11/10/09--Students were handed Chapter 6: growing up in my neighborhood.
Students should outline thoughts in mead composition notebook and then
compose and write from the outline at the computer. Students should save
this work to their backpack--I will check their backpacks on Thursday to see
the rough draft. Students will print out final copy with photo, clip art on
Friday, November 13, 2009.
11/9/09--Students are to redo exc 4 pg 604 accoring to instructions including
identifying the suboerdinate clause as an adjective or adverbial clause. In
addition, students need to identify the word that indicates if it is an
adjective or adverb clause. Students will be checking Unit 10 vocabulary
tomorrow. Students will take a test on Units 9 & 10 vocabulary on Friday
11/12/09. In addition, students will need to revise and tyope Chapter 2
Before I was there was and save it into their backpacks. We will be in the
computer lab on Thursday--students will be printing out chapter 2 in class on
Thursday. Therefore, if students do not turn in Chapter 2--a test grade-
students will lose 10% of the grade.
11/2/09--Students are to complete Unit 9 vocab. Students are to complete exc
1 #11-25 pg 600, exc 2 #14-25 pg 602.--This is due tomorrow. In addition,
students were given a writer's workshop on Chapter 2--Before I was there
was. The rough draft will be due on Monday, November 9, 2009, with the final
copy with picture due on Thursday, November 12, 2009.
10/28/09--Vocabulary Unit 9 will be due on Tuesday, November 3, 2009
10/28/09--Students are to have Chapter 8 movies typed, double-spaced,
justified, titles of movies in Italics, with a picture due tomorrow. Chapter
7 The Crush should be typed, double spaced,with a picture saved in back pack
and ready to print on Friday. Students need to outline 20.3 and 20.3 for
class tomorrow
10/27/09--Students outlined and began writing Chapter 7 "My favorite crush"
in class; therefore, students are to have rough draft written for class
tomorrow. The final copy will be printed in the computer lab on Friday,
OCtober 30, 2009. Students should type final copy at home and save in back
pack so that it can be printed out on Friday. Vocab test over Units 7/8
tomorrow. The Movies is due--Chapter 8, title, movies in Italics, no
staples, no name, a picture, justified--due Thrusday 10/29/09..Save the
movies to the backpack so that it can be printed out at school
10/26/09--Students are to outline Chapter 20 table of contents pg 598, 20.1
pg 599 and 20.2 pg 601. Also, we will be checking unit 8 vocab tomorrow,.
The test for Unit 7/8 will be on Wednesday, 10/28/09. Vocabulary test will
be given in English class; however, if students miss the test, it will be
made up in their respective homerooms. We are limited on the full Friday
schedule; therefore, we will be working in this fashion to complete the
vocabulary lessons
10/22/09--All students will take a test on Chapter 19 capitalization on
Monday, October 26, 2009. In addition all students are to write 3 paragraphs
on the following topic from Father Greg's homily on Wednesday, October 21,
2009. "With great power comes greater responsibility, how does Father Greg
challenge you to greater responsibility with the Pro-life movement?" If
students were not here on Wednesday, then they will write 3 paragraphs on one-
two beatitudes--Matthew Chapter 5
10/20/09--Students are to complete exc 1#1-10 exc 2#1-10 pg 592, exc 3#1-10,
exc 4#1-10 pg 593 and exc 5#1-120, exc 6 #1-20 on pg 594 in English spiral.
We will check these on Thrusday 10/22/09. Students will have a test on Unit
19 Capitalization on Monday 10/26/09
10/19/09--VOCABULARY--students are to complete unit 7 and we will check on
October 21. Students are to complete unit 8 and we will check on Tuesday
October 28. Students will take Unit 7 & 8 Test on Wednesday October 28
10/19/09---All students are to outline pgs 587 and 589. Students are also to
complete exc 4 and 5 #1-20 both, pg 590 complete exc 6 & 7 #1-20 both.
10/14/09--All students are to complete exc 1 pg 584 #15-25, pg 586 exc 2 #11-
25, and exc3 all on pg 586. If students will not be here on Friday 10/1609,
it is imperative that persuasive essay is turned in tomorrow. Thank you.
finally vocab unit 6 will be checked tomorrow.
10/13/09--Students are to outline pg 582, 583, 585 in English spiral.
Students need to complete Unit 6 vocabulary---we will check it on Thursday
October 15, 2009. Students' final type-written, justified copy is due on
Friday, October 16, 2009.
10/9/09--Students researched in the computer lab today; research on 1 of 4
topics: 1)Uniform in public school is required/better performance. 2)
Students in Catholic school perform better in all areas. 3)Global warming
effects the economy, environment, and production of goods. 4)People should
practice living green. STudents need to complete 1-3-1 rough draft essay.
They will peer edit on Tuesday 10/13/09. the final copy, double-spaced
justified is due on Friday, 10/16/09. This essay will be a test grade for
first quarter an the quarter ends on Friday 10/16/09
10/7/09--Students are to play outside for 20 minutes and collect a minimum of
20 words reflecting the season fall or their favorite sport/activity outdoors
10/6/09--Students are to get test signed. In addition, students are write
the sentence that they had wrong and write the grammar rule for extra credit--
this ec is due tomorrow 10/7/09
10/5/09--Students are to outline pg 434 table of contents and pg 435 11.1 in
grammar book. Students are to complete Unit 5 vocabulary by Wednesday 10/7/09
10/2/090--Students will be tested on Unit 10 Monday 10/5/09. In addition
vocab unit 5 will be due on Wednesday 10/7/09
9/30/09--Students are to find an image on google.com that represents or
symbolizes the Pledge of Allegiance. Students should come prepared to type
the pledge as well as download image and place on paper tomorrow. We will be
checking Unit 4 vocab tomorrow. In addition, students will take a test on
Units 3 & 4 on Friday, 10/2/09. English test on Unit 10 Monday 10/5/09
9/28/09--All students are to complete page 422 and 429. In addition,
students must bring vocab book, English spiral and grammar book to class
tomorrow. Finally students were given an assignment on the Pledge of
Allegiance--the homework piece is due on Wednesday 9/30/09. The final copy
is due on Friday 10/2/09
9/25/09--All students are tom complete exc 19 #1-20 pg 418, exc 20 #6-20 pg
420 and exc 21 #1-20 pg 421--due Monday 9/28/09
9/24/09--All students are to complete pg 20 of vocab. All students are to
outline pg 419, Hour1&2 are to outline pgs 421 and 423. I will be checking
all sections 10.1 through 10.tomorrow--this is a quiz grade
9/22/09--Hour 1 * Hour 2 students are to complete pg 414 exc 13 #6-20, exc 14
#1-10, pg 416 exc 16 #1-10, exc 17 #1-10
Hour 4 is to complete exc 14 #1-10---All students need to complete Unit 3
vocab--we will check on Thursday.9/24/09
18/09--Students are to outline favorite movies in mead compostion
notebook. The sloppy copy or rough draft of this favorite movies is due on
Tuesday, 9/22/09. Students did receive a rubric on this.
9/16/09--All students are to bring jump drive tomorrow. We will be in the
computer lab working on favorite vacation. Students should have the final
copy typed and saved on jump drive. In addition, students should be
finalizing 1-3-1 essay on Family which is due on Friday, 9/18/09. Vocab test
over units 1 and 2 is on Friday 9/18/09
9/14/09--Students are to complete pg 406 #11-20 as we did in class today.
Students are to complete the remaining two paragraphs for the 1-3-1 essay.
We will be checking Unit 2 Vocab in class tomorrow--test will be Friday
September 18, 2009. We will be peer editing 1-3-1 essay in class tomorrow
9/10/09-All students are to complete pg 426 Exc 1#1-10 and exc 2#1-10 on
looseleaf. Students are to scan photograph of fav vacation at home or school-
If at school, then students need to make arrangements with Miss Jaksa--these
photographs are to be scanned by Thursday morning--September 17, 2009.
Finally, students were given a 1-3-1 essay today. Students are to write a
concept map, web or outline and then complete 3 paragraphs as a rough
draftthat will be due on Monday, 9/14/09. Total 1-3-1 essay rough draft is
due Tuesday 9/15/09. Final copy is due Friday 9/18/09. This is a test
grade. Studens are to write on "Family is the link to our past, the bridge
to our future." Using this as a topic, how are you an integral part of
family. How do you build fammily in home, at school, in your community?
Reflect on this. How does it apply to you. We brainstromed and discussed in
class various aspects of home, community, and school--this is a timely essay
in many aspects. Students need to use wash pg 2 for a variety of sentence
structure as they wrote in notebooks today.
9/3/09--Hour 1--Students are to complete exc 10 #1-20 pg 390, and exc 3&4 pg
395. Hour 2--students are to complete all of pg 390 exxc 9 and exc 10 and
all of pg 392 exc 11 and exc 12. Hour 4 students are to complete exc 10 #1-
20 pg 390 and exc 11 pg 392. Vocabulary is due tomorrow as well
--Students will have a test on Unit nouns on Tuesday September 8, 2009.
Therefore, I will be offereing a study review session after school tomorrow
Thursday September 3, 2009 from 3:15-4:00 P.M.--sign up after school today
Wednesday 9/2/09
9/2/09 Hour 1 & Hour 4 are to complet pg 388 exc 6 #1-20 and outline 9.5
9/2/09--Hour 2 students are to complete pg 388 exc 6 #1-20 pg 395 exc 3#1-10,
and exc 4 #1-5. Students are to outline 9.5/9.6 in spiral
9/1/09--Students are to outline 9.4 pg 387, to complete exc 2 pg 394 #1-10,
pg 386 exc 6 #1-20 on looseleaf. Students were given new vocabulary books
today. Students are to complete unit 1 vocabulary; we will check vocabulary
unit on Friday, September 4, 2009. Students are to get test signed.
8/31/09--Students are to complete exc 1 #11-20 pg 382, exc 2 #1-10 pg 382,
Exc 4 #1-20 pg 384. Students are to oultine 9.3 pg 385. Students are to
work on revising favorite vacation by using page 1 of the composition check
list--all due on Tuesday 9/1/09
8/27/09--Students are to create an outline or web on their favorite vacation
in Mead composition notebook. Students were given rubric. We will be
writing on favorite vacation in notebook tomorrow. Students must have rough
draft completed by Monday 8/31/09. Finally, students are to outline Unit 9
table of contents in notebook
8/26/09--Students are to outline Unit 9--table of contents pg 380, 9.1 Kinds
of nouns pg 381, and 9.2 Compound nouns pg 383. Students will also need
composition checklist and mead composition notebook tomorrow 8/27/09. I will
check this in class tomorrow. Remember to indent details and align main
ideas to the left.
8/24/09-0-Students will have a test on Unit 8 grammar on Wednesday, 8/26/09.
I will have a study review session over Unit 8 tomorrow from 3:15 to 4 P.M.
Students must sign up after school today
8/24/09--Hour 1 to complete exc 7 #8-20 pg 366 Write out sentence, identify
kind of sentence and write complete subject. Complete pg 368 Exc 9 #1-10 and
exc 10 #1-10
Hr 2 & 4 Complete exc 4 #1-5, pg 374 exc 5 #1-10, esc 6 #1-10, exc 7 #1-10
8/21/09--Students in 1st, 2nd and 4th hour are to compelte pg 372 Exc 1 1-10,
exc 2 1-10, pg 373 exc 3 !-10 on looseleaf. Students are to outline pg 366
section 8.4 of English book in English spiral. Students will have a test
over Unit 8-Kinds of sentences, subjects and predicates on Wednesday 8/26/09.
Please use citationmachine (landmark.com) to site source. First paragraph is
a synopsis of the article. The second paragraph is about your view point of
the Olympics. Did you watch any of the events? Did you watch opening or
closing ceremonies? Your article must be attached to the typed paragraphs.
Have a great weekend. Finally, you r English book must be covered.
--Students worked in computer lab finishing parts of research paper.
The research paper is due in its entirity on. The
paper needs to be in the following order top to bottom:
1)Cover Page
2)Title Page
3)Abstract
4)Outline
5)Research paper (Introduction, Body, conclusion)
6)Bibliography
7)Original rough draft with peer edited evaluation sheet
8)Rough draft bibliography
9)Disk or CD. Students must submit essay, bibliography and title page as
ONE document in WORD on a DISK or CD. Student must label DISK or CD with
student's name, school and teacher's name(Klein).
9)Eighth grade Research paper RUBRIC
Again this paper is a maximum of 1200 words and a minimum of 1175 wrods.
REMEMBER paper must be free of plaigirism and will be verified for original
wording through web-based educational services. Those with passages copied
directly from other sources, without proper citation, or containing vast
amounts of quoted or minimally paraphrased material are subject to a lower
grade.
Everything needs to be justified except for bibliography.
GOOD luck; I'll see you Monday!
Students must have at least six published sources
of information, and four of them must be different forms. The following are
deadlines for the research paper:
Topic due 1/22/0
Notecards due 1/31/
Typed outline due 1/31/
Typed Bibliography due 2/7/
Bibliography cards due 2/7/
Rough draft due 2/4/
Final Copy due 2/11/
Cover due 2/11/
Title page due 2/11/
Disk of research paper due 2/11/
Abstract due 2/11/
Welcome to 8th grade English. I am available for help at 7:00 A.M. Please
don't hesitate to ask. Have a superfantastic day.
Paragraph 3 is the RESEARCH
CREDIBLE? IS the Research Relevant to today? (7 sentences) Paragraph 4--
Analyze and evaluate --Apply the history of the past to current situations in
our world today. Paragraph 4 will be the longest paragraph (7-11 sentences)