Week of 9/20-9/24

On Monday, we had to write a Quick Write on what we thought would happen in the second part of "The Story of an Hour". Everyone had their own opinions on what would happen. After we finished discussing that, we all got our characterization paragraphs and went over them. On Tuesday, we had independent reading and re-read "The Story of an Hour". On Wednesday, we had another quick write on what our quiz would be like for the next day. We finally got to read the second part of "The Story of an Hour", and talked about it. After that we got to head down to the Book Fair and see what books we were going to read. Also, we saw other books that some of us could be interested in reading. On Thursday, we all took the quiz on quotations. Finally on Friday, we had a Quick Write on what would happen if we all wore the same clothes. We all had different ideas on what would happen. Then, we went over the three forms of irony, which are either dramatic, verbal, or situational. Later, we watched some videos and saw some pictures on irony and had to guess which kind of irony it was. For our homework, each of us got a notecard and we all have to write either a dramatic, verbal, or situational situation.

Week of 9/13 - 9/17

This week in class we learned about integrity. We brought in news articles that show people who either have alot of integrity, or none at all.

Week of September 13 - September 17

Can you imagine being arrested for giving water to thirsty people?  This week, we read an article about someone who was arrested for littering after leaving bottles of water in the desert so that people immigrating into the United States wouldn't die of thirst.  This is an example of a situation in which it is hard to decide if a person has integrity or does not have integrity.    Each student then found their own example of a news story that exemplied someone with a great deal of integrity or very little integrity.  Our text for this week was the short story "Thank You M'am" by Langston Hughes.  It told the story of a young boy with little integrity and the woman who  helped him learn right from wrong.   We learned the difference between observations and inferences, which is something that many of us are also discussing in our science classes.  Our class also became authors when we played a musical chairs writing game to work on transitioning from one idea to another. 

week of 9\6- 9\10

This is what we did last week in English. We read the short story called "The Necklace." We wrote a charicteristic paragraph on a charecter from the story. We also had a discussion about integrity. Our class did a t-chart on "The Necklace" also.



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This week we as a class are starting a Blog to show others what we have done over the past week. Either you post a picture to the blog with a caption or write a paragraph. Two students have been picked to post each week for either the picture or the paragraph. It is supposed to be a way to communicate with the parents. The post that the student has posted is part of their homework grade.

Picture for week of August 30 - September 3

We used "My Life in a Paper Bag" as a way to get to know our classmates.  Each student brought in, and presented, three items that they felt described them.  We learned about hobbies, childhoods, families, cultures, and more.  It was great to see that we have things in common with each other that we didn't even know about. 

Week of August 30 - September 3

Our week began with presentations of "My Life in a Paper Bag" from each student in class. It was a great way to get to know some unique and surprising things about each other. As the week went on, we wanted to be able to summarize events in a story, but we weren't sure if we were including too much (or too little) information, so we learned a quick and easy way to formulate our summaries! Following the Somebody, Wanted, But, So format (used in the previous sentence), we summarized the events of the short story, "The Necklace", written by Guy De Maupassant. On Friday, we visited the Fremd Media Center to hear about some great books and select one (if we hadn't already) for our independent reading projects.