DOBERT ELA 7

HW:

accept/except

Turn to page 6 in your planner.  Find the “Know the Difference” section. Carefully read and study the first pair (accept/except).

On loose leaf, neatly copy the info from your planner then write one sentence for “accept” and one sentence for “except”.

Use a little bit of color to show the key words.

TOMORROW IS A HALF DAY.

TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY TO TURN IN WORK FOR REPORT CARD #1.

COMPOSITION BOOKS ARE DUE TOMORROW.

1. What I DID NOT Do This Summer
2. plot mountain with labels and bullets
3. CONNECT (left side – what’s happening in the story, right side – connection to my life)
4. The MOST Annoying Person in My Family
5. What Happened On Tuesday (Substitute)? (DETAILS!)

PLOT MOUNTAIN TEST TOMORROW.

The two best ways to study:

• Use your flashcards.  Look at the front of the card and try to say the definition that is on the back.  Then look and see if you got it right.  (also try it the opposite way). Practice the ones you got wrong.
• Study the mountain with the labels and bullets that you should have in your composition book (page #2). Take out a sheet of loose leaf and try drawing the mountain and the titles and bullets for each part of the mountain – do this WITHOUT looking! Then grade your practice quiz and you’ll see which parts you still need to study.

WARNING: “foreshadowing” WILL BE on the test.

HOME ALONE!

 Imagine that one day you wake up and your entire family has disappeared.  You are all on your own for the next few days! Please write a creative, interesting description of what you would do if you were home alone.

 Remember to describe:

WHAT fun things you will do

WHEN you would wake up, eat meals, go to bed, etc.

WHERE you will get money to do all the stuff you want to do

WHO will you tell and who would you invite over

HOW you will protect yourself if anyone dangerous came to your house

and anything else fun and creative that you can think of!

Remember to give a lot of descriptions and detail so the reader can VISUALIZE (make a picture) of what is happening in your story.

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.

Read through your draft. Use colored pencils to REVISE your rough draft.  You should make at least five improvements to your rough draft.

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.

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 write ANOTHER short story on loose leaf about how your parents disappeared and what they were doing the whole time and how they made it back to your house.

Today I collected:

• CW – VISUALIZE (the pic of Victor and Michael at lunch)
• CW – Fresno, California (paragraph on front, VENN diagram on back)

BIG TEST LATER THIS WEEK!

Click below to see page 30 from the ELA book:

plot.mountain

.       “After math he had a fifteen minute break, then social studies, and, finally, lunch.  He bought a tuna casserole with buttered rolls, some fruit cocktail,and milk. He sat with Michael, who practiced scowling between bites.

.       Girls walked by and looked at him.”

HW:

• CW – VISUALIZE
• Composition Book #4
  • Title: “The MOST Annoying Person In My Family”

PRE TEST – WRITING

argumentative essay

“Should teens be allowed to use earbuds?”

Today in class, we read two articles about earbuds. We also started a visualizing assignment. Visualizing is making a picture while reading. This is one strategy to help with reading comprehension. Now I’m just typing another sentence to sea if anyone is actually even reading this blog, and I just made a spelling mistake, and I’m wondering if anyone will actually catch the mistake and explain the mistake on a peace of loose leaf and also explain how to correct the mistake, and I’m hoping someone will turn it in to me BEFORE he or she goes to A2 tomorrow. Also, that last sentence is wayyyyyyyy too long.  That’s called a run-on sentence. BAD TEACHER!  

BW: Finish the green triangle sentences and definitions from page 35.  On the back, you should write sentences in your own words (one sentence for each of the six words).

CW: We started a new class work to compare and contrast Fresno, California with Dearborn, Michigan. Fresno is the setting for the story we have been reading – “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto.

HW:

RESEARCH – find out how many people live in Fresno, California and how many people live in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Thank you for reading this.  That means you’re actually doing your homework.

Read on to see the directions for tonight’s homework.

HOMEWORK:

On a fresh sheet of loose leaf paper, neatly copy the following sentence:

“The quick, brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

AND JUST IN CASE YOU NEVER FINISHED YOUR FLASHCARDS …

• plot – what happens in a story, usually develops in five stages
• exposition – introduces the characters and the setting, often introduces the conflict
• rising action – moves the plot forward, shows how the conflict becomes more complicated
• climax – the moment of greatest interest
• falling action – eases suspense, reveals how the main character begins to resolve the conflict
• resolution – ties up loose ends, sometimes an unexpected twist
• foreshadowing – hinting at future actions