ENGLISH 7

➫Seedfolks test. Packets checked in and returned for credit.

➫Handout for final Seedfolks project.  Make sure to see your character assignment on back.

HW: Weds: Spelling test Unit 13, homework and quiz on Weds., NOT Friday.  Exercises, p. 67, 1-20. Write misspelled word five times.

Planner Check

Thurs: Mugshots

Fri: Final Project Seedfolks

ENGLISH 8

✔Shared writing with spelling words from last week.

Corrected No Excuses pop test and sentence(s) fix.

✔Returned IOA essays (4th and 5th), speech grades.

✔Speeches  returned, read over.

Good work for the first speech of the school year. Remember: get the easy points--costume, filling out rubric, not reading word for word from notecards. Perhaps a grade you were less than satisfied with? Read over the requirements and meet them. Be sure to say why your person is important and why we should care. Major events and impacts in their lives are key.

QW: In your notebooks, self-assess. Write what you will do in your next speech based on comments and grade from this one. File speech rubric.

Spellbound, a movie about champion spellers.       

First a quickie spell quiz. (Can do this in notebooks.) Also, write: Why does spelling matter?  Share

Because you will do some writing on it when it is over, be sure to take notes. Pay attention to the names of the eight students, where they live, what are their ethnic and family characteristics. It is a documentary. Think about how a documentary about spelling could be interesting.

This award-winning documentary follows eight teens as they work their way from their homes toward the finals of the National Spelling Bee championship in Washington, DC. All work hard and practice daily to win regional competitions. They face tremendous pressure as the original 250 competitors are whittled down and words get more difficult. We meet their families and the kids who are the children of professionals, working class and single parents; some children of immigrants; and all of them jazzed about their adventure