Daily+Homework

9/19/16 [Monday] **OPEN HOUSE TOMORROW (Tuesday) 5:00-7:00pm** **Be mindful to answer in complete sentences and turn the question into the opening statement.
 * Bulletin board pix due!! [2x2, 2x3, 3x3, small] **
 * 7th Grade: **
 * 1) Complete your Yellow Short/Long Term Goals-Setting Bulletin Board Template **
 * 2 ****) Writing: Complete, "The Real You" [LLP] **

8th Grade: "High School Explorer" 1) Unit 2: Thinking Habit: Dealing with Uncertainty a) Complete Intro Questions 1-3 (p.30) b) Read, Class Activity #1 (p.31)

9/16/16 **OPEN HOUSE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 5-7PM**
 * 7TH & 8TH GRADE: **
 * GET "HOW I DECIDE" PERMISSION FORM SIGNED [QUIZ GRADE] **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">9/14/16 **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">ALL STUDENTS GET ALL SDP/MYA DOCUMENTS SIGNED!!! **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read, **//Mindful Choices,// **(pp.24-30) [Handout]**
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Write a one-page (single side) summary of the chapter **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">*Remember to include a thesis/topic sentence that states the central idea of the chapter **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">*Remember to paraphrase the information in time-order (beginning, middle, and end) **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Bring in a small picture of yourself for bulletin board (3x3, 3x5 preferred) **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Bring a SMALL pix of yourself for bulletin board display: 2x2, 2x3, 3x3 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Yearbook and baby pix due this month! Remember to put your name on each pix and then put all pix in a blastic zip-lock bag with your name on it and advisory #... **

//<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">and Complete a 3-2-1 Activity: [LLP] //
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">9/12/16 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">ALL Students: Get all SDP and MYA documents signed!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) **//<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Read the article, "3 Keys to Doing Well in School" //

//<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3- Study skills you plan on applying this year // //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2- Areas discussed in the article that you feel were your weakest last year // //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1- Short term goal (see notes from class) you are setting for yourself //

//<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Write a one-paragraph (9-12 sentences) reflection [LLP] on the following essential question: // //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">"How will this article set you up for success in school and in life?" // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Be sure to cite evidence from the article to support your claims: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">For example, "text cited" (Langan p#). <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">An example of this would be, "text cited" (Langan p#).

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">9/8/2016 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th & 8th Grades: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) ALL School district papers signed [Due by Monday] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) ALL Middle Years Documents Signed [Due by Monday]
 * First class to return 100% before or by Monday wins pizza party!!!!**


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4/1/16 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read, //Lexi Youngberg: Invincible// (pp.4-8) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete the 4th step of your vocabulary activity: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Write the sentence from the article with the vocabulary word in it. **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Write a one-page summary of the article **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">a) in opening sentence you MUST include: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">i) Central Idea **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">ii) Title of article **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">iii) Author of article **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3/29/16 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: Get your interim report signed!!!!! Test grade **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read and complete Clear Thinking and Writing Lesson 6: The Difference Between a Paragraph and an Essay [Be prepared for a quiz tomorrow] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Essay: New Due Date: Monday, April 4, 2016: Jonas as the Archetypal Hero **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Room 306: Complete Part II #1-10 Language Arts practice: Independent and Dependent Clauses [Handout] **

Be sure to follow: **Point, reason, detail, detail, conclusion w/ summary statement format!** DO NOT use "I" in point statement!!!!!
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3/18/16 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Write **one-paragraph **using** outline **and** formatting notes from class **on the following topic:**
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Babysitting your sibling or cousin(s) [ **DUE 3/21**]**
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read and Complete Skills Check for //Non-fiction: Understanding Text Features// (pp.20-27) [ **DUE 3/28**]**
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//3)// Read, //Into the Unknown (pp.28-35)// **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3a) Complete all "Citing Evidence" dialogue w/ text activities directly on passage AS YOU READ **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3b) Answer Multiple Choice questions #1-4 (pp. 33, 35) **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3c) Answer in complete thoughts w/ evidence all Comprehension Check questions [LLP](pp.29, 31, 33, 35) **

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: Remember: This is a gift! Do not blow it :) <span style="color: #b01124; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Outline Essay: Jonas as the Archetype Hero and His Journey [Due 3/21/16] <span style="color: #b01124; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Draft Archetype Essay [DUE 3/31/16] <span style="color: #b01124; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">4) Complete Nonfiction Packet: Comprehending Functional Text [Classified Advertisements is first page] (pp.3-18)[DUE 3/28]
 * <span style="color: #b01124; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;"> 1) Complete designs, edits, and revisions on Symbolism Project-Redux [DUE MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2016] **

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3/17/16: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete your Non-Fiction Text Structure Skills Packet: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read, //Courage in the Water// (pp.12-19) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2a) Complete all "Citing Evidence" dialogue w/ text activities <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">directly on passage AS YOU READ <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2b) Answer Multiple Choice questions #1-4 (pp. 17, 19) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2c) Answer in complete thoughts w/ evidence all Comprehension <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Check questions [LLP] (pp. 13, 15, 17, 19)

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: Revised Symbolism projects due MONDAY <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) **Complete** reading, The Labors of Hercules <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Annotate AS YOU READ any characteristics of the archetype hero and the steps to the archetype hero's journey <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Begin outlining your Jonas as an Archetype Hero essay [LLP]:
 * Use the provided 10-step journey list, your 19-bullet list from your Archetype packet, and your Archetype Slide Share class notes to select which traits and steps you will include in your essay**

Be sure that you have a point, 3-reasons, 2-3 details for each reason, and the appropriate transition words leading into each reason
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3/16/16 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Edit and revise your individual paragraph based on the work we did in class **
 * Read your paragraph out loud; does it flow and make sense?**

ALL responses #2-11 should be detailed, complete thoughts and include citings from both the film and novel where applicable
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete your Film Adaptation Analysis Take-home test [DUE TOMORROW] **

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3/15/16 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Write a one-paragraph paper on your assigned topic <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Use yournotes on outlining from in-class note taking for <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Lesson 6: The Difference Between a Paragraph and an Essay; <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Be sure to follow the following format: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Point <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;"> Reason <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;"> Detail <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;"> Detail <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;"> Detail <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">[X's Three] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Conclusion: Restate point in new way w/ additional summary statement

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Any student scoring 90% or better will have their mid-book chapters 1-14 test score droppped.
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete //The Giver// Film Adaptation Worksheet Take-Home Test: ALL QUESTIONS [DUE Thursday] **
 * Be sure to cite specific evidence from the novel as well as the film AND answer in complete, well-thought out responses!!!!! DO NOT BEGIN RESPONSES WITH A PRONOUN!!!

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">305: 2) Review all notes on The Archetype Hero

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3/11/16 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">COMPLETE The Giver Symbolism Project DUE MONDAY, MARCH 14, 2016 No Extensions...One month long enough!

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: None

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3/9/16 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: Get Chromebook User Agreement Contract signed AND "How I Decide" Release Form signed <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete John Adams Packet and ALL missing work from Monday Night!!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete 4-step Vocabulary exercise for next words to own (p.22): <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">frigate, outfitted, routine, skirmish

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Continue working on Symbolism Project due Monday!!!!!

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3/8/16 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Get Chromebook User Agreement Signed!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Study ALL language arts notes for: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">a) Sentences and Fragments <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">b) Simple and Compound Subjects and Predicates <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete Simple and Compound Subject and Predicate Practice A & B

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Language Arts Practice: Compound Subjects and Verbs Exercises B #11-15 and #11-20 (pp.10-11) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1a) **(305)** Complete parts A #1-10 on p.10 and p.11 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Those who did not complete homework last night for //The Judgement of Paris// DO IT TONIGHT!!!!! for a passing grade. Failing grade if entire assignment is incomplete. Those who completed assignment: congrats on your A+test grade !!!

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade:Get
 * Chromebook User Agreement Signed!!!**
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Analyzing Theme: //The Courage of John Adams// (pp.22-25) Read directions carefully! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete four-step vocabulary strategy for first 5-words to Know: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">armory, diplomatic, exchange, merchant, statesman **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4-step: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">a) Word: Sentence as used in passage **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">b) Word: (Part of Speech) Definition from dictionary **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">c) one synonym AND one antonym **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">d) Use word in context of an original sentence **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Write your Ceremony of Twelve introduction. Follow ALL directions! DUE Tomorrow!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete Analyzing Meaning: //The Judgement of Paris// through page 19. Be sure to staple your work to the back of the packet **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Continue working on Symbolism project [Due next Monday, March 14, 2016!!!] **

7th Grade: **Yearbook Pre-order $$ Due**
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3/3/16 **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Get "How I decide" Press Release Signed **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Get "Picasso Project" Press Release Signed [again for some] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Get Chrome Book User Agreement Contract signed **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Finish: Daily Language Arts Practice: Complete and Simple Subjects and Predicates (p.9) [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">5) Review all notes: Sentences and Fragments; Simple Subjects and Predicates (verbs); Complete Subjects and Predicates for test tomorrow!!! **

8th Grade: **Symbolism Project Due March 14th!!!**


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Get "Picasso Project" Press Release Signed [again for some] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Get Chrome Book User Agreement Contract signed **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Finish: Daily Language Arts Practice: Complete and Simple Subjects and Predicates (p.9) [Handout] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Review all notes: Sentences and Fragments; Simple Subjects and Predicates (verbs); Complete Subjects and Predicates for test tomorrow!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.5;">3/2/16 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: **Dress in gym sweatpants, school gym t-shirt, and sneakers for Hip-Hop Workshop!!!
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Daily Language Arts Practice: Simple and Complete Subjects (p.6) AND Simple and COmplete Predicates (p.7) [Handout from 3/1] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete Clear Thinking and Writing: Lesson 5: Organization Activity 11/12 [Handout from 3/1] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Get "Picasso Project" Press Release Signed [again for some] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8TH GRADE: **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Daily Language Arts Practice: Simple and Complete Subjects (p.6) AND Simple and Complete Predicates (p.7) [Handout from 3/1] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete Comprehension Check Chapters 22-23 LLP **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">#1-4 AND #1-6 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) **Those who did not complete last night's Ch 21 #1-10 **MUST complete all this evening!!!!!**

BE SURE TO WRITE IN COMPLETE THOUGHTS, CITE TEXTUAL EVIDENCE, AND PROOFREAD YOUR WORK!!!

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3/1/16 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: Get Chrome Book Contract Signed <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Daily Language Arts Practice: Subjects and Predicates Exercises A & B (p.5) [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read and Complete //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Clear Thinking and Writing: Lesson 5: Organization Transitions //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;"> Activities 9 & 10 [Handout (pp.17-19]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: Get Chrome Book Contract Signed

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Daily Language Arts Practice: Subjects and Predicates Exercises A & B (p.5) [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete Take-Home Test: The Giver: Comprehension Check Chapter 21 #1-10 LLP [Handout]
 * BE SURE TO WRITE IN COMPLETE THOUGHTS, CITE TEXTUAL EVIDENCE, AND PROOFREAD YOUR WORK!!!**


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2/29/16 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Daily Language Arts Practice: Sentences and Sentence Fragments B: Exercises A and B [Handout] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Daily Language Arts Practice: Sentences and Sentence Fragments B: Exercises A & B [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read Chapters 21-23 The Giver **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete Note-taking Study Guides AS YOU READ **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">(Pay close attention to detail!!!) [Handout] **

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Red: All #1's <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Orange: All #2's <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Purple: All #3's <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Green: All #4's <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Blue: All #5's <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">EVERYONE: Be prepared to answer #6 Chapter 19 and #6-9
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2/25/16 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: Symbolism Projects due: March 14, 2016 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read //The Giver//, Chapters 18-20 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete Not-taking study guides WHILE you read **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete Standards Focus: Character Development #1-9 ONLY **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Complete Comprehension Check Questions assigned to your table: [ **This will be a test grade!]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2/23/16 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Standards Focus: Theme Chapters 15-17 [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete Chapters 15-17 Comprehension Check: ALL ODD numbered questions [LLP] Test Grade

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2/22/16 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Outline your assigned paragraph for Lesson 3: Point and Support Outline <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Red: #1; Orange: #2; Purple: #3; Green: #4; Blue: #5
 * Use your notes from class to assist you in your outline**


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read **//The Giver// **Chapters 15-17**
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete AS YOU READ Note-taking Study Guides for 15-16 and 17. **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2/11/16 Thursday **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: REPORT CARD CONFERENCE SLIPS DUE TOMORROW!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">[304] Complete assigned Guided questions for your //Bully// documentary case subject (victim/person) LLP ***Assessment Part I (Test Grade)

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Write in complete and well-thought out responses; PROOFREAD your work!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">[307] Complete Bully Documentary Connections #ODD (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11) LLP <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Write in complete and well thought out responses; PROOFREAD your work!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Assessment Part II (Test Grade) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">PERMISSION SLIPS AND PRESS RELEASE FORMS DUE NO LATER THAN TUESDAY!!!!

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: REPORT CARD SLIPS DUE TOMORROW <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Chapters 13-14 Standards Focus: Conflict [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Review all Study Guides and reread sections of The Giver for Mid-Book exam tomorrow <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) PERMISSION SLIPS AND PRESS RELEASE FORMS DUE NO LATER THAN TUESDAY!!!!!

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2/10/16 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: Mid-Book Exam Friday Chapter 1-14 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Standard Focus: Elements of Style for Chapters 11-12 [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read, //The Giver//, Chapters 13-14 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete Note-taking study guide WHILE YOU <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">READ for Chapters 13-14 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Continue working on Symbolism Project Due 3/14/16 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">5) Get Conference slip signed and return

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Get conference slip signed and returned <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Get trip slip signed and returned

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2/9/16 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) [307] Complete assigned Guided questions for your //Bully// documentary case subject (victim/person) LLP <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Write in complete and well-thought out responses; PROOFREAD your work!!!

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: //The Giver// TEST Friday Chapters 1-14 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Chapters 7 & 8 Standards Focus : Setting and Problem [Handout] [305] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read, //The Giver//, Chapters 11/12 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete Note Taking Study Guides for Both Chapters <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">AS YOU READ!!! I am looking for detail in order to get full credit!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Complete Standard Focus Chapters 9/10: Imagery [Note-Taking Study Guide Handout] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">5) Begin thinking about/working on your Symbolism Project [Due 3/14/16] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Flash Cards for Chapter 14 Due tomorrow!

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2/8/16 Benchmark Testing Window 2/10-2/17 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Using your notes: complete the Guided Questions for each, Tyler, Alex, Kelby, and Je'Maya on LLP [Be sure to write in complete and well-thought out sentences AND cite evidence from the documentary to support any and all claims!!]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: //The Giver// TEST Friday Chapters 1-14 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Chapters 7 & 8 Standards Focus : Setting and Problem [Handout] [305] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read, //The Giver//, Chapters 9 & 10 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete Note Taking Study Guides for Both Chapters <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Flash Cards for Chapter 14 Due tomorrow!

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2/2/2016 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Continue working on your Wonder Soundtrack Playlist Assignment [Due next Monday, 2/8/2016]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete The Giver Chapters 7/8 Standards Focus: Setting and Conflict <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Review Vocabulary Words Unit 3 Chapter 14 and create Flash Cards for the set [Due tomorrow]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2/1/2016 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Mindful Choices Journal entry #5: Awareness Test in response to the video shown in class today <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">[Youtube Search: "Awareness test: Do the Test"] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Begin working on your Wonder Soundtrack Playlist [Due next Monday] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Read, //Wonder//, pages 205-225

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read, //The Giver//, chapters 7 & 8

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1/26/16 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Continue working on Song Analysis assignment due Friday

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Answer your assigned Guided Question from BULLY: Story Synopses handout on LLP (Your answer must be a minimum of one page and include two specific details from the documentary with a complete explanation)

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: Flag group project due Friday!!!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read, The Giver, chapters 7-8 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete Note-taking study guides (in detail!) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete Standards focus: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Begin brainstorming ideas for your Symbolism Project

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1/21/2016 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read, //Wonder// (pp. 118-204) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Be prepared for a quiz on Tuesday, January 26, 2016! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Begin working on your song analysis assignment (Due next Friday!!!)

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Mid-term Exam DUE MONDAY by 11:59pm! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read, The Giver, chapters 5-6 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete Note-Taking Study Guide for chapters 5-6
 * Be as detailed as possible**
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Complete Standards focus-Symbolism (pp.38-39) **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1/19/16 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) COMPLETE MID-TERM EXAM!!! DUE TOMORROW :) **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: Interim signed (quiz grade) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read: //The Giver//, Chapters 3-4 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete: "Note-taking Study Guide" for each chapter AS YOU READ **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete: Unit 3 Chapter 14 Vocabulary Activities (pp.104-109) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Continue working on Mid-term exam due next Monday, January 25, 2016 **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1/15/16 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Mid-Term Exam [Due Wednesday!!] **
 * Be sure to edit and revise: punctuation, grammar, sentence completion, ideas are clear and well developed
 * If you aren't able to read or understand it then I won't either!!**
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Continue working on your Mid-Term Exam [Due Monday, January 25, 2015!] **


 * Be sure to edit and revise: punctuation, grammar, sentence completion, ideas are clear and well developed


 * If you aren't able to read or understand it then I won't either!!**

Be sure to use class notes on "Autopilot" to help you construct your response. <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Continue working on Mid-Term exam [Due 1/20/16 Next Wednesday!!]
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1/14/16 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Mindful Journal #4: "Unmindful Moments" [Handout] **

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: Unit 3 Chapters 11-13 Vocabulary Test tomorrow!!!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">306:

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Chapters 1-2 Standards Focus: Foreshadowing (pp.24-25) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Continue working on Mid-term exam [Due 1/25/16]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">305: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Mindful Journal #4: Unmindful Moments" [Handout]
 * Be sure to use your class notes on "Autopilot" to help construct your response**
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Continue working on Mid-term Exam [Due 1/25/16] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1/13/16 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read, //Wonder//, (pp.100-118) **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Create an, "I Am" poem from August's point of view [Handout] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Be sure to use all information from pp.1-118 to help guide you with your poem **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Continue drafting your Mid-Term Exam Due Next Wednesday, January 20, 2016!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">305: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Chapters 1-2 Standards Focus: Foreshadowing (pp.24-25) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">306: **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Read, //The Giver//, (Chapters 1-2) **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete Note-Taking Study Guide [Handout] **

Be sure to use all information from pp.1-118 to help guide you with your poem <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Continue drafting your Mid-Term Exam Due Next Wednesday, January 20, 2016!!!!
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1/12/2016 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read, //Wonder//, (pp.100-118) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Create an, "I Am" poem from Auggie's point of view [Handout] **

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: **Unit 3 Chapters 11-13 Vocabulary Test Friday!! ALL 3- Quizlet sets due now!!!**

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Continue working on Mid-Term Take-Home Exam Part I (this will be last day of the week for a solo assignment)

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">[DUE MONDAY, 1/25/2016!!!]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">[305] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read, //The Giver//, (Chapters 1-2) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete Note-Taking Study Guide [Handout]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1/11/2016 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read, //The "In" Group// (p.17) [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Answer Connection Question #1-7 assigned to you in class [LLP] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Continue working on Mid-Term Take-Home Exam Part I <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">[DUE NEXT WEDNESDAY, 1/20/2016!!!]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Continue working on Mid-Term Take-Home Exam Part I (this will be last day of the week for a solo assignment) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">[DUE MONDAY, 1/25/2016!!!]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1/8/2016 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Re-read, //Wonder//, (pp. 75-99) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Passage Presenter: Select two passages from the assigned <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">reading and explain why these passages stood out, made an <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">impression, had an impact on you, Auggie, the plot, other <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">characters. Read the directions at the top of the handout for more <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">information of the Passage Presenter's job in a lit circle. [Handout]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1/7/2016 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade and 8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Mindful Journal Entry #2: "Oogway's Advice" [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Continue drafting your Mid-Term Exam

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1/6/2016 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Begin drafting your Case by Case Analysis Paper[Handout/Wikispace/Google Classroom] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Vocabulary: Unit 3 Chapter 13: Complete ALL activities (pp.98-103)

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.5;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Begin drafting your Character Analysis Paper [Handout/Wikispace/Google Classroom] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read, Wonder, (pp.76-99) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Answer Reader's Response [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Complete reading the article, "What is Bullying?" <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">5) Answer ALL parts of your assigned question

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.5;">12/23/2015 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read, **//Wonder//**, (pages 3-75) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read article, "What is Bullying?" (pp.15-16) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Answer your assigned question from #1-4 [LLP]
 * Be sure to respond in complete sentences and offer evidence to defend your claims!**

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read final chapters of //The Juvie Three// <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete in detail character analysis chart (4th chart in analysis organizer) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete "Anticipation Guide" for //The Giver// (BOTH SIDES) [ALL answers on LLP] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">*For questions #1-4 (A-E for each) be sure to answer in complete sentences and thoughts. I am looking for depth in your responses with support for each claim. [LLP] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;"> For the True/False questions, you are to answer with two sentences only to explain your thought process. [LLP]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">12/17/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: Trip $$ and Slip Due Tomorrow!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read, "Gentlemen of the Road (pp.196-201) [Interactive Workbooks] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete ALL Dialogue w/ Text, Cause and Effect Chart, and <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Test Practice <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) In Understanding Nonfiction Text Features Practice Packet: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">a) Read, Main Idea & Supporting Details (p.12) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">b) Complete Skills Check (p.13)

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: Trip Slip and $$$ Due Tomorrow!!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">DUE MONDAY: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read Chapters 19-25 The Juvie Three (pp. ) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete Character Analysis Chart

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">12/16/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read Chapters 9-18 The Juvie Three <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete Character Analysis Chart

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">12/15/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: Rolling Thunder Rewards Trip Slip & $$$ Due!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete //Monster// Reader's Response: Central Theme <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">[Handout] TEST GRADE 60% CATEGORY
 * Be sure to cite a MINIMUM of 3 pieces of textual evidence**
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">with page # to defend your claim!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: Rolling Thunder Rewards Trip Slip & $$$ Due!!! **

//Cite specific textual evidence for these chapters (Korman, p.#)// <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//[305: chapters 3-8]//
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read Chapters //chapters 3-8// **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;"> //The Juvie Three// **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//(pp.53-84)// **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//2) Begin filling Character Analysis Chart for these four chapters// **

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//3) Create set of Flash Cards on Quizlet (use computer lab to get started) for Unit 3 Chapter 12 (Unit 3 Chapter 11 was due yesterday!!)//

Write in complete sentences and thoughts! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete Reader's Response: Central Theme [Handout]
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">12/14/15 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: REWARDS TRIP SLIP AND MONEY DUE FRIDAY!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Mindfulness Journal: Physical Effects of Stress [Handout] **
 * You MUST cite specific evidence to support your response!!!**


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: Rewards trip slip and $$ due Friday! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Vocabulary Activities Unit 3 Chapter 12 (pp. 92-97) [Groundwork Vocabulary Workbooks] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete Mindfulness Journal: Physical Effects of Stress [Handout] **Be sure to answer in complete and thoughtful sentences!

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">12/8/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Character Analysis Practice #4-Front side #1-5 [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete reading Lesson 1: Mindful Choices (pp. 24-30) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) In Writing Journals: Write a one paragraph (9-15 sentences) reflection <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">of your Lesson 1: Mindful Choices Reading

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete reading Mindful Choices: Lesson 1 (p.24-30) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) In Writing Journals: Write a one paragraph (9-15 sentences) reflection of your reading; thoughts, ideas, connections, what you find useful, helpful, and/or interesting

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">12/7/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: Trip Money $7 Due tomorrow! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Character Analysis Practice-Both Sides [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Bring back Ms. Pringle's Library Book <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Be sure you have your writing Journals for tomorrow!!

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete all vocabulary exercises for Unit 3 Chapter 11 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">(pp.86-91) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Anyone who did not complete Nonfiction Packet: Classifieds <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Advertisements (pp.3-4) do so this evening

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">12/1/2015 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: DUE THURSDAY! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read //Monster// (pp.152-200) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete Reader's Critical Response [Handout] Be sure to follow all prompts
 * Be sure to answer ALL questions being asked. Extra space use LLP or back of handout][Test Grade!]**
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete First Marking Period Grade Reflection [Handout] **

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Get Constitution Center slip signed and $12.00 (by Friday) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete First Marking Period Grade Reflection [Handout] **

Be sure to follow all prompts

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">11/10/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: Get Franklin Institute Permission slip signed & $6.00 Due Friday!!!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Using 7 words to own for //Monster//, write a short story about some aspect of a court case.....[LLP] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read //Monster//, (pp.65-114) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete Elements of Story Mountain Organizer for following elements: [use LLP for extra space and staple] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Basic Situation <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.5;">Characters (thus far) *be sure to identify who they are and their significance to plot <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Rising Action/Complications (thus far)
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.5;">Central Conflict
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.5;">Setting

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">11/9/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete //Monster// Words to Own definition chart [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read //Monster// (pp.28-64) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete "Think Aloud Comment Chart" [Handout]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">11/2/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Answer in full response: Umrika Film response question as it was assigned in class [LLP]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">**Be prepared to meet with classmates on Wednesday to share your response and then report out to whole class**

Be prepared to meet with classmates on Wednesday to share <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">your response and then report out to whole class <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Trip slips and $7.00 due by Wednesday
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;"> NO SCHOOL TOMORROW/Picture Day Thursday 11/5 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Answer in full response: Umrika Film response question **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">as it was assigned in class [LLP] **

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">10/26/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: Newspaper Book Reports Due Friday!!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Conflict Activity [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Continue working on book report project [Due Friday] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Library students should read chapters 1-3 of, //How It Went Down// by Kekla Magoon for tomorrow's author chat [Bring the book in for signing!!!!]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Newspaper Book Reports Due Friday!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">High School Folder and documents due Friday!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Will give all 8th grade students the chance to turn in delinquent work **by Thursday for partial credit so check your Schoolnet for outstanding assignments ASAP!!!** [This is a once in a lifetime opportunity so do not-not do this!]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">10/20/15 Dress-Down Friday $1.00 Fund Raiser <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Continue working on your Newspaper Book Report Projects <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) PFF Trip Slip and $7.00 DUE FRIDAY!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Malala Essay Test tomorrow! [Bring your neon log-on index card]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade:

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Continue working on your Newspaper Book Report Projects

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) PFF Trip Slip and $7.00 DUE FRIDAY!!!

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Malala Essay Test tomorrow! [Bring your neon log-on index card]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">10/19/15 DRESS-DOWN DAY FRIDAY!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Begin brainstorming ideas and laying out your newspaper [Due 10/30/15] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete CTR Template for your Test tomorrow <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Field Trip for PFF Slips and Money due Friday!!!!

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">10/19/15 DRESS DOWN FRIDAY!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade:

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Begin brainstorming ideas and laying out your newspaper [Due 10/30/15]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete CTR Template for your Test tomorrow

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Field Trip for PFF Slips and Money due Friday!!!!

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">10/14/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: Begin thinking about Newspaper and your layout/design <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read a minimum of 2 chapters in your independent reading book <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Select and complete Reading Menu 2 Activity: Day 2 on LLP (remember to label everything!) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Get Malala Take-Home Quiz signed!!!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: Begin thinking about Newspaper and your layout/design

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read a minimum of 2 chapters in your independent reading book <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Select and complete Reading Menu 2 Activity: Day 2 on LLP (remember to label everything!) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete Vocabulary Activity for "Malala the Powerful" [Handout] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Complete "Malala the powerful" Read, Think, Explain [Handout]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">10/13/14 Begin thinking about your Newspaper Project!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: [One Activity from Menu #2 per day....Due Friday] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read a minimum of 2 chapters in your independent reading book <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Select and complete Reading Menu 2 Activity: Day 1 on LLP (remember to label everything!)

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: [One Activity from Menu #2 per day....Due Friday]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.5;">1) Read a minimum of 2 chapters in your independent reading book

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.5;">2) Select and complete Reading Menu 2 Activity: Day 1 on LLP (remember to label everything!) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.5;">3) Reread, "//Malala the Powerful//" [Handout] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.5;">4) Complete Close Reading Activity and Critical Reading Activity [Handout]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">10/8/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: [Reading Menu Activities (minimum 4) will be collected on Friday!!!!] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read a minimum of 2 chapters in your independent reading book <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Select and complete Reading Menu 1 Activity: Day 3 on LLP (remember to label everything!)

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: [Reading Menu Activities (minimum 4) will be collected on Friday!!!!] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read a minimum of 2 chapters in your independent reading book <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Select and complete Reading Menu 1 Activity: Day 4 on LLP (remember to label everything!)

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">10/7/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: [Reading Menu Activities (min. 4) will be collected on Friday!!!!] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read a minimum of 2 chapters in your independent reading book <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Select and complete Reading Menu 1 Activity: Day 3 on LLP (remember to label everything!)

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: [Reading Menu Activities (min. 4) will be collected on Friday!!!!] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read a minimum of 2 chapters in your independent reading book <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Select and complete Reading Menu 1 Activity: Day 3 on LLP (remember to label everything!) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Read, //Malala the Powerful// (yes, again) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Complete Scope: Close Reading Questions and Critical Thinking Questions [Handout]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">10/6/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//1)// Complete //Scope:// //Malala's Big Ideas: Central Ideas and Supporting Details// <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read a minimum of 2 chapters in your independent reading book <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Select and complete Reading Menu 1 Activity: Day 2 on LLP (remember to label everything!)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read a minimum of 2 chapters in your independent reading book <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Select and complete Reading Menu 1 Activity: Day 2 on LLP (remember to label everything!) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Read, Malala the Powerful <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Complete Common Core Practice: Tone & Mood [Handout] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">5) Get Vocabulary Test signed!!!!

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">10/5/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read a minimum of 2 chapters of your independent reading book <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Select and Complete Reading Menu Activity 1/4 on LLP [To be <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;"> turned in on Friday] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Write a one-page article summary retelling, "Malala the Powerful" <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">as if you were trying to explain it to a 2-5 grade student [LLP]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: Reminder: High School Workshop Tomorrow 10:00AM!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Read a minimum of 2 chapters in your independent reading book <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Select and Complete Reading Menu 1 Activity 1/4 on LLP [To be <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">turned in on Friday] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Read Scope Article, "Malala the Powerful" [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Write a one-page summary retelling the article as if you were trying <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">to explain it to a 2-5 grade student [LLP]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">10/1/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: [Vocabulary Test Monday!!!] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) (304) Give parent/guardian your copy of PSSA Parent Report AND Get PSSA Parent Letter signed [Make sure your name is on it] [Quiz Grade] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete, "Malala the Powerful" Take-Home Quiz <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Both Multiple choice (#1-8) AND Open-Ended questions on LLP (#9-10)[stapled to original page] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) You will need your chapter books for class tomorrow

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">9/30/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Get PSSA Parent Letter signed [Make sure your name is on it] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Create Flash Cards for your 9 Words to own <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">See template from class!!!!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">Use your account that you set up today in class!

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">9/29/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1a) Using the 9 words to Own from //Scope: Malala the Powerful, write a short story using all words correctly in context [LLP]// <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//[defy; envision; oppressive; plague; pseudonym; refugee; rural; unwittingly; vigil]// <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//1b) Complete 4-step vocabulary exercise for each word:// <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//a) write the __word__ and sentence as used in the article// <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//b) What you think the word means in context of the passage// <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//c) The dictionary definition of the word [make sure you use the correct definition]// <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//d) one synonym/one antonym// <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//Topic: Running away to another country// <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//2) Bring in Chapter Book for Book Report Project #1 for approval//

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//8th Grade:// <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//1) Write a short story using the 10 words to own from Unit 1 Chapter 1 [LLP]// <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//Topic: Applying to high schools// <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//2) Bring in chapter book for Book report #1 for approval//

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">9/22/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete //Scope: Before Reading: Text Features// (front & back of first page) <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read, //"Malala the Powerful"// (pp.5-9) [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete //Scope: During Reading: Text Features// <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Complete //Scope: After Reading: Text Features// <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//5)// Complete //Scope:// //Malala's Big Ideas: Central Ideas and Supporting Details// <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//6)// Complete //Scope: Close-Reading Questions (use LLP if you need more space and staple to packet)// <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">//7) Complete all Scope: Vocabulary Activities// <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8) Bring in Chapter Book for your first book report project for approval [Due date TBA]

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Complete Unit 1 Lesson 1 Vocabulary Activities [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Write/type high school essay (Be sure you follow the prompt very carefully) [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">**If using Google Docs, be sure to share with me and allow for editing (rapringle@philasd.org)**


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">9/18/15 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Get all SDP and MYA Documents signed including Back to School Night Flyer **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Bring in a picture of yourself (past or current) but relatively small in size....3x3; 3x5; 4x6 assume you will not get this picture back so....don't bring me in a family valuable picture! :) **


 * <span style="color: #ab1e0b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 210%;">8th Grade: **


 * <span style="color: #ab1e0b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 210%;">1) 7-Habits: Complete reading, "Habit 1: Be Proactive" (pp.48-70) **


 * <span style="color: #ab1e0b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 210%;">2) Complete: "Habit 1-Be Proactive"Workbook Activities [Handout] (pp.49-61) **


 * <span style="color: #ab1e0b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 210%;">3) Write [LLP] a response essay to the following essential question: **
 * <span style="color: #ab1e0b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 210%;">"How do we measure an individual's success?" **
 * <span style="color: #ab1e0b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 210%;">Be sure to use your definition of success to formulate your thesis statement AND use your 5 qualities of success to develop your paragraphs. You must include examples of each quality as well when developing your essay. **

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">9/17/15 <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Get ALL SDP and MYA Documents signed!!!! Due tomorrow!!! <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Get Back to School Flyer signed and return bottom portion <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete, Most Important Word Activity for Model: Anita & Joyce
 * Use your Class Example "Word Up- or Down" as a reference for this reading strategy**
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.5;">4) Complete Map Skills Study Sheet [Handout Social Studies] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Get ALL SDP and MYA Documents signed!!!! Due tomorrow!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 1.5;">2) Get Back to School Flyer signed and return bottom portion **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) 7-Habits: Complete reading, "Habit 1: Be Proactive" (pp.48-70) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Complete: "Habit 1-Be Proactive"Workbook Activities [Handout] (pp.49-61) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">5) Read, "from Generall Historie of Virginia" by John Smith **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">6) On LLP: Answer questions #1-2 [Central Idea] and #3-4 [Critical Thinking] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">*Be sure to answer in complete sentences and TAG all answers! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">9/16/15 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Get all SDP documents signed!!!! Due by Friday for quiz grade **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete the following Social Studies Activities: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">a) Chapter 1 Section 1: Reading Study Guide "The World at Your Fingertips" (pp.4-5) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">b) Chapter 1 Section 2: Reading Study Guide "Many Regions, Many Cultures" (pp.6-7) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">c) Chapter 1 Sections 1-2: Building Vocabulary (p.11) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) GET HIGH SCHOOL FAIR FLYER SIGNED!!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Get all SDP documents signed!!!! Due by Friday for quiz grade **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) On LLP **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">a) Answer the following question: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">"How do you define success?" **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">b) Identify 5 qualities that success encompasses **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete the following Social Studies Activities: **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">a) Chapter 3 Section 1: Reading Study Guide "Early Colonies Have Mixed Success" (pp.27-28) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">b) Design Concept Web in your SS Notebook #1 and fill it in as you read the study guide!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) GET HIGH SCHOOL FAIR FLYER SIGNED!!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">9/11/15 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Get all SDP and MYA Documents signed **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Complete Short and Long Term Worksheet [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Find 20 facts about 9/11/2001; Beware of opinion statements [LLP] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Cite sources for facts that you find [LLP] You must give credit to the source **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">[If it is website, cite URL address: http: //]// **
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Get all SDP documents signed!!!! //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read, The Personal Bank Account, (pp.29-46) //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete 7-Habits Workbook Activities [Handout] //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">9/10/15 //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Get all School District and MYA Documents signed!!!! //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read the article, "3 Keys to Doing Well in School" //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete a 3-2-1 Activity: [LLP] //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;"> 3- Study skills you plan on applying this year //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;"> 2- Areas discussed in the article that you feel were your weakest last year //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;"> 1- Short term goal (see notes from class) you are setting for yourself //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Write a one-paragraph (9-12 sentences) reflection [LLP] on the following essential question: //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;"> "How will this article set you up for success in school and in life?" //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) GET all school district and MYA documents signed //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read 7-Habits Part I: "Paradigms and Principles" //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">(pp.11-28) //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete 7-Habits workbook activities [Handout] //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">9/9/2105 //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th Grade: //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Get all papers signed //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Answer "The Real You" 17 questions [LLP] //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">*Remember to turn question into your opening answer AND be as honest as possible. There are no "right" or "wrong" answers; Only I will see this! //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) JOIN Ms. Pringle's Wikispace!!!!!!! [Quiz Grade] //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">http://hivealive.wikispaces.com //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">8th Grade: //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Get all documents signed //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Read Part I: The Set Up, "Get in the Habit" (pp.3-9) //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">3) Complete "Get in the Habit" Workbook Activities [Handout] ALL of it //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">4) Join Wiki @ //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">http://hivealive.wikispaces.com //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">5/15/15-5/17/15 [Weekend] //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th and 8th Grade: //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">[Friday] //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 37px;">1) Continue research paper: Draft Paragraphs V and VI (conclusion) [Saturday/Sunday] //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px; line-height: 37px;">2) Write final draft of 6 paragraph research paper Due Monday!!!!! //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">5/14/15 [Thursday] //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th and 8th Grade: //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Continue your research paper: Draft Paragraphs III and IV //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Write Picture Poem: Rough draft in Spoken Word Journal/Final Draft on LLP //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">5/13/15 [Wednesday] //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">7th and 8th Grade: //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Continue your research paper: Draft Paragraphs I and II //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Write 2 Instant Poems: Rough drafts in Spoken Word Journals/Final Drafts on LLP //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">a) "Who am I" Poem //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">b) "The Real You" Cinquain Poem //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">5/12/15 [Tuesday] //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">7th and 8th Grade: //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">1) Begin your research paper: Draft Introduction [Paragraph I] //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">2) Write 2 Instant Poems: Rough drafts in Spoken Word Journals/Final Drafts on LLP //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">a) "Spine Poem" Poem //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 25px;">b) "Louder Than You Can Imagine" Poem //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">5/11/15 [Monday] //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">7th and 8th Grade: //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">1) Write 2 Instant Poems: Rough drafts in Spoken Word Journals/Final Drafts on LLP //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">a) "Rhetorical Question" Poem //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">b) "What If..." Poem //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">5/8/15 //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">7th and 8th Grade: //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">1) All notes and outline due Monday for research paper //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">2) Write an Instant, "Emotional Animal" Poem [rough draft in Spoken Word Journal/Final on LLP] //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">3) Write an instant, "If Hope Were a Color" Poem [Rough draft in Spoken Word Journal/Final Draft on LLP] //**

//<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">7th Grade: //
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">5/4/2015 //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">1) Revisit Instant Poem, "If I Were in Charge of the World" (in writing journals from December) //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">a) Transfer it into your Spoken Word Poetry Journal //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">b) Edit and revise if necessary (use vivid details, specific word choice, figurative language, sound devices) //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">c) Write a final copy on LLP for bulletin board [Due Tuesday, 5/5] //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">2) Continue researching for your Spoken Word Poetry research paper [Notes/Sources Used due this Thursday, 5/7] //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">3) Complete Reader's Response Questions for, //**A View from Saturday **//[Due Wednesday 5/6]//**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 24.7000007629395px;">[Handout] //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 24.7000007629395px;">4) Begin working on Chapter 1 Vocabulary 4-step Activity [Due Tuesday, May 12, 2015] //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 24.7000007629395px;">5) Begin completing your Lit Circle assignment for chapter 1 [Due Friday, May 8, 2015] //**

//<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 24.7000007629395px;">8th Grade: //


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 24.7000007629395px;">1) Revisit Instant Poem, "If I Were in Charge of the World" (in writing journals from December) //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 24.7000007629395px;">a) Transfer it into your Spoken Word Poetry Journal //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 24.7000007629395px;">b) Edit and revise if necessary (use vivid details, specific word choice, figurative language, sound devices) //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 24.7000007629395px;">c) Write a final copy on LLP for bulletin board [Due Tuesday, 5/5] //**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 24.7000007629395px;">2) Continue researching for your Hip Hop research paper [Notes/Sources Used Page due this Thursday, 5/7] //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 24.7000007629395px;">3) Read Shel Silverstein's poem, //**"Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout..." **//and complete the poetry analysis chart and questions [Due Wednesday, 5/6] [Handout]//**


 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">5/1/2015 //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">7th GRADE: Assessment on Poem for test grade Monday //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">1) Memorize Group Spoken Word Poem //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">a) Be sure to practice in front of mirror for facial expression //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">b) Tape yourself on your phone so you can hear the sounds of your poem //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">c) Perform your poem in front of a family member or friend to get feedback //**
 * //<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">2) Read, chapters 1 (pp.1-20) //The View From Saturday//**
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">3) Be prepared for quiz on chapter 1 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">4) Get Picasso Ticket Order form filled out and return with ticket $$ **

<span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">7th GRADE:
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">4/28/2015 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">1) Complete both final drafts of Instant Poems published work: **[Due tomorrow!!]
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">a) "I Don't Understand..." **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">b) "I Used To..." **
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">2) Continue researching for your Spoken Word Poetry Meets Percussion research paper [Notes and sources cited **due Thursday, May 7, 2015**]**
 * <span style="color: #8c1606; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">3) ALL Documentary, "From Mambo to Hip Hop" one-page **reflections are due tomorrow!!!!!**

<span style="color: #3107d9; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">4/6/2015 <span style="color: #3107d9; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th & 8th Grade: <span style="color: #3107d9; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Vocabulary Retest: Tuesday, April 7, 2015!!!!! (Use your Study Guides to assist you)

<span style="color: #3107d9; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: <span style="color: #3107d9; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete work on your brochures! Due Wednesday!!!!! <span style="color: #3107d9; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete "Elipses" Practice Worksheet [Handout]

<span style="color: #3107d9; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: <span style="color: #3107d9; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete "Elipses" Practice Worksheet [Handout]

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Homework 3/31/15-4/5/2015 [PSSA Inner-session]

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;"> VOCABULARY RETEST: MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2015!!!!!!

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">7th Grade: Nonfiction Brochure Due Monday, April 6, 2015

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Mission of Mercy: A Play in 3 Scenes

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">1) Preview: ALL multiple-choice questions #1-10


 * 1) <span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Be sure to highlight critical information
 * 2) <span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Identify category of question if possible

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">2) Preview: Text Dependent Analysis Question #11


 * 1) <span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Be sure to highlight critical information

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">3) Preview: passage, title, directions


 * 1) <span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Be sure to highlight critical information

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">4) Read, Mission of Mercy (pp.6-11)


 * 1) <span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Be sure to annotate in margins (make notes) with regards to Multiple Choice questions (MC#)
 * 2) <span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Be sure to highlight important information for your Text Dependent Analysis Essay
 * 3) <span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Make notes in the margins for textual evidence you will use for your essay [min. of 3 pieces of textual evidence]

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">5) Essay [**Major Writing Prompt Grade]


 * 1) <span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Write rough draft [4-5 paragraphs in length]
 * 2) <span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Edit rough draft [look for spelling, grammar, punctuation errors]
 * 3) <span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Write final draft [should be no longer than 2.5 pages]

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Passage 2: Four Editorials About Bake Sale

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">1) Preview: ALL multiple-choice questions #13-19


 * 1) <span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Be sure to highlight critical information
 * 2) <span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Identify category of question if possible

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">2) Read, Four Editorials About Bake Sales


 * 1) <span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Answer multiple choice questions after each editorial

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">3) Complete Elimination Analysis for multiple choice questions

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">#13-17

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Language Arts: Standalone Multiple Choice Questions [Writing Grade]

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">1) Complete grammar and punctuation edit practice #30-45

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">You will be graded on:

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">1) Previewing questions and highlighting

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">2) Answering multiple choice questions correctly

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">3) Marginal notes and highlighting of passages

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">4) Elimination analysis #13-17

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">5) Text Dependent Analysis Essay

<span style="color: #470b4d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">6) Language Arts Practice

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Homework 3/31/15-4/5/2015 [PSSA Inner-session]

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">8th Grade:

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Joe’s Reward

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">1) Preview: ALL multiple-choice questions #1-10


 * 1) <span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Be sure to highlight critical information
 * 2) <span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Identify category of question if possible

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">2) Preview: Text Dependent Analysis Question #11


 * 1) <span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Be sure to highlight critical information

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">3) Preview: passage, title, directions


 * 1) <span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Be sure to highlight critical information

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">4) Read, Joe’s Reward (pp.6-8)


 * 1) <span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Be sure to annotate in margins (make notes) with regards to Multiple Choice questions (MC#)
 * 2) <span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Be sure to highlight important information for your Text Dependent Analysis Essay
 * 3) <span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Make notes in the margins for textual evidence you will use for your essay [min. of 3 pieces of textual evidence]

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">5) Essay [**Major Writing Prompt Grade]


 * 1) <span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Write rough draft [4-5 paragraphs in length]
 * 2) <span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Edit rough draft [look for spelling, grammar, punctuation errors]
 * 3) <span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Write final draft [should be no longer than 2.5 pages]

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Editorial: Teens Are Going to Extremes with Texting

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">6) Preview: ALL multiple-choice questions #20-28


 * 1) <span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Be sure to highlight critical information
 * 2) <span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Identify category of question if possible

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">7) Read, Editorial: Teens Are Going to Extremes with Texting


 * 1) <span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Answer multiple choice questions #20-28

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">8) Complete Elimination Analysis for multiple choice questions #20-27

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Language Arts: Standalone Multiple Choice Questions [Writing Grade]

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">9) Complete grammar and punctuation edit practice #30-46

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">You will be graded on:

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">1) Previewing questions and highlighting

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">2) Answering multiple choice questions correctly

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">3) Marginal notes and highlighting of passages

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">4) Elimination analysis #20-27

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">5) Text Dependent Analysis Essay

<span style="color: #6e0b3a; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">6) Language Arts Practice

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3/30/15 <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Continue working on Nonfiction Brochure Project [Due 4/6/15]

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Complete Archetypal Hero Essay [DUE TOMORROW!!!]

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3/27/15 <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">7th Grade: Affixes/Roots Test Monday <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Read, //Into the Unknown//, (Multi-Act Play) (pp.28-34) <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Complete ALL Dialogue w/ text both on page, and on LLP (Remember to LABEL and staple Everything!!) <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) Work on your Brochure Project [Due 4/6] <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">4) STUDY, STUDY, STUDY your 37 Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots!!!!!!!!!!!!!

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3/26/15 <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">7th Grade: Prefix, Suffix, and Root Vocabulary Test moved to Monday or Tuesday <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots: Make a list of 5 words that use each of the prefixes, suffixes, and roots [LLP] <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Read, //Charts and Tables//, //Time Lines//, and //Illustrations and Sidebars// (pp.44, 46, 48) [Handout] <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) Complete each "Skills Check" (pp. 45, 47, 49) [Handout] <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">4) Continue researching and gathering ideas for Nonfiction Brochure (Due April 6, 2015)

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">8th Grade: Prefix, Suffix, and Root Vocabulary Test moved to Monday or Tuesday <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Complete, "Affixes and Roots" Study Guide [Handout] <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Complete, "Superlatives" Chart for Yearbook [Handout] <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) Begin Brainstorming for Archetypal Hero Essay (Due, 3/31/15) [Handout]

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">7th GRADE: Prefix, suffix, root test Friday! <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Complete Prefix, suffix, root Vocabulary Study Guide [Handout] <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Read, //Graphs//, (p.40); complete Skills Check (p.41) <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) Read, //Maps//, (p.42); complete Skills Check (p.43) <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">4) Begin working on your Brochure Project: <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">a) select a European Country [Index Card w/ Name, Advisory, and country selected] <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">b) List of 5-10 areas you will focus on in brochure [Backside of index card] <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">*think about culture, language, attractions, history, events, restaurants/food etc...)

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3/23/15 GET ALL INTERIM REPORTS SIGNED <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">7th GRADE: LLP <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) **Complete 4-step vocabulary activity** for the following words: frigate, outfitted, routine, skirmish, broadside, countenance, helm, tailwind, vessel [John Adams PSSA Sampler]

__<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">Word __

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">Step 1: Word as used in context

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">Step 2: Based on context what you think word means

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">Step 3: Actual Dictionary definition

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">Step 4: One synonym; One antonym <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) STUDY for Prefix, suffix, root test Wednesday

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3/20/15: GET INTERIM REPORTS SIGNED!!: TEST GRADE; Grammar Test Monday!!!! Study all notes and Practice Packets <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) [Interactive Workbooks]: //Fish Cheeks// (pp.34-39) <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">a) Complete: Before Reading Activity (p.34) <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">b) Read: //Fish Cheeks// (p.35-37) <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">c) Complete: ALL dialogue w/ Text (p.36-37) <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">d) Complete: "Events Chart" (p.38) AND Vocabulary and Comprehension (p.39) <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) WRITING: Write a **one-page** narrative about an event (embarrassing, educational, life-altering) you have experienced in your life <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">a) Be sure to use vivid details, sensory imagery, and power adjectives to describe your event <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) Complete 2-step process for 5 suffixes [Level 4] LLP <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3a) Create flash cards for suffixes

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">8th GRADE: GET INTERIM REPORTS SIGNED!! Test Grade <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) [PSSA Item Sampler] //Anita Roddick: Founder of the Body Shop// <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">a) Preview ALL MC questions and highlight pertinent details <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">b) Read the passage: highlight and annotate pertinent details <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">c) Complete "Elimination Analysis" for any 8 MC (#20-27) questions [**Be certain to explain why you eliminated the answer choice and with which Eliminator #1-4**


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) Complete 2-step process for 5 suffixes [Level 4] LLP **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3a) Create flash cards for suffixes **

7th and 8th Grade: **Grammar Test Monday 3/23/15!!!**
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3/19/15 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Complete Grammar Study Practice (pp.143-44) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Look up (7) Prefixes (level 4) AND (5) Root Words (Level 7 cont...) complete 3-step process [LLP] **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">a) **__Word (prefix, root, or suffix)__
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 39px;">b) Definition(s) (ALL) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 39px;">c) Origin [prefix and roots only] **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 39px;">3) Create flash cards for all 13 words **

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">4-Step Process:
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3/18/15 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) **Complete reading**,** //The Courage of John Adams// **(pp.20-27)**
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) **Answer **all "Cite Evidence" and "Comprehension Check" questions in passage AND on LLP**
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) **Complete 4-step Vocabulary activity **for the following:1) armory; 2) diplomatic;**
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) exchange; 4) merchant; 5) statesman **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) __Word:__ Sentence with word from passage **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Based on context, what you think the word means **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) Dictionary definition followed by (part of speech) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">4) one synonym; one antonym **

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">305/306: 305:
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3/17/15 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #940933; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">1) Complete Grammar Review Study Guide Worksheets 3-6 (pp.139-142 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Read PSSA Progress Passage, The Judgement of Paris (pp. 12-19) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Complete ALL dialogue w/ text prompts in margins **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2a) Complete any comprehension checks, conclusions, and inferences on LLP and staple **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) Write a ONE-PAGE response paper [LLP] analyzing the theme of the Greek Myth **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3a) Be sure to cite textual evidence to support what you state as the theme (universal life lesson learned) [Major Writing Grade] **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3.17.15 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">7th GRADE: Grammar Assessment Friday! **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Complete Grammar Review Study Guide Worksheets 3-6 (pp.139-142) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Write an apology letter to Mr. Ricci for your part in the absolute mayhem during your Social Studies block on Monday, March 16. 2015. If you feel you were not a part of the chaos, then write a letter to Mr. Ricci explaining from your observations what your class could have done and should have done to ensure the lesson was taught and the work got done. **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3.16.15 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">7th GRADE: Vocabulary Test Tomorrow!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Complete Vocabulary Study Guide [Mandatory/Graded] **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Begin completing Grammar review Study Guide **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">(pp. 137-138) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) Complete Colon Usage (p. 292) and End Marks/Abbreviations (p. 293) [End Marks Packet] **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">8th GRADE: Vocabulary Test Tomorrow!!! **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Complete Vocabulary Study Guide [Mandatory/Graded] **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Begin completing Grammar Review Study Guide (pp.137-138) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) Complete End Marks Packet: Colon Usage (p.292) AND End Marks/Abbreviations (p.293) [GRAMMAR Test Friday!) **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3/13/15: **Vocabulary Tests for both 7th and 8th Grade will be pushed to Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Any inferences or conclusions should be written and numbered on LLP!!!!
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) ALL students must complete ALL of the Junior Scholastic activities in BOTH packets! There are no exceptions. Students will need this completed in order to participate in class next week. **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Read PSSA Progress Story, **//Courage in the Water,// **(pp.12-19)[Handed out three weeks ago]**
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) Write a ONE-PAGE summary of the story following the format structure of a summary (notes given in class 3/10)[Writing Grade] **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">4) Complete ALL dialogue w/ Text in the margins and multiple choice questions on pages 12-19 **

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">8th GRADE:

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Read PSSA Progress Passage, The Judgement of Paris (pp. 12-19)

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Complete ALL dialogue w/ text prompts in margins <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2a) Complete any comprehension checks, conclusions, and inferences on LLP and staple

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) Write a ONE-PAGE response paper [LLP] analyzing the theme of the Greek Myth <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3a) Be sure to cite textual evidence to support what you state as the theme (universal life lesson learned) [Major Writing Grade]

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3/12/15 <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">7th GRADE: Vocabulary test moved to Monday, March 16, 2015 <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Review rules 23l-23n for Semicolon Usage A & B (pp.290-1) <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Complete Exercise #4-10 (p.290) <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) Complete Exercise #1-10 (p.291) <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">4) Using cover story in JS: Write a one-page response paper: Theme [Handout]

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">8th GRADE: Vocabulary test moved to Monday, March 16, 2015 <span style="color: #992911; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Organize ALL flash cards for prefixes and roots, and 16 words to own <span style="color: #992911; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Collected tomorrow: four groups of flash cards in sandwich bag w/ name on bag <span style="color: #992911; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) Collected tomorrow: Definitions for prefixes,, roots and suffixes on LLP from last two weeks <span style="color: #992911; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">5) Review rules 23l-23n for Semicolon Usage A & B (pp.290-1) <span style="color: #992911; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">6) Complete Exercise #4-10 (p.290), and Exercise #1-10 (p.291) <span style="color: #992911; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7) Suffixes: -ed, -er, -est, -ing, -ly, -y <span style="color: #992911; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Definitions [LLP] <span style="color: #992911; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Flash Cards
 * Utopian Community Flag due tomorrow!!!**
 * <span style="color: #992911; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Bird's Eye View Map of Utopian Community due Monday!!! **
 * <span style="color: #992911; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Get permission slip signed w/ $6 for library trip (3/24) **

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3/11/15 <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">7th GRADE: Tonight is a catch-up night <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Organize ALL flash cards for prefixes, suffixes, roots, and 10 words to own <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Collected tomorrow: four groups of cards in sandwich bag <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) Collected tomorrow: Definitions for prefixes, suffixes, roots, and 10 words to own on LLP from last two weeks <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">4) Complete ALL grammar activities up to and including "Conventional Uses of Commas" (p.287)

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">8th GRADE: Tonight is catch up night <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Complete ALL grammar activities up to and including "Conventional Uses of Commas" (p.287)

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3/10/15 <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">8th GRADE: <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Read Enrichment: **//The Hero's Journey//** [Handout] <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Write a minimum ONE-PAGE summary of the passage <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) On back side: Generate a list of the qualities a hero possesses as they relate to Jonas in **//The Giver//**
 * //4)//** //High School Selection forms DUE TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!//


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3/9/15 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">7th GRADE: Vocabulary Test Friday [10 words to own Junior Schoalstic + ALL prefixes, suffixes, and roots] **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Read, "Commas with Introductory Elements" (p.285); Using "Commas" (p.286); and "Conventional Uses of Commas" (p.287) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Add Rules 23j: 1 & 2 AND 23k: 1 & 2 with examples to Grammar section of binder **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2a) Complete ALL exercises pp.285-287 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) Look up the following (6) -suffixes: -er; -est, -ed, **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">-ing; -ly, -y *Be sure to follow same procedure as you did for prefixes and root words **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">4) Flash Cards for all 20 prefixes, suffixes, roots **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">AND words to own (10) **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">8th GRADE: Vocabulary Test Friday [ **//The Giver// **Chapters 1-4 + ALL prefixes, suffixes, and root words]**
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Complete Assessment Preparation Packet: Chapters 5-6, 9-10, 11-12, 15-17 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Complete 4-step vocabulary activity for **//The Giver// **Words to Own Chapters 1-2 and 3-4 (16 words)**
 * __<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">Word __**
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">Step 1: Word as used in context **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">Step 2: Based on context what you think word means **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">Step 3: Actual Dictionary definition **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">Step 4: One synonym; One antonym **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3/4/2015 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Complete Nonfiction Skills Check for: **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">a) Headings and Subheadings (pp.32-33) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">b) Asterisks, Bullets, and Captions (pp.34-35) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Read (and add to Grammar section of binder) Comma Usage Rules 23j. 1 & 2: "Commas w/ Introductory Elements" (p.285) [Grammar IW Packet] **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2a) Complete Exercises A & B (p.285) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) Review "Using Commas" Rules 23f-23j (p.286) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3a) Complete Exercise #1-10 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">4) Read, (and add to Grammar section of binder) Comma Usage Rule 23k. 1 & 2: "Conventional Uses of Commas" (p.287) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">4a) Complete Exercise: Letter Editing (p.287) **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">7th GRADE: [ **Due to the lack of communication and follow through with my substitute Tuesday 3/3/15, I am extending students the opportunity to complete their classwork and homework assignments distributed on Tuesday, March 3, 2015]

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Read and complete ALL multiple choice questions for passages 1-4 in PSSA Released Item Sampler Practice [Handout]

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) **Complete classwork and homework assignment from class on Tuesday in your Junior Scholastic Magazine, "The Most Dangerous Place in the World"**
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">and with your 10 words to own: [Due Thursday] **


 * 1) ** Analyze ** the map( pp.12-13): Answer questions 1-10 on LLP Attach to y our work from Friday **


 * 2) ** Analyze ** Photograph: On the back cover, (p.24), answer questions #1-4 on LLP [attach to your work from Friday] **


 * 3) ** Complete ** “Dive Into Academic Vocabulary” Activity [IW Packet (p. 1)] **

4) Read ** the article, **“**//Lost and Found”// (pp.18-19)**


 * 5) ** Complete: ** “Get Your Sources on Course” [IW Packet (p.2)] **


 * 6) ** Read ** the debate, **“**//Are Native American Mascots Racist/”// (pp.20-21)**


 * 7) ** Complete: ** //What’s Your Opinion// [IW Packet (p.3)] **


 * 8) ** Read ** the news stories from, **“**//In the News”// (pp.1-5)**


 * 9) ** Complete: ** //Common Core Questions// [IW Packet (p.4)] **


 * ANY WORK NOT COMPLETED IN CLASS IS YOUR HOMEWORK [Due Wednesday, March 4, 2015] PLUS: **

10.seized 2) Make flash cards for your 7 Prefixes and 8 Root words that you defined last week Vocabulary test Monday, March 9, 2015
 * 1) Write 10 **//ORIGINAL//** sentences using your 10 words to own: [LLP]
 * 1) dictator
 * 2) ratcheted
 * 3) discriminate
 * 4) militant
 * 5) refugee
 * 6) humanitarian
 * 7) calamity
 * 8) displacement
 * 9) radical

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2/26/15 <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th Grade: DUE Monday + tomorrow's assignment!!! <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Read CAREFULLY: Commas with Interrupters A AND B (pp.283-284) <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Add Rules to Grammar section of binder <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete ALL exercises on both pages!!!!

<span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: DUE MONDAY!!! <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Commas with Interrupters A & B: Read ALL rules <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">and enter into Grammar section of your binders <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete ALL exercises on (p.283-284) <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete, **//The Giver: "Job Assignment"//** Critical Thinking Activity [Handout] <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) Reread Chapters 16-23 and complete parts IV. & V of Questions and Decisions
 * Be sure to answer in complete, well-thought out answers citing textual evidence as support**
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Chapters 16-19 (pp.152-189) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Chapters 20-23 (pp.190-225) **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2/25/15 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE AND 8th GRADE 305: **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Read and Copy all rules into Grammar Section of binder: **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">a) Commas with Items in a Series (p.281) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">b) Commas with Compound Sentences (p.282) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete all exercises on BOTH pages!!! **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2/24/15 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete Grammar Practice: Abbreviations Exercises A & B (p.279)[IW Packet] **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete Grammar Review: End Marks AND Abbreviations Exercises A & B (p.280) [IW Packet] **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: 306 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete End Marks and Abbreviation Practice (p.280) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Read all rules for "Commas with Items in a Series" (p.281) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete Exercises A & B (281) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) Read all rules for "Commas with Compound Sentences" (p.282) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">5) Complete Exercises A & B (p.282) **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: 305 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete End Marks Exercise #1-10 (p.278) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1a) Copy all rules for End Marks 23a-23d (p.278) into Grammar section of binder **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Copy Rules for Abbreviations [23e] into Grammar section of binders **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete Abbreviation Practice A & B (p.279) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) Complete End Marks and Abbreviation Review (p.280) **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2/20/15 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">8th GRADE: DUE MONDAY **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Study Unit 1 Chapters 1-5 Vocabulary words; culminating test Monday **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Read, **//The Giver//**, Chapters 21-23**


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) AS YOU READ: Complete Note-taking study guide [Handout] **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">4) Reading Comprehension Check: Select any 3 questions from each chapter 18-23 [LLP] **

Be sure to answer using the questions as your point statement and cite specific evidence to defend your responses

Be sure to answer using the questions as your point statement and cite specific evidence to defend your responses
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2/19/15 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: Culminating Vocabulary Test Lessons 5/6 Friday!!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Read, Nonfiction: Headings and Subheadings (p.32) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete Skill Check (p.33) **Be sure to answer question 7: Critical Thinking AND cite evidence!!
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Read, Nonfiction: Asterisks, Bullets, and Captions (p.34) **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) Complete Skill Check (p.35) Be sure to answer question 7: Critical Thinking AND cite evidence!! **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">5) Study Lessons 5 & 6 Vocabulary Words for culminating test tomorrow!!! **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 39px;">8th GRADE: DUE MONDAY **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 39px;">1) Study Unit 1 Chapters 1-5 Vocabulary words; culminating test Monday **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 39px;">2) Read, **//The Giver//**, Chapters 21-23**
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 39px;">3) AS YOU READ: Complete Note-taking study guide [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 39px;">4) Reading Comprehension Check: Select any 3 questions from each chapter 18-23 [LLP] **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2/18/15 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Read, The Giver, Chapters 18-20 **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) AS YOU READ: Complete "Note-taking Study Guides" [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete Standards Focus: Character Development #1-9 only [Handout] **


 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Study for Culminating Vocabulary Test Friday!!!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #a10e5d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Use your flash cards for Lessons 5 & 6 as well as your vocabulary packets **


 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">2/10/15 **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">7th Grade: Culminating Vocabulary Test Friday (Lessons 5 & 6) **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">1) Read, India's History (pp.174-178) [Interactive Workbook **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">2) Complete AS YOU READ the "Dialogue w/ Text" **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">3) Complete "Reading Check" (p.179) **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">4) Study vocabulary words Lessons 5&6 using flash cards and IW Vocabulary Packets **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Words up on Wiki under 7th grade Vocabulary Boosters Tab **


 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">8th GRADE: Culminating Vocabulary Test Tuesday, 2/17 [Unit 1 Ch.1-5] **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">1) Complete Assessment Preparation Vocabulary Activities for the following pages: **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">33-34; 47-48; 67; 81-82 [IW Packet Assessment Prep] **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">2) Create Flash Cards Unit 1 Chapter 5 Words **


 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">2/9/2015 **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">7th Grade: Benchmark Window Closes Tuesday 2/10/15 **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">1) Read, Point and Support Lesson 6: The Difference Between a Paragraph and **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">an Essay [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">2) Complete all bulleted questions based on the reading **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">3) Read, "How to Change a Flat Tire" (pp.220-223) [Interactive Workbook] **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">4) Complete all "Dialogue w/ Text" [Interactive Workbook] **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">5) Complete "Chronological Sequence Chart" (p.224) [Interactive Workbook] **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">6) Complete "Reading Check" (p.225) [Interactive Workbook] **


 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">8th Grade: Benchmark Testing Window Closes Tuesday 2/10/15 **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">1) Complete Unit 1 Chapter 5 Vocabulary Activities **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">2) Complete Assessment Preparation Chapters 1-2: Punctuation, Capitalization, Spelling, and Grammar [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">3) Read, **//The Giver//**, Chapter 18**
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">4) Complete 3 Double Journal Entries for this chapter [Writing Journals] **


 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">2/2/15 Benchmark 2 Testing Window Opens **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">7th Grade: Culminating Vocabulary Test Lessons 5-6 Friday **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">1) Write short story using Lesson 6: 10 words to own **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">2) Read, nonfiction: Bold Print, Font, Italics, and Underlining (p.30)[Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #87133d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">3) Complete Bold Print, Italics, and Underlining Skills Check (p.31)[Handout] **

<span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: Be sure to use specific details for setting and characters (how are characters changing? developing?)
 * <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Read, The Giver, Chapters 15-17 **
 * <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Note-taking Study Guides [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete Standards Focus: Theme [Handout] **

<span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1/29/15 <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Create Flash Cards for Lesson 6 Words to Own

<span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1/28/15 <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">No Homework: Gates Testing

<span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1/26/2015 <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: Get FIlm Study Assessment Signed!!!!! <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete "Reading New Words in Context" Lesson 3 (pp.183-186) <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">[Wordbusting Packet] <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Read, Lesson 5 Point & Support: Organization (pp. 17-23) [Handout] <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete Activities 9, 10, 11, AND 12

<span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: Symbolism Project Due Wednesday 1/28/15 <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">DUE WEDNESDAY: <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Comprehension Check Questions: All ODD 1-9 for Chapters 11-12 AND 13-14 [LLP] <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Read, The Giver, Chapters 13-14 <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete Note-Taking and Summarizing Guides (pp.62-63) <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">4) Complete Standards Focus: Conflict (pp.65-66)

<span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1/23/15 Weekend Homework <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: **Nonfiction Assessment next Friday 1/30 !!!!** <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Get Picasso Project Press Release form Signed!!!! (Test Grade) <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Read and Complete ALL Lesson 3 Point and Support: Point and Support Outlines (pp.7-9) <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Read and Complete ALL Lesson 4 Point & Support: Two Common Mistakes in Writing (pp. 10-16) <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">4) Complete Lesson 3 Vocabulary: Understanding New Words and Their Uses Exercise 1: Multimeaning AND Exercise 2: Word Analysis/Word Origins (pp.129-130) [Word Busting Lesson 6 Packet] <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: Nonfiction Assessment next Friday 1/30!!! <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Work on Midterm Symbolism Project (Due Wednesday, January 28, 2015)

<span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1/22/15 <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: World Cafe Live Slips due by tomorrow!!!! [Interim Reports signed day #2] <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Nonfiction Packet: Appendix, Atlas, Gazetter Skills Check.... (pp.26-27)[Nonfiction Packet] <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Lesson 6 Vocabulary Exercises: Context Clues, Synonyms, Antonyms [Lesson 6 Packet] <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete Point & Support Lesson 2: Point and Support Outlines (pp.4-6) [Point/Support Packet]

<span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: Symbolism Term Project due next Wednesday, January 28, 2015!!!! <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">World Cafe slips due by tomorrow!!!!! [Interim Reports signed day #2] <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Nonfiction Packet: Appendix, Atlas, Gazetter Skills Check (pp. 26-27)[Nonfiction packet] <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Reread, The Giver, Chapters 11-12 <span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete Standards Focus: Elements of Style (pp.59-60) [IW Packet]

1/22/15 1) Read, **//The Giver//**, Chapters 11-12 2) Complete Note-taking Study Guides for EACH chapter AS YOU READ!!!! *Be very specific as to the setting and characters 3) Complete **3** Double Journal Entries for each chapter (11/12) *Be sure to label the chapter at top * Be sure to label the type of entry you are making on right side column  Social Question: race, gender, class, inequalities; Memories, Literary Elements or persuasive techniques
 * 8th GRADE: Get Interim Reports Signed; World Cafe slips due!!!!!! **
 * Entries Include:** Visual connection; Comments/commentary/Musings; Connections: self to text, text to text, text to world; Significance/importance; Question; Answering the question;

1/21/15 8th GRADE: GET INTERIM REPORT SIGNED!!!!!! 1) Read, **//The Giver//**, Chapters 11-12 2) Complete Note-taking Study Guide AS YOU READ for both chapters 3) Complete 3 Double Journal Entries in your writing journals for each chapter 11 & 12 [no duplicates] a) Visual commentary; b) Comments, reactions; c) Connections: Text to Self, Text to Text, Text to World; d) Significance or importance to plot; e) "Why the text says this f) Questioning author or text; g) ANswers: Clarifying the question; h) Social Issues raised; i) Memories; j) identifying and explaining a literary or persuasive technique or element

4) World Cafe trip slip signed w name on it!!!!

1/20/2015 7th GRADE: 1) Complete Word Busting for ALL 10 words to own Lesson 6 [audible, candid, conspicuous, diaphragm, idle, lenient, modest, notorious,  subtle, threshold]  2) Get World Cafe Live Trip Slip signed 3) Complete Nonfiction Text Features: Index Skills Check (pp.24-25) [Packet]

8th GRADE: **SYMBOLISM Project due Wednesday, January 28, 2015** 1) Read, The Giver, Chapters 9-10 2) Complete Note-taking Study Guide for BOTH chapters AS you read [IW PAcket] 3) Complete Standards Focus Chapters 9-10: Imagery [IW PAcket] 4) Using Chapters 1-10, begin filling in your Symbolism charts of your project assignment packet 5) Get World Cafe trip slip signed

1/16/2015 DUE TUESDAY 1/20/15 7th GRADE: Selma take-home test multiplier X 2 (Social Studies AND ELA) 1) Complete Selma take-home test #1-10 a) Be sure to pay attention to the length of the answer found in parenthesis b) Be sure to answer in complete sentences using examples from the film for support c) ALL WORK ON LLP!!!! d) LABEL all work with your name, advisory, date at header; then number each question being answered (10 in all) 2) Those coming in for MLK Day of Service 9-11 BE SURE TO COME DRESSED TO GET MESSED; N GOOD CLOTHING OR SNEAKERS!!! YOU WILL BE GETTING DOWN AND DIRTY!!!

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8TH GRADE: **//Selma//** take-home test multiplier X 2 (Social Studies AND ELA)

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">1) Complete **//Selma//** take-home test #1-10 <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">a) Be sure to pay attention to the length of the answer found in parenthesis <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">b) Be sure to answer in complete sentences using examples from the film for support <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">c) ALL WORK ON LLP!!!! <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">d) LABEL all work with your name, advisory, date at header; then number each question being answered (10 in all) <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">2) Study for **//The Giver//** CHAPTERS 5-8 Assessment (Tuesday) <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">a) Reading Note-Taking guides <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">b) Standards Focus Activities <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">c) Classroom notes <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">3) Those coming in for MLK Day of Service 9-11 BE SURE TO COME DRESSED TO GET MESSED; N GOOD CLOTHING OR SNEAKERS!!! YOU WILL BE GETTING DOWN AND DIRTY!!!

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1/14/15 <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade: ** Rikki-tiki assessment Friday!!! **

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Study and review ALL notes for Rikki-tiki assessment Friday!!! <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Use your IW Packet and classroom notes <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">A) Basic Situation: Setting, Central Conflict, Characters <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">B) Rising Action: Complications <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">C) Climax <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">D) Falling Action: Resolution <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">E) Theme: Central message about life <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">F) Specific Verbs <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">G) Vocabulary: immensely, gait, valiant, consolation, cowered

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1/13/15 <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: Rikki-tikki Assessment on Friday!!! <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Read, **//Lesson 1: An Introduction to Point and Support//** <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">(pp.1-3) [Point/Support Packet] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Activities #1-3 (5 total) [Point/Support Packet] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Read and Complete **Nonfiction Text Features: Glossary** Skills Check (pp.22-23)[Nonfiction Do Now Packet] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Re-read, The Giver, chapters 7-8 <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Standards Focus: Setting and Problem (pp.45-46) [IW Packet III] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete Nonfiction: Glossary Skills Check [NF Packet]

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1/12/15 <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Narrative Elements Graphic Organizer [IW Packet] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Use LLP and continue with the outline we began in class (304) <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Analogies Practice (Lessons 1 & 15) [Handout]
 * Come to class prepared to contribute!!!!!**


 * 8th GRADE:**
 * 1) Read, The Giver, Chapters 7-8**
 * 2) Complete Reading Study Guide for both chapters**
 * 3) Complete Double Journal Entries (3) for each chapter [See your handout in your writing section of binders][Complete in writing journals and LABEL!!!]**

Topic: **Winter Wonderland**
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1/9/2015 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade: Vocabulary Test (15 words) MONDAY!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) 304: Flash Cards for 15 words (if you didn't already do them from last night) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Write a short story using the 15 words to own **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: Vocabulary Test Unit 1 Chapters 1-4 Monday!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Read, **//The Giver//**, Chapters 5-6**
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Reading Study Guides 5-6 WHILE you read each chapter [IW Packet II] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete Standards Focus: Symbolism (pp.38-39) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;"> [IW Packet III] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1/8/2015 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Language Links: Specific Verbs A & B [IW Packet p.1-2] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Elements of a Short Story Worksheet 1 [IW Packet] Complete #1-5 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Create Flash Cards for 15 Words to Own [Lesson 5 and Rikki-tikki] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: Vocabulary Test moved to Monday **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Standards Focus: Point of View [IW Packet 3] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">(pp. 31-32) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Non fiction: Chronological Order Skill Check [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete Chapters 2-4 Writing Journal Prompts #2-3 [Handout] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1/7/2015 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: Lesson 5 and Rikki Vocabulary test moved to Monday 1/12/15!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Lesson 5: Vocabulary exercises 2 & 3 [Packet] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Lesson 2 Vocabulary: Reading New Words in context pp.179-182 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete Rikki-tikki "Words to own" A & B (p.1)[IW Packet] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">4) Complete Compare/Contrast Venn Diagram for Nag/Nagaina [IW Packet] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Nonfiction: Description Skill Check **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Standards Focus: Foreshadowing [IW PAcket I] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete, "Writing in your Response Journal" #1-2 [Writing Journal] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">4) Read, The Giver, Chapters 3-4 [Book] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">5) Complete Note-taking Study Guides for Chapters 3-4 [IW Packet II] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1/6/2015 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: Lesson 5 and Rikki-tikki Vocabulary Test Friday!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Wordbusting Exercise for words to own #6-10 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">(loiter; maturity; motive; signify; supervise) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Nonfiction: Chronological Order Skill Check **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Continue Reading, **//Rikki-tikki-tavi// **(pp.12-19) [Interactive Workbook]**
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">4) Complete Graphic Organizer for Active Reading <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">[IW Packet] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: Unit 1 Chapters 1-4 Vocabulary test Friday!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Nonfiction: Sequential Order Skill check **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete reading, **//The Giver//**, Chapters 1 &2**
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete Notetaking Study Guides Chapters 1-2 [IW Packet] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">4) Create Flash Cards for Unit 1 Chapter 4 Words to Own **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1/5/2015 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade: **Lesson 5 and Rikki-tikki Vocabulary Test Friday!


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">1) Reread, SCOPE: //Should We Live Forever? (pp.26-27)// **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">2) Complete Reader's Response: Central Idea and Supporting Evidence [Handout] **

BE SURE TO INCLUDE A MINIMUM OF 3 PIECES OF TEXTUAL EVIDENCE TO DEFEND YOUR ARGUMENT
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">3) Complete Nonfiction: Description Skills Check[Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">4) Complete Wordbusting for Words to Own Lesson 5 #1-5: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">(congregate; haunt; hover; ignorance; leash) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">5) Advisory 307: Get LiveConnections Press release signed!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">8th GRADE: Unit 1 Chapters 1-4 Vocabulary test Friday!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">1) Complete Nonfiction: Main Idea/Supporting Details Skill Check [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">2) Complete Unit 1 Chapter 4 Vocabulary Activities Packet [ALL!!!} **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">3) Read: Standards Focus: Author Biography Lois Lowry **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">4) Complete Standards Focus: Exploring Expository Writing (p.10) #1-6 [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">5) Read, Standards Focus:Genre **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">6) Complete Standards Focus Skill Check (p.12) #1-6 [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">7) Get LiveConnections Press Release signed!!!!! **

Each summary must be at least one page in length!
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">12/23/14-1/4/15 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th AND 8th Grades: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete 2 Current Events as assigned in Social Studies **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">YOU MUST TURN THE CURRENT EVENT IN WITH YOUR WORK!!!!! **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">*This assignment will count for a test grade from both Social Studies AND ELA!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">Each Current Event is worth 50% complete **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Main Idea and Supporting Details Skills Assignment **

BE SURE TO INCLUDE A MINIMUM OF 3 PIECES OF TEXTUAL EVIDENCE TO DEFEND YOUR ARGUMENT
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Reread, //Should We Live Forever? (pp.26-27)// **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Reader's Response: Central Idea and Supporting Evidence [Handout] **

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">12/18/19 <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;"> Due Monday!!!! <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Read, Passages 1&2 Sequential Order [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete "Sequential Order: Skills Check" [Flip side] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">304/307: Due Monday <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Analogy Practice Lessons 3 & 4 [Handout]

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">12/11/14 <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade: VOCABULARY TEST TOMORROW!!! 42 WORDS <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) //READ,// **//COMPARE AND CONTRAST: Severe Weather//** <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete: Compare and Contrast Skill Check on reverse side [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Make a list of **5 topics** you would be interested in researching to write <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">your compare and contrast essay for the second marking period [LLP] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">4) Under each topic, write the two elements or characteristics you would be interested in comparing and contrasting <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">(i.e.) <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">weather [topic] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1. typhoon <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2. tsunamis

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">12/10/14 <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) INTERACTIVE WORKBOOKS: (pp.196-201) <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">a) Read, Before You Read: **//Gentlemen of the Road: Analyzing Causes and Effects//** (p.196) <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">b) Read, **//Gentlemen of the Road//** (pp.198-199) <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">c) Complete all Dialogue w/ Text in margins DURING READING (NOT AFTER) <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">d) Complete Cause and Effect Chart (p.200) <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">e) Complete Test Practice (p.201)

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Study flash cards for Vocabulary Test Friday (42 words) <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">http://hivealive.wikispaces.com <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">(7th Grade Vocabulary Boosters Tab in right column for word list)

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">12/9/14 <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Design crossword puzzle for Lesson 3: 10 words to own <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Write clues for Across and Down on reverse side [Grid Paper supplied] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Read Non-fiction passage, **//The Day the Earth Danced//** [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete Skills Check: Non-fiction assignment: Cause and Effect [Reverse side of handout]
 * 7th GRADE**: 42 Word Vocabulary test Thursday 12/11/14!!!


 * 8th GRADE:** 30 Word Vocabulary test Friday 12/12/14!!!

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">THE FOLLOWING DUE FRIDAY!!!!! <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">A) **Room 306**: Complete "Before you Read: Writing in Your Literature Response Journal" #2, 3, and 4 [Writing Journals] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">1) Design crossword puzzle for Unit 1 Chapter 3: 10 words to own

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">Write clues for Across and Down on reverse side [Grid Paper supplied]

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">2) Read Non-fiction passage, **//The Day the Earth Danced//** [Handout]

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">3) Complete Skills Check: Non-fiction assignment: Cause and Effect [Reverse side of handout]

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">12/8/14 <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade: [Vocabulary Test moved to Thursday] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Lessons 2 & 3 Analogies Practice in Lesson 3 Vocabulary Packet

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">8th Grade: HIGH SCHOOL SELECTION PROCESS CLOSES ON FRIDAY!!!!!!! <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">1) Study for Vocabulary Test on Friday!!! 30 words (Unit 1 Chapters 1-3)

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">12/5/14 <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Flash Cards for Lesson 3: 10 Words to Own

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">12/2/14 <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Exercises 2 and 3 in Lesson 3 Vocabulary packet <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Write a short story using the 10 words to own [LLP] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Topic: A visit to a museum <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete Thematic Connection Reader's Response: "Out Here on My Own" for Monster (pp.1-150) [Handout]

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: Vocabulary Test (30 Words) Friday!!!!! <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">305: Create Flash Cards for Unit 1 Chapter 3 Words to Own <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">305: Complete "Writing in Your Literature Response Journal" <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">prompts #2, 3, & 4 [Writing Journals ONLY!!!!]

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">12/1/14 <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Wordbusting Activity for 10 Words to Own Lesson 3 [LLP] [Handout] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Reader's Response for **//Monster//** (pp.59-88): "Loss of Identity" This is an assessment grade!!!!!
 * 7th Grade**: Vocabulary test 50 words next Wednesday 12/10/14

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th Grade: **<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Vocabulary test 30 words Friday 12/5/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Create Flash Cards for Unit 1 Chapter 3 Words to Own **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Answer The Giver Anticipation Guide Part III #1-4 Parts A-E for each [LLP] and True/False section at end **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) 3rd installment for class dues are due by 12/19/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">4) Complete High School Selection Template ASAP!!!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">11/25/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th Grade: November Class Dues due....... **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete BOTH Anticipatory guides for **//The Giver// **[Handout]**
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Remember to use LLP if necessary (and it will be necessary :) **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">11/24/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th Grade: Class Dues November installment due now.... **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Begin drafting your Reflective Essay [Due Wednesday] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete ALL Unit 1 Chapter 3 Vocabulary Activities [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete High School Selection Worksheet: Remember to place your choices in order of interest 1-5 (1 being top pick 5 being last choice) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Don't forget to have 2 alternative schools selected as well **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">[Handout] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">11/12/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Study for Vocabulary Test on Monday[Lessons 1&2/12 words]7 **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">a) Safeguard b) infringing c) merit d) conspiracy e) impede **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">f) prosecutor g) stenographer h) District Attorney **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">i) Defense Attorney j) objection k) viable l) witness **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">2) Read, Monster pp.151-200 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">3) Complete Reader's Responses for (127-151) AND (172-200) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">THESE ARE ASSESSMENT GRADES!!!!! FIRST OF SECOND MARKING PERIOD!!!!! **

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Flash Cards for the following 12 Words:
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">11/10/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade: **304 & 307 [Vocabulary Test 32 Words Friday]
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Safeguard 2) infringing 3) merit 4) conspiracy 5) impede **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">6) prosecutor 7) stenographer 8) District Attorney **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">9) Defense Attorney 10) objection 11) viable 12) witness **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Write a short story using 12 words to own about a day in court **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">[LLP] **

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) 307 Only: <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Complete your Scope Central Idea Packet from 10/16

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: DUE FRIDAY!!!!! 305 Thursday!!!!! <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Scope Central Idea Packet from 10/16 [Due Wednesday]
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Flash Cards for Unit 1 Chapter 2 Words **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Write a short Story using 10 words to own about: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">CLOTHES **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">4) Read, **<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;"> //Enrichment: The Utopian Novel [Handout]//
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">//5) Write a short summary of the article (9-12 sentences) [LLP]// **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">11/7/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade: Vocabulary Test Friday 11/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Wordbust for the following: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">a) safeguard b) infringing c) merit d) conspiracy e) impede **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Read, **//Monster//**, (pp.100-151)**
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete Reader's Response "Steve's Reasons" [Backside of Irony Assessment] **Test Grade 50% Category
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">4) Get Irony Assessment signed!!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: Vocabulary Test Next Friday!!!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1a) Complete Pre Test FIRST!!!!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete ALL Unit 1 Chapter 2 Activities [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Documentary Film Analysis for **//The Pact//**: Both Sides**


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">11/5/14 All trip slips & $$ due by Friday!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Vocabulary T-chart [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Read, Monster (pp.58-100) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Add Narrative Elements to your Elements charts [Notes] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">4) List the Central Theme of the story, Monster AND cite a minimum of **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3 examples from pp.1-100 to defend your choice [LLP] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">10/30/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Flash Cards for Unit 1: Chapter 1 vocabulary words to own **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">10/29/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">All Book Reports and Projects will be due Wednesday, November 5th, 2014! There will be no exceptions and no late submissions.... **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">8th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">1) Write a short (Tori-short) story using your 10 words to own: topic will be: Food!!!![LLP] **

You must CITE a minimum of 2 examples from the text!!!
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">10/28/14 Final Book Report Projects due Friday!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Study for 20-word Vocabulary test [tomorrow!!] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Use your Word Busting Lessons 1 &2 Packets and Flash Cards **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Read, Monster (45-58) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete Reader's Response Connection: Irony [Handout] **

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">10/27/14 Final Book Report Projects due Friday!!!!! <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Study for 20-word Vocabulary Test [Wednesday] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Use your Word Busting Lessons 1 & 2 Packets and Flash Cards <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Read, Monster (pp.11-45) <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Outline Narrative Elements #1-4 <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">[Setting, Conflict, characters, rising action events (4)] [LLP] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">One element per page (in order to add to each tomorrow)

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Chapter 1 Vocabulary Packet [ALL]

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">10/21/14 <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Due to the schedule, there is no formal ELA homework this evening for MYA students <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">However, ALL students should be working on their Amusement Park Poster Designs EVERY DAY this week!!!!! <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">I will return 7th grade rough drafts by Thursday <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">I will return 8th grade rough drafts by Friday

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">10/20/14 <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: Final Draft & Posters due Monday 10/27!!!!!!! <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Continue working on Amusement Park Posters <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete pp.9-10 Context Clues [Vocabulary Packet] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete pp.125-126 Multimeaning/Word Analysis/Origins [Vocab. Packet] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">4) Complete Practice Activity 2 (p.99) [Pronoun Packet]

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: Final Drafts & Posters due Wednesday 10/29!!!! <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Continue working on amusement park posters <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Practice Activity 2 (p.99) [Pronoun Packet] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Class dues: 1st payment due 10/20

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">10/15/14 Rough Drafts of Book Report Essays due Monday 10/20!!!!! H.S.FAIR: 33RD & MARKET STREET; DREXEL ARMORY <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">MIDDLE YEARS ELECTION ON FRIDAY 10/17!! <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">All assignments due Friday!!! <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Read Steve's Journal Entry pp.1-5 <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) While you are reading, complete Think-Aloud and Tally Chart <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">You will need a minimum of 7 Think-Alouds, [can be more]. [Use notes from class] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Write a short story about meeting a famous person or your idol, using Lesson 2 Words to Own [LLP] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">4) Continue working on your Noun/Pronoun study guide [collected Friday] <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Use your notes, Noun packet, Noun quiz, and Grammar page on Wiki to assist you!
 * 7th Grade: Continue studying for your Noun/Pronoun Test on Friday!!**

<span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Field Trip $$ and slips due Friday 10/17!!! <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">First installment of class dues are scheduled for Monday 10/20 <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Continue working on the assignment given in class, Tuesday!
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th Grade: Continue studying for your Noun/Pronoun Test on Friday!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">10/14/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th and 8th GRADE: Review all notes and Noun packet for assessment on Friday!!! See http://hivealive.wikispaces.com for any notes you don't have; you will find them under Grammar notes page on right hand side **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Get Interim Report signed!! [Quiz grade] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Both Sides Noun Study Guide [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3)Work on your Book Report Posters **

//Red: George: {1, 4, 7} {11, 14, 17} [Divide into 2 groups]// //Yellow: Sam: {2, 6, 9} {13, 16, 19} [Divide into 2]// //Blue: Rameck: 3, 5, 8, 18// //Green: Rameck: 10, 12, 15, 18//
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th Grade: **All assignments due Friday!!!!!
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Read your assigned chapters of **//The Pact//
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Record 3 Double Journal Entries for each of the chapters assigned [see your Double Journal Entry notes from class] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete the positive/negative influence circle for your assigned doctor chapters **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">10/10/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">ALL STUDENTS: BOOK REPORT OUTLINE DUE ON TUESDAY!!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Word Busting for 10 words to Own [LLP] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Indefinite and Interrogative Pronoun Practice A & B [Noun Packet] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Indefinite and Interrogative Pronoun Practice A&B [Noun Packet] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Find an article about someone you think meets or doesn't meet the recipe for success and BRING IT TO SCHOOL!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Write a one page opinion paper defending your choice; BE SURE TO CITE KEY DETAILS FROM THE ARTICLE TO SUPPORT YOUR REASONING **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">10/9/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete #1-20 Demonstrative and Relative Pronoun Practice [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Read, Mystery of the Found Animal [Word up or Down Packet] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) AS YOU READ, make think aloud notes in the margin next to slashes. [Minimum of 10 on each page] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">4) On the Think ALoud Chart: Mark a tally in the right hand column for each comment you made **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">5) Study for Lesson I Vocabulary Test: Arts in Literature 10 words to own **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">10/8/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Review last page of noun packet **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Begin studying for Vocabulary Lesson I test (FRIDAY!!!!) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">use: Flash Cards, Word busting, and stories **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Work on Book Report Project **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Outlines due Tuesday!!!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">10/7/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Pronoun and Antecedents Exercises A & B [Noun Packet] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Personal, Reflexive, and Intensive Pronoun Practice #10-20 [Noun Packet] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Make Flash Cards for 10 words to Own [Follow format from class notes] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">1) Complete Pronoun and Antecedents Exercises A & B [Noun Packet] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">2) Complete Personal, Reflexive, and Intensive Pronoun Practice #10-20 [Noun Packet] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">10/6/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Write a recipe for our classroom definition for success **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Use the qualities we selected in our web and turn them into a recipe w/ ingredients and instructions [LLP] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">10/2/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Write a short story about space using your 10 words to own[LLP] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete page 28 in Noun Packet **

Like & Opposite Meanings **of Lesson I Wordbusting Packet [Handout]**
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete The Noun Packet: **Concrete Nouns, Abstract Nouns, and Collective Nouns **(p.27) Exercises A & B [Handout]**
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete **Exercise 2: Context Clues and Exercise 3:
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Have parent/guardian **review and sign **off on Book Report Project [Handout]**


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">1) Have parents review and sign Book Report Project **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">2) Complete Concrete, Abstract, and Collective Nouns (p.27) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">AND Identifying Kinds of Nouns (p.28) [Noun Packet] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">3) Room 305: Complete pages 25-26 The Noun Packet **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">9/30/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Apply the 6-step **Wordbusting Strategy **to 6-10 words to own for the week [Lesson I "Change in Arts & Lit. Handout] [LLP]**
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">(satellite, tranquil, humane, velocity, planetary) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Noun Practice: Common and Proper Nouns (p.26) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Exercises A & B [Noun Packet Handout] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete Noun Practice Activities (pp.25-26) All Exercises **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">for Nouns, Compound Nouns, Common and Proper Nouns [Noun Packet Handout] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">9/29/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Apply the 6-step **Wordbusting Strategy **to the first five words to own for the week [Lesson 1 "Change in Arts and Lit" Handout]**
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">(alien, diplomatic, galaxy, ghastly, mortal) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete Noun practice 1-15 ; page 1 only! ["The Noun" Packet] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">9/22/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">BACK TO SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE TUESDAY 6-8 PM !!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Read, Model: Anita and Joyce [Word Up- or Down? Packet] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete: Most Important Word Template in order to determine the Main Idea of the passage **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Bring in a pix of yourself (2x2, 3x5, 4x6) **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8TH GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">9/18/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Reread, **//Three Keys to Doing Well in School//
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">2) Write a ONE page OBJECTIVE SUMMARY of the article **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">a) be sure to include title, author, and main idea in the opening sentence **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">b) be sure to cite a minimum of 6 key details to support your main idea (in sequential order) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">c) DO NOT PLAGIARIZE-PARAPHRASE INSTEAD!!!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Finish reading, The Personal Bank Account (pp. 39-46) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Add one more "Baby Step" from Part I HET to your Writing Journal (4-Collected tomorrow) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete Short/Long Term Goal Worksheets [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">DO NOT BEND, FOLD, OR WRINKLE!!!!!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">9/15/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">No homework due to Gates Testing **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Begin your chapter one "Baby Steps Log" in your writing journal [To be collected Friday!] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">a) Each day write a short entry about which of the 10 Baby Steps you applied that day **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">and explain in detail what you did. (You may not repeat the same step twice) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Read, HET: Part II: The Private Victory (pp.31-38) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Write a one-page summary that includes the main idea of the section with a minimum of 5 details to support. Be sure you retell by paraphrasing and using your own words-NO PLAGIARIZING!!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">9/12/14 LAST CHANCE BEFORE DETENTION TO JOIN WIKI **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">http://hivealive.wikispaces.com **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">ALL MIDDLE YEARS STUDENTS: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">You MUST, MUST, MUST have a book (novel/chapter book) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">with you on Monday and everyday thereafter!!!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Please bring your summer reading book if you haven't already: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th: **//Monster//**/**//Of Beetles and Angels//
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th: **//The Pact//**/**//Ben Carson: Gifted Hands//


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">9/11/14 http://hivealive.wikispaces.com **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: ALL SIGNED DOCS DUE TOMORROW OR DETENTION WILL BE ISSUED!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Answer questions 1-17 "The Real You" [Handout] in your writing journals **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">-Be sure to turn the question into your opening statement as we modeled in class!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete "Short/Long Term Goals" Worksheet [Handout] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: ALL SIGNED DOCS DUE TOMORROW OR DETENTION WILL BE ISSUED!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 33px;">1) COMPLETE ALL CH 1 SECTION: **//Paradigms and Principles// **Interactive Activities Packet [Handout]**


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">9/10/14 http://hivealive.wikispaces.com **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">ALL STUDENTS: SDP SIGNATURE PACKETS DUE FRIDAY!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7TH GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) //Complete// reading " **//Three Keys to Doing Well in School//**"[Handout]**
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete a 3-2-1-1 Activity [LLP (Loose Leaf Paper)] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;"> 3- Three things you found interesting in the article and why **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;"> 2- Two tips/strategies that you will implement (use) this year **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;"> 1- One tip you think is your strongest **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;"> 1- One tip you think is your weakest **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Complete reading chapter 1: **//7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: Paradigms and Principles// **[Handout]**
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Complete the personal workbook pages for, **//"Get Into the Habit// **[Handout]**
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">" **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">9/9/2014 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">ALL STUDENTS: Middle Years Academy Survival Guide Signature Pages (3) must be returned by Wednesday!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">SDP Signature packet due Friday 9/12!!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">(9/9/14) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th/8th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Give parents my welcome letter, have them read and sign it **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2)Return the signed letter for a HW point!!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Complete your letter to Ms. Pringle!!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">4) Join Ms. Pringle's Wiki Community **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">8th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">6/9/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">1) Answer the 5 analysis questions from your film festival folder: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">304: I-15; II-1; III-2; IV-6; V-7 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">307: I-11 ; II-5 ; III-6 ; IV-6 ; V-5 **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">2) Bring in your Highly Effective Writing Books **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">3) Bring in your Writing Tool Box Folders **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">304: Purple **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">307: Purple **


 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">4) Bring in any Classroom Library Books **
 * <span style="color: #8c1717; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">5) Community Service Sheets are due tomorrow!!!!!NO EXCEPTIONS!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">6/4/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th GRADE: Rolling Thunder permission and $$ due Friday **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">8th GRADE: Rolling Thunder Permission and $ due Monday!!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Read Chapters 11-14 **//Things Fall Apart//
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) Complete Chapter Analysis for assigned chapter [LLP]Label Chapter and Question # **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3) Get Permission Slip for JB Kelly Rehearsals signed [MUST BE RETURNED BY FRIDAY!!!!!] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">6/2/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Get Film Festival Permission Slip Signed **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) Reread, **//A Mason Dixon Memory// **(pp.78-83)**


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">3) Complete Comparison Chart (p.84) **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">4) Complete Vocabulary & Comprehension (p.85) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">5) Get Roller Skating **//Rewards Trip// **Permission Signed (Due by Friday)**
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">[Parents: Some students have not earned their spot on this trip as of yet....We will make final call by Friday: Those receiving slips on Friday will need to return them w/ $15 by Monday 6/9] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">1) Get NYC Trip Slip Signed [Must be back by tomorrow!!!!!] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">2) Write a one-page business letter (follow format from class) **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">explaining the power of art in schools. Use your experiences from **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">the Picasso Project w/ Lamont Dixon and HH Fundamentals as your support **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">3) Read, **//Things Fall Apart// **Chapters 7-10**
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">4) Complete your Chapter Analysis for your assigned chapter [LLP] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">5/29/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Get Film Festival Permission Slip Signed **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) Reread, A Mason Dixon Memory (pp.78-83) & Dialogue w/ Text **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3) Write a one-page business letter (follow format from class) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">explaining the power of art in schools. Use your experiences from **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">the Picasso Project w/ Lamont Dixon and HH Fundamentals as your support **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">8th GRADE: DUE MONDAY!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Get NYC Trip filled out and signed **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) reread chapters 1-3 and complete Take-Home test **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">-#1-13 must be completed on LLP **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">-#6-8 Mandatory and any two from #1-5 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">-bonus question worth 10 pts. **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3) Read chapters 4-6 of Things Fall Down **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">5/19/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th and 8th GRADES: [Not 305 for Final Drafts (They will be due Thursday/Friday)] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">Edit and revise your rough drafts of research paper **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">2) Write your final draft as neatly as possible!!!!! or type your final draft from home if you have accessibility [We will not have time to type in class] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;"> 3) REMEMBER: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;"> 12-inch Times New Roman Font **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;"> Double Spaced **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;"> As modeled in class!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">EVERYONE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">4) BRING BACK YOUTH CAFE TICKET FORM **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">IT IS FIRST-COME-FIRST SERVE BASIS FOR SEATS AT OUR 1:00PM SHOW!!!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">5) ALL African Country and States Projects are due on Wednesday as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">6) Make certain you have your poems memorized and practice your hip hop dances!!!!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">5/16/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th GRADE: UNIFORMS REQUIRED MONDAY!!!!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">304 ONLY: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Edit and revise your rough drafts of research paper **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) Write your revised draft as though it were your final draft! [We may not have time to type in class] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3) If you have the capability to type your paper at home-DO SO! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">REMEMBER: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">12-inch Times New Roman FOnt **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">Double Spaced **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">As modeled in class!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">Both 304 & 307: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">4) BRING BACK YOUTH CAFE TICKET FORM **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">IT IS FIRST-COME-FIRST SERVE BASIS FOR SEATS AT OUR 1:00PM SHOW!!!!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">5/12/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Begin gathering information for your Individual African Country Project [Due Wednesday, May 21, 2104] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Work on gathering research for your U.S. STates project [Due Wednesday, May 21, 2014] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">5/9/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th and 8th GRADES: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Complete your rough draft for your research papers!!! DUE MONDAY!!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) Complete any assignments for your Spoken Word Workshop **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">5/7/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Complete your Spoken Word Poetry Assignment from workshop today **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) Get permission slip signed for 5/19 trip to World Cafe Live **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">1) Outlines for research paper due tomorrow!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">2) Complete your spoken word assignment for Friday [MEMORIZE!!} **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">3) Begin your State research for your projects [DUE 5/21!!] {Double Grade} **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">4) Get Permission slips signed for 5/19 trip to World Cafe Live **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">5/8/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Work on drafting a rough draft for your research paper [DUE MONDAY!!!] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">Use your notes and outline to put your paragraphs together in a cohesive order...(an order that makes sense and that flows) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) Begin gathering information for your African Country Social Studies Project **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3) Read, **//African Proverbs// **[Handout]**
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">4) Answer Main Idea and Critical Thinking Questions #1-4 LLP [Answer in complete thoughts and sentences!!!] {Double Grade} **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Work on State projects [DUE 5/21!!] {Double Grade} **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) Read, Things Fall Apart Chapters 1-3 (pp.3-25) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3) Find 5 Tier II Words and complete 6-step vocabulary activity on LLP **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">a) Word (page #) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">b) Sentence as used in novel **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">c) Definition with part of speech **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">d) 2 synonyms **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">e) 1 antonym **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">f) Use word in an original sentence **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">5/6/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Get permission slip signed for 5/19 trip to World Cafe **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) Complete your Outline for Research Paper [Due tomorrow!!!!] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3) Read, from Long Walk to Freedom [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">4) Answer Questions #1-4 on LLP IN COMPLETE SENTENCES!!!! [SHOULD BE @1 PAGE IN LENGTH] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">5) MEMORIZE YOUR HAIKU FOR SPOKEN WORD CLASS TOMORROW **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">8TH GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Get permission slip signed for 5/19 trip to World Cafe **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) Get permission slip signed for 5/30 trip to Spirit Cruise **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3) Outline for Research Paper due Thursday!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">4) Gather additional notes for paper if my notes say to do so **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">5/5/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Outline for rough draft due Wednesday!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) Get permission slip signed for LiveConnections field trip Monday, May 19, 2014 [Bump to Tuesday] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3) Memorize your Haiku from Spoken Word Workshop (Due by Wednesday!!) **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Outline for rough draft due Thursday!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) Get permission slip signed for LiveConnections field trip Monday, May 19, 2014 [Bump to Tuesday] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3) Memorize your line(s) from Spoken Word Workshop (Due by Wednesday!!!) **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">Week of : 4/28/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th AND 8th Grades: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Begin researching your Picasso Project assigned research paper topic **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) You should be finding your sources, citing information, and paraphrasing EACH citation you plan on using **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3) Follow the note-taking procedure I modeled in class and that appears in your assignment handout for organizing your notes **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">4) By Monday, you need to have ALL the notes you will use for your paper (this will be in the range of 20-40 notes if researched well] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">5) Be mindful of due dates: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">5/5: Collection of Writing Journals with notes completed and organized either by category/question, by paragraph, or by source/web address [20% grading category] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">5/7: Outlines for papers due **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">5/9: Rough draft due [4-5 paragraphs in length; can be longer depending on how much information you include] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">5/16: Final draft due [IN CLEAR-FRONT COVER PROJECT FOLDER] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">4/22/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Get Report Card Conference Slip signed and returned [TEST GRADE!!!!!] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) Complete double-sided Vocabulary Activity for MONSTER **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">FOLLOW DIRECTIONS; USE DICTIONARY **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3/21/14: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Get Vocabulary TESTS signed (2) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) CAREFULLY review PSSA Study Guide!!! You will need this for **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">our class on Monday!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3) Read, **//The Ballad of Captain Jack// **//[//Buckle Down Lesson 8: Poetry Elements]**
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">4) Complete ALL Multiple choice #1-8 (pp.117-118)[COMP BOOK] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">NEXT TO EACH ANSWER: Write the elimination strategy used for eliminating the other 3 answer choices **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">5) Complete Open Ended Question (p.119) [LLP] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">Be sure to refer back to Tips #1, 3, and 5 to guide you with your response!!!!!! **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">306: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Complete ALL Apostrophe Practice A-F!!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">305: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Complete Quotation Practice C-E **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3/20/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Study for Unit 1 Vocabulary Test (50 words) [Use Activities' Packets/ Unit 1 Ch 5 collected tomorrow] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) Read, Buckle Down Lesson 8: Poetry (pp.105-115) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3) Complete ALL work in COMP books **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">//Do not// **move on beyond page 115)

<span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">8th GRADE: <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Complete "Quotation Mark" Practice C-E (pp.307-309)

<span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3/19/14 <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th GRADE: Vocabulary 50 word Cumulative Test Friday!! <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Write a short story using 10 Words to Own Unit 1 Chapter 5 <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) Read, Buckle Down Lesson 13: Reading Directions (pp.176-184) <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3) Complete ALL work in COMP books (collected Friday) <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">4) Complete: Analyzing Point of View : After Twenty Years Worksheet 3 [Handout from class]

<span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">8th GRADE: Culminating Punctuation/Grammar Exam 4/7/14 <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Complete "Quotation Marks" Practice A-B (pp.305-306) <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) Complete Poetry Analysis Activity from Class [//The Road Not Taken//]

<span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">3) Edit and Revise Rough Draft of Letter Essay [Final Draft due Wednesday!!!!!] {THIS SHOULD BE A SEPARATE DRAFT USING MY NOTES TO REVISE YOUR ROUGH DRAFT} USE PAGE 7 OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE WRITING BOOKS TO DO 10-STEP EDIT


 * THOSE WHO DID NOT COMPLETE THE ORIGINAL ASSIGNMENT WILL NEED TO TURN IN TWO DRAFTS BY WEDNESDAY (ROUGH DRAFT W/ YOUR OWN EDIT AND REVISION MARKS & FINAL DRAFT), IN ORDER TO NOT FAIL WRITING THIS TERM!!!!**

<span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">305: Due Thursday

<span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3/18/14 <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th GRADE:

<span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">4) Edit and Revise Rough Draft of Letter Essay [Final Draft due Wednesday!!!!!] {THIS SHOULD BE A SEPARATE DRAFT USING MY NOTES TO REVISE YOUR ROUGH DRAFT}


 * THOSE WHO DID NOT COMPLETE THE ORIGINAL ASSIGNMENT WILL NEED TO TURN IN TWO DRAFTS BY WEDNESDAY (ROUGH DRAFT W/ YOUR OWN EDIT AND REVISION MARKS & FINAL DRAFT), IN ORDER TO NOT FAIL WRITING THIS TERM!!!!**

<span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">8th GRADE:

<span style="color: #7a0b0b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">1) Complete ALL pages for Underlining (Italics) Practice (pp.302-304)

<span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">2) Edit and Revise Rough Draft of Letter Essay [Final Draft due Wednesday!!!!!] {THIS SHOULD BE A SEPARATE DRAFT USING MY NOTES TO REVISE YOUR ROUGH DRAFT} USE PAGE 7 OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE WRITING BOOKS TO DO 10-STEP EDIT


 * THOSE WHO DID NOT COMPLETE THE ORIGINAL ASSIGNMENT WILL NEED TO TURN IN TWO DRAFTS BY WEDNESDAY (ROUGH DRAFT W/ YOUR OWN EDIT AND REVISION MARKS & FINAL DRAFT), IN ORDER TO NOT FAIL WRITING THIS TERM!!!!**

<span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">306: Due Wednesday 305: Due Thursday

<span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3/17/14 <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th GRADE: Unit 1 Vocabulary Final Test Friday!!! <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Read, Buckle Down Lesson 12: Comparing Passages (pp.165-175) <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">2) Complete ALL work in COMP Book <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3) Create Flash Cards for Unit 1 Chapter 5 Words <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">4) Edit and Revise Rough Draft of Letter Essay [Final Draft due Wednesday!!!!!] {THIS SHOULD BE A SEPARATE DRAFT USING MY NOTES TO REVISE YOUR ROUGH DRAFT}
 * THOSE WHO DID NOT COMPLETE THE ORIGINAL ASSIGNMENT WILL NEED TO TURN IN TWO DRAFTS BY WEDNESDAY (ROUGH DRAFT W/ YOUR OWN EDIT AND REVISION MARKS & FINAL DRAFT), IN ORDER TO NOT FAIL WRITING THIS TERM!!!!**


 * 8th GRADE:**
 * 1)** <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">Edit and Revise Rough Draft of Letter Essay [Final Draft due Wednesday!!!!!] {THIS SHOULD BE A SEPARATE DRAFT USING MY NOTES TO REVISE YOUR ROUGH DRAFT}


 * THOSE WHO DID NOT COMPLETE THE ORIGINAL ASSIGNMENT WILL NEED TO TURN IN TWO DRAFTS BY WEDNESDAY (ROUGH DRAFT W/ YOUR OWN EDIT AND REVISION MARKS & FINAL DRAFT), IN ORDER TO NOT FAIL WRITING THIS TERM!!!!**


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">3/14/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">1) Complete Unit 1 Chapter 5 Vocabulary Activities [Handout] **


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3/13/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">7th GRADE: COMP books collected CH1-11 (NOT 7or8) **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">1) STUDY for culminating 40 word vocabulary test tomorrow!!![40 words./40 min.] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">2) Complete "Breaking it Down" Template for **//Fish, Flowers, and Fruit// **Open-Ended Question [Backside of BID template from lesson 9]**
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3) Complete Open-Ended Question for **//Fish, Flowers, and Fruit//


 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3/12/14 **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">7th GRADE: Culminating 40 Word Vocabulary Test Friday!!! 40 words-40 minutes!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">1) Apply ALL Prereading Strategies to PDE Sampler, Fish, Flowers, and Fruit [You will be graded on all **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">highlighting, categorizing, and marginal notes] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;"> 2) Read, Fish, Flowers, and Fruit [YOU WILL NEED THIS IN ORDER TO COMPLETE CLASSWORK ON THURSDAY!!!!] **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;"> 3) Complete 6 Multiple Choice Questions **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;"> 4) Complete Elimination Analysis for any 4 of the MC Questions **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">DO NOT ANSWER OPEN ENDED QUESTION!!! **
 * <span style="color: #8c1313; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">5) Write 20 Sentences for words in Unit 1 Chapters 3-4 [LLP] **


 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3/11/14 **
 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">7th GRADE: Culminating 40 word Vocabulary Test Friday!!! **
 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">1) Read, Buckle Down Lesson 11: Graphics & Charts **
 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">2) Complete all work in COMP Books (pp.246-264) **
 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3) Write one original sentence for each of the words in **
 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Unit 1 Chapters 1 & 2 (20 sentences in all) **


 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">80 Word <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Culminating Vocabulary Exam //The Giver// Part II Friday!!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">1) Complete Semicolons A (p.290); Semicolons B (291); Colons (292); Review A: End Marks and Abbreviations (293) **
 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">2) Be sure ALL activities in your Giver Vocabulary Packet are complete: Collected on FRIDAY!!! **


 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3/10/14 **
 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">7th GRADE: Friday: Culminating Vocabulary Test Unit 1 Chapters 1-4 (40 words) **
 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">1) Read Buckle Down: Lesson 10: Text Structure (pp.136-145) **
 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">2) Complete all Tips, Multiple Choice Q's, and Underlining activities in COMP BOOK **
 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3) Begin studying for your Vocabulary Test!!!! USE FLASH CARDS!!!!!! **


 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">8th GRADE: FRIDAY CULMINATING VOCABULARY FINAL EXAM: 80 WORDS **
 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">1) Complete Flash Cards for Chapters 15-17; 18-20; 21-23 **
 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">ALL FLASHCARDS SHOULD BE COMPLETED AND TURNED IN TO ME BY TOMORROW!!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #9b2020; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">2) FLASH CARDS COLLECTED TO DATE: 1-2; 3-4; 5-6; 7-8; 9-10; 11-12; 13-14 **

<span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3/6/14 <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">7th GRADE: <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">1) GET INTERIM REPORT SIGNED [80% TEST GRADE] <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">2) Read, //End of Traffic Jams// (Lesson 9 Buckle Down) <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3) Complete Multiple choice questions #1-7 [Comp book] <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">4) Complete "Breakin' it Down" Template for Open-Ended Question [304 ONLY] <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">5) Complete Open-ended Question [LLP] [304] ONLY]

<span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">8th GRADE: <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">1) Complete Commas With Interrupters (pp.283-284); Commas with Introductory Elements (p.285); <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Using Commas (p.286); Conventional Uses for Commas (p.287) <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">2) Complete 5-Step Vocabulary Activity for Chapters 21-23 [LLP] <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3) Begin reviewing vocabulary words Chapters 1-8

<span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3/5/14 <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">8th GRADE: 80 word exam next Friday!!! <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">1) GET INTERIM REPORT SIGNED [TEST GRADE] <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">2) Complete Commas in a Series AND Commas w/ Compound sentences (pp.281-282) <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3) Complete 5-step Vocabulary Activity for Chapters 18-20 [8 words]

<span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">7th GRADE: Prefix/Suffix Test Friday!!!!! (21 Total) <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">1) GET INTERIM REPORT SIGNED AND //AFTER TWENTY YEARS// test !!!! <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">2) Write a short story about Winter using Unit 1 Chapter 4 Words to Own <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3) Complete Lesson 9: Author's Purpose (pp.120-131) <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Complete all work in Comp Books!!! <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">DO NOT READ "The End of Traffic Jams"!!!!

<span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3/4/14 <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">8th GRADE: <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">1) Complete End Marks Activities pp.279-280 <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">2) Complete Vocabulary //__<span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">5-step __//<span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;"> activity for Chapters 15-17

<span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">2/28/14 <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">7th GRADE: Prefix/Suffix [21] Test Tuesday!!!! [See list posted on http://hivealive.wikispaces.com] <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">1) Complete Buckle Down Lesson 6: Making Connections <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">[ALL work should be completed in Comp. Book EXCEPT for Open-ended question which should be completed on LLP!!!] <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">2) Complete the Breakin'-it-Down Template [flip side from Cell Phones Template] for Lesson 6 Open-Ended Question <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3) Complete Open-Ended Cell Phones in School response [Use your 'Breakin' it Down' template] <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">You will need this for our lesson on Monday!!! <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3) Complete ALL activities for Vocabulary Unit 1 Chapter 4 [Handout] <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">4) Create flash cards for Unit 1 Chapter 4

<span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">8th GRADE: <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">1) Complete Entire Assessment Preparation Packet <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">2) Complete 5-step Vocabulary Activity for chapters 11-12 (Due Monday) AND 13-14 (Due Tuesday) <span style="color: #892525; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3) Create Flash Cards for chapters 1-2; 3-4; 5-6 (Due Monday); 7-8; 9-10 (Due Tuesday) [40 words]

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) READ again After Twenty Years <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete review study guide (Test Grade!) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">a) Graphic Organizer for Active Reading <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">b) Words to Own <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">c) Grammar Link: Ending all End-Marks!?. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Breakin' it Down Template for Cell Phones in School Question [307 only!]
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2/27/14 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7TH GRADE: //AFTER TWENTY YEARS// TEST TOMORROW!!!! **


 * 8th GRADE: //THE GIVER// FINAL EXAM TOMORROW (100 Q's)**

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Complete Standards Focus Activities: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">a) Elements of Style (Chapters 11-12) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">b) Elements of Plot (Chapters 21-23) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) STUDY FOR EXAM!!!!! 66 QUESTIONS
 * 3) Outline or bullet** Essay Question ideas, details, and citations with page numbers [Select 1 of 3; 15 points]
 * <span style="color: #a81212; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">*You will ONLY be able to use this!!!!! NO BOOK!!!!! **

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2/26/14 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: VOCABULARY TEST TOMORROW!!! <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Read remaining part of Cell Phones in Schools AND continue to highlight and make marginal notes [you will be graded on your process for this] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete the 8 Multiple Choice questions AND the Elimination Strategy Analysis [Cell Phones PSSA Sampler Handout] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Study for your VOCABULARY TEST TOMORROW!!! {30 words 30 minutes!!!!!} [Unit 1 Chapters 1-3]

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: The Giver FINAL EXAM PART I. FRIDAY 2/28!!!! <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">DUE 2/27 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete Standards Focus Activities: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">a) Point of View (Chapters 3-4) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">b) Setting and Problem (Chapters 7-8) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">c) Imagery (Chapters 9-10) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">DUE 2/28 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete Standards Focus Activities: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">a) Elements of Style (Chapters 11-12) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">b) Elements of Plot (Chapters 21-23) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) STUDY FOR EXAM!!!!! 100 QUESTIONS 3) Outline or bullet **Essay Question ideas, details, and citations with page numbers [Select 1 of 3; 15 points]**
 * You will ONLY be able to use this!!!!! NO BOOK!!!!!**


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2/25/14 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete Reader's Response: The Pitch that Didn't Work [Flip side of handout] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Write a short story using the 5 Words to Own for **//<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">After Twenty Years //**<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;"> [LLP] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Study for Vocabulary Test Thursday **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">a) Use your Unit 1 Chapters 1-3 Activity Packets **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">b) Use your Flashcards!!!! **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete 5 step vocabulary activity for Chapters 9-10 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Read Chapters 21-23 and complete the story of //The giver// **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Write 2 Double Journal Entries [Writing Notebook] for EACH chapter (21, 22, 23) **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2/24/14 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Vocabulary test Unit 1 Chapters 1-3 Thursday!!! **
 * //After Twenty Years//<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;"> Test Friday!!! **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Look up Definitions for (5) Suffixes Level 4 { -en; -ful; - ment; -less; -ness} [LLP] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Make Flash Cards for 5 Words to Own for //After Twenty Years// AND 10 Level 4 Prefixes and Suffixes {dis-; under-; non-; anti-; ex-} **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Answer Reader's Response: Connection to Theme: After Twenty Years [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) Reread, //Cell Phones in School// **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">a) Answer 7 multiple Choice questions and complete Elimination process activity [Cell Phone Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: **
 * //<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">The Giver //<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;"> Final Exam Friday!!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete 5-step vocabulary exercise for words Chapters 7-8 [LLP] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete Comprehension Check for Chapters 18-20: 2 from each section [LLP] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete Standards Focus: Character Development #1-10 [Use LLP if you need extra space] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) GET CH 1-6 TEST SIGNED!!! **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">5) 305: Complete your Black History Quilt Square [TEST GRADE!!] **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2/20/14 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Reread, //After Twenty Years// [Text Book pp. 194-197] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Read, //The Pitch That Didn't Work// (p.198) **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete Making Meanings (p.199) [LLP] Be sure to answer in complete sentences and DO NOT USE PRONOUNS or 'BECAUSE' to start your sentences!!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) Make Flash Cards for your 10 words to Own [Unit 1 Ch3] **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2/19/14 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete ALL Unit 1 Chapter 3 Vocabulary [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Read, After Twenty Years (again) and complete pages 74 (Foreshadowing Chart) and 75 (Vocabulary & Comprehension) **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">[Interactive WOrktext] **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Read chapters 18-20 The Giver **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete 2 Double Journal Entries PER chapter [Writing Journals] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete 5-step vocabulary activity for Chapters 5-6 [LLP] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Sentence as used in chapter **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Definition AND Part of Speech **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) 2 synonyms **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) 1 antonym **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">5) Use the word in an ORIGINAL sentence (__DO NOT__ USE THE SENTENCE GIVEN IN THE DICTIONARY) **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2/18/14 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Study for your Vocabulary test (Wednesday)[20 words Unit 1: CH1-2] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete, Before You Read: "What Should I Do Now?" [p.68 Interactive Workbooks] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Read, After Twenty Years (pp.70-73) **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) Complete Dialogue w/ Text for all pages **

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">7th GRADE: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">1) Read Buckle Down Lesson 4: Details and Organization <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">(pp.45-58) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">2) Complete ALL Tip and MC questions in Comp. Book <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3) Complete Open-Ended Question on LLP!!!! <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">4) Write a short story using the 10 words to own from Unit 1 Ch 2 [LLP] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">5) Complete steps 2 & 3 from Lesson 7 Point/Support: Rough Draft due Tuesday <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">6) Attach Steps 1-3 together <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">You should have stapled together: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">a) Brainstorming Activity (Step 1; LLP) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">b) Outline (Step 2; LLP) [Due Friday] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">c) First Draft (Step 3; LLP)
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2/12/14 **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">1) Select 4 Guided Reading Questions for Each Chapter 11-17 [LLP] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">2) Complete Ch 13-14 Standards Focus: Conflict 1-2 [LLP] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">3) Complete Ch 15-17 STandards Focus: Theme 1-9 [LLP] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">4) Complete steps 2 & 3 from Lesson 7 Point/Support: Rough Draft due Tuesday **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">4a) Read chapters 14-17 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">5) Attach Steps 1-3 together **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">You should have stapled together: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">5a) Brainstorming Activity (Step 1; LLP) **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">5b) Outline (Step 2; LLP) [Due Friday ]**
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 21px;">5c) First Draft (Step 3; LLP) **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2/10/14 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th Grade: DUE WEDNESDAY!!! **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Make flash cards for your 10 words to own Chapter 2 [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Read, Lesson 3: Main Idea and Theme (pp.33-44) **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete ALL questions and Multiple Choice questions IN YOUR COMP. BOOK **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) Complete Open-Ended Question on LLP!!! **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">5) You must complete 1 of the activities in Step 1 of Point and Support Process [Lesson 7 Handout][LLP!!!] to turn in for grade **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete Guided Reading Questions for chapters 9-10 [LLP] of The Giver [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete 1 of 3 activities for Lesson 7 Step I: Prewriting [LLP] for your Point & Support Assignment [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Create Flash Cards for Words to Own Ch 3-4 [You should have cards for ch 1-4 by tomorrow] **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2/7/14 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Read and Complete Buckle Down **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Lesson 2: Roots and Affixes (pp.21-32) **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">IN YOUR COMPOSITION BOOKS!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete reading Character Analysis example packet: Sample analysis AND Instructions **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete Unit 1 Chapter 2 Vocabulary packet [Test next Friday 2/14/14!!!] **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Read chapters 10-13 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete Study Guides for each **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Write a short story using Ch3-4 words about the olympics **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) 306- Complete Reader's Response questions 1-3 for chapters 7-9 [Handout] **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2/6/14 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Study for Vocabulary test (Unit 1 Chapter 1; Prefixes(5) and Suffixes (6) **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Outline Example III Intro and Speech [LLP] use notes from class outlines of examples **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Prefix/Suffix test tomorrow!!! **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Read Chapter 9 of //The Giver// **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete Reader's Response questions 1-3 [LLP] staple to handout **

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Look up and complete 5-step vocabulary for Chapters 3-4 word list [LLP] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Read, Point and SUpport Lesson 7 [Handout] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Read chapters 7-8 of **//<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">The Giver //** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) Complete Note-Taking Guide for each chapter 7-8 [Handout] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">5) Complete Vocabulary Assessment Preparation for chapters 1-2 ; 3-4; AND 5-6 [Vocabulary Handout] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">6) Get Ch 5-6 Take-Home test SIGNED!!!!
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2/4/14 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th Grade: Vocabulary Test Friday!!! **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Review and study 10 words to own **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Read, Buckle Down Lesson 1: Vocabulary **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Skills (pp.8-20) **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete all work in Copy Book **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">BE SURE TO LABEL ALL PAGES AND PROBLEM #'s **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) Read ALL of, Point and Support Lesson 7: The Writing Process [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;"> 8th GRADE: Prefix/Suffix Test Friday **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1/31/14 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th Grade: Prefix/Suffix test Friday 2/7/14 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Create flash cards for **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">[level 3] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">5 Prefixes and 6 suffixes **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1/30/14 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Flash cards (10) for words to own chapter 1 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Read Example II of Character analysis examples **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Outline the introduction and point action paragraphs [LLP] **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: The Giver test tomorrow 1-6 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Review Study Guide [DUE TOMORROW] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete Symbolism Chart for age milestones for our society **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Write a short story using 8 Words to Own for chapters 1-2 **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1/29/14 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Write an original story about games using your 10 words to own for the week [Use packet for words] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Get progress report signed [quiz grade] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Write the opening paragraph of a character analysis for **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Ms. Pringle, using your notes and graphic organizers from class [T-chart and wheel] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete Chapter 5-6 Study Guide Note taking charts [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) 5-step Vocabulary for each of the 8 words in Chapters 1/2 list [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) word/sentence as used in book **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) definition w/ part of speech **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) 2 synonyms **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) 1 antonym **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">5) Original sentence **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1/28/14 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Read and complete Point and Support Lesson 6 ALL [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete Unit 1 Chapter 1 Vocabulary packet [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete Character Trait T-Chart for Ms. Pringle **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: Test on Chapters 1-5 Friday **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Read and Complete Point and Support Lesson 6 ALL [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete Note Taking Study Guide for Chapters 2-4 of //The Giver// **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete Symbolism Landmark Chart [Handout from classroom activity] **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1/23/14 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Symbolism Project Due tomorrow **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">DUE Monday 1/27/14 on LLP!!!!: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Read, //The Giver//, chapters 5-6 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete Reader's Response:Reading Strategy: Making Inferences and answer all questions in that section **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4)Complete A 1-3: Be thorough, detailed, and support all points being made **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">All 7th and 8th Grade STudents: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Vocabulary test (45) words Wednesday [or Thursday if no school Wednesday] **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Write a rough draft of your Character analysis [Packet] Due Thursday **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Work on Symbolism Project DUE FRIDAY **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Read chapters 1-4 of **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">//Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah//


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1/17/14 Due Tuesday [NO SCHOOL MONDAY!!!!!] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete Vocabulary Activity 1-4 for 14 Words to Own {test Wednesday!}[Words on flip side of this week's list] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1a) Make Flash Cards for 14 Words to Own **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Read AND Complete ALL of Diagnostic Assessment Lessons 1-8 [Handout] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Read CAREFULLY and Complete Point and Support Lesson 5: Organization [Handout] **


 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: **
 * 1) Complete Vocabulary Activity 1-4 for 14 Words to Own {test Wednesday!}[Words on flip side of this week's list] **
 * 1a) Make Flash Cards for 14 words **
 * 2) Read CAREFULLY and Complete Point and Support Lesson 5: Organization [Handout] **
 * 3) Read and Complete PSSA Coach Pretest [Handout] **

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1/15/2014 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th AND 8th Grades: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Create Flash Cards for the 15 words to own <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Place a marker of some sort or initials on your set of cards (mark should be on each card) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) You must bring in your set of flash cards for this week AND last week so you can participate in the class activity tomorrow <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) No flash cards= Zero x 2

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1/14/14 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: Vocabulary test Friday 30 words!!! <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete Words to Own #9-15 activity [LLP] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete Point and Support Lesson 4: Activities 7& 8 ALL!!! [Handout] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete rough draft of Epitaph on LLP to be edited tomorrow in class!!![LLP]

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: Vocabulary Test Friday 30 words!!!! <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete Words to Own #9-15 activity [LLP] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete Point & Support Lesson 4: Activity 7/8 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">ALL!!!! [Handout] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) 305: Complete Take-Home Test Chapters 2-4 Reader's Response on LLP <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">At this point you should have the following in your Writing Journal: [Collected Friday] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Double Journal Entries x2 per chapter (1-4) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Reader's Response to Chapter 1

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1/13/14 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: VOCABULARY TEST FRIDAY!!! <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete Words to Own #1-8 Activity [LLP!!] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete Point and Support Section 3: Activity 5 #1-5 [Handout] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Continue Working on Rough Draft of Epitaph DUE Wednesday!!!! [LLP]

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: VOCABULARY TEST FRIDAY!!! <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) COmplete Words to Own #1-8 Activity [LLP!!!] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete Point and Support Section #: Activity 6 #1-5 [Handout] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Answer Chapters 2-4 Reader's Response Questions #1-3 ]LLP Test Grade [306 tonight][305 tomorrow night]

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1/10/14 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) COMPLETE COMPLETE COMPLETE Mid-Term Project!!!!! <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">DUE MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY!!!!!!!!!

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8TH GRADE: (305) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Reread Chapters 2&3 of, **//The Giver//** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Fill in 4-block characteristics: Setting, Character, Community Structure, and Community Rules (if 4-blocks filled you can just list examples and ID in parenthesis the category)

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1/9/14 VOCABULARY TEST TOMORROW!!!!!! <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: Repeat #1-#4 from 1/8/14

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE:n VOCABULARY TEST TOMORROW!!!!! <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete Activity 5 Point & Support [Handout] (306) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete 4-square for Chapters 2-3 [Collected tomorrow for grade LLP] (306)

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">305 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete 4-square for Chapter 1 [collected tomorrow for grade] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete "More About Point and Support" [Handout] Activities #4 and #5

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1/8/14 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Create Flash Cards for 15 WOrds to Own and play at least two rounds of match game [Index Cards cut in half as demonstrated in class <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete Point and Support Activity 5 [Section 2 Handout] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Outline the 5 Domains of Character for your chosen character and list a minimum of 3 traits or examples for each domain [LLP /Notes from Power Point/Character Trait Handout] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) Continue Working on Mid-Term Project [Handout/Due Monday]

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1/7/14 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: Buy 3 Packs of index cards (100/pack) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Using the remaining 7 Words to Own: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Write a one-paragraph story about anything! <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Continue working on your Mid-Term Project (DUE 1/13/14) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Select one character from Collection I to use as focus of both your Epitaph Project and your Character Analysis Writing Prompt [Both to be assigned 1/8/14 & 1/9/14] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">On Index Card: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">-Your Name <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">-Class/Advisory <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">-Character you have chosen <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">-Story in which character appears

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1/8/14: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Create Flash Cards (15) using the 15 words to own <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Play at least 2 rounds of "Match Game" using flash cards [15 index cards] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete 4-Square/List for Setting, Character, Comm. Structure, Comm. Rules **//Chapter 1 The Giver//** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1/7/14 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Using remaining 7 Words to Own: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Write a one-paragraph story about anything! <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Read Chapter 4: **//The Giver//** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Write 2 Double Journal Entries [Writing Journal] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) Begin filling out your Symbol Chart for your Mid-Term Project [Handout]

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1/6/14 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: [Make-up Test for Smallest Dragonboy Tomorrow!!!] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Continue Working on Mid-Term Project Due 1/13/14

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Select 8 of the 15 words to own <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Write a SHORT story about school using the 8 words
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">4) Any student absent from Thursday must complete 8 of the 15 words from Thursday's vocabulary assignment for tomorrow and the other 7 for Wednesday! **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">5) Any student absent from Thursday must complete Point & Support Activity by tomorrow 1/7/14 **

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE:

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">1) Select 8 of the 15 words to own <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">2) Write a SHORT story about school using the 8 words <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">3) Read, Chapters 2 & 3 of, **//The Giver//** (pp.11-25) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 26px;">4) Complete 2 Double Journal Entries for each chapter [Writing Notebook][LABEL EVERYTHING!]

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1/2/14 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th Grade: END OF COLLECTION EXAM MONDAY!!! <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete End-of-Collection Review Study Guide [Handout; Due Monday] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete Vocabulary Assignment 15 Words to Own [Handout due Monday] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete "Point and Support" Activity #3 [Handout; all 3 cartoon analysis] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) Begin working on Mid-term Project [Handout; Due 1/13/14]

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th Grade: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete Vocabulary activity for 15 words to own [handout] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete Point and Support Activity #2-4 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete, "My Daily Life" Activity Sheet for **//The Giver//** [Handout]

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">12/20/13 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Smallest Dragonboy Assessment Monday!!!!!!! <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Focus: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">a) 5 Words to Own <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">b) Keevan as an underdog <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">c) Verb Tense <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Use your IW Packet, Vocabulary assignment from Monday, Verb Tense Notes <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Textbook pages: 63, 730-731, 47-60

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">12/19/13 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Vocabulary test tomorrow 20 words Chapters 6&7 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Read, complete reading, or reread Chapter I: The Giver <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete Reader's Responses A: #1-3 and B [blue handout] in your writing journals
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th Grade: **

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Reread, The Smallest Dragonboy (pp.47-60) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Read, Sir Kensley the Brave (p.60) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete Making Meanings (p.61) [LLP]
 * 7th Grade: Test pushed to Monday !!!!**

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">12/18/13 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Using 5 Words to Own: Write a short story about bullying <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete Graphic Organizer for Active Reading [IW Packet] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete Grammar Link: Keeping Verb Tense Consistent [IW Packet] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">(Use Notes from Class and use Textbook (p. 63; 730-731)

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Write a story (your choice) using 10 words to own Chapter 7 [Bonus 10 points per word used from chapter 6] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete The Giver Anticipation Guide Part II (Euthanasia/Utopia] on LLP [Answer in complete, well-thought out responses]

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">12/17/13 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: Smallest Dragonboy Test Friday!!!!! <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete Words to Own: Matching Synonyms [IW Packet] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete Spelling Worksheet [IW Packet] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete Thematic Connection [IW Packet] Answer each question with at least ONE example cited from text!!!

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: Vocabulary Test Friday: Chapters 6 & 7 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete Unit 2 Chapter 7 Vocabulary (pp.54-59) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Any student not present or who did not complete their reading and making meanings assignment for "Raymond's Run" will have this evening to complete it!!! (pp. 3-12 Textbook)

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">12/16/13 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th Grade: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Any student not present on 12/5 or 12/6 will need to complete Telling the Stories Handout and Connections 1-4 [LLP] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Any student not present 12/9-12/13: Will need to Read, **//A Day's Wait//** and complete Interactive Workbook pp. 26-33 AND Making Meanings [Text p. 85]

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">12/3/13 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete "The Giver" Anticipation Guide Part II [LLP] Answer in complete sentences and TAG response!!!!
 * 305 complete Part I**


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Read, "Telling the Stories" **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Answer questions #1-4 in complete thoughts and sentences [LLP] **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">12/2/13 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Subject-Verb Agreement Assessment Part II: Tomorrow **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Write a short story using 10 Words to Own: Unit 2 Chapter 6 [LLP] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Fragments Word Test tomorrow (27) **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">11/21/13 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: Preposition Test Monday!!!! (30 prepositions) **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Begin studying your 30 Prepositions; memorize ALL of them!!! **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete Subject-Verb Agreement Practice [Handout] **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: Fragment Words Test: Monday!!!! (23) **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) High School Folders due tomorrow!!!!!!! You know who you are :( **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Complete Unit 2 Chapter 6 Vocabulary (pp. 48-53 ALL!!!! ) **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Begin studying for your Fragment: "Common Dependent Words" Test **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">See your notes and Fragments I handout for the list!!! Memorize them :) **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">11/19/13 & 11/20/13: NO HOMEWORK **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">11/18/13 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete Reader's Response for **//Song of the Trees; Be sure to use your notes from class on citation...[THIS IS A TAKE-HOME Assessment DUE TOMORROW!]//


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">11/14/13 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th GRADE: Textbook, Vocabulary Packet, and Word Busting Packets Needed to study!!! **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">End of Story Assessment for **//Song of the Trees// **tomorrow!!!!**
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Culminating Vocabulary Test (25 words: Rikki-tikki, Song of the Trees, and Lesson 1 Changes in the Arts) **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Both IW Packet and Vocabulary Lesson 1 packet to be collected tomorrow! **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th GRADE: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Culminating Vocabulary Chapters 1-5 (50 words) test tomorrow!!! **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Sentence Fragment Part I test tomorrow!!!! **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Fragment packet collected tomorrow!!!!! **

//Song of the Trees// **and Culminating Vocabulary (25 words) test pushed to Friday!!!!!!**
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">11/13/13 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">7th Grade: **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">1) Complete Graphic Organizer for Active Writing [IW Packet] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">2) Finish Subject-Verb Agreement Worksheet #7 and "Correcting Common Errors" (pp.22, 358) [Grammar Packet] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">3) Complete Vocabulary: How to Own a Word (p.44) #1-10 [LLP & Textbook] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">4) Reread, **//Song of the Trees//** (pp.30-34) in preparation for your test Friday!!!!!

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">8th Grade: Slave Diaries and/or research papers due tomorrow!!!!!! 11/15/13 <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Culminating Unit 1 Vocabulary test Friday!!! <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">Sentence Fragment Test Part I Friday!!!