English 8/9 (1)

Today students were asked to finish up their projects and hand in their work.  Just as a recap, students are responsible for the following:

1. Rationale
2. Criteria/Rubric
3. PLOs + PLO description
4. Project

Thanks for all of your hard work over the term!!

Thursday, Jan. 8: English 8/9 (2)

Today students were asked to finish up their projects and hand in their work.  Just as a recap, students are responsible for the following:

1. Rationale
2. Criteria/Rubric
3. PLOs + PLO description
4. Project

Thanks for all of your hard work over the term!!

Language Arts 7

Today students and I began the class by refreshing ourselves on the bullet points that were taken from last class on the prank we watched online.  We used this information to write a class "how-to" paragraph.  This can be seen below:

Urination Prank

Have you ever wanted to get revenge through urination?  To do the urination prank, first you will need supplies.  It’s important to pretend you are unable to see and hear for this prank.  So, you will want a blind walking stick and dark sunglasses, as well as headphones.  You will also need a tube that connects with water, because there is no actual urination taking place.  You are also going to pretend you don’t know where you are, so you should look like a tourist and have a back-pack.  After you have your supplies, you should find a popular water park.  Once there, find the lazy river, if there is no river, find a popular slide.  To set up you must place the tube through the fly of your pants and have some type of water squirting device.  Wait until someone comes along and then begin squirting the water.  Be prepared to make a run for it!  If you want to make the prank even better do it on a sunny day where people are relaxed and use apple juice instead of water.

When finished we used this as a model to write a paragraph on how to make baking powder biscuits.  Students were then responsible for each writing a paragraph on this topic, of which we will actually make on Friday.

After lunch, students either finished their paragraphs or read novels.

We then worked through our band method books.

English 8/9 (1)

Today students worked to completion on their projects.  Again, projects are due on Friday.

Otherwise, students have been using their class-time to read and get ahead on their upcoming book reviews.

English 8/9 (2)

Today students were refreshed and re-warned that projects are due on Thursday.  Students were asked to pull out their rubrics (or handed out new rubrics) to assess their progress.  Some students have even handed their projects in!

Students that are finished have been asked to choose a novel for our upcoming book review unit.

English 8/9 (1)

Today students were refreshed and re-warned that projects are due on Friday.  Students were asked to pull out their rubrics (or handed out new rubrics) to assess their progress.  Some students have even handed their projects in!

Students that are finished have been asked to choose a novel for our upcoming book review unit.

Language Arts 7

Students began the class with a free write.  Students were able to choose any topic to write a poem, story, comic strip, etc....

Students then participated in a quick write that I first demonstrated.  Students read their quick writes out loud to the class.  There were some funny stories!

Next, we discussed the components of a "how to" paragraph.  Students watched a three Just for Laughs gags and broke down the components of how to re-enact the prank.  Students, in bullet form, wrote down the components.  We will use these next class to write a "how to" paragraph.

Students read for 20 minutes after lunch before working through their method books in band class.