The First Day of School....9/4

What is this course all about? Who are our teachers?
1. Quick course outline & general routines
2. Guessing game...Who are your teachers?
3. Write our biographies!
4. Your symbol
Part 2
1. Daily job
2. Cause/effect & SLANT
3. Integrity & "The Moocher"
HW: Finish Moocher pre-reading/reading, course outline signed, cause/effect sheet complete

Summer vacation!!

Today in Class...

What will you choose??
1. Warm up: Roots sheet (only a few more...)
2. Your choice for today:
-Choose your own short story...What was your favorite genre? Pick from choices.
HW: Make sure everything you can get in is in!!!

Today in Class...6/7

Strive to beat your spelling pre-test score!!
1. Grade your roots sheet with key (or finish if not done)
2. Spelling test
3. Go over test...How did you do?
HW: None tonight

Today in Class...6/6

Will I show improvement on my 8th grade spelling words?
1. Go over/discuss narrative poetry stations
2. Practice ALL spelling words...finish units
3. Partner practice: white boards
4. Roots
HW: Finish roots sheet (anthro,etc.) and STUDY SPELLING WORDS!
*FYI: Final SRI Friday

Today in Class...6/5

PORTFOLIOS DUE TODAY!!!
Poetry week continued!!
What is narrative poetry?? Do I remember?

1. Find your narrative poetry stations sheet.
2. Last station...Finish and go back to "clean up" other stations
3. Imagery Illustration
Pick the one you liked the best.
"Mother to Son", "Speech to Young", "Identity", "Fear", "Jabberwocky", "Three Little Pigs", "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
HW: Finish imagery illustration

Today in Class...5/31

What is Narrative poetry? (You hear it all the time!)

1. Discuss/closure on Hunger and related poems
2. Narrative poem stations
-Narrative poems through songs
*"Jabberwocky"
*"The Three Little Pigs"
*"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
3. Flow chart & illustrate favorite of the day