Grade 7 & 8 Friday 9.5

    What are your favorite movies? 

Why?  Think about it. It's deeper than explosions, cool actors and good looking actresses

Think about what we learned with heroes, and the story they tell us. 

Write in sentences, think and be thoughtful.  





    Introduction to poetry and hero / elements of Epic Poetry; ancient civilizations - river civilizations



     1. Our room looks great again. We are going to have a good semester, yo. I can feel it. 

2. Dismissal is 3:00.  We teach until 2:45, then stay relaxed in here. 
   - 8th ... you can have last 15 minutes ... treat my classroom like a classroom - not recess - and we're good.  

FYI -  TODAY -

  Silent Work Time 

Next - Daily Quiz - first one

You can do this right under your bell.   

After you do the quiz, we'll pass it up with all of your weekly work.  

1. What's a noun?
2. What's a verb?
3. What's an adjective?
4. What's a pronoun?
5. What makes a hero? 
6. What are the classic parts in the story of a hero?  
7. Who said, "people steppin' over people just to rush to the set - just to get to see an MC who breathes so freely, ease over these beats and be so breezy?"  What does that mean?
8. Who said a sentence gets funky when you add a subject and a predicate? 








next, 

Let's get psyched for our Ninja Training.  

Remember, my students test GREAT because WE TRAIN.

Kobe in high school ...  






Ignorance is a choice.  So is success.   

And so is happiness. 

Get hungry for success, then go get it. 

To Do

•  Coyote Reading handout 

next up, 


Dr. Dre Says ... 

Today Dre wants you all to take the grammar Pre-Test - to see where you are at.

Try your best - this is a quiz grade.  

I need to see what you can do when you try your best. 

(handout)

TAKE A MINUTE NOW, AND PASS UP EVERYTHING WE DID THIS  WEEK

- HOLD ONTO YOUR NOTES

- MAKE A STACK OF YOUR WORK

- PASS YOUR STACK TO THE END OF YOUR ROW.    

- I COLLECT THE NEAT STACKS.    EASY, SEE?

next,


   Hero Posters

WALL QUALITY ALERT
1. Think of your all-time favorite hero. 
2. Create a piece of art showcasing his or her awesomeness. 

• could be a movie poster
• try and blend facts with art
• art that makes it on the wall can = extra credit

Go!  

Switching to Social Studies

Social Studies

Class Constitution ... 

  

To Do:  Make a Constitution for our class using the handout. 

• A set of rules, or laws, that you think we should all go by.   
•  Write out 4 to 8 laws.  

Closing time

  

   Tony writes:

"If you want to make a difference in the lives of the people you lead, you must be willing to walk alongside them, lift them up, understand them, and to spend time with them - not just shout down on them from high."

1. What do you think this quote means?