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May 18-22, 2009

May 18:

1. DOL #49

2.  Business Letter Format:  1.  Parts of a business letter Download Parts of a Business Letter  Download Business Letter Template -Blanka  Download Business Letter Template -Answers   Download Business%20letter    2.  Business Letter Language Download Business Letter LanguageAssignment  Download Business Letter language  Download Business Letter to Proof  3.  Celebrity Address Download Finding your famous person

May 19:

1.  DOL 49

2. The Weirdo, pages 180-199

3.  Write Business letter to Celebrity of Choice:  Three Paragraphs: 1.  Introduce yourself and telll whhy you are writing; 2.  Explain why you like them so much. Include specific accomplishments of the celebrity.; 3. Request an autographed picture and thank them for reading your letter.

Stems Test #12 Tomorrow

May 20:

1. Stems Test #12

2. Type  Celebrity Letter in Lab #2

May 11-15, 2009

May 11:  Field Day: Classes Cancelled

May 12:

1.  DOL #47

2. Stems List #12 Download Stems List 12

3.  Birthday invitation Project:  Finish Math Portion

May 13:

1.  Journal 43/44:  You're Almost There:  What are your plans for the summer?

2. Stems list #12 Flash Cards:  Make to Study 10 minutes each night:  Stems #12 Test next Wednesday 

3.  Birthday Invitation:  Design Invitation

May 14:

1.  DOL #48

2.  The Weirdo, pages 171-180

3.  DOL Review #16 Download DOL Review#16

DOL Quiz over DOLs 46, 47, & 48 is tomorrow

May 15:

1.  SSR and Writing Prompt and Page totals for last Nine Weeks

2.  DOL Quiz #16

3.  The Weirdo, pages 180-186

 

May 4-8, 2009

May 4:

1.  DOL Review #15  Download DOL Review15

2.  Turn in Haiku

3.  Personal Recipe Project:  Abstract nouns, Recipe Quantities, Transitions (Writing & Grammar, p. 38), Cooking verbs, Title

DOL Quiz over DOLs 43, 44, & 45 is tomorrow.

May 5:

1.  DOL Quiz #15

2.  Personal Recipe:  Instruction paragraph

May 6:

1.  DOL #46

2.  Stem Squares #11:  Use Stem's definition and an example word in a good sentence and illustrate with 3 colors.

May 7:

1. Journal 43: Write a paragraph using 10 onomatopoetic words like Burp! Beep! Plop!

2.  Weirdo, pages 155-170

3.  Personal Recipe:  Discuss Rubric/ work on Final Draft (due at end of class tomorrow)

Stems #11 Test Tomorrow

April 27-May 1, 2009

April 27:

Read The Weirdo

April 28:

1.  DOL #44

2.  Stems List #11/ Make Flash Cards Download Stems List 11

3.  Magic Pictures Poem

Homework:  Finish Magic Pictures Poem

April 29:

1. Journal #41(5th and 6th)  and 42(3rd and 4th):  Write about what you remember about the first day of 7th grade.

2.  Poetry Reading / Turn in Magic Pictures Poem

3.  The Weirdo:  3rd and 4th:  Review Questions #1-11 on Book 3; 5th and 6th:  Reading in Book 3

April 30:

1.  DOL #45

2.  The Weirdo

3.  Haiku:  Introduction/ Complete Circle Chart

May 1:

1. SSR/Writing Prompt 

2.  Haiku:  Write 4 Haiku: One for each quadrant of the chart

March 30-April 3, 2009

Please Note:  Most of these Dependent Clause and Sentence Type Worksheets come from past textbooks and workbooks; therefore, they are not capable of being downloaded.  Please ask Me for a copy.

March 30:

1.  DOL #38  (DOL Quiz on Friday over DOLs 37-39)

2.  Complex Sentences Packet "Pump Iron with Complex Sentences"

3.  The Weirdo

HW:  Writers Workout Workshheet-All 3 EExercises

March 31:

March 23-27, 2009

Monday, March 23:

1.  Journal #34:  In writing, show that a room has a very, very bad smell.

2.  Dependent Clauses:  Check Friday's Classwork/Homework

3.  CRCT Reading Practice:  Poetry, Theme:  "Mr. Nobody"

4.  Stem Squares #10:  Complete for Homework

Tuesday, March 24:

1.  DOL #36

2.  Dependent Clause Teiered ActivityDownload DepClausestieredactivity

3.Worksheet 18.1 :  Classwork/Homework

Wednesday, March 25:

1.  Journal #35:  Stream of Conscienceness:  Write constantly for 4 minutes.

2.  Dol Review #12:  Download DOL REVIEW#12

3.  Compound Sentences and Compound subjects/Predicates

Homework:  Write 2 Paragraphs (Assignment in Packet handed out in class)

DOL Quiz tomorrow

March 16 - 20, 2009

March 16:

1.  DOL #33

2.  Stems List #10 Download Stems List 10

3.  Make-up Speeches

4.  Review research Process

5.  Research Post-Test (Quiz Grade)


March 17:

1.  Journal #32:  "Polar Bear Eating Vanilla  Ice cream in a Blizzard"  is the artist's title for a blank white canvas.  What's the title for a solid black canvas?  A solid blue canvas?

2.  Stems List #10 Flash Cards

3.  St. Patrick''s Day Reading and CRCT Practice Questions Download StPatricksDayQuestions (Passage is not available in e-copy)

4.  Sentence Variety pre-test


March 18:

1.  DOL #34  (DOLs 34-36 will be on an upcoming quiz next Thursday)

2.  Phrases and ClausesDownload Clauses vs Phrases Word Bank

3.  Total SSR pages for 3rd nine Weeks

March 19:

1.  Journal #33:  Prepositions:  of, in, at, by, into, on, to, up.  Write a paragraph about the final moments of a tied basketball game or a paragraph about having fun with friends or family - without using the above prepositions.

2.  Dependent Clauses Download The Subordinate Clause 2

March 20:

1.  DOL #35

2.  Dependent Clause Review

3.  Media Center & SSR

4.  Dependent Clause Worksheet Classwork/Homework 

March 9-13, 2009

This week ends our research paper and project.  On Wednesday we will officially hand in the final draft of the research paper and on Thirsday and Friday we will be giving speeches and presenting our posters demonstrating what we learned in our research.Download Research paper assignment

March 9:

Typing in Computer lab #1 (Formatting and Title Page)

March 10:

Typing in lab #1 (essay and proofreading)

March 11:

Typing in Lab #1 (Works Cited page)

March 12:

Speeches

March13:

Speeches

March 2-6, 2009

This Week we are still working on the research paper and project.Download Research paper assignment

March 2:

Last day in Lab for Research

March 3:

Outline

Internal Documentation

Introduction

March 4:

Rough draft

March 5:

Field Trip : No class

March 6:

Revision

Check Biblio Cards, Note Cards, and Rough Draft for Classwork Grade

February 23-27, 2009

Feb. 23:

1.  Receive/Choose research topic

2.  Complete "Famous faces" worksheet

3.  Devise 3 subtopics to research

Feb 24-27:

Research in Lab Download Research paper assignment