No lunch order; agenda checks; chairs up p9

Reminder: NitroType WPM/accuracy % will be recorded soon. 

Goal: I'll conclude my I LOVE essay...

Why:...to finish strong and leave my reader amazed.

WWTW 4.5 game code _________; modified game code _________

Quotations quiz game code _________; modified game code ________

I Love Teaching DRAFT

Quick & easy way to write a killer conclusion. 1. Copy/paste your intro to the conclusion space. 2. Highlight it or change to font color to signal the words that are copied. 3. Change up the words, but keep the general meaning. 4. Try for a clever, memorable last line. AVOID quotations, paraphrases, or questions in conclusions.

How to do hanging indents to format citations in Works Cited list.

Read your draft aloud to your writing partner and group.

On Track: Header, Heading, Title, Intro (with NO quotations), and BODY (with 3 IQCE'd quotations/paraphrases), and conclusion (with NO quotations/paraphrase) finished today.

Advanced: work on BALANCING the paragraphs. This means each paragraph should be about the same length (number of words/lines).

BEHIND: Read & study all the links and examples. Write/voice-text a doc with your best efforts. Send your questions. This is *not* the time for getting distracted or being a distraction. See me.

HW finish I LOVE essay due Monday; Blackout poetry extra credit is due Tuesday

 

Lunch order M 2, K 3, SS 4, B 1; agenda checks; chairs up p9

Reminder: NitroType WPM/accuracy % will be recorded soon. 

Goal: I'll put a paraphrased source in the BODY paragraph of my I LOVE essay...

Why:...to show I can summarize and re-word support for my ideas.

I Love Teaching DRAFT

Good news for those of you who don't like using quotation marks. You can PARAPHRASE!

Time to write. You will read your draft to your writing partner and group tomorrow.

On Track: Header, Heading, Title, Intro (with NO quotations), and BODY (with 3 IQCE'd quotations/paraphrases) finished today.

Advanced: All ON TRACK + write a conclusion: restate thesis and intro. DO NOT use quotations/paraphrase. DO NOT ask questions.

SUPER ADVANCED: ALL ON TRACK + ADVANCED + work on BALANCING the paragraphs. This means each paragraph should be about the same length (number of words/lines).

BEHIND: Read & study all the links and examples. Write/voice-text a doc with your best efforts. Send your questions. This is *not* the time for getting distracted or being a distraction. See me.

HW practice TWO quizzes and work on the I LOVE essay 

WWTW 4.5 game code 114690; modified WWTW 4.5 game code 275845

Quotations quiz game code 018195; modified quotations quiz game code 846083

Lunch order M 3, K 4, SS 1, B 2; agenda checks; thanks again for putting chairs up at the end of P9!

Reminder: NitroType WPM/accuracy % will be recorded soon. 

Goal: I'll put quotation sandwiches in my I LOVE essay...

Why:...to show I can use evidence from websites to support my writing.

ItsLearning: new links for you!

Practice quotation quiz with a partner or individually. Log in with both names if there are two of you. Game code 602906

Finished? Go to this Padlet and write any and all questions/comments about using quotations. *Read and star the thoughts you like.*

Demo how to use the quotation sandwich in your I LOVE essay.

You can use the sandwich for your friend's words or even their text message! Example: I Love Teaching DRAFT

Time to write and finish/print quotation sandwich from yesterday

HW practice TWO quizzes

WWTW 4.5 game code 114690; modified WWTW 4.5 game code 275845

Quotations quiz game code 018195; modified quotations quiz game code 846083

Lunch M 4, K 1, SS 2, B 3; agenda checks; thank you for putting chairs up P9 :)

NOTICE: Get your typing speed up! I'll record NitroType results end of this week.

Goal: I'll make a quotation sandwich... 

Why:...so I can practice this skill and digest it.

Composition book/notes: Here's how square brackets are used in quotations. Copy this original quotation precisely: "Reading is a process and it changes you" (1).

1) Margaret Atwood wants readers to realize that "[r]eading is a process and it changes [them]" (1).

2) According to Atwood, reading can "change[] you" (1).

Finished? Do this: Quotations sandwich; print in the library.

Plan to take you to the Commons to check out the 3-D cities. Remember the number of the one you like best. Vote on ItsLearning>click Groups>Northside Middle School>password is mathrocks

HW: WWTW 4.5 game code 114690; modified game code 275845  (Thank you, KT!)

Next task: Balance paragraphs - each paragraph should be roughly the same length; on GL

Lunch order M1, K 2, SS 3, B 4; agenda checks, chairs up P9

WARNING NOTICE: DO NOT WALK THROUGH THE NAVIGATOR HALLWAY.

Goal: I will copy quotations on the white board...

Why:...to practice all the details and the format. 

READ/AR Quiz

Take Friday's quiz: Olivia Calhoun 
Gabriel Fernandez Mendoza
Paige McCleery
Clara Osborne
Jace Whitis

Composition books: WWTW 4.5: Eu = good. Endo = within. Mega = large. Ortho = straight. Ver = true. Matri = mother.

Any topic - 8 minutes. 

I LOVE essay: using quotations! Practice with white boards.

 

HW: None

 

 

Lunch: walk quietly on the right; agenda checks; chairs up P9

Goal: I will integrate quotations into my writing...

Why:...to support my grade-level writing.

 

WWTW 4.4 quiz___________game code;      Modified game code________

Finished? I LOVE essay time! 

Task: Intro, Body, Conclusion = 3+ paragraphs

Audience: student's choice 

Purpose: Describe something you love

Demo: Using quotations in the BODY (2nd paragraph)

Time to write.

HW: GL 7; Modification GL 5+ for I LOVE intro paragraph (5+ sentences).

Links for grade level tests are on ItsLearning.

P3 DRAFT

P4 DRAFT

P5 DRAFT

Lunch order M 2 K 3, SS 4, B 1; agenda checks; chairs up P9

CORRECTION: Josh Speidel's senior night is Tuesday (not last night as stated yesterday).

I regret the error. 

Goal: I will embed spoken and written quotations into my writing...

Why:...to support my analysis and reflection at a seventh-grade level.

 

We're starting the I LOVE essay.

Select and write an informative essay about something you love

(the way I love Blackwings)

Task: Intro, Body, Conclusion 

Audience: student's choice 

Purpose: Describe something you love

Demo: COPY THREE QUOTATIONS THAT YOU LIKE onto a

Google Doc titled "I LOVE".

Examplar: I LOVE intro paragraph

Readability Level tests on It's Learning.

HW: I LOVE intro paragraph on GL7 (Modification GL5+); 

Practice for Friday's 4.4 quiz: game code 679366; Modified game code 721777

 

 

Lunch order M 3, K 4, SS 1, B 2; agenda checks; chairs up P9

Goal: I will embed spoken and written quotations into my writing...

Why:...to support my analysis and reflection at a seventh-grade level.

Welsh place name   The Welsh Alphabet

Collective nouns review: Murmuration of starlings

 

G-DOC. COPY THREE QUOTATIONS THAT YOU LIKE onto a Google Doc. Title it "I LOVE".

We're starting the LOVE essay. Task: Intro, Body, Conclusion; Audience: student's choice; Purpose: Describe something you love

HW: finish intro paragraph of I LOVE writing

Practice for Friday's 4.4 quiz: game code 679366         modified game code 721777

Lunch order M 4, K 1, SS 2, B 3; agenda checks; chairs up P9

Goal: I will incorporate a quotation into my writing...

Why:...to support my analysis and reflection at a seventh-grade level.

Practice WWTW 4.3 quiz/Make up Friday's quiz: P3 Kaleb S;

P9 Sidnie R, Shaylee R

Composition books:  Review WWTW 4.4 Use the words in sentences.  

Any topic. 8 minutes. Idea bank paper copy.

Intro: Palomino Blackwing 602s. 

HW:  Practice for Friday's 4.4 quiz: game code 679366    modified game code 721777

Lunch order M 1, K 2 SS 3, B 4; agenda checks; chairs up P9

Goal: I will incorporate a quotation into my writing...

Why:...to support my analysis and reflection at a seventh-grade level.

If you want to re-take the quiz from Friday, see me for a pass to retake it 

during resource.

Make up Friday's quiz: P3 Abigail B, Tommy E, Kaleb S; P4 Grace C, Morgan J;

P5 Kierra G,  P8 Meadow G; P9 Sidnie R, Shaylee R

READ/We will not be finishing AIRWays info B because all auto-submitted.

Composition books: WWTW 4.3  Write wwtw, meanings, and a meaningful image.

tion = the act or state of something. Phobia = fear. Loco = location/place.

Dox = opinion. Amphi = both. Put = think. Pop = people. 

Any topic. 8 minutes.

Lesson: Incorporating quotations

HW:  Practice for Friday's 4.3 quiz: game code 204895    modified game code 488414