Monday, May 6, 2019

 

Place-Based Learning at the zoo!

 

 

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

 

When you finish writing your research paper you should begin this assignment...

 

You will write three letters of appreciation to any three people in the school. Each one needs to be one page and should be from the heart. You will turn in all three and I will read and grade them…I will give them to whomever you write them to. Keep in mind that Mrs. Torres, Mrs. Larsen, Mrs. Courtney, Mrs. Palmer, Mr. Pierce, and all support staff should be included.

 

Wednesday, May 8, 2019

If you are in class today, you should be working on your research paper or your three letters. 

 

Thursday, May 9, 2019

You should be making corrections to your research paper, completing your three letters of appreciation, or completing makeup work.

 

Friday, May 10, 2019

Today is Baby Graduation and School-Wide Picnic!!!!

Standard R.KID.2

Cornerstone: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

 

Standard R.IKI.9

Cornerstone: Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or compare the approaches an author takes.

 

Standard W.TTP.2

Cornerstone: Write informative texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

 

 

Monday, April 8, 2019

 

 

 

 

Standard R.KID.2

Cornerstone: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

 

Standard R.IKI.9

Cornerstone: Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or compare the approaches an author takes.

 

Standard W.TTP.2

Cornerstone: Write informative texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

 

 

 

Monday, April 1, 2019

 

Cornerstone: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

 

Standard R.IKI.9

Cornerstone: Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or compare the approaches an author takes.

 

Standard W.TTP.2

Cornerstone: Write informative texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

 

 

Monday, March 18, 2019

 

 

Cornerstone: Determine the central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

 

Standard R.IKI.9

Cornerstone: Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or compare the appproaches another author takes.

 

Standard W.TTP.2

Cornerstone: Write informative texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

 

 

 

Monday, March 11, 2019

 

Grades due Wednesday afternoon...makeup day and redo assignments needing betgter grades...

 

 

 

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

 

ACT Day - Wrok on makeup work as needed for anyone left in class.

 

 

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

 

Read "The Battle with Grendel" as a class. You will answer any questions that are circles and starred. We will chunk the following lines as we read...

     233-250

 

After we finish reading you will answer the four questions at the end of the reading also.

 

 

 

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Use the reading "The Battle with Grendel" to answer the questions on the handout. Answer the questions on your own paper. 

 

 

 

Friday, March 15, 2019

 

You will be with Mrs. Hughes class in her room watching "The Ron Clark Story" movie.

 

 

 

Standard R.KID.3

Cornerstone: Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

 

Standard R.CS.5

Cornerstone: Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of a text (e.g. a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

 

Standard R.KID.2

Cornerstone: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

 

 

Monday, March 4, 2019

 

Midterm

 

 

 

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

 

We will review the first 29 lines of "Beowulf"

 

We will begin reading "Grendel" at line 30 and chunk the lines as we go for the following:

 

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

 

 

Thursday, March 7, 2019

 

Early Dismissal Day - 40 minute classes...

 

If we have not finished reading the first section of "Beowulf," we will finish it up today. You will also get the review questions that go along with the first reading to complete today.

 

 

 

Friday, March 8, 2019

Cornerstone: Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

 

Standard R.CS.5

Cornerstone: Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of a text (e.g. a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

 

Standard R.KID.2

Cornerstone: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

 

 

 

Monday, February 25, 2019

 

RAIN DAY!!! NO SCHOOL!!!!

 

  

Cornerstone: Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

 

Standard R.CS.5

Cornerstone: Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of a text (e.g. a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

 

Standard R.KID.2

Cornerstone: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and idea.

 

 

Monday, February 18, 2019

 

PRESIDENT'S DAY!!!! NO SCHOOL!!!!

 

 

 

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

 

Look at the image from this link and answer the questions that follow:

 

 

What part of the cartoon grabs your attention first?

What part of the cartoon do you find most amusing?

What common situation is the basis of this cartoon?

What is the irony you see in this video?

 

Now watch the following SNL segment of "Weekend Update"...what were they  making fun of and how do you feel watching the video?

 

Discuss how these things are seen as Satirical works and what a satire is.

 

Begin reading "A Modest Proposal" and answer the questions inside the text as we read.

 

 

 

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

 

Finish reading "A Modest Proposal" and answer the rest of the questions inside the story.

 

Answer questions 1-5 at the end of the story on your own paper. Keep the three forms of irony in mind as you answer these questions.

 

 

 

Thursday, February 21, 2019

 

RAIN DAY!!! NO SCHOOL!!!!

 

 

 

Friday, February 22, 2019

 

RAIN DAY!!! NO SCHOOL!!!!

 

 

 

Cornerstone: Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

 

R.CS.5

Cornerstone: Analyze the structrue of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of a text (eg., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

 

W.TTP.3

Cornerstone: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

 

 

 

Monday, February 11, 2019

 

Anyone who has not presented their charcter yet will do that first. Anyone presenting today will automatically lose 10 points due to the assignment being due on Friday.

 

We will read "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale."

 

You will answer the questions from the prologue and tale in complete sentences. Some of the questions will be from class discussion as we read the selection, so pay close attention to the class discussion...

 

 

 

Tuesday,February 12, 2019

 

Anyone who has not presented their character will do that first. Anyone presenting today will miss 20 points due to the assignment being due on Friday.

 

We will read and discuss "The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale."

 

You will answer the questions from the prologue and tale in complete sentences. Some of the questions will be from class discussion as we read the selection, so pay close attention to the class discussion.

 

 

 

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

 

 To commemorate Black History Month, we are going to read two articles from ReadWorks:

 

"Harriet Beecher Stowe " and "10 Things You May Not Know About MLK, Jr."

 

You will answer the questions that follow the readings.

 

 

 

Thursday, February 14, 2019

 

Bell Work

 

Get on a computer and watch the following video on "Irony"

 

Take notes on the video as you watch it (Put your notes on a sheet of notebook paper and staple them to your handout before you turn the handout in).

 

You must log out of the computer and move back to your seat without your phone in order to receive the irony handout you will complete for the day.

 

Complete the handout on irony and follow the directions on the handout.

 

 

Friday, February 15, 2019

 

REWARD DAY!!! If you have work missing, today is a good day to get that made up...

R.KID.3

Cornerstone: Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

 

R.CS.5

Cornerstone: Analyze the structrue of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of a text (eg., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

 

W.TTP.3

Cornerstone: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

 

 

Monday, February 4, 2019

 

Bell Work

 

Write at least a full paragraph and tell me everything you know about Geoffrey Chaucer, the real person.

 

When you're finished, you will come to the board and write one fact about him. 

 

Now you will take a quiz over the notes you took last week. When you finish, you will turn in your quiz, answers, and notes.

 

You will watch the short video on "The Wife of Bath"

 

We will begin reading the Prologue for "The Canterbury Tales" and as a class, we will discuss the lines we are going to read. We will cover lines 1-41 and 767-856. 

 

You will be given your pilgrim assignments for tomorrow:

 

Caleb Ashford - The Knight (43-80)

Demitri Baeza - The Physician (421-454)

JD Brafford - The Squire (81-102)

Bradly Chapman - The Prioress (122-166)

Jacob Franz - The Monk (169-211)

Anna K - The Friar (212-279)

Miracle Knox - The Miller (561-584)

Tiara Lewis - The Shipman (398-420)

Carolina Lopez - The Man of Law (319-340)

Malachi Scott - The Wife of Bath (455-486)

Samara Simmons - The Clerk - 295-318)

Serena Woods - The Pardoner (689-734)

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

 

You will receive the handout "The Canterbury Tales Prologue Assignment: Who Am I?"

 

You will write on your own paper and complete the handout. You will want to use your textbook and you can consult Google if needed. You will want to know all you can about your character because you will present your findings to the class on Thursday and you will receive a grade for the presentation as well as the information you discover about your character.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

 

You will receive two pieces of paper stapled together. They cover the skill of inference. Your job is to read each scenario and answer all the questions for each one. You also need to give textual evidence in the allotted space for each answer you give. 

 

Once the whole thing is complete, you may turn it in and get on a computer and finish working on your "Who Am I?" presentation. Finished or not, the handout MUST be turned in before you leave my classroom today!!!! 

NO EXCEPTIONS!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, February 7, 2019

 

Everyone needs to be ready to present by today!!!

 

After presentations, we will begin reading "The Wife of Bath"

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, February 8, 2018

 

We will finish "The Wife of Bath" and complete questions to ensure understanding of the story.