I am a TCK

For my HB - Win +2 if you can share your biggest take-away from today's chat in HB

Root of the Week: Mort - Death

Grammar

Parts of Speech - Pretest


Today's Mentor Text - The return

Slideshow - Make a copy of this slide. When you finish inserting your images, screenshot your slide and put it into your digital notebook

H/W - You must have your images collected for tomorrow's session. We will do the writing in tomorrow's class.

Identity Summative 1 - Who Am I?

What structural moves will you use in your piece?

The difference between craft and structure

Assessment Rubric for this piece is on left side of blog - Identity Unit. You are only graded on Meaning (Your ideas) and Structure (How you organzie your piece)

How good is your claim?

This Week

Membean test Fri

Parts of Speech test Thur

CWW - Article

The editors of SAS Crossroads Magazine are looking for a couple of 7th graders to write an article on their experience at CWW. If you would like to have your writing published in the SAS magazine, drop me an email and begin your piece. Deadline is Sept 17th. Any person who volunteers will get  class time to work on their piece. The piece just needs to be a reflection stating what you have taken away from the experience, possibly with some anecdotes. Any volunteers?

Identity Unit - Claims and Evidence

Lesson Recap

How strong is your claim about: What you have learned about yourself so far?

Win+1 if you add your claim to 'comments'

On Monday, you will write your first piece on your identity unit. This is your rubric. Optional:You may work on this on the w/end if you choose to do so.  G/H class - you may want to spend time thinking about your claim and evidence

Core Values: Things I Won't Let Slide

G/H Class - YOU DO NOT NEED TO READ TODAY'S BLOGPOST. Make sure you are practicing your Parts of Speech, spending at least 5mins on your Membean and doing 20-30mins of independent reading. Keep your reading log up to date! I am no longer chasing G/H students for your monthly message. If you have a zero in PowerSchool for this, you know what to do!

Optional: Enjoy Varun's excellent MM poem
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Make a copy of this file: Core Values

(Put it in your mini lesson 3 class notes)

Lesson Recap

What I Won't Let Slide...

• Talk about 3 or 4 of your top core values.
• Talk about 1 or 2 values that you would like to improve
• Minimum x4 core values - Max x6 core values

For each core value you might decide to talk about a combination of:

• Use a quote associated with the core value
• Define the core value
• Give one or two reasons why this value is important to you
• Talk about situations where you have seen this core value happening in your life
• Talk about what would happen if everybody did or didn't follow this core value
• Talk about the 'dots' in your life and your world. How will you stop being influenced by them.
• You own ideas

H/W C/D and E/F

• Read and keep your reading log up to date.
• Practice your 'parts of speech'