3rd marking period ends (4th marking period homework)

 

Thursday, March 29

• Turn in your Notebook in the colored basket on the back counter

• Finish watching “The Long Years” from Ray Bradbury Theater

• Discuss how it was similar to the other story and why it’s Science Fiction

• Watch one more Twilight Zone and discuss it

• Over Spring Break --- Everyday, read something that interests you

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Wednesday, March 28

• Continue reading “Dark They Were…” and answer questions at the end of the story (in your Notebook); questions # 1, 2, 4, 8, & 9 --- page 491

• Read popcorn style

• Watch the beginning of “The Long Years”

• Reminder: Notebook entries due tomorrow

 

 

Tuesday, March 27

• Storia demonstration by Mrs. Stevens and overview of Poetry Month opportunities (extra credit for participation in library and Poetry Club readings)

• Discuss homework answers and turn it in.

• Notebook entries due Thursday

• Read “Dark They Were and Golden Eyed” by Ray Bradbury out of the Literature book, page 478

• questions # 1, 2, 4, 8, & 9 --- page 491

 

 

Monday, March 26

• Watch “Number 12 Looks Just Like You” Twilight Zone episode

• Notebook entry: In what ways is this Science Fiction and/or what ways is it like other stories we have read/watched over the past week?

• Read “Would You Ban Texting and Walking” and answer the questions for homework (due tomorrow)

• Bring your Literature book tomorrow

 

 

 

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                        Thursday: Spartan Writing Camp this summer

 

• Re-cap “Harrison Bergeron” and the differences between the movie version and the story...and if those differences helped the story.

• Read the Ray Bradbury biography, page 474 --- then watch the interview (we’ll read the story next week)

• Watch Twilight Zone: Eye of the Beholder

• In your Notebook: either comment on the Bradbury interview or the video (what it was about, what you liked/disliked, what was sci fi about it…)

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• Wednesday

• Spartan Writing Camp this summer

• Re-cap “Harrison Bergeron” and the differences between the movie version and the story...and if those differences helped the story.

• Read the Ray Bradbury biography, page 474 --- then watch the interview (we’ll read the story next week)

• Watch Twilight Zone: Eye of the Beholder

• In your Notebook: either comment on the Bradbury interview or the video (what it was about, what you liked/disliked, what was sci fi about it…)

 

• Tuesday

• Jetsons fun

• Read “Harrison Bergeron”

• Discuss plot

• Notebook entry: Why is society so threatened by people who think for themselves? Or by beauty (in its many forms)? Or by intelligence?

• Begin Video

• Add to your notebook entry: How was the video different from the story? Did the difference help the story make more sense? Why?

• Bring your Literature book tomorrow

 

 

Monday, March 19

• Opportunity to share something about the person you researched

Read a paragraph or specific fact you found surprising or interesting.

• Introduce the Science Fiction short story unit
• Science Fiction powerpoint
•  Notebook entry: define Science Fiction & Fantasy yourself; Serling’s definition (Fantasy makes the impossible probable and Science Fiction makes the improbable possible); School Through Time questions (What was school like a long time ago? What do you think school will be like in the future?)
• Read “The Fun They Had” & add to Notebook entry: Why is this story Science Fiction?

 

Friday, March 16

• Overview of next week (back in classroom)

• Research paper and bibliography due on the wiki TODAY

• Last day in the library

• Typing practice due today

• Last day for 5 point use of time grade

• Find a book to read, bookmark design, or homework from another class when you finish with the other assignments

• Puzzle, checkers, coloring, engineering, etc.

 

 

 

Thursday, March 15

 

Note: the Research Paper will be out of 40 points (so you don’t have to turn in your notecards and rough draft again)

• Timeline Reminder: Final draft and bibliography due on the wiki on Friday

• Give Mr. K your rubric (last page of packet) when your paper is on the wiki and ready to be graded

• And https://www.typingclub.com/ due by Friday

• Plus 5 point use of time grade

• Find a book to read or homework from another class if you finish with the other assignments

 

 

Wednesday, March 14

• Timeline Reminder: Final draft and bibliography due on the wiki on Friday

• Give Mr. K your rubric (last page of packet) when your paper is on the wiki and ready to be graded

• And https://www.typingclub.com/ due by Friday

• Plus 5 point use of time grade

• Find a book to read or homework from another class if you finish with the other assignments

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, March 13

• READ YOUR DRAFT before you turn it in!!!

• To indent the second line of your Bibliography hold down Shift and push Tab

• Fun facts are more distracting than helpful. Use them in the paragraphs in a meaningful way or cut them.

• A pause usually means you need a comma

• More time to write and/or conference with Mr. K.

• If your draft has been graded, then put it and your bibliography on your wiki (due Friday)

• You may also want to add photos and youtube videos of your person

• Reminder of keyboarding assignment

• Go to https://www.typingclub.com/

• Log in with Office 365...your school log in

 

 

 

Monday, March 12

• Turn in March is Reading Month logs

• My Letter2Trump

• 2nd & 5th sit at the tables & use cart Y (1st in Lib. Lab)

• Peer edit drafts

• Read a peer’s draft (on paper or on the screen)

• Use a copy of the outline and the rubric to assess your peer’s biography

• Give your peer a grade and feedback

• Rough draft and bibliography due today (print it or share the file)

• 2nd & 5th: sit at the desktop computers if you will need to print today

• More time to write and/or conference with Mr. K.

• 5 point use of time grade (minus 1 point every time you are playing a game)

• Keyboarding assignment

• Go to https://www.typingclub.com/

• Log in with Office 365...your school log in

• Take the placement test and show Mr. K. your score. (Look in Stats)

• Take as many lessons as you have time for

• Take another test {Due Friday, 10 points}

 

 

 

 

Friday, March 9

• Turn in March is Reading Month log on Monday (get a new one)

• How to put together your Bibliography (Works Cited)...a review from Mrs. Orange’s explanation

• Van Gogh  example.pdf

• Alphabetize your sources (see packet)

• Time to write more of your research paper

• When you finish, print it and turn it in or let Mr. K know it’s ready to grade

• What’s due Monday: Rough draft and bibliography

• Optional writing: questions and comments for the President (now closed)

• Practice typing to increase your speed and accuracy

• Read or draw

 

Thursday, March 8

• Optional writing: questions and comments for the President

• Time to write more of your research paper

• Rough draft due on Monday

• if you finish early, turn it in tomorrow...and find something quiet to do...not playing games on the computer 

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Wednesday, March 7

• Show Mr. K. a paragraph from you research paper (5 pts.)

• If he didn’t see your notecards, bib. cards...show him

• Funny

• Time to write more of your research paper

 

 

Tuesday, March 6

• Time to finish notecards and/or begin writing the research paper about a famous person

• You don’t have to start with the introduction

• one paragraph due tomorrow (Wednesday) 

 

Monday, March 5

• March is Reading month challenge

• Return notebooks

• Take headset out and plug it in

• 25 notecards, bibliography cards, and signed note from parent about plagiarism due today (15 pts.)

• Look at the due dates and rubric again

• Organize notecards into categories

• Use the outline

• Begin to write the paper

• If you don’t have enough of a category, find more information

• Reminder: only quote if it’s something memorable — mostly paraphrase your paper

• Use your notes to write a paragraph (due Wednesday)...but don’t stop there...keep writing

• Either hand write, type in Word and print, or type in Word and share with Mr. K. in Onedrive folder

• Rough draft due next Monday (though you can turn it in earlier)

 

 

 

Friday, March 2

• Notebooks due today (turn yours in to the basket up front)

• Famous Failures

• Ten Steps to Writing a Research Paper today or Monday

• Signed note about plagiarism due on Monday...and your 25 notecards

• More time to research your famous person

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, March 1

• Reminders:

• Notebooks due tomorrow

• One source needs to be from somewhere besides the internet

• Example of David’s notecards and example paragraph

• Read the packet for more explanation...or ask

• More time to research famous person

• Use note cards or paper packet (try to have at least 20 by the end of the hour)

 

 

Wednesday, Feb. 28

• Pep Talk

• Share out paraphrases of Oprah notebook entry

• My example (see below)

• Notebook entries due on Friday

• Review where to find works cited info on biography.com, etc.

• Remember, you can use bibme to organize your sources

• More time to research famous person

• Use note cards or paper packet

 

Example:

Oprah’s father provided a rigid, educational home life for her. He had her read books regularly and give him reports on them. He also expected her to teach herself a handful of vocabulary words daily, apparently withholding her evening meal until she showed she had learned them. While this homelife may seem overly demanding, Oprah credits him with helping her survive a tough time in her life. (“Oprah Winfrey Biography”)

 

 

Tuesday, Feb. 27

• Answers to your questions:

• Can we use wikipedia? Yes, but any information you find there needs to be verified by another source.

• Is Google a source? No. Don’t use that stuff that comes up right away on a Google search

• What are some examples of sources we should use?

• Our library’s website for books

• MEL’s Biography resource

• Encyclopedia Britannica in reference section (can’t be checked out)

• Biography.com

• Notablebiographies.com

• Notebook entry:

• Famous Person Research Project recap

• List the five main sections of the paper (after the introduction)

• What important info do you need to include from the beginning of their career (hint: it’s bolded)?

• Of what should the majority of the paper consist?

• Paraphrase this fact about Oprah from notablebiograpies.com: “Winfrey said her father saved her life. He was very strict and provided her with guidance, structure, rules, and books. He required his daughter to complete weekly book reports, and she went without dinner until she learned five new vocabulary words each day.”

• Time in the library to decide on a person to research or to begin researching

 

 

 

Monday, Feb. 26

• Anymore Career Interviews?

Reminder to finish Career Info Report of wiki if you have not (Trojan Time, home, come in before school, lunch…); Meera’s example

• Introduce the Famous Person Research Report

Review the assignment page by page

What does adversity mean?  

You can use bibme to organize your sources (like in Science)

You can make a folder in One Drive (like in Science) and share it with me

• Notebook entry: KWL on your person or list of names

What do you KNOW about the person?

What do you WANT to learn about the person?

• Put due dates in your planner

Meet tomorrow at the library lab

 

 

 

 

Friday, Feb. 23

• Show bio. Books (library and mine) —- suggest they begin reading up on someone of interest this weekend

• Time to use your Career Research notes to write a Career Information Report (linked below) on your wiki

• If you haven’t turned in your notes, do so at the end of the hour

• Due today

• Career Interview and Value sheet due today

 

 

Thursday, Feb. 22 - Digital Learning Day

• Career Information Report due

• Interview due tomorrow

• Harriet Tubman biographical group work at library with iPads using Nearpod

• Famous Person research report options

 

Wednesday, Feb. 21

• Pass out progress reports & pass back Right Word quizzes

• Career information report; By Friday on your wiki:

• Barbara’s example ; Zoie’s example; Ben’s example

• More time to research career: DUE TOMORROW

• Any career interviews to turn in?

 

 

Tuesday, Feb. 20

• Reminder: Career Interviews due Friday

• Get back Using the Right Word quiz

• Go to library and sit at the lab computers

• Career Information report (due tomorrow)

• Review each section and where to look on the bls.gov website

• Books (reference and able to check out), websites

• Show a couple short videos off the bls.gov website (students, then teacher’s desk, then videos, then Growing Jobs and/or US Occupations)

• By Friday on your wiki: Barbara’s example ; Zoie’s example; Ben’s example

• Pep talk

• To library to research (tomorrow, meet at the library)

 

 

 

 

Friday, Feb. 16

• Poetry quiz & Using the Right Word cards grades

• Using the Right Word quiz

• Values & the Career Interview assignment (Due Fri., Feb. 23) (copy in Handouts section of this wiki)

• Mr. K’s example of interview answers

• Think about jobs/careers you may want to pursue in the future

 

 

Thursday, Feb. 15

• Olympics highlights

• Using the Right Word due

• Optional: Present your fifth word pair (letter e on the handout) as part of the extra credit (worth 5)

• Then, turn in the five notecards into the basket

• If you colored one, Mr. K will put it on the wall after he grades all of them

• Play Name a Country game

 

Wednesday, Feb. 14

• Pre-quiz online together 

• there will be a post-quiz on Friday 

• Time to work on the Using the Right Word assignment (check the Handouts section for a copy)

• Play Name a Country game

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Tuesday, Feb. 13

• Seating chart creation

• Poetry quiz (any questions?)

• Assign Using the Right Word assignment

 

Monday, Feb. 12

• Writer’s Cafe

• Present poems while snacking (and respecting each poet)

• Tomorrow: Poetry quiz (study your vocabulary terms)

 

 

 

Friday: snow day #5

 

Thursday, Feb. 8

• Dennis H’s poem for Lansing’s new mayor in the Lansing State Journal

• Speaking tips on presenting your poem (copies available)

• Mr. K presents “Jabberwocky”

• Time to practice presenting your poem aloud (in pairs); give each other feedback

• Poetry quiz on Monday (study the vocabulary terms)

• Bring in some food or drink tomorrow for our Writer’s Cafe (no nuts please)

• Bring your food or drink to our class before school tomorrow (if we have a snow day on Friday, we will have the Writer's Cafe on Monday)

 

 

Wednesday, Feb. 7

• Book orders due today!

• Thoughts about yesterday’s notebook entry

• Poems due on your wiki page today

• Some time to upload them in the library

 

Tuesday, Feb. 6

• Book orders due tomorrow

• Tonight at the EL High School: The Mask You Live In, 7 pm. Auditorium, FREE

• Upcoming poetry readings:

• Lansing Poetry Club at Dublin Square in East Lansing, Sunday, February 18th at 3:00. Dennis Hinrichsen featured poet, as well as open mike. FREE.

• April is Poetry Month reading at the East Lansing Public Library at 7:00. Aram Kabodian, Ruelaine Stokes, Laura Apol, and Joyce Benvenuto featured poets. FREE

• Notebook entry: Read Mr. Kabodian’s recent blog entry and comment on it in your notebook. Write a paragraph explaining what the blog entry is about and then comment on what made sense and what was confusing and why. We will talk about this in class soon.

• Time to put your poem on your wiki page (due tomorrow)

 

 

Friday, Feb. 2

• Feedback on yesterday’s visit from the poets, Grace and Dennis

• Book orders due Wednesday

• Poetry reprise (repeat or bonus)

• Taylor Mali

• “Totally like whatever, you know”

• Maya Angelou

• “And Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou

• Sarah Kay

• Spoken Word

• How to Be Alone

• The Blind Men and the Elephant

• More time to write your poem draft (due Tuesday on the wiki)

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Thursday, Feb. 1

Today, we had the honor of listening to two poets from the Lansing area. Dennis Hinrichsen and Grace Carras shared their poems and their ideas about poetry-writing, as well as helping us with our poem drafts.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, Jan. 31

• What will your verse be?

• We will read several poems today. Pick one poem and answer all the following questions about the poem in your notebook:

1. Write the name of the poem and poet

2. What was the poem about?

3. What feeling is the poet trying to evoke?

4. What else do you like or dislike about the poem?

• Today’s poems (pick at least one for the above entry):

• “On Turning Ten” by Billy Collins

• “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost

• “Impossible” by They Might Be Giants

• “Next to of course god america I” by e.e. Cummings

• Mr. K’s brainstorm/draft example

 

 

 

Tuesday, Jan. 30

NOTE: Poem brainstorm due tomorrow

• Pass back Poetry vocabulary definitions & Poetry pass

• Turn them in if you didn’t...finish them and re-submit if necessary

• Continue reading poems from the poetry packet and write the answers to the four questions about one poem

• We will read several poems today. Pick one poem and answer all the following questions about the poem in your notebook:

1. Write the name of the poem and poet

2. What was the poem about?

3. What feeling is the poet trying to evoke?

4. What else do you like or dislike about the poem?

• Today’s poems (pick at least one for the above entry):

• “Litany” by Billy Collins

• “Nikki-Rosa” by Nikki Giovanni

• “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman

• “I, Too” by Langston Hughes

• Read the poem assignment on the back of the handout (brainstorm or poem draft due on Wednesday); show where the Thesaurus’s are and where the rhyming dictionaries are

The Poetry packet in a digital form can be found on our wiki under “Handouts”

 

 

Monday was a SNOW DAY!!

 

See 2nd Marking Period Homework here