Tuesday, 8/28/07 -- Welcome! Seating charts. Names.
Copy homework into assignment book. If you don't yet have an assignment book, use a sheet of paper in your binder or notebook. Be sure to copy the assignments again into your assignment book when you get one. This is what we do on the first day of every week. The homework for the entire week (and sometimes beyond) will be on the board the first day of each week, and the first thing we do is copy it into our assignment books. Get a notebook by Thursday!

CLICKERS! Practice. COPY AND CLICK!
The warm up will, after today, almost always be the first thing we do everyday.
--You grab your clicker as you come in the door.
--You open your notebook, and write the title ("Warm Up") and date.
--You await further instructions.
--If the instructions say to copy, you copy into your notebook. You'll get enough time to do that, but warm ups are timed.

Today's Warm Up. Copy and Click! (5 minute time limit.)

  1. tobacco : cigarette : : meat : _______

    2. a) cow  b) vegetable  c) plant  d) animal  e) hamburger  f) none of the above
  2. boxer : athlete :: chair : ________

    3. a) table  b) stool  c) seat  d) furniture  e) leg  f) none of the above
  3. needle : sew :: shovel : ________
    a) tool  b) dig  c) thread  d) work  e) handle  f) none of the above
  4. Choose the one that is incorrectly spelled, and spell the word correctly. If all are correct, write "no mistake."

    5. a) equiptment  b) laboratory  c) multiply  d) parallel  e) no mistake
  5. 10% of 40 = ____ a) 36  b) 36%  c ) 10  d) 4  e) 14
  6. (Copy the answer only.) In the following sentence, which words, if any, are adjectives?

    7. We ran rather quickly after we spotted the hairy, scary bear.
    a) ran, quickly  b) rather, hairy, scary  c) hairy, scary  d) hairy, scary, the  e) quickly, hairy, scary  f) None of the above.
     
Class Expectations. Get a spiral notebook! What to do when you're absent.
Web Site: http://school.mrcoward.com or http://seventhgradeenglish.com
If you can access the info online, do so tonight, print the handout, and bring it tomorrow for extra credit. Read and sign. Due tomorrow. (Quiz!) Parents read and sign by Friday.

Delinquent by Langston Hughes

Homework: Can You Be Perfekt? -- Write 150 words about fun (in any way related to fun!). No mechanical mistakes are allowed. Put name, date, and period in the upper right corner. Give the page a title. Ink. Not ripped. Due Friday. 20 points, -5 for each mechanical mistake I find. Get "everybody and his mom" to proofread it for you!