BOOK SWAP TOMORROW - please come prepared. Gift Wrap is highly encouraged!
Outsiders Theme Movie Trailer
At this point, you should be at steps 4-6 in the process.
Project presentations January 3, 2013
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Monday, December 17, 2012
Week of December 17th
1.) Outsiders Video Project
Pick your project partner and select three "topics" from the list of theme words handed out in class today. You will be assigned one of your choices on Monday. Review the instructions (handed out today in class) for this project.
2.) Outsiders Test on Tuesday.
3.) Yankee Book Swap Thursday. Please come prepared!
4.) Outsiders film on Friday.
Please make sure you submitted your Readers Response Journal. They should be stapled and in the inbox.
Read, Read & Read some more.
Pick your project partner and select three "topics" from the list of theme words handed out in class today. You will be assigned one of your choices on Monday. Review the instructions (handed out today in class) for this project.
2.) Outsiders Test on Tuesday.
3.) Yankee Book Swap Thursday. Please come prepared!
4.) Outsiders film on Friday.
Please make sure you submitted your Readers Response Journal. They should be stapled and in the inbox.
Read, Read & Read some more.
Monday, December 10, 2012
Monday Night Homeplay
Tonight's Homework ...
1.) Essay #6: "Hero"
Heroes have special qualities that people admire. Heroes give us examples of the courage and strength it takes to face difficult situations and challenges in life.
Think of someone who is your personal hero. In a well-developed long composition, describe this person and explain three qualities you most admire about him or her.
Due Friday, December 14, 2012
3.) Grade Seven ELA Yankee Swap, Thursday, December 20, 2012
An interesting spin on Mr. Hurley's conversation about movies worth seeing...
Films kids must see before age ten, according to child psychologist Kairen Cullen
1.) Essay #6: "Hero"
Heroes have special qualities that people admire. Heroes give us examples of the courage and strength it takes to face difficult situations and challenges in life.
Think of someone who is your personal hero. In a well-developed long composition, describe this person and explain three qualities you most admire about him or her.
Due Friday, December 14, 2012
- Topic: My hero
- Thesis: (Identify your hero and include the THREE qualities you most admire about him or her.)
- Evidence of brainstorm
- Evidence of outline (remember to label TOPIC and THESIS up top)
- Evidence of drafts (at least two)
- Introduction technique
- Properly placed thesis statement (the roof!)
- Topic sentences (load-bearing walls!)
- Supporting Details (support studs!)
- Specific Examples (nails, screws, bolts!)
- Transitions (carpenter glue!)
- Conclusion technique
- All-star title (use strategies we've practiced)
- Flawless MUGS
3.) Grade Seven ELA Yankee Swap, Thursday, December 20, 2012
An interesting spin on Mr. Hurley's conversation about movies worth seeing...
Films kids must see before age ten, according to child psychologist Kairen Cullen
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Due Friday, December 7th
Tonight's Homework...
1.) Golden Passage: The Outsiders Chapters 1-6
Follow instructions issued in class on Tuesday to prepare your "Golden Passage" poster due tomorrow.
2.) The Outsiders Reader Response Journal
Be sure you have SIX entries in your Reader Response Journal for The Outsiders. You will print all of your entries and submit them when we finish the novel.
3.) Twenty-Minute Habit
Remember the chart we gave you proving what's possible when kids increase their daily reading habit to 60 minutes? Why not be THAT KID?!?!
4.) Grade Seven ELA Yankee Book Swap, December 20.
1.) Golden Passage: The Outsiders Chapters 1-6
Follow instructions issued in class on Tuesday to prepare your "Golden Passage" poster due tomorrow.
2.) The Outsiders Reader Response Journal
Be sure you have SIX entries in your Reader Response Journal for The Outsiders. You will print all of your entries and submit them when we finish the novel.
3.) Twenty-Minute Habit
Remember the chart we gave you proving what's possible when kids increase their daily reading habit to 60 minutes? Why not be THAT KID?!?!
4.) Grade Seven ELA Yankee Book Swap, December 20.
Monday, December 3, 2012
Monday, December 3, 2012
The Outsiders Reader Response Journal (Entry #5):
Review the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" presented in Chapter Five. This poem was written by American author Robert Frost, who grew up in nearby Lawrence, Massachusetts. Grab your copy of The Outsiders! Spend time tonight examining this poem and decoding its meaning.
You'll find this task easier if you...
- Use a dictionary to define words in the poem that are unfamiliar to you.
- Draw a line at each "stop sign" and decode the message in each sentence.
Once you are confident you understand the poem, prepare a typed journal entry that answers with supporting detail and specific examples BOTH questions below:
- What seems to be Robert Frost's message in this poem?
- How does Frost's poem relate to the characters and ideas of The Outsiders?
Grade Seven ELA Holiday Book SwapThursday, December 20, 2012
Which book will you bring to swap at our class celebration? Those who bring a book, win a book! Remember: no one is expecting you to buy a book; feel free to bring a used book you have on your personal shelf (not your sibling's or parent's!) that you think a peer would enjoy.
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