Language Arts (Period 1) Assignments

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Add the differences to you compare and contrast paragraph. Use the parapgraph frame to help you.

 

Make sure you movie/book comparison chart is completed by tomorrow (skip mood).

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I've updated portal. Check for missing work and start making it up!

Read!! You should be at 60% of your AR goal this week.

Read (AR this week is 54%)

Revise your argumentative paragraph on sledding. Make sure your evidence matches (supports) your argument.

Finish chapter 10 questions

 

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Vocabulary test of Friday. Words 9-16. Study!

Vocabulary words 15 & 16

Vocabulary test will be on Friday-Start studying (words 9-16)

Ch. 9 questions

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The Giver Vocabulary 9-14

Read/1 RL

Vocabulary test for Chapters 1-4-Study the practice test we completed and your vocabulary packet.

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Revise you paragraph in the connotation/denotation packet if needed.

Chapter 1-4 vocabulary practice

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read 30 minutes/reading log

The Giver chapter 4 questions should be glued into your notebook and completed

AR Goal 5 is this week-30%

Reading logs due tomorrow

Finish RACER

Read 30 minutes/1 RL

Check portal and make up missing work

Read 30 minutes

Reading log

The Giver vocabulary 6,7, & 8

Read 30 minutes

Answer Ch. 3 questions for The Giver

Make sure you glue them in your notebook

Read 30 mintues

 

If you didn't turn in your essay, it's not too late! Submit it today for 80%.

Continue to work on your essay. I will continue to edit them online. Please attend clinics if you need access to technology.

Reminders:

-Your essay is due by the end of Wednesday

-The Giver Chapter 2 questions and the RACER that answers the question, “How did Jonas’s private talk with his parents help him feel less apprehensive?”  were due last week. Make sure they are completed by the time you see me on Wednesday.

-The Giver vocabulary 1-5 may be made up in clinic only. Make sure you have a teacher sign it to show you completed it in clinic.

-I will collect reading logs on Wednesday.

Finish Chapter 1 questions

Read 30 minutes

Reading log is due tomorrow

The Giver vocabulary words 1-3

Read 30 minutes

Reading log 

Read 30 minutes

Reading Log

If you have not completed the first 4 paragraphs in your graphic organizer make sure it is done by tomorrow.

Use your graphic organizer to complete the introduction and body paragraph 1 as we discussed in class.

Read 30 minutes-1st AR goal was today-6%

Use the t-chart to help you complete the "plan" for your argumentative essay.

You are writing your thesis statement. Pick a side to argue and three reasons that support it. Make sure that you have at least two pieces of evidence (from the articles) to support each reason. If you can't find at least 2, then it isn't a strong reason and you should pick something different. You do not need to write down the evidence at this time. Just make sure it is there.

Read 30 minutes

First AR goal is Monday 1/23. Parent signature on AR goal sheet.

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Final exams continued

Theme worksheet-Glue into your notebook and complete all questions

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Continue to study for your final

Parent/Guardian signature on progress report.

Make up work is due by Tuesday, December 13 and must be completed and signed off in academic clinics.

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Use your notebook to study and review for the final exam.

"Pierce the Spaceman"

Read, annotate, number 1 and 3 (all of the plot chart)

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Numbers 1 & 2 from the "Breakaway"-Identify POV and summarize-use the plot outline from number 3 to guide your summary.

Central Idea/RACER for "20,000.." Finish and write as a paragraph

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PBL final projects were due today-Presentations start tomorrow.

If you did not attend student led conferences, please complete your conference at home and return the signed form by next Monday.

Vocabulary test tomorrow--STUDY!

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PBL final projects are due Monday. No extensions. Make sure your project is turned in online or here in class on Monday.

Ben Franklin RACER----write a paragraph from the RACER to turn in tomorrow to be graded

 

Continue to work on your PBL---DUE MONDAY

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Signature on PBL notice

Hatchet Vocabulary chapters 10-12 "I think it means" only

Central Idea: Read the Ben Franklin passage, determine the central idea, and give evidence (front only NO RACER)

Read-there will be no reading log again this week but keep reading everyday!

 

Parent conferences! Hope to see you there.

No homework

POV practice page 2

 

PBL draft of final project is due tomorrow!

Read-no reading log for anyone this week. :)

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Sign PBL letter about next steps and deadlines---you should be revising your outline and then starting you final project. Rough draft of project is due November 9. Final project is due November 16.

 

 

Read the selection titled "Grandpa". Focus on pov/perspective. Complete the RACER. You do not need to write out the paragraph.

Read 30 minutes

Continue to work on your PBL outline

1. Rewrite POV RACER as a paragraph, reviewing the format and key words

2. Read 30 minutes (reading logs are due tomorrow)

3. Reminder PBL outline is due Friday. Keep working on it.

4. Midterm is tomorrow. Review your notes one more time on writing a summary, central idea, and point of view

Write the POV racer form as a paragraph

Read 30 minutes

Read 30 minutes

Read and complete a reading log if you did not meet your AR goal.

Discuss step two of your PbL at home and get a signature to return tomorrow

Finish the POV activity. Make sure you underline the pronouns that helped you determine the POV.

 

Read 30 minutes

1. PBL planning sheet is due tomorrow.

2. Parent signature on Ch. 7-9 vocabulary test--you may rebound next week in clinics

3. Central Idea Practice 1-6-read each paragraph, underline key information that helps you determine the central idea, and select the correct answer.

4. Read 30 minutes (1 rl)

 

Central Idea --RACER--Write out as paragraph (due Thursday)

Read 30 minutes (Wednesday & Thursday) Reading Logs

Summary test tomorrow-Review your notes

PBL form is due Friday

You may rebound vocab test ch. 4-6 in clinics Tuesday & Thursday this week

 

Read 30 minutes-reading Logs due tomorrow

PBL information sheet is due Friday. Make sure you are talking about it at home and making a plan!

Reminder:All late work is due by Thursday and must be made up in clinics. 

You may rebound on vocabulary test chapters 4-6 this week only in academic clinics

Read 30 minutes (Reading Log)

Parent/guardian signature on progress report.

Read 30 minutes (Reading Log)

Vocabulary test on Friday

Hatchet Vocabulary Chapters 7-9, "I think it means...."

Hatchet Chapter 6 questions

Read 30 minutes (reading logs are due tomorrow)

Vocabulary Test tomorrow, study. You will be asked to give a synonym or a short definition for each word from the chapters 4-6 list.

 

Use the RACER constructed response organizer we filled out together to write a paragraph. Simply take the information from the organizer and put it all together as a paragraph.

Read 30 minutes

Use your summary organizer to write a summary for the Alan Brint article.

Complete the vocabulary worksheet

Read 30 minutes (5 reading logs are due Tuesday if you did not meet your AR goal)

 

Complete the summary organizer for the article about the blind swimmer. Make sure you glue the organizer into the left side of your notebook. Read 30 minutes, and complete a reading log if you did not meet this week's AR goal.  Don't forget you have a vocabulary test on Friday. 

Re-read the article and annotate using thinking notes symbols.

Vocabulary chapters 4 through 6 write what you think each word means. Read 30 minutes. 5 reading logs are due tomorrow if you did not meet last week's AR goal

 

Using the notes in your summary organizer, write a summary for the article "China Under Attack".

You can write it out or  type it and print it,share it with me (google docs) or email it to me: [email protected]

It must be in my hand or in my inbox by class time tomorrow

 

Read 30 minutes-Reading log

Read 30 minutes

If you did not meet this week's AR goal then 5 reading logs are due Tuesday (3 stamps)

Read 30 minutes

5 reading logs are due next Tuesday (3 stamps) if you did not meet this week's AR goal of 10%

Read 30 minutes. 

Complete 1 reading log if you didn't meet your AR goal. 

Read 30 minutes

Reading Log if you have not met your AR goal for the week.

 

Read 30 minutes

Complete at least 3 Reading logs (no more than 1 per night) by Friday if you did not meet your AR goal.

 

Label the topic sentence,body, and concluding sentence in our sample summary for "Desert Racing".

Answer the two questions you recorded under your own summary for "Desert Racing".

Read 30 minutes

If you did not meet your AR goal then you need to complete a total of 5 reading log entries by Monday. 3 of them must be completed and stamped during the week.

 

Period 1 only:

Finish your summary for "Desert Racing"

Use your Cornell notes on writing a summary and on "Desert Racing" to write a new summary for the article "Desert Racing". Use the example summary from "Group Behavior" to help you.  Period one, your summary will be incomplete since we didn't finish taking notes.

Read 30 minutes. You may complete a reading log tonight or wait to complete it Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. Don't forget a total of fou reading logs are due to me on Monday. In addition, your first AR goal of 3% is due on Monday. Make sure you are reading and taking AR tests.

Desert Racing 8-10-Make sure you restate the question in your answer and use evidence from the passage to support you explanation in number 10

 

Read 30 minutes/1 Reading log

Questions 1-7 for "Desert Racing"

Include paragraph number for each answer

Read 30 minutes & complete one reading log entry of your choice

No Homework

Read 30 minutes

Period 1: Rewrite your summary neatly. 

Period 3: If you didn't complete your summary last night, finish it tonight.

Share the AR letter with your parent / guardian. Ask them to sign your agenda confirming that they received the letter. Read your AR book for 30 minutes.

 

Period  3 only:

Rewrite your "Group Behavior" summary on a separate piece of paper. Be neat.

No Homework

No homework.

No homework