Ms. Flood

Last week of school-May 18

ALL MEDIA CENTER BOOKS ARE PAST DUE.  YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE PART IN YEARBOOK SIGNING IF YOU OWE ANY MEDIA CENTER FINES. 

Please bring in $1.00 to off set the cost of mailing report cards.

Monday:

• Turn in all reading logs
• Play other groups' games and access on rubric
• Record all books for the 4th quarter in your planner for the "25 book list." (150 pages equals one book.)
• Study guide should be completed/grading in class Tuesday

Tuesday:

• Check study guide/make corrections in red
• Take 12 question post -test on technical writing
• Turn in both textbooks (you may keep them for the final exam if you wish)

Wednesday:

• Final exam-bring a number two pencil
• Prepare portfolio to take home
• Receipt must be brought back signed by parent
• All AR tests should be completed today
• Finish letter to your 8th grade teacher    Download Friendly Letter Format

Thursday:

• End of year honors in the theater
• Clean out lockers-take your LA workbook home DO NOT THROWAWAY
• Take home all binders; recycle papers at school
• Ice Cream social 1:30-2:30-bring beach towels, footballs, frisbees, sunglasses, hats, etc. 
• Do not bring book bags to school tomorrow/pens for signing yearbooks only

Friday:

• Review final exam
• Assemble writing packet with letter for 8th grade
• Hand back practice writing exam
• Sign yearbooks

HAVE A WONDERFUL AND SAFE SUMMER VACATION.  ENJOY YOUR SUMMER READING :)    REALLY!

Week of May 11

Notebooks were turned in last week--make sure I have yours. Please bring in $1 for mailing of report cards.  It is not too late to bring in $2 for the 7th grade end of year ice cream social--Thursday, May 21.

Monday:

• Take AR tests on Farewell to Manzanar.
• Turn in logs and journals 4-8
• Begin planning original games. 
• Bring in materials and items from home for your group's game.  Print graphics at home.  We will have laptops in class tomorrow.

Tuesday:

• Work on games-bring in materials.
• Your game needs to fit in a box or package of some type
• Hand out study guide for the final exam--due Tues. May 19  Download Language Arts Final Exam Study GuideREVISED

Wednesday: Olympics Day

Thursday:

• Work on games--type clear instructions
• Use laptops for graphics, instructions
• Review tips for writing clear instructions

Friday:

• Play games and judge them on clear and concise directions
• Last reading log due on Monday
• AR tests due by Wednesday, May 20
• 25 book goal due--add all new books that you read this last 9 weeks and total the pages
• Final exam for language arts--Wed. May 20
• Make sure you complete the study guide--we will check it in class on Tuesday-come in early if you need help with any sections.

Week of May 4

Book fair is open this week. We will go during class Thursday.  Summer reading books for 8th grade are The Wave plus one from the Challenge book list.  Students can pre-order copies of The Wave ($6.50), and they will be delivered to their homerooms.  Download Summer Reading Challenge Books 2009 

Monday: 

• D.G.P. #33
• Discuss rubric for practice writing test  Download Grade 8 Writing Assessmentrubric
• Media center, logs and journals checked. (four journals should be turned in next week)
• WAG book practice due on Thursday
• All Table of Contents 1-17 turned in Tuesday

Tuesday:

• Bring blue or black pen, pencil (optional), red pen for revising
• Part 1, 2, 3  of writing test  (Plan/prewrite, Draft, Edit/revise)

Wednesday:

• D.G.P. #33
• Finish the writing test Part 4, 5  Prepare final draft, proofreading
• Begin technical unit (pre-test)

Thursday: 

• Final discussions/activities for Farewell to Manzanar
• Book Fair
• Check WAG practice (T.O.C. #15)
• Turn in Table of Contents 1-17

Friday:

• D.G.P. #33
• Play and review board games

• Begin Name of the Game project-look around your house for some cardboard and items that can be used for your original game. Small pizza boxes and shoe boxes can hold the games.

• Logs and journals 5-8 due on Monday
• We will go to the media center to take Farewell to Manzanar AR test. Remember all media center books are due.  You may finish your current book, but no new books can be checked out. You may borrow books from me or go to the city libraries in order to complete your AR requirements and the 25 book goal (3,740 pages).

Wednesday, May 13 is your Olympics Day.               Final exam for language arts:  Wed. May 20.  I will hand out a study guide this Tuesday which should be completed by Monday, May 18. 

Week of April 27

Monday:  Last day of CRCT testing.

• Media center for AR testing and check out
• Turn in logs /you should have two journals #5, 6
• Review chaps  6-8   Keep a graphic organizer for each section of chapters Download Scan0001  
  
• You may need to reduce the document if you want to use it, otherwise just use notebook paper
• One side for Chapters 1-3, one for 4-8
• HW: Read chaps 9-11   New graphic organizer for Chaps 9-14

Tuesday:

• D.G.P. #32
• Group activity for character study
• HW:  Read Chaps 12-14
• Graphic organizer for Chaps 9-14 should be completed

Wednesday:

• D.G.P. #32
• Make sure organizers are complete (classtime to work on these today)
• Read Chaps 15-17   Complete an organizer for this group of chapters  Download Scan0001

Thursday:

• D.G.P.
• Book discussion - Chaps 9-14
• work in class on graphic organizers
• Read 18, 19 (include on organizer)
• Practice for phrases/clauses   Download Phrases and Clauses practice Table of Contents  15
• Read chaps. 18, 19

Friday:

• D.G.P.
• Book discussion/review questions, vocabulary
• Finish reading Farewell to Manzanar
• Logs and journal #6 due on Monday

Practice 8th grade writing test is Tuesday and part of Wednesday next week, May 5 and 6.  Make sure you bring blue or black pen and an editing pen (red or green) to class. 

Week of April 20--CRCT testing begins Tues.

Thank you to the students who offered to bring in drinks and snacks. Students are welcome to bring individual snacks, also. Please eat breakfast everyday. 

Monday: Finish and grade quiz from Friday.  Media center. Logs and journals #5 due.  (Journals 1-4 should be turned in.) 

Tuesday:  Daily Oral Language.  Business letter.

Wednesday:Begin Farewell to Manzanar. Read Foreword, Chronology, Chapters 1-2-3

Thursday: Read Chapters -4-5  Use graphic organizer for each group of chapters  Download Scan0001

Friday:  Read Chapters 6-8  Discuss book.  Logs and journals due Monday.

Week of April 13

Monday:

• D.G.P. #31
• Hand back, review, and reflect on research papers
• Go to the media center-AR tests, check out
• Workbook pages 137-144 due tomorrow 
• Some of you have not finished Skillstutor--you are late
• Find your OAS number (in your planner on your birthday). This is the same number you have used for Math benchmark tests. 

Tuesday:

• D.G.P. #31
• Check workbook pages
• Test Alert #5  Tone and Mood
• You should have a copy of Farewell to Manzanar.
• Workbook pp. 103-106  Misplaced modifiers--due Thursday

Wednesday:

• Computer lab--CRCT review
• Please review mistakes/other tests are available through this site--go to Language Arts and Reading (not teacher assigned) If your score was low--you need to practice. I am available for morning help.
• www.georgiaoas.org   the number should be in your planner   password: education
• Skillstutor assignment:  Writing clear paragraphs-due Monday Do not take the pre-test.

Thursday:

• D.G.P.#31
• Turn in Journals for 4th quarter    #1-4--March 16-April 13 --staple together 
• Turn in workbooks
• Poetry review -Bring your literature book
• "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes and "The Courage that My Mother Had" by Edna St. Vincent Millay --page 144 and 145 ---SOAPSTone strategy
• Answer literary analysis pp.149--skip question #3
• HW: Work on Skillstutor (due Monday) --Phrases and clauses quiz tomorrow

Friday:

• D.G.P.
• Phrases and Clauses Quiz
• Check workbook pages
• Test Alert
• Logs and journals due Monday
• Make sure you have a copy of "Farewell to Manzanar"

Week of March 30

Monday:

• D.G.P. #30
• Test Alert #2
• One sentence summaries (T.O.C. #6)  Write a one sentence summary of each lesson in Test Alert
• Media center/logs and journals (should have three today)
• Skillstutor due today
• Bring literature book to class

Tuesday:

• D.G.P.
• Projects due-turn in written copies
• Test Alert #3
• Read short story "Ribbons" p 466 literature book
• Reading skill: Asking questions as you read

Wednesday:

• D.G.P.
• Test Alert #4
• Answer questions 1-5 p. 474 (T.O.C. #7)

Thursday:

• D.G.P.
• Theme:  Complete pre-writing page 487 Complete an organizer and write one sentence that expresses the message of the short story "Ribbons." (T.O.C. #8)
• Present protest art
• Workbook pages due  April 14

Friday:

• D.G.P.
• Present protest art
• Make sure T.O.C. #7 and #8 complete on "Ribbons"
• Log with 150 minutes and one two-page journal due April 13
• Work book pages due April 14

PLEASE HAVE A COPY OF FAREWELL TO MANZANAR BY APRIL 14.

4th quarter AR requirements

To receive a 100% in AR, students must read one biography or autobiography*, one nonfiction (informational), one fiction novel, and one book of choice. Students need to read within his or her lexile level-usually around 1,000.  Most AR books above the 6 level are also acceptable. (There can be exceptions, of course.)

*The class will read/study Farewell to Manzanar which can count as the biography/autobiography.  Please try and buy a copy of this book since we do not have enough copies for each student to take one home.

Reading journals:  two pages per week Download Reading Journal Choices2008

Week of March 23

Monday:

• D.G.P. Sentence #29
• Spelling Unit 11- answer sheet is T.O.C. #3
• Write sentences and memo on separate piece of ntoebook paper
• Media center for AR testing and check out
• Logs and journal taken up

Tuesday:

• D.G.P.
• Check workbook pages
• Finish spelling
• Discuss projects

Wednesday:

• D.G.P.
• Reading pre-test /Skillstutor in media center
• Skillstutor assignments: complete assignments --must attain 90% Lessons 1, 2, 3 only and Posstest--due on Monday March 30 (If you made a 100% on the pre-test, you only need to take the posttest
• Work on protest art project
• HW: finish spelling
• Bring your literature book to class Thursday

Projects due on Tuesday---presentations Thursday and Friday.

Thursday:

• D.G.P.
• Literature book "Stolen Day"  page 494
• Freewrite  T.O.C. #4
• Lesson: author's purpose
• Make sure you finish spelling--we will check Friday

Friday:

• D.G.P.
• Check spelling and turn in
• Test Alert #1  (answer sheet T.O.C. #5)
• Logs and journals due Monday
• Don't forget to complete Skillstutor assignment
• BRING YOUR LITERATURE BOOK TO CLASS ALL NEXT WEEK

Week of March 16

Monday:

• D.G.P
• Media Center
• Logs and journals checked
• Persuasive letter must be in your journal
• Check Vocab and discuss conflicts
• HW:  Due Friday  Grammar workbook pp 127-134  Agreement

Tuesday:

• D.G.P.
• Laptops in class
• Activity:  Art in Persuasion
• Find examples of protest art and take notes on images and messages

Wednesday:

• D.G.P.
• Use computers in media center for protest art research
• Create poster to display information

Thursday:

• D.G.P.
• Finish posters
• Assignment: Create your own protest art

Friday:

• D.G.P.
• Check workbook pages
• Work on protest art project
• Logs and journals due on Monday