8th Grade--12/19

Today the students turned in their persuasive essays and began sharing persuasive speeches.

Homework...

-Persuasive speeches continue tomorrow 

Long term due dates...

-Gender mentor text and questions due Monday, January 7th

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7th Grade--12/19

Today the students took poetry pre assessments and conferenced about grammar with Mrs. Malmed. 

Homework...

-Grammar Quiz #2 Corrections

Long term due dates...

-Grammar Test on Friday, December 21st

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8th Grade--12/18

Today the students gave book talks in the Resource Center.

Homework...

- Final draft of persuasive essay
- Persuasive speeches tomorrow and Thursday, December 20th

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7th Grade--12/18

Today the students gave book talks in the Resource Center.

Homework...

-None

Long term due dates...

-Grammar quiz #2 corrections on Thursday, December 20th
-Grammar Test on Friday, December 21st

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8th Grade--12/17

Today Mrs. Malmed demonstrated a persuasive speech. Then the students received teacher feedback on their persuasive essays, and then they used the rest of the period to edit their essays.

Homework...

-Book talk tomorrow

Long term due dates...

-Final Draft of persuasive essay due on Wednesday, December 19th 

-Persuasive speeches on Wednesday, December 19th and Thursday, December 20th 

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7th Grade--12/17

Today the students reviewed commas, took the second grammar quiz of the trimester, and then completed a pre-assessment for the next book groups.
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Homework...

-Grammar quiz #1 corrections due tomorrow
-Book talk tomorrow

Long term due dates...

-Grammar Test on Friday, December 21st

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8th Grade--12/12

Today the students learned about introductions and conclusions for their persuasive essays. They used the rest of the period to finish drafting their persuasive essays. Tomorrow, they will self/peer edit on and then revise their essays in class on Friday.

Homework...

-Draft of persuasive essay 

Long term due dates...

-Second Draft of persuasive essay due at end of period on Friday, December 14th 

-Book Talk on Tuesday, December 18th

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7th Grade--12/12

Today the students used the period to make edit their hero's journey essays based on feedback from Mrs. Malmed.

Homework...

-Grammar quiz tomorrow (independent clauses, dependent clauses, and coordinating conjunctions, plus the four sentence types: simple, complex, compound, and complex-compound.)

Long term due dates...

-Final draft of Hero's Journey essay on Friday, December 14th

-Book Talk on Tuesday, December 18th

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8th Grade--12/11

Today the students learned about counter arguments and used the rest of the period to create and refute counter arguments for their persuasive essays. They will continue drafting their persuasive essays in tomorrow, so that they can self/peer edit on Thursday and then revise their essays in class on Friday.

Homework...

-Draft of persuasive essay on Thursday, December 13th

Long term due dates...

-Second Draft of persuasive essay due at end of period on Friday, December 14th 

-Book Talk on Tuesday, December 18th

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7th Grade--12/11

Today the students took notes on a presentation about the four sentence types: simple, complex, compound, and complex-compound. Then they worked in groups to see how many different kinds of sentences they could make with independent clauses, dependent clauses, and coordinating conjunctions. 

Homework...

-Grammar homework 

Long term due dates...

-Final draft of Hero's Journey essay on Friday, December 14th

-Book Talk on Tuesday, December 18th

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8th Grade--12/10

Today the students learned about ways to search for information to support their persuasive arguments, learned how to incorporate their research into their papers, and used the rest of the period to find supporting information. They will continue drafting their persuasive essays in class on Tuesday and Wednesday, so that they can self/peer edit on Thursday.

Homework...

-Draft of persuasive essay on Thursday, December 13th

Long term due dates...

Book Talk on Tuesday, December 18th

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7th Grade--12/10

Today the students turned in their second drafts of their Hero's Journey expository essays for ungraded teacher feedback. Mrs. Malmed will return them on Wednesday, and they will have class time then to make revisions.

Then, the students took notes on a presentation about independent and dependent clauses. There are a few major points students should remember:

• A dependent clause is a group of words that contains a subject and predicate and expresses a complete thought.
• A dependent clause is virtually the same thing as an independent clause except that a dependent clause does not express a full thought.
• Dependent clauses often begin with dependent marker words, such as after, although, as, as if, because, before, even if, even though, if, in order to, since, though, unless, until, whatever, when, whenever, whether, and while.

Students learned how to identify and combine dependent and independent clauses.

Homework...

-Grammar homework 

Long term due dates...

Final draft of Hero's Journey essay on Friday, December 14th

Book Talk on Tuesday, December 18th

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7th Grade--12/7

Today the students did self and peer editing on their Hero's Journey expository essays. They are to revise the essays over the weekend and submit them to Mrs. Malmed for a second edit on Monday.

Homework...
-Revise Hero's Journey essays for Monday

Long term due dates...
Book Talk on Tuesday, December 18th

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8th Grade--12/7

Today the students investigated a "murder" to reinforce their ability to draw conclusions from "evidence." They practiced drawing conclusions from details and using those details to support their positions. 

On Monday, the students will begin researching for evidence to support their positions on their persuasive topics, and they will have class time on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to draft their essays.

Homework...

None

Long term due dates...

First draft of Persuasive Essay on Tuesday

Book Talk on Tuesday, December 18th 

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8th Grade--12/6

Today students took their Word Master tests.

Homework ...

- None!

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7th Grade--12/6

Today students took their Word Master tests.

Homework ...

- Typed Hero's Journey essay first draft for tomorrow.

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8th Grade--12/5

Today we went over the WM study packet and played jeopardy to review for the WM test tomorrow. 

Homework...

Study for WM test tomorrow.

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7th Grade--12/5

Today we went over the WM study packet and played jeopardy to review for the WM test tomorrow. 

Homework...

Study for WM test tomorrow.

Long term due dates...

- Hero's Journey essay draft on Friday, December 7th

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8th Grade--12/4

Today students learned about persuasive appeals: 

Ethos - from the Greek meaning “moral” or “showing moral character” - an appeal that relates to the character and credibility of the writer

Pathos - from the Greek meaning “suffering” - an appeal that evokes an emotional response from the reader.

Logos - from the Greek meaning “word” or “reason” - an appeal that addresses basic knowledge and needs that the listener might have and appeals to them in a common sense manner.

Students discussed ways to use ethos, pathos, and logos to get the reader's attention at the start of their essays, and they used these techniques to develop slogans to sell pain medications.

Homework

- WM study packet is due tomorrow.

Long term due dates...

-WM test on Thursday, December 6th

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7th Grade--12/4

Today students worked on their Hero's Journey expository essays. This is the prompt they are writing about:

Does the novel you read demonstrate a hero's journey? How so? 

Students used the period to work on drafting their essays . 

A typed draft of the essay is due on Friday.

Homework

- WM study packet is due tomorrow.

Long term due dates...

-WM test on Thursday, December 6th

- Hero's Journey essay draft on Friday, December 7th

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8th Grade--12/3

Today students turned in their WM packets, note cards, and projects. They spent the period reviewing Word Master words and working on study guides, which are due on Wednesday.

Homework ...

- WM study guide due on Wednesday, December 5th 

Long term due dates...

-WM test on Thursday, December 6th

Submitted by Mrs. Malmed

7th Grade--12/3

Today students turned in their WM packets, note cards, and projects. They spent the period reviewing Word Master words and working on study guides, which are due on Wednesday.

Homework ...

- WM study guide due on Wednesday, December 5th 

Long term due dates...

-WM test on Thursday, December 6th

Submitted by Mrs. Malmed