Blanchard's Literacy Class 9/24-28

7th Grade
Short Story: Names/Nombres
Focus: Characteristics and Purpose of the Personal Essay
Word Study: Aud, Son, Phon =Sound/Hear
Small Group Focus: Reading Comprehension
Weekly Assessments will be taken on Thursday, September 27,2012
No School Friday, September 28,2012

8th Grade Retreat  9/25-9/27
Have fun and be safe!!!!!!!

7th/8th Grade Science: Week of 9/24-9/27

Good morning, scholars and families!  This week in science, we will be continuing our investigations into living things and biology.  See below for this week's objectives (timing is subject to change, based on needs of the class).

Weekly Objectives
-SWBAT describe the properties of living things (and define metabolism and homeostasis).
-SWBAT define "abiotic" and "biotic", and provide examples of each.
-SWBAT describe the levels of organization in the human body, from cell to tissue to organ to organ system.

-SWBAT describe the difference between a plant cell and an animal cell.

As a reminder, there is no school for students on Friday.

Please note: Homework is assigned based on how much students complete of the independent practice in class.  It is incumbent on your scholar to ensure he or she has written down that day's homework in his or her agenda book, which is updated on the board at the end of each class period.  For the latest homework assignments, please refer to your scholar's agenda book.

7th/8th Grade Writing: Week of 9/24-9/27

Good morning, scholars and families!  This week in writing, students will begin their second draft of their personal narrative stories, which are to be revised for the strategies we reviewed in the last two weeks on "Showing, Not Telling."

Important Announcement

Students are responsible for turning in their second draft on a separate sheet of paper, double spaced (skipping every other line on the lined paper), and it must include 2 examples of each of the four strategies below.  These four strategies for "Showing, Not Telling" are:

- Diction

- Dialogue

- Descriptive language

- Sensory detail

This second draft is due by beginning of class on Tuesday, September 25.

Weekly Objectives

This week, we will review paragraphing, capitalization, punctuation, and how to make editing/revision marks on drafts.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to me via email at sgeng@learncharter.org.  Thank you! 

Reading September 17th thru 21st

The 7th graders will be reading  a short story: "Thank You M'am"
Focus: Central Conflict, Internal Conflict, External Conflict, Cause-and-Effect, Plot
Novel: "The Skin I'm In"
Greek and Latin:
Astr-/Astro- star or star shaped

1. astronomy
2. astronomer
3. astrophysics
4. asterisk
5. astrology
6. astrologer
7. astronomical
8. astronautics

The 8th Graders will be reading the short story " Raymond's Run"
Focus: Central Conflict, Internal Conflict, External Conflict, Cause-and-Effect, Plot
Novel: "Romiette and Julio
Greek and Latin: Ad- to move toward, in addition to
1. adapt
2. addition
3. addict
4. advise
5. addiction
6. additive
7. additional
8. adhere

September 17th, 2012

Happy Monday! Students received a parent letter today regarding the Middle School Behavior Plan. Please make sure to read this over.

Students also received their graded context clues and vocabulary tests back. These grades are posted on parent portal.

News and Upcoming Events

• Please make sure that all scholars are coming to school in uniform. This includes tie, button down blue shirt, and dress shoes. Demerits will be given for Dress Code Violations.
• Revising (endings and leads) personal narratives quiz
• Word study quiz on Friday
• No School September 29th
• Fall Break is October 8th-12th
• Quarter one over October 5th
• Pageant form and money due October 10th

Reading

• We are beginning the next unit, which is on Characters. We will be analyzing characters internal and external traits and their relationships with other characters. Students may receive homework assignments regarding characters including character graphic organizers.  

Writing

• In writing, we are spending one more week revising our personal narratives. This week, we will be changing the endings and working on adding million dollar words into our drafts. Drafts must stay at school; however, students may have some revision activities throughout the week for homework if not completed in class.
• We will edit and publish next week.
• When we publish the draft, students will type their narrative in the computer lab. They may need their flash drive to save their work onto.
• There will be a quiz on revising leads and endings this week as well.

Homework

• The reading log is due Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
• Word study-definitions, ABC order, sentences, and study for quiz
• Revising narrative quiz
• Study for word study quiz on Friday

Please let me know if you have any questions! Have a wonderful week.

Ms.Zwolinski

5th Grade Word Study words 9/17

VOCABULARY WORDS WITH THE PREFIX “MIS”. This prefix means "Wrong”.

1.      mislead

2.      misinform

3.      misguided

4.      mismanage

5.      mispronounce

6.      misplace

7.      misunderstood

8.      misappropriate

9.      misbehave

10.  miscalculate

11.  misread

12.  misuse

13.  mistreat

14.  misinterpret

15.  mischievous

Below is the class assignments for the week.  These assignments are aligned to quiz on Friday

            MONDAY:   Copy definitions of each word and make flash cards of the vocabulary words.

TUESDAY:  Continue to write down definitions and finish flash cards.  Write a story using at least 5 of the vocabulary words. Come up with 3 bonus words that have the prefix mis-.

WEDNESDAY:  Write down a synonym for each word using the Thesaurus.

THURSDAY:  Practice learning the definitions with the Bingo board.  Study with flash cards.

FRIDAY:  Review your definitions and spelling/Vocabulary test Friday.

5th grade Math Homework wk of 9/17

Homework

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