www.noredink.com Click sign up if its your first time! 2nd phase class code 49few34w 3rd phase class code is vk7m8cm9 This year, our 8th graders will be practicing grammar using noredink.com. No red ink is a personalized and interactive platform for all levels of grammar instruction.
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Design and decorate a small brown paper bag and fill it with 4-5 “props” related to your book. Your props should include items from the book that you can find around your house. You may also create props from materials you already have (paper, clay, etc.). It is important that you use creativity in choosing your items.
1. Outside the bag write the following: • title • author • your name • draw and label (names) your main characters • write about your favorite part of the story 2. Inside the bag include: • 4-6 “props” and/or handmade items related to the characters or events in the story (place inside bag). Write how each prop relates to the story. • Write 10 questions on an index card with answers on the back side (Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?). Questions should cover the entire book. • Vocabulary: Identify 10 challenging words from the book and define each word on a paper or index card. 3. Oral presentation • You are responsible for presenting your Book in a Bag to the class. You will use the information from the inside and outside your bag to present. You will use the props in your bag to relay the main events of your story. • Your presentation should not exceed five minutes. 4. Rubric The rubric on the next page will be used by your teacher to grade you. You can use the rubric as a checklist to ensure that you have completed all parts of the project successfully RUBRIC (PAGE 2 ) http://curry.dadeschools.net/documents/pdf/bookbag.pdf. Noredink.com is a tool we will use to reinforce your grammar skills before the SOL test. Sign up for a student account and enter in the class code .
vdhe9v99 for 2nd phase e49ccc8m for 3rd phase 4mk3kecd for 7th grade Find the student engagement survey here: at http://www.k12insight.com/rpsstudentengagementBlack History Month is a great time to learn more about the achievements and accomplishments of those coming from the African Diaspora. The African Diaspora refers to the communities throughout the world that are descended from the historic movement of peoples from Africa. This includes the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean and all over the globe.
In regards to English, African American and Caribbean literature is closest to my heart. Claude McKay was a Jamaican poet who moved to Harlem, NY and was a part of the Harlem Renaissance. Here is one of his poems. If We Must Die BY CLAUDE MCKAY If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursèd lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! Read his biography and write a response to the poem in your notebook. Your assignment is to read a novel (at least 200 pages) and write a five paragraph essay persuading or dissuading Ms. Archer to read or teach that book in class. You are to mak your argument by citing the elements of literature that you know. These include : figurative language, plot, characterization, theme, and conflict. Your essay should be a 5 paragraph format and can be typed or handwritten. Essays are due Friday January 9,2016.
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This is a great resource for my 7th graders who may want to get ahead in the reading but aren't able to take the book home! |
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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Hearts and Hands by O. Henry
Mother and Daughter by Gary Soto
The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence
Miss Awful by Arthur Cavenaugh
Charles by Shirley Jackson
The Moustache by Robert Cormier
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (This is a longer work appropriate for students who can complete some of the reading at home.)
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
The Two Brothers by Leo Tolstoy
The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe
The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Third Wish by Joan Aiken
The Landlady by Roald Dahl
The Fun They Had by Isaac Asimov
Rikki Tikki Tavi by Rudyard Kipling
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
Thank you, Ma’am by Langston Hughes
Names/Nombres by Julia Alvarez
original list from http://www.mrswatersenglish.com/2014/05/40-excellent-short-stories-for-middle-school/