Month: March 2018

Thursday, 3/29: Common Assessment Day Three

District Assessment Day Three of Three.

Please click the following link for the directions:  ELA Research Common Assessment.

When you are finished:

  1. Proofread, share, and print your argumentative essay. (due at END OF PERIOD!)
  2. Finish, proofread, share, and print your Giver Book v Movie essay. (due TOMORROW!)
  3. Take the middle school quiz at the ETC Portal. Highest scores are entered in a drawing to win a Kindle Fire tablet.
  4. Do your definitions for the next vocab list.
  5. If you have completed all of the above, AND YOU HAVE AT LEAST 35 MINUTES LEFT IN THE PERIOD, you may take care of tomorrow’s SRI test:
    https://h100000583.education.scholastic.com/slms/studentaccess

    • Click the Blue Reading Inventory button on the lower left side: 

 

Bikes?

Wednesday, 3/28: District Assessment Day 2

District Assessment Day Two of Three.

Please click the following link for the directions:  ELA Research Common Assessment.

If, by some divine miracle, you finish early (hrrrrmmm):

  1. Proofread, share, and print your argumentative essay.
  2. Finish, proofread, share, and print your Giver Book v Movie essay.
  3. Take the middle school quiz at the ETC Portal. Highest scores are entered in a drawing to win a Kindle Fire tablet.
  4. Get started on the next vocab list.
  5. Quietly amuse yourself.

Tuesday, 3/27: District Writing Assessment, Day One of Three

Please be prepared to take notes, either using a GDoc or old school paper.

Please remember you will have three class periods to read and take notes on the sources and write the essay. You will write the essay in a GDoc AND print it when you are finished.

 

Suggested Timeline:

  1. Day One: Read the sources carefully, decide on a thesis, take notes to support your thesis.
  2. Day Two: Review your notes and make sure you have enough evidence to write the essay. Maybe make a basic outline:
    • Intro w/ thesis
    • argument + evidence
    • argument + evidence
    • conterargument + shutdown with evidence
    • Conclusion
  3. Day Two: Write your rough draft.
  4. Day Three: Finish rough draft, proofread, proofread, share and print.

 

 

Remember that the reason/argument is different from the example/evidence:

Reason/argument: Too much homework takes time away from my family.
Evidence/example: That time I missed my brother’s birthday party because I was doing all that homework Mr. Coward assigns.

 

FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY. Give credit to sources:

  • “according to (author)…”
  • “…(author) argues that…”  (says, makes the claim, etc.)
  • “quote” (Source)

 

Please click the following link for the directions:  ELA Research Common Assessment.

Monday, 3/26: Homework, SAWs, Debrief Test #28, Wheel of Doom!

Welcome to the Fourth Quarter!

Copy homework into planner.

“SAWs, 3/26.”
generate (verb): to produce
derive (verb): to obtain from (derivative)
advantage (noun): quality that gives someone a better chance than others
consume (verb): to use up
contaminate (verb): to poison; to pollute

         

 

Go over Test #28. Most of you did well.

 

Wheel of Doom.

“Husker Du, 3/26.” – Period One: Test #12 – 2,3,4,14,15

“Husker Du, 3/26.” – Period Two: Test #7 – 1,2,8,17,18

“Husker Du, 3/26.” – Period Three: Test #23 – 11,12,13,14,23

“Husker Du, 3/26.” – Period Five: Test #13 – 5,7,8,10,11

 

Work on Giver Book >< Giver Movie Essay.