February 27th and 28th, Tuesday and Wednesday

Tom Sawyer

Fishbowl discussion
PERIOD 4 SEATING REQUEST
Vocabulary

1.peril-danger-noun
2.guile-deceit, trickery-noun
3.sagacity-wisdom, understanding
4.loath-dislike a lot verb
5. derision-ridicule, scorn-noun

Read chapter 
Your presentation should :

be 3-5 minutes long
explain your journey-what you did and how you did it
include obstacles you encountered
explain what you learned or got out of the project
include VISUALS (pictures, videos, your blog, your instagram account)  This should be in a Google Slides
be ENTHUSIASTIC X 1,000,000
Do NOT read to us.


If you choose to do a video, it must be sent to me WELL ahead of time (like three days before your presentation) 

Thursday, February 22nd and Friday, February 23rd

Revision requirements

If you would like to revise your essay, you must:

1)  Highlight all ADDITIONS in yellow
2) At the bottom of your essay, you must write me a letter explaining HOW you improved your essay.  Why is it better than when you turned it in the first time? 

Take NoRedInk Connecting Clauses Quiz

Work on Passion Project


Your presentation should :

be 3-5 minutes long
explain your journey-what you did and how you did it
include obstacles you encountered
explain what you learned or got out of the project
include VISUALS (pictures, videos, your blog, your instagram account)  This should be in a Google Slides
be ENTHUSIASTIC X 1,000,000
Do NOT read to us.

If you choose to do a video, it must be sent to me WELL ahead of time (like three days before your presentation) 

SEATING REQUEST PERIOD 4

Tuesday and Wednesday, February 20th and 21st

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.
Connecting Clauses mini-lesson
Go to Google Classroom and do the Quizizz Homework for practice. Mark DONE when you complete it. 

Lesson on Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing Check in-Work with assigned Partner Passion Project Time - We will agree upon a date for our projects to be finished.  

Week of February 12th

This week we will work on our essays on The Outsiders. Please submit to Google Classroom as soon as possible.

You should also be finished with your first NoRedInk, "Embedding Quotes".

We will watch the movie (Outsiders).

Thursday, February 8th and Friday, February 9th

Today we will finish up our stations.  If you finish early and didn't pass the Embedding Quotes quiz in NoRedInk, do a practice exercise and try again. :)

I will pass out the menus again.  Remember to turn in digital work to Google Classroom. If you do something on paper, write your name on it, and leave it on my keyboard. :)

Next week we will finish up our essays!

Tuesday, February 6th and Wednesday, February 7th

PLEASE fill out this form for your Passion Project, If you are working with a partner, only ONE of you needs to fill it out. Make sure your links are live. 

We will have a Digital Citizenship lesson on evaluating websites.  This is an important lesson.  I will start the lesson with zero period on Tuesday. The guest teacher will finish it with them on Wednesday.  The guest teacher will do the entire lesson with my second and fourth period.  

#1  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year-round_school_in_the_United_States

#2  https://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-lynch-edd/should-the-us-switch-to-y_b_6094462.html

#3    https://www.familyeducation.com/school/year-round-schooling/year-round-school

#4   http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2005863,00.html

#5  http://www.nayre.org/

#6  http://summermatters.com/

#7 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1993/11/21/100000-reasons-for-year-round-school/6b907c1c-bb50-4d0a-a70c-581a6ec96a81/?utm_term=.f4c30b8598a1

Monday, February 5th LATE START

FILL OUT THIS FORM REGARDING YOUR PASSION PROJECT. If you are working with other people, only one of you needs to fill it out.  

We will have an awesome lesson today on being on upstander instead of a bystander!
Check Google Classroom for Feedback.