Lee's Summit R-7 School District

Lee's Summit R-7 School District

Join the Winter Reading-land Challenge!

Join the Winter Reading-land Challenge!

Read 250 pages between December 21 and January 3.

Track your reading on the chart in this card.

Have your parent or guardian sign below.

Give this card back to your FLIGHT teacher by January 6 to participate in the Reading-land Pizza Celebration on January 12.

Name:                         ______________________________

FLIGHT Teacher:   ______________________________

Parent Signature:                ______________________________

Language Arts 8 (Regular) Assignment Directions for Thursday, Dec. 15

1. The question: What is the most valuable idea that can be taken from this book? Students are to select one idea (theme) as the "Most Valuable Idea" of A Christmas Carol.
Possible Ideas in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• A person's business is to minister to his or her fellow man.
• Today's actions dictate tomorrow's future.
 • People bring true happiness; material possessions do not.
• Self-centeredness causes misery.
• Family and friends add meaning to life.
• There is virtue in poverty. 
 A person’s character is more important than his or her social status.
• It is greater to give than to receive.
• Money is the root of all evil.
• Money can’t buy happiness. 
 • Money makes the world go round.
• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. –Albert Einstein
• I am my brother’s keeper. –Eugene V. Debs
• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. –Albert Schweitzer
• Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. –Abraham Lincoln
2. Write your "Most Valuable Idea" of the story in one sentence.
3. Go to _______________database and select one contemporary, real-world article that illustrates the most valuable idea of the novel.
4.  Cut and paste the article into a word document (template is on Groom's P Drive). Make sure you have the title, author and source information.
5. Write a two paragraph explanation of the connection between the idea found in the novel and the real-world example.
6. Save to your H drive and print it out. Make sure your full name is on the document.
7. Turn it in to Mrs. Groom.

Six-Word Memoirs

Click here for Smith Magazine's Teen Six-Word Memoirs

A Christmas Carol Online

Absent from class or just need a review? Click here to read e-notes online with helpful reading tips and an interactive glossary. Here's a link to 40 movies based on Charles Dickens' classic story.

Horrible Histories Take on Those Vile Victorians!

If you enjoyed the videos in class, here they are again. Click here to see them

if the below videos don't embed correctly.

Class Assignment for Monday, November 14, 2011

Charles Dickens' Webquest -SKIP 8, 11, & 20

ADVANCED STUDIES SEMESTER 1 VOCABULARY

CLICK HERE FOR A REVIEW OF THE FIRST QUARTER WORDS (AND WORDS FROM 7TH GRADE) WITH THE NEW WORDS FOR QUARTER TWO. YOU WILL BE TESTED OVER THEM FOR RECALL/DEFINITIONS AS WELL AS IN YOUR WRITTEN RESPONSES TO WORKS OF LITERATURE.

Language Arts 8 QUARTERS ONE and TWO VOCABULARY WORDS

CLICK HERE FOR REGULAR LA8 STUDY HELP. YOU WILL BE TESTED OVER THE DEFINITIONS AS WELL AS THE APPLICATION OF MOST OF THESE TERMS AT THE END OF THE SEMESTER.

Edgar Allan Poe/Short Stories

The link to "These are the Five Things" video we watched in class on Wednesday, October 26.

You have an assignment for a close reading of "The Tell-Tale Heart" that is due on Monday, October 31. Get the packet in class on Friday. I will be out of school on Thursday and Friday, October 27 and 28 and return on Monday, October. 31. Happy Haunting!

Preposition Help

A quizlet for the 36 common prepositions on test Monday, October 17
What is a preposition? A GREAT SITE: What are prepositional phrases?

Big Dog's Grammar~Preposition Quiz
More identification help

Many English speakers cannot understand basic grammar

Many English speakers cannot understand basic grammar

8 Parts of Speech Notes from class Thursday, Oct. 6

Parts of Speech on Prezi

What's due this week, October 3-7, 2011

On Thursday: "What I Have Learned in LA This Year" paragraph, polished writing selection choice (important possession or emotional recipe), Easybib Works Cited page, and LA cover sheet for SLCs.

Analogies Help

Click on the following links for more help:
Analogies Based on Relationship
easy analogies
Link to my class presentation

More practice--very elementary ones
Sadler-Oxford Analogies

Imaginary Words of the Future Lesson

Use the following links to help you with the lesson:
Prefixes, Roots and Suffixes
Cool text generators for your presentation

Emotional Recipe Writing Directions for Students

Click here for student directions to the emotional recipe write-ups. If that doesn't work, then click this address into your browser.

http://writingfix.com/6_traits/Voice/EmotionalRecipe2.htm

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Search "Mrs. Groom 2011-2012" on your own facebook page and "like" my page to keep up with my classes this year. (Note: I will not be personal friends with you on facebook, and I cannot see your personal page if you "like" mine).