April 27 - May 1 DCAS Testing Week

ARTS AND WRITING NIGHT  
THURSDAY, April 30th, 6:00 - 8:00

Language Arts DCAS Testing Week

Scope, April 2015
Paired Text: Stuttering and Speech, 18-21
Skills

• Summarizing
• Synthesis
• Critical Thinking

Worksheet
Quiz

Essential Questions

• How to pass a DCAS TEST?

Vocabulary

Scope 

1. baffle (BAF-uhl) verb; to puzzle or confuse completely
• example: My dad was baffled by the complicated instructions that came with our new TV;
he couldn’t figure out how to turn it on!
2. bellow (BEL-oh) verb; to make (often by animals) a deep roar or cry; noun; a very loud
roar or cry
• example 1: Rick bellowed in pain after he stubbed his toe.
• example 2: We heard bellows coming from the barn and ran to see what was the matter.
3. disorder (dihs-OR-der) noun; 1. lack of order; a state or condition of confusion; messiness;
2. an abnormal physical or mental condition
• example 1: The art studio was in complete disorder after the students finished their collages.
• example 2: Luis has a stomach disorder that causes his stomach to hurt whenever he eats.
4. entwine (ehn-TWAHYN) verb; to twist and tangle two or more things together, or to twist one
thing around another
• example: So many vines entwined the fence that we could no longer see the wood.
5. inherit (ihn-HER-iht) verb; 1. to receive (property, money, a title, etc.) by legal right from
someone when that person dies; 2. to receive a characteristic (a disease, a trait, etc.) passed
down from your parents or other relatives; 3. to receive or have something handed down to you
by someone who came before you
• example 1: My mother inherited our family’s house from her father when he passed away.
• example 2: Melissa inherited her beautiful red hair from her mother.
• example 3: I inherited my brother’s old clothes.
6. lobe (lohb) noun; a rounded section of something, especially, a rounded section of an organ or
other body part
• example: The brain is divided into four lobes, which are named by location. For example, the
lobe at the front of the brain is called the “frontal lobe.”

Language Arts Assignments for the Week of April 27 - May 1

Scope - assorted delights



Homework for Language Arts Classes

         

• READ AR Book for 40 minutes every night.  Take three AR tests before May 27 
• Finish classwork for the day
• See the board for daily assignments  

Poem

Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Bio

Love Is

Some people forget that love is
tucking you in and kissing you
"Good night"
no matter how young or old you are
Some people don't remember that
love is
listening and laughing and asking
questions
no matter what your age

Few recognize that love is
commitment, responsibility
no fun at all
unless

Love is
You and me

 

 

Social Studies Core 4 Homework
Listen to the news and bring in relevant, recent news stories to discuss. Write a summary and reflection of one news article for the week.

Geography Quiz

CNN Student News
EQ:What is happening in the world and how does it impact our lives?
Every day the class watches CNN Student News. Ask Jake or Gian to run the computer projector.
Discuss the news stories.

Social Studies Lessons

History Alive Text, Chapter 8: Creating the Constitution  

The Constitution  

America Gets the Constituion

 

• 8.5 States 1098.6 The Great Compromise, 110
  8.7 Slaves, 111
   8.8 Resolution: 3/5, 112
  8.9 Chief Executive  113
  8.10 Resolution: Electoral College 114
  8.11 Convention Ends, 115
  8.12 To the Nation  116
  
  Study Guide
  Test
  

   

 

Warm up Thursday

Write about what Earth Day means to you.
What are some of the problems that we face to save the earth?
What are some of the solutions?
What can you do to help?

Lesson Plans April 20-24 Earth Day Week

 Earth Day April 22

Language Arts 

Warm ups: freewrite, poem, vocabulary

Essential Questions

• How does a reader draw conclusions about a text and analyze imagery and sensory details?
• EQ's: How does a writer use point of view? What is irony?
• EQs:  How does reading AR books impact your achievement level?

Vocabulary

Cores 1 Lesson 4

Language Arts Assignments for the Week of April 20-24

Common Core Assessment workbook
Writing an Argumentative Essay - practice for the upcoming Smarter Balanced Test

Analyze -1-10

• 2 articles and a student model

Practice 12-15

• 4 Sources to close read

Respond 16-17
Prewrite, plan, evidence, draft, revise, publish 16-22



Homework for Language Arts Classes

         

• READ AR Book for 40 minutes every night.  Take three AR tests before May 27 
• Finish classwork for the day
• See the board for daily assignments  

Poem

Choices

Nikki Giovanni

If i can't do
what i want to do
then my job is to not
do what i don't want
to do
It's not the same thing
but it's the best i can
do

If i can't have
what i want to do 
then my job is to want
what i've got
and be satisfied
that at least there
is something more to want

Since i can't go
where i need
to go . . . then i must . . . go
where the signs point
through always understanding
parallel movement
isn't lateral

When i can't express
what i really feel
i practice feeling
what i can express
and none of it is equal
I know
but that's why mankind
alone among the animals
learns to cry

Nikki Giovanni

 

 

 

Social Studies Core 4 Homework
Listen to the news and bring in relevant, recent news stories to discuss. Write a summary and reflection of one news article for the week.

Geography Quiz

CNN Student News
EQ:What is happening in the world and how does it impact our lives?
Every day the class watches CNN Student News. Ask Jake or Gian to run the computer projector.
Discuss the news stories.

Social Studies Lessons

History Alive Text, Chapter 8: Creating the Constitution  

The Constitution  

America Gets the Constituion

 

• 8.5 States 1098.6 The Great Compromise, 110
  8.7 Slaves, 111
   8.8 Resolution: 3/5, 112
  8.9 Chief Executive  113
  8.10 Resolution: Electoral College 114
  8.11 Convention Ends, 115
  8.12 To the Nation  116
  
  Study Guide
  Test
  

   

 

Emmett Louis Till

Emett Louis Till
Concepts: civil rights, equality, justice

View the Documentary 
Discussion
Questions


from Wikipedia

Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. Till was from Chicago, Illinois, visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region, when he spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the married proprietor of a small grocery store there. Several nights later, Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam went to Till's great-uncle's house. They took Till away to a barn, where they beat him and gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and disposing of his body in the Tallahatchie River, weighting it with a 70-pound (32 kg) cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. Three days later, Till's body was discovered and retrieved from the river.

Questions
Copy each question and answer in complete sentences. 

1. Who was Emmett Louis Till?
2. What reason was given for his murder in Mississippi?
3. What was the outcome of the trial?
4. What reasons can you think of to explain this?

Lesson Plans April 13-17 - April is Poetry Month!

  Gary Soto 

 Soto Web Page      Video

Language Arts 

Warm ups: freewrite, poem, vocabulary

Essential Questions

• How does a reader draw conclusions about a text and analyze imagery and sensory details?
• EQ's: How does a writer use point of view? What is irony?
• EQs:  How does reading AR books impact your achievement level?

Vocabulary

Cores 1,2,3. Define the words. Use them in a sentence. Study. Quiz on Thursday.

(+ Core One - Vocabulary text Lesson 3  - complete exercises 1,2,3,4, Quiz on Friday)

One Last Time Vocabulary

1. imagery
2. ramble
3. foreman
4. feeble
5. madras
6. stoop
7. contractor
8. irate
9. predicament
10. clods

Language Arts Assignments for the Week of April 13-17

Before Spring Break we read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - excerpt 395-400
Review - Point of View 401
Review - Style and Humorous Tone 401
All students complete on paper - Analyzing the Text 402 #1-7
All students complete - Performance Task 402: Writing Activity Analysis
All students complete - Critical Vocabulary 403 #1-8
All students complete - Vocabulary Strategy: Verbal Irony and Puns 403 #1-4

One Last Time - 405 to 414
A memoir by Gary Soto 
All students complete on paper - Cite Evidence - 415
Analyze the Meanings of Words and Phrases - 415
Analyzing the Text  #1-7, 416
Critical Vocabulary  #1-8, 417
Vocabulary Strategy chart on 417




Homework for Language Arts Classes

         

• READ AR Book for 40 minutes every night.  Take three AR tests before May 27 
• Finish classwork for the day
• See the board for daily assignments  

Poem

"A Red Palm Poem"

Gary Soto

 

You're in this dream of cotton plants.
You raise a hoe, swing, and the first weeds
Fall with a sigh. You take another step,
Chop, and the sigh comes again,
Until you yourself are breathing that way
With each step, a sigh that will follow you into town.

That's hours later. The sun is a red blister
Coming up in your palm. Your back is strong,
Young, not yet the broken chair
In an abandoned school of dry spiders.
Dust settles on your forehead, dirt
Smiles under each fingernail.
You chop, step, and by the end of the first row,
You can buy one splendid fish for wife
And three sons. Another row, another fish,
Until you have enough and move on to milk,
Bread, meat. Ten hours and the cupboards creak.
You can rest in the back yard under a tree.
Your hands twitch on your lap,
Not unlike the fish on a pier or the bottom
Of a boat. You drink iced tea. The minutes jerk
Like flies.

It's dusk, now night,
And the lights in your home are on.
That costs money, yellow light
In the kitchen. That's thirty steps,
You say to your hands,
Now shaped into binoculars.
You could raise them to your eyes:
You were a fool in school, now look at you.
You're a giant among cotton plants.
Now you see your oldest boy, also running.
Papa, he says, it's time to come in.
You pull him into your lap
And ask, What's forty times nine?
He knows as well as you, and you smile.
The wind makes peace with the trees,
The stars strike themselves in the dark.
You get up and walk with the sigh of cotton plants.
You go to sleep with a red sun on your palm,
The sore light you see when you first stir in bed.

 

 

 

Social Studies Core 4 Homework
Listen to the news and bring in relevant, recent news stories to discuss. Write a summary and reflection of one news article for the week.

Geography Quiz

CNN Student News
EQ:What is happening in the world and how does it impact our lives?
Every day the class watches CNN Student News. Ask Jake or Gian to run the computer projector.
Discuss the news stories.

Social Studies Lessons

Students will view the DVD "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till." Students take notes about the important parts. Pause the DVD and discuss it halfway through. Important ideas - Segregation, Civil Rights, the South then and now, racial profiling.   Then resume  the DVD.