Lesson Plans May 26-29

 

Language Arts Assignments for the Week of May26-29

Text based writing "Christopher Columbus" - finish and turn in
Finish Book Poster and present to the class
All make-up work due Friday
All books returned to all libraries
All texts collected

Lessons

Cards  - writing to each other as a rememberance
Capstone Project - see other posting

DETERMINE which accomplishments and memories you will use for your poster display.  You will create essays and documents to represent your accomplishments.  Everyone must do 3 items on List A and choose 3 from List B.  

List A                                                                                     List B

Certificate – a special accomplishment                                   Timeline – life events, a sequence

Bio Sketch – your biography                                                  Pictures of you – photos or sketch    

Resume –tells about your qualifications for a job                    Symbols - icons that tell about you

Letter – thanking someone for helping you                             Brochure – a place you have been

Essay – your proudest moment or                                        Cartoon – a story drawn about you

the person you most admire                                                   Friendship Map –map your friends

Presentation of Book Projects and book talks

• Present your book project including what you liked about the book, what you recommend, and what you will read next. Decide to donate it to my collection or keep it for your own. Respond to other students' book posters. Positive comments about what you liked. Points of interest about the book.  

Homework for Language Arts Classes

         

• Keep reading - establish Summer Reads
• See the board for daily assignments  

 

 

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
Country of the Week: none due to no computers

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

Video Song - The Constitution  

Chapter 10 - The Bill of Rights
Do the Project for this chapter: create a booklet that has a page for each of the 10 Bills of Rights

Read the chapter, do the study guide, discuss, take the test, add the essay.

  

Oh Say Can You See?

The Rockets Players
Major Armistead Alijah
Mary Young Pickersgill Auria
Rebecca Young Jasa
Caroline Roseanne
Frances Scott Key Jamie
John Stuart Skinner Erickson
Admiral Cochran Natalie
General Robert Ross Kelsey
Dr. Beanes Abby
Historian 1 Stanley
H 2 David
H3 John

N1Ashley
N2 Esly
N3 Ashley H

Lesson Plans for May 18-21 May 22 is Inservice day

 

Testing this week:

Monday - regular classes

Tuesday - Science DCAS

Wednesday and Thursday - LA Text Based Testing and STAR

Friday - no school for students

 

Language Arts Assignments for the Week of May 18-21

Finish "Lost in Death Valley" Scope Close Read and take test
Finish Book Poster and present to the class



Homework for Language Arts Classes

         

• READ AR Book for 40 minutes every night.  Take three AR tests before May 21
• Finish classwork for the day
• See the board for daily assignments  

 

 

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
Country of the Week: none due to no computers

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

Video Song - The Constitution  

Chapter 10 - The Bill of Rights
Do the Project for this chapter: create a booklet that has a page for each of the 10 Bills of Rights

Read the chapter, do the study guide, discuss, take the test, add the essay.

  

Book Poster Project

Book Poster Project

1.    Pick a book that you loved or that you really liked that you read in 8^th Grade.

2.    Create a movie style poster about that book. (portrait layout)

3.    Design, develop and make the poster. Use any combination of media that you wish including collage, drawing, markers, graphics. 

Include

Book title, author, date of publication, graphics.

Major characters, some plot teasers, theme

Your opinion of this book

A mini-bio of YOU, and a drawing or picture of you

Soul Surfer Girl 

                          



              

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Capstone Project

YOU ARE THE AUTHOR

OF YOUR OWN LIFE STORY 

Capstone Project

May, 2014

Part 1 – Brainstorm to create list of personal accomplishments and memories

Part 2 – Writing Workshop create written material that represents your life so far.

Part 3 – Oral and Visual Presentation poster display and oral presentation

 

Part 1

Brainstorm

1.     MAKE A LIST of all of your accomplishments, life events, and special times from birth till today. Think about summer camp, the beach, holidays, sports, music, riding a bike, dancing, crafts, hobbies, braces, community service, favorite books, math awards, science experiments, friends and family.     

2.     DETERMINE which accomplishments and memories you will use for your poster display.  You will create essays and documents to represent your accomplishments.  Everyone must do 3 items on List A and choose 3 from List B.  

List A                                                                                     List B

Certificate – a special accomplishment                                   Timeline – life events, a sequence

Bio Sketch – your biography                                                  Pictures of you – photos or sketch    

Resume –tells about your qualifications for a job                    Symbols - icons that tell about you

Letter – thanking someone for helping you                             Brochure – a place you have been

Essay – your proudest moment or                                        Cartoon – a story drawn about you

the person you most admire                                                   Friendship Map –map your friends

                                                                                                 

3.    PLAN YOUR OVERALL DESIGN/PRESENTATION – Design and collect items to place on your poster display in a graphically attractive way. Then create a 3-5 minute presentation  to accompany your poster explaining - YOUR LIFE STORY!

Part 2

Writing Workshop

Draft, revise, edit and publish the written documents in List A. Lessons will center on how to create the documents. 

Include

·      Information that will give a total picture of you. 

·      Information that you consider important in your life. Interview your parents to get details of dates and events.

·      Visually pleasing items that coordinate with your documents. 

Part 3

Oral/Visual Presentation

Oral presentation must be at least 2 minutes in length and contain at least 5 major aspects of your life. Students will use the display to make their points. 

Visual poster displays must have at least eight items that relate to your life – five items from list A and three items from list B.  Displays should be graphically interesting and contain important information. They will be judged on the content, visual impact, information presented clearly, and comprehensiveness.

Language Arts 

EQ: What is your Life Story?

Reading and Writing EQs?

• Book Poster - see other posting
• Life story Capstone Project - see other posting

Lesson Plans May 11-15

Collections Textbooks turned in this week

Language Arts - Close Reader

Warm ups: freewrite, poem, vocabulary

Essential Questions

• How do we draw conclusions in a text?
• What can we learn from paragraph structure in a text?
• How to analyze and argument and determine if the claims are sufficiently supported?

Vocabulary

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

(+ Core One - Vocabulary text Lesson 5  - complete exercises 1,2,3,4, Quiz on Friday)

"The Real McCoy" Vocabulary 

1. synonymous
2.  lethargy
3. automatic
4. prolific
5. device

Language Arts Assignments for the Week of May11-15

Close read the following and do the related questions.
The Real McCoy - Close Reader, 125-130
Short Response, 130
Analyze the text, cite text evidence and draw conclusions.

Poems 131
"To Be of USe" 132
"A Story How a Wall Stands" 132


Homework for Language Arts Classes

         

• READ AR Book for 40 minutes every night.  Take three AR tests before May 20
• Finish classwork for the day
• See the board for daily assignments  

 

Poem

Expect Nothing
Alice Walker

Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.
become a stranger
To need of pity
Or, if compassion be freely
Given out
Take only enough
Stop short of urge to plead
Then purge away the need.

Wish for nothing larger
Than your own small heart
Or greater than a star;
Tame wild disappointment
With caress unmoved and cold
Make of it a parka
For your soul.

Discover the reason why
So tiny human midget
Exists at all
So scared unwise
But expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.


Reflection:
What is the author's tone?
What ideas are expressed?
Your thoughts?

 

 

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
Country of the Week: none due to no computers

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

Video Song - The Constitution  

Chapter 8 - The Constitution

Read the chapter, do the study guide, discuss, take the test, add the essay.

  

Rethinking the DCAS test

Copy these questions and answer them.

1. What did you think of the LA DCAS test?
2. What on the test, surprised you?
3. What did you think was easy?
4. What did you think was difficult?
5. What could you do to prepare for the next DCAS LA test?

"Petals" A Writing Project

 

“Petals” Writing A Poem Project

Read "Petals" and reflect on Pat Mora's poem (see below). Then

Brainstorm - Thinking about mom or grandmom or significant person in their lives students will describe:

1.    a distinctive feature

2.    her eyes, nose, face

3.    hair, how she wears it, texture, color

4.    an activity she would typically do at work

5.    an activity she would typically do at home
6.  something funny that she does

7.    what she wears

8.    a memory from her childhood

9.    a favorite object

10.    one word to describe her

Next, play with the words, rearrange them to get good sensory details, metaphors, and alliteration.  Write a draft, revise with your writing partner, then publish it on good colorful paper. Adorn the border with art work you draw.

Petals
Pat Mora
 

have calloused her hands,

brightly colored crepe paper: turquoise,

yellow, magenta, which she shapes

into large blooms for bargain-hunting tourists

who see her flowers, her puppets, her baskets,

but not her - small, gray-haired woman

wearing a white apron, who hides behind

blossoms in her stall at the market,

who sits and remembers collecting wildflowers

as a girl, climbing rocky Mexican hills

to fill a straw hat with soft blossoms

which she'd stroke gently, over and over again

with her smooth fingertips.

Reflection

Name the sensory images this poet uses.

What is her relationship with her mom?

Is this a circle poem? Why or why not?

Lesson Plans May 4-8, Teacher Appreciation Week

 

 

Language Arts - Close Reader

Warm ups: freewrite, poem, vocabulary

Essential Questions

• How to thank people for their kindness?
• How does a reader determine the author's message?
• How do we analyze meaning by comparing two texts?
• 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 5  - complete exercises 1,2,3,4, Quiz on Friday)

"The Flying Machine" Vocabulary

1. writhe
2. hoards
3. serene
4. solace
5. Emperor
6. alit
7. grove
8. apparatus
9. delicate
10. miniature

Language Arts Assignments for the Week of May 4-8

Ray Bradbury 
Close Read books. All students read both versions of "The Flying Machine" 111-124.
Complete close read activities




Homework for Language Arts Classes

         

• READ AR Book for 40 minutes every night.  Take three AR tests before May 22
• Finish classwork for the day
• See the board for daily assignments  

Poem

"Petals"

 

 

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
Country of the Week: France, due Wednesday, May 

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 "102 Minutes that Changed America" Students take notes about the important parts. Pause the DVD and discuss it halfway through. Important ideas. Summarize and discuss.