Thursday, March 10

Good morning! As you come in, here are your assignments:

But first, a few reminders:

• We are in WEEK 8! This means that you need to start turning in any redo/missing assignments that you have. Check your Edmodo for your current grades. I will only accept late work until next TUESDAY, MARCH 15.
• San Diego Zoo field trip is scheduled for Tuesday, March 15. If you haven't signed up yet, talk to Ms. S.
  
• Running Club starts Friday! Remind Ms. S to start sending home permission slips!

1) Vocabulary

This week's vocabulary words are:

• Administer (verb)
• Conduct (noun, verb)
• Element (noun)

In your blogs, complete the following assignment:
Blog Title- Week 8 Vocabulary Paragraph
Assignment - Using ALL THREE of your vocabulary words in paragraph format, respond to the following quote from Martin Luther King, Jr. -

"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

In your response, consider -
- What is MLK saying?
- How does it connect to what we are learning about the Civil Rights Movement?
- How do you respond to this quote?

2) PLATO - English/Language Arts
Go to - Writing Strategies
Assignment - What's in a Business Letter?

3) Biome Lunch Bags
If you aren't done, finish! You will present today.

4) Redo/Make-up Work
EVERYONE NEEDS TO FINISH A REDO OR MISSING WORK ASSIGNMENT TODAY!

Wednesday, March 9

Happy Wednesday!

Once again, here are a few reminders for you...

• We are in WEEK 8! This means that you need to start turning in any redo/missing assignments that you have. Check your Edmodo for your current grades. I will only accept late work until next TUESDAY, MARCH 15.
• San Diego Zoo field trip is scheduled for Tuesday, March 15. If you haven't signed up yet, talk to Ms. S.
  
• Running Club starts Friday! Remind Ms. S to start sending home permission slips!

1) Vocabulary
This week's vocabulary words are:

• Administer (verb)
• Conduct (noun, verb)
• Element (noun)

In your blogs, complete the following assignment -
Blog Title - Week 8 Vocabulary Sentences
Assignment - Write TWO (2) SENTENCES for each of your vocabulary words. For the word conduct, you need to write one sentence as a noun and one sentence using it as a verb.

2) PLATO - English/Language Arts
Go to - Writing Strategies
Assignment - Capitalizing Scientific and Computer Terms

3) Biome Lunch Bags
You will not be given more class time today. If you are not done yet, you need to finish it today before break at 9:30.

4) Redo/Make-up Work
Before break, everyone is required to show Ms. S a missing assignment from your Edmodo that you have completed or turn in a redo assignment from the redo folders. You have only until next Tuesday to turn in missing/redo work!!!

Tuesday, March 8

Happy Tuesday students!

Just in case you've forgotten, here are a few reminders -

• We are in WEEK 8! This means that you need to start turning in any redo/missing assignments that you have. Check your Edmodo for your current grades. I will only accept late work until next TUESDAY, MARCH 15.
  
• San Diego Zoo field trip is scheduled for Tuesday, March 15. If you haven't signed up yet, talk to Ms. S.
  
• Running Club starts Friday! Remind Ms. S to start sending home permission slips!

1) Vocabulary
This week's vocabulary words are:

• Administer (verb)
• Conduct (noun, verb)
• Element (noun)

In your blogs, complete the following assignment -
Blog Title - Week 8 Synonyms, Images, and Sentences
Assignment -

• Copy the synonyms for each of your vocab words -

* Administer (verb) - Manage, dispense, direct, govern, oversee
* Conduct (noun) - Behavior, demeanor, carry
* Conduct (verb) - Actions, deeds, manners
* Element (noun) - Part, component, building block

• Find an image that depicts EACH of your vocabulary words.
• Write a sentence that describes how your image represents your vocab word.

2) PLATO - English/Language Arts
Go to - Writing Strategies
Assignment - A Strategy for Reading History

3) Redo/Make-up Work
The last day to turn in any missing/redo work is TUESDAY, MARCH 15. That's only one week from today to turn your grades around.

4) Civil Rights Timeline

Civil Rights Movement – Timeline

In Microsoft Word, create a timeline of the following events. You will be adding more events as we continue to watch the PBS series, Eyes on the Prize.

For today, the events you need to include are (Episode 2):

· Brown v. Board of Education

· Central High School admits its first 9 black students

o Who are the 9? What are they referred to?

o How were they received?

· First black student graduates from Central High

o Who?

o How did people react?

· James Meredith registers at the University of Mississippi & riots enuse

o Why?

o What happened?

For each event, you need to include the following information:

· Date of event

· Two sentence description of event

· Image

Monday, March 7

Happy Monday! I hope that everyone enjoyed their weekends. Check out the Flickr photostream to see photos from the bridge building competition, Jonathan's graduation, and ice skating - I finally uploaded all of them!

A few important notes:

• We are now in WEEK 8 of the quarter. There are only 10 weeks in the quarter. If you are not pleased with your grades at this time (and most of you should probably take a peek - all your grades on Edmodo), it is time to start thinking about REDO/MAKE-UP WORK. I only accept late work until the end of week 9.
• RUNNING CLUB starts on Friday. Remind Ms. S to pass out permission slips because they need to be signed before you can start.
  

As you come in, here are your assignments:

1) Vocabulary
Your vocabulary words for week 8 are:

• Administer (verb)
• Conduct (noun, verb)
• Element (noun)

In your blogs, complete the following assignment -
Blog Title - Week 8 Vocabulary Definitions & Examples
Assignment -

• Find the definition for each word. For conduct, you need to find the definition as BOTH as noun and verb
• Copy the following example sentences:

1. Administer (verb) - Ricardo, in the National City office, will administer the CAHSEE test.
2. Conduct (noun) - He carried himself with professional conduct.
   
3. Conduct (verb) - I expect students to conduct themselves well with substitute teachers.
4. Element (noun) - The elements of success are determination and hard work.

2.) PLATO - English/Language Arts
Go to - Reading Comprehension
Assignment - Working with Order

3) Starting at roughly 8:45, I will explain the history assignment. Just in case you finish early, here it is -

Civil Rights Movement – Timeline

In Microsoft Word, create a timeline of the following events. You will be adding more events as we continue to watch the PBS series, Eyes on the Prize.

For today, the events you need to include are (Episode 1)

• Emmet Till is murdered
• Rosa Park refuses to give up her seat on the bus
• Montgomery bus boycott begins
• Montgomery bus boycott ends
  

For each event, you need to include the following information:

• Date of event
• Two sentence description of event
• Image
  

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Thursday, March 3

Good morning, my favorite students!

As you come in, here are your assignments -

1) Vocabulary
In your blogs, you need to complete the following assignment:
Blog Title - Week 7 Vocab Paragraph
Assignment - Vocab Paragraph
You need to use ALL FOUR of your vocabulary words (Occur, Assume, Respond, Process) to respond to the following quote:
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and
violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,
aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.-

Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 1964.

In your response, consider the following -
** What is MLK saying?
** Why is it important?
** How is it connected to our Vietnam War/Civil Rights Movement unit?

2) PLATO - English/Language Arts
Go to - Reading Comprehension
Assignment - Locating What's Important in Expository Text

3) Social Studies - Important Vocabulary
In your blogs, complete the vocabulary assignment:
Blog Title - Civil Rights Movement Vocabulary/People/Events.
Assignment - Look up the following terms/people/events. Write a one sentence description for each.

Democratic National Convention, 1964

Fourteenth Amendment

Freedom Riders/Riders

Freedom Schools (Mississippi), 1964

Freedom Summer (Mississippi), 1964

integration

Jim Crow

Ku Klux Klan

literacy tests

Little Rock Nine

lynchings

Wednesday, March 2

Good morning! I hope that everyone behaved themselves well. Remember that today is our BBQ so our schedule is going to be a bit different.

As you come in, here are your assignments -

1) Vocabulary -
Your vocabulary words for the week are: Occur, Assume, Process (verb & noun), and Respond.
Blog Title - Week 7 Vocab Sentences
Assignment -
For each vocabulary word, you need to write TWO (2) SENTENCES.

2) PLATO - English/Language Arts
Go to - Reading Comprehension
Assignment - Summarizing What's Important in Expository Text

3) PLATO - Mathematics
Go to - Number Sense
Assignment - Adding and Subtracting Fractions

Tuesday, March 1

Hi class. I apologize for not being there today, but your teacher is a bit under the weather. I will be back tomorrow for the BBQ so please don't forget what you are assigned to bring! Julianna will call your parents today to remind them. Be on your best behavior today - you know the general rule - behave better than you would if I was there. And whatever the sub says and Julianna say, goes, even if it is different from the response you think I might have given you.

Here is the lesson plan for today so that you know what you are required to complete. Have a good day and I will see you all tomorrow.

Sub Plans for Tuesday, March 01, 2011

8-9:30 Independent/Computer Work

Vocabulary

· In their blogs, students need to make the following post:

Blog Title – Week 7 Synonyms, Images, and Sentences

Assignment –

**Copy the following synonyms for each of your vocabulary words.

Occur – happen, take place, transpire, come to mind

Assume – presume, imagine, suppose

Process (noun) – course, procedure, development

Process (verb) – treat, handle

** Find an image that represents EACH of your vocabulary words.

** Write a sentence that describes how each image represents the vocabulary word.

PLATO – English Language Arts

Go to – Reading Comprehension

Assignment – Paraphrasing

Social Studies

Look up the definitions for the following important vocabulary/events/people/places. Write at least one complete sentence that describes its connection to the Civil Rights Movement.

Albany (Georgia) Movement, 1961

Birmingham, desegregation of, 1963

Black Power

Brown v Board of Education, 1954

bus boycotts

Central High School (Little Rock), 1957

Citizens Councils

civil rights

Civil Rights Act of 1957

Civil Rights Act of 1960

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)

9:30-9:45 BREAK

9:45 – 11:15 Math

Review on board.

Break students up into 3 groups. Students rotate groups every 20 minutes (until 11:15).

The three groups will work on –

Chapter 8-3 Practice C

Chapter 5-8 (both sides)

PLATO – Working with common denominators

Students must complete ALL three assignments before they are allowed to begin their lunch.

11:15-11:45 LUNCH

11:45 – 12:15 Biology

Please read with students and have them complete the Section Assessment questions #1-5 for Chapter 3, Section 1 in their biology books.

12:15-1:30 Bridge Building