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1. daily classwork
2. homework
3. large assignment descriptions
ONE CLASS RULE: RESPECT!
LATE WORK/ABSENT WORK PROTOCOL: When absent, you have as many days as you were absent to make up the work you missed. Late work will be marked 10% down for each day late...that means you have 2 weeks if you expect to earn any credit. All tests and quizzes must be made up within two weeks of the original date they were given. Tests and quizzes can be re-taken within two weeks of the original date given but will be averaged with the original score.
Remember, you can always redo assignments and tests for a better score! Just sign up and let me know you are coming!!!
Anytime you are absent or forget to fill out your calendar plan sheet, you can stop by this page to find out what you missed.
4th quarter...We're sliding into the homestretch...it's all down hill from here.
April 7, 2008 Monday
Welcome Back…hope you had a great break!
Nothing is due today! It’s a NEW QUARTER!
We’re starting fresh…so try your hardest!
This week’s homework: Fairy tale project (due next Wednesday) – worth 40 points - so do a good job!
5 point challenge:All team members sitting on their desks with a filled out calendar on their laps
Block 2 won the party! Block 1 won last month’s party! So both classes will have their party on Wednesday April 16th! Bring a dollar by the 14th!
Lunch time movie this week: Shrek
Warm-up: Editing
Lesson: Story time – “Beauty and the Beast” w/ a story map (#10)
Wrap-up:Gathering Blue w/story packet (ch. 12 period 1 and 5, ch. 14 period 3)
April 8, 2008 Tuesday
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
Nothing is due today.
Homework:FAIRY TALE PROJECT DUE NEXT WEDNESDAY
5 point challenge: all group members have spelling words written down and used correctly in sentences (however many it takes to use all the words)
bag, proud, neck, breath, strength
Lesson: 4-step summary for “Sleeping Beauty” ( Grimm’s original)
Work on your project while we
watch some film versions of Sleeping Beauty
Wrap-up:Gathering Blue w/ story packet
Blks. 1 and 3 – ch. 13&14
Blk. 2 – ch. 15
April 9, 2008 WASL Wednesday
Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
La Fontaine
Nothing is due.
Homework: Fairy Tale Project due next Wed.
Warm-up: Editing (homonyms)
Lesson: Practice scoring essays
in class activity...no way to make this up
Wrap-up: Gathering Blue
April 10, 2008 Thursday
Nothing is due today.
Homework:Fairy tale project due Wed.
5 point challenge: calendar filled out and writers notebook open to do spelling, pencil in hand.
Warm-up:spelling practice (Tuesday’s words)
Lesson: Revising Ralph Fletcher:
Read Twilight Comes Twice to see what a published piece is supposed to look like.
Then read the draft of his next book….revise it!
mark it up, add, change, move, delete!
discuss it as a class.
Let’s see what the editor had to say…read her letter!
Now, let’s apply what we have learned:
You be the editor!
I’ll hand you someone’s essay…Revise it!
Give constructive feedback, without being rude!
Be specific: explain what is good and why or what needs work and provide suggestions for improvement or questions they need to answer;
write them a letter (modeled after the one to R. Fletcher) due at end of class tomorrow. This is not homework! All work must be done in class.
Wrap-up: Gathering Blue
April 18, 2008 Friday!
Homework: Fairy tale project due Wed.
Spelling test MONDAY – Study!!! (closed-note)
units 11-20 =
5 point challenge: All students in your row, turn in a circle while saying the alphabet backwards!
Warm-up: dress the naked crayon!
an adjective activity...naming crayons without their paper...ex. orange could become "atomic fire" or "tangerine dream"
Lesson: continue writing your editor’s
letter…DUE TODAY!!!!!
Cool-down:Gathering Blue
read aloud and fill out packet for today's chapter
April 14, 2008 Monday
What’s due? $1 from block 2 (party this Wednesday) – Block 1 lost their’s…so beware…be on your best behavior.
Homework: All fairy tale work due Wednesday (1-11 and project)
5 point challenge: calendar filled out and on desk for inspection
Remember, you have a sub tomorrow, and your behavior will determine what we do on Wednesday!!!
Warm-up: spelling test, closed-note, 50 words, units 11-20
Lesson: revise essays using letters written by your "editor"
You need…
pen/pencil
paper for new final draft
elaboration notes/writers notebook
handouts: WASL rubrics
intro/body/concl. notes
persuasive writing checklist
Cool-down: Gathering Blue
April 15 Tuesday
Sub...
Writing Test (open note)
April 16 Wednesday
WASL review
Reading and Writing JEOPARDY!
April 17 Thursday
A.M. Math WASL
P.M. Time to work on revising your essay
April 18 Friday
A.M. Reading WASL
P.M.
April 18, 2008 Happy Friday!
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Universe"
What’s due? Revised district writing assessment (in piles on back table)
Homework: “Hang out”…read a comic book…check out the full “pink” moon…think…relax…write…play in the snow…Oh, and kill your television.
Warm-up:
For the rest of the year, I’m going to be sharing some bizarre holidays with you. Every day, there is a reason to celebrate, but if can’t find your own, I’ll give you one…or ten!
Today is National Pet Owners Independence Day…a day for pet owners to take some time off and send their pets to work in their place—what would happen if you sent your pet to go to school for you?
Write about it in your writers notebook!
Let’s hear about a dog who earns his keep. (video: The Amazing Skidboot)
These are the kinds of things writers write about…collect interesting tidbits and stories like this one, reflect on them, and they could be the topics you use to write a story or a poem, an article or a book!
It’s also National Yo-Yo day.
And National High-Five day.
Tomorrow…do what you do best on National Hanging Out Day. Actually, it’s not what you might think:
Mark this down in your calendar: April 19 is National Hanging Out day, which is not about slackers but about hanging out your slacks, a celebration of the clothesline as an alternative to the dryer. Founded by clothesline activist Alexander Lee of laundrylist.org, it champions "the right to dry" which many people do not have due to building regulations and restrictive covenants prohibiting "ugly" clotheslines. Yet clothes dried on lines last longer, smell better and save you a lot of money.
There are 88 million dryers in America, and if everyone converted to lines it could reduce residential output of CO2 by 3.3%. “It’s a huge waste of energy to tumble dry your clothes,” said Tom Arnold, chief environmental officer of TerraPass. “It’s one of the simplest things to do to help with global warming.” ::New York Times
And Sunday – read a comic book or watch a superhero movie on Comic Book Day.
Also, it’ll be a full moon…or Pink Moon: • Full Pink Moon - April This name came from the herb moss pink, or wild ground phlox, which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. Other names for this month's celestial body include the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and among coastal tribes the Full Fish Moon, because this was the time that the shad swam upstream to spawn.
National T.V. Turn Off Week (April 21-27): at www.turnoffyourtv.com
Also, I’ll try to share an interesting, funny, or motivational quote with you each day. If you want to submit one to add to the “quote cabinet”, please do (1 point each).
A/B group…you’ll be doing a project on The Giver and then a research project on something of your choice! B/C group… April is National Poetry Month, so we’ll begin a study in poetry after the WASL.
And D/F group…wake up and smell the…grammar, sentence structure, spelling, and reading strategies!
It’s all down hill from here. Keep up the good work and stay focused so we can have fun after the WASL!
Now let’s gather some blue. (take notes in your packets while we read)
April 21, 2008 Monday Writing WASL
5 pt. challenge: filled out calendar
Happy “National Chocolate-Covered Cashew Day”. It’s also “National Turn Off Your T.V. Week” (and “National Karaoke Week”, “National Sky Awareness Week”, and “ National Fish Fry Week”)
Tomorrow is “Earth Day”! (And National Jelly Bean Day).
Today’s quote:
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
What’s due? A "dead" television.
Homework: Anything but watching T.V.
Warm-up: 1. In your writers notebook, list all the things you could do until next Monday that don’t involve watching T.V. Or, just write about the topic of killing your television.
Lesson: grade writing test together as a review
Cool-down: Gathering Blue w/story packet
April 22, 2008 Happy Earth Day!
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
5 pt. challenge: calendars!
Homework: Recycle, Reuse, Reduce!
Play outside!
Eat Jelly Beans!
Tomorrow is Secretary’s Day, so thank our SMS secretaries for being so awesome!
What’s due? Still…a dead television.
Sometime today…add to the list in the hall!
Warm-up: In honor or National Jelly Bean Day…guess the flavor of your jelly bean! Now describe it using adjectives and verbs! One whole paragraph!
This day in history…the first Earth Day.
Lesson: Science Essay!
Today’s goal: brainstorm a
list of reasons someone
would come to your
planet
Tomorrow’s goal:
plan/outline
begin rough draft
Thurs/Fri goal:
rough draft
Monday’s goal:
revise/edit
Final draft due next Friday
Cool-down: Gathering Blue
April 23, 2008 Wednesday
Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare!
5 pt. challenge: calendars
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun—
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red—
If snow be white, why then her skin is dun—
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head:
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks,
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound.
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks tread on the ground.
And yet by heav’n I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
What’s due? MY BOOKS!!!
Homework: Practice your skills
of begging!
Warm-up: This day in history…
Thank a secretary!
It’s Secretary’s Day!
“I wanna…”
Write a letter to a parent
or guardian persuading them
to let you get a pet. Use
the persuasive techniques
we’ve learned.
Lesson: Work on Science Essay
Today’s goal: outline
Thurs./Fri. goal:
rough draft
Mon. goal:
revise/edit
Final draft due by next Fri.
Cool-down: Gathering Blue
April 24, 2008 Thursday
National Take our Sons & Daughters to Work Day
(I’m bringing mine!)
People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
Howard Newton
"Desensitized by tv,
Overbearing advertising,
God of consumerism,
And all your crooked pictures,
Looking good, mirrorism,
Filtering information,
For the public eye,
Designed for profiteering,
Your neighbor, what a guy."
-- from the song "Boom!" by System Of A Down
Warm-up: visit the cemetery (handout...answer
for prizes) - no grade...just practice
Lesson: science essay (you should be working
on your rough draft by now)
Cool-down: Messenger (block 2 only...block
and 3 will begin on Monday)
April 25, 2008 Friday Reading WASL
Today is Arbor Day.
I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
NOTES:
What’s due? you should be on your science essay rough draft by now…we’ll revise/edit Monday!
Homework: plant a tree
Saturday is “Hug an Australian Day”
Due Monday: Gathering Blue packet
Next week is National Fairy Godmother Week!
WARM-UPS:
This day in history…
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
“Kill Your Television” (this week’s theme song…for National T.V. Turn-off Week”) can be found at:
http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/
Lots of other info. about the event is there, as well.
Make sure to add to the list in the hall…what do you do for fun besides watching T.V.?
2 writing practice handouts about word choice (extra copies in the extra handout bin) worth 10 pts. a pc.
LESSON:
Work on your science essay…you should be at the drafting stage, as this is the 4th class day we’ve worked on it. We’ll revise/edit in class on Monday afternoon.
COOL-DOWN:
Read aloud—Messenger by Lois Lowry, book 3 in The Giver trilogy. For more info. on her books, visit:
http://www.loislowry.com/giver.html
April 28, 2008 Misty Melancholy Monday
(that’s alliteration – you often see it in poetry)
APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH…
We’ll begin our poetry unit tomorrow!
Today is National Bulldogs Are Beautiful Day.
What’s due?Gathering Blue packet
Homework:Word choice worksheets from Friday are due by this Friday.
You’re Science Essay is due this Friday!
Work on your science essay…
Today’s goal—revise and edit
April 29, 2008 Tuesday
April is National Poetry Month…so today, we’ll begin our Poetry Unit.
Today is National Sense of Smell Day.
It is also National Dance Day!
So get sniffin’ and get your bootie shakin’!
Quote: I was working on the [draft] of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
HW: science essay and word choice worksheets due by Friday
What’s due? MY GATHERING BLUE BOOKS…I’M MISSING 14!
This day in history:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
Warm-up:Read a few poems and discuss.
http://www.bartleby.com/119/1.html
Lesson: 1) Writers Notebook…
a. “Cherished Item” (write your own)
b. Define “Identity”
c. Make a class outline:
what makes up identity?
d.Write a paragraph about your identity
(instructions/example provided in class)
Starting today...those students who earned A's 3rd quarter will be working on their self-chosen research projects. Today I handed out a research guide and a project outline. If parents or students have questions about the project...please call or email for more specific information, as I will not be posting it on this website, to avoid confusing other students.
Thank you!
April 30, 2008 Wednesday
Focus: Poetry Unit for some…Research Project for others
Research group: continue working in hall today…testing is still occurring in the library.
Today's holiday: Beltane...roots: ancient Celtic culture
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.” ~Anaïs Nin
This day in history:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
Warm-up:continue your list of “what makes up your identity”
you need at least 25 different things (specifics including your hobbies, interests, heritage, and experiences that have shaped your values and beliefs about the world)...I'll prompt you through this to help lengthen your list.
“We didn’t start the fire” by Billy Joel
http://www.teacheroz.com/fire.htm
check out the rhymes! wow! now that’s poetry!
a list poem, to be exact!
Lesson: 1. “Where Writing Hides”
I’ll rd. aloud an essay by Georgia Heard which includes a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye called “Valentine for Ernest Mann”…then we’ll create a list of places that writing hides for us. We’ll also look at a finished version (from last year) of the class poem this will become.
2. Identity paragraph or poem
Using your brainstorm list from the warm-up, write a paragraph about yourself. It should be detailed and thorough, something like a “definition” I might see if I looked you up in the dictionary.
If you’d rather write a poem…list style…like Billy Joel’s song…where you simply list a bunch of your characteristics, hobbies, interests, life experiences, beliefs, values, heritage information, etc. and then intersperse a chorus…you can do that instead. It doesn't have to rhyme, but it can.
This piece will be a required part of your final poetry portfolio.
So, don’t lose it!
Cool-down: read aloud Messenger
Due Friday: science essay and word choice worksheets
May 1, 2008 Thursday
Today is May Day (the continuation of Beltane),
Principals Day, and Mother Goose Day
http://www.librarysupport.net/mothergoosesociety/tips.html
Jack and Jill
went up the hill
to fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down
and broke his crown
and Jill came tumbling after.
Little Miss Muffet
sat on her tuffet
eating her curds and whey.
Along came a spider
who sat down beside her
and scared Miss Muffet away.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses
and all the king’s men
couldn’t put Humpty together again.
Warm-up: Give it a try…write a simple nursery rhyme to make a little kid laugh. Remember, it is the rhythm and the rhyme that make them fun for little ones to listen to and easy for them to remember. Try following the rhyme scheme of the ones above...and keep a similar rhythm.
Lesson: Read “Feelings About Words” by Mary
O’Neill, page 486 of literature book
Playing with words (class activity)
list words that "sound" fast.
list words that "sound" slow.
(we spoke these outloud, one by one, to get the sense of what makes words fast or slow...the point is to show students that the sound and look of words can evoke an emotion or feeling in addition to the meaning).
Magazine poetry….
collect at least 20-25 interesting words
arrange them in an order that makes
at least some sort of sense to you
if you have to find a few more words
to fill in places and make it more
understandable, you may
if you can’t find a word you want, you
can make it by cutting out letters to
spell it out
give it a title
glue it down, once you are sure it’s done
Cool down: read aloud Messenger
May 2, 2008 Friday
Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It’s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.
Rhys Alexander
What’s due? Science Essay (all the parts…in order with your grade sheet on top)
word choice worksheets (2 of them)
Homework: Hang out with your family, walk your dog (or cat…or parakeet), send a few postcards, read a book, and be nice to chickens…
next week is:
International Family Week, Pet Week, Postcard Week and Reading Is Fun Week…Sunday is “Motorcycle Mass and Blessing of the Bikes Day” and “National Respect for Chickens Day”
Warm-up: I’m going to give you 20-30 min. to…
get your homework handed in work on your magazine poem (hand in)catch up on cherished item poem and identity paragraph/poem
Lesson: “Someday”…a form poem for you to try
Class activity…”The Journey”
Cool down: read aloud The Messenger
May 5, 2008 Monday
Today is Cinco De Mayo! (Mexico’s Independence Day)
This week: National Family Week
National Hug Holiday Week
National Pet Week
National Postcard Week
National Reading is Fun Week
National Teacher Appreciation Week
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
What’s due? nothing
Homework: read a book…and thank a teacher for it.
work on “poetry devices” handout if you
don’t finish in class (you’re welcome during SSR)
Warm-up: poems that tell stories
Library: book fair
Lesson: poetry terms/definitions
Cool-down: Messenger
May 6, 2008 Tuesday
Today is:National Teacher Day, Nurses Day, No Diet Day,
and No Homework Day
5 point challenge: calendar
If you are interested in the Twister event at the assembly, let me know (practice during SSR starting tomorrow).
I don't want to live in a world where I have to eat sugar-free sugar cookies.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
HW: none…unless you’re behind
What’s due?nothing yet…all poetry work will be due the 23rd
This Thursday is a Work/Fun day. If you have a passing grade (C or better) in LA, Math, and Science and have no missing assignments, you’ll get to go to the fun room (movies and games). Otherwise, you’ll be in a work room catching up. Prog. reports will be handed out Wednesday. Midterm reports go home next week.
This day in history:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
Warm-up:“A Year in the Life” – form poem
write your own
Lesson: Lessons in Perception--
“Fat Man”, “New Eyes”, and “My Papa’s Waltz”
Cool-down:Messenger
May 7, 2008 Wednesday
Great American Grump Out http://www.smilemania.com/
National School Nurses Day
Honor roll breakfast (triple gold only!)
Your poetry portfolios won’t be due until the 23rd.
Research projects will be presented the last week of school.
Dates to remember:9th – I have a sub…be good!
15th – block 3: $1 due
midterm grades go home!
16th – Assembly (dress 70s style)
and block 3 party
23rd – poetry portfolio due
This day in history:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
Warm-up:poems that repeat
Lesson: “I wonder” (practice form poem)
“I believe” (write your own)
Cool-down:read aloud The Messenger
May 8, 2008 Thursday
It’s Reward Day!
Today is No Socks Day…but only if you have clean feet! http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/May/nosocksday.htm
Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phrixus
This day in history:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
Warm-up:“Introduction to Poetry” and
e.e. cummings
Lesson: Analyzing a poem (Taylor Mali)
Cool down:read aloud Messenger
May 9, 2008
SUB - two short reading/writing assignments and a quick practice worksheet... no homework
May 12, 2008 Monday
Stamp Out Hunger Day
Nutty Fudge Day
Native American Rights Day
this day in history:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
Warm-up:“I dream” and “Peace” practice form poems
Lesson: Analyze a poem on your own
Cool-down:read aloud Messenger
May 13, 2008 Tuesday 23 days left…
This week is National Police Week and Universal Family Week. No holidays for today, so let’s just celebrate being alive!
5 point challenge: calendar on desk for me to check
This day in history:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
Warm-up:let’s read some Haiku (literature book)
write an alphabet poem
Lesson: write your own form poems (handout with instructions and examples)
Cool-down:read aloud Messenger
Donate a Day's Wages to Charity Day
Jamestown Founding Day
National Nightshift Workers Day
National Third Shift Workers Day
National Receptionists Day
National Meeting Planners Appreciation Day
Root Canal Appreciation Day
"The Stars and Stripes Forever" Day
Underground America Day
Anniversary - Lewis and Clark Expedition
http://www.malcolmwells.com/uaday.html
10 point challenge…filled out calendar on your desk…all members of your row seated on the floor beside your desks, singing the alphabet song quietly to themselves.
May 14, 2008 Wednesday 21 more get-ups
Nothing is due today, but…
HW: poets...do your family interview tonight!
Research group: Your 50-100 index cards are due Friday. Today I will give you info. on the final product. Your presentations will begin June 9th.
Poets: Your portfolios are in progress; you should have all 14 items on the board in “draft” form. I’ll hand out more info. on the final portfolio later this week. It will be due on the 23rd.
Thursday…$1 due for Block 3 students
Friday…P.M. Awards assembly, dress in 70’s style, Block 3 class party
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
This day in history:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
Warm-up: “Until” (form poem)
Lesson: “If I Were in Charge of the World”
copy change poem
Cool-down: read aloud Messsenger
Thursday... warm-up poem "Mood poem"
work on Where I'm From or What's in My Journal poems
Cool-down: read aloud
Friday...ASSEMBLY DAY (no instruction)
May 19, 2008 Monday
Youth and Sports Day (Turkey)
Victoria Day (Canada)
HW: poetry portfolio due Friday (present 27th)
research project due June 10 (present 10th)
What’s due? song lyrics
Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
Corita Kent
This day in history: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
Warm-up: Theme song example presentation
Lesson: Individual work time
Cool-down: read aloud Messenger
May 20, 2008 Tuesday
http://www.holidays.net/dailys.htm
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Dan Rather (1931 - )
5 point challenge: calendars
HW: Research projects due/present June 10
Poetry portfolios due Friday/present Tuesday
What’s due? nothing today
Today you need: writers notebook, pen/pencil (highlighter optional), American Nation text book, Civics handout packet
Warm-up:Would you pass the test to become a U.S. citizen? Let's take a short version of the citizenship test and see how you score.
Lesson: Goals of the Constitution (pp 214-219). We will read the chapter, take 2-column notes together and then answer some questions in our Civics handout packet to wrap-up and make sure we got the point.
Cool-down:read aloud Messenger
May 21, 2008 Wednesday
5 pt. challenge:all students in row with “Civics” handout packet on desk with pen/pencil and a filled out calendar beside it
What you need today: writers notebook, “Civics” handout packet, pen/pencil, highlighter optional, American Nation textbook, one sheet of paper with your full heading at the top
HW: research project (due June 10) OR poetry portfolio (due this Friday)
What’s due: nothing today
Holidays:
Gemini Begins
National Waitstaff Day
Turn Beauty Inside Out Day
UN Work Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
Anniversary - American Red Cross
Quote:
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, in Time Magazine
This day in history:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
Warm-up:Finish pg. 1 of your “Civics” handout packet.
Do the paragraph activity at the bottom of that first page in your writers notebook.
Be ready to rvw. and discuss in 10 min.
Lesson: Read section 2 of Civics chapter:
“5 Principles of the Constitution”
pp. 219-224.
Take 2-column notes with me.
Answer questions 1-6 on p. 224.
#1 doesn’t have to be a complete sentence
#2-6 = complete sentences, please!
We’ll finish it tomorrow.
Cool-down:Read aloud Messenger.
May 22, 2008 Thursday
HW: POETRY PORTFOLIOS DUE TOMORROW!!!!!, research projects due June 10
What’s due? by end of day…p. 224 #1-6
10 point challenge: all members of team has the following on his/her desk…
filled out calendar, American Nation textbook, pencil (highlighter optional), writers notebooks, open to begin note-taking…AND…all members are busily working on the warm-up!!!
Today is National Heroes Day and the Anniversary of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Today’s warm-up: finish and hand in questions from p. 224 (#1-6)
Quote:
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
Charles Luckman
This day in history:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
Now, let’s review major concepts covered with “America Rocks”…
Lesson:
Today’s reading: pp. 225-228
Today’s notes: pp. 225-228, the amendment process (use pg. 225 to help), the Bill of Rights in your own words (use p. 943 to help)
Today’s cool-down: read aloud Mesenger
May 23, 2008 It’s FRIDAY!!!!!!!!
3 more weeks to go…keep it up…you’re doing great!
Get your missing assignments in!
Re-do anything with a low score!!!
Hand in your Poetry Portfolios!!! They are due NOW!!!
10 pts. to any team in which all members hand in a complete portfolio.
Researchers: your projects are due in 2 weeks…please let me know if you need help (don’t wait till the last second!)
Quote: A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Unknown
How does this quote connect to Messenger?
5 points to the team who can answer this first.
This day in history:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
Anniversary of the death of Bonnie and Clyde…
5 pts. to the team who can tell me who they are!
Warm-up:America Rocks “I’m Just a Bill” and “3 Ring Government”…finish your Bill of Rights notes…and write one paragraph explaining which one of the first 10 amendments is most dear to you…which one would you be willing to fight for (or even die for?)
I’m checking your Bill of Rights notes today!
10 points to teams who have them completed.
Lesson: “The National Government at Work”
pp. 228-235 (take 2-column notes)
fill out pp. 4 and 5 in your “Civics” packet
Cool-down:Read aloud Messenger
NO SCHOOL MONDAY!
May 26, 2008 Tuesday
What’s due: @ end of period… “Civics packet”
HW: research projects due June 10
5 point challenge…
Civics packet and notes out…ready for quiz!
Holiday: Cellophane Tape Day
Quote: Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
Ralph Charell
This day in history:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
Warm-up: Quiz (open note/book…part 1 is pg. 2 of your Civics packet…part 2 is the Bill of Rights handout)
review notes from last week
Lesson: pp. 235-237 in American Nation (take notes)
Poetry Presentations tomorrow!
Cool-down: read aloud Messenger
May 28, 2008 Wednesday
What’s due? late/make-up/re-do work
HW: research projects due June 10
Holiday:
National Senior Health and Fitness Day
Slugs Return from Capistrano Day
Quote: There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
This day in history:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
Warm-up: none today
Lesson: Films with notes (U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, The 3 Branches of Gov't)
Cool-down: Types of Government
May 29, 2008 Thursday
5 point challenge…all team members with writers notebooks open ready to take notes!
What’s due: late/re-do/make up work due by June 6
HW: research projects due June 10
Dress Hawaiian tomorrow!!!! In support of the 8th grade “graduation”!
Progress reports tomorrow!!! You have 1 weekend and 1 week to get caught up!!!
Holiday:UN International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
Quote: What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Hansell B. Duckett
This day in History:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
Warm-up:Types of Government (take notes)
Lesson: 1. Watch 3 films and take notes
“Rights and Responsibilities of U.S. Citizenship”
“The Election Process”
“Political Parties”
May 30, 2008 Friday
What’s due? re-do/make-up/late work
HW: research projects due June 10
citizenship packet due Monday
am I a republican or a democrat? due Monday
Poetry presentations will begin JUNE 10…choose one item from you portfolio to share!
5 point challenge: writers notebook on desk, pencil ready
Holiday: Hug Your Cat Day
Quote: Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
This day in history: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
Warm-up: government type notes
Lesson: intro. to party platforms
time for research…work on your 2 assignments due Monday
Officicial sites for…
The Democrats:
www.democraticparty.org
The Republicans:
www.gop.com
The Libertarians:
http://www.lp.org/
The Green Party:
http://www.gp.org/index.php
MTV’s Rock the Vote site:
www.rockthevote.com
CNN Student News:
www.cnnstudentnews.com
Possible searches for more information…
take a quiz by googling “what party do I belong to?”
do a general search on the party of your choice
June 2, 2008 Monday
5 point challenge: writers notebooks out with pencil ready to take notes…all members of row
What’s due? late, re-do, make-up work
citizenship packet
what are you? politics worksheet
HW: research projects due June 10
Warm-up: culture video (take notes)
Lesson: time to work on what’s due today
computer lab/laptops available
Cool-down: clean up
June 3, 2008 Tuesday
5 pt. challenge: writers notebook open, pencil ready to take notes.
What’s due? late, re-do, make-up work…I will only accept it until THIS FRIDAY!!! I gave you progress reports on Friday, so you know what you need to do…come in before school or at lunch for help!
HW: 1. “Community” project due June 11 (you’ll have class time today through next Tuesday.
2. Study your notes so you can move through them quickly for Monday’s Social Studies test (it’s open-note, but not open-book).
3. Block 1, bring $1 by next Thursday.
ANYONE INTERESTED IN RUNNING FOR ASB OFFICE? Come to me for the applications.
Holidays: Chimborazo Day - this is the day that publicizes that Mt. Chimborazo "pokes farther out into space than any other mountain on earth..." Near the equator and located in Ecuador, for some reason this proves that the Mississippi runs uphill. Go figure.
Quote:
“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”
Josiah Charles Stamp quotes
This day in history: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
Warm-up: watch 2 films and take notes
Lesson: work on “community” project
Cool-down: clean up
June 4, 2008 Wednesday
5 pt. challenge: writers notebooks out, pencil ready to take notes
What’s due: re-do, make-up, and late work by Friday
HW: community project, research projects due by June 10
Holiday: National Tailors Day
UN International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
Quote: Mother Teresa: “Life is a promise; fulfill it.”
Warm-up: 2 films on religion,beliefs, and values
Lesson: independent work time – project
Cool-down:
This day in history: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
clean up
June 5, 2008 Thursday
5 point challenge: same as yesterday!!
What’s due? late, make-up, re-do work by Friday
HW: community project due next Wednesday
research projects due Tuesday for presentation
study notes for Monday’s Soc. Studies Test
I need $1 from each student in period ½ by the 12th!
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. – Thomas Jefferson
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
– Abraham Lincoln
Well done is better than well said. –Ben Franklin
UN World Environment Day
Warm-up: film – “economy” – take notes
Lesson: *work on community project
computer lab available 2nd, 3rd, and 6th periods
Cool-down: *review answers to citizenship packet (you can use it
on Monday’s test
*This day in history (http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do)
*clean up
June 6, 2008 It’s FRIIIIIIIIIIIDAYYYYYYYY!!!!!
What’s due: today is your last opportunity to hand in late, re-do, and make-up work…by 3:05!
HW: Study your notes for Monday’s test!
Community project due Wednesday…we present starting
on Thursday!
Period ½, bring $1 by next Thursday (party Friday).
Remember you have sub on Monday…please be on your best behavior!
Extra credit opportunity, due by next Thursday.
Quote: What you do will come back to you! (it’s called Karma)
Holiday: Today is the Anniversary of D-Day! (film clip)
Warm-up: This day in history (http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do)
Lesson: work on community project
Cool-down: Civics Jeopardy (all the questions/answers for Monday's test!!! so pay attention!)
June 9, 2008 Monday
Social studies test
Work on community project
PM assembly
Substitute today...I'll be in Seattle for an appt. for my son...so be on your best behavior.
June 10, 2008 Tuesday
5 pt. challenge: all students with completely cleared desks, singing “Happy Birthday” to Donald Duck.
What’s due? research projects
HW: community projects
I need $1 for each student in block #1 for party.
If you didn’t finish your test, come in at SSR.
If you didn’t get your prize on Friday, come get it.
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
Cullen Hightower
Holidays: 1) yesterday was Donald Duck’s birthday
2) today is the anniversary of the invention
of the ball point pen
Warm-up: poetry presentations, research presentations
Lesson: work on community projects (due tomorrow)
Cool down: this day in history and clean up
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
June 11, 2008 Wednesday
HW: community project due tomorrow...here are all the details from the handout:
Final Project
-Creating a Community-
This year, we read Lois Lowry’s “Giver” trilogy. Each book presents a particular community. These communities, have some things in common; yet, many things are different, as well. There are few things that all communities, including those introduced in Lowry’s books, must have to function. Your community plan must address each of the major categories we have learned or will learn this week (minimum of 1 handwritten page or 1 half, single-spaced, typed page):
1) values and belief systems/religion
2) geography
--climate, natural resources – what you can sell/use to survive or make $, wild life, plant life, crops, location, etc.
3) economy and work (production and distribution of goods and services)
--how do citizens make money?, what jobs are available?, who does what to keep the society running?, what goods are produced?, how are they distributed?, how do citizens pay for things?, what kind of currency does your community have?, etc.
4) government and law/defense
--what type of government does your community have?, who rules?, how are decisions made?, what are the basic laws/rules?, what are the punishments for breaking them?, how do you defend your community, from whom, etc. (Use all of your government notes to help you with this part.)
5) recreation
--what do citizens do for fun?
6) family structure
--what makes up a family in your community?, what role does each family member fulfill?, who takes care of/raises the children, etc.
7) heritage/ethnic groups
--what types of people live in your community?, what is their ancestry?, where did they come from?, how is their heritage defined? – dance, dress/costume, music, art, etc.
8) education
--how are people educated?, when?, by whom?, and for what reasons/on what topics?, what types of education are offered?, etc.
9) methods of communication (language/how to share information)
10)citizenship (roles/responsibilities of citizens, what each citizen is expected to do)
Also, provide a map of your community (detailed, colored, neat, and including a key/legend if necessary). 25 points!!
You will need your 5-10 page almanac-type report to hand in for a grade (5+ full pages if typed, 10+ full pages if handwritten). When you handwrite, use a reasonable sized, legible format; if you type, use a readable font and a 12 pt. font size. 100 points!!
In addition, you will need to offer a presentation of the information in your report to the class. You can put your information together in a poster, a handout, a pamphlet, a powerpoint, or if you have another idea, run it past me! 50 points!!
So, there it is....
Today, students had the whole day to work on it.
I also handed back the open-note test and went over all the answers (making sure to point out that most of the answers were posted on the front bulletin board for access during the test!)
Presentations tomorrow and Friday!
June 12, 2008 Thursday
Today we did presentations. I will not accept late presentations, unless you have an IEP that says your are granted extra time to complete assignments. If you do, you may have until tomorrow. Also, students who went to Sol Duc today can present for full credit tomorrow. To receive partial credit if you did not present today, you may hand in the report and map portions tomorrow by 8:05 a.m.
I have graded all late/redo/make up work. The only things I have left to enter are the community projects. The assignment has been added to the grade book, but if there is an * symbol, it just means I haven't entered your score yet (or you didn't hand it in).
Block 1 will have a party tomorrow!
I will do the drawing for the gift certificate (which I will bring on Monday!)
All extra credit is due tomorrow by the end of 6th period.
Lockers must be cleaned out today so we can scrub them down tomorrow!!! We will be cleaning the room tomorrow and finishing the movie if we have time.
Thank you!!!!
June 13 - Award assembly and Field Day (BBQ lunch)
June 16 - last day of school, talent show (make-up snow day)
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