Reminders for ALL PC classes...

7th grade: Your final copies of your stories and collages are due on Friday- project grade. We must have these and begin your literature circles due to the upcoming field trip. Listen to announcements...I think there is an informational meeting for your parents this week.
Also remember to bring your literature circle books if you are not in The Wave, Flipped, or Single Shard group.

6th grade: Remember your literature circle books on Wednesday/Thursday- I do not see all classes Wed. due to testing so don't forget. If you do not have a class set book or one that I created (The Wave/Flipped), then I reserved some copies in the library- if they had them I pulled them under my name. They will check them out to you. Reminder that you can only have 2 books out...so...the one for my class should be one of them.
Also, begin brainstorming for your 6th grade survival guides- rubric, details, and deadlines later this week.

You (all classes) will have several in class/out of class projects before school is out:
7th- your writing is one project grade, literature circles are classwork/project grades, and we will have one other unit in May (To be discussed as a class). Also remember that the last two days of school are 1/2 days for finals...this is new this year.

6th- survival guide is a project grade, literature circles are classwork/project grade, and you will have a mythology project in class/at home the last three weeks of school. Also, your last two days (May 24-25) are 1/2 days for finals.

Now is not the time to tune out and turn off...time to get you ready for the next grade. Show me your best- haven't picked my honor's night students yet...will it be you?

"Naming of Names" comprehension quiz

—Suppose that Harry Bittering kept a journal on Mars. Write the entries he might have made about these developments:

—A. how he feels when he first looks around the Martian landscape

—What changes he notices in things and people

—Why he begins to build a rocket

—What he does and thinks during the picnic by the canal

—What he thinks when he leaves for the Martian villa

—Why he decides not to go back to the town

7th grade: SCIENCE FICTION PROJECT

You will be reading Ray Bradbury's "Naming of Names" in class and listening to three songs that are comparable in theme to his short story. The videos/lyrics are posted on Cheetah Chat. You will:
1. Read the story in class
2. Complete the in class activities
3. Create a short story of your own- rough draft due next WEDNESDAY. Your FINAL COPY with your COLLAGE
(#6 below) is due when we return from spring break.
4. Analyze one of the three songs in 2-3 paragraphs using direct quotes from the lyrics.
5. Compare/Contrast one of the songs or another that you know with the theme or setting that Bradbury creates.
6. Create a collage for your story using clipart, your own drawings, painting, magazine clippings, publisher, polyvore, or other software/mixed-media. Your collage should focus on your story's setting. Start gathering your items so you can "put it all together." Have it all ready for AUTHOR's CHAIR when we come back from spring break.

Check out what I did at Polyvore.com:
http://www.polyvore.com/playing_with_fire/set?id=45592193

EXTRA CREDIT: After you complete all of the above, you may choose two movies or a book and a movie and compare/contrast the following: characters, setting, conflict, theme. If you choose a book that also has a movie, critique the two using specific examples of both the strengths and weaknesses of each. Examples: War of the Worlds, Ender's Game, Martian Chronicles, Matched, 1984*, Brave New World*
(*mature- must have parent permission for these), and the ever popular- Hunger Games. You may also use the short story we read in class- "The Lottery"

Participle and Sentence Structure Help

The following link may help you with your homework and next CDA. We will continue work on this after the break as well as review of sentence structure.

Participles:
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/participle.htm

Sentence Structure:
http://www.quia.com/rr/126726.html
GAME: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/spelling_grammar/language_structure/play.shtml
Quiz:  http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/sentence_types_quiz.htm

Verb tenses:
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/tenses.html
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/601/01/
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html

Keep at it!!!
Ms. M.

7th grade- 1/25/12

STANDARD: ELA7W2; ELA7R1
EQ: How can I use model text to help me understand sentence structure?
Warm up: Log in to Word
Lesson:
1. Type your "mock" writing- EDIT/REVISE, SAVE, PRINT- TURN IN!
2. Work on your ALEXANDER book; Use your project sheet guidelines
3. Work on your other project assignments (poetry, drama etc.)
Homework: ALEXANDER books due FRIDAY- don't forget to number pages, label sentences, and have an illustration per page.

1/26/12 CDA- if open; if not...lab time to work on project or book

1/27/12 Minis in class to work on research, poems, groups

Welcome Back!!! 7th grade only

We will be finishing your unit on technical writing and starting our unit on poetry/drama this week.

Monday January 8, 2012
STANDARD: ELA7W2
EQ: How is a resume' and example of technical writing? How is this relevant to the "real world?"
Warm up: get out your own resume' and log in to Word. Choose resume' template
Lesson: Resume'
Type your own resume' using the examples I gave you in class or the one I project on the screen. I will also post this on Moodle if you need to save/finish at home. We will have the mini computers today and tomorrow, but will also be starting your next project. Get ready!
Summary: Partner pair/share
Homework: bring in a self-addressed stamped envelope so we can mail your business letters; Check McNeill's Masterminds for links to help you in tomorrow's spelling bee.
*Reminder* Your next writing assessment will be January 18th through homeroom, but I will be scoring them for ideas, organization, style, and conventions. Good luck!!!

Tuesday January 9. 2012
SPELLING BEE!!!

Wednesday January 10, 2012
Poetry/Drama- notes/grammar
literary terms review

Thursday January 11, 2012
Poetry/Drama- reader's theater

Friday January 12, 2012
Review final
Notes quiz

7th grade: Technical Writing/Careers

December 6, 2011

Standard: ELA7W2: Technical Writing; ELA7RC1 (Across Curriculum)

EQ: How does researching my career help me make the “real world” connection?

Warm up: Log in to Cheetah Chat and follow the lesson plan.

Lesson:

1. Type your letter to someone who does the job you are interested in. Use business letter format with salutation and closing.

2. Type a 1st person narrative from your point of view about what your life will be like in 10-15 years. Write PRESENT tense as if you are doing the job in the future. What is it like? Are there pros and cons?

3. We are creating a class book of recipes to correlate to the Amy Tan story, “Fishcheeks” from last week. Find a recipe that represents your family or how you celebrate the holidays. (Across Curriculum: SS)

Summary: Peer share/author chair

Finished? Do Odyssey folders please

Homework: CDA/Final next Thursday and Friday

(multiple choice and essay)