Month: August 2021

Tuesday, 8/31: Fastbridge, KBARR Check, Vocab?

NOTICE: IF YOU ARE ABSENT (LIKE OUT ON QUARANTINE), PLEASE CHECK THE WEBSITE EVERY DAY AND DO WHAT WE DO. I WILL LEAVE COPIES OF OUTSIDERS TO PICK UP SO YOU CAN KEEP UP AT HOME.

REPEAT: CHECK THE WEBSITE EVERY DAY AND DO WHAT WE DO.

Notebook open to last nights KBARR! I will be checking while you Fastbridge.

Chromies out.

Check your headphones before starting Fastbridge.

  • https://slcusd.illuminatehc.com/login
  • Sign in with Google (red button).
  • Continue to Portal.
  • Select Fastbridge Learning from the sidebar.
  • Reading.
  • Do the aReader and the AutoReader (Do all of the mini tests.)

Work on your SMYK’s if you finish early. (Or your defns. if you haven’t finished them.)

 

 

Friday, 8/27: Paperwork, Mental Floss, Test #1

Remember to do the Readiness Assessment by Monday!

Prep Sheet for Test #1 -2021:

NAME, CLICKER #, PERIOD!
Vocabulary Homework: ____/15
Vocab Practice: Warm Up 8-24:___/5   Vocabs: 8-24:___/10   8-25:____/11   8-26:___/10

Other Extra Credit? Period 5 gets +2 for “Vocab Relay”, +1 for “judging”

Mental Floss. Do on back of test sheet.

  1. A boat has a ladder hanging off the side that has six rungs. Each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at its highest, how many rungs are under water?
  2. Show how it is possible to name the capital of each and every one of the United States in less than a minute.
  3. Which is correct, “bigger of two halves” or “biggest of two halves”?
  4. Johnny’s mother had four children. The first was April, the second was May, and the third was June. What was the name of her fourth child?
  5. There are ten sheep walking in a straight line across a field. What numbered sheep can look back and say he is the third from the last in line?
  6. A house painter paints numbers on all the new houses in a neighborhood from 1-100. How many times does he have to paint the digit 9? (Not a trick; I’m just betting you can’t count.)

 

Test #1 -2021

Circle the correct answer AND CLICK.

NOTA = None of the Above.

Finished early? Your choices:
1) Doodle on the back of the test – Theme: The messiest room you can imagine. The theme is optional; you may doodle about whatever you want. If I like it you get extra credit.
2) Trackword –  Read the directions! Write your numbered list of words off to the side or on the back of the test. +1 for the first 15 words and every 10 after that.
3) Read something.
4) Nap. Just don’t snore.
5) Stare blankly (and silently) into space.

 

Have a great weekend!

Thursday, 8/26: Adjectiives, Vocab + Relay, Test Preview, Outsider

Tomorrow’s Test: Vocab, Class Stuff, Adjectives, Outsiders. (Link will work after 4th period)
BTSN tonight on Zoom.
“Vocabulary, 8/26.” (9) Write the word.
bliss, infer, bleak, nonchalant, gingerly, rueful, savvy, conform, sage, fathom, connotation
   
  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. (un)_______(able)
  4. _______
  5. cool : good :: dig : ______
  6. hopeful : bleak :: proud : _____
  7. Some people called him weird, but he preferred to be called a (non-)______(ist).
  8. The old man was considered the ____ of the village because of all his experience and wisdom.
  9. Her outlook on life was very _____ after the accident that killed her brother.
  10. The root of this word means “shape.”

VOCABULARY RELAY!!!


Adjectives answer the question “What Kind?” about nouns!

What kind of bear was he????

 

Adjective and Clicker Practice!

“Adjectives, 8/26.” (6) COPY each underlined word and say adjective or not. Then Click!

a) Adjective  b) Not Adjective

  1. She has such a soft voice!
  2. I can hardly hear her.
  3. A French chef in New York chisels ice sculptures.
  4. Machine parts are used to form mechanical structures.
  5. She is a pretty savvy poker player.
  6. She has a lot of basketball savvy.

The Outsiders.
Preview Questions from Tomorrow’s Test:

  1. What is it about our narrator that drives his brother Darry crazy?
  2. As used in The Outsiders, the word hood is short for _____.

1st, 2nd and 3rd person narrators. Ponyboy is a ______ person narrator.

Wednesday, 8/25: Vocab, Motto, Outsiders

Checking SMYK’s!

“Warm Up, 8/25.”

How could we connect “The Others” with “Delinquent”?

 

“Vocab, 8/25.” Just write the answer. You may use words more than once.
gingerly 

  1. ______
  2. ______
  3. ______
  4. ______
  5. Her outlook on life was very _____ after the accident that killed her brother.
  6. Even though he may not be “book-smart” he has a lot of ____ about the world.
  7. He touched the cut on his cheek ______. Ow!
  8. A person who doesn’t like to ______ to the group is often looked at as an outsider.
  9. Even though their denotations (definitions) are similar, the words nosy and curious have different _____(s).
  10. He nodded ____(ly) and said, “It would have been wiser to have someone pick you up.”
  11. When Homer Simpson yells, “D’oh!” he is being _____ about something he did.

 

“Motto, 8/25.” (in your notebook)
1)  (Before) What is a motto?

2) What do you think he means by “Dig and Be Dug In Return”?
3) What other saying(s) have you heard or use might mean something similar?

 Motto
by Langston Hughes          
I play it cool    
and dig all jive. 
That’s the reason
I stay alive.
My motto,
As I live and learn
is: 
Dig and Be Dug
In Return. 

So what two meanings does the slang word “dig” have?

The Outsiders by S E Hinton  (1967)

Key Questions.

    • What are the connotations of the word “outsider”?
    • What does it mean to say, “Don’t judge a book by its cover”?

Paul Newman?

Begin reading…

 

Last 5-6 minutes: Double Check accessing Readiness Assessment:

Waffle on Google.
McGraw Hill
Study Sync
Launch Study Sync ELA

You should see your name and the link!