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Seedfolks Final Test Handout.

• Complete Seedfolks test. Part 1, NOT open book.
• Part 2 -- Hand in, Part 1.

Get Part 2. Part 2 is EXTRA CREDIT ONLY. Not required.  Can use books for Part 2 only. If finish early work on final projects--poster or character study graphic organizer.

HW: Thurs: Mugs; Work on poster

Fri: Seedfolks Poster due; work on character study graphic organizer

Mon: Graphic Organizer for final character study

Weds: 12/07  Seedfolks Character Study

ENGLISH 8--Weds, Nov. 30, 2016

Worktime.

Finish Steinbeck WebQuest and summary. Due end of period.

Can use easybib.com or bibme.org for your bibliography--as done in History class.

You do not have to print out your responses if you make sure to put it in your English google docs folder.

Movie source title-- “John Steinbeck: An American Writer.”

If complete, work on pre-reading Pearl research. You will have work time on Thursday for that as well.

HW: Fri: Research and writer’s notebooks assignments on The Pearl.  Research typed, personal response in notebook, and ready to present with partners.

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Classwork on Seedfolks poster

Or study for final test, tomorrow

HW: Weds: Seedfolks final test

Thurs: Mugs; Work on poster

Fri: Seedfolks Poster due; work on character study graphic organizer

Mon: Graphic Organizer for final character study

Weds: 12/07  Seedfolks Character Study

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Finished Movie.

Classwork today- Webquest on Steinbeck, in class. Today. In your google drive. Go to class page and copy the assignment into your google folder and a document. Follow directions. Responses can go under the questions. Each of you must do your own summary, not partners. Finish for homework.

Movie source title-- “John Steinbeck: An American Writer.”

Handout The Pearl research & writing assignments.   Begin working on them. Due and present on Friday.

HW: Weds: Finish webquest and summary

Fri: Research and writer’s notebooks assignments on The Pearl.

Research typed, personal response in notebook, and ready to present.

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Returned  Seedfolks worksheets. And some characters studies. One more set tomorrow.

Seedfolks Final Projects-handout and discuss. Character study paragraph and poster. Put dates on assignment. Poster due Friday. Graphic organizer due Mon 12/5. Final character study due Weds 12/07

Seedfolks study guide questions, six of them, to work with 1 or 2 partners or on your own. Assign tasks to each other.

HW: Tues: Classwork on Seedfolks poster

Weds: Seedfolks final test

Thurs: Mugs; Work on poster

Fri: Seedfolks Poster due; work on character study graphic organizer

Mon: Graphic Organizer for final character study

Weds: 12/07  Seedfolks Character Study

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Watch John Steinbeck biography. Take notes.

"It's enough if a writer is honest, enormously talented, tells the truth, and has some stuff to say that, if people would pay attention, can affect their society for the better. John Steinbeck was one of those. What more can you ask?"

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QW: Write: What do I care about this Thanksgiving? Do I care only about myself? Do I care about others? Why might it be important to care and take care with myself before I worry about others? What does it meant to be thankful?

FILL AT LEAST ONE PAGE IN YOUR NOTEBOOK.

Come up with examples to show what you are thinking about, to make your point. Be writers and communicators.

Have a great Thanksgiving week. Be ready to take Seedfolks final test and project on your return.

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QW: A different kind of writing, in your notebooks

1. Create one list -- what you are thankful or grateful for
2. Create a second list --  a list of your own personal needs
3. Create a third list -- a list of your own personal wants
4. Now, pretend you are someone else. Pretend you live in a foreign country, that your family is poor, that girls are not allowed to go to school past the age of 7, and that your village is under siege by warring factions.  What then are you grateful for. What are your needs? What are your wants?
5. Respond --Are people’s needs really much different? Why might people’s needs be different?

Fill at least one page in your notebooks, NOT skipping every other line and NOT writing in huge letters, respond to the following:

Your ideas will be shared in a list for the 8th grade so everyone can see it. In connection with reading John Steinbeck’s The Pearl, we will explore these ideas.

Share turkey essays.  Share each others. In a group of 3. Pick the best one. If  time, will share with the class -- or when we come back OR take it to your Thanksgiving dinner and read it. Only after dessert!

AND HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING BREAK!

Ready to start John Steinbeck and The Pearl.

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Handed in character studies. Use late pass to hand in tomorrow.

Listen, annotate, finish worksheet: Florence. Worksheet packet handed in today. Make sure name on top.

That Sam in Seedfolks is a somewhat autobiographical stand-in for the author means he based Sam partly on himself.  He said that he lived in a neighborhood much like the one he created in Seedfolks. He would often wait at the bus stop or in checkout lines, and make conversation with people just to show that he was a friend and not a foe or enemy. He likes bringing people together.

Read, with a partner, “From Seed to Seedfolks,” by the author.

How to do that--On chromebook, go to Twin Hills home page, then to my homework page. (You should bookmark that!) Open it up and click on the link to Paul Fleischman afterword. Read the essay there.

Then you will do the following writing.

QW: On a separate piece of paper to hand in.

What are some of the things that Sam does in Seedfolks that many other people never bother to do? Why do you think Sam’s approach helps him get through to people? Why do you think the author “cast” himself as Sam?

HW: Thurs: Mug week # 12  (Expect a quiz)
Finish reading the author’s statement if not done in class. Link above. Turn in character studies with late pass.

Fri: Spelling quiz Unit # 13

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Turned in biography essay. Stapled ahead, FD, worksheet, assignment sheet/rubric

Returned speech rubrics.

QW: In your notebooks, summarized what you did well in this speech and what you will try to work on for the next. Say how you felt, overall, about speaking--your subject, your presentation. Look at the comment and what is checked or not. Don’t focus on the number!

Turkey Essay This is fun. Access the assignment online via the class website. Copy it to your google docs shared English folder. You must brainstorm first and hand in that brainstorm tomorrow.

Use class time today for your rough draft. Time to finish (30 minutes) and share final draft in class tomorrow.

HW: Thurs: Work on turkey essay

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Seedfolks work

Listen, annotate and finish worksheet on Amir. Then--

QW: In notebooks, write what your impression is of Amir. How do you characterize him? Why? Use an example from the chapter on Amir? What is most memorable about him and his “story?”

Writing assignment for  Nora, Maricela & Amir. Due Weds.  

All three characters required.

No rough draft. Start now! Use your class time wisely.

HW: Weds: Character studies, Nora, Maricela & Amir.

Thurs: Mug week # 12  (Expect a quiz)

Fri: Spelling quiz Unit # 13;  

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CLASSWORK Only -- In literature textbooks, read the story, Up The Slide, by Jack London, on p. 156.  At end of the essay, answer questions, p. 162;  1- 5 in notebook.  Plus: Write two paragraphs, in notebook.

In "Up the Slide," a young man sets out to do something simple that turns into a hair-raising, life-threatening adventure. Connect to the character's experience by thinking of a time when you have gotten yourself into a situation that was more difficult to get out of than you thought it would be.

HW: Weds: Biography essay. Final Draft stapled ahead, with assignment sheet/rubric and graphic organizer. PRINT @ HOME. STAPLE @ HOME. Please.

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New mug packet.

Three new voices--Nora,  Maricela,  Amir

Listen, annotate, fill out worksheet for Nora.

HW: Tues: Finish annotating and worksheet for Maricela, if not done in class.

Weds: Character studies--assignment tomorrow.

Thurs: Mug week #12

Fri: Spelling quiz Unit # 13

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Checked in/peer edited: RD Bio Essay

Speeches-finished (or nearly!)

HW: Weds: Final Draft Biography essay

Have a great three-day weekend!

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Spelling, exercises and quiz.

1. Now, write a story about the Thanksgiving holidays using at least 15 of your spelling words you just had a quiz on. You can use more.
2. Your story must be at least three paragraphs. Remember to indent.
3. CIRCLE AND NUMBER THE SPELLING WORDS IN THE STORY. They have to be spelled correctly.
4. Use the other side of paper if you need it.
5. Turn in to class basket when done.

Hand in work on "intangibles" from Sae Young and Curtis worksheet. If the work is on your worksheets, hand that in.

Paragraph “fun”

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Thank you all for such thoughtful writing and letters to the president-elect. You were awesome!

Speeches. Get graphic organizer for biography essay. (4th?)

HW: Mon RD Biography essay; Finish all speeches

Weds: Final Draft Biography essay

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QW: On a separate piece of paper, please write a message to our new president. What would like him to know?

Turn in Final Draft of second character study.

Review and check in and discuss worksheets on Sae Young and Curtis.

Finish the question the bottom, if not already.

Worktime-- Spelling homework. If done, work on other subjects, quietly.

HW: Spelling. On intangibles, the question at the bottom ofSae Young and Curtis worksheet. Respond to it. Worth points and will be handed in!

Thurs: Spelling Unit 12, a review of 7 through 11, proofreading exercise on pgs 60, 61, 62, 63. Words with no sound clue, related words, words with -ty, -ity and -tion endings, irregular plurals, and plural or possessive.

(No mugs this week and spelling on Thursday instead of Friday)

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QW: On a separate piece of paper, please write a message to our new president. What would like him to know?

Biography Essay Assignment.

RD Mon 11/14. No reason not to start now so don’t have to work on 3-day weekend

Speeches continue. New randomizing.

HW: Mon: Rough draft essay

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*Note spelling on Thursday!

Checked in/discussed Virgil.

Listen and annotate-- Sae Young and Curtis. Do worksheets on both characters.

Returned RD with edits. Final draft due tomorrow.

Hw: Weds: Final Draft, paragraph on Gonzalo, Leona or Sam.

AND Finish worksheets on Sae Young & Curtis. (Should only take 5 minutes each!)

Thurs: Spelling Unit 12, a review of 7 through 11, proofreading exercise on pgs 60, 61, 62, 63. Words with no sound clue, related words, words with -ty, -ity and -tion endings, irregular plurals, and plural or possessive.

(No mugs this week and spelling on Thursday instead of Friday)

Fri: No school!

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Biography Speeches start  (7/day)

Randomized

Final draft and rubric, to me, before speaking. Notecards when done.

Class takes notes during speeches.

Weds/Thurs/Mon 11/14: Speeches

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Turned in RD character response Gonzalo, Leona or Sam. (Returned on Tuesday.)

Returned last week’s final draft character response. Look over-- how to do the next one! Write on piece of scrap paper how/what you did and what need to work on.

QW: On Sam. How might the character of Sam be a stand in or a “voice” for the author, Paul Fleischman? Remember the notes you took and the interview listened to on him at the beginning of the unit.

Discussed Sam. Got next set of “voices.”

Listened to Virgil.  Annotate for Level two and three. Fill out worksheet.

HW: Tues: Finish reading and annotating Virgil. Complete on Virgil.

Weds: Final Draft, paragraph on Gonzalo, Leona or Sam.

Thurs: Spelling Unit 12, a review of 7 through 11, proofreading exercise on pgs 60, 61, 62, 63. Words with no sound clue, related words, words with -ty, -ity and -tion endings, irregular plurals, and plural or possessive.

(No mugs this week and spelling on Thursday instead of Friday)

Fri: No school!

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If absent today, Monday, please still be prepared to have your name in the randomizer to be picked to possibly present on Tuesday!

Final draft speech. Speech writing, practicing….Have you written it? Do you want to practice it? Speeches start Tuesday.

Stamp today for final draft completed.

HW: Tues: Speeches start. Bring your props and your notecards

Volunteers first? (EC 5 points.)

Speeches. Final and rubric, to me, before speaking.

Weds/Thurs/Mon 11/14: Speeches

Fri: No school!