The Final Week

Sophie's Survey: Please help Sophie with her research

There are many assessments next week. You have just 4 more days of academic classes. EXPECT to work HARD in all of those 4 days. Friday will be more relaxing.

Mon: End of Class - Research Essay + Genius Hour Projects Reflection

Tues: Sharing of Genius Hour Projects and Research Essays (I will begin grading this work then)

Wed: Last Membean Test

Thur: Superlatives and Comparatives Test (Look at last week's blog for practice)

Tips: 

Make sure your Reading Book chart in up to date on my classroom wall on Monday. I will begin looking at total # of books read for the semester then

You will also be receiving an assessment grade on 'minutes of Membean practiced -v- the class average' e.g.  In one class, the least minutes practiced was  a student with 259mins -v- the most a student with 543mins for the semester.  If you think your minutes practised - v - the class average is low - what can you do about this before next FRIDAY?

Outline: Mentor Example

Use this mentor to structure your outtine: Essay Outline

OUTLINING Essays

Please complete these student surveys for your classmates research projects
Popularity

H/W: All Classes
You must spend 20mins working on your outline tonight. Use this link: Research Based Essay Outline - You do not have to finish the outline, but you should make a start.

Remember: Due date for this paper is end of class FRIDAY!

RECAP - Does your claim read like this one? 

Coming Next Week: 

End of Year Membean Assessment - Next Wed (50 Questions- This test is cumulative and will count triple)

End of Year Grammar Assessment - Next Thur (This will count double) - There will be some questions on parallel structure, opening and delayed adjectives and adverbs, and subjects and predicates. 

These links are useful for practice for your comparatives and superlatives test

http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/comparisons.php

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1498694.html?AP_rand=459928495

http://anthonyhalderman.com/english/compsup.htm

http://www.quia.com/rr/577197.html

Double and Repeated Comparative Practice

Comparatives

H/W - All Class
Play this game Millionaire Game - Take a screen shot to prove you have finished it!

Girls - Please fill in this survey for Olivia's and Laila's research project: Beauty Standards
Please fill in this for Joaquin's Research

Research Project - The majority of note-taking should be finished before tomorrow. You will only have 20 minutes of class time to work on note. Make sure you have done most of your note taking before then.
REMINDER - Your research piece will be almost finished for Friday (end of class)- You will have Monday's class to edit and turn in.

Lesson Recap:

Research Tutorials

H/W - All Classes
You must collect detailed notes from one of your resources. Use Cornell or Visual Note-taking (Due:Tue) - These notes WILL be inspected and assessed!!! - You are accountable to your PARTNER - If you do not do the work, partnerships will be split up!

Link to collect sources: My List of Sources
SAS MS Database: Passwords

Use these tutorials to navigate the two simplest (catch the superlative!) databases for your research

Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Global Issues in Context   Video Tutorial

These sites are the easiest to navigate and find quality content!

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