Monday, October 1st, 2012
Language Arts
Bell Work: Get out your writing homework. In tables, read what you wrote from the first page of your writing. If you do not have your 30 minutes of writing, you can turn it in to me for late credit. When you are done reading your writing to the table, put it in your green file folder. The substitute teacher will come around to grade you on whether or not you completed your writing.
Objectives: Writing, Perform Twelfth Night, Continue to fill out Act summaries.
Homework: Read for 20 minutes. Study for the spelling and vocabulary tests.
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History
Bell Work: 2nd period--finish copying down vocabulary words. from the board.
3rd period--Write a 5-sentence paragraph answering the following question:
"How do people make fair laws? Do our laws reflect our morals?"
Objectives: Textbook assignment. Page 18-24. Instructions: In your History Handbooks on the first blank page, take notes on your reading. Write down the red headings. Underneath each heading, write down one fact per paragraph in "Tarzan" talk. These chapters will be posted online by Tuesday morning.
Homework: Continue working on your religion research paper. DUE FRIDAY, October 5th.
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
Language Arts
Bell Work: Vocabulary and Spelling Test
Objectives: Vocabulary and Spelling. Correct tests in class. Continue acting out Twelfth Night and filling out Act summaries.
Homework: Read 20 minutes. Continue to work on Final Shakespeare Project.
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History
Bell Work: Discuss what the Substitute covered yesterday.
Objectives: Textbook reading, explain the research paper again, if time--article about Islam.
Homework: Short research paper due October 5th: There are at least 6 paragraphs, an introduction, a body and a conclusion.
Paragraph 1: Introduction. Make a thesis statement answering HOW the religion you researched came into existence. Write down three sentences that describe something interesting about the religion you researched.
Paragraph 2: Write details about how the religion started.
Paragraph 3: Write details about your first interesting fact.
Paragraph 4: Write details about your second interesting fact.
Paragraph 5: Write details about your third interesting fact.
Paragraph 6: Write a conclusion reflecting your introduction.
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
Language Arts
Bell Work: Watch a video for anti-bullying month and one about How fiction affects the real world.
Objectives: Discussion about bullying. Perform Shakespeare.
Homework: Read 20 minutes. Continue working on Shakespeare project (Due October 11th).
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History
Bell Work: Watch a video for anti-bullying month. Discussion.
Objectives: Finish Textbook assignment
Homework: Continue working on your research paper, due October 5th. If you didn't finish the textbook assignment, take your handbook home and read the chapters on my website.
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Thursday, October 4th, 2012
Language Arts
Bell Work: No bell work today.
Objectives: Finish Act 4 and 5 of Twelfth Night, Shakespeare.
Homework: Read for 20 minutes. Write a reader's journal entry TO ME.
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History
Bell Work: This Day In History for October 1st. Jon and Ari present today because I was gone on Monday and Mrs. Olsen's computer wasn't working for them to present in morning greeting.
Objectives: Learn about Islam. Write down facts from an article. (Not on my website--I apologize. I cannot remember where I found this article.)
Homework: Research paper is due tomorrow.
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Friday, October 5th, 2012
Language Arts
Bell Work: Turn in your reader's journal to Mrs. Martin. Read a book the rest of the period.
Objectives: Reader's workshop
Homework: Read 40 minutes. Write for 30 minutes.
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History
Bell Work:
Objectives: Finish religion. Learn about the origin of Christianity. Compare and Contrast all three major religions.
Homework: No homework.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Announcement
Dear Parents and Students,
I am getting a lot of students complaining that they are missing grades on SIS. They promised they turned it in but they have no grade.
These are the three options for them:
1. Look in the "no name" file stapled to the wall underneath the light switch. I have dozens of assignments in there.
2. Look in their green file folders. Some students think that if they keep it in their file folders, that is as good as turning it in. I do not check file folder ever. I only access their notebooks if I am doing a notebook check to see if they are keeping up on class notes.
3. They get it returned to them WITH a score on them. I admit there are times when I grade the assignment and for some reason it just doesn't make it into SIS. The student needs to show me that assignment with the grade on it. If they throw the assignment away, there is no way for me to know for sure.
Some students say I lost their work. I can assure you that is is physically impossible for me to lose student work. I keep assignments in a pouch that is zipped up. The only reason I take the assignments out is to grade them. Then I immediately put them back in the pouch.
In another matter, I am noticing that my sixth and eighth graders are turning in work with no basic conventions. I expect each student to know how to use capitalization and basic punctuation. From now on I am going to mark down 30 percent of the grade if these basic conventions are not followed.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thanks,
Mrs. Martin
I am getting a lot of students complaining that they are missing grades on SIS. They promised they turned it in but they have no grade.
These are the three options for them:
1. Look in the "no name" file stapled to the wall underneath the light switch. I have dozens of assignments in there.
2. Look in their green file folders. Some students think that if they keep it in their file folders, that is as good as turning it in. I do not check file folder ever. I only access their notebooks if I am doing a notebook check to see if they are keeping up on class notes.
3. They get it returned to them WITH a score on them. I admit there are times when I grade the assignment and for some reason it just doesn't make it into SIS. The student needs to show me that assignment with the grade on it. If they throw the assignment away, there is no way for me to know for sure.
Some students say I lost their work. I can assure you that is is physically impossible for me to lose student work. I keep assignments in a pouch that is zipped up. The only reason I take the assignments out is to grade them. Then I immediately put them back in the pouch.
In another matter, I am noticing that my sixth and eighth graders are turning in work with no basic conventions. I expect each student to know how to use capitalization and basic punctuation. From now on I am going to mark down 30 percent of the grade if these basic conventions are not followed.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thanks,
Mrs. Martin
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Friday, September 28
Language Arts
Bell Work: Turn in a half sheet of paper with your name, the name of your partner and what project you are working on for the final Shakespeare assignment. Exchange/turn in your letter. Get out your book to read.
Objectives: Reading workshop. You should be responding to a letter or reading a book.
Homework: Write for 30 minutes on whatever genre you choose. Remember, never throw away your writing for this class. Bring to class on Monday and be prepared to share. Read for 40 minutes.
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History
Bell work: Copy the vocabulary from the board. Write these words and their definitions in your History Handbook wherever you have your unit on Religion.
Objectives: Finish Vocabulary. Explain research paper. Start teaching lasting religions.
Homework: Start working on your research paper. Instructions are on my blog under "Assignments."
Bell Work: Turn in a half sheet of paper with your name, the name of your partner and what project you are working on for the final Shakespeare assignment. Exchange/turn in your letter. Get out your book to read.
Objectives: Reading workshop. You should be responding to a letter or reading a book.
Homework: Write for 30 minutes on whatever genre you choose. Remember, never throw away your writing for this class. Bring to class on Monday and be prepared to share. Read for 40 minutes.
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History
Bell work: Copy the vocabulary from the board. Write these words and their definitions in your History Handbook wherever you have your unit on Religion.
Objectives: Finish Vocabulary. Explain research paper. Start teaching lasting religions.
Homework: Start working on your research paper. Instructions are on my blog under "Assignments."
Thursday, September 27th
Language Arts
Bell Work: Read the Shakespearean speech. What type of meter does it mostly have? (remember the “ta-tums”) Write the name of that meter somewhere on the paper with your speech. It starts with an "I".
Objectives: Polunius' Speech with the article about Lending Money (on my website). This is homework if you do not finish it in class.
Homework: Read 20 minutes. Letter in your reading journal due tomorrow. Start working on your Shakespeare Project. Write on a piece of paper who you are working with and what project you are doing.
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History
Bell Work: Read the article on Hammurabi. Fill in the profile for him in your handbook page 90/91. (Who, what, where, when, why important.) You have 20 minutes.
Objectives: Hammurabi Profile, Research Paper, Vocabulary for our "Religion" unit. (I did not get to explain the research paper, so do not worry about it until the weekend.
Homework: Research paper due next Friday, October 5.
Bell Work: Read the Shakespearean speech. What type of meter does it mostly have? (remember the “ta-tums”) Write the name of that meter somewhere on the paper with your speech. It starts with an "I".
Objectives: Polunius' Speech with the article about Lending Money (on my website). This is homework if you do not finish it in class.
Homework: Read 20 minutes. Letter in your reading journal due tomorrow. Start working on your Shakespeare Project. Write on a piece of paper who you are working with and what project you are doing.
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History
Bell Work: Read the article on Hammurabi. Fill in the profile for him in your handbook page 90/91. (Who, what, where, when, why important.) You have 20 minutes.
Objectives: Hammurabi Profile, Research Paper, Vocabulary for our "Religion" unit. (I did not get to explain the research paper, so do not worry about it until the weekend.
Homework: Research paper due next Friday, October 5.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Wednesday, September 26th
Language Arts
Bell Work: In your handbook under "Genre" write "Sonnet" and then two or more sentences describing characteristics of a sonnet. If you can't remember, look at "Sonnet 18". It should be in your green file folder.
Objectives: Perform the rest of Act I and part of Act II of Twelfth Night.
Homework: Read for 20 minutes. Weekly Word Study due tomorrow.
Vocabulary and Spelling test next Tuesday.
Shakespeare Final Project due Thursday, October 11th.
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History
Bell Work: Continue filling out the third column about "What you know" for the unit Mesopotamia.
Objectives: Read "Hammurabi's Profile", Finish learning about Thesis Statements. Explain Final Product: Mesopotamia.
Homework: Final Product: Mesopotamia.
Bell Work: In your handbook under "Genre" write "Sonnet" and then two or more sentences describing characteristics of a sonnet. If you can't remember, look at "Sonnet 18". It should be in your green file folder.
Objectives: Perform the rest of Act I and part of Act II of Twelfth Night.
Homework: Read for 20 minutes. Weekly Word Study due tomorrow.
Vocabulary and Spelling test next Tuesday.
Shakespeare Final Project due Thursday, October 11th.
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History
Bell Work: Continue filling out the third column about "What you know" for the unit Mesopotamia.
Objectives: Read "Hammurabi's Profile", Finish learning about Thesis Statements. Explain Final Product: Mesopotamia.
Homework: Final Product: Mesopotamia.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Tuesday, September 25
Language Arts
Bell Work: When you create fictional characters for a story, what questions do you ask yourself? How do you make that character seem real?
Objectives: Spelling, Vocabulary, Capitalization, Shakespeare.
Homework: Read twenty minutes. Start preparing for Spelling and Vocabulary quizzes next Tuesday.
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History
Bell Work: Write down three things you learned yesterday in class.
Objectives: Laws of Hammurabi, How to write an argumentative thesis statement.
Homework: Write one paragraph about how to write a thesis statement. This should be five sentences. If you can't remember how to write one, look on my website.
Bell Work: When you create fictional characters for a story, what questions do you ask yourself? How do you make that character seem real?
Objectives: Spelling, Vocabulary, Capitalization, Shakespeare.
Homework: Read twenty minutes. Start preparing for Spelling and Vocabulary quizzes next Tuesday.
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History
Bell Work: Write down three things you learned yesterday in class.
Objectives: Laws of Hammurabi, How to write an argumentative thesis statement.
Homework: Write one paragraph about how to write a thesis statement. This should be five sentences. If you can't remember how to write one, look on my website.
Week 6 Monday, September 24
Language Arts
Bell Work: Read the poem "America" by Tony Hoagland. On the back of the poem, write what you notice about the punctuation, stanzas, and rhythm. What is this poem about? What type of tone does it have?
Objectives: Reading journal review (see instructions on my blog). Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I
Homework: Read for twenty minutes.
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History
Bell Work: Same as Friday (explain to me how to know what years belong to [for example] the 15th century).
Objectives: Finished the Ancient Middle East PPT. Started reading about Hammurabi and the 282 laws. Posted on my website. Additional information for interested students: All 282 of Hammurabi's laws, games to play about what would happen if certain rules were broken.
Homework: Check SIS to see what you are missing in my class. Anything that was due last week is due for late credit no later than Friday.
Bell Work: Read the poem "America" by Tony Hoagland. On the back of the poem, write what you notice about the punctuation, stanzas, and rhythm. What is this poem about? What type of tone does it have?
Objectives: Reading journal review (see instructions on my blog). Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I
Homework: Read for twenty minutes.
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History
Bell Work: Same as Friday (explain to me how to know what years belong to [for example] the 15th century).
Objectives: Finished the Ancient Middle East PPT. Started reading about Hammurabi and the 282 laws. Posted on my website. Additional information for interested students: All 282 of Hammurabi's laws, games to play about what would happen if certain rules were broken.
Homework: Check SIS to see what you are missing in my class. Anything that was due last week is due for late credit no later than Friday.
Friday, September 21, 2012
Friday, September 21st
Language Arts
Bell Work: Quietly come into class, turn in your letters to Mrs. Martin or exchange letters with another student. Read or respond to letters for the rest of the class period.
Objectives: Reader's workshop
Homework: Read for 40 minutes, write for 30 minutes in any genre.
History
Bell Work: Picture day (2nd period). In a few sentences, explain to someone in writing how to tell what century a year is in. For example, when I ask what century is 1999 in. Or what years belong to the 21st century. When you are done, fill out part of the third column about what you learned yesterday. When you are done with that, glue in the timeline I pass out.
Objectives: Mesopotamia. Timeline.
Homework: No homework.
Bell Work: Quietly come into class, turn in your letters to Mrs. Martin or exchange letters with another student. Read or respond to letters for the rest of the class period.
Objectives: Reader's workshop
Homework: Read for 40 minutes, write for 30 minutes in any genre.
History
Bell Work: Picture day (2nd period). In a few sentences, explain to someone in writing how to tell what century a year is in. For example, when I ask what century is 1999 in. Or what years belong to the 21st century. When you are done, fill out part of the third column about what you learned yesterday. When you are done with that, glue in the timeline I pass out.
Objectives: Mesopotamia. Timeline.
Homework: No homework.
Thursday, September 20
Language Arts
Bell Work: Read the poem entitled "Footsteps to Follow" by Kelly Carter. Write a five-sentence paragraph answering one or all of the following questions: What is this poem about? Why do you think the poet needed to write this poem? Can you relate to this poem? Get out your spelling with your planner.
Objectives: Shakespeare act summaries, perform Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Homework: Read for twenty minutes. Bring a book tomorrow. Bring your reader's journal letter.
History
Bell Work: In your history handbook section "Mesopotamia" make a three-column chart that takes up the whole page. Label the first column "What I know", the second column "What I should know" and the third column "What I learned." Fill out the first two columns regarding what you know about Mesopotamia and what you should know (or want to know).
Objectives: Mesopotamia: Introduction. B.C.E. / C.E. / How historians label centuries (21st, 15th, etc). Start PPT of Ancient Middle East.
Homework: No homework
Bell Work: Read the poem entitled "Footsteps to Follow" by Kelly Carter. Write a five-sentence paragraph answering one or all of the following questions: What is this poem about? Why do you think the poet needed to write this poem? Can you relate to this poem? Get out your spelling with your planner.
Objectives: Shakespeare act summaries, perform Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Homework: Read for twenty minutes. Bring a book tomorrow. Bring your reader's journal letter.
History
Bell Work: In your history handbook section "Mesopotamia" make a three-column chart that takes up the whole page. Label the first column "What I know", the second column "What I should know" and the third column "What I learned." Fill out the first two columns regarding what you know about Mesopotamia and what you should know (or want to know).
Objectives: Mesopotamia: Introduction. B.C.E. / C.E. / How historians label centuries (21st, 15th, etc). Start PPT of Ancient Middle East.
Homework: No homework
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Wednesday, September 19
Language Arts
Bell Work: Write three sentences using a parentheses, and three sentences using a hyphen. (Check your handbook if you can't remember how.)
Objectives: Final project explained (instructions in Assignments), Act Summaries for Twelfth Night (In Assignments), Start acting out the play. If you are absent, go to "No Fear Shakespeare" and read Act I, Scene i. Website link is in "Assignments" week 5.
Homework: Read 20 minutes. Weekly word study due tomorrow. Letter due Friday.
History
Bell Work: Do you believe human beings need to be ruled by a government?
Objectives: Finish Deserts (fill out third column of your KWL), Start Mesopotamia with National Geographic Video.
Homework: Finish "I Am" poem if you didn't finish in class (template and instructions in Assignments), Article: "Can the Sahara Forest Turn the Desert Into an Oasis?" Follow the instructions. Article is in "Assignments."
Bell Work: Write three sentences using a parentheses, and three sentences using a hyphen. (Check your handbook if you can't remember how.)
Objectives: Final project explained (instructions in Assignments), Act Summaries for Twelfth Night (In Assignments), Start acting out the play. If you are absent, go to "No Fear Shakespeare" and read Act I, Scene i. Website link is in "Assignments" week 5.
Homework: Read 20 minutes. Weekly word study due tomorrow. Letter due Friday.
History
Bell Work: Do you believe human beings need to be ruled by a government?
Objectives: Finish Deserts (fill out third column of your KWL), Start Mesopotamia with National Geographic Video.
Homework: Finish "I Am" poem if you didn't finish in class (template and instructions in Assignments), Article: "Can the Sahara Forest Turn the Desert Into an Oasis?" Follow the instructions. Article is in "Assignments."
Monday, September 17, 2012
Tuesday, September 18
Language Arts 8
Bell Work: Read the poem (Sonnet 18). How many lines are there? What do you notice about the last two lines? Can you distinguish any rhythm or meter?
Objectives: Iambic Pentameter, hyphens, Sonnet 18, Shakespeare.
Homework: Read for 20 minutes. Weekly Word Practice due Thursday. Reading journal letters due Friday at the beginning of class.
History 6
Bell Work: What is a primary document and what is a secondary document? If you don't know, make an educated guess.
Objectives: Finish "Deserts" text activity. Start writing an "I am" poem about deserts. Instructions and rubric under week 5.
Homework: No homework.
Bell Work: Read the poem (Sonnet 18). How many lines are there? What do you notice about the last two lines? Can you distinguish any rhythm or meter?
Objectives: Iambic Pentameter, hyphens, Sonnet 18, Shakespeare.
Homework: Read for 20 minutes. Weekly Word Practice due Thursday. Reading journal letters due Friday at the beginning of class.
History 6
Bell Work: What is a primary document and what is a secondary document? If you don't know, make an educated guess.
Objectives: Finish "Deserts" text activity. Start writing an "I am" poem about deserts. Instructions and rubric under week 5.
Homework: No homework.
Monday, September 17 Week 5
1st and 4th Period: Language Arts
Bell Work: A couplet is a poetic device. There are two lines and the last word of each line rhymes. Write a couplet on any subject.
Objectives: Spelling, Vocabulary, Traits of Drama PPT (click on "Assignments"), Monologue, Soliloquy.
Homework: Read 20 minutes, Spelling practice due Thursday, Journal due Friday.
2nd and 3rd Period: History
Objectives: Deserts. Textbook activity Pages 2-14 (on "assignments").
Homework: Check my blog and write down five things you can get from my blog.
Bell Work: A couplet is a poetic device. There are two lines and the last word of each line rhymes. Write a couplet on any subject.
Ex:
A little learning is
a dangerous thing;
Drink deep or taste not the Pierian Spring.
Objectives: Spelling, Vocabulary, Traits of Drama PPT (click on "Assignments"), Monologue, Soliloquy.
Homework: Read 20 minutes, Spelling practice due Thursday, Journal due Friday.
2nd and 3rd Period: History
Bell Work: Why is writing in a journal historically important?
Objectives: Deserts. Textbook activity Pages 2-14 (on "assignments").
Homework: Check my blog and write down five things you can get from my blog.
Friday, September 14, 2012
Friday, September 14
1st and 4th Period: Language Arts
Bell Work: Exchange letters and respond to them. Read a book when done. If you wrote a letter to me, put it on my desk.
Objectives: Reading Workshop
Homework: Read 40 minutes from a personal book. Write in any genre for a half hour.
2nd and 3rd Period: History
Bell Work: Start working on textbook activity.
Objectives: Deserts. Textbook activity Pages 2-14
Homework: No homework
Thursday, September 13
1st and 4th Period: Language Arts
Bell Work: Find your new assigned seat and get out your spelling work.
Objectives: Spelling check, Parentheses, Traits of drama.
Homework: Read 20 minutes from a personal book. Letter due tomorrow.
2nd and 3rd Period: History
Bell Work: Find your new seat and turn get out your "Atacama" desert article.
Objectives: Deserts. Textbook activity Pages 2-14
Homework: No homework
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Wednesday, September 12
1st and 4th Period: Language Arts
Bell Work: For twenty minutes, write a "Persona" poem. Pick a fictional character you like and write from his/her point of view. This poem stays in your manilla file folder all year.
Objectives: Persona Poem, Working portfolio, Close reading, spelling.
Homework: Read 20 minutes from a personal book. Reading journal 9/14. Spelling practice on the first 10 words (weeks 3 and 4), due tomorrow.
2nd and 3rd Period: History
Bell Work: In three or more sentences, describe to me what close reading is.
By the end of class you must turn in to me:
1.Script (handwritten, or typed and saved in the student public network drive).
2.Powerpoint: Saved in the student public network drive.
Objectives: This Day In History: If you are done, start your homework.
Homework: "Atacama Desert--The World's Driest Desert" Do a "close" reading of this article. Directions are at the top of the page.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Tuesday, September 11th
1st and 4th Period: Language Arts
Bell Work: Go get your file folder. Silently read the poem I handed out. Keep your thoughts about it to yourself for now. Poem: "Maybe Dats Youwr Prowblem" Jim Hall
Objectives: Conventions mini lesson, continue genre, pick partners for Friday's workshop.
Homework: Read 20 minutes from a personal book. Start thinking about what you'll write in your reading letter due Friday.
2nd and 3rd Period: History
Bell Work: Suppliers get your table’s file folders and computers for each group at your table.
By the end of class you must turn in to
me:
1.Script (handwritten, or typed and saved in the student
public network drive).
2.Powerpoint: Saved in the
student public network drive.
Objectives: This Day In History: Finish today or it is homework.
Homework: Close reading instructions and assignment.
Monday, September 10th
1st and 4th Period: Language Arts
Bell Work: Write an answer to this question in your Writing/Reading Handbooks: How can I get an "A" in Mrs. Martin's English class? Be prepared to discuss.
Objectives: Spelling, vocabulary (write in handbook AND planner), genre, read Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf, write down each genre used in the story.
Homework: Read 20 minutes from a personal book.
2nd and 3rd Period: History
Bell Work: Quietly get out your file folders. Fill out your planner. Talk with your group about what you need to accomplish today.
Objectives: This Day In History: Thursday and Friday.
Homework: No homework.
Friday, September 7th
1st and 4th Period: Language Arts
Bell Work: Quietly exchange reading journals to your partner. When you are done, read a book. If you wrote a letter to me, put it on my chair. If you did NOT do the homework, fill out a blue half-sheet explaining why you did not complete your letter.
Objectives: Reading Workshop (Refer to reading journal instructions)
Homework: Read 40 minutes from a personal book.
2nd and 3rd Period: History
Bell Work: Quietly get out your file folders. Fill out your planner.
Objectives: This Day In History: Thursday and Friday.
Homework: No homework.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
September 6th, 2012
1st and 4th Period: Language Arts
Bell Work: Quietly get your folder. Re-read the reading journal letter I wrote to you. Underline anything you think is important.
Objectives: Reading Journals procedure/instructions (I will post the instructions in the "Pages" section of my blog.)
Homework: Read 20 minutes from a personal book. Write a half-page letter to either Mrs. Martin or someone you picked in class today. Bring the letter (in your reading journal) and your book to class tomorrow.
2nd and 3rd Period: History
Bell Work: Quietly get out your file folders. Fill out your planner.
Objectives: This Day In History: Thursday and Friday.
Homework: No homework.
Bell Work: Quietly get your folder. Re-read the reading journal letter I wrote to you. Underline anything you think is important.
Objectives: Reading Journals procedure/instructions (I will post the instructions in the "Pages" section of my blog.)
Homework: Read 20 minutes from a personal book. Write a half-page letter to either Mrs. Martin or someone you picked in class today. Bring the letter (in your reading journal) and your book to class tomorrow.
2nd and 3rd Period: History
Bell Work: Quietly get out your file folders. Fill out your planner.
Objectives: This Day In History: Thursday and Friday.
Homework: No homework.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
September 5, 2012
1st and 4th Language Arts
Bell Work: Quietly walk into class and take a sheet from the "Bell Work" file. Write your name and the one fact you learned about Shakespeare. Turn it in . Write your homework in your planner.
Objectives: NWEA testing (Last day!!!)
Homework: Read your choice of book for 20 minutes.
2nd and 3rd History
Bell Work: Get out your paragraph with the answer to the question, "HOW should we study history?" Be ready to discuss. Turn in during dismissal procedures at the end of class.
Objectives: Finish persona history projects. Discuss how we study history.
Homework: No homework.
Bell Work: Quietly walk into class and take a sheet from the "Bell Work" file. Write your name and the one fact you learned about Shakespeare. Turn it in . Write your homework in your planner.
Objectives: NWEA testing (Last day!!!)
Homework: Read your choice of book for 20 minutes.
2nd and 3rd History
Bell Work: Get out your paragraph with the answer to the question, "HOW should we study history?" Be ready to discuss. Turn in during dismissal procedures at the end of class.
Objectives: Finish persona history projects. Discuss how we study history.
Homework: No homework.
Monday, September 3, 2012
September 4, 2012
1st and 4th Period: Language Arts
Bell work:
Get out your reading journal if you have it with you and read the letter I handed to you as you walked in. Underline what you think is important.
Homework: Read a book of your choice for at least 20 minutes. Read the article below on Shakespeare. Write down one fact from that article.
Topic: NWEA TESTS
2nd and 3rd Period: History/Social Studies
Bell work:
Come in quietly and get your personal history projects.
Homework:
Write one paragraph in answer to this question: How should we study history?
Topic:
Personal History Presentations
Shakespeare Biography (For Language Arts)
Taken from notablebiographies.com
Born: April 23, 1564
Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Died: April 23, 1616
Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Died: April 23, 1616
Stratford-upon-Avon, England
The English playwright, poet, and actor William Shakespeare was a popular dramatist. He was born six years after Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) ascended the throne, in the height of the English Renaissance. He found in the theater of London a medium just coming into its own and an audience eager to reward talents of the sort he possessed. He is generally acknowledged to be the greatest of English writers and one of the most extraordinary creators in human history.
Early life
William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. His mother, Mary Arden, was the daughter of a wealthy landowner from a neighboring village. His father, John, was a maker of gloves and a trader in farm produce. John also held a number of responsible positions in Stratford's government and served as mayor in 1569.Though no personal documents survive from Shakespeare's school years, he probably attended the Stratford grammar school and studied the classics, Latin grammar and literature. It is believed that he had to discontinue his education at about thirteen in order to financially help his father. At eighteen he married Ann Hathaway. They had three children, Susanna, Hamnet, and Judith.
There are no records of Shakespeare's activities between 1585 and 1592. Some have speculated (guessed) that he was a traveling actor or a country schoolmaster. The earliest surviving mention of his career in London, England, is a jealous attack by Robert Greene, a playwright, which indicates that Shakespeare had already established himself in the capital. It is hard to believe that even Shakespeare could have shown the mastery evident in his plays without several years of apprenticeship (the period of time a person works to learn a skill).
The Lord Chamberlain's Men
In 1594 Shakespeare became principal writer for the successful Lord Chamberlain's Men in London. This was one of the two leading companies of actors. He also became a regular actor in the company and a partner in the group of artist-managers who ran it. The company performed regularly in unroofed but elaborate theaters that seated up to three thousand people. The actors performed on a huge platform stage equipped with additional levels for performances. The audience sat on three sides or stood on the ground in front of the stage.
In 1599 this group had the Globe Theater built on the south bank of the Thames River.
Shakespeare produced many plays for the company. They include the comedies The Taming of the Shrew (1594) about the taming of an ill-tempered, scolding woman and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595), in which fairies and magic potions in moonlit woods become entangled with young lovers who escape from a cruel society. These were followed by The Merchant of Venice (1596), Much Ado about Nothing (1598), The Merry Wives of Windsor (1599), and As You Like It (1600).
Shakespeare's tragedies of the period are among his most familiar plays: Romeo and Juliet (1596), Julius Caesar (1599), and Hamlet (1601). Although very different from each other, they share the setting of intense personal tragedy in a large world vividly populated by what seems like the whole range of humanity. Like most of his contemporaries in the theater, Shakespeare used the same techniques in writing comedies as tragedies. Politics are constantly present, and what is best in the protagonist (hero) is what does him in when he finds himself in conflict with the world.
Shakespeare, continuing his interest in the historical play, wrote King John (1596). Despite its one strong character it is a relatively weak play. His other epics range from Richard II (1595), through the two parts of Henry IV (1597), to Henry V (1599). These four plays pose disturbing questions about politics, particularly the difference between the man capable of ruling and the man worthy of doing so. They are not optimistic about man as a political animal.
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