English 8 (Period 5) Assignments

Be prepared for a 30-point reading test on The Outsiders.  Bring in your novel The Outsiders with you.  You are turning it back in!

Read Chapter 12 in The Outsiders by today.  Be ready for an assessment.

Bring your brown anthologies back to school.  This is the Prentice Hall book( very heavy) that you took home at the beginning of the year.  

Rewrite of your outside reading project is due by this day.  You must conference with me beforehand.  Come in before school, at break, or after school.  Come to the conference prepared with a list of four changes you will make, based on the feedback you received on the rubric. 

When you turn in the revision, highlight all the changes on the new draft, attach that new draft to the top of your previous draft, staple and turn it into the homework bucket.  Take this opportunity to become a stronger writer and improve your score!

Begin Memoir speeches.  Speeches go from 5/14-5/26:)  Semi-finals for speech contest are : Wednesday, May 27th and Thursday, May 28th.   Final speech contest is Monday, June 1st.

Read Chapter 11 in The Outsiders.  Expect an assessment:)

Bring in your memoir in hard copy and 3 X 5 cards to transfer your memoir to a speech.  You may have already done this. If you already have your speech on notecards, come prepare to run through your speech. We will run a speech workshop to work on the different components of your speech and the rubric.

Quiz on Chapter Five in The Outsiders.  You will begin reading Chapter Six in class. Finish Chapter Six for homework.  

Due today:

Your written memoir is due today!  You will turn it into a speech and present it to the class.  The speeches start 5/14 and run through 5/26.  I cannot wait to hear all your stories:)  Here is a graphic organizer to help you complete your five paragraph, 3-4 pages, double-spaced, typed, 12-font, MLA header story!

Spelling Test #8:  Study list #8 to be ready!

Retake root quiz #9 by today!  You can replace any score by filling out the golden ticket and retaking the quiz.  

The Q3 outside reading project is due today!  Below are attachments to the rubric and project.  Email me any questions!  I have extended the deadline for this project.  Please no late projects because I am reading them over spring break.

Personal Slam poems are due today!  See the assignment below to refresh your "memory" of something important to slam.  

Come to class with your memoir idea. There is a graphic organizer here to provide a structure for your writing.  USE it as a tool to guide you.  It is not absolute:)

Root Quiz #9:  Be sure to check out the grand finale of Pablo and Bella.  Come ready today to take the last official root quiz! Look for the posted video on the website.

Come to class with a kernel of an idea for your memoir. See the graphic organizer to help you organize your story.  

Due today:  Go to the link titled "The Five Senses in Writing. " Read through the notes and create your own descriptive paragraph.  Be ready to share in class.

Come ready to write your in-class essay.  You will have the entire period. Be sure to prep properly and bring your graphic organizer filled out with your claim and two embedded reasons, your two blue arguments, your two pieces of textual evidence with lead-ins and parenthetical pagination, and ideas about your conclusion.  You can do it!  Use only the graphic organizer portion of the GO Technicolor handout to plan your essay. 

Last Lit. Circle meeting.  Bring your 40 annotations all stuck to four pieces of paper.  You must label them 1st Lit. Circle, 2nd Lit. Circle, 3rd Lit. Circle and 4th Lit. Circle. Staple all four sheets of paper together and turn them in for a final evaluation.  

Third Lit Circle Post Discussion:  Something a little different but creative! Review the video on SLAM poetry we viewed in class if needed. Here it is: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/become-a-slam-poet-in-five-steps-gayle-danley

Third Lit. Circle meeting with your group.  Come prepared with your novel, ten sticky notes and your entire form (pink this time) completely filled out.  Do not fill out the section of the form for the Post discussion.  See attached sheet if you need a new copy.

Root quiz #8:  Check out the recent Episode VIII of Pablo and Bella to get vocabulary words and a secret code for Monday's quiz.  Look under the video links! There is a file linked on the website for the root video form.

Post discussion:  type a half page, single-spaced, 12 font response to the same prompt that is on your yellow discussion form (What did your group talk about?  Discuss briefly any interesting revelations.  Does your group have an opinion of the reading so far? Were there topics brought up that changed your mind about anything you were thinking?   This response needs to be a level 3 analysis.  Avoid fluff.  

Second Lit Circle meeting today.  Please be prepared with your pre discussion sheet filled out: both sides, but not the post discussion section.  Be sure to read the directions for each bubble because we changed some of the prompts.  Have ten sticky notes annotated and ready to present those sticky notes.  Be thorough with your comments. It is important to go to deeper thinking and significance with your annotations.

 

Speeches begin today and run through Friday, March 13th  Your essay due date is Monday, February 23rd.  The week of Feb 23rd, we will work on turning that essay into an effective speech.  

Spelling Test #7:  Study and be prepared for Monday's test.

Assessment on gerunds, infinitives and participles today if time allows.  The assessment will occur this week!  Be prepared.

The completed argument essay is due today.  This week, you will turn your essay into a speech.  We begin hearing speeches next week: March 2-6.

Play this game on verbals: https://create.kahoot.it/#/preview/f2ca7b7d-6608-4ee5-8349-463c496e84d9  Come to class to get the pin to play.

Root quiz #7 today!  Check out Pablo and Bella:)

Argument essay check-in:  You must have your two blue arguments;  with two pieces of red evidence( direct quotes)for each blue argument( that is four reds!) ; and all your green commentary:) 

PSA is due.  We will begin to randomly watch them, so all projects are due today! Be sure to include a Works Cited slide on your PSA and bring in your typed summary of your five sources. Also, include all PSA task sheets for each member of your group, and you must also provide a formal, MLA Works Cited page:  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/  (Here is the URL for Purdue Owl and a sample Works Cited page). 

A list of all that is due:

1) PSA task sheets

2) MLA formatted Works Cited

3) Resource page on your PSA

4) One-page summary of five sources-you may single space this:)

Argument essay-next task:  1)Type your first blue argument with an accompanying piece of red evidence (with a lead-in).  2) Type your second blue argument with an accompanying piece of evidence, including a lead-in.  Please have an MLA heading on this single sheet of paper you turn in at the start of class.  I will do one-on-one conference with each of you during the class period. 

Rewrite of Outside Reading Project due today!  You must:

1) Complete a conference with me.

2) Highlight all changes and annotate how you fixed each individual error.

3) Stapled the new, "pretty" draft to the top of your previous rubric and first draft.

4) Turn in to your specific homework box by 3:15 on 2/2.

Spelling Test #6:  First word on the list is "correspondence."  Study and be successful:)

Argument essay outline (inside the argument essay yellow packet) is due today!  It needs to be complete!

1) Read and annotate the article "Is Social Media Harmful?"  

2) Fill out the t-chart with the pros and cons of social media.

3) This outside-of-class work will prepare you for the debate in class on 1/27 and 1/28.  Participation counts.

Root Quiz #6:  Study to be successful!  Make sure you study the correct list:)

Post discussion write-up due for Lit Circles.  Text must be at least half a page of single-spaced text, not counting the heading.  Review how to write a post discussion by reviewing the task sheet within your Lit Circle folder. This assignment goes on Q2.

Assessment on prepositions, interjections and conjunctions!  

Pre discussion due for new set of poems.  This pre discussion needs to be a half page of text, single spaced.  Be ready, so you can participate in the group discussions. This assignment goes on Q2.

Rewrite of Argument essay is due.  Please, be aware that a conference is required in order to rewrite.  Attached are the specific format requirements of a revision.

Spelling Test #5:  Study and be successful:) This assessment will go on quarter three!

Q2 Outside Reading Project is due! This is a Category Two Project, so please turn this in on time.  Late projects lose ten percent for each class period late.

Adverb and POS (Part of speech) assessment. Study previous exercises in your composition books to be successful!

Typed Post Discussion Response is due!  This needs to be a 1/2 or 3/4 typed, single spaced page following the discussion of your poems in your Lit Circle groups. You do this on your own.  Follow the guidelines on page 38 of the handout in your Lit Circle folder.  Look specifically at number 5 which asks, "Did you group discover new insights or ideas about the literature through the discussion?  Discuss those insights." 

I do not want a detailed summary of who said what and what was said:)

First Lit Circle for poetry:

1)  Annotate all poems on your dual-sided sheet.  Use the handouts given in class as  a model for how to annotate.

2)  Type a 1/2 page 12 font, Times Roman, single-spaced pre-discussion response.  Refer to the handouts given in class as models for how to write a pre-discussion response.

3)  Come ready with your work.  Participants not prepared will receive a zero for the group discussion and will have to come in on their own time to make up the discussion points, with a penalty.

Book Check!  Bring your outside reading book to class.

Root quiz #5:  Check out the new Episode V of Pablo and Bella!

Outside Reading Book check!  Bring your book to class, and claim your prize!

1) Verb assessment:  review the differences between an action, helping and linking verb.  I will give you sentences, just like in our practice sessions in class, and you will identify parts of speech.

2) There may be a "pop" quiz on literary devices we went over in class and in the video.  Be prepared!  See the attached information.  We did this in class on 12/2 and 12/3.

Bloom's level 4-6 question due for Q2 Outside Reading Project:  Please type your Bloom's question and submit it to me.  Avoid first and second person, contractions and past tense.

Spelling List #4 test!

Works Cited is due for argument essay.  We will work on this document in class, and you will print it out on Tuesday during class.  Attached is a sample Works Cited, including the heading and header, and one source that all of you may copy:  the play.

Also attached is a score sheet for the Works Cited.

 

Note:  USE this website (Purdue Owl) to look up how to cite your sources: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/06/

Argument Essay is due today.

1) Place a pink rubric on the top of your essay.

2) Put your full name and period on the rubric.

3) Underneath the rubric goes in this order: A)a highlighted in technicolor, double-spaced, MLA formatted, essay; B) your peer evaluation sheets (two). 

Book Check!  Bring your outside reading book.  This is the book you are reading for the Q2 Outside Reading Project due January 6th and 7th.

Counter argument triad today!  Use the handout I gave you as a support when writing your counter argument.  Use the student model as well.

Right after Root quiz #4, we will triad conference the counter argument of the argument essay.  Have your counter argument written, on the Google Doc, as you walk in the room.  The entire essay is due at the end of this week!

1) Root Quiz #4 today! Watch Pablo and Bella Episode IV on the website.  Fill out the  Roots Video Form:  some words to define are proponent, supersede/supercede, superabundant, agitate and lunatic. Study and be successful.  Remember the class assets of planning and decision making and taking responsibility. 

 

Your second blue reason/argument, second red evidence (CD), and your second green commentary is due today.  Have it ready, on the Google Doc, as you come into class.

TWO ASSIGNMENTS: 1)  Please bring proof of an outside reading book for ten points!

2) Have your second blue argument, second red evidence and your second green commentary ready for triad conferencing.

Deadline to rewrite the outside reading project.  Conference with me before you rewrite and then provide a clean, revised, highlighted It Says/I Say/And So stapled to the top of the previous rubric and evaluated draft.  No revisions will be accepted after this deadline.  This pertains to periods 2,4,and 5.  Period 6 has its own individual due dates.

This is an all classes day.  Your first blue reason/argument, first red evidence (CD), and your first green commentary is due at the start of class.  We will go directly into triad conferencing. 

Hook and summary set-up is due at the beginning of class.  Please have these done in your Google Doc, so you are ready to meet with your triad!

NOTE:  I am teaching the hook and summary set-up strands on Tuesday/Wednesday, November 4th and 5th in class.  You will have some class time to work on these parts.  Anything you do not finish is considered homework:)

Mini assessment on pronouns, articles, nouns, and adjectives today!  Review your composition books before class to be successful.  This assessment cannot be retaken.

Your claim is due on a Google Doc.  Create a Google Doc after you go through the claim strand with your triad (on 10/28 and 10/29).  Name your Doc "Argument Essay." It should be typed in black. 

Spelling Test list #3 is today!

Typed rough draft of the comparison and contrast paragraph on the second-to-the-last scene of The Diary of Anne Frank play vs. movie version. Create this in a Google Doc.  Bring a printed out version, double spaced, MLA heading and header.  Check out rubric to see what is expected for this assignment.

Read the article on Groupthink distributed in class on Monday, Oct. 27th and annotate it as you read.  Answer questions 1-3 on the handout.  As you answer the questions, restate the question in your answer, and write complete ideas. Answer these questions on a piece of binder paper with an MLA heading.  Type this answers if your handwriting is unclear.  Here are the agreed upon number of margin notes by period:

No Root quiz today.  We are postponing this quiz.  I will go over all the new quiz dates on Monday, October 27th in class. The new schedule is posted below as well as on the front page of the website.  I posted a file.

Read the short story "Flowers for Algernon" in the anthology, pages 182-210. Come ready for a quiz/writing. Do the dialectical journal posted below. Use Quizlet: http://quizlet.com/28064725/flowers-for-algernon-flash-cards/  to be ready for a discussion/quiz of the short story.

Dialectical form is below as well.

Claim for argument essay is due! Type up your claim, and please print it out.  Include an MLA heading on your paper. The claim should answer the questions in the prompt. See strands to see other components of the claim.

Outside Reading Project is due today!  The It Says/I Say/And So big project.  This is a Category Two assignment.  It needs to be one full page with three columns, 12 point font, Times Roman, single spaced, a Bloom's level 4-6 question in present tense, all columns present tense, avoid contractions, second person and first person, except in the I Say column,  Refer to assignment sheet for further details.  Email me questions.  This assignment will go on Quarter Two.

Spelling test list #2:  This test will go on Quarter One, so if you do not like your score, you have until Friday, October 24th by 3 p.m. to retake it for full credit.  Study hard, and take it only once!

Retake of Root quiz #3:  The window of time to retake this quiz is--Wednesday, October 15-Monday, October 20th.  I am available before school (except for Monday the 20th), at break, and after school all those days.  Study and retake.  This score goes on Quarter One. 

Quiz on "Malala the Powerful."  I will give you this article on 10/9 and 10/10.  Please read it and annotate it before you come to class on 10/14 and 10/15.  Answer the focus questions provided on the back sheet.  Complete sentences are not required.  Save the Critical Thinking Questions for a class discussion.

Root Quiz #3:  Check out Episode 3 of Pablo and Bella to be successful on the quiz!

Review your composition notebook to review pronouns, appositives, and antecedents for the assessment today!  Email me any questions you have.

Do an And So on Mumford & Sons' song "Ghost That We Knew" OR Imagine Dragons' song "Demons."   Annotate the hard copy (It is really important to annotate this one because the meaning is embedded in the words--figure out what YOU think it means and be able to prove it with the lyrics).  Pose a question out of the Class Climate ($100 packet), and complete the And So.  Type this one!  Answer the question, connection to a piece of literature, another song, a movie, or a world event.  Use present tense, third person, do restate the question in your answer, but do not write out the question.  Avoid contractions, second person and summary.  

Root quiz #2 retake:  Students have a window to retake root quiz #2.  Come before school, at break, or after school to R3 for the retake both Thursday, Oct 9th and Friday, Oct. 10th.  Email me if you have questions. Review the Pablo and Bella video, episode II. 

1) Finish Scene 3:  ends on page 730.  Expect a reading quiz on Tuesday, Oct. 7th and Wednesday, Oct. 8th.  You may read or listen to the scene.  Check out the audio on the website. 

Complete the Google Form we began in class on 9/30 and 10/1 and submit by Monday, October 6th.  There is no school on October 6th, but please submit by 3 p.m.  Submissions after 3 p.m. are late.

1) Complete the yellow Anne Frank vocabulary.  Be sure to include a sentence of your own, and do both sides of the handout. Look in the glossary of the anthology (brown book).  The words are in there.

2) Do an I Say for the poem "Superman is an illegal."  The I Say should be in present tense, you may use third and first person, avoid contractions, and you discuss a "true" feeling--not an "I believe" or "I think."  Those you may include as well, but discuss your frustration, sadness, happiness, joy, etc., as well. Write neatly, so I can read it, and fill a column. Begin by posing a question.  Use a level 4, 5 or 6 in the Class Climate, pages 6-7 for a Bloom's question.

Root quiz #2:  Re-watch Pablo and Bella to be successful.  Fill out the root video sheet to prepare!

1) Finish handout on Holocaust video--both sides and comment columns.

2) Outside reading book check

3) Portion of It Says/I Say/And So started on Tuesday/Wednesday is due today.  I will announce the part and skill we are focusing on in class on Tuesday/Wednesday. 

Due Thursday/Friday:  The AND SO portion of the It Says/I Say/And So of the children's story "The Story of Ferdinand" by Munro Leaf.  You are expected to A) answer the question (I will provide the question for you)  B) connect to a piece of literature or a world event C) use third person D) use present tense.  ONLY do the AND SO column. Please print clearly, so I can read your work. Here is the question, if case you need it:  What will happen if Ferdinand does not sit on the bee?

Here is a YouTube link to the story, if you need to hear it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGTVRbpAuRo

Retake of Root quiz #1 is offered Tuesday/Wednesday, September 23rd and 24th:  starting at 7:30-8:15 a.m., at break (if time permits), and after school on both days.  If you decide not to retake these two days, then your score will remain the same as the original score.  If there are extenuating circumstances, please communicate in advance of those two days. 

Homework for today:

1) Bring in your outside reading book. 

2) Bloom's Question for your outside reading project:  Be sure to create a level 4-6 question and phrase the question in present tense.  Reference the Class Climate Packet ( $100 packet) to use sentence stems provided for you!  You may also email me if you have questions. 

3) Finish the It Says/I Say/And So for "The FIve Chinese Brothers."  Please write a minimum of five sentences in each column making sure to fulfill these particular expectations of each column--It Says (Introduce the title and author of the short story and write at least five sentences in present tense summarizing the facts only in the story); I Say (Express a true feeling, and you may state your own opinion in this column and relate to yourself); And So (Answer the question and connect to another piece of literature or world event).  All columns are in present tense and avoid contractions (can't, won't, couldn't, etc…)

4) Bring in ear buds of you have them.  I want you to watch a short video, individually, so ear buds will help.  Do not purchase these if you do not already own them. 

Group Technicolor Paragraph is due at the end of the period.

Root quiz, list #1.  Study the prefixes and roots to be successful!

1)Come to class with the article "Fighting Hitler" annotated. I will check for heavy annotation, and there may be a "pop" quiz on the content.

2) Bring proof of an outside reading book.

Study for your first Spelling Test:  These are the Fisher No Excuse spelling words  we practiced on Monday, August 25th.  Check out the file on the website for the words if you do not have a hardcopy.  Use strategies you learned from our Learning Style Survey exercise to be a more successful learner.  

Vocabulary quiz on "The Lottery" vocabulary we discussed in class. Study for the quiz and be successful.  Use strategies you learned from your learning style survey. See vocabulary words:

Vocabulary

“The Lottery”

 

 

1. boisterous (adj.) - rowdy, loud
2. reprimands (n.) - punishment, repercussions
3. duly (adv.) - following proper procedure
4. jovial (adj.) - jolly, joyful
5. scold (n.) - a person who is constantly scolding or reprimanding with loud and abusive speech
6. paraphernalia (n.) - personal belongings, items associated with a specific activity
7. perfunctory (adj.) - performed merely as a routine duty
8. interminably (adv.) - unending
9. petulantly (adv.) - with unreasonable irritation
10. stoutly (adv.) - bulky in figure
11. epilogue (n.) - a section at the end of a short story, novel or play that serves as a conclusion
12. profusely (adv.) in great amount

5th period:  All revisions of the "Where I'm From" poem are due today.  If you got your rubric and poem back with comments and a message to REDO, this is YOU!  If your poem is on the wall, this is NOT YOU!

1) I will distribute "The Late Paper" on Thursday.  Read and annotate the text, and come to class on Friday ready to state your case! Click the link below to see the snapshot of our annotation brainstorm.

2) Bring physical evidence of an outside reading book!  We will have visited the library, so choose a book that you LOVE.  You will do your outside reading project (The It Says/I Say/And So) on this book.

1) "Where I am From" poem is due today.  Please follow the format (typed, 12 font, full page, single spaced,etc) to be successful on this first writing assignment.

2)) Classroom supplies are due today.  Reference the required list on the syllabus on page one.

3) Parent/guardian signature is required on the first page of the planner.  This sheet should be torn out and returned today!

4) Please return the "Student Expectation and Acknowledgement" and "Communication Information" sheet as well. 

 

One completed graphic organizer is due today at the beginning of class.  You choose which one to complete.   If you get to the point of composing your poem, bring in a draft, and I will go through it with you. Here is a URL to check out George Ella Lyon's poem: http://www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html

Think About It Redo:  If I gave you back your colored 3x5 card, I need you to redo this in-class assignment.  I have posted the directions here.  Please make sure you know what was incorrect with your first card BEFORE you attempt the second card. 

1)Hard copy and additional information on top two learning styles due today.  Please put your name on the printout of your top two learning styles. Put your name on this hard copy.  Turn into your period in the homework box at the back of the room.

2) Print out additional information on your top two learning styles, and bring this information to class with you.  Do not turn this handout into the homework box.