[loose leaf]

• NEATLY COPY THE QUESTIONS THEN ANSWER.
• RESTATE!
• ALL ANSWERS MUST COME FROM THE ARTICLE.

CAUSE AND EFFECT

1] What did Edison do so he could focus on inventing?

2] What company did Edison form where he improved the telegraph in several ways?

3] What DIFFERENT company did Edison form where he created a new kind of telegraph?

4] What did Edison sell that led to a lawsuit?

FIRST HOUR ASSIGNMENTS:

• MUST BE DONE IN THIS ORDER!
• ASSIGNED SEATS UNTIL YOU’RE DONE WITH ALL THREE.

1] Finish your Edison timeline then show the teacher.

2] Show your library book to the teacher then read SILENTLY for 7 minutes.  Write your start and stop time in your planner.

3] Memorize/practice “Class Bully” and “One on One” for at least 9 minutes. Write your start and stop time in your planner.

OPTIONAL: Memorize “The Plan” then say it to the teacher.

ONLY AFTER ALL THAT … you may have QUIET educational flex time.

ALL STUDENTS, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO DON’T WANT TO BE ON PROBATION, MUST HAVE A LIBRARY BOOK THAT MATCHES THEIR LEXILE LEVEL!

EASY 10 POINTS!

• Be quiet and serious on the way to the library, in the library, and on the way back from the library.
• Find a chapter book that matches your new LEXILE level (based on NWEA test scores).
• As soon as you check out your new book, find a quiet place in the library and start reading – SILENTLY!
• When we get back to class, get comfortable and read SILENTLY for at least 7 minutes.

HW:

Bring your library book and LMS ID card to class tomorrow.

(IF WE HAVE SCHOOL)

If you are chosen as one of the best performers, you will …

• earn full points (duh).
• be allowed to skip the next big quiz or test (50 points or higher).
• be excused from all HW for one week.
• be allowed to skip all classes for one day.
• be video taped for the Dearborn Public Schools YouTube channel.

HW: (directions were on the chalkboard)

DON’T FORGET TO WRITE THE TITLE ON YOUR LOOSE LEAF!

thomas.a.edison.1

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING LUCKY GOLDEN TICKETS WINNERS WHO WROTE CORRECT CER PREDICTIONS THAT THE EAGLES WOULD WIN THE SUPERBOWL:

• Hisham Alsaidi (first hour)
• Khalil Saad (third hour)
• Mohamed Hamka (fourth hour)
• Ali Almayahi (sixth hour)

HW:

POS PROJECT is due TOMORROW!

4TH HOUR AND 6TH HOUR HAVE ALREADY FINISHED THE POS PROJECT, SO THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT TODAY.

BW (only for 4th hour and 6th hour):

[loose leaf]

WSG7 page 687.

Complete the first 4.

Complete the first 7  if you want an A+.

CW choices (only for 4th hour and 6th hour):

YOU MUST WORK THE WHOLE HOUR – NO FREE TIME!

• Start making flash cards for the 20 roots on WSG7 569. After you have made all the flash cards, start memorizing them.
• Quietly read your library book.
• Make sure you did the Flag Football QAR HW that was on the blog a few weeks ago – it WILL BE added to StudentConnect this week.
• ACTION magazine, October 2017, carefully read the stressed out pages (26-29). Then do the activity from page 29 on loose leaf. Then ask for the VOCABULARY sheet.
• Correctly spell all the B words from WSG7 646 (speaking the letters out loud, not writing them). THIS CHOICE COULD EARN YOU 4 PP.
• IF YOU ARE A GOOD ARTIST, draw and color a beautiful picture that matches the POS PROJECT sentence you wrote.

OR…

AFTER BW, SILENTLY GET AT LEAST 29 MINUTES OF MOBY MAX “VOCABULARY” (IT’S A RED SQUARE).

NO CHEATING!

THEN YOU MAY HAVE SILENT FREE TIME.

BW FOR 4TH HOUR AND 6TH HOUR:

Search and define:

• nuisance
• wetlands
• insecticide
• the
• doused
• crusade

THEN CHOSE THREE AND WRITE A GOOD SENTENCE FOR EACH.

HW:

Enjoy your break! Please check the blog on or after Thursday, February 22, 2018.

HW FOR 4TH HOUR AND 6TH HOUR:

Week Fourteen

HW:

• Finish the annotation bullets for “Can the Desert Tortoise Be Saved?” by Mackenzie Carro.
• Do NOT take too long on your three pictures; quick sketches are fine.
• Answer the practice quiz questions.  USE QAR!
• Use the information on the blog to help you underline your proof in the article.  Use a different color for each question.

IF YOU REALLY WANT TO IMPRESS:

On loose leaf, DRAFT a CER for practice quiz question #8.

HINT: Your first evidence could be about humans HARMING animals, and your second evidence could be about humans HELPING animals (using technology).

According to author Mackenzie Carro in her article “Can The Desert Tortoise Be Saved?” humans affect the lives of animals in the Mojave Desert in two major ways—one negative and one positive. First, humans have caused a 700 percent increase in the area’s raven population. This massive increase in the number of ravens is a result of the large number of people who have moved to the Mojave Desert in recent decades: “Ravens like to nest in the structures humans build, such as fences and telephone poles, and ravens like to eat the garbage humans produce” (Carro, 28). The explosion of the raven population is problematic because it has put the desert tortoise in serious danger of disappearing forever, because ravens eat baby tortoises. On the other hand, in recent years some humans have begun to affect the lives of tortoises in the Mojave in a positive way. Conservationists are using sophisticated technologies to deter ravens from eating baby tortoises and to clear ravens from certain areas and create safe zones for baby tortoises to grow up in (Carro, 29). The bottom line is that humans have created a problem for desert tortoises—and now humans are trying to solve that problem.