8th Grade

JOURNAL:  Yourself – – Write about one thing you know for sure about yourself.

1.Present Team Posters

2. PSAT Friday! Tomorrow – reading section

HOMEWORK:  No homework

6th Grade

JOURNAL: NO Journal – – Get your computer out, boot up to your essay.  Reread what you have written so far.

1.Write your paragraph #3 – counterargument

2.Possibly start your conclusion

HOMEWORK:  When you walk into class tomorrow, have your introduction and body paragraphs #1-3 complete.

8th Grade

JOURNAL:  Parent – – Explain what you appreciate about your parent(s)

Present Team Posters

HOMEWORK:  No homework   

6th Grade

JOURNAL: Story Starter – – “AHHHH!!!  I had no idea my feet could move that fast…”

1.Share body paragraph #1

2.Write body paragraph #2 – share with your table.

HOMEWORK:  Make sure that introduction, body #1, and body #2 are all done for tomorrow.                

Pennies for Patients helps with the research for a cure to leukemia. The entire Dearborn Heights Campus will be collecting loose change Wednesday, February 5th, 12th, and 26th. So please, look under your car seats, under the couch cushions, and on top of dressers for your loose change and donate to this worthy cause!

LATE START TOMORROW!

8TH Grade

JOURNAL:  Would You Rather – – lose all of your hair or lose all of your teeth?  Explain and include a counterargument.

1.Finish working on team poster challenge

2.IF your team finishes early, please see Google Classroom for next part of your individual poetry project (THIS IS NOT HOMEWORK).

HOMEWORK:  Be ready to present your poster(s) tomorrow.

6th Grade

JOURNAL:  Story Dice – – waves, glasses, submarine, hatchet, crab, stun gun, puzzle piece, beaker, chalice.

1.Finish and share body paragraph #1

2.Start to write body paragraph #2

HOMEWORK: Finish body #1 and introduction, of course, at home.

If you are out shopping…our classroom could really use some Kleenex! Thank you in advance 🙂

8th Grade

JOURNAL:  Philosophical Question – – Is it better to say something behind a person’s back to other people or to say it to the person directly?  Explain.

1.Continue to work of the team poster challenge

1. Finish dividing up roles 2.Each individual needs to work on his/her part 3.Check in with each other to assess progress at the end of the class. ** GOAL:  Presentations will start WEDNESDAY

HOMEWORK:  No homework

6th Grade

JOURNAL:  Claim Statements – – Turn the following into claim statements:

•The driving age should/should not be raised to 18.

•Chocolate is/ is not better than gum.

•Girls and boys should/should not be allowed to play on the same sports teams.

•All students should/should not have a 9:00 PM bedtime.

1.Finish introductions and share

2.In text citations (parenthetical citations) – PCs

3.Write body paragraph #1

HOMEWORK:  No homework

8th Grade

JOURNAL: Your Choice – –

1.PSAT Friday!

2.Writing and Language Test Practice #2 – 1 passage, 11 questions, 1.26 minutes per question, 14 minutes (1 minutes for the first test) – FULL PSAT test is 44 questions, 35 minutes long.

HOMEWORK:  IXLs 8.E.7 (90%) and 8.F.3 (95%) – Due Monday

6th Grade

JOURNAL:  Interesting – – Explain something interesting about the bug articles.

1.Finish class discussion on pros/cons of eating bugs

2.How to write a claim statement

3.Write introductory paragraph – assignment is in Google Classroom

HOMEWORK:  None 🙂

8th Grade

JOURNAL:  Story Ending – – “… Tami closed her eyes, crossed her fingers, and dropped the letter in the mail.”  Write the story.

Teacher Poster Challenge

1.Finalize poem or song choice

2.Annotate poem for figurative language and tone, mood.

3.Agree on design, colors, layout, font…

4.Divide up work and get started

HOMEWORK:  IXLs 8.E.7 (90%) and 8.F.3 (95%) – Due Monday

6th Grade

JOURNAL: Differences- – Explain the differences between a Text Dependent Analysis (TDA or Passage Based Writing) and an argumentative essay.

1.Read BUG articles – Posted in Google Classroom

2.Make a pros/cons list of eating bugs

HOMEWORK:  IXLs K.1 and K.2 (95%) – due TOMORROW

8th Grade

JOURNAL:  Would You Rather – – go to jail for four years for something you didn’t do or get away with something horrible you did, but always live in fear of being caught?  Explain.

-Teacher Instructional Poster Challenge

1.Start by brainstorming poem or song

2.Find poem or song

3.Annotate the poem or song to see if it has what you need for the challenge

4.Choose layouts, design, colors…

HOMEWORK:  IXLs 8.E.7 (90%) and 8.F.3 (95%) – Due Monday

6th Grade

JOURNAL: Story Starter- – One day Ms. Fryzel walked into the classroom and all of her students were on task…

1.Finish foldable on the parts of an argumentative essay

HOMEWORK:  IXLs K.1 and K.2 (95%) – due Friday, January 31^st

8th Grade

JOURNAL:  Poet – – Which 3 poets have interested you the most so far and why?  Explain.

1.Finish annotating Poem #3 and submit 

2.Team Teacher Poster Challenge : You work for the Really Good Stuff teacher resource company.  The company creates and sells the most teacher resources in the country!  One resource that your company sells the most of every year are POSTERS!  Especially cute poster sets (You know teachers; they are suckers for colorful poster sets that cover all the empty wall space they have).  Your team’s job is to create a poster or a set of posters that teaches students how to annotate poems, instructs them on at least three different types of figurative language, and teaches them the difference between mood and tone.

3.Review rubric

HOMEWORK:  If you have not submitted your 3 poems, please finish and submit them tonight.

8th Grade

JOURNAL:  Movie – – Explain to me what your favorite movie is and why.

1.Finish cut apart activity

2.Argumentative essay foldable

HOMEWORK: No homework 🙂

8th Grade

JOURNAL:  PSAT – – Reflect on your first experience with the PSAT test from last Friday.  Needs to be at least ¾ a page.

1. Review any questions may have had from last Friday’s PSAT practice reading

2. Read all 12 poems in Google Classroom and chose 3 that you are most interested in.

3.Annotate your top three poems

HOMEWORK:  If you have not finished annotating the three poems, please finish TWO of them at home. You will have time tomorrow to finish the 3rd one.

6th Grade

JOURNAL:  Would You Rather- – live without the internet or live without AC and heating?  Explain.

1.Finish mini-presentations.

2.Cut Apart activity – students cut apart sentence strips and then put them in an order that created the outline of an argumentative essay.

HOMEWORK:  Make sure that you are reading your library books.

8th Grade

JOURNAL:  College Essay – – Give us your Top 10 List (- Wake Forest University)

1.PSAT Friday!

2.Reading Test (60 minute test) Practice #1 – 1 reading, 9 questions, 1.27 minutes per question (plus the reading), 12 minutes (15 minutes for the first test).

HOMEWORK:  Next book check in will be March 17^th – 5 books read – TOTAL

6th Grade

JOURNAL:  Argue – – Which holiday is the best and why?

1.10 minutes to finish speech

2.Present mini-presentations

HOMEWORK: No homework 🙂