Mr. Coward's Seventh Grade English

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Go over Test #14.

Research/Writing your HFN.

• Start a Google or  Word Doc.
• When you find a source that looks likely, copy/paste the URL onto the end of your document.
• Make your searches as specific as you can:
  • “1300s baker daily work”
  • “medieval peasant meal”
  • “medieval peasant cottage”
  • “1300s children play”
• Be aware of the quality and reliability of the sources. URLs that end with .edu and .gov and .org tend to be more trustworthy. Look for site and author info. If you can’t, you should probably steer clear.
• Remember: You can use real books for research too. (For example, your history textbook.)
• As you plan your story, keep in mind the plot diagram.  Set the scene, reveal the problem, work through it, solved! (Or not.)
• If you are not in GoogleDocs, save all the time.
• If you don’t have a computer or net access at home, print what you have at the end of the period.

Prep sheet for Test 14:
Warm Ups: ____/10  (I will fill this one in after I look at yours.) Vocabulary h/w:___/20
Vocabulary Practices: (12/1)____/12  (12/2)___/12  (12/3)___/12
Other Extra Credit: May include: “the more things change…” for +1.

Mental Floss.

1. Wacky Wordies. The colors are not part of the clues. 
   a)    b)  c)  d) 
2. Figure out what the three things in each set have in common. Each answer is a six-letter word ending in -s.
   • a) trombone, playground, microscope
   • b) railroad, muddy shoes, music cd
3. What living creature has fur, four legs, and a tail, eats cat food, meows, and sees equally well from both ends of its body?
4. Name an English word (there are actually two) of more than two letters that both begins and ends with the letters -he in that order. “Hehe” is not an acceptable answer.

Test 14
Doodle Theme: Christmas Parade

Tomorrow’s Test: Vocabulary, ASOT, Husker Du.

“Vocabulary, 12/3.”

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____ (You’ll have to turn this one into a noun by taking off the suffix.)
4. Since there were 1,000 points possible in the quarter, one or two would be a(n) _____ amount.
5. When we moved, we got rid of everything that we considered ________.
6. obvious : subtle :: infinite : ______
7. valuable : expendable :: stiff : ______
8. The gardener ______(ed) a new limb onto the ailing tree.
9. The eighth grade English teachers are pretty ______ about punctuation. You had better proofread every paper carefully.
10. The green carpet of grass and moss was ______ and soft.
11. “In the slime, tiny insects wriggled, so that the entire body seemed to twitch and _______…”
12. He is not a(n)_______ member of the team; his contribution is vital.

Research/Writing your HFN.

• Start a Google or  Word Doc.
• When you find a source that looks likely, copy/paste the URL onto the end of your document.
• Make your searches as specific as you can:
  • “1300s baker daily work”
  • “medieval peasant meal”
  • “medieval peasant cottage”
  • “1300s children play”
• Be aware of the quality and reliability of the sources. URLs that end with .edu and .gov and .org tend to be more trustworthy. Look for site and author info. If you can’t, you should probably steer clear.
• Remember: You can use real books for research too. (For example, your history textbook.)
• As you plan your story, keep in mind the plot diagram.  Set the scene, reveal the problem, work through it, solved! (Or not.)
• If you are not in GoogleDocs, save all the time.
• If you don’t have a computer or net access at home, print what you have at the end of the period.

Homework Update: Historical Fiction Narrative is now due Wednesday, 12/9.

Meet in computer lab (G2) tomorrow.

“Vocabulary, 12/2.”

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____
5. criticize : critique :: wiggle : ______
6.  mattress : resilient :: matches (the kind that burn) : ______
7.  “The government doesn’t like us here. We have to pay big ____ to keep our business.”
8. The smells ______(ing) from the kitchen were very tempting.
9. She was _____ on the edge of the diving board, ready to leap.
10. “It ran with a gliding ballet step, far too _____ and balanced for its ten tons.”
11. “And the caveman, please note, is not just any _______ man… He is an entire future nation.
12. In some poorer countries, the police are paid so little that they have to resort to _____ to survive.

“ASoT”

Write a 5W’s for the story so far.

Aloud.

Historical Fiction Narrative Tip: Remember your plot diagram! Set the scene, reveal the problem, work through it, solved! (or not.)

“Warm Up, 12/1.”
You can actually see backwards in time any day or night. You don’t need any sort of contraption either.  Try to guess how.  Any semi-reasonable, complete-sentence answer gets credit. Go.

“Vocabulary, 12/1.”

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____
5. It was hard to believe that such a big voice _____(ed) from such a little girl.
6. The fact we can shoot baskets with our used handouts means that once we use them, they are ______.
7. He was a very ______, very confident public speaker; he never got nervous in front of a crowd.
8. Kids who learn to be _________ are better able to cope when things go bad.
9. “That’d be a _____. Time doesn’t permit that sort of a mess–a man meeting himself.”
10. valuable : expendable :: hysterical : ______
11.  “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” is an old French saying. It is also seems like an example of a(n)______.
12. Draw picture that represents the word infinitesimal.
    

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13. Bonus: Turn the word paradox into an adjective by adding an ending.
14. Bonus: Give an example that illustrates the idea of #11. Hint: Mr. Calandro is the 6th principal I have had at Laguna, but the school is still pretty much the same.

“A Sound of Thunder.”

Write a prediction for what you think the title of the story means.

Read aloud.