DOBERT ELA 7

HW:

I’ll keep this very simple.

Walk (walk is a verb) around your house.  List at least 27 nouns that you see while you’re walking.

Try not to include adjectives.  Example: Don’t write “green chair”.  Just write “chair”. Green is an adjective.

HINTS:

• You are welcome to list MORE than 27.
• Chair is kind of boring.  Just saying.

Welllllll.  I don’t really have anything to post on the blog tonight.

But I did say that students should check the blog every night, so I guess I should write SOMETHING.

Something.

Hahahahahaha.  I wrote the word “something.”

But no.  Seriously.  I think I mispelled a word.  You could at least e-mail me my mistake for an easy polar point.

NOUNS.

HW:

Click below to view and print the homework sheet.

PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE PAGE BEFORE YOU START YOUR HW!!! READ CAREFULLY!

If you can’t print, write the sentences on loose leaf.

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HW:

COMPOSITION BOOK page #1

“What is your worst nightmare?”

HINT: Staple or paper clip all the pages we did during report card 1 so that you can easily flip to page #1 for report card 2.

HW:

1. Find the sports. (We started this in class.)
2. Hide the sports. (on the back)

Many years ago when I was only TEN years old, I was walking with a BOX full of ICE, and my FOOT got caught in a RUG, and I tripped and fell, and my face landed in a BOWL of hot HORSE hair soup.

TENNIS

BOXING

ICE HOCKEY

FOOTBALL

RUGBY

BOWLING

HORSE RACING

KEEP STUDYING!  (the yellow hambooger paper)

HINT: Bring me proof that you studied.

COMING SOON:

QUIZ!

1. Study.
2. Study.
3. Study some more.

HINT: Study the yellow paper that we worked on in class today.  Then give yourself a practice quiz at home.  Try drawing the hamburger shape and filling in all the correct words WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE YELLOW PAPER.  Grade your practice quiz so you can see which parts you still need to study.  This only works if you are very honest.  Seriously.  Don’t look at the yellow paper when you are trying the quiz at home.

E.L.A. 7                                 SPORTS TEAM                                                  WRITING ASSIGNMENT

 Imagine that one day, a few years from now, you become rich and become the owner of a professional sports team. (basketball, football, baseball, or hockey, or be creative)

Please write a creative, interesting description of your sports team.

Remember to describe

• WHAT SPORT the team will play
• WHERE the team will play (what city? what stadium? indoor? outdoor?)
• WHAT the team jersey will LOOK LIKE
• WHO will play on the team
• and, of course, the team’s NAME

 Remember: SHOW not TELL and details, details, details.

1. First, write a rough draft on loose leaf. Please skip lines for the rough draft. Your rough draft should be AT LEAST one page (skipping lines) but more than one page is probably better.
2. Read through your draft. Use colored pencils to REVISE your rough draft. You should make at least three improvements to your rough draft.
3. On a new sheet of loose leaf, write a final copy. You should take your time and use your best handwriting for your final copy. DO NOT SKIP LINES! Please try to fit your final copy on the FRONT only of the loose leaf.
4. Neatly staple your final copy on top of your rough draft.

 HINT: Your rough draft and final copy are due IN CLASS! Please get right to work and do not waste time in class. This assignment is worth AT LEAST 10 points, probably more.

 HOMEWORK:

 For a little bit of extra credit, you may draw a picture of your team jersey. Please take your time and make the picture neat and colorful. You may draw a player wearing your jersey or just the jersey alone. (5 points)

A – You begged and begged your parents for a new phone.  They refused to buy you one, but they said if you earn the money, you are allowed to buy your own phone.  You worked.  You worked hard. You walked the neighbor’s dogs; you cut some old lady’s grass; you did some babysitting; you got a part time job at the bakery.  You finally had enough to buy your own phone and you LOVED that phone like it was your own child.  You DISCOVERED that hard work pays off in the end and you will remember that DISCOVERY your whole life.

B – You were walking home from school and you DISCOVERED a shiny new quarter.  You went to the gas station and bought candy.  It tasted good and the next day you forgot all about it.

WHICH ONE MAKES A BETTER PERSONAL NARRATIVE ABOUT DISCOVERY?!?!?!?!?

e-mail me your answer … dobertn@dearbornschools.org