Attached is an example of the highlighted paragraph. Your paragraph must be highlighted using the same colors for each of the sections.
See ILearn page (Corriveau’s Language Arts) for additional assignment information.
Attached is an example of the highlighted paragraph. Your paragraph must be highlighted using the same colors for each of the sections.
See ILearn page (Corriveau’s Language Arts) for additional assignment information.
End of Card Marking Obligations
This is just friendly reminder that the end of the card-marking is Friday December 4, 2015. All students are required to turn in an Exit Ticket (for a book they completed this card-marking), as well as a Literary Letter, for SSR. They know what these are, have directions sheets for both. They also know that these can be turned in at anytime throughout the card-marking. To this point approximately 10-15 of 130 students have turned in both. THESE ITEMS ARE DUE BY WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2. After this the items will be considered late (see syllabus for late work information), and will not be accepted at all if not turned in by Friday.
The Literary Letter is summative points and will negatively affect the students grade (like getting a zero on a test) if not turned in by the end of this week. For some students who did not turn them in at all last card-marking, this was the difference between a B and a D on their report card.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Compare and contrast pizza and cookies. Write 1-2 paragraphs that compare and contrast pizza and cookies using the double bubble or Venn diagram you created in class today. You need to show both what is similar and what is different. Make sure to use complete sentences. You will be graded using the following rubric. These points will be summative.
Used complete sentences (minimum of 8) ____/5
Correct spelling/grammar/punctuation ____/5
Fluency (can I read it, out loud, without it
sounding choppy or like a list of facts) ____/5
A clear compare and contrast are shown ____/5
TOTAL (Summative) ____/20
This assignment is due on Monday, when you walk in the door. Email me with any questions.
It saddens me to say that winter weather is finally upon us (for the most part). This is a reminder to students and parents that appropriate clothing choices are important. Students who walk, or are dropped off, are required to stand outside until 7:50, unless/until the temperature gets below 15-20 degrees. I see many students still coming to school in just shorts and a t-shirt. Please try to dress for the weather, wear a hoodie or coat, or change once you get into the building. Thank you!
On Thursday, November 19, students were assigned a project to complete their study of The Tell Tale Heart. This is due on Monday, November 23, 2015. Please find attached the directions and rubric for this project. This is a summative point assignment and will require students to present in front of the class to be eligible for full points. As always, please email me with any questions. Have a great weekend.
Find attached questions from today to prepare for the quiz on Typhoid Mary.
We have just finished reading The Monkey’s Paw. The quiz for this story is on Monday. Students have some homework for this over the weekend and they will use the papers they complete as their study guide. In addition, they will need to know the following vocabulary that we discussed and worked on in class:
Credulity
Compensation
Avariciously
Amiable
Fate
Peril
Resignation
Grimace
Students who need to can access the textbook via the online access code in an earlier post.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you to all parents and students who came to participate in the conferences this week. Those who were here were able to discuss with their student their personal goals for the current card-marking, as well as the work we have and will be doing this year.
All students were told yesterday that they need to discuss their goals with a parent or guardian (if they did not attend conferences) and have the adult sign the paper. These are due for all students on Monday.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Just a reminder that parent teacher conferences are this week coming up. In my class they are student led. Your child should have their binder (properly organized) when they join you to discuss their academic achievement for the first card marking.
I hope to see you there.
PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES:
Parent/Teacher conferences will be held on:
Monday, October 26th 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. and
Wednesday, October 28th 3:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Student report cards will be passed out during the Parent/Teacher Conferences.
Here is the list of superstitions from class. Choose one and get 3-5 additional facts to use in class on Monday.
If you choose to do one not in this list, you must have it approved by me first. Send me a request through email.
13. Beginner’s luck
Usually grumbled by an expert who just lost a game to a novice, “beginner’s luck” is the idea that newbies are unusually likely to win when they try out a sport, game or activity for the first time.
Beginners might come out ahead in some cases because the novice is less stressed out about winning. Too much anxiety, after all, can hamper performance. Or it could just be a statistical fluke, especially in chance-based gambling games.
Or, like many superstitions, a belief in beginner’s luck might arise because of confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is a psychological phenomenon in which people are more likely to remember events that fit their worldview. If you believe you’re going to win because you’re a beginner, you’re more likely to remember all the times you were right — and forget the times you ended up in last place.
12. Find a penny, pick it up …
And all day long, you’ll have good luck. This little ditty may arise because finding money is lucky in and of itself. But it might also be a spin-off of another old rhyme, “See a pin, pick it up/ and all day long you’ll have good luck/ See a pin, let it lay/ and your luck will pass away.”
11. Don’t walk under that ladder!
Frankly, this superstition is pretty practical. Who wants to be responsible for stumbling and knocking a carpenter off his perch? But one theory holds that this superstition arises from a Christian belief in the Holy Trinity: Since a ladder leaning against a wall forms a triangle, “breaking” that triangle was blasphemous.
Then again, another popular theory is that a fear of walking under a ladder has to do with its resemblance to a medieval gallows. We’re sticking with the safety-first explanation for this one.
10. Black cats crossing your path
As companion animals for humans for thousands of years, cats play all sorts of mythological roles. In ancient Egypt, cats were revered; today, Americans collectively keep more than 81 million cats as pets.
So why keep a black cat out of your path? Most likely, this superstition arises from old beliefs in witches and their animal familiars, which were often said to take the form of domestic animals like cats.
9. A rabbit’s foot will bring you luck
Talismans and amulets are a time-honored way of fending off evil; consider the crosses and garlic that are supposed to keep vampires at bay. Rabbit feet as talismans may hark back to early Celtic tribes in Britain. They may also arise from hoodoo, a form of African-American folk magic and superstition that blends Native American, European and African tradition. [Rumor or Reality: The Creatures of Cryptozoology]
8. Bad luck comes in threes
Remember confirmation bias? The belief that bad luck comes in threes is a classic example. A couple things go wrong, and believers may start to look for the next bit of bad luck. A lost shoe might be forgotten one day, but seen as the third in a series of bad breaks the next.
7. Careful with that mirror
According to folklore, breaking a mirror is a surefire way to doom yourself to seven years of bad luck. The superstition seems to arise from the belief that mirrors don’t just reflect your image; they hold bits of your soul. That belief led people in the old days of the American South to cover mirrors in a house when someone died, lest their soul be trapped inside.
Like the number three, the number seven is often associated with luck. Seven years is a long time to be unlucky, which may be why people have come up with counter-measures to free themselves after breaking a mirror. These include touching a piece of the broken mirror to a tombstone or grinding the mirror shards into powder.
6. 66
Three sixes in a row give some people the chills. It’s a superstition that harks back to the Bible. In the Book of Revelation, 666 is given as the number of the “beast,” and is often interpreted as the mark of Satan and a sign of the end times.
According to State University of New York at Buffalo anthropologist Philips Stevens, the writer of Revelation was writing to persecuted Christians in code, so the numbers and names in the book are contemporary references. Three sixes in a row is probably the numeric equivalent of the Hebrew letters for the first-century Roman Emperor Nero. [End of the World? Top Doomsday Fears]
5. Knock on wood
This phrase is almost like a verbal talisman, designed to ward off bad luck after tempting fate: “Breaking that mirror didn’t bring me any trouble, knock on wood.”
The fixation on wood may come from old myths about good spirits in trees or from an association with the Christian cross. Similar phrases abound in multiple languages, suggesting that the desire not to upset a spiteful universe is very common.
4. Make a wish on a wishbone
The tradition of turkey bone tug-of-war goes back a long way. Legend has it that first-century Romans used to fight over dried wishbones — which they believed were good luck — and would accidentally break them, ushering in the idea that whoever has the largest bit of bone gets their wish. Bird bones have also been used in divination throughout history, with a supposed soothsayer throwing the bones and reading their patterns to predict the future.
3. Cross your fingers
Those wishing for luck will often cross one finger over another, a gesture that’s said to date back to early Christianity. The story goes that two people used to cross index fingers when making a wish, a symbol of support from a friend to the person making the wish. (Anything associated with the shape of the Christian cross was thought to be good luck.) The tradition gradually became something people could do on their own; these days, just saying “fingers crossed” is enough to get the message, well, across.
2. No umbrellas inside
… And not just because you’ll poke someone’s eye out. Opening an umbrella indoors is supposed to bring bad luck, though the origins of this belief are murky. Legends abound, from a story of an ancient Roman woman who happened to have opened her umbrella moments before her house collapsed, to the tale of a British prince who accepted two umbrellas from a visiting king and died within months. Like the “don’t walk under a ladder” superstition, this seems to be a case of a myth arising to keep people from doing something that is slightly dangerous in the first place.
1. Friday the 13th
If you’re not scared of Friday the 13th, you should be scared of the word used to describe those who are: friggatriskaidekaphobics. (An alternative, though just as tongue-twisty, word for the fear is “paraskevidekatriaphobia.”)
For a superstition, the fear of Friday the 13th seems fairly new, dating back to the late 1800s. Friday has long been considered an unlucky day (according to Christian tradition, Jesus died on a Friday), and 13 has a long history as an unlucky number.
According to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in North Carolina, about 17 million people fear Friday the 13th. Many may fall prey to the human mind’s desire to associate thoughts and symbols with events.
“If anything bad happens to you on Friday the 13th, the two will be forever associated in your mind,” said Thomas Gilovich, a psychologist at Cornell University. “All those uneventful days in which the 13th fell on a Friday will be ignored.”