Remember this class is English AND History. 1. What's one thing in your past you wish you could change, and why?
2. Are you using complete sentences for the bell? If you are not, start right now!
3. Why do you think early civilizations ALL started around rivers? Give a few good reasons.
4. Why do you think early people thought the world was flat?
5. A complete sentence needs what - to be complete?
Keep your paper out for ...
FYI - VISITOR IN BUILDING TODAY, WILL BE COMING BY!
DAILY QUIZ
1. Evaluate means what?
2. Analyze means what?
3. Infer means what?
4. Trace means what?
5. Formulate means what?
6. Describe means what?
7. Support means what?
1. Evaluate means what?
2. Analyze means what?
3. Infer means what?
4. Trace means what?
5. Formulate means what?
6. Describe means what?
7. Support means what?
Homework - read your novels through Chapter 1! 7th - back computers help spread out crowded room.
BUT - if you play and don't work, or a crowd forms, I'm tossing you off for someone else!
today we are studying ...
River Civilizations
New Week, New Points on Board
7 - 1
8 - 1
First,
Get out your notes - Put Social Studies and the date
To Do: Take Notes!
- This stuff will be on daily quizzes and tests!
next,
Constitutions help run the country.Let's watch this clip to learn more.
Constitutions are lists of laws and ideas we all agree on.
To Do After Video:
Write a Class Constituion
- 8 rights and rules to form a more perfect classroom. It's a Constitution - make it look classy!
next,
Ahhh the ways of the Ninja ...
What in the heezy do these words even mean?
Infer? Trace? Formulate?
Ninja Training just got serious.
Word #8
Explain
- Tell how
Example: Explain how Lake Erie affects weather in Cleveland
To Do: Write one sentence using Explain.
- add it to your flash cards - you should have 8!
next,
Dr. Dre Says ...
Hey! Review what we've done so far ...
Take notes on all of this please - it's all testable.
To Do:
Writing Assignment:
One half page about 1. New kid's first day at Broadway.
Or, 2. class field trip to the circus.
Use each one of these words in your paragraph - underline as you go!
1. its 2. it's 3. your 4. you're 5. their 6. there 7. there 8. a verb 9. a noun 10. a pronoun 11. an adjective 12. an interjection!
Dr. Dre Part II
Oh no! A vicious run on sentence! Quick - kill it! You have two weapons, remember?
One day there was a new kid at Broadway he was quiet and nice and I sat by him at lunch.
___________________________________________
7th - finish
8th - start and finish
The literary term for the week:
sarcasm
Let's review the definition, then watch a video explaining sarcasm.
Gridiron Gang Movie Questions
Writing Assignment:
One half page about 1. New kid's first day at Broadway.
Or, 2. class field trip to the circus.
Use each one of these words in your paragraph - underline as you go!
1. its 2. it's 3. your 4. you're 5. their 6. there 7. there 8. a verb 9. a noun 10. a pronoun 11. an adjective 12. an interjection!
Dr. Dre Part II
Oh no! A vicious run on sentence! Quick - kill it! You have two weapons, remember?
One day there was a new kid at Broadway he was quiet and nice and I sat by him at lunch.
___________________________________________
7th - finish
8th - start and finish
The literary term for the week: sarcasm
Let's review the definition, then watch a video explaining sarcasm.
Definition: to mock or make fun of - often using humor to make your point.
Example: Nice test score, genius!
Create your weekly piece of wall quality art explaining the term Sarcasm.
_____________
Here Chris Farley is making fun of coffee commercials from the 80s
They used to give people decaf coffee and ask if they could tell the difference
Example: Nice test score, genius!
Create your weekly piece of wall quality art explaining the term Sarcasm.
_____________
Here Chris Farley is making fun of coffee commercials from the 80s
They used to give people decaf coffee and ask if they could tell the difference
_________________________________
Gridiron Gang Movie Questions- Why are the kids at Kilpatrick center?
- How do they boys deal with their problems?
- Where does Roger, the boy in “the box”, say he will end up when he’s 21?
- Where does Sean Porter (the officer) say Roger will end up when he’s 21?
- Why does Sean Porter start a football team?
- What percentage of Kilpatrick kids end up back in prison?
- Why don’t Willie and Kelvin get along? Why do they hate each other?
- Why do the Mustangs lose their first game?
- When the administrators “pull the plug” what keeps them going?
- What turns around their losing streak?
- Why are they able to defeat Barrington in the end?
- How does playing football change these kids?
next,
Reading Smarter!
5 Things- Read the article, then write a paragraph with the 5 Ws: Who, What, When, Where and So What?
So what = what's the big deal - why is this news?
- again, you are turning in a quality paragraph.
next,
Prove it! 
Thesis mini writing workshop
Here is your thesis: I would be a great student at your school
Background: You are trying to get into high school. It's competitive - hundreds of kids want YOUR spot.
To Do: Write a paragraph proving your thesis. This is a practice mini letter - the kind you will all be writing as you apply to different area high schools!
It's a pass up now exercise
next,
Paired or quiet Reading!
Read up through page 15, do boxes on 15
- Reading to start appearing on daily quizzes and tests.
- Get it done in class - or homework. Up to you, I don't care
Next,
Storytime: Greece - the first democracy
- please take notes
- define democracy
- America is a democracy
- We got our ideas from somewhere else
- Greece led the way for all other democracies
- What's so special about democracy? People have power
- Rule of law - protects you
- Many countries have NO rule of law or power to people.
- homework - one page paper on How Greece was an early democracy
LAST
On the same paper as bellDemocracy is NOT automatically passed from generation to generation. It's an idea and a tradition that must be taught.
What will you do to teach your kids, friends and family about the importance of democracy?