AFTER BELL-WORK …

CW1:

• CER CHOICE IF YOU WANT AN A OR A+
  • QUESTION: Who will win the Super Bowl?
  • Your CER must have TWO pieces of evidence from www.nfl.com or other sports website or article.
  • If you are correct, you will receive a free HW ticket.
  • The CER is due today.
  • You may listen to music while you write your CER.
  • At the BOTTOM of your CER, predict the EXACT score.  If you are right, you will receive a golden ticket worth 100 points.
  • EXTRA CREDIT: After you write your CER, draw the team logo. Make it look sick. Color it.
  • If you are absent, you could e-mail or Google Docs your CER to me BEFORE the Super Bowl game starts.

• CER CHOICE IF YOU WANT A B OR B+
  • QUESTION: Is it OK to lie?
  • First, read the article!

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AFTER YOU FINISH YOUR CER, FINISH YOUR NWEA TESTS.  START WITH NWEA READING.

• IF YOU ARE FINISHED WITH YOUR CER AND YOUR NWEA TESTS (AND YOUR NWEA SCORES WENT UP), YOU MAY HAVE VERY QUIET FREE TIME.

• IF YOU’RE ON PROBATION, YOU MUST DO LANGUAGE ARTS WORK THE WHOLE HOUR.

CHOICES FOR TODAY’S CW (if you’re on probation):

• Do your HW from Friday.
• Read a book. Write a short summary on loose leaf.
• Write about your snow day.
• Practice language arts on IXL or MobyMax or Prepdog.
• Read something in SCOPE or ACTION magazine. Show your work on loose leaf.
• DRAW! Draw a sign like the ones that are on IXL 7th grade N.5.
• [loose leaf] If your house was on fire, what would you grab before escaping? EXPLAIN WHY!
• Make flash cards.

THIS IS A NO SKIP HW!

THEME: laziness has consequences

IF YOU WANT FULL POINTS:

• On loose leaf, draft a short story that matches the theme.
• You’re story must include at least one of each type of sentence.
  • declarative
  • interrogative
  • imperative
  • exclamatory
• Highlight and label the four types of sentences in your short story.
• Your story must include at least one character with dialogue (talking).
• Your story must NOT match any other student’s story.
• EXTRA CREDIT: also draw a neat, colorful picture that matches something from your story

IF YOU DO NOT WANT FULL POINTS:

ON LOOSE LEAF, COPY ONE OF THE SHORT STORIES FROM IXL 7TH GRADE B.2.  YOU MUST ALSO COPY THE CORRECT THEME.

(There is a mistake on today’s iBlog post. The first person to e-mail me and explain the mistake wins 7 polar points.)

GOLDEN TICKET

Earn a perfect score (ZERO wrong answers) on a prepdog.org 5th grade Language Proficient Test.

• The whole class will be watching you to make sure you don’t cheat.
• You will have to roll a die to see which test to take.
• We are not doing this today.

HW

30 minutes of IXL 6th grade EE.3 “adverbs”.

(or EE.1 “adjectives”)

B-W:

Neatly copy the statements on loose leaf.  Then label each one with a figurative language term.

1. I have a million things to do today.
2. big bouncy baby boogers
3. The groom got cold feet so the wedding was cancelled.
4. His face was as white as a ghost.
5. My locker is a trash can. (no like or as!)
6. Cha-ching!
7. The clouds were crying on that dark and stormy depressing morning.

HINT: #5 does not have “like” or “as”!

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE TERMS (each answer will be used only one time):

idiom

alliteration

simile

onomatopoeia

personification

hyperbole

metaphor (does NOT use “like” or “as”)

THIS B-W IS YOUR EXIT TICKET!

As soon as you’re done with B-W, resume your NWEA READING TEST.

• Take your time and try your best.

• You do NOT have to finish today – you will be given as much time as you need.

• You may write annotations, notes, process of elimination, etc. on loose leaf if that will help you.

• DON’T GET LAZY! Stay strong the whole hour even if the test seems long or boring or difficult.

• I will be randomly giving polar points to serious, focused students.

• Take lots of mini breaks (close your eyes, stretch, etc.) but DO NOT disrupt the class.

• Raise your hand after you finish so the teacher can record your score.

• Drop your HW into the bin.

• Drop a mini scrap with your name on it into the red star if you want a bathroom/water break (5 minutes).

NWEA

UP

• happy teacher and happy student
• more free time, freedom, fun and privileges in the classroom
• better report card grade
• allowed to skip the next big test
• less HW
• less assigned seats
• less chance for summer school
• better scores on ACT in 8th grade which means better classes in high school and a good head start for getting into a good college or university

DOWN

• PROBATION for at least one month (no bathroom passes, no buying with polar points, no using tickets, no games or educational celebrations, no headphones)
• limited and supervised chromebook use
• after school tutoring
• chance of summer school
• more assigned seats
• more HW

HIGHEST NWEA SCORE WINS A SPECIAL PRIZE!

HIGHEST JUMP UP IN NWEA SCORE WINS A SPECIAL PRIZE!

EXIT TICKET

[flash card]

Neatly copy the following statement:

“I have read all the NWEA UP and DOWN bullets.”

HW

[loose leaf]

Neatly copy ONE of the quotations from IXL 7th grade B.1.

Then write a short story to go with the quote.

If you want extra credit, do another one on the BACK of your loose leaf.

POV CLASSWORK (CW1)

15 POINTS FOR THIS CW WILL BE ADDED TO STUDENTCONNECT TODAY!

5/15 points:

• Stay on IXL the whole hour (POV).
• You  may NOT use headphones.

10/15 points:

• Take out a fresh sheet of loose leaf.
• Copy a paragraph or section out of your library book or other chapter book.
• You may NOT use headphones.
• What is the point of view of this paragraph or section?
• EXPLAIN HOW YOU KNOW!
• Go back on IXL for the rest of the hour (POV).

15/15 points (A+):

• Take out a fresh sheet of loose leaf.
• Find MANY examples of different types of POV.
• Don’t forget that there are TWO different kinds of 3rd person point of view.
• DON’T FORGET 2ND PERSON POINT OF VIEW WHICH WAS NOT IN THE ELA LIT BOOK.
• Neatly copy your examples and explain the POV for each example.
• Keep doing this for the whole hour – you don’t have to work fast, but please keep working.
• You may take ONE bathroom or water break (5 minutes).
• You may use headphones.
• HINT: look in your library book, in ACTION and/or SCOPE magazine, the ELA LIT book, the WSG7 book; use your chromebook to research examples; you can even copy examples from IXL, etc.

YOU WILL RECEIVE HIGHER THAN AN A+ AND A FREE HW TICKET AND YOUR WORK WILL BE DISPLAYED IN THE HALLWAY IF …

• You write your CER on loose leaf.
• You write the question at the top of your loose leaf.
• You use the cheat sheet.
• Your handwriting is very neat.
• You color code the C, the E, and the R.
• Your CER has no grammar or punctuation or spelling mistakes.
• You don’t skip lines.

You MAY type your CER on Google Docs to earn extra credit points, but you must first show me your completed loose leaf CER.

You MAY listen to music while you write, BUT the teacher will be randomly pulling out the headphones plugs, so your music better be clean.  You will receive a polar point if the music is clean.

THIS CER IS WORTH 15 POINTS.

CER CHEAT SHEET

QUESTION: How and why did Lee’s feelings about his ride on the orphan train change over time?

CLAIM: Lee’s feelings changed over time on his ride on the orphan train.

EVIDENCE 1: The text shows HOW Lee’s feelings changed. The text states, “Lee dreamed of the day he’d see his dad again” and “At night, Lee lay there with tears rolling down his cheeks” (Hill, 9 and 11).

CHOOSE ONE OF THESE FOR REASONING:

• This shows that Lee’s feelings changed from sad to happy.
• This shows HOW Lee’s feelings changed. Clearly, Lee’s feelings changed from happy dreams at first to extremely depressed near the end of the train trip.
• Lee loved being with his new family because they made him eat pigs.

EVIDENCE 2: The text also shows WHY Lee’s feelings changed. The author writes, “Now he’d lost his only connection to his father” (Hill, 11).

CHOOSE ONE OF THESE FOR REASONING:

• Lee is a big baby.
• He could not find the pink envelope which contained _____________________. This is why Lee was so sad and devastated.
• Lee’s feelings changed because the matron made him wear dirty clothes.

DON’T FORGET TO RESTATE YOUR CLAIM!!!

HW: (1st hour and 3rd hour do NOT have to do this HW.)

Write the paragraph.  Directions are on the bottom half of page 19.

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ROOTS QUIZ! 30 POINTS!

Study the roots on page 567 in the Write Source Grade 7 book.

You must know the root definition and ONE example word that uses the root.

When you’re ready, raise your hand, and the teacher will quiz you.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO TAKE THE QUIZ TODAY, BUT YOU WILL LOSE POINTS IF THE TEACHER SEES YOU NOT STUDYING!

BIG HINT: Make flash cards!!!

• If you want to leave your assigned seat and study QUIETLY with a partner, ASK FIRST.
• If you want to leave class and study QUIETLY in the hallway, drop a mini scrap with your name on it into the red star.
• If you have been SERIOUSLY studying the whole hour, you may take one bathroom/water break (5 minutes).

GRADE CHOICES

IF YOU WANT A C+ … don’t study.  Just stay on IXL all hour and practice Greek and Latin roots.

IF YOU WANT A B+ … memorize at least 17 of the roots with definitions and example words.

IF YOU WANT AN A … memorize all 20 roots with definitions and example words.

IF YOU WANT EXTRA CREDIT (higher than an A+) …

• memorize all 20 roots with definitions and example words.
• memorize example words that are NOT in the book.
• be able to say the answers lightning fast.
• also memorize for “uni”, “therm” and “geo”.