Wednesday, March 11, 2015 & Thursday, March 12, 2015

Journal entry #5:
Create a chart
Character                What he/she wants              Actions taken to get what he/she wants
Phillip
Ms. Narwin
Mr & Mrs. Malloy
Superintendent Seymour
Dr. Doane
Ted Griffin
Jennifer
Jake
Dr. Palleni

Nothing But The Truth!  Our Readers' Theatre was completed.  We examined satire & irony, what was the truth, who knew it, who didn't.

Princeton corrected SS #62.

Homework:
Discussion questions Part III (Nothing but the Truth) -- will be collected Thursday AM.
SS #63 and #64
Test corrections from SS Test #15 due Friday -- will be collected Friday AM
Genre Menu due Monday
Sadlier Vocab Lesson 3
Journal entry:  Have you ever been blamed for something you didn't do, like Ms. Narwin?  Explain the situation.  How did you feel?  What was the resolution?

Thursday & Friday -- PARCC testing for the 8th grade
       

Tuesday March 10th 2015

Journal entry-- themes 1 & 2.  We read two short passages, assessed the themes and cited evidence to support our thinking  
We continued our readers theatre for Nothing but the Truth.
We corrected Simple Solutions 61

Homework:
Simple solutions 62
Yale and Princeton discussion questions part 2
Work on Genre menu
Sadler vocabulary

Late work for progress reports he tomorrow

Monday, March 9th, 2015

Inferencing Quiz #3 was given; students had the opportunity to read short stories drawing inferences and citing evidence for their opinion.
Nothing But the Truth Readers' theatre continued.

Homework:
Students with the White cover of NBT: At page 118, complete discussion questions (second set).
Students with the small hardcover copy of NBT:  these questions cover Part II of the book up to page 141
Princeton & Harvard are doing discussion questions tonight
All are completing Lesson #3 of Sadlier Vocabulary;  begin reviewing words for a test.
SS #61

GENRE - PROJECT MENU due 3/16/15

Student _________________________________
Genre – Project Menu    (choose one from each meal of the day to complete your meal – highest possible points = 315)
Breakfast (choose one)		Lunch (Analysis)		Dinner (Application)
(90)  Choose 15 genres – define; draw an illustration for each that would help you remember the difference		(75)  Create a wordle. Go to wordle.com (use 20 genres)		(75) Non-fiction report (You are a newspaper reporter for the Nathan Hale News.  Write a short article reporting on an event at school.  Minimum of 8 sentences.
(90)  Create a paper study tool for review (game/foldable/flash cards, etc.) (up to 3 team members may work together and submit a game – evidence of participation from all members necessary) Use 15 genres		(90) List 10 genres and bullet point the characteristics of each		(90) Pick two genres – one fiction and one non-fiction. You’re the narrator -- write one paragraph in each genre.
(105)  Create a computer review – power point, jeopardy game, etc. (Print a copy for submission and email to crickman-wi@cps.edu) use a minimum of 20 genres		(105) Create a poster showing the three categories of genre; Add 15 additional subgenres. Include definitions for all & an example for each		(105)  Design and write a short newspaper for Nathan Hale.   (Event): Include a report of an event that occurred at school,  (Ad) an advertisement for something you could buy at Nathan Hale, (Editorial) your opinion about a policy or need at school
Genres
Drama	Poetry		Prose
Comedy Tragedy Melodrama Farce	Lyric Sonnet Haiku Free Verse Epic Cinquain Limerick		Fiction:                                     Non-fiction: Science Fiction                           Autobiography Realistic Fiction                          Biography Adventure                                    Memoir Horror                                           Speech Mystery                                         Report Historical Fiction                         Editorial Folktales                                       Essay      Myths                                        Eulogy       Legends                                        Urban Legends       Tall Tales       Urban Legends       Fairy tales       Fables Graphic novel Western Classic

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Friday, March 6, 2015

As a listening activity we watched a Brain Pop video on Prefixes, suffixes, & roots -- we took a quiz.
Princeton/Harvard: the roadtogrammar.com quizzes were collected.
Yale: we discussed the questions for our novel.
All took the Simple Solutions Test #15.
We continued discussing our inferences for our novel, Nothing But the Truth.
Our Readers' Theatre continued.

Homework:
   Genres - Project Menus due 3/16/2015
   Sadlier Vocabulary (Lessons 1-3 should be complete by Tuesday)
   Character chart on Narwin & Phillip -- continue filling it in!

Purple Common Core Progress Book -- "Charlie and the Advice" Guided Reading Sheet

Student ___________________________________                                “Charlie and the Advice”

(On loose leaf list the 18 vocabulary words & define using the glossary at the back of your book.)

What genre? ___________________________________________________________________________________

CITE EVIDENCE:  Most folk tales have simple themes that deal with basic concerns of everyday life.  List the words in the first paragraph that connect to the idea of wisdom from the past. ____________________________________________

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Why might this idea be important to understanding the story’s theme? __________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Our understanding of literature is enriched by reading works from other cultures.  Which paragraph identifies the culture this tale comes from? ________________   What is the value of knowing the cultural background of a story? __________________________________________________________________________________________________

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COMPREHENSION CHECK:  Based on details from the text, what theme is suggested in the tale so far?  _____________

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Cite at least two phrases quoted from the story that support your thoughts: ___________________________________

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CITE EVIDENCE:  Which paragraph explains why Charlie was right in following the advice to stay on the main road? ____

Which paragraph describes another cause-and-effect relationship between the advice Charles received and his actions.

________     What is likely to be revealed about the innkeepers? _____________________________________________

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COMPREHENSION CHECK:

1.                           2.                           3.                           4.           

5.  Identify two actions Charlie has taken I the story thus far after hearing the landowner’s advice.  Explain how Charlie’s actions contribute to the development of the theme.  Cite textural evidence.

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CITE EVIDENCE:  Which paragraph shows Charlie remembering the third piece of advice from his former employer? ____

What was that advice, and how does Charlie follow it? _____________________________________________________
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Which paragraph shows how Charlie is rewarded for following the landowner’s advice? _____

How do these story events serve as the final development of the theme? ______________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________What other traditional tale does this ending remind you of? _________________________________________________

COMPREHENSION CHECK:

1.                           2.                           3.                           4.                            (#5 – see page 27 on looseleaf; remember, use a lead.)

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Today we completed a Study Guide to prepare for the Simple Solutions test on Friday covering lessons 56-60.
We went over our four-box structural analysis.
Princeton & Harvard discussed the Part I of our novel and recorded the second part of the vocabulary.
All sections continued the Readers' Theatre of Nothing But The Truth

Princeton & Harvard:
www.roadtogrammar.com  #240, 314, 315, 316
Sadlier Lesson 3
Continue to fill in Character Chart on Phillip and Ms. Narwin
Study for SS Test #56-60
Retakes on #14 tomorrow after school.


Yale:
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH (DISCUSSION QUESTIONS #1)
1. In what ways are Phillip's and Miss Narwin's views of one another inaccurate?
2. Create a venn diagram showing how Miss Narwin and Philip Malloy are alike and different.
3. Explain why Phillip is sent to Dr. Palleni's office.  How have both Miss Narwin and Philip mishandled the incident?
4.  How is Mr. Malloy like Phillip? How has he failed to help Philip with his problems at school?
5.  Explain the irony in the novel's title Nothing But The Truth.

Sadlier Lesson 3
Continue to fill in Character Chart on Phillip and Ms. Narwin
Study for SS Test #56-60
Retakes on #14 tomorrow after school.


COPY OF THE STUDY GUIDE COMPLETED IN CLASS TODAY:

 Student _______________________________ Simple Solutions Common Core Grammar

Study Guide  #57-60

1. Choose the correct verb.

All the air on Earth (is/are) polluted.

All the stars (is/are) sparkling brightly tonight.

(Is/Are) any of the magazines about space travel?

(Does/Do) any part of the school have Wi-Fi?

2.  Write A if the verb is active; P if it is passive.

____Our team beat the Cowboys.

____ Most of the touchdowns were scored by Tom.

3. Rewrite the sentence. Correct the misplaced modifier.

Mr. Yracheta was standing in the hall with his cat wearing a jean jacket.

4.  Underline the participial phrase and circle the word it modifies.

Nurses completing their Masters degree will get a pay raise.

5. Write the plurals of these compound nouns.

Runner-up _________________________       high school __________________________

6.  Conjugate the verb leave.  Assume the subject is he.

	Past	Present	Future
Basic
Perfect

7.  Use what you know about Greek roots to match these words with their meanings.

____  cryptic                                     A)   unit of sound

____  biomass                       B) breaking out

____ eruption                        C)  secret

____ phoneme                      D) material from living things

8. Check the spelling of the words in the sentence below;  use the proofreader’s mark for “check spelling” to mark any words that may be misspelled.

The physical therapist recieved a delivery that included specal equipment for her patients.

9.  Use context clues to find the meaning of the underlined word.

Your speech is always very formal and you may find our conversation colloquial, but it has been a long time since I’ve been with people who grew up in my ethnic neighborhood.

Boring                        informal                     sad                 proper

10.  Add commas.

We studied the assassination of the Archduke the gathering of allies the declaration of war and four years of brutal fighting.