Wednesday, May 10, 2017

May 8 - May 12

English
Periods 1, 4, 6, 8

Students will work on a poetry unit with Ms. James this week.  Students will read, analyze, and write both haikus and sonnets.

*No homework

SSR
Period 2

Students will read silently from bell to bell

Career Exploration
Periods 3 & 7

Students will present their Shark Tank entrepreneurship challenge projects.


Monday, May 1, 2017

May 1 - May 5

*Please note that the school day will be extended by 30 minutes on Monday

*Mrs. Fowler will be teaching this week.  Ms. James is away, but she will be back next week.

English
Periods 1, 4, 6, 8

Monday

  • Bell Ringer
  • Read/annotate "The Last Dog" pg. 183

Tuesday
  • Bell Ringer
  • Finish reading/annotating "The Last Dog" pg. 183-194
  • Discuss
  • Comprehension Check pg. 195
  • Analyze the Text 1-3

Wednesday
  • Bell Ringer
  • Read/annotate "The Bells"
  • Discuss sound devices (alliteration, repetition, rhyme, and onomatopoeia)
  • Sound devices jigsaw

Thursday
  • Bell Ringer
  • Connect form and meaning
  • Toss one, take one
Friday
  • Bell Ringer
  • Correctly citing a poem in an essay
  • Brief poem essay

SSR
Period 2
  • Students will read silently from bell to bell.

Career Exploration
Periods 3 & 7
  • Students will be in the computer lab (934) Monday through Wednesday working on career research and their personal budget.  All work will be completed on Google classroom.
  • Students will work on their Shark Tank projects on Thursday and Friday.  Projects are due May 9th.

Monday, April 24, 2017

April 24 - April 28

English
Periods 1, 4, 6, 8

Students will be taking PSSA Mathematics this week, so our schedule will fluctuate this week.  Mrs. James will be reading "The Last Dog" with students this week.  The focus will be on how the elements of the story interact, narrative techniques, and conventions.

*Research papers are due on Wednesday.


SSR
Period 2

Students will read silently from bell to bell

Career Exploration
Periods 3 & 7

Students will finish interviews, take a career interest inventory, and read articles about various jobs.

Monday, April 17, 2017

April 17 - April 21

English
Periods 1, 4, 6, 8

Students will be in the computer lab for the duration of the week working on a research paper.


SSR
Period 2

Students will read silently from bell to bell

Career Exploration
Periods 3 & 7

Students will be in the computer lab writing cover letters and resumes.

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

April 10 - April 13

English

Ms. James, my student teacher, will begin teaching full-time this week.  Students will be working on short stories about space exploration.  Students will use the stories to work on literacy and grammar skills.


SSR

Students will read silently from bell to bell.

Career Exploration

Students will participate in mock job interviews this week.

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

April 3 - April 7

Students will be taking the PSSA ELA test this week.  Make sure your student eats a good breakfast and gets a full night's sleep.

Students will not have any homework this week.

Students will meet Ms. Anna James this week, my student teacher.  She will be with us until the end of May.

Monday, March 27, 2017

March 27 - March 31

March 27 - March 31
English
Periods 1, 4, 6 & 8

*All essays should be turned in my Wednesday (Class President, Length of School Day, and A Change You Would Like to See)

Monday

  • Bell Ringer (Week 24- Wednesday)
  • Essay revisions/Peer editing
  • Combining Sentences- For extra practice, go to http://chompchomp.com/exercises.htm and complete the interactive exercises (Comma Splices and Fused Sentences/Fragments)

Tuesday

  • Bell Ringer (Week 24 - Thursday)
  • Peer edit/revise argumentative essay
  • Combining Sentences - For extra practice, go to http://chompchomp.com/exercises.htm and complete the interactive exercises (Comma Splices and Fused Sentences/Fragments)

Wednesday

  • Bell Ringer (Week 25 - Monday)
  • Review the characteristics of a narrative
  • Vague Pronouns - For extra practice, go to http://chompchomp.com/exercises.htm and complete the interactive pronoun exercises 
  • Survivor review game

Thursday


  • Bell Ringer (Week 25 - Tuesday)
  • Review similarities/differences between 3 modes of writing (narrative, informative, and argumentative)
  • Vague Pronouns - For extra practice, go to http://chompchomp.com/exercises.htm and complete the interactive pronoun exercises 
  • Survivor review game

Friday


  • Bell Ringer (Week 25- Wednesday)
  • Survivor review game

SSR
Period 2


  • Students will read silently from bell to bell.


Career Exploration
Periods 3 & 7


  • Students will report to the computer lab for career research.  Students will research a career, determine the average yearly salary, and make a budget based on that number.