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7th grade- finish filling in the information for your Memoir organizer- be sure to fill in plenty details to support your emotion.
8th grade- castle learning- listening selection
Reminder
All students should have already have their speeches. You must memorize your speech in preparation of delivery which will be the week of 3-15th.
7th grade - Write 5 details which pertain to your emotion word. Castle learning 204->religion - activity on page 286
8th grade- Essay questions- 4 paragraphs- Describe an advertising you have seen or heard. It can be a radio or television advertisement, or something you saw in a magazine, newspaper, or on a billboard. Explain whether the advertisement was trying to inform the public or to sell a dream, and how that purpose was accomplished.
In your essay be sure to include:
~ a description of the advertisement
~ an explanation of whether the purpose of the advertisement was to inform the public or to seel a dream
~ an explanation of how that purpose was accomplished
~ details from the passage to support your answer
7-203- 1. Did you enjoy the novel? Why/why not? If you could change one section, which would it be and why?
7-204-Castle learning
religion- activity on page 285
8th grade- Castle learning
Reminders
1. Pizza Day Friday 26, 2010
2. All students should already have their speech.
7-203- Choose a time period from the novel "The Bomb" and create a collage which depicts the atmosphere, environment, and people of that particular period. On a separate sheet of paper, in one paragraph, type the explanation of your collage. Ex. In the beginning, the people of Bikini Atoll lived peaceful lives. Therefore a collage which depicts their peace will be pictures of families at a beach, people helping one another, children playing etc. Be mindful, you can take pictures from a magazine.
7-204- Choose a character from the novel "Amos Fortune" and create a journal based on the character's life. Be sure to stay as close to the characters age and life style. Remember those who choose the character Cylindia will have to start their journal from the age of 4, Amos would be 15 years of age. You are to write 10-15 journal enteries, and try to stay as close to the novel as possible.
8th grade- Character sketch. Many students haven't handed in their sketch. Monday February 22, 2010 will be the last day to submit the sketch.
Reminder
Speech Time- ALL STUDENTS are to begin looking for their speeches. Please e-mail me your choice before printing them. I would like for you to take a look at other great speakers and not focus on the same ones each year. Take a look at the suggestions I have made: Constance Baker Motley, Dr. Charles Drew, Jackie Robinson, Marshall W. "Major" Taylor, Althea Gibson, Wilma Rudolph, Jackie joyner-Kersee, Cheryl Miller, Mary T. Meagher, Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Ida B. Wells, Amelia Earhart, Sandra Day O'Connor, Billy Jean King, Wilma Mankiller, Diana, Princess of Wales, Condoleeza Rice, Barack Obama, Micheal Phelps. etc. There are many more speakers to choose from. Google: famous speeches. If you have any problems, please e-mail me. On the choices I have given it's a first come first serve basis. All students MUST e-mail me with their choice.
Also, any missing work must be handed on on Monday February 22, 2010.
Reminders
1. No school tomorrow due to bad weather.
2. Speeches
3. Exam day Friday
7-203-1. How did both Lokileni and Yolo feel about leaving Bikini Atoll? 2. Why do you think Tara told Sorry not to tell the villagers about not return to Bikini? 3. Why was Sorry so concerned about the fish? 4. Will the villagers survive? Why or why not?
8th grade- Essay 4 paragraphs- Marsalis once explained his feelings about jazz in a Time magazine article. "To play it is to have the belief in quality," he said. "And the belief in practice, the belief in study, belief in your history, belief in the people that you came out of".
Write an essay in which you explain how Wynton Marsalis has supported his beliefs about jazz throughtout his musical career. Use details from the article to support your answer. In your essay, be sure to * explain how Wynton Marsalis supports his beliefs about quality, practice, study, history, and people throughout his musical career.
8th grade- using the notes taken in class, you are to answer questions 28 and 29 in your note book.
7-203- questions 1. How Tara react to the news teams and the way they film and photograph the islanders' last day on Bikini? 2. Does the news coverage have the effect Abram had hoped for? why or why not? 3. Why does Sorry think the dawn of March 7 is so beautiful?
7-204- Castle Learning- vocabulary
Reminders
7th grade exam Thursday- study all of your vocabulary words 203- The Bomb 204- Amos Fortune
8th grade exam Friday- study all of your vocabulary words. 8th grade- My Friend My Hero
7-203- castle learning
7-204- 1. If you could change one section of the novel, which would it be and why? 2. Did you enjoy the novel "Amos Fortune", Why or why not?
8-206- Castle learning Character Sketch- Due today...I have many students who did not hand in their sketch. Please make sure you complete the assignment.
REMINDERS
1. Buddy day- 7-204- white shirt, blue jeans
2. re-registration slip- due Friday February 12, 2010
3. raffle tickets- $2.00 for one ticket or $5.00 for 7 tickets
7th grade- use the plot diagram to place the seires of events which happened in the novels, "The Bomb" and "Amos Fortune".
8th grade- Castle Learning
7-203- 1.Do you think Sorry will be successful in stopping the bomb? why or why not? 2. Why did Abram choose to tell Sorry about his heart condition and not Tara?
7-204- Castle Learning
8th grade- your are to type your Character Sketch due Thursday 2-4-10