Final Week June 15, 2009

I am truly stunned that this is the final week of school.  Thank you all for continuing to make me proud to be a teacher and assured that I chose the right profession for myself.  I hope each of you is as lucky to have a career that you love as much as I love mine.

Please try to keep in touch in some way–email, write, post a sentence on the blog, come visit either at school or at the bookstore.

I miss you all already.

Forever your eighth grade Language Arts teacher;

All my love,

Ms. Silver

ps. smooooooooose!

week 38–AGLET June 8, 2009

Sam had the nasty habit of chewing on her aglets–while the shoes were still on her feet!

This week

• Monday–Word of the Week; Check and Review homework (participles and gerunds); Small group help/Study for final
  • HW: Study & Read, BRING HOLT LITERATURE TEXTBOOKS TO SCHOOL (turning them in at the library)
• Tuesday–Take Textbooks to Library; Notes & Practice–Infinitives; Papers & Folders Back
  • HW: Finish Infinitives work, Study & Read
• Wednesday–Review homework; Notes & Practice–Appositives
  • HW: Finish Appositives work, Study & Read
• Thursday–Review homework; Review for the Final (Jeopardy?)
  • HW: Study & Read
• Friday–Promotion Practice in the Gym; Knott’s Berry Farm!
  • HW: Study & Read

Monday, June 15th–Reading Logs/Bathroom Tickets due; Final Spelling Test

June 5, 2009

week 37–NONAGENARIAN June 1, 2009

This week:

• Monday–Word of the Week; Check Lesson 16 flashcards; Finish Poetry Presentations; Final Study Guide; Review Direct/Indirect Objects & Predicate Adjective/Predicate Nominative
  • HW: Complete Review Assignment, Lesson 16 ex. A & B
• Tuesday– Review ex. A & B; Check & Review Grammar homework; Small Group/Study for Final
  • HW: Lesson 16 ex. C, Study, Read
• Wednesday– Notes & Practice–Participles
  • HW: Study Lesson 16, Bring SSR book
• Thursday/Friday– Lesson 16 spelling & vocab test; SSR time; Notes–Gerunds; Practice Worksheets –Participles & Gerunds
  • HW: Complete worksheets, Study for Final, Read

week 36–PERNICIOUS May 26, 2009

Eating too much sugar had a pernicious effect on George.  He jumped on top of the lunch table and chucked soggy tater tots at innocent passers-by.  When campus supervisors tried to calm him, George stamped on ketchup packets, spraying the adults with the red goo.  It took a while for the sugar to wear off, but when it did, George was repentent and promised to clean every last spud crumb and tomato drop from the patio.

 

This week

• Tuesday– Word of the Week; Check Lesson 15 flashcards; Papers back; Begin Poem Presentations
  • HW: practice poem, lesson 15 ex. A, B, C
• Wednesday– Review Vocabuary exercises; continue poetry presentations
  • HW: study lesson 15, bring SSR book
• Thursday/Friday–lesson 15 vocab &spelling test; SSR time; continue poetry presentations
  • HW: Lesson 16 flashcards, READ!

week 34–REVERIE May 18, 2009

 

In reverie, the impossible can be believed.

 

This week:

• Monday– word of the week; check lesson 14 flashcards; papers back & organized; elegy & free verse
  • HW: Lesson 14 ex. A & B, Poetry Books due tomorrow
• Tuesday– collect Poetry Books; review ex. A & B; Elegy, Free Verse, Test Practice
  • HW: ex. C vocabulary, Poetry terms test tomorrow, bring SSR book
• Wednesday– review ex. C; Poetry terms test; SSR time
  • HW: study Lesson 14, bring SSR book
• Thursday/Friday (minimum days)– Lesson 14 test; Poem to recite
  • HW: Practice Poem, Lesson 15 flashcards

[no school on Monday, May 25th]

week 33–LIMERICK May 11, 2009

• I read a book about a girl called Alice.
• Being lost filled her with so much malice.
  • So far from home
  • She must constantly roam,
• Causing her feet to become rough and calloused.

This week:

• Monday/Tuesday–check flashcards; word of the week; Thirteen Ways & Concrete poems; check poems due today
  • HW: Lesson 13 ex. A, B, C, & study spelling/vocab, ‘Thirteen Ways’ & ‘Concrete’ Poem due Friday
• Wednesday/Thursday– review lesson 13 work; Read odes and sonnets; Curiosity Poem; POETRY BOOK; time to work
  • HW: study lesson 13, Poetry Book due Tuesday, May 19th
• Friday– Lesson 13 test; SSR time; check concrete and 13 ways poems 
  • HW: Lesson 14 flashcards, Poetry Book due Tuesday, May 19th, Read

week 32–HAIKU May 4, 2009

Five petals tremble.

Wind breaking the bond between

the stem and the branch.

Post your original haikus below

This week:

• Monday–check Lesson 12 flashcards; new Reading Logs, Bathroom Tickets; Word of the Week; complete Bio Poem & Form Poems
  • HW: Lesson 12 ex. A & B, Spelling & Vocab test Friday, Poetry Terms test Thursday
• Tuesday– OMM to the library; review ex. A & B; new seats; compile Of Mice & Men writing; Simile/Metaphor poem
  • HW:Lesson 12 ex. C, study vocab, spelling, & Poetry Terms
• Wednesday– review ex. C; continue Simile/Metaphor Poem; Sea Sand & Sorrow Poem
  • HW: Study lesson 12 & Poetry terms
• Thursday– Narrative Poem–”Paul Revere’s Ride”; Ballad–”The Cremation of Sam McGee”; Continue writing
  • HW: Study Lesson 12, Bring SSR book
• Friday– Lesson 12 spelling & vocab test; SSR time; Finish writing drafts of poems
  • HW: Lesson 13 flashcards, poems due MONday (bio poem, haiku (3), lantern (3), clerihew (3), simile/metaphor poem, sea sand & sorrow poem)

week 31–CHORTLE April 27, 2009

“Jabberwocky” a poem by Lewis Carroll

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; 
All mimsy were the borogoves, 
And the mome raths outgrabe. 

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! 
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! 
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun 
The frumious Bandersnatch!” 

He took his vorpal sword in hand: 
Long time the manxome foe he sought – 
So rested he by the Tumtum tree. 
And stood awhile in thought. 

And as in uffish thought he stood, 
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, 
Came wiffling through the tulgey wood, 
And burbled as it came! 

One, two! One, two! And through and through 
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! 
He left it dead, and with its head 
He went galumphing back. 

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? 
Come to my arms, my beamish boy! 
frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” 
He chortled in his joy. 

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; 
All mimsy were the borogoves, 
And the mome raths outgrabe.

 

This week:

• Monday  – Thursday–TESTING in Language Arts classes.  Bring an SSR book every day.

  • HW:  Revisions due Friday; Reading Log due Friday

• Friday–collect Reading Logs & Bathroom Tickets; collect all revisions; Poetry reading & writing

  • HW:  Lesson 12 flashcards, Read.

week 30–GAMBOL April 20, 2009

Squishy, my pet frog, does not hop.  He gambols about his terrarium, dancing around the toadstools and the twigs without a care in the world.

This week:

• Monday–word of the week; check lesson 11 flashcards; papers back; discuss writing
  • HW: lesson 11 ex A&B, OMM ch. 5 due tomorrow
• Tuesday–review ex. A & B; collect ch. 5 work; continue movie
  • HW: lesson 11 ex C, OMM ch. 6 due block day, study lesson 11
• Wednesday–review ex. C; finish movie; writing/study time
  • HW: OMM ch. 6 due block day, study lesson 11 spelling & vocab., bring SSR book
• Thursday/Friday–collect ch. 6; test–lesson 11; SSR time; poetry terms
  • HW: OMM revisions must be in by May 1st., Reading Log due May 1st