Friday, January 4, 2013

Advanced Math:  Students took the Growing, Growing, Growing summative exam today.  Students who didn't finish were instructed to find time to come and finish before Monday is over. 

Language Arts:  Homework for Monday is to read Chapters 16, 17, and 18 and to finish the following journal entry: Who do you think killed Sam Westing and why? As always, students are expected to provide textual evidence to support their reasoning.  Students who have missed ANY journal entries or who are behind on their reading need to spend some time this weekend getting caught up.

NHD/Social Studies:  There are three main parts to the NHD project that need to be completed by the end of the month:

1. A well planned out, neat, and thorough project
2. An annotated bibliography
3. A process paper (This has not been introduced yet.  If you want to get a head start, I believe the information is in the student guide that I uploaded to Edmodo under the NHD group.  You don't have to start this yet, though.  Just know that it is coming and that it is a requirement.)

Your NHD project is part of your Language Arts and Social Studies grades, as those are the standards that are being focused on.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Advanced Math:  TEST TOMORROW.  I will be online tonight from 7:30-8:30 on Todaysmeet (go to Edmodo for specific directions) so that you can ask questions if you have any.  If you do not finish the test, you need to PLAN NOW to decide if you will come after school tomorrow or before or after school Monday.  Those are your only options.

As of the time of this posting, Edmodo is down AGAIN.  Grrr!  Anyway, report back to this blog just before 7:30 for the todaysmeet link.  I don't want to post it now because we will have a whole host of public people join us.  Check Edmodo first at 7:30, and then come here if Edmodo is still down. 

Language Arts:  Read Chapters 13, 14, 15, complete another journal entry:  add a character to the story.  Explain how this character interacts with the others and changes the plot to make it more interesting.  

NHD:  All of you should have completed an annotated bibliography by now.  This is a Language Arts grade.  Even if you are working in a group, you each need to create YOUR OWN annotated bibliography.  We are using easybib.com for this.

Friday, December 21, 2012

What a great last school day of 2012!  I hope all of you have a relaxing and fulfilling winter vacation, with plentiful time with your family and friends!

****REMINDERS/UPCOMING DATES****

 

Guided Reading/Grammar 
*We will switch groups right after break again.
*We will briefly review the different sentence types and move into the PWS (Paragraph Writing Strategy)
 
Advanced Math
*Review in-class on Wednesday, January 2 and Thursday, January 3
*Review online in the evening of Thursday, January 3 (details to come soon)
*TEST FRIDAY, JANUARY 4 (Those who do not finish need to find time either after school on the 4th or on Monday before or after school.)

Language Arts: 
*Read Chapters 7, 8, 9 in The Westing Game
*Complete the journal response (listed below in Wednesday's blog entry)
*Be sure you are all caught up in your reading and journal responses (look at previous blog entries to get these).  Otherwise, you will be drowning in work when you return.  After break, we will have assigned reading and journal responses EVERY SINGLE DAY.  Start with a clean slate so as to save yourself from stress later. 

NHD/Social Studies:
*NHD, NHD, NHD, NHD... What can I say?  Use your time wisely over break and get some researching and notetaking done!  This would be the perfect time to find more resources and start developing a project plan of some sort.  At the end of January, we will be implementing your plans and creating the projects, so be ready to do an awesome job!
*On January 10 (for my Block 1 LA class) and January 11 (for Block 2 LA class), we will walking to the Main Library again for use of the research resources there.  We won't have a tour this time, and hopefully the library's Wi-Fi will be up and running.  You will have a lot of time to get some work done.
*Remember to keep track of all your bibliographic information (names of authors, titles, publication dates, and website addresses) so that you can successfully create an annotated bibliography later.