September 12

Happy Monday

In your English Journal:  Write for 5 minutes about the books you read last week.  How long did you read?  Describe the setting of your story.

Next: Complete the "before" section of your vocabulary.  Put it away in your binder.

Then:  Click this link.

Finally: 
Claim, Evidence, Summary:  How Interconnected Was the World in 300 CE?  (table groups).

HW: 
Kick back and read 30.  
I will be collecting your journals this week.  
Finish vocab.

Tomorrow: Tone, Mood, Setting.

September 9

Today in History 

 1776 1776 Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (Was the United Colonies).

This weekend marks the 15th anniversary of the sudden and deliberate attacks on the United States.  I remember where I was on 9/11/2001.  I was a first year teacher who arrived to work early and would watch the news as I prepared for my day. I watched as the attacks unfolded and became sad that someone would do such a thing.  The memories haunt me to this day.  As we look at the world in history, we need to celebrate what brings us together and not what divides us.  Your generation is the future and it is through peace that our society will flourish.  
Our schedule for today

Study vocabulary - Do you know the word, can you use it in a sentence?

Turn in vocabulary

Quiz

Claim, evidence, summary for How interconnected was the world in 300 CE?


Counselor Visit

The Giver chapter 5 and 6 response

Next week:

Tone/mood/setting  
Rome
Narrative Writing
SRI
Monday drop your backpacks off and head to MPR -- AM Class

September 8, 2016

Is your vocabulary out and done?

1. Warm Up:  
Choose ONE:

Do you think that life would be better or worse without emotion?

--OR--

What's something you learned that you wish you hadn't?

2. How interconnected was the world in 300 CE mini search

3. The Giver -- Chapter 5 through 8 Discussion and writing.

4. Quizlet.live

September 7, 2016

Warm Up:  Pull out your vocabulary for a check.

In you English notebook:  

serene:calm::transgression:__________

sun:planet::planet:______________

Lesson Focus:

How interconnected were the distant regions of the world in 300 CE?

Look at classroom

The Giver discussion Chapter 5 and 6.

Read Chapter 7 tonight.

September 6, 2016

Good Day Students,

I hope that you had a fun and restful weekend.  I am off campus today and I trust that your will be awesome.  Mr. Campbell is your guest teacher and we always treat guests with the utmost kindness and respect.  You should take out your name tents and put them on your desk.  Mr. Campbell might give you bonus points if you have yours.  

Today's Agenda
1. Take out your Chromebooks (you must have them out if you are reading this.)
2. Stand for the Pledge of Allegiance Dot will lead it.
3. Find the next blank spot in your English Notebook and complete the following warm up(10 minutes)

Write a personal narrative about one activity that you did this weekend.  

Don't forget to use your transition words and make it a story.

4. Our guest will choose a volunteer to handout this week's vocabulary.  The format is the same as last week, but this week it is on paper.

      Rate each word in the "before" column.

      Spend the next 8 minutes defining each word.  Remember try to use your own words.  I will check tomorrow.

5. When time is up, neatly put away your vocabulary words and pull out your copy of The Giver.

    Read chapter 5 and 6 silently for 20 minutes.  Our guest will handout the Chapter response for Chapter 5 and 6.  This will be due tomorrow, so read intently.

6. At 9:30 our guest will handout a cut up piece of paper.  Glue this on page 9 of your  history notebook and listen for instructions as  I made a copying error.  

After your complete the instructions from the "Close Read" mentioned above, you will complete the following activity on page 8 of your history notebook: 

List 5 artifact that you would leave to help future historians and archaeologists understand your life.  Why would you leave each item?  

Complete any unfinished work at home.  

Mr. Angel

September 2, 2016

Warm Up:

Answer this in your journal.  About how many minutes did you read this week outside of class?   What book(s) did you read?  About how many pages or chapters from each book?

Why do you love/hate this book? Why should someone else read it? What would make it better? What would you have done in the same situations?

Sentence Frames:

I read _______minutes from the book _________ and ___ minutes from The Giver.  In _________ I read 8 small chapters, while in The Giver I read 4 chapters.

I really love my free choice book because....  

I think that people who like ________ should read this book because ...

One thing that I would change ...

In the book _________ the main character ______ faced a (conflict, scenario, situation) and she reacted by .......

If I faced the same situation I would have ....

Turn on the Vocabulary

Study for the quiz.

Quiz 

The Giver

Chapter 1 through 4 discussion question

After reading Chapter 4 in The Giver, what do you think of Release now?

Complete Chapter 1 through 4.

September 1

September 1

Today in history: 1939 Germany invaded Poland in what becomes the start of World War 2

I will be checking your vocabulary -- Have it open please.

Warm Up:  After the video on adjectives write a paragraph describing your ride trip to school this morning.  Circle all the adjectives in your sentence.  

After the Warm Up:

1. Quizlet vocabulary review game.

2. Discussion on The Giver

3.  Writing Lesson 1: Transition Words (next lesson, showing a character's emotion).

4. Writing prompt:  It all began when I found the cost of a trip to.........