paper on a given topic and type (persuasive or expository)
The following rubric based on the Georgia Middle Grades Writing Assessment will be used to evaluate these papers. This will be a major grade.
Evaluation Sheet
Name______________________________ Total x 4= ____________________
Ideas
• Controlling ideas/focus
• Supporting ideas
• Relevance of ideas
• Depth of development
• Sense of completeness
• Awareness of genre
1 2 3 4 5 x 2=_________
--------------------------------------------------------
Organization
• Overall Plan
• Introduction/Body/Conclusion
• Sequence of Ideas
• Grouping of Ideas within Paragraphs
• Genre-Specific Strategies
• Transitions
1 2 3 4 5 x 1=_________
----------------------------------------------------------
Style
• Word Choice
• Audience Awareness
• Voice
• Sentence Variety
• Strategies Appropriate to Genre
1 2 3 4 5
---------------------------------------------------------
Components
• Correct sentences
• Clear sentences
• Complex sentences
• Subject/verb agreement
• Standard word forms
• Possessives
• Contractions
• Punctuation
• Spelling
• Paragraphs
• Capitalization
1 2 3 4 5 x 1=_________
--------------------------------------------------------
Friday, January 11, 2008
Essential Question: What are the differences between expository writing and persuasive writing?
Essential Question: How do you write an expository paper?
Essential Question: How do you write a persuasive paper?
Essential Question: What are the requirements of the Georgia Middle Grades Writing Test
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Examine/evaluate persuasive writing papers using the Georgia Middle Grade Assessment Guidelines
Week of December 17, 2007
Monday-Wednesday, December 17, 2007
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Read “The Greatest Gift” and “Comment: Short Story into Film” pages 318-328 in Explorations in Literature - This is a class textbook - students who are absent will be excused from this assignment
4. Answer questions Discussion 1-4; Application 1-2 Vocabulary 1-
5. Watch movie It’s a Wonderful Life and compose a list of the
Differences between the movie and the story
Week of December 10, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
Essential Question - How do I evaluate and revise my paper?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Revise paper using class writing notebook
4. Get evaluation sheet
5. Expository Paper due Tuesday/ Ten bonus points can be received
for getting the evaluation sheet signed by a parent.
Grade 8 Writing Assessment Rubric - A sample paper and the evaluation sheet can be found below. Further information can be found on the assignment section for November 26.
Sample Paper
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! Came the piercing sound of the smoke detector, followed quickly by Matt screaming, “Saraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Your brownies are burning again!” Sara the youngest in our family was lying on the couch watching Saved by the Bell while her brownies burned. As she scrambled to save her really browned brownies, Matt muttered, “Don’t worry, Sara, they probably wouldn’t have been any good anyway.” And unfortunately, Matt was right. Sara could not cook. She couldn’t or wouldn’t use a measuring spoon or cup, and she never read or followed directions. She liked the idea of “cooking” and the fun, but not the reality of following directions and measuring. The new television show Kids Cook would have been the answer for Sara. Kids Cook would have not only taught Sara how to cook and the importance of good nutrition, but it would have entertained her also. In our fast-paced fast-food society Kids Cook is a place for kids to learn to enjoy slowing down and cooking nutritious food. Parents don’t have the time to teach their children how to cook and most children don’t have the ability or desire to learn to cook on their own. Not only do parents not have the time to teach their children how to cook most of them do not have the time or will take the time to cook nutritious food. Kids Cook is the place where kids can learn how to cook nutritious food in a fun way! This fun packed program parent approved program has kids across America turning into master chefs cooking nutritious food!
Parents in America are faced with long days of trying to get everything packed into each day. Their day starts off early and ends late and often requires them to be at two places at the same time. Between work, soccer practice, community commitments, dance classes, and homework, parents have little time for cooking much less time to teach their children to cook. Kids Cooks is the answer to this problem. It teaches children to cook. Parents can have their children tune into Kids Cook and watch it with them or use that half hour to address other things that they need to do.
Although cooking may appear to be the focus of the program, educating children about good nutrition is a key component of the show. Along with learning how to measure and mix ingredients information about nutrition is sifted into the program. It is so subtle that most children will not be aware of the lessons they are learning. But parents can rest assured that each show is packed with nutrition education.
Children are not concerned with nutrition education or learning. Their main concern in life is having FUN! And Kids Cook is all about fun. The show has a colorful cast of characters whose wild antics entertain and delight children of all ages. There are wacky competitions like Pyramid Blastoff where contestants are challenged to get to Planet Power first by fueling their rocket with food and physical activity. “Fuel” tanks for each food group help the contestants and the viewers see how the “fuel” choices fit into the pyramid of foods needed for good nutrition. Celebrity guests also enter the fun competing in competitions, cooking, and performing. Kids Cook is one outrageously fun-filled half hour for children and their parents.
Kids Cook has rapidly become one of the most popular shows on the Food Network. Children all over America are making sure that they can be in front of their televisions at 6:30 p.m. to watch the show. Requests for more kid friendly recipes and nutrition advice are flooding the Food Network website. Parents looking for proper food choices for their children are finding the Kids Cooks characters and logo on foods approved by the U.S. Department of Public Health. And U.S. Board of Restaurants said it all when it gave Kids Cook its highest five star rating and the review “MMM, MMM Good. MMM, MMM Good. That’s what Kids Cooks is.”
Evaluation Sheet
Name______________________________ Total x 4= ____________________
Ideas
• Controlling ideas/focus
• Supporting ideas
• Relevance of ideas
• Depth of development
• Sense of completeness
• Awareness of genre
1 2 3 4 5 x 2=_________
--------------------------------------------------------
Organization
• Overall Plan
• Introduction/Body/Conclusion
• Sequence of Ideas
• Grouping of Ideas within Paragraphs
• Genre-Specific Strategies
• Transitions
1 2 3 4 5 x 1=_________
----------------------------------------------------------
Style
• Word Choice
• Audience Awareness
• Voice
• Sentence Variety
• Strategies Appropriate to Genre
1 2 3 4 5
---------------------------------------------------------
Components
• Correct sentences
• Clear sentences
• Complex sentences
• Subject/verb agreement
• Standard word forms
• Possessives
• Contractions
• Punctuation
• Spelling
• Paragraphs
• Capitalization
1 2 3 4 5 x 1=_________
--------------------------------------------------------
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Essential Question - What is required on the CRCT Reading and Language Arts Test?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Turn in paper
4. Take MAP Test
Wednesday, December 12- Thursday, December 13, 2007
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Return Papers
4. Read Let Me Hear You Whisper
Friday, December 14, 2007
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Work on a persuasive paragraph stating an opinion on
experimentation of animals
Week of December 3, 2007
Monday, December 3, 2007
Essential Question - How do you write an expository
paper
1. Work on body paragraphs 1-3 and concluding paragraph
2. Study for WOD Vocabulary Test, WOD Spelling Test, and Organization Test for Tuesday
3, Read AR - no book checkouts or tests
4, Go to Book Fair @ 9:05, 10:05, 11:50, 2:15
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
1. WOD Spelling Test
2. WOD Vocabulary Test
3. Organization Test
4. Read AR
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Essential Question - How do you write an expository paper?
1. Return test papers/average grades
2. Work on and check papers
Thursday- Friday, December 6-7, 2007
Essential Question - How do you write an expository paper?
1, Work on papers
2. Complete rough drafts. These will be checked on Friday for smart start grades to make sure all five paragraphs are included.
3. Final Draft due Tuesday @ the beginning of the period Tuesday
Week of November 26, 2007
Essential Question - How do you write an expository paper?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Complete Hook and Thesis statement
from handout below. We will use this
handout to go step by step through
the process of writing an expository
essay. This is in preparation for the
writing test.
Expository Writing Topic
Writing Situation
Your class has been given the opportunity to design a brand new television show for children. It could be a news show, a talk show, a game show, a cartoon, or any kind of show you want for children
Directions for Writing
Write a report to be read to your class in which you explain your idea for the new children’s television show. Be sure to include specific details so that your classmates will understand what the new show will be like.
You must go through the following steps to write this paper. Each step will be a grade.
Step 1:
1. Read the writing prompt
2. Write your name on your paper properly
3. Title a separate sheet of paper New Television Show Graphic Organizer
4. Write on the fronts of the paper only
5. Write the following on your paper and fill in the information needed. Be sure to use the headings in bold face and the format below. On your paper underline all the things that you write down from this paper so that it will stand out and be easy to see and read the various parts.
Introduction
Hook:
This is what you will use to engage your reader. It could be an anecdote (interesting short story that illustrates your point – a real-life connection), facts, statistics, quotes, dialogue, description, or vivid verbs/word choice.
Example; Most children sit in class every day with their heads buried in their books. They are not motivated to learn. In order to get them interested in subjects and willing to learn, education has to be fun.
Thesis:
This is what you are trying to prove or talk about
Example:
Background information:
This is why you are writing the paper or any other information needed to help the reader understand your topic.
Three pieces of supporting evidence:
Supporting Evidence 1 ________________________________________________
This will be the basis for your Body Paragraph 1
Supporting Evidence 2 _________________________________________________________________
This will be the basis for your Body Paragraph 2
Supporting Evidence 3___________________________________________________
This will be the basis for your Body Paragraph 3
Concluding sentence for introductory paragraph
Body Paragraph 1
Supporting Evidence 1 ____________________________________
Details:
1.
2.
3.
Concluding Sentence for Body Paragraph 1
]
Body Paragraph 2
Supporting Evidence 2 ____________________________________
Details:
1.
2.
3.
Conclusing Sentence for Body Paragraph 2
]
Body Paragraph 3
Supporting Evidence 3 ____________________________________
Details:
1.
2.
3.
Concluding Sentence for Body Paragraph 3
Conclusion
Restate your thesis:
Do not use the exact words that you used in your first paragraph
Summarize your evidence:
Do not use the exact words that you used in your body paragraphs
1.
2.
3.
Extend, go beyond, larger meaning:
This is one or more the last sentences where you try to pull it all together.
4. For Magnet Students read "The Open Window"
in the literature book in preparation for
Friday's field trip to Atlanta
Sample Paper
Hook
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! Came the piercing sound of the smoke detector, followed quickly by Matt screaming, “Saraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Your brownies are burning again!” Sara the youngest in our family was lying on the couch watching Saved by the Bell while her brownies burned. As she scrambled to save her really browned brownies, Matt muttered, “Don’t worry, Sara, they probably wouldn’t have been any good anyway.” And unfortunately, Matt was right. Sara could not cook. She couldn’t or wouldn’t use a measuring spoon or cup and she never read or followed directions. She liked the idea of “cooking” and the fun, but not the reality of following directions and measuring.
Thesis
The new television show Kids Cook would have been the answer for Sara. Kids Cook would have not only taught Sara how to cook and the importance of good nutrition but it would have entertained her also.
Background
In our fast paced fast food society Kids Cook is a place for kids to learn to enjoy slowing down and cooking nutritious food.
Supporting Evidence 1
Parents don’t have the time to teach their children how to cook and most children don’t have the ability or desire to learn to cook on their own.
Supporting Evidence 2
Not only do parents not have the time to teach their children how to cook most of them do not have the time or will take the time to cook nutritious food.
Supporting Evidence 3
Kids Cook is the place to learn how to cook nutritious food in a fun way because we all know that kids do not want do anything unless it is FUN!
Concluding Sentence
This fun packed program parent approved program has kids across America turning into master chefs cooking nutritious food!
Body Paragraph 1
Parents in America are faced with long days of trying to get so much packed into each day. Their day starts off early and ends late and often requiring them to be at two places at the same time. Between work, soccer practice, community commitments, dance classes, and homework, parents have little time for cooking much less time to teach their children to cook. Kids Cooks is the answer to this problem. It teaches children to cook. Parents can have their children tune into Kids Cook and watch it with them or use that half hour to address other things that they need to do.
Body Paragraph 2
Although cooking may appear to be the focus of the program, educating children about good nutrition is a key component of the show. Along with learning how to measure and mix ingredients information about nutrition is sifted into the program. It is so subtle that most children will not be aware of the lessons they are learning. But parents can rest assured that each show is packed with nutrition education.
Body Paragraph 3
Children are not concerned with learning. Their main concern in life is having FUN! And Kids Cook is all about fun. The show has a colorful cast of characters whose wild antics entertain and delight children of all ages. There are wacky competitions like Pyramid Blastoff where contestants are challenged to get to Planet Power first by fueling their rocket with food and physical activity. “Fuel” tanks for each food group help the contestants and the viewers see how the “fuel” choices fit into the pyramid of foods needed for good nutrition. Celebrity guests also enter the fun competing in competitions, cooking, and performing. Kids Cook is one outrageously fun-filled half hour for children and their parents.
Concluding Paragraph
Kids Cook has rapidly become one of the most popular shows on the Food Network. Children all over America are making sure that they can be in front of their televisions at 6:30 p.m. to watch the show. Requests for more kid friendly recipes and nutrition advice are flooding the Food Network website. Parents looking for proper food choices for their children can find the Kids Cooks characters and logo on foods approved by the U.S. Department of Public Health. And U.S. Board of Restaurants said it all when it gave Kids Cook its highest five star rating and the review “MMM, MMM Good. MMM, MMM Good. That’s what Kids Cooks is.”
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Essential Question - How do you write an expository paper?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Check thesis statements and hook's for a smart
start grade and discuss
4. Develop Background information and the
three pieces of supporting evidence for
your paper using Expository Writing Topic
handout
5. WOD Vocabulary Test, WOD Spelling Test,
and Organization Test - Tuesday, December 4
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Essential Question - How do you write an expository paper?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Check background information and
the three pieces of supporting evidence
for your paper for a smart start grade
and discuss
4. Develop information for Body Paragraph 1
on Expository Writing Topic handout
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Essential Question - How do you write an expository paper?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Check information for Body Paragraph 1
on Expository Writing Topic handout
for a smart start grade and discuss
4. Develop information for Body Paragraph 2
on Expository Writing Topic handout
Friday, November 30, 2007
Magnet students will go to Atlanta to
see plays
Traditional Students will work
on their expository papers with Ms. Pittman
Week of November 12, 2007
We have a school holiday, Monday, November 12 for Veterans' Day
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
What tools do we use to analyze literature?
What are the literary elements of "Murders in the Rue Morgue?"
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Complete "Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Elements of a Short Story Chart
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Essential Questions
How do we analyze literature?
What are the literary elements of "Murder in the Rue Morgue?"
What is expected on the Writing Test?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Go over "Murders in the Rue Morgue"
4. Go over Writing Test
5. Issue Progress Reports
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Essential Questions
What is expected on the Georgia Middle Grades Writing Test?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Continue to go over the Writing Test
Friday, November 16, 2007
Essential Question
What is expected on the CRCT Reading Test?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Go to computer lab to
take a CRCT Reading Test
Week of November 5, 2007
We have DAT Tests Monday and Tuesday this week. These tests will take up the first two periods of both days. Therefore we will only have two academic classes on Monday and Tuesday.
Monday, November 5- Tuesday, November 6
Essential Questions
What tools do we use to analyze literature?
What are the literary elements of "The Tell Tale Heart?"
1. WOD 6-7
2. MUGSHOT 6-7
3. Reread "The Tell Tale Heart" using audio cassette
4. Complete a plot diagram chart of "The Tell Tale Heart"
using a PowerPoint presentation. Students should fill in
the chart with these answers.
1. The exposition in “The Tell-Tale Heart” is that a servant is obsessed with his master’s evil eye and decides to kill him in order to get rid of the eye.
2. An external conflict in the story is the servant vs. the old man’s eye. An internal conflict is the servant vs. himself when he debates the killing of the old man.
3. Two complications in the “Tell Tale Heart’ is that the old man’s eye is closed preventing the man from killing him and the neighbors hearing the cry and calling the police.
4. The climax of the “Tell-Tale Heart” is when the servant falls apart and admits that he killed the old man!
5. The resolution of the “Tell-Tale Heart” is we realize at the end that the narrator is talking to us from his jail cell and that the narrator has been charged with murder.
6. The setting of the “Tale-Tell Heart” is an old man’s house in the 1800’s.
7. The point of view of “The Tell-Tale Heart” is first person.
8. The theme of “The Tell-Tale Heart” is that obsession and fear can lead to destruction of oneself and/or others.
9. The characters in the “Tell-Tale Heart” are the servant, the old man, the neighbors, and the police.
10. The tone of the “Tell-Tale Heart” is fear and derision.
These definitions can be found on the back side of the handout.
Elements of a Short Story
Basic Situation or Exposition: The part of a story. Usually at the beginning, that gives the background information.
Conflict: The problem or the struggle between opposing forces.
Complications: The obstacles a character faces while struggling to resolve the conflict.
Climax: The highest point of interest in the action of the story, usually immediately before the resolution.
Resolution: The wrap-up. IT occurs when the conflict ends and the outcome of the story is clear.
Point of View: The vantage point from which a story is told.
Tone: The word choices and descriptive details that reveal the author’s feelings about and attitude toward the topic or situation.
Character: A person, or an animal in a story.
Theme: A main idea in a work of literature. A theme is not the same as a subject. A subject can usually be expressed in a word or two: love, childhood, death,. A theme is an idea or mesage the writer wishes to convey about that subject. A work’s themes ( there may be more than one) are usually not stated directly. Most often the reader has to think about all the elements of the work and use them to make an inference., or educated guess about what the themes are. One of the themes of “Little Red Riding Hood” might be that things are not always what they may appear to be on the surface.
Wednesday, November 8, 2007
Essential Questions
What tools do we use to analyze literature?
What are the literary elements of "The Fall of the House of Usher?"
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. WOD Spelling Test for 1st and 4th
4. Read a summary of Poe's "Fall of the
House of Usher" and analyze using elements
of a short story discussed above.
5. WOD Vocabulary -Thursday
2nd and 6th WOD Spelling - Thursday
also. This is over the last set of words. We
have been unable to take the test because of
we have had nine days of testing that have
interrupted our normal schedule.
6. Organzation Test - Friday
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Essential Questions
What tools do we use to analyze literature?
What are the literary elements of "Murders in the Rue Morgue?"
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. WOD Spelling Test for 2nd and 6th
4. WOD Vocabulary for everyone else
5. Read "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and
complete plot diagram handout
6. Organization Test Friday
Friday, November 9, 2007
Essential Questions
What tools do we use to analyze literature?
What are the literary elements of "Murders in the Rue Morgue?"
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Organization Test
4. Finish and go over "Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Week of October 29
We have the last ITBS tests on Monday. I will be out on Tuesday, and we will go to the
computer lab for a state survey on Wednesday.
Monday, October 29, 2007 - Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Academic Classes 4th and 6th will meet on Monday. We will not have 1st and 2nd today due
to testing.
We will not have the Word of the Day Spelling Test, Word of the Day
Vocabulary Test, and Organization Test until next week.
Essential Question - What are the important details of Poe's
life and death?
1. WOD 1-2
2. MUGSHOT 1-2
3. Work on Poe paper using black notebooks
The paper is due Friday, November 2
Students have
1. watch an A & E Biography of Poe
2. worked through an interactive website about the life
and death of Poe
3. read a play about Poe's life
4. been given articles about Poe's life
and deat in a class notebook about
5. been given a handout outlining the requirements
for the paper. Scroll down to find the requirements.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Essential Question - What are the important details of Poe's
life and death?
1. MUGSHOT
2. WOD
3. Computer lab for Healthy Georgia Survey and
Poe research
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Essential Question - What are the important details of Poe's
life and death?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. work on Poe paper in classroom
using notes and class notebook
4. paper due Friday
Friday, November 2, 2007
Essential Question- What are the important elements
in Poe's "Tell Tale" Heart?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. watch a video of the "Tell Tale Heart"
while following along in textbook
Week of October 21, 2007
We have ITBS Tests Monday-Thursday this week and
will change the schedule so that we will see each
class two times this week. Friday is a Teacher Planning Day.
Students will not attend school on Friday. The last ITBS
Tests will be Monday, October 29.
These are the plans for the week.
We are at the end of the 20 day cycle for Word of the Day's and MUGSHOT's.
We will have an Organization Test, Word of the Day Spelling Test.
and Word of the Day Vocabulary Test, Tuesday, October 30. I have changed this
to the week of November 5. The new test date will be posted at the beginning of
that week.
Essential Question - What are the important details
of Poe's life?
1. Use handouts in class notebook to write
a 1-2 page paper about the life and death of
Poe - This will be due at the beginning of the period
on Friday, November 2. It will be a major grade and should
be in ink or typed. The first paragraph should
introduce Poe and give the basic facts of his
life. The last sentence of the first paragraph
should provide a transition to the body of the
paper which should focus on his death. The students
may choose any of the possibilities for Poe's death.
These are featured in the Poe site http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/person/death.asp
and in the handouts in the notebook that each child has in the classroom. The
final paragraph should be about Poe's burial.
Further research can be done at home, but the students are being
given more than enough information and sources in class. If time is
used wisely, the information can all be gotten in class and the
rough draft can also be done in class. The final product should
be in final draft form. It is to be neat, in ink or typed. It
will be grading according to the following guidelines:
Life and Death of E. A. Poe
Neat and in Ink or Typed - 10
Introductory Paragraph with basic biographical information 5 10 15 20
Body with death theory stated and defended 5 10 15 20
Concluding paragraph with Poe burial details 5 10 15 20
Correct Spelling 5 10 15
Correct Usage and Mechanics 5 10 15
Week of October 15, 2007
We have the COGAT Tests Tuesday - Thursday this week and will change
the schedule on those days in order to see as much of each class
as possible this week. The plan below is a list of the activities
for the week.
Monday, October, 15 - Friday, October 19
Essential Questions - What are the important details in life?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Turn in questions -
"The Landlady" for traditional and "The Monkey's Paw"
4. Watch The Life of Poe Video and answer these questions
Answer the following questions as you watch the video A&E Biography: Edgar Allan Poe. Be sure to answer in complete sentences.
1. Why did Edgar Allan Poe think women were special?
2. What are two poems that Poe wrote in reaction to the death of Virginia Clemm’s illness and death?
3. What unusual thing did Poe do in a cemetery?
4. How much money did Poe make for his most famous poem, “The Raven?”
5. Name one theory of the cause of Poe’s death.
6. Read "Beloved," a play about Poe aloud in class.
7. Read skills books
Week of Week of October 8, 2007
Monday, October 8 - Tuesday, October 9, 2007
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
ELA8R2 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.
Essential Questions- What are the tools used to analyze literature?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Finish and Check Literary Terms Illustrations
4. finish and Check Literary Terms Application Handout
5. Discuss
6. Read AR
First Period finished all of this on Monday and will read AR books on Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 11, 2007
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
ELA8R2 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.
Essential Questions- What are the tools used to analyze literature?
Magnet
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Literary Terms Handout 2
Traditional
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Complete Handout 1
4. Make your own similes, metaphors, alliterations,
personifications, hyperboles, and onomatopoeias
Create Five examples of each.
Week of Ocober 1, 2007
Monday, October 1
ELA8RC2. The student participates in discussions related to curricular learning in all subject areas
ELA8W1. The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure.
ELA8W2. The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres.
ELA8W4. The student consistently uses the writing process to develop, revise, and evaluate writing
Essential Question - What are the important details in a story and in life?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Write a group paragraph Summary of "The Ransom of Red Chief"
4. Read AR
Tuesday, October 2
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
ELA8R2 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.
Essential Questions- What are the tools used to analyze literature?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Copy the CRCT Reading Terms from a handout. They are listed below also.
CRCT Reading Terms
1. Folktale – A story that has no known author and was originally passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth. Unlike mythology which is about gods and heroes, folk tales are usually about ordinary people or animals. Brer Rabbit
2. Myth – A story that explains something about the world and typically involves gods or other supernatural forces. Myths reflect the traditions and beliefs of the culture that create them. Stories about Zeus, Athena, and other gods and goddesses from all cultures.
3. Fable- A brief story told in prose or poetry that contains a moral or a practical lesson about how to get along in life. The characters of most fables are animals that speak and behave like people. The Goose Who Laid the Golden Eggs
4. Tall Tale - An exaggerated, far-fetched story that is obviously untrue but is told as though it should be believed. Paul Bunyan
5. Drama – A work of literature that is meant to be performed for an audience by actors.
6. Essay - A short piece of nonfiction prose that examines a single subject.
7. Biography – An account of a person’s life or a part of it written or told by another person
8. Autobiography – A person’s account of his or her own life.
9. Fiction – A prose story that is made up. Fiction usually refers to novels and short stories. A story that is not true.
10. Nonfiction – Prose writing that deals with real people, things, events, and places. A true story.
11. Conflict - The problem or the struggle between opposing forces.
12. Climax - The highest point of interest in the action of the story, usually immediately before the resolution.
13. Resolution - The wrap-up. It occurs when the conflict ends and the outcome of the story is clear.
14. Point of View - The vantage point from which a story is told.
15. Tone - The word choices and descriptive details that reveal the author’s feelings about and attitude toward the topic or situation.
16. Character - a person or an animal in a story.
17. Subplot – A second less important story within a story. In Cinderella there is the subplot of the evil stepmother and stepsisters and their efforts to win the prince’s favor.
18. Parallel episodes – Plots happening at the same time. In the famous Greek story The Odyssey of Odysseus goes on adventures around the world while his wife remains at home with her own storyline. These would be parallel episodes.
19. Theme - A main idea in a work of literature. A theme is not the same as a subject. A subject can usually be expressed in a word or two: love, childhood, death,. A theme is an idea or message the writer wishes to convey about that subject. A work’s themes (there may be more than one) are usually not stated directly. Most often the reader has to think about all the elements of the work and use them to make an inference, or educated guess about what the themes are. One of the themes of “Little Red Riding Hood” might be that things are not always what they may appear to be on the surface.
20. Simile – A simile is a comparison using “as” or “like.”
Love is like an ocean rolling over me.
21. Metaphor - A metaphor is a comparison that does not use “as” or “like.”
Love is a tree with many branches.
22. Personification – Personification is giving to inanimate objects the characteristics of life.
Love whispers in your ear
The sweetest sounds that one can hear
23. Alliteration – Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
Love lightly leaps.
24. Hyperbole – Hyperbole is exaggeration for dramatic effect.
Love makes you ten feet tall.
25. Onomatopoeia – Onomatopoeia is the use of words to imitate sounds.
Love is an explosions of joy – pop, pow, bam, wham
26. Symbols- Symbols are words that have meaning in themselves but suggest other meanings as well.
The cold wind of her stare blew out his fire
27. Meter- The rhythm of a poem is the meter or the pattern of the beat or stresses.
It's all I have to bring to-day
by Emily Dickinson
It's all I have to bring to-day,
This, and my heart beside,
This, and my heart, and all the fields,
And all the meadows wide.
Be sure you count, should I forget, --
Someone the sum could tell, --
This, and my heart, and all the bees
Which in the clover dwell
28. Imagery - To make an imaginary world seem real, an author often makes use of words and phrases that appeal to the senses. These words and phrases, called images help a reader mentally experience what the author wants the reader to experience.
Love smells like a newly opened flower on the first day of spring
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
ELA8R2 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.
Essential Questions- What are the tools used to analyze literature?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Create an illustration for each of the CRCT Reading terms
These illustration is to help students learn the terms. It is
also to help students realize techniques that they may use
to learn information. They are to create an image for each
term on notebook paper numbering 1-28. This is not an art
project. The illustrations should be simple for them to produce.
For example, the first term is folk tale. A folk tale is a story
that has not author and was originally passed down from generation
to generation by word of mouth. Unlike mythology which is about
gods and heroes, folk tales are usually about ordinary people or
events.
Thursday, October 4 - Friday, October 5
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
ELA8R2 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.
Essential Questions- What are the tools used to analyze literature?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Finish illustrions
4. CRCT Reading Terms 1-28 Exercise 1
CRCT Reading Terms 1-28 Exercise 1
The following items are ones that you may need to understand for the Reading CRCT Test. Number your paper 1-64 and write the word that matches the example or definition for each number.
Folktale
Myth
Fable
Tall tale
Drama
Essay
Biography
Autobiography
Fiction
Nonfiction
Conflict
Climax
Resolution
Point of view
Tone
Character
Subplot
Parallel episodes
Theme
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Symbols
Meter
Imagery
1. Every year students who are reading below grade level enter the eighth grade. It is very important that they work hard to bring their reading level up to the eighth grade level for a number of reasons. First, they must be able to read at the eighth grade level to be able to comprehend the textbooks. Second, in order to find in success in high school and the more challenging material presented in high school, they must be able to read at least on an eighth grade level. Third, in order to pass the Exit Exams and graduate from high school they must be able to handle eighth grade reading materials. Finally, as an adult in American society, they will need an eighth grade reading level to be able to read and comprehend the basic materials that adults are faced with daily.
2. John Henry was a railroad man who could lay down two hundred miles of railroad track a day with one hand tied behind his back.
3. At one time the earth was composed of one great land mass and one great sea. The people and animals lived freely together. There was plenty of food for all and the climate was always pleasant. Then one day some of the people of earth got into an argument over who owned the forests and the sea and the fruits and animals of the land. They began to fight. This made supreme god Zeus mad. He decided to put a stop to it and punish the people. He caused a great earthquake that split the land into many pieces. The great sea surrounded the pieces. The people were thus divided and each group began to develop differently from the others making do with whatever resources they could find on their land.
4. The Civil War, How to Draw Animals, Earthquakes
5. The Outsiders, That Was Then, This Is Now, The Lion King,
6. “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get.”
7. Charles: (as he walks into the house) Honey. I’m home.
Jezebel: (walking into the room wiping her hands on a towel) Hello dear, how was your day.
Charles: (as he takes off his coat) It was terrible. Mr. Brewton chewed me out today. He said that he might fire me.
Jezebel: What? Fire you? Why?
Charles: He says that I talk too much and don’t get enough work done. He just doesn’t like me. He’s the one to be talking. He’s spends half the day flirting with the girls in the office. How productive is that? I think he wants of give one of them my job so that he can get a date with her or something.
Jezebel: That’s awful dear. You are so smart and so wonderful. I can’t understand why anyone would not want you on his or her staff. You ought to just go in there and quit. I know you can get a better job somewhere else
8. I hold your heart in my hands means that you know that you realize that you have the power over someone’s heart or emotions.
9. Some ancient people believed that when it thundered and lightened the gods were either fighting amongst themselves or showing their displeasure with the people on earth.
10. How to Repair Your Car, A Teenagers Guide to Parents, How Not To Annoy Your Teacher
11. Little Red Riding Hood, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Green Eggs and Ham
12. Sue: (as she crosses the room to stand in front of Fred): Why don’t you love me?
Fred: (as he looks directly into her eyes) Because I am in love with Gertrude.
Sue: Gertrude? How could you fall in love with my sister!
Fred: Your sister? I didn’t know that she was your sister!
13. Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe rode through the West clearing the trail for the pioneers. In the 1600’s there was no sewage system. King Henry VIII established the first system of sewage disposal. It was the cesspool, a hole in the ground where the liquids would sink into the soil.
The Fox and the Grapes
14. One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. "Just the thing to quench my thirst," quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: "I am sure they are sour."
Moral : It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
15. I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth, but at any rate I suspect I must have been born somewhere and at some time. As nearly as I have been able to learn, I was born near a cross-roads post-office called Hale's Ford, and the year was 1858 or 1859. I do not know the month or the day. The earliest impressions I can now recall are of the plantation and the slave quarters -- the latter being the part of the plantation where the slaves had their cabins.
16. Cyclist. Born September 18, 1971, in Plano, Texas. Raised by his mother Linda in the the suburbs of Dallas, Armstrong was athletic from an early age. He began running and swimming at 10 years old and took up competitive cycling and triathlons (which combine a 1,000 meter swim, 15-mile bike ride, and three-mile run) at 13. At 16, Armstrong became a professional triathlete—he was the national sprint-course triathlon champion in 1989 and 1990.
17. Love is like an ocean rolling over me.
18. Love is a tree with many branches
19. Love whispers in your ear / The sweetest sounds that one can hear
20. Love lightly leaps.
21. Love makes you ten feet tall.
22. Love is an explosions of joy – pop, pow, bam, wham
23. The cold wind of her stare blew out his fire
24. The Star of David, the bald eagle, the cross, the flag
25. Rip, zip, kaboom, tinkle, bzzz, pop, boom
26. She sells sea shells down by the sea shore
27. The moon and the stars were smiling down on us as we walked hand in hand
28. When she was pregnant she waddled like a duck.
29. His father could be a monster when his temper got out of control.
30. Terror grabbed Ted by the throat.
31. The bar of soap was as slippery as an eel during the dog’s bath.
32. The classroom was our prison; the teacher our jailer.
33. Her face was a sea of emotions as she turned to face her long lost love.
34. The desk rested on a scarred linoleum floor.
35. The stripes on the American flag represent the thirteen colonies.
36. I feel like a limp dishrag.
37. The wind slapped her face.
38. The giant’s steps were thunder as he ran toward Jack.
39. As the teacher entered the room, she muttered under her breath,” This class is like a three-ring circus!”
40. The giant’s steps were thunder as he ran toward Jack.
41. The baby was an octopus grabbing at all the cans on the grocery store shelves.
42. The stars on the American flag represent the fifty states.
43. Those two girls are like two peas in a pod.
44. The limbs of the tree stroked the windowpane.
45. No one invites Harold to parties because he is a wet blanket.
46. Ted was as nervous as a cat with a long tail in a room full of rocking chairs.
47. The fluorescent light was the sun during our test.
48. The clouds danced across the sky.
49. The pillow was a cloud beneath my head.
50. The car’s engine sputtered and choked out black clouds of angry fumes.
51. Elmo, Barney, Clifford, the three little pigs, the big bad wolf
52. The point in the story where you feel
53. Simba’s and Scar’s final battle in the Lion King
54. Woody saves Buzz from the evil child who mutilates toys
55. Prince Charming arrives and wakes up Cinderella
56. Cinderella awoke and they lived happily ever after.
57. The big bad wolf goes up against three innocent little pigs.
58. As she stood in the pitch black room, Anne heard a wolf howling in the distance and felt a cold, bony hand grab her throat.
59. The main idea of The Lion King is that we all have an important part to play in how the world works. The song “The Circle of Life” explains this.
60. Songs that you are good for dancing are just poems that have a ______________ that is good off dancing. Some people say that it’s all about the beat!
61. In Snow White and the Seven Dwarves the story of the dwarves interaction with each other is a story within a story.
62. In some stories we get to see what is happening at the same time in different places or with different characters. If the story was about you and your family, it might tell what you are doing in one day and then it might also tell what your parent was doing at the same time that day.
63. It’s not what you say, but how you say it!
64. If Joe tells the story it will be different from the story that Fred tells because these two see things differently.
For this term if I were illustrating it, I would draw a circle
with a slash through it with the word author in it. This would
refer to no author. Then I would draw a series of mouths for
passing by mouth from generation to generation. Then I would
draw a stick figure for Cinderalla and Brer Rabbit to remind
that they are about ordinary people or events.
Week of September 24, 2007
Monday, September 24 - Tuesday, September 25, 2007
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
ELA8W1. The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure.
ELA8W1. The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure.
ELA8W4. The student consistently uses the writing process to develop, revise, and evaluate writing
ELA8C1. The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats..
Essential Question - What are the important details in life and in literature?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Read "The Ransom of Red Chief"
4. Answer questions 1, 2, 5, 6, 8
Wednesday, Septbmer 26
ELA8LSV1. The student participates in student-to-teacher, student-to-student, and group verbal interactions.
ELA8LSV2. The student listens to and views various forms of text and media in order to gather and share information, persuade others, and express and understand ideas. The student will select and critically analyze messages using rubrics as assessment tools.
Essential Question - What are the important details in a story and in life?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Watch video "The Ransom of Red chief" and discuss
Thursday, September 27- Friday, September 28
ELA8RC2. The student participates in discussions related to curricular learning in all subject areas
ELA8W1. The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure.
ELA8W2. The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres.
ELA8W4. The student consistently uses the writing process to develop, revise, and evaluate writing
Essential Question - What are the important details in a story and in life?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Write a group paragraph Summary of "The Ransom of Red Chief"
4. Read AR
Week of Monday, September 17, 2007
Monday, September 17 - Tuesday, September 18 2007
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
ELA8W1. The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure.
ELA8W1. The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure.
ELA8W4. The student consistently uses the writing process to develop, revise, and evaluate writing
ELA8C1. The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats..
Essential Question - What are the important details in life and in literature?
mind?
Essential Question _ What does it take to change someone's mind?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Finish MAP Reading
3. Turn in questions on "The Treasure of Lemon Brown."
4. Discuss story
4. Read "Meet the Writer" page 102
5. Start a I think list - This is a list of things that you believe in strongly.
Walter Dean Myers believes strongly in the idea that he has to counter the value
system that TV tries to sell in advertising and its shows. List five things that
you believe in strongly and that you might be able to write about in a persuasive
paper.
6. Return "Broken Chain" paragraphs and discuss
"Wednesday, September 19
Essential Question - What are the important details in literature?
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
ELA8W1. The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure.
ELA8W1. The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure.
ELA8W4. The student consistently uses the writing process to develop, revise, and evaluate writing
ELA8C1. The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats..
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Write paragraph summary of "The Treasure of Lemon Brown"
4. Read AR
Thursday, September 20, 2007
EQ:
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
ELA8R2 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.
ELA8W1. The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure.
ELA8W2. The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres.
ELA8W4. The student consistently uses the writing process to develop, revise, and evaluate writing>/b>
1. Turn in paragraph summary of "The Treasure of Lemon Brown"
2. Turn in WOD Study Sheet
3. Word of the Day Vocabulary Test, Word of the Day Spelling Test, and Organization Test
4. Read AR
Week of September 10
Monday, September 10, 2007
Essential Question - What does the state require us to know in the 8th grade in language arts?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Language Arts MAP Test ( This is a Muscogee County Test that covers the material
tested on the State of Georgia Language Arts CRCT Test which will be given in April.)
4. Read AR book
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
ELA8W1. The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure.
ELA8W1. The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure.
ELA8W4. The student consistently uses the writing process to develop, revise, and evaluate writing
ELA8C1. The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats..
Essential Question - What are the most important points in a story?
1. WOD
2. MUGSHOT
3. Finish paragraph summary of " Broken Chain"
4. Read AR
Wednesday, September 12 - Thursday, September 13, 2007
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
ELA8W1. The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, | |
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