Friday
We graded the last Roots Quiz.
We continued with a model persuasive essay and worked on how to organize it. We practiced the intro paragraph and outlined the three body paragraphs. More on Monday.
Homework:
Catch up
Thursday
Tales #45
aw come on harold beseeched gnarly i dont want to go alone into that pool of piranhas ut i do want to go
Vocab: beseeched, piranhas
Tales #46
ok ill go gnarly capitulated hapless corpulent harold
Vocab: capitulated, coruplent
We continued with the persuasive writing.
Homework:
Study roots and persuasive techniques.
Wednesday
No school for students - Staff Development Day
Tuesday
Tales #43
yes i think i will how about you harold asked gnarly in a supplicating voice
Vocab: supplicating
Tales #44
no im afraid theyll make fun of my stoutness and my glass's said harold. they allways do reiterated gnarly
In their writing journals, students reponded to this prompt:
Write a good, descriptive paragraph, entitled "The Meal," from the perspective of the corn snake(s).
I handed back copies of the persuasive techniques visuals so students can study for the quiz on Friday.
We reviewed persuasive techniques and took notes on the four types of persuasive appeals one can use. We will continue on Thursday.
Homework:
Study roots and persuasive techniques.
Monday
Students presented their projects.
Homework:
Review Quiz (fer, ten, tain, tent) on Friday.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Week of Jan. 24
Friday
We took the Roots (fer) Quiz and Vocab Quiz.
Students finalized their projects.
Presentations will be on Monday.
Homework:
Review Quiz (fer, ten, tain, tent) next week
Thursday
Students continued with their project. We will have time in class to finalize it tomorrow, and presentations will be on Monday.
Homework:
Study roots.
Wednesday
Students were placed in groups of about four, based on their ad's technique(s).
Handout: Advertising Analysis Project.
Students began strategizing.
Homework:
Study roots.
Tuesday
Tales #41
everyone even gnarly and that bespectacled wierdo freind of his are invited and me and all my freinds are going conan added
Vocab: bespectacled
Tales #42
hey gnarly are you going too go? queried harold when he herd the news
Vocab: queried
Students picked one favorite ad along with its analysis and set it aside.
They turned in the other two analysis sheets, accompanied by the advertisements.
Students then identified the strongest or most obvious advertising techniques used in their favorite ad. We will continue with the activity tomorrow.
Homework:
Study roots (quiz Friday).
Monday
Handout: Persuasive Techniques - definitions and examples.
Students continued with the Advertisement Analysis w/s.
Homework:
Advertisement Analysis w/s are due tomorrow. When stapling, put the actual ad on top, and the answers on the bottom.
Create a visual representation for each of the Persuasive Techniques in the box provided. The visuals are due Monday.
Note: Any remaining pen pal letters NEED to be emailed to me asap.
We took the Roots (fer) Quiz and Vocab Quiz.
Students finalized their projects.
Presentations will be on Monday.
Homework:
Review Quiz (fer, ten, tain, tent) next week
Thursday
Students continued with their project. We will have time in class to finalize it tomorrow, and presentations will be on Monday.
Homework:
Study roots.
Wednesday
Students were placed in groups of about four, based on their ad's technique(s).
Handout: Advertising Analysis Project.
Students began strategizing.
Homework:
Study roots.
Tuesday
Tales #41
everyone even gnarly and that bespectacled wierdo freind of his are invited and me and all my freinds are going conan added
Vocab: bespectacled
Tales #42
hey gnarly are you going too go? queried harold when he herd the news
Vocab: queried
Students picked one favorite ad along with its analysis and set it aside.
They turned in the other two analysis sheets, accompanied by the advertisements.
Students then identified the strongest or most obvious advertising techniques used in their favorite ad. We will continue with the activity tomorrow.
Homework:
Study roots (quiz Friday).
Monday
Handout: Persuasive Techniques - definitions and examples.
Students continued with the Advertisement Analysis w/s.
Homework:
Advertisement Analysis w/s are due tomorrow. When stapling, put the actual ad on top, and the answers on the bottom.
Create a visual representation for each of the Persuasive Techniques in the box provided. The visuals are due Monday.
Note: Any remaining pen pal letters NEED to be emailed to me asap.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Week of Jan. 17
Friday
Pen pal letters were due and turned in - two rough drafts and a final. The final needed to be emailed to me.
We began our persuasive techniques project using magazine advertisements. Students had time in class to begin the assignment.
Homework:
There will be time in class to work on the Advertisement Analysis w/s on Monday. All three are due Tuesday. Remember to use a separate sheet of paper for each ad, as we'll be separating them later on.
Note: I only received about half the pen pal letters electronically. These NEED to be emailed to me asap.
Thursday
Students finalized the final drafts of the pop star formal letters and spent time in the lab typing them up before emailing them to me. I collected the rough drafts. Several students shared their letters.
Homework:
Pen Pal letters due tomorrow. Hard copy (printed) and by email to me. Have both rough drafts as well.
Wednesday
Tales #39
when class is finally over the popular students converged in the hallway
Vocab: converged
Tales #40
awesome said conan belinda is going to throw one of ther incredible partys he expounded
Vocab: incredible, expounded
We went over and I collected the homework.
We went over the criteria for a formal business letter and examined some letters for errors.
In pairs, worked on Task #1 or #2 (formal letter to pop star of band).
Homework:
Work some more on it tonight, if possible; I'll give you a little bit of time to finish the rough draft tomorrow in class, but it will need to be done as we're going to the lab to type up the final draft.
Tuesday
Handout: new roots (fer). Test on Friday.
We went over and I collected the homework.
I handed back RD#2 of the letters and we had some discussion about them. Final draft should be typed, printed out for your portfolio at school, and emailed to me. Keep both rough drafts and rubric.
We finished the Persuasive Techniques packet.
Finally graded the last Roots Quiz (cap, pel, puls).
Homework:
Study roots; final draft due Friday (email and hard copy).
Monday
No School - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Pen pal letters were due and turned in - two rough drafts and a final. The final needed to be emailed to me.
We began our persuasive techniques project using magazine advertisements. Students had time in class to begin the assignment.
Homework:
There will be time in class to work on the Advertisement Analysis w/s on Monday. All three are due Tuesday. Remember to use a separate sheet of paper for each ad, as we'll be separating them later on.
Note: I only received about half the pen pal letters electronically. These NEED to be emailed to me asap.
Thursday
Students finalized the final drafts of the pop star formal letters and spent time in the lab typing them up before emailing them to me. I collected the rough drafts. Several students shared their letters.
Homework:
Pen Pal letters due tomorrow. Hard copy (printed) and by email to me. Have both rough drafts as well.
Wednesday
Tales #39
when class is finally over the popular students converged in the hallway
Vocab: converged
Tales #40
awesome said conan belinda is going to throw one of ther incredible partys he expounded
Vocab: incredible, expounded
We went over and I collected the homework.
We went over the criteria for a formal business letter and examined some letters for errors.
In pairs, worked on Task #1 or #2 (formal letter to pop star of band).
Homework:
Work some more on it tonight, if possible; I'll give you a little bit of time to finish the rough draft tomorrow in class, but it will need to be done as we're going to the lab to type up the final draft.
Tuesday
Handout: new roots (fer). Test on Friday.
We went over and I collected the homework.
I handed back RD#2 of the letters and we had some discussion about them. Final draft should be typed, printed out for your portfolio at school, and emailed to me. Keep both rough drafts and rubric.
We finished the Persuasive Techniques packet.
Finally graded the last Roots Quiz (cap, pel, puls).
Homework:
Study roots; final draft due Friday (email and hard copy).
Monday
No School - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Monday, January 10, 2011
Week of Jan. 10
Friday
Modified schedule due to the Honors Assembly.
I collected the homework.
Students worked on Adjectives as a Method of Elaboration: they wrote in their journals for 6-7 minutes, and then switched with a neighbor who drew the scene. The idea behind it was to be as descriptive as possible in your writing so the reader can picture it in their mind.
Homework:
Choose your Words w/s.
Thursday
I collected the Sentence w/s.
We listened to an audio recording of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, once without and then with the text, analyzing the speech and looking for persuasive techniques.
Homework:
Two questions on the speech. Answer each in a good paragraph. Due tomorrow.
Wednesday
I collected Rough Draft #2 of the pen pal letters.
We covered techniques of persuasion, logos, pathos, and ethos, and practiced using different techniques in writing.
Homework:
Sentence w/s.
Tuesday
Tales #38
one day a rumor circulated around mrs noisomes classroom and everyone couldnt wait for their class to be over
Vocab: circulated
We continued with ways to vary sentences, reviewing appositives, balanced sentences (repeated structures), and dependent clauses at the start of the sentence.
We reviewed w/s 27-28 from last week (Because I Said So).
Homework:
Study and know examples of the persuasive techniques from w/s 15.
Rough Draft #2 is due tomorrow.
Monday
Tales #37
conan and his hip crowd made occasional fun of harold and gnarly while classy cassandra and her freinds remained aloof
Vocab: aloof
Handout: New Roots sheet (tain, ten). Test next week due to Honors Assembly on Friday.
I checked for HW (both w/s) and we went over the A CARP PIE.
I returned the first rough drafts of the pen pal letter and we discussed ways to improve them.
We continued with sentence variety examples and practice (-ing at the beginning and appositives).
Homework:
Rework the pen pal letter by Wednesday (on a separate sheet). You may type it if you want.
Modified schedule due to the Honors Assembly.
I collected the homework.
Students worked on Adjectives as a Method of Elaboration: they wrote in their journals for 6-7 minutes, and then switched with a neighbor who drew the scene. The idea behind it was to be as descriptive as possible in your writing so the reader can picture it in their mind.
Homework:
Choose your Words w/s.
Thursday
I collected the Sentence w/s.
We listened to an audio recording of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, once without and then with the text, analyzing the speech and looking for persuasive techniques.
Homework:
Two questions on the speech. Answer each in a good paragraph. Due tomorrow.
Wednesday
I collected Rough Draft #2 of the pen pal letters.
We covered techniques of persuasion, logos, pathos, and ethos, and practiced using different techniques in writing.
Homework:
Sentence w/s.
Tuesday
Tales #38
one day a rumor circulated around mrs noisomes classroom and everyone couldnt wait for their class to be over
Vocab: circulated
We continued with ways to vary sentences, reviewing appositives, balanced sentences (repeated structures), and dependent clauses at the start of the sentence.
We reviewed w/s 27-28 from last week (Because I Said So).
Homework:
Study and know examples of the persuasive techniques from w/s 15.
Rough Draft #2 is due tomorrow.
Monday
Tales #37
conan and his hip crowd made occasional fun of harold and gnarly while classy cassandra and her freinds remained aloof
Vocab: aloof
Handout: New Roots sheet (tain, ten). Test next week due to Honors Assembly on Friday.
I checked for HW (both w/s) and we went over the A CARP PIE.
I returned the first rough drafts of the pen pal letter and we discussed ways to improve them.
We continued with sentence variety examples and practice (-ing at the beginning and appositives).
Homework:
Rework the pen pal letter by Wednesday (on a separate sheet). You may type it if you want.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Week of Jan. 3
Friday
Early Release - Special Schedule
No class today
Homework:
See Thursday for homework
Thursday
I collected the rough drafts of the pen pal letters.
We practiced ways to vary sentences. Students took notes in their "Tales" notebooks of examples and worked with a partner to create their own versions.
Homework:
A CARP PIE w/s - there is room on the sheet for your example
w/s 27-28 - write on the sheet
No class tomorrow, so they are due Monday.
Wednesday
Students took the Roots Review Test (cap, pel, puls). There was time for silent reading before we left for the library to check out a class set of Orphan Train Rider.
Homework:
In the excitement, forgot to hand out the w/s, so it will be homework tomorrow, due Monday, since we don't have class on Friday.
Tuesday
We continued with our persuasive writing lesson and defined what a persuasive paper does (makes a point - expresses an opinion - and supports that point with evidence - gives reasons why that opinion is correct).
We practiced making declarative statements (w/s 23-24). Then students had to give three reasons why a certain statements was true (w/s 25-26).
Homework:
For the same statement, come up with several reasons why it is false.
Review cap, pel, puls roots for quiz tomorrow.
Monday
Welcome back!
We discussed Point of View in reference to persuasive writing and broke into groups to tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood from the perspective of LRRH, the grandmother, the wolf, and the woodcutter.
We practiced determining the difference between fact and opinion and covered five types of persuasive techniques.
Homework:
Bring magazines from home if you can - ones with advertisements (e.g., Family Circle, Better Homes & Gardens, etc.)
Review cap, pel, puls roots for quiz on Wednesday.
Early Release - Special Schedule
No class today
Homework:
See Thursday for homework
Thursday
I collected the rough drafts of the pen pal letters.
We practiced ways to vary sentences. Students took notes in their "Tales" notebooks of examples and worked with a partner to create their own versions.
Homework:
A CARP PIE w/s - there is room on the sheet for your example
w/s 27-28 - write on the sheet
No class tomorrow, so they are due Monday.
Wednesday
Students took the Roots Review Test (cap, pel, puls). There was time for silent reading before we left for the library to check out a class set of Orphan Train Rider.
Homework:
In the excitement, forgot to hand out the w/s, so it will be homework tomorrow, due Monday, since we don't have class on Friday.
Tuesday
We continued with our persuasive writing lesson and defined what a persuasive paper does (makes a point - expresses an opinion - and supports that point with evidence - gives reasons why that opinion is correct).
We practiced making declarative statements (w/s 23-24). Then students had to give three reasons why a certain statements was true (w/s 25-26).
Homework:
For the same statement, come up with several reasons why it is false.
Review cap, pel, puls roots for quiz tomorrow.
Monday
Welcome back!
We discussed Point of View in reference to persuasive writing and broke into groups to tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood from the perspective of LRRH, the grandmother, the wolf, and the woodcutter.
We practiced determining the difference between fact and opinion and covered five types of persuasive techniques.
Homework:
Bring magazines from home if you can - ones with advertisements (e.g., Family Circle, Better Homes & Gardens, etc.)
Review cap, pel, puls roots for quiz on Wednesday.
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