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Agenda for Thursday, 5/22
 
1) Write Persuasive Letter
 
Homework: The Ad Project, which includes both the Ad and the Persuasive Letter, is due Friday, 5/23. 

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Agenda for Friday, 5/16
 
1) Def Lauf Der Dinge
2) This Too Shall Pass
3) Cog
 
Homework: None

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Agenda for Thursday, 5/15
 
1) Persuasive Letter: Bottled vs. Tap Water
 
Homework: None

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Testing is finally over (for my classes) and so we can get back to some semblance of a normal end-of-year schedule. 
 
Agenda for Wednesday, 5/14:
 
1) Quickwrite
Rank the following wishes in order, and explain each ranking
Become Rich
Become Famous
Thin Forever
Everyone always has to do what you want
Eat nothing but ice cream with no health consequences
All your enemies suffer
 
2) Counterargument/counterclaim
 
3) Review Bottled Water assignment
 
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None

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Agenda for Friday, 5/9
 
1) Quickwrite:
Write everything you know about drinking water. 
2) Video Analysis: Bottled Water pro and con
 
Homework:
None, but we still have the extra credit assignment, which is due by Tuesday, 5/13.
 
Bring in an advertisement for a toy, game, candy, or restaurant. The ad should be a full-page ad from a magazine. That's it.
 
Again this is optional for extra credit. It is due on Tuesday, 5/13 (originally listed as due Monday 5/12 but extended one day). 

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Agenda for Friday, 5/9
 
1) Quickwrite:
Write everything you know about drinking water. 
2) Video Analysis: Bottled Water pro and con
 
Homework:
None, but we still have the extra credit assignment, which is due by Tuesday, 5/13.
 
Bring in an advertisement for a toy, game, candy, or restaurant. The ad should be a full-page ad from a magazine. That's it.
 
Again this is optional for extra credit. It is due on Tuesday, 5/13 (originally listed as due Monday 5/12 but extended one day). 

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First off, sorry for missing a few days of posting homework. The new testing schedule has made it very difficult for me to plan ahead, so we have not had a graded homework assignment in a week or so. 
 
This week testing continues, so there won't be any homework until next week at least.
 
But there is an extra credit assignment:
 
Bring in an advertisement for a toy, game, candy, or restaurant. The ad should be a full-page ad from a magazine. That's it.
 
Ads are due by Monday 5/12 for extra credit. 

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Agenda for Monday, 4/28
 
1) Smarter Balanced testing
 
Today the students took the new Smarter Balanced test. This replaces the CST as the end of the year test for all California students. 
 
Because this is the first year of this entirely new test, the scores will not count. Kids are encouraged to do their best, but parents should know that if your child has technical difficulties that interfere with the test, that will not hurt your child's grade or academic standing in any way. This applies for the math test as well.
 
Homework: None

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Agenda for Friday, 4/25
 
1) Upcoming Schedule for: testing, grading, Ad Project
2) Friday Free Write
3) Dead Mouse For Sale
 
Homework: None

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Agenda for Tuesday, 4/22
 
1) Quickwrite:
If you had to replace your left hand with something, what would it be and why? How might that choice backfire on you?
2) Analysis of instruction writing exercise
 
Homework: None
 

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Agenda for Monday, 4/21
 
1) Quickwrite:
Angel or Devil: I was thirsty and you wet my lips
 
2) The Return of the Work
 
Homework: None
 

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Agenda for Monday, 4/21
 
1) Quickwrite:
Angel or Devil: I was thirsty and you wet my lips
 
2) The Return of the Work
 
Homework: None
 

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Agenda for Thursday, 4/10
 
1) Quickwrite:
How do you feel about running the mile.
2) Open Debate
topic 1: Should Hale make students run the mile?
topic 2: Is it fair to grade boys and girls differently on the mile run?
 
Homework: None

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Agenda for Wednesday, 4/9
 
1) Quickwrite:
Should the school sell soda?
Your opinion
3 Pros
3 Cons
 
2) A brief introduction to Formal Logic
 
3) Open Debate

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Agenda for Tuesday, 4/1
 
1) There They're Their
 
Listening comprehension questions 
 
2) To Too Two
 
Video comprehension questions
 
Homework:
None, but there will be a test on Thursday on the correct usage of:
There vs Their vs They're
Your vs You're
To vs Too vs Two

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Agenda for Thursday, 3/27
 
1) Quickwrite:
What is your favorite geometric shape?
Why do you love that one so much?
What is your least favorite geometric shape?
Why do you hate that one so much?
 
2) Instruction writing
 
3) Instruction following
 
Homework: None

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Agenda for Wednesday, 3/26
 
1) Quickwrite:
Describe your favorite commercial.
Describe your least favorite commercial.
How are they different?
How are they the same?
 
2) Finish persuasive techniques videos
 
3) Phil Jackson
 
Homework: None

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Agenda for Tuesday, 3/25
 
1) Persuasive Techniques videos
 
Homework: None

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Agenda for Monday, 3/24
 
1) Quickwrite:
What techniques do you use to persuade your parents, siblings, peers, teachers, etc. How well does each one work?
 
2) The There Their They're song
 
3) How well do different persuasive techniques work on you?

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Agenda for Friday, 3/21
 
1) Friday Free Write
2) Collect there/their/they're homework
3) Reading comprehension without reading
 
 
Homework: None

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Agenda for Thursday, 3/20
 
1) Quickwrite:
I wish 7th graders would _____.
 
2) Persuasive Essay topics
 
3) There/Their/They're
 
Homework:
Bring in 3 song lyrics, one each with there, their, and they're

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Agenda for Tuesday, 3/19
 
1) Persuasive Unit Anticipation
2) Share results
3) Return of The Outsiders
 
Homework:
None
 
If you didn't bring your copy of The Outsiders today, please bring is as soon as possible. 

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Agenda for Wednesday, 3/5
 
1) Read and annotate the Closing Statement instructions
2) Gather evidence
 
Homework: We will write the Closing Statement in-class tomorrow.

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Agenda for Tuesday, 3/4
 
1) Debate: Which character in The Outsiders changed the most.
 
Homework: None

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Agenda for Monday, 3/3
 
1) Quickwrite:
Which character in The Outsiders changed the most? Why do you think so?
2) Changed the least
3) Debate teams
 
Homework: None

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Agenda for Friday, 2/28
 
1) Friday Free Write
2) Diamond Club Members
3) The Outsiders Trivia Challenge
 
Homework: None

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Agenda for Wednesday, 2/25
 
1) Quizwrite Chapter 11
2) Diamante poem for Chapter 11
3) Chapter 11 quiz
4) Characterization
 
Homework due Friday:
Read Chapter 12, quiz Thursday
 

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Agenda for Tuesday, 2/25
 
1) Quizwrite Chapter 10
2) Diamante poem for Chapter 10
3) Chapter 10 quiz
4) Characterization
 
Homework due Friday:
Read Chapter 11, quiz on Wednesday
 

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Agenda for Monday, 2/24
 
1) Quizwrite Chapter 9
2) Diamante poem for Chapter 9
3) Chapter 9 quiz
4) Characterization
 
Homework due Friday:
Read Chapter 10, quiz on Tuesday.
 

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Agenda for Friday, 2/21
 
1) Quizwrite Chapter 8
2) Diamante poem for Chapter 8
3) Chapter 8 quiz
4) Similarities and Differences
 
Homework due Friday:
Read Chapter 9, quiz on Friday.
Also, go to Jupiter Grades, find the Outsiders Diamante Project assignment, and create a new Juno Doc.

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Agenda for Thursday, 2/20
 
1) Quizwrite Chapter 7
2) Diamante poem for Chapter 7
3) Chapter 7 quiz
4) Is Ponyboy smart—best evidence.
 
Homework due Friday:
Read Chapter 8, quiz on Friday.
Also, go to Jupiter Grades, find the Outsiders Diamante Project assignment, and create a new Juno Doc.

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Agenda for Wednesday, 2/19
 
1) Quizwrite Chapter 6
2) Diamante poem for Chapter 6
3) Chapter 6 quiz
4) Is Ponyboy smart?
 
Homework due Thursday:
Read Chapter 7, quiz on Thursday.
 
Note: The Diamante Project assignment has been loaded into Jupiter Grades. This will be submitted by a Juno doc. This is explained in the assignment.

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Agenda for Tuesday, 2/18
 
1) Quizwrite Chapter 5
2) Diamante poem for Chapter 5
3) Chapter 5 quiz
4) Review of chapter 5 characters and questions
 
Homework due Wednesday:
Read Chapter 6, quiz on Wednesday.
 
Note: The Diamante Project assignment has been loaded into Jupiter Grades. This will be submitted by a Juno doc. This is explained in the assignment.

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Agenda for Friday, 2/14
 
1) Diamante poem for Chapter 4
3) Chapter 4 quiz
4) Review of chapter 4 characters and questions
 
Homework due Tuesday:
Read Chapter 5, quiz on Tuesday.
 
Note: The Diamante Project assignment has been loaded into Jupiter Grades. This will be submitted by a Juno doc. This is explained in the assignment.

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Agenda for Thursday, 2/13
 
1) Quickwrite: 
Write a quiz question and answer for Chapter 3
2) Diamante poem for Chapter 3
3) Chapter 3 quiz
4) Review of chapter 3 characters and questions
 
Homework due tomorrow:
Read Chapter 4, quiz tomorrow.
 
Note: The Diamante Project assignment has been loaded into Jupiter Grades. This will be submitted by a Juno doc. This is explained in the assignment.

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Agenda for Wednesday, 2/12
 
1) Quickwrite: 
Write a quiz question and answer for Chapter 2.
2) Diamante poem for Chapter 2
3) Chapter 2 quiz
4) Review of chapter 2 characters and questions
 
Homework due tomorrow:
Read Chapter 3, quiz tomorrow.
 
Note: The Diamante Project assignment has been loaded into Jupiter Grades. This will be submitted by a Juno doc. This is explained in the assignment.

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Agenda for Tuesday, 2/11
 
1) Diamante poem Chapter 1
2) Chapter 1 quiz
 
Homework due tomorrow:
Read Chapter 2 of The Outsiders
Chapter 2 quiz tomorrow

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Agenda for Monday, 2/10
 
1) Quickwrite:
Tell me about a time you felt like an outsider.
2) Collect questions for Ask Me No Questions
3) Collect Ask Me No Questions
4) Check out The Outsiders
5) Annotate paragraph 1 of The Outsiders
 
Homework due Tuesday:
Read Chapter 1 of The Outsiders. There will be a quiz on chapter 1 tomorrow. 

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Agenda for Friday, 2/7
 
1) Friday Free Write
2) Ask Me No Questions
 
Homework due Monday:
Finish reading Ask Me No Questions and fill out the worksheet with one question for each chapter. The worksheet is attached to this homework if you lost the one I gave you in class. 
 
 

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Agenda for Thursday, 2/6
 
1) Quickwrite:
Tell me how to tell when to use there, their, and they're.
 
2) Ask me no questions
 
3) Categorizing questions
 
Homework:
Finish Ask Me No Questions and the List of 18 Questions by Monday. 

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Agenda for Wednesday, 2/5
 
1) Quickwrite:
What were you most afraid of when you were younger? What are you most afraid of now? When did it change?
2) You're taking your quiz
3) Hand out Ask Me No Questions
 
Homework:
Reading Ask Me No Questions—the entire book must be read by Monday (2/10). The 18 Questions worksheet is due Monday. 

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Agenda for Tuesday, 2/4
 
1) Quickwrite:
Write 3 sentences with "there" (not here)
Write 3 sentences with "their" (belonging to them)
Write 3 sentences with "they're" (they are)
 
2) Read Ask Me No Questions
 
Homework:
Study for the your/you're quiz tomorrow. 

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Agenda for Monday, 2/3
 
1) Read Ask Me No Questions
2) Revise Haiku
3) Questions for Ask Me No Questions
 
Homework:
None tonight, but Wednesday there will be a quiz on your vs. you're. Same as the exercise on Jupiter Grades: ten sentences, fill in the blank with either your or you're.

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Agenda for Friday, 1/31
 
1) Friday Free Write
2) Ask Me No Questions
 
Homework: None, but make sure you have done the "You're Doing Your Homework" exercise on jupitergrades.com.

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Agenda for Thursday, 1/30
 
1) Quickwrite:
Tell me about the longest you have ever waited for something. 
2) Ask Me No Questions
3) Diamante Poem
 
Homework: You're Doing Your Homework exercise on Jupitergrades.com.

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Agenda for Wednesday, 1/29
 
1) Quickwrite:
If you could ask one question of any five people in the world, who would you ask and what would be the question(s)?
2) Return Outsiders Anticipation (work may be revised for a better grade)
3) Ask Me No Questions
 
Homework: If you haven't taken the Cognitive Reflection Test, do it. If you have already taken it, you don't have to take it again.
 
Note to parents: We will be reading the book Ask Me No Questions by Marina Budhos. We are a few copies short of having enough for each student, so I am encouraging parents to buy a copy of the book for their kids. If you don't want to that's fine—everyone will get a book. 

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Agenda for Tuesday, 1/28
 
1) Quickwrite:
Mr. McCabe, you're cool.
Mr. McCabe, your class rocks.
 
2) Jupiter Grades review
 
Homework: None

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Agenda for Monday, 1/27
1) Quickwrite:
How good are you at following directions? How important is it to be good at following directions?
2) Jupiter Grade login sheets
3) Following Directions 
4) One Direction Video
 
Homework: Cognitive Reflection Test (on Jupiter Grades)
 
Note to parents: Today I gave each child a sheet to bring home to show you how to access the Jupiter Grades account for this class. This will allow you to monitor your child's performance in this class on the web. There will also be assignments/quizzes/exercises/etc. which your child will do on their account. 
 
This is the first me I have used Jupiter Grades as a teacher (My son went to Portola, which uses it for all teachers). So I am sure there will be some features that take a little getting used to. But there's no question it will make it much easier for you to keep track of your child's progress and for me to communicate with you. 
 
As always, any questions please email me at pjm4649@

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Agenda for Wednesday, 1/22
 
1) Quickwrite:
What will be your favorite season when you are out of school?
2) Syllables and Stress 2
3) Haiku
 
Homework: Write 1 perfect Haiku

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Agenda for Wednesday, 1/22
 
1) Quickwrite:
What will be your favorite season when you are out of school?
2) Syllables and Stress 2
3) Haiku
 
Homework: Write 1 perfect Haiku

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Agenda for Wednesday, 1/22
 
1) Quickwrite:
What will be your favorite season when you are out of school?
2) Syllables and Stress 2
3) Haiku
 
Homework: Write 1 perfect Haiku

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Agenda for Tuesday, 1/21
 
1) Quickwrite:
What stresses you out?
2) Syllables and Stress, part 1
 
Homework: None

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Agenda for Thursday, 1/16
 
1) Outsiders Anticipation
 
Homework: None
Please bring in your book club books tomorrow. 

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Agenda for Wednesday, 1/15
 
1) Quickwrite:
Draw your hand
2) Private Icons, part 2
 
Homework: None

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Agenda for Tuesday, 1/14
 
1) Hatchet Quiz
2) Online Web Stories
 
Homework:
None

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Agenda for Monday, 1/13
 
1) Quickwrite:
How will your new year be different? How will it be the same?
2) Private Icons
 
Note: Meet in the S144 Computer lab tomorrow 
 
Homework: The Book Club Quiz on Hatchet is tomorrow. We will take it on Edmodo so make sure you know your account name and password.
 
Note to Parents:
 
We will begin reading The Outsiders next week. I invite and encourage you to buy your kid a copy of the book, so they can make notes right in the book. Any copy is good—you can usually get used copies cheap on Amazon. You can also get a digital copy that can be read electronically. 
 
If you can't or don't want to buy the book your child can check out a copy from our school book room. 

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Agenda for Thursday, 12/12
 
1) Peer review of research reports
2) Quickwrite:
How healthy was your day of food compared to your classmates?
3) Return of work and gradesheets.
 
Homework:
There is no homework due tomorrow. NOTE: Tomorrow is the last day to hand in missing or late work and have it count for this semester.

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Agenda for Wednesday, 12/11
 
1) Quickwrite:
Explain what you did on your project
 
2) Distribute Book Club books for December
 
3) Websites with recommended Daily Nutrition
 
Homework:
The Food Project Research Report is due tomorrow, Thursday, 12/12
 
The last day to hand in work and have it count for the semester is Friday, 12/13. 
 
The quiz on the book club book will be after the Winter break, on Tuesday, 1/14/14. 

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Agenda for Tuesday, 12/10
 
1) Quickwrite:
If you are what you eat, then what are you?
2) Instructions for the Research Project
 
Homework:
The research project is due Thursday, 12/12. 
 
Note: the last day to hand in missing or makeup work for this semester is Friday, 12/13. 

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Agenda for Monday, 12/9
 
1) Finish District Assessment
 
Homework: None
 
Reminder: The last day to hand in any work and have it count for a grade is this Friday, 12/13. 
 
I attached the instructions for the research project to this homework.

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Agenda for Friday, 12/6
 
1) Frederick Douglass text analysis
2) Gradesheets distributed
 
Homework: None

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Agenda for Thursday, 12/5
 
1) Collect Nutrition Facts 
2) Frederick Douglass
 
Homework: None
 
NOTE TO PARENTS:
I tried to email grade sheets on Tuesday, only to find that the internet features of the gradebook program I use are broken. I don't have any idea it will take for them to fix this problem—to be honest I don't expect they will fix it, as they are trying to upsell their users on their online service.
 
So I'm looking for something to replace this useful feature but I can't imagine it will be this semester. I'll see what I can do over winter break. 
 
Sorry for the inconvenience. I'll give gradesheets to the students on paper tomorrow. 

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Agenda for Wednesday, 12/4
 
1) Quickwrite: What is the best/worst/most unusual thing you've ever eaten.
2) Boks and papers
3) Chew on This
 
Homework:
The Nutrition Facts chart is due tomorrow. This was assigned yesterday, but for convenience here is the assignment again:
 
Create a chart with the basic nutrition facts for everything you ate. Include the following categories:

Calories

Total fat

Cholesterol

Sodium

Total Carbohydrates

Protein

Source (where you found the information)

Note: The chart is due on Thursday. The chart is an essential part of the research project, so get it done. 

 

I have attached a Microsoft Word document with a table, and functions entered at the bottom of the table to automatically add up the numbers for you. There are three versions of the document: you should be able to open one of them in your word processor, but if you have any trouble, see me at nutrition or lunch.

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Agenda for Tuesday, 12/3
 
1) Treasure Island Quiz
2) Nutrition Facts
 
Homework:
Create a chart with the basic nutrition facts for everything you ate. Include the following categories:

Calories

Total fat

Cholesterol

Sodium

Total Carbohydrates

Protein

Source (where you found the information)

Note: The chart is due on Thursday. The chart is an essential part of the research project, so get it done. 

 

I have attached a Microsoft Word document with a table, and functions entered at the bottom of the table to automatically add up the numbers for you. You should be able to open it in any word processor, but if you have any trouble, see me at nutrition or lunch.

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Agenda for Monday, 12/2
 
1) Collect Food Log
2) Quicker write:
Describe your Thanksgiving break in 7 words.
3) Return of work and handing out gradesheets.
4) Nutrition Facts
 
Homework:
None, but the book club quiz is tomorrow.

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Agenda for Thursday, 11/21
 
1) Quickwrite:
If you were making a restaurant, what would you do?
 
2) Read Chew On This
 
Homework:
Edmodo: Separating paragraphs

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Agenda for Wednesday, 11/20
 
1) Chew on this: history of the hamburger
2) Summarize the history of the hamburger
 
Homework:
None

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Agenda for Tuesday, 11/13
 
1) Quickwrite:
How healthy is your diet? What are the long-term effects of eating that way?
 
2) Chew on This
 
Homework: None

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Agenda for Monday, 11/18
 
1) Quickwrite:
What do you eat?
2) Begin reading and annotating Chew On This
 
Homework:
None

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Agenda for Monday, 11/18
 
1) Quickwrite:
What do you eat?
2) Begin reading and annotating Chew On This
 
Homework:
None

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Agenda for Friday, 11/15
 
1) Finish Song Presentations
 
Homework: None

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Agenda for Thursday, 11/14
 
1) Writing: Paragraphs
2) Lessons and Kindness
 
Homework: None

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Agenda for Wednesday, 11/13
 
1) Vocal Warmup
2) Song presentations
3) Hand out Book Club books
4) More song presentations
 
Homework:
Song presentations continue tomorrow
Read "Treasure Island"; quiz on the book on 12/2.

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Agenda for Tuesday, 11/12
 
1) Vocal Warmup
2) Song Presentations
 
Homework: Song presentations continue tomorrow.

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Agenda for Friday, 11/8
 
1) 4'33"
2) Instructions/Grader
3) Slowwrite
 
Homework:
Song Presentations will begin Tuesday, 11/12. Come prepared to deliver your presentation. 
 
I have attached the instructions/grader.

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Agenda for Thursday, 11/7

1) Quickwrite:
How organized are you?

2) Song Presentation Rubric

3) Outline Song Presentation

Homework:
None

Note: I have pushed back the song presentation schedule. Originally I had planned to begin presentations on Friday (tomorrow), but we will instead spend tomorrow writing the presentation, and students will present beginning on Tuesday. 

I attached the Song Worksheet. 

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Agenda for Wednesday, 11/6

1) Research for song presentation

Homework: None, but remember to bring the worksheet to class tomorrow.

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Agenda for Tuesday, 11/5

1) Quickwrite:
You have to give an oral presentation. What could possibly go wrong?
2) Song Presentation Worksheets

Homework: None

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Agenda for Tuesday, 11/5

1) Quickwrite:
You have to give an oral presentation. What could possibly go wrong?
2) Song Presentation Worksheets

Homework: None

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Agenda for Monday, 11/4

1) Quickwrite:

Tell me about your song.

2) Grades and gradesheets

3) Song presentation categories

 

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None

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Agenda for Friday, 11/1

1) Grade announcement

2) Friday Free Write

3) What can you tell me about a song?

 

Homework:

Pick a song. We will be doing a short research project about a song. Everyone is free to pick any song (including any version of the song, by any artist). The only restriction is that the name of the song must be appropriate for the classroom. 

 

Note: Monday is the last day to hand in any late or missing work and have it count on the 15-week report card. 

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Agenda for Thursday, 10/31

1) Ghost Storyline

Homework:
None


Happy Halloween, everybody.

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Agenda for Wednesday, 10/30

1) Websites: Fake
2) Book Club announcement
3) Research Anticipation

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None

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Agenda for Tuesday, 10/29

1) Websites: real or fake?

Homework: None

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Agenda for Monday, 10/28

1) Finish District Assessment

Homework: None

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Agenda for Thursday, 10/24

1) Practice for District Assessment


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None

Parents: Tomorrow and Monday we will take the district assessment. There is no studying to be done, and no study guide. Kids just need to come to class and do their best. 

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Agenda for Wednesday, 10/23

1) Quickwrite:
What is your favorite fast food mean and why?
2) Annotating French Fries

Homework: None

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Agenda for Monday, 10/21

1) Quickwrite
If you could control the world for only 1 day, what would you do?
2) The Hay Theory of History

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Agenda for Friday, 10/18

1) Gallery: Reading short stories

Homework: None, but if you did not hand in your short story, hand it in on Monday or as soon as possible. 

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Agenda for Wednesday, 10/16

1) An idea we wish to communicate
2) A plot that underlines and reveals the idea in an interesting way
3) Solid, rounded characters for the story to happen to 
4) A solid and credible world for it to happen in

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Agenda for Thursday, 10/17

1) Writing the introduction
2) Reading the grader
3) Writing the rising action
4) Writing the climax
5) Writing the denouement

Homework:
Your short story is due tomorrow, Friday, 10/18. It should be printed on a computer in 12-point Palatino or Times font (or Palatine or Times New Roman), in black ink or toner. Staple the grader behind your story.

Below are three files you may use:
The instructions
The Grader (remember to staple your grader behind your story)
The Nine Questions used to help you write your introduction

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Agenda for Tuesday, 10/15

1) Grades and gradesheets
2) Short Story Instructions
3) The big idea

Homework due tomorrow:
None

The Short Story will be due Friday, 10/15. 


Note to parents: Last night I send home gradesheets by email. If you didn't receive one, that means I do not have your email address. Please send it in with your child if you want to get future gradesheets emailed to you. My grade program lets me put in two email addresses per student, so you can give me two if you like.

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Agenda for Friday, 10/11

1) Read The Veldt 7–8
2) Review events that advance the plot

Homework: None

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Agenda for Monday, 10/14

1) Quickwrite
Write the 10 most important truths
2) Characters in The Veldt

Homework: None

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Agenda for Thursday, 10/10

1) Quickwrite
What would you do if you woke up and your parents had taken away all your toys?
2) Read The Veldt, 5–6

Homework:
None

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Agenda for Wednesday, 10/9

1) Quickwrite:
Would you rather live in a house that did everything or a house that did nothing? Why?
2) Read The Veldt pp3–4

Homework:
Read The Veldt pp5–6


Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Tuesday, 10/8

1) Review of Similes and Metaphors
2) Personification
3) Read The Veldt pp 1–2

Homework: None

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Monday, 10/7

1) Quickwrite
What would your life be like if you were living in 1950? How would it be different? How would it be the same?
2) Technology in 1950

Homework:
None


Parents: sorry the agendas have not been posted for the past three days. Sometimes when grades are due I lose track of the agendas, especially when there is no homework. 

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Assignment

Agenda for Friday, 10/4

1) Friday Free Write
2) Nessun Dorma

Homework:
None

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Thursday, 10/3

1) Reminder about grades
Friday (10/5) is the last day to turn in any missing or revised work and have it count on the 10-week report card. 
2) Quickwrite: 
During a zombie apocalypse where would you like to be? Why and what would you do?
3) Punctuation for fun and profit

Homework: 
None

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Wednesday, 10/2

Today in class we wrote and handed in the Personal Narrative. 

No homework for tomorrow, but if you want to vote on tomorrow's quickwrite, the poll is on Edmodo. This is NOT an assignment and does not count for a grade. It's optional. 

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Tuesday, 10/1

1) Quickwrite
Tell the history of something (anything). Use transitions to communicate the order of events and the time between them. 
2) Personal narrative instructions and grader
3) Writing the conclusion

Homework:
Come to class tomorrow ready to write the personal narrative. 

Book club for October begins today. The book should be read by 10/30 so we can have a fun activity on Halloween. 

There is a poll on edmodo to vote for Thursday's quickwrite. It's optional and not for a grade. But you're welcome to vote.

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Monday, 9/30

1) Quickwrite
What can you tell me about the book you read?

2) Book Club form

3) Writing the personal narrative climax

Homework:
None. The personal narrative will be written in class on Wednesday.

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Friday, 9/27

1) Friday Free Write

2) Grammar and Spelling Dictation

Homework: The Book Club assignment is due Monday. Reminder: Each month each student must read a book with 100 (or more) pages of text. On Monday we will fill out the worksheet for the book. 

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Thursday, 9/26

1) Collect outlines (Homework from yesterday)
2) Writing a character
List every character in your story. 
For each character list their most important trait.
Write a simile or metaphor for each character.
3) Writing the introduction
Remember the trick: It all started when

Homework due tomorrow:
None, but a number of students didn't do the outline. Get it in as soon as possible. 

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Wednesday, 9/25

1) Quickwrite
What is the high point of your life so far?

2) The Arc of a Story

Homework:
Outline your personal narrative. The outline should include these elements (in this order):

a) Intro
b) Rising action
c) Climax
d) Lesson learned or Emotion felt

Note this is NOT an edmodo assignment. Bring in your outline written in your writer's notebook.

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Monday, 9/23

1) Quickwrite:
How good are you at keeping a secret? Prove it.

2) Classified
We read and analyze a document, classified for 50 years, about an incident where the United States almost accidentally exploded a nuclear bomb on North Carolina. 

Homework: None

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Friday, 9/20

1) Reminder about Book Club
2) Friday Freewrite
3) Making Character assertions

Homework:
None, but remember that the book club assignment means that each student must have read a 100-page (or more) book by 9/30, which is just 10 days away. Students are welcome to borrow books from my in-class library.

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Thursday, 9/19

1) Quickwrite:
Write five good quickwrite topics.
2) Evaluating the best quickwrite topics.
3) Review parts of speech

Homework due Friday, 9/20:
Take the Edmodo quiz on parts of speech. 

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Wednesday, 9/18

1) Quickwrite
Tell me about a time you ran
2) The Chase: answering questions with evidence from the text
3) Review parts of speech

Homework:
There is no homework, but we will (probably) have an Edmodo quiz tomorrow on parts of speech, so students should make sure they know the parts of speech. 

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Tuesday, 9/17

1) Read "The Chase" by Annie Dillon
2) Answer questions

Homework:
Finish questions (if not finished in class)

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Monday, 9/16

1) Punctuating sentences with quotations
2) Quickwrite:
Describe a conversation you had
3) Ways to say say

Homework: None

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Friday, 9/13

Today was a minimum day. 

1) Friday Free Write
2) Super Slo Motion Jiggly Stuff

Homework: None

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Thursday, 9/12

1) Finish and review transitions worksheet
2) Review standard paragraph Grading rubric
3) Standard Paragraph: Figurative language in song lyrics

Homework due Tomorrow:
Edmodo Standard Paragraph assignment: Figurative language in song lyrics


Reminder: Minimum day tomorrow (Friday). 12:32 dismissal.

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Assignment

Agenda for Wednesday, 9/11

1) Grade status
2) Quickwrite:
What can you tell me about your favorite song?
3) Transitions and sentence logic

Homework:
We didn't get to yesterday's homework (examples of simile, metaphor, and idiom in song lyrics) which was due today, Bring it tomorrow. 

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Tuesday, 9/10

1) Kicking your sentences up a notch
2) Figurative Language: Idioms

Homework:
For tomorrow, please bring in a sample of song lyrics that include a simile, metaphor, and idiom. They can be three different samples, from the same song or different ones. 
Note: this is NOT an Edmodo assignment. Just bring in the lyrics printed or written on paper. 

Reminder:
Simile: Describing something by saying it’s similar to something else, using the word “like” or “as.”
Metaphor: Describing something by saying it is something else. 
Idiom: An expression that doesn’t mean what it says, and you can’t figure it out—you just have to know. 

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Monday, 9/9

1) Quickwrite: 
Cheese
2) Dictation
This is an exercise to review some basic grammar and spelling concepts. 

Homework: None

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Friday, 9/6

1) Quickwrite
I am ______. 
Write as many as you can in 5 minutes. 
2) Evidence from yout life to support who you are
3) Standard paragraph: "I Am"

Homework:
The Edmodo assignment "I Am" Paragraph is posted and due on Monday. Here are the instructions we went over in class (they are already posted on Edmodo):

Write a Standard Paragraph that tells something about you. 

Follow the Standard Paragraph:
1) Topic Sentence (this should be the point of the paragraph, like "I am a good dancer.")

2) Detail (a fact from your life)
3) Comment (what does that fact show?)

4) 2nd Detail (another fact from your life)
5) 2nd Comment (what does that fact show?)

6) 3rd Detail (a third fact from your life)
7) Comment (what does that fact show?)

8) Concluding Sentence (summarize what the whole paragraph shows)

Make sure you post your paragraph in the right place. You must click the box that says "Turn in," then enter your paragraph, then click "turn in."

This assignment is due by Monday, 9/9.

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Tuesday, 9/3

1) Book Club
Parents: With Book CLub, each child reads a book each month. The only restriction for the first month is that the book must have at least 100 pages of text. The reading is done out of class as homework. There will be an assignment due at the end of the month. The kids will get an instruction sheet in a day or so. 
2) Quickwrite:
My ___ is like a ____.
My ___ is a ____.
Five of each kind of sentence
3) Figurative Language: Simile and Metaphor

Homework:
None

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Wednesday, 8/28

1) Quickwrite
List every slang word you can think of
2) Parts of speech 2

Homework:
The homework is posted on Edmodo under the name "10 Most Common Words—Parts of Speech"

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Tuesday, 8/27

1) Create Edmodo account
2) Add my class as a group
3) Complete the first assignment

Homework:
Completing the first assignment is the homework. 

Parents:
Today we created accounts at edmodo.com. This is a secure website that allows teachers and students to work together safely and easily, without worrying that student work will be posted online for everyone to see. 

We will probably have an edmodo assignment every week, so it's important that every student create their account and respond to the first assignment. All you have to do is find the assignment, click on "Turn In," and then type a short message. 

This is due tomorrow but if students have technical difficulties I won't mark it late. 

Any student who has trouble should see me in my room during nutrition or lunch. 

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Monday, 8/26

1) Quickwrite
Write 100 random different words
2) Parts of speech

Note: We will meet in the S Building computer lab tomorrow. 

Homework:
None

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Friday, 8/23

1) Quickwrite: 
Tell me about the craziest rumor you've heard recently.
2) Socrates' rumor test
3) Book Fair

Homework:
None

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Thursday, 8/22

1) Read "Priscilla and the Wimps," a short story by Richard Peck

2) Priscilla and the Wimps practice assessment, an in-class, not-for-a-grade test to practice the new style of tests which will come with the new Common Core standards


Standard:
7RL.10 Read and Comprehend Literature

Homework:
None

Parents -- just so you know, there will be homework in this class beginning next week when we get the Edmodo online community under way. 

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Wednesday, 8/21

1) Quickwrite 1
Write a 1 word sentence
Write a 2 word sentence
Write a 3 word sentence
Write a 4 word sentence
Write a 5 word sentence
Write a 6 word sentence
Write a 7 word sentence
Write a 8 word sentence
Write a 9 word sentence
Write a 10 word sentence

2) Quickwrite 2
Write a sentence that gives information
Write a sentence that asks a question
Write a sentence that gives a command
Write a sentence that expresses a strong feeling

3) Quickwrite 3
Write 2 SV sentences
Write 2 SVO sentences
Write 2 SVDoIo sentences

Homework:
None

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Tuesday, 8/20

1) Quickwrite:
What is your favorite children's story? Why?
2) Little Red Riding Hood

Homework:
None

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Monday, 8/19

1) Summer Reading Response

Homework: None

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Friday 8/16

1) Seating chart
2) Storyline

Homework:
None

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Thursday, 8/15

1) 7th Grade Anticipation

Homework:
None

Reminder that on Monday we will do an in-class activity based on the summer reading. You may bring in the book (and any notes you may have) and use them.

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Wednesday, 8/14

1) Quickwrite:
What do you hope to achieve this school year?
What could keep you from achieving that?
What can you do to overcome this obstacle?

2) Review of Course Content Letter and Parent Email assignment

Homework:
Print off Course Content Letter and bring it in signed by your parent(s)/guardian(s).
Have parents fill out Email Address(es).

Due:

Assignment

Agenda for Tuesday, 8/13

1) Welcome
2) Classroom rules and policies

Homework:
None