11/06/09 Accelerated Language Arts 8

IMPORTANT: DC people, this is your homework:

WW packet (handout on front table, stapled)

Project for Giver (handout on front table, unstapled)

WW p.37, 76-78 (do these two review activities in your WW book)

ALL due Tuesday, November 17

—Please see me before you leave if you have any questions—

Homework:

-AR reading

-Please bring in food for our canned food drive—let’s think of people in need in our community

- WW p.37, 76-78 (do these two review activities in your WW book)

Agenda:

The Giver Vocabulary Test and Scantron test

11/06/09 Humanities Core 7

Homework:

LA: Wordly Wise 9 A & bring blank index cards

Please bring food for our canned food drive—seventh graders deserve to sit in the bleachers

Read: 30-60 minutes

Take AR tests before school, at break, at lunch, and after school within 3 days of finishing the book.

S.S. 4.2 Cornell Notes (2-3 bullets per paragraph!)

Bring your ID card every day—especially TUESDAY!

Books You’ll Need Tomorrow: SS, AR, WW

Agenda:

-Correct WW 8E

-WW 8 Test

-AR Time

-S.S. 4.1 Quiz

-How to Attack a Writing Prompt (Response to Literature)

-Exit Slip: Quick Quiz on Writing Prompt (Response to Literature)

-Orange Grammar: Verbs p. 40, Ex. B #1-10:

• Write out the sentences and skip lines
• Label “s” for subject and underline it
• Label “v” for verb and underline it
• KEEP and read when you are done

-Read AR

- Correct S.S. 4.1 Review

-“Arabian Nights”

11/05/09 Accelerated Language Arts 8

Happy Birthday, Eli!

IMPORTANT: DC people, this is your homework:

WW packet (handout on front table, stapled)

Project for Giver (handout on front table, unstapled)

WW p.37, 76-78 (do these two review activities in your WW book)

ALL due Tuesday, November 17

—Please see me before you leave if you have any questions—

Homework:

-AR reading

-Please bring in food for our canned food drive—let’s think of people in need in our community

-The Giver:

Test Friday

Study class discussion notes

Study vocabulary words

Agenda:

-Correct WW 8D and E

-WW 8 Test

-Whole class discussion

11/05/09 Humanities Core 7

Pass up: S.S. 4.1 Review

Homework:

LA: Wordly Wise 8E—Test tomorrow!

Please bring food for our canned food drive—seventh graders deserve to sit in the bleachers

Read: 30-60 minutes

Take AR tests before school, at break, at lunch, and after school within 3 days of finishing the book.

S.S. 4.1 Quiz tomorrow—study!

Bring your ID card every day—especially TUESDAY!

Books You’ll Need Tomorrow: SS, AR, WW

Agenda:

-Correct WW 8D

-Begin WW 8E

-Orange Grammar: Verbs p. 40, Ex. B #1-10:

• Write out the sentences and skip lines
• Label “s” for subject and underline it
• Label “v” for verb and underline it
• KEEP and read when you are done

-Read AR

- Correct S.S. 4.1 Review

-“Arabian Nights”

AR reading is continuing.  The end of the quarter deadline to take a quiz is:

Friday, December 11, 2009.

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M  11/9   Read “Last Mission” in class.

T 11/10  Complete study sheets for the “Last Mission”

W   Holiday

Th 11/12   Finish study sheets and prepare for a test on the story for Friday.

F  11/13   Test on the ”Last Mission”

Friday, November 06, 2009

History Alive

Background Essay Quiz

Continue Round 2

Vocabulary work

Homework: AR reading Ghost in the Tokaido Inn

Study Skills

Binder Reminder Check

Quiet Work Time

Homework: Check with teachers about missed work

Check grades on line

Core

Roots Up word

Final day for in-class research

Add closing ideas to topics

Prepositions

List of 55 to learn

Homework: AR Reading

Complete research if needed

All subtopics should be complete and outlined

Learn the 10 A prepostions

Thursday, November 5, 2009

History Alive

Numbers Test

Round 2 continued

Key Terms

Copy the list and begin defining the words as each applies to Japan

Homework:  AR novel

Begin learning the meanings of the key terms

Study Skills

Binder Reminder check

Quiet Work Time

Progress letters collected

Homework:  Copy your homework for all classes

Core

Roots Up word

Adjective Test

Research

5 topic outlines due

Homework: AR reading

Research topics fill gaps in topics

Review Roots Up words

Intra District Transfer Form revised SPANISH

Sexual Harassment Permission

Intra Enrollment information English

Intra Enrollment information Spanish

English 8

• AR 30  min.
• WW 7D

Core 7

Accel Pre-Algebra:  p.153-154                                   periods:1,4,5,6

Tutoring is now only on Mondays

Pre-Algebra: p.65-66                                                  period:2

Tutoring is now only on Wednesdays

Students write their homework for the week in the binder reminder on Monday. Please ask to see their binder reminder for the current homework.

Mr. Simms

11/04/09 Accelerated Language Arts 8

IMPORTANT: if you are going to DC, please come here for a quick meeting right at the start of lunch today.

WW packet

Project for Giver

WW p.37, 76-78

ALL due Tuesday, November 17

Please see me if you have any questions.

Homework: PLEASE NOTE CHANGES

-AR reading

-Please bring in food for our canned food drive—let’s think of people in need in our community

-WW 8D and E—Test Thursday!

-The Giver:

Test Friday

Study class discussion notes

Study vocabulary words: focus on the word list we finish creating in class today

-DC-bound students: Packet + project due Tuesday, 11/17

Agenda:

-Correct WW 8C

-Focused Vocabulary Work—finish from yesterday

-Turn in Ch. 18-19 and Ch. 20-23 Vocabulary

-Whole class discussion

11/04/09 Humanities Core 7

Pass up: S.S. 4.1 Cornell Notes

Homework:

LA: Wordly Wise 8D

Please bring food for our canned food drive—seventh graders deserve to sit in the bleachers!

Read: 30 minutes

Take AR tests before school, at break, at lunch, and after school within 3 days of finishing the book.

S.S. 4.1 Review

Books You’ll Need Tomorrow: SS, AR, WW

Agenda:

-Correct WW 8C

-Begin WW 8D

-Orange Grammar: Verbs p. 39 #1-10:

• Write out the sentences and skip lines
• Label “s” for subject
• “vv” for visible verb
• “mv” for mental verb
• KEEP and read when you are done

-Read AR

-“Arabian Nights”

-Begin S.S. 4.1 Review

Got food?  some don’t and we need your help.  It is the 8th grade and the principal against the 7th graders and the assistant principal.  Who can bring in the most can food or for every dollar we are able to convert to 3 pounds of food.  Let’s see which administrator can inspire their grade level to bring in the most food.

Sports sweatshirt forms are due by this Friday to Carol in the main office for the boys basketball or girls soccer teams.

Honor roll breakfast for 7th graders is Thursday morning and for 8th graders it is Friday morning.

Are you a budding Einstein or maybe the future Marie Curie?  come by rooom 13 during lunch on Friday to find out all about the upcoming science fair and how to enter.  You also get extra credit from your science teacher.

The ROV club makes underwater robots just like the real thing.  Stop by room 3 at lunchtime on Thursday for the first meeting.

Medical news:

H1N1 flu shots:  Hours are from 2-6pm at the following locations.

Monday, Mintie White Elementary

Tuesday, Starlight Elementary

Wednesday, HA Hyde Elementary

Thursday, MacQuiddy Elementary

Friday, Freedom Elementary

Cesar Chaves Middle School. everyday from 9-1 (not weekends)

Pajaro Middle School, everyday from 9-1 (not weekends)