12/01/08
Opener: Journal #11
In one paragraph (5-7 sentences), please explain how and why reading a book in a small group with other students might help you stay on track and understand what you read better than if you were reading a book by yourself.
Social Studies: "The Role of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages"--reading and discussion. The reading is available once again at our classroom website linked below. You just go to the documents section.
11/26/08
SpringBoard: Monologue Presentations
11/25/08
SpringBoard: Monologue Presentations
11/24/08
Opener: Read reflection questions in your SpringBoard book on page 87.
Correct/Collect: How Does that Equate part 2
SpringBoard: Monologue Presentations
11/21/08
Opener: "How Does That Equate Part 2"
SpringBoard: Practice your monologues for presentations on Monday.
11/20/08
Opener: Mark your monologue for inflection
SpringBoard: Group Presentations for Monologues
11/19/08
Opener: "Chapter 9--Drawing Conclusions"
Social Studies: "Daily Life in Mideval Europe" Discussion
SpringBoard: Group presentations of monologues for practice. Full draft of individual monologues should be in class tomorrow.
11/18/08
Opener: "Conference Reflection"
Social Studies: "Daily Life in Mideval Europe"--Reading is available online.
SpringBoard: Reading a Monologue--practice time.
Homework: Please bring a rough draft of your personal monologue to class tomorrow (Wednesday).
11/17/08
Opener: Journal #10--please see Ms. Danberg for a self-evaluation of your journals and reading logs.
Correct/Collect: "Home Run Series"
Social Studies: Continuation of "The Development of Feudalism"
SpringBoard: "Reading a Monologue"--Students will see examples of professionally written monologues, be assigned groups and work to present/practice for their independent monologue.--See Ms. Danberg
11/14/08
Opener: "Home Run Series" (available on-line)
Correct and Collect: "The Medieval Manor"
Social Studies: "The Development of Feudalism" Read pages 291-293, review the map of Europe on page 287, plus the "Geography" box on page 300, then answer the following questions:
1.What changes occurred in Europe after the fall of Rome?
2.How does climate impact farming?
3.How does topography impact trade?
4.How does the lack of a highly developed government, such as the Roman Empire, impact trade?
5.What impact might global warming have on our society today?
6.Is global warming an issue for science or government?
SpringBoard: "Choosing to Use Inflection, part 2." Pages 70-73; choose one of the three poems, and follow the TP-CASTT steps to prepare to perform a critical analysis of the poem.
11/13/08
Opener: "The Medieval Manor" (not available on-line).
Correct and Collect: "Recognizing Changing Interpretations of History"
SpringBoard: "Choosing to Use Inflection-Part 1" (pages 68-69)
11/12/08
Opener: "Recognizing Changing Interpretations of History" (not available on line)
SpringBoard: 1. Continue with "Writing with Feeling" You'll compare your article with a professionl newspaper article; your copy will be in your packet when you return.
2. "What we Choose to Emphasize" (page 67).
11/11/08--NO SCHOOL Veteran's Day
11/10/08
Opener: Journal #9--Expository writing is writing that explains something or someone. Here is a list of different kinds of texts. Make a list of the ones that are expository.
Newspaper articles
Poems
Editorials
How To books
Biographies
Persuasive brochures
Informational brochures
Essays
Narrative
Letter to the editor
Advertisement
Correct/Collect: Choice of Logic Problem Openers
SpringBoard: 1. "Emotional Choices" and 2. Writing with Feeling--go online or in the newspaper and choose an article with an emotional headline. Then without reading the article try to write a fictitious article that fits the headline. Then bring in the article on Wednesday along with your version to compare the two.
11/07/08
Opener: Choice of Logic Problem Openers: "How Much Does the Mystery Box Weigh?" or "How Does That Equate?" (both are available on-line)
SpringBoard: 1. Unpack E.A. 2.1 (see Promethean Board document on-line)
2. Warming Up with Pantomime (page 64)
3. What Are You Choosing to Eat? (class activity)
11/06/08
Opener: "Writing Diagnostic Test 1" (take it on the SpringBoard site)
Correct and Collect: "Animals in Similes"
Social Studies: "Feudalism: A New Social Order" (Chapter 9, lesson 1, pages 295-297; available on-line under documents)
11/05/08
Opener: "Animals in Similes"
Correct: "Transitional Word Find" (place it in your portfolio)
Reading: "How to Score Your Reading WASL Sample Questions"
Writing: Use your "Check-up" analysis and re-write your "Bullying Essay"
11/04/08
Opener: "Transitional Word Find"
Collect: Journals #7 & #8
Reading: WASL Reading Sample
Writing: Elaboration Check-Up. Use this tool to evaluate your "Bullying Essay"
11/03/08
Opener: Journal #8 Rip out Journal # 7 from your spiral notebook. Then using the revision strategies of adding, deleting, and replacing, revise your entry. You will be turning both Journal #7 and #8(revised version) tomorrow.
Correct/Collect: "Random Logic"
Social Studies: Map of Europe**The blank map and instructions are on our classroom website. Click the link below and look under the Documents tab.
SpringBoard: Unit 1 Reflection
10/31/08
Opener: "Random Logic"
Correct & Collect: "Wordiness is Out"
SpringBoard: Turn in Embedded Assessment 1.2
Bullying Follow-Up
10/30/08
Opener: "Wordiness is Out"--revison by deleting practice
Correct/Collect: "Put the Extra in Ordinary"--revision by replacing practice
Social Studies: Islam Unit Test
SpringBoard: Review Scoring Guide for our revised narratives. Revised narratives are due tomorrow. Students should just have to fix their old version--most of the revision has taken place in class.
10/29/08
Opener: "Put the Extra in Ordinary"
Correct/Collect: "The Spread of Islam"
SpringBoard: "Revision by Replacing and Deleting"
Social Studies: Chapter 3 and 4 Review
***Test Tomorrow
10/28/08
Opener: "The Spread of Islam" (questions 1, 2, & 4)
Social Studies: "The Legacy of the Muslim Golden Age"
Unit Review: Islam Unit test Thursday!
SpringBoard: Revising by Replacing (page 53 & use this skill to revise your first Embedded Assessment)
10/27/08
Opener: Journal #7
Analyzing tone: Consider the novel you are reading; how has the author used tone? Think about the book, and select a specific passage where you can find the use of tone. What specific word choices were made to express tone? What tone(s) can you identify? Do you think the author did a good job of using tone in the passage? How important was the use of tone in the passage?
Correct and Collect: "Puppy Love"
Social Studies: "A Golden Age in the West" (pages 134-137, of chapter 4, lesson 3)
SpringBoard: Revision by Replacing (page 52)
10/24/08
Opener: "Puppy Love" logic problem (available on-line)
Collect: "Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Review"
Social Studies: Chapter 4 lesson 3, "Muslim Rule in Spain." All six lessons from this unit are available on Mr. Hall's site, under "Documents."
SpringBoard: "Revising Using Similies"
10/23/08
Opener: "Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Review"
Social Studies: Read Chapter 4 Lesson 2 and complete study guide
SpringBoard: Continuing our Revision Strategy of Adding using Similes.
10/22/08
Opener: Counselors came and gave a presentation on Bullying for our students.
Correct/Collect: "Primary Sources"
Social Studies: Preview Chapter 4 Lesson 2--"A Golden Age in the East"
10/21/08
Opener: "Primary Sources"
SpringBoard: "Revision Process: Revising by Addition"
Social Studies: Chapter 4 Lesson 1--"Expansion of Muslim Rule"
10/20/08
Opener: Journal #6
"Last Friday, we discussed and worked with three types of questions: literal, interpretive, and universal. If you dont remember how they were different from each other, you may review them on page 45 in your SpringBoard book.
Today, I would like you to prepare three questions, one of each type, for the novel you are reading, or just finished reading. Please also include an answer to the questions."
SpringBoard: Tone in Phaethon (page 46)
Social Studies: read Chapter 4, lesson 1, The Expansion of Muslim Rule.
10/17/08
Opener: Logic Problem- "Jelly Beans" (available on Mr. Hall's site)
Correct and Collect: Chapter 3 Lesson 1 Literature
SpringBoard: "Phaethon-Questioning the Text." (available on the SpringBoard site; page 45)
Social Studies: "Islam After Muhammad" We'll finish lesson 3, and practice summarizing the lesson (for help with summarizing, see pages 104-105). We'll also have a study guide. The study guide will be available in class only.
10/16/08
Opener: Chapter 3 Lesson 1 Literature
SpringBoard: Venn Diagram for Derice in "Cool Runnings" and Phaethon in "Phaethon"
Social Studies: Chapter 3 Lesson 3 "Islam after Muhammad's Death"
10/15/08
Opener: "Reading 2" Diagnostic assessment--students, please log on to www.springboard.collegeboard.com and input your answers for the assignment called "Reading 2." Remember that your username is your student number, the password is PENINSULA and the school code is define.
Correct/Collect: "Scrambled Sentences"
SpringBoard: "Determining Life's Choices"
Social Studies: Reviewing our key terms sheet for Chapter 3 Lesson 2.
10/14/08
Opener: "Scrambled Sentences"
SpringBoard: Continue Phaethon
Social Studies: Review Islam and Muhammad
10/13/08
Opener: Journal #5--Choose three of your vocabulary words from your reading logs and discover the meaning by recording the context and guessing the meaning; then look them up in the dictionary and create a visual for the words.
Share/Collect: "Previewing the Headings and Pictures" Why is this an important skill?
SpringBoard: "Phaethon"--chunking the text and discussing the character's choices. At home, you may download the instructions from the "Phaethon" worksheet at Mr. Hall's website, under documents. How we chunked the text in class is also available on the site, under "Promethean Board" documents.
10/09/08
Opener: "Previewing the Headings and Pictures"--practicing a reading strategy for social studies.
Correct/Collect: "Jive with Five"
SpringBoard: "The Road Not Taken"--vocabulary
Social Studies: Continued lesson on "Islam and Muhammad"
10/08/08
Opener: "Jive with Five"--work with fragment and run-on sentences
Correct/Collect: "Running Down the Run-On Sentence"
SpringBoard: "The Road Not Taken--Choral Reading"
10/07/08
Opener: "Running Down the Run-on Sentence"--work sheet to practice our editing skills
SpringBoard: We passed back EA 1.1--narratives. If a student received an incomplete they need to make corrections and turn it in as soon as possible. We also discussed our next assessment which is to deeply revise our narratives by practicing adding, deleting and replacing text.
Social Studies: "Islam and Muhammed"--go to our class website to find the book section to read.
10/06/08
Journal #4: Please choose four of your vocabulary words from your reading logs and find their definitions. Then create four sentences using your vocabulary words. For example:
Definition: tradition--the handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, information
Sentence: It is tradition for us to sing "Happy Birthday" for each family member as we bring in the birthday cake.
Correct/Collect: "Where's the pun in homophones?"
SpringBoard: Hand in E.A.1.1 if you didn't on Friday.
Social Studies: Life on the Arabian Peninsula & Islam and Muhammad
10/3/08
Opener: "Where's the pun in homophones?" (available on Mr. Hall's website)
Correct and Collect: "Oops!"
Collect: SpringBoard Embedded Assessment 1.1, "A Narrative About Choice"
Social Studies: Read Chapter 3 Lesson 1, "Life on the Arabian Peninsula" and complete the worksheet, filling in details from the reading. Both the book and the worksheet are available on Mr. Hall's site under "Documents."
10/2/08
Opener: "Oops!"
Correct & Collect: "Expressing Problems Clearly"
SpringBoard: E.A. 1.1: Work on refining our rough drafts, following the final steps on page 26. Your Final Copy is due Friday. It should follow the scoring criteria on page 26, be neatly handwritten in ink or typed using Times New Roman 12 point font.
10/1/08
Opener: "Expressing Problems Clearly"
Share & Collect: "Bodacious Beginnings"
Review & Collect: Middle East map worksheet
SpringBoard: Embedded Assessment 1.1. Today we worked through the first three steps, as found on page 26. Remember, your narrative must be about a choice you made, and the consequences of that choice. Your rough draft should be double spaced, should have a clear beginning, middle, and end, and must have a lot of details! Bring your rough draft to class Thursday, so we can refine them in class.
9/30/08
Opener: "Bodacious Beginnings"
SpringBoard: Pet Peeves
Social Studies: Introduction to Islam Unit & Map Activity
9/29/08
Opener: Journal #3
Please describe an important event from your novel, or if you just started a new novel pick an important event from your last novel. Provide at lease four specific details about the event.
Correct/Collect: "Beach Balls" or "Brain Pain"
SpringBoard: "An Autobiographical Memory"
9/26/08
Opener: "Beach Balls" or "Brain Pain"--logical thinking practice
Correct/Collect: "Height of the Roman Empire"
SpringBoard: "An Autobiographical Memory"
Social Studies: Hand back Unit One quizes
9/25/08
Opener: "Height of the Roman Empire"--you will need an historical atlas
Social Studies: Unit One Quiz
SpringBoard: "Homophones"--go online to www.springboard.collegeboard.com and click the Instruction tab, then Level 2, then Unit 1 and "Homophones" to see a copy of the lesson.
9/24/08
Opener: Diagnostic Assessment(Reading 1)--Log on to SpringBoard online (the link is below) and complete the test under class assignments. This is not part of your grade in terms of what you get right or wrong. It is a way for Ms. Danberg and Mr. Hall to know what skills we still need to work on before the assessment that is graded.
Correct/Collect: "Finding the Main Idea"
Social Studies: "Interpreting History"--getting ready for our CHAPTER ONE QUIZ tomorrow.
9/23/08
Opener: "Finding the Main Ideas"
SpringBoard: "Know Your Roots: Word Choice" A blank form is available at the SpringBoard site; a completed form is available at Mr. Hall's site under "Documents" & "Promethean Board."
Social Studies: Continue "Interpreting the Past"; read pages 34 & 35, and complete a "Main Idea" chart for those pages.
**Unit One Quiz on Thursday (Latitude/Longitude/Finding the Main Idea)
9/22/08
Opener: Journal #2 Please choose six of your vocabulary words from your reading logs. List them and provide their denotations and connotations.
For example:
Autumn
Denotation: the season between summer and winter
Connotation: fall, rainy, candy, leaves, brown, dark afternoons, warm, cozy
Reminder: You should have two journal writes and 4 reading logs complete by now! Conferences begin during opener time this week.
Correct/Collect: "The Foreign Neighbors"
SpringBoard: "You Light Up My Life"--more connotations
Social Studies: Finishing up "Interpreting the Past"
9/19/08
Opener: "The Foreign Neighbors" logic problem
Correct & Collect: Atlas openers
SpringBoard: "Denotation and Connotation"
Social Studies: Interpreting the Past (pages 32-35). As you read prepare a "Main Idea/Detail" chart (page 30) for each section.
9/18/08
Opener: "Reviewing Basic Map Skills"--you will need an historical atlas
Correct/Collect: "'F' in Disguise"
SpringBoard: "Tough Choices: Selective Highlighting"
9/17/08
Opener: "'F' in Disguise"--spelling practice
Social Studies: Interpreting the Past--see reading pages on our class website (pages 31-32) plus modeling how to fill in the chart on page 30.
SpringBoard: Review of our first timed writing
9/16/08
Opener: Create a Portfolio Cover--It must have your first and last name and the theme for this year "Choices."
SpringBoard: "Timed Writing to a Prompt"
9/15/08
Opener: Journal #1:
Please record the title of your independent reading book and provide a four sentence summary of the book so far. Who are the characters? What is the main problem/plot?
Correct/Collect: "Ice Cream"
SpringBoard: Unpacking the first Embedded Assessment--Creating a Narrative About Choice--also available under the documents section of the website.
Social Studies: "Tools of History: Archaeology"
9/12/08
Opener: "Ice Cream"--logic problem
Correct/Collect: "Understanding Latitude and
Longitude"
Social Studies: Shared our "Thinking Historically" Paragraphs
Social Studies: Finished our SQ3R worksheet and reading and read pages 27 and 28 from the book and discussed changes in history over time
9/11/08
Opener: "Understanding Latitude and Longitude" and "Using Latitude and Longitude"--both of these are available under the documents section of the class website.
Correct/Collect: "A Mess in the End"
COllect: Learning to Think Historically"
Social Studies: "Discovering the Past"--reading section is available under the documents section of the class website.
9/10/08
Opener: "A Mess in the End"--more spelling practice
Correct/Collect: "Small Problems"
SpringBoard: "Brainstorming Choices"
9/9/08
Opener: "Small Problems"--spelling practice
Correct/Collect: "From Roman Republic to Empire"
Review Independent Reading Requirements
SpringBoard: Labeling our books
Social Studies: "Learning to Think Historically"--see the video linked on our class website.
9/8/08
Opener: "From Roman Republic to Empire" Students will need an historical atlas to complete this activity.
Correct/Collect: "Darnell's Class Schedule"
Review Scavenger Hunt
Introduce Independent Reading--There is a parent letter going home today regarding independent reading.
Permission Slip for Mr. Hall
9/5/08
Opener: "Darnell's Class Schedule"--a logic problem
Collect: Parent signature sheet
Finish/Collect: "Creating Classroom Norms" activity
Classroom Scavenger Hunt--getting to know the resources in our classroom.
9/4/08
Opener: "Creating Classroom Norms"--responding to questions about classroom community
Parent Letter Explained--to be signed and returned
Classroom Norm group activity
9/3/08
Opener: "Getting to Know You"--student questionaire
Introductions
--Who's Who in 201 and 202--getting to know us.
Some Favorite Links:
Springboard Curriculum Please visit this website if you would like to see our language arts curriculum for this year. With a student code you can access the actual book and activities, as well as, any diagnostic tests taken by your student.
World History Curriculum This link will take you to the website of our 7th grade social studies book. There are notes for each chapter, activities, and practice exams. Enjoy!
Our Class Website This website will have documents from class as well as important discussion notes students may have missed.
A Look Into Our Classroom This site has photos and discussions about what is going on in class. Check it out and see if you made it on the site.
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