1. Bellringer 1 Tues Aug 13
Bellringer: Why do you need to know how to find and label the parts of speech in a sentence?
directions:
Write down the bellringer
Answer it
Write your name/date/class period in upper right-hand corner of your paper
Listen to class discussion about the bellringer

2. Mon, Sept 9
Writer’s notebook: How do you feel about the way you look? Have you ever felt “ugly”? How does our appearance affect our behavior, mood, and outlook on life?
Bellringer 1, Week 5:
figure out what the word “renegade” means as used in this sentence
The renegade solider who gave information to the enemy may go to jail once he has been tried for his disloyalty.
(definition on p. 520 in textbook)

3. Agenda Monday, Sept 9
Read “The Talk” by Gary Soto starting on p Then complete the “How to Read Non Fiction” worksheet.
Learning targets:
I can read non fiction and determine its main idea, its point of view, and its purpose.

4. Wed, Aug 14, 2013
Bellringer:
Exercise, an important part of our health that helps keep our bones and muscles strong; it also helps our immune system.
Question: This is a sentence fragment. Working with a neighbor, try to fix it and write the new sentence on your own paper. Do NOT take out the semi-colon!
Learning target:
I can identify a sentence fragment and explain WHY it is a fragment.
I can name and define the 8 parts of speech.
I can correctly use a semi-colon with or without a conjunctive adverb.

5. 8-14-13 Wed agenda Have you turned in your AR agreement?
Have you turned in all of the red tickets you have earned so far?
Have you turned in all of your homework for the week?
Is your name/date/class written in the upper right-hand corner of all work turned in?
1. Complete bellringer
2. Turn in tickets, AR agreements.
3. Review the 8 parts of speech. Quiz Thursday.
4. Listen to Chapter 1, I Beat the Odds by Michael Oher from the movie The Blind Side.
5. Read YOUR AR book until class ends.
STUDY for QUIZ!!!!!

6. Thurs
Bellringer 3:
Read this sentence, then choose the letter of the best word to describe its “tone.”
“You stop pestering your brother right now, or I am going to to have to stop this car!
soothing
threatening
optimistic
sad
Question: How did you figure out the tone of the passage?
Learning targets: I can define the 8 parts of speech. I can identify the “tone” of a passage I have read.

7. Thurs Aug 15 Agenda How to use QUIA (watch!)
Lab time to take parts of speech quiz
Play Parts of Speech Games 1st, 3rd, and 4th periods on QUIA
Continue writing your personal essay 5th period
How to use QUIA (watch!)
Log in with user name and password I give you.
Click on BLUE box in middle of page.
Click on your class web page link.
Take quiz; no talking or looking around
Play Parts of Speech games on QUIA

8. Friday, Aug 16 1. Bellringer 4:
How do you prepare for a big test? What works best for you when you study?
2. Pass up this week’s 4 bellringers, in order, name/date/class period in top right-hand corner. This is a GRADE!
3. Get back your IA1 scantron.
4. On a clean sheet of paper, write down (one per line) the number(s) of the questions you missed, like this:
#1.
#4.
#7.
etc.

9. cont Friday, Aug 16
5. Copy each learning target you missed BESIDE the number of the question (s) you missed.
6. After you have your learning targets copied, TURN IN your paper for a GRADE.
7. Read AR book until end of class.
I am drawing red tickets today.
I will also have STUDENTS of the WEEK who will get extra rewards because of their attendance, behavior, work turned in, etc.
YOU can be a Student of the Week!!!! Smile!!!!

10. What you missed on Pre-Test 1/IA1
1. make a correct inference
2. analyzing “tone”
3. decide if a detail should or should not be included in a passage
4. reach a logical conclusion after making an inference.
5. identify the main conflict in a passage
man vs man; man vs self; man vs nature; man vs society
6. figure out the “setting” of a passage from the clues in the passage.
7. make a correct inference based on the clues in a passage.
8. make a correct inference.
9. make a correct inference.
10. make a correct inference.
11. figure out the “theme” of a passage.

11. test cont.
12. In a poem, I can figure out who the poem’s “narrator” is.
13. In a poem, I can figure out the poem’s “point of view.”
14. In a poem, I can figure out its “theme.”
15. I know the plot elements in their correct order: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
16. I can correctly punctuate a sentence that contains two main clauses:
“My best friend is John because he is always there when I need him we have been friends since first grade.”
“My best friend is John because he is always there when I need him. We have been friends since first grade.”

12. test cont.
17. correctly use a comma in a sentence with a subordinate clause at the end of the sentence: “She did not finish her work, making it impossible for her to get a reward on Friday.” (correct as written)
18. correctly punctuate a sentence containing two independent clauses.
19. identify sentence fragments in sentences containing a semi-colon.
20. use verbs correctly in my sentences.
Example:
Everyone hopes the new air conditioning will work on a hot day!

13. Mon, Aug 19 Bellringer 1 Aug 19:
Do you like danger? Think of a dangerous situation you once faced and write about it until I tell you to stop!
1. Do bellringer.
2. Take notes today from a Power Point.
3. Learning targets:
I will be able to fix a comma splice in 3 different ways!

14. Tuesday, Aug 20
Class went to lab to play learning games. If you were absent, you do not have to make this up.
Sorry for the computer problems in Lab I hope you still got a little bit accomplished!!!!

15. Wednesday, Aug 21 Today’s agenda: Learning targets
A. Bellringer 2-Fix this sentence
Jason made me mad I think I need to talk to him about this.
B. Learning check—do your best; it’s a “pre test”
Writer’s Notebook-think about your childhood and write about one experience you will never forget (don’t stop until music stops)
Comma splice lesson continued!!!!! Quiz tomorrow! Look and Listen.
Learning targets
1. I can define “clause”
2. I can define “independent clause”
3. I can define “dependent clause”
4. I can define “comma splice”
5. I can fix a comma splice in 3 different ways (excluding using a period between independent clauses).
6. I can identify a conjunctive adverb.
7. I know my 7 coordinating conjunctions.

16. Thursday, Aug 22
Bellringer questions:
1. What do you call this kind of sentence? It is a fused or _run on sentence.
2. What is the last word in the first independent clause in this sentence?__night____
3. Rewrite the sentence and place a semi-colon between the independent clauses. We had great steak for dinner last night; I am hoping we have lasagna tonight!
Rewrite the sentence using “but”
We had great steak for dinner last night, but I am hoping we have lasagna tonight!
Writer’s Notebook today-cont. with your childhood memory OR write about the best gift you’ve ever been given! Bellringer 3: We had great steak for dinner last night I am hoping we have lasagna tonight!

17. Today’s Reading Lesson
p. 215 “The Most Dangerous Game”
Do you like danger?
Have you ever nearly drowned?
Do you think animals feel pain or fear when they are being hunted?
4. Do you or someone you know like to hunt?
5. Would you like to go on an African safari and hunt big game?
6. Have you ever heard of PETA?
7. How do you think it would feel to be “hunted” like an animal?

18. Review
1.What are the 7 coordinating conjunctions? 2. What kind of punctuation should you use in this sentence? It is getting late yet my date still has not showed up!
What is a clause?
What are the two kinds of clauses?
What is a comma splice?
What are words like “nevertheless” or “also” called by grammarians?

19. Fri, Aug 23
Writer’s Notebook: Write about a time when you were very sad. (or continue writing on another entry that you’d like to add more to)
Bellringer 4: fix the sentence in 2 different ways
SENTENCE:
I really love brownies ____ my grandma makes them for me all the time.

20. Mon, Aug 26 Media Center Day-What to do….. Check in a book.
Recheck a book.
Find a new book.
Take an AR test.
READ, READ, READ
What not to do:
talk
goof off
sleep
text
waste time
bother others

21. Tues , Aug. 27 Writer’s Notebook: Bellringer 1 (Week 3)
Write about a time when you either experienced great victory or great defeat (your choice).
Rules:
Start writing when you hear the tone that starts class. Write as long as music plays. Do not stop writing until I tell you to stop. I will give you a 1-min warning before we stop. We will usually write at least 5-7 min. per day. Grade is given for time on task AND for quality of your work. Do your best and you will get a good grade.
Bellringer 1 (Week 3)
What part of speech are the underlined words?
After a very long day at school, I went home and enjoyed some buttery, hot popcorn and a movie.
(did you write your name /date/class period in upper right-hand corner?)
Bonus question? Is today’s bellringer sentence a comma splice? Why or why not?

22. Tues , Aug 27 Agenda 1. Writer’s Notebook 2. Bellringer
3. Talk about grades, zero policy, and how to succeed in English I and life.
4. TED Talk
5. Continue reading “The Most Dangerous Game” that starts on p. 215 in your textbook.
(Honors: take a practice test with a partner)
Learning targets for today:
1. I can write about a personal experience and clearly communicate my ideas and feelings.
2. I can identify adjectives in a sentence.
3 I can make correct inferences when reading a story.
I can figure out the tone of a passage within a short story.
I can predict what may happen next in a story.

23. Wed, Aug 28 Writer’s Notebook: Bellringer 2:
Write about a person you know who is especially “good” or “bad.” Our story has evil Gen. Zaroff in it. Have you ever known someone who was unkind? uncaring? Or write about a kind/caring person you know if you’d like.
Bellringer 2:
Is this a complete sentence or a sentence fragment?
Going fishing, a fun activity for summertime enjoyment; it is also a sport.
Answer?

24. Point of view
3rd person limited-narrator telling story can nearly always only tell us the story from viewpoint of one character’s thoughts and feelings “He felt sick to his stomach after finding out what Gen. Zaroff intended to do.”
3rd person omniscient-
narrator knows what every character is thinking/feeling and tells us about various characters’ thoughts as he tells the story.
1st person-Narrator tells the story as if it really happened to him/her and uses pronoun “I” fairly often. “I remember the first time I ever saw Sally.”
2nd person-narrator gives a lot of commands as he uses the pronoun “you” quite often (You must remember that it is your best interest to learn how to cook before you graduate from high school.) This point of view is rarely seen in short stories or novels.

25. Point of view in “…Game”
Third Person (Limited)
Because we are looking at a Third Person Limited narrative, we really only know Rainsford’s thoughts. And only when Rainsford “escapes” near the end do we get a glimpse of Zaroff’s thoughts:
“Two slight annoyances kept him from perfect enjoyment. One was the thought that it would be difficult to replace Ivan; the other was that his quarry had escaped him; of course, the American hadn't played the game—so thought the general, as he tasted his after-dinner liqueur .”
Other than that, we’re with Rainsford. Overall, story is third person limited

26. Thursday, Aug 29
Writer’s Notebook:
If you were given in the next 5 minutes, 3 brand-new items that were less than $100 in value each, what would you want, and WHY would you want those particular things?
(Write until I tell you to stop; recopy over and over your last sentence if you get stuck and can’t think of anything new to say! Can you want something money can’t buy, like love? YES!)
Bellringer: story excerpt
“I remember sitting in that small bedroom, when I was only 5, and thinking, ‘Will my dad be okay?’ Fortunately, he did recover from his car accident and he eventually went back to work.”
Write down all of the pronouns. Now….what is the point of view?______

27. Agenda Thurs, Aug 29 Writer’s Notebook Bellringer AIMS WEB screener 2
Clause Quiz with a bonus question worth 10 points!
“The Most Dangerous Game” –finish reading it, silently (starts p. 215; we were on about p. 228 or 229 probably)
You may borrow a textbook for overnight on Friday if you do not finish your work during class. Must check out the book from me and sign for it!
Work on the story’s study packet and it is due at the end of class on Friday. IF you work on it during class without stopping or goofing off and do NOT get it finished, then it is due at the beginning of class on TUESDAY next week. (No school on Monday; it’s Labor Day)
If you are goofing off during class and not making progress, then I take it up on Friday, finished or not, and you get the grade, good or bad! Work in class!!!!!!

28. Friday, Aug 30
Writer’s Notebook: Did your family raise you to believe in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, etc? Write about why children should or should not be taught to believe in Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, tooth fairy, etc.
Bellringer: Question: below there is a sentence fragment—how can you fix it? Johnny, swimming in the ocean for the first time, and he really loves riding the waves on his boogie board.

29. Friday, Aug 30 Agenda Writer’s Notebook Bellringer
“The Most Dangerous Game” –finish listening to it, starting on p. 227?
Answer questions in packet IF you finish the story in class today.
Story Packet Directions:
After you finish reading the story, work on the story packet until the end of the period. If you finish it, hang on to it until next week when I collect the class set of papers.
If you get finished with everything today, then you may read your own AR book until the end of the period.
Have a great Labor Day Weekend!!!!!!

30. Tuesday, Sept 3 Bellringer 1 Week 4:
Read this poem then tell me what its “point of view” is—
“Dreamers”
[You] Be a dreamer; dare to try to do what others say is impossible.
[You] Soar high. Dream big.
If you’re going to dream, then make it a good dream.
first person
second person
third-person limited
third-person omniscient
hint: remember that the “you” pronoun is a 2nd person pronoun; he/she is a 3rd person pronoun; “I” is a first person pronoun
Writer’s Notebook: Watch the video, then respond in your notebook to this question— Dreams….what dreams do you have for your future? What goals that others say might be impossible for you to do do you have for yourself? Do you think Diane Nyad should have spent more time on something besides training to swim from Cuba to Key West?

31. Today’s agenda:
1.game: noun-animals that are hunted whether for fun or for food
2.game: noun-competition where there are winners and losers
3.game: noun-strategy or tactic
“What’s your game? How do you win?”
Answer all of the questions in the “The Most Dangerous Game” packet. I will put the definition of “game” on this slide for you since we do not have a class set of dictionaries.

32. Wednesday, Sept 4
Writer’s Notebook: If you could take a trip next week to anywhere in the world, where would you go and what would you do while you were there?
Bellringer:
Copy this and then punctuate it
While I was at the doctor’s office I saw a very sick baby.

33. Wed, Sept 4 Agenda Nominate football homecoming…one boy and one girl
Test on Thurs over “The Most Dangerous Game” know characters, plot, and point of view
Today’s lesson:
using subordinate coordinators used to join clauses
Learning target:
I can recall characters, plot in MDG.
I can explain the point of view in MDG.
I can use subordinate coordinators to combine subordinate clauses with independent clauses.

34. Thursday, Sept 5 Bellringer 3 Writer’s Notebook
We are coming up on the “holiday season” with Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas all happening within the next four months. Write about which one is your favorite holiday and WHY it’s your favorite!
Underline the subordinate coordinator in each sentence: Whenever I get sick, my family makes me go to the doctor. Whatever you do, you need to try to do your best. He is my favorite brother because he is nice to me.

35. Today’s agenda Quiz in lab quia.com
You must put in your user name and password
Secret word is____
After you take your quiz, you may LEARN by playing the QUIA games!
I HOPE they have fixed the JAVA problems in the lab so you can play any of the learning games you’d like to play.

36. Friday, Sept 6
Writer’s Notebook: finish up any entry of your choice to turn in for a grade! Make sure you have written your name/date/class period in UPPER RIGHT-HAND CORNER
Bellringer 4- combine these clauses any way you choose Psychology is the science that studies human behavior the behavior may be normal or abnormal.

37. Friday, Sept 6 agenda
Anticipation Guide for today’s story:
Do you agree or disagree?
People who love each other won’t make huge sacrifices.
People with limited means (money) can’t buy anything to express their love.
The love that inspires someone to buy a gift is more important than the gift itself.
Modern society puts too much emphasis on giving expensive gifts.
1. Writer’s Notebook, (and turn in) 2. Bellringers (4) and turn in ***write name, date, class period in upper right-hand corner of your paper

38. Sept 6 Writer’s Notebook…pick one (no bellringer today)
Have you ever wanted to buy a gift for a loved one but couldn’t afford it? Write about that experience.
Do you know of someone who has sacrificed something for a loved one? What did they sacrifice? Time? Money? Which is more important to you?
Have you read another story or seen a movie that shows self-sacrifice for a loved one? Write about that story.

39. Friday Sept 6/Today’s work….
Use your plot map to map the story “The Gift of the Magi”
character names: Della and Jim
setting: a city apartment near the railroad tracks in 1905
situation: two young people with very little money struggle to find a way to give each other a wonderful Christmas gift
***PLOT MAP….work on it as you watch the story…I will pause the video a few times so you can do your work****do your best on your plot map….do not forget to write you name/date/class period on it….thank you!

40. Monday, Sept 9 Read Soto’s Essay “The Talk” p. 521 in textbook.
Participate in class discussion about the short essay.
Complete “Guide for Reading Non Fiction” and turn in for a grade.
Purpose of this lesson: to learn how to analyze an author’s purpose, main idea, and techniques for sharing the main idea. Also look at what kind of non fiction it is, and this one is a personal narrative about two 12 year old boys who feel they are “ugly.”

41. Tuesday, Sept 10
Picture Day-in Media Center for AR reading

42. Wed, Sept 18 Take IA 1 for a GRADE!
You will get your test back on Monday or Tuesday. We will talk about what you missed, I will reteach, and you get to take that test again next week.

43. Thursday, Sept 19
Writer’s Notebook Write about the scariest thing that’s ever happened to you!
Bellringer: What is your definition of the word “suspense”? Write it down.

44. Today
Learning objectives: I can identify “suspense” in literature. I can analyze the literature of Edgar Alan Poe and his use of “suspense.”
I can explain why Poe is considered the greatest suspense writer. I can evaluate Poe’s works when compared with modern-day suspense stories, movies, and shows.

45. Assignment:
Watch the video about Poe, complete today’s viewing sheet, and turn the sheet in for a grade.