STEM Language Arts – Ms. Fryzel

Hi everyone! I just wanted to do a mid-week check in… I hope that everyone is staying healthy and safe. Thank you to all of you for checking your email and for emailing me when you have questions. You guys ROCK! Do not think that you are bothering me when you email me questions; let’s face it, I have no where to go!

I have been grading your book projects, argumentative essays, poetry essays, and poems. You have been great about turning these things in.

Just a clarification about what I am assigning. I want to assign meaningful tasks that are inline with STEM and with what we have been doing in class. I don’t want to assign work that is meaningless and busy work.

A few clarifications:

8th Grade

The 3rd book check in…I am fully preparing to come back to school! and so I want to make sure we are prepared for the capstone essay. Complete the check in and submit it. I will let you know if you are on the right track with my feedback. Don’t be afraid that you are making a “mistake”. No mistakes here, only helpful feedback 🙂

6th Grade

Your TED questions – your evidence does nit have to be direct quotes, it can be a specific event that you paraphrase. Since the story I posted does not have page numbers, don’t worry about citing your examples. These are extraordinary times, so I can let that slide 🙂

Again, if you need anything email me!

Hi everyone! I hope that everyone is doing well and feeling healthy. Here goes our first week of online learning! I am going to attempt to continue with the lessons that I was going to teach if we were in school. The difference being that we will not be able to do project based and 6th graders, instead of reading a novel, will be doing it through short stories. If you are having technology issues, please let me know and we will try and work out a solution.

Below you will find a summary of the expectations for the week. All actual materials are in Google Classroom.

If you have any questions, please email me. It’s NO bother! Our classroom is now digital 🙂

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work through our new reality.

8th Grade

1. Poetry essay and original poem are due TODAY (MONDAY) by 11:59PM. There are individual Google Classroom assignments to submit these assignments to.
2. There are 3 journals for you to complete. One of them is the annual 8th grade yearbook question. Ms. Bissonette and I will have to work on the yearbook during this time and we want to make sure that your yearbook is great despite our current situation. There is a Google Doc for these.
3. Third Book Check In for the Capstone Project – see Google Doc in Classroom.
4. PSAT Friday (well sort of). Answers will be posted on Friday. Stay honest! 35 minutes! You do not need to submit anything. Just write your answers on a piece of paper.
5. Read the story “Abuela Invents the Zero“. More to do with this next week.

ALL ASSIGNMENTS, EXCEPT ESSAY AND POEM, ARE DUE FRIDAY.

6th Grade

1. There are 3 journals for you to complete. There is a Google Doc for these in Google Classroom.
2. Read the story “Lob’s Girl” – In Google Classroom. Remember our essential question: How does friendship improve a person’s life and his/her circumstances?
3. Answer the three TED format questions – in Google Classroom.
4. IXL P.1 (95%) – linked in Google Classroom.

ALL ASSIGNMENTS, EXCEPT ESSAY AND POEM, ARE DUE FRIDAY.

8th Grade

JOURNAL:  College Essay  – – Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it.  Explain what one thing there is about you that will set you apart from every other applicant.

  – Common Application

I COLLECTED JOURNALS TODAY.

1.SEMI COLONS/ COLONS interactive notebook

2.UNIT 4 – Learning Outcomes

HOMEWORK:  3^rd Book Check-in is TUESDAY.  Essay and original poem due MONDAY. NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS SCHOOL WISE, ESSAYS AND POEMS ARE DUE TO GOOGLE CLASSROOM MONDAY!

6th Grade

JOURNAL: Millions – – You have worked hard all your life and have made MILLIONS of dollars.  Now that you are 95 years old, you have to decide who to leave your money to when you die.  How do you decide?  What do you look for in a person?  Explain.

I COLLECTED JOURNALS TODAY.

1.Unit 4 Learning Outcomes

HOMEWORK:  IXLs 7. EE.1, M.5 and N.3 are due Friday (95%)

8th Grade

JOURNAL:  Story Starter – – Today I woke up in a tree, without even a sweater to keep me warm and dry.  The funny thing is…

1.COMMAS interactive notebook

2.Peer edit/revise papers

3.Time to write YOUR poem! Must be at least 3 stanzas, 5 lines per stanza – minimum, and contain at least 3 types of figurative language. The poem should be personal to you.

HOMEWORK:  Essays are due MONDAY.  3^rd Book Check-in is TUESDAY.  Original poem due MONDAY.

6th Grade

JOURNAL: One Word Prompt- – Spring

1.Collect book projects

2.Subject/Verb Agreement – interactive notebook glue in

3.IXL 7.EE.1 (95%)

HOMEWORK:  IXLs M.5 and N.3 are due Friday (95%).

8th Grade

JOURNAL:  Tourist – – If you had to escort a visitor from outer space to just three places in the entire United States that would give him/her a good idea of who and what we are, where would you take him/her?  Explain why you chose those three spots. 

1.Introduction – DONE

2.Body #1 – DONE

3.Body #2 and possibly #3 – DONE after today

4.Conclusion – Homework

HOMEWORK:  Essays need to come to class ready to edit/revise tomorrow.  Essays are due THURSDAY.  3^rd Book Check-in is March 17^th.

6th Grade

JOURNAL:  Story Starter  – – Three of us. That’s it!  We were the only ones left, the only ones to make it to the island… 

 1.Finish and submit your essay TODAY.

2.One person should revise for ideas

3.One person should edit for grammar and conventions

4.Work on, finalize your book project.

5.IXLs M.5 and N.3 – Due FRIDAY (95%).  ONLY AFTER you submit your essay.

HOMEWORK:  Book project is due TOMORROW.  IXLs M.5 and N.3 are due Friday (95%).

8th Grade

JOURNAL:  Smarter – – Write about a time that you outsmarted someone.

Write your essay. Your goal should be the introduction and at least body paragraph #1.

HOMEWORK:  Essays are due THURSDAY. 3^rd Book Check-in is March 17^th.

6th Grade

JOURNAL:  Would You Rather – – be 20 IQ points smarter than the average person or live 20 years longer than the average person?  Explain.

1.Finish Works Cited List

2.Peer Revision

3.Peer Edit

HOMEWORK: Essay due TOMORROW.  Book project is due WEDNESDAY!  Tomorrow is miscellaneous work day – bring book project.

8th Grade

NO JOURNAL

Today we had our PSAT Friday! We practiced 3 readings – 28 questions – 36 minutes.

HOMEWORK: Have the plan for essay finished so that you only have to worry about writing on Monday.

6th Grade

Due to the field trip, we didn’t have class 🙂

HOMEWORK: Essays will be due TUESDAY. Book projects are due WEDNESDAY.

8th Grade

JOURNAL:  Story Dice  – – lock, pyramid, scales of justice, fountain, arrow, drama, bee, world, monster

1.Continue to write your essay.  How does poetry imitate life?

2.Works Cited list for at least 3 sources that you used.

HOMEWORK:  Essays due THURSDAY

6th Grade

JOURNAL: Story Starter – – I LOVE excitement!  So, you can imagine how happy I was when my toy came alive and began to…

1.Finish typing your conclusion!

2.Type the Works Cited List

3.Have someone edit and revise your paper.

HOMEWORK:  Final essay due TUESDAY.  Book project due Wednesday, March 11 (3 school days from today!)

LAST CHANCE! 6TH GRADE MAPLE SYRUP PERMISSIONS SLIPS AND MONEY DUE TOMORROW 😉 PERMISSION SLIPS CAN BE FOUND ON THE STEM BLOG.

8TH Grade

JOURNAL:  College Essay – – Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you?  – Common Application Prompt

1.How do you organize an essay like this?

2.Start/Continue to write your essay.  How does poetry imitate life?

HOMEWORK:  No homework.

6TH Grade

JOURNAL: Would You Rather- – be lost in a desert or be lost at sea?  Explain.

1.Finish typing essay

2.Start to type your Works Cited List for your 3 sources.

3.Peer editing/revising

HOMEWORK:  Book project due Wednesday, March 11 (4 school days from today!)

6th grade permission slips and money for Friday’s maple syrup trip are due TOMORROW to Ms. Fryzel.

8th Grade

JOURNAL:  Would You Rather – – be 20 IQ points smarter than the average person or live 20 years longer than the average person?  Explain.

1.Sentence Starters glue in

2.Annotate and interpret poems.  As you finish, turn them in.

3.Start to write your essay.  How does poetry imitate life?

HOMEWORK:  Poems are due TOMORROW.

6th Grade

JOURNAL:  Story Dice  – – keyhole, turtle, plane, tree, light bulb, scales of justice, horseshoe magnet, tent, book.

 1.Works Cited notes

2.Continue typing your essay – GOAL:  Finish Body #3 and start conclusion

HOMEWORK:  Come to class tomorrow with Introduction, body #1, body #2 and ½ of body #3 complete. Book project due Wednesday, March 11 (5 school days from today!)