Monday, April 27
Below is the student reading requirement for the second half of the quarter. Please note due dates for the written responses.
Below is the student reading requirement for the second half of the quarter. Please note due dates for the written responses.
BOOK REPORT DUE April 17
Your book should be from the middle to higher range of your lexile score as that score was developed from your fifth grade assessments.
Pronoun quiz on Friday: Recall of pronouns (students shared pronoun lessons to assist each other with the various lists)
Personal I me he she him her we us they them you it
Possessive (these are also personal)
my mine his her hers its
your yours our ours their theirs
Interrogative - who whom whose which what
Demonstrative - this that these those
Reflexive - myself himself herself
yourself yourselves
itself
ourselves themselves
Indefinite - Singular (most of them fit body, one, thing)
anybody, anyone, anything
everybody, everyone, everything
nobody, no one, nothing
somebody, someone, something
each, either, neither
one other
Plural
both several few many
SPECIAL INDEFINITE PRONOUNS!
ANY ALL MOST NONE SOME and MORE!
Reading Project for The Heart of a Chief
Final due date is March 11. Students are encouraged to turn in the project prior to this date. The reading project list has over 50 choices! Students have already informed me about their choice.
I have emphasized creativity and quality on this project; it is up to them to decide how to best present their ideas. I do not want students purchasing items to create their projects if they have materials already at home that can be used. However, I do expect students to create (whether it involves writing or art) a product worthy of their book and their enjoyment. I will not accept anything that has been thrown together at the last minute. This is an opportunity for everyone to shine!
Students must make provisions to finish reading the novel. I have checked books out, and allowed class time (if students had their other assignments completed.)
I am still missing books. Please assist me in accounting for all of the novels.
Persuasive Unit Travel Brochure
Students should come to class tomorrow with the written content ready to be transferred to their final copy on cardstock. Reference my blog from last night on our production method.
Students were introduced to their Persuasive unit travel brochure assessment. I have inserted the checklist for the brochure.
The brochure will be created in class. I will supply cardstock, colored pencils, glue stick, and rulers.
Students may bring clip art, magazine cutouts, drawings, or photographs. These items should be cut out at home and brought to school.
We are going to do the rest of the brochure the old-fashioned way with hand-written paragraphs, coloring, and cut and paste!
I have shown the students the layout of the brochure and referred to panels in my instructions for content. I would recommend that students prepare their paragraphs at home to rewrite them on the cardstock during class time. Students are to rely on their notes from social studies although they may do some additional research. However, they need to consider the size of the brochure when they develop their paragraphs and their illustrations.
Checklist for Travel Brochure
_______ Panel 1 – Name of country + Propaganda Technique (statement) + Illustration
_______ Panel 2 – Activities - Bulleted (connotative language)
_______ Panel 3 – Illustration with caption
_______ Panel 4 – Weather/Climate paragraph (connotative language)
_______ Panel 5 – Culture paragraph (connotative language)
_______ Panel 6 – Persuasive statement(s) – include propaganda, appeals, figurative language
Each panel is worth 5 points. Evaluation: completion, vocabulary, sentence structure, conventions, and neatness.
Consider purpose and audience for this brochure. You can consider travel beyond a vacation idea. For example, your purpose could be for educational reasons, or mission work of some type.
Editorials - I changed the points for this assessment to 23 to accomodate the math(!), and the appositives. I will keep assessing appositives until we have all mastered this standard. If students did not include appositives in the editorial (or they thought they did, but they ended up with shifted adjectives or clauses), I will give them a short assignment where they can practice and prove their understanding. I should have all of them assessed by Friday.
The Heart of a Chief - Students need to finish reading the novel. I have supplied classtime, and given students the option of checking out the book. Unfortunately, this has caused a problem where students have not returned books. That does not include students who have books because they have been absent. Please assist me in recovering all of the novels. Some may be hiding in lockers, bookbags, or under the bed. I will continue to check out the books as long as I have books left!
GRAMMAR PACKET FOR CRCT PRACTICE - This practice was due today, but students may turn in their work tomorrow. They need to use the note pages and do their best work. For our preparation to be effective, it needs to be clear what students do not know or understand, and not that they were not paying attention or rushing.
Students were to have turned in their Editorial today.
Reading project final due date March 11.
Grammar packet for CRCT practice is due tomorrow (Wednesday.)
Students should be finishing the novel The Heart of a Chief. They had classtime to read today. I have been signing out books for students in the afternoon, or they are welcome to come in the a.m. if they let me know ahead of time. (Please note that I just wrote a compound-complex sentence.)
Students need to have selected a particular country from a continent they have covered in Social Studies this year. We will be creating a travel brochure to include the elements of persuasive writing (propaganda techniques, appeals, connotative language.) Students need to bring their notes for the content of the brochure (weather, culture, activities, illustation ideas.) I will supply the paper for the brochure, but students can bring in colored pencils, pictures, clip art to assisst in creating their product.
Hi,
I am exhausted from playing TAG (teaching, assessing, grading), but I have everything posted so far. We have a great deal going on, so no breathing yet.
Yes, if you did not do well on the Sentence Types quiz and/or the DGP quiz, there will be more practice and more opportunties. However, you must be sure that you are doing everything you can do on your own.
Old-fashioned memorization still plays a part in our education. If you are struggling with DGP, look at the area of difficulty. If you are missing complements, you must work on those HAL verbs. If you are missing verbs, you must work on those HAL verbs:)
Prepositions? They are not going to go away; they must be mastered.
Conjunctions? Coordinating and Subordinating. Some of you are confusing the two. There is a difference between "so" and "so that". Make you own chart and place it on the bathroom mirror. When you are brushing your teeth or drying your hair, practice!
Editorial - Due Tuesday - Available class time on Monday.
Four paragraph essay with an effective title. (INDENT!)
Place a Star (the symbol) over your appositives (two),
a C with a circle around it for your compound sentence,
a CC with a circle around it for your compound-complex sentence,
an L with a circle around it for your logical appeal,
an E with a circle around it for your emotional appeal,
and an ET with a circle around it for your ethical appeal.
THE FABULOUS READING PROJECT LIST!
FINAL DATE FOR PROJECT IS MARCH 11.
Download SUPER READING PROJECT LIST
Do something nice for someone else, and then smile at yourself in the mirror.
Monday - Graphic Organizer for The Heart of a Chief is due
Instruction sheet
Next week:
Monday - Graphic organizer - 10 points - Writing strand
Tuesday - Persuasive techniques quiz - 20 points - Reading strand
Wednesday - 8:00 a.m. extra help session for DGP
Thursday - Sentence types quiz - 30 points - Convention strand
Friday - DGP quiz - 25 points - Convention strand
Upcoming: Letter the Editor - 20 points - Writing strand
Reading quiz for Novel's last chapers - 20 points - Reading strand
Reading project for the novel - 40 points - Reading strand
Lessons and final paper/project for Persuasive Unit
If you have not read my blog from Wednesday night, please do so, especially if your student's grades have dropped.
As this is the start of a new day and renewed determination, let's focus on moving forward.
Homework tonight: SENTENCE TYPES WORKSHEET - UNDERLINE SUBJECTS AND VERBS, CIRCLE CONJUNCTIONS AND SEMI-COLONS
We will be working on our novel and the graphic organizer for the letter to the editor. Students will be able to work on the organizer at home this weekend.
The organizer will be due on Monday, February 23.
TUESDAY, February 24 - Persuasive Techniques quiz - recognition and labeling
(Bandwagon, Testimonial, Prestige Identification, Loaded words, Emotional words, Cardstacking) (Ethical Appeal, Logical Appeal, Emotional Appeal)
