Syllablic Verse and Poetry Party

Next Wednesday - Poetry Party Celebration - In the library

You will need to have two poems to share - One must be memorized. You will need to audition next Tuesday in order to receive an invite. You will receive on summative speaking grade for this audition (rubric on left side of blog) .If you do not get invited to the party, you will be given other work to complete. In order to receive an invite, you need to memorize a poem and practice delivering it with PIPES. You just need to prove that you put some effort into the preparation of your poems. The poetry parties will be multiple classes together. The poem you memorize could be one you have worked on before. Any poems you have already drafted can be used at the end. It is expected that you will edit and redraft 'with poets eyes' 

RECAP
Students are encouraged to bring in food and drinks to eat and share at the party.

• One poem must be one you have written yourself
• One poem must be a a published poem (written by another author)
• Author's note needs to be prepared for each poem

Resource :http://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems - + look at the links on my blog on the left side for poems. Finals of the recitation competition will also happen on this day.

Use this to count your syllables
http://writeahaiku.com/ counts syllables

H/W Do not forget that your Extended Metaphor Poems are due Thur - Syllablic verse poems due FriALL classes!
C/D Class Extended Metaphor
E/F Class Extended Metaphor

Poetry: Advanced Figurative Langauge

Recap of Lesson - Defining Figurative Language

Advanced Figurative Language

H/W - Due THUR

Poem should be approx. 16 lines long. (Could be longer but not shorter)

Must be turned in on a slide to the link below e.g.

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C/D Class Extended Metaphor

E/F Class Extended Metaphor

Use this image to help you find ideas for the 'A' side of the metaphor

I will give you 15mins to work on it in class tomorrow too.

Enjoy Laney's TriTime Video

This week

TriTime - End of Unit Reflection

Congratulations on your TriTime presentations today. Just because our unit is over, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't continue to follow your passions. ...Continue to 'change your world!'

Updates:

• Make sure you have your reading book. 
• Read for 30mins each night. 
• 20mins of Membean at home this week (40mins in total)
• POscars continue this week. BE READY!

Tomorrow we do the second half of our poetry unit. We will began by looking at advanced figurative language.

TriTime - Change your World...

Join the movement: Do you want to make a change?


TriTime Presentations will all take place on Monday. How will you make sure you shine?
Points to consider:

• Will your speaking (digital or live) be PRACTISED and POLISHED?
• Will your piece contain a 'CLAIM' about LEARNING?
• Will your information be presented in a wider variety of TEXT STRUCTURES?
• Have you submitted a well crafted and precise WORK CITED?

TriTime - Claims about Learning

Will your claim be a 3 or a 4?

What will your Work Cited be  presented like?

Can’t find publishing dates?

Time for Submissions... Coming Soon!

TRiTime Rubric

Due Thur:  Work Cited  and Final DQ
Due Fri: Claim (Can you state what you have learned about 'learning' using a wider context claim? This could come at the beginning or end of your presentation)

Useful Resource General graphic design help

H/W - Complete this survey on Steve Sheinkin visit. http://goo.gl/forms/wlsjda18Yw.

PLANNING -  Create an outline to make sure you will meet your finished deadline

Tasks to do  - When I will do them

TriTime Presentations - Next Monday. You must be ready...

Which text structures will you use?

Presentation Possibilities

Choose what you can complete in time

• Google Docs- word processing
• Pages- word processing, page layout (poster, pamphlet, magazine layout)
• Google Slides or Keynote- slides to accompany a live talk or to narrate with voice over, resize slides to portrait and use slides to make a picture book
• Keynote- use Magic Move to make easy animations (animate a math problem or use movement to help people understand a concept)
• iMovie- video editing
• QuickTime- screen recording, audio recording, video recording, simple video edits
• iBooks Author- create an e-book that works on Apple devices, incorporate multimedia (you can add video, photo slideshow, and other interactive widgets)
• Google Sheets or Numbers- use either of these tools to make graphs of data
• Apple Photos- simple photo editing
• Preview- cut photos from background with instant alpha, crop and resize photos

TriTime: Writing Scenes

NF Writers use a wide variety of different text structures to communicate their ideas. Which of the ones below will you use?

Making a Poster? - Use these graphic design tips

How is your storyboard coming? Is it as good as this one?

Karma

To my HB - I did my act of kindness this morning. Call it karma or just lucky, but this afternoon I went to a swimming complex. After being there for 20mins, I realized I had lost a very expensive pair of sunglasses in the lazy river. After searching for 30 minutes to no avail, my only hope was that somebody had turned them in to the lifeguards. Amazingly just before I left, one of the lifeguards approached me saying that my sunglasses had been handed in. Maybe this was just a bit of luck; however, I believe it was because I had spread a little happiness earlier in the day! "What goes around, comes around."

Tritime: Summative Process

For HB...Dealing with the meanness

Day 9

What does your progress look like?

Summative Assessment Guidelines. This grade can NOT be changed!

Thinking about turning research into scenes

Please complete this survey for a 7th graders TriTime research: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CL8Y9JD

Samples pieces - Look at what  happens in documentaries or a real scene

H/W - Finish your scene for tomorrow. There will be a grade for this scene!

TriTime Day 7

Optional - Writing workshop for passionate young writers!

Fill out this link if you want to go

Writing Competitions


Summative Grade: Expectations - Will you be ready for THUR or FRIDAY

H/W - Are you doing any H/W for your Tritime?

TriTime Day 8 Specialist Research

Use these slides as guidelines





You should be doing some H/W on your piece.

Time spent 'working out of school' could be a new category for your storyboard!

Day 6 Storyboarding

What will you finished storyboard look like? 

TriTime Day 3

To HB - Begin the RIPPLE - HB Fill in this form 

Video

TriTime Resources:
Rewordify.com    simple.wikipedia.org

TriTime: Research Day 2

Student Sample: How much of a MYSTERY is your question?
Why are some kids born natural athletes and does this athleticism lead to success on and off the field?

Collect research lists using the SAS library resource

SAS EXPERTS DATABASE

H/W - DAILY UNTIL THE END OF TRI TIME  ALL CLASSES

It is your responsibility to maintain your Daily TriTime reflection from now on. When you do it and what you write in it is YOUR choice.   These notes will make up the BULK of your final presentation.

TriTime Preliminary Research

H/W - You must collect 15+ leads - witness list - (bullet points of places to look for information) for your Driving Question. These are the tips  from Steve Sheinkin from today.

How varied are your leads? 

Tri time Check in -

ALL CLASSES You must read the feedback on the driving question and adapt yours by Tuesday. Grades are given for this! 

Strong examples so far this year

How might 7th grade students at SAS assist Singaporean Senior Citizens living in senior homes with Alzheimer’s.

How can young basketball players analyse the shot mechanics of the greatest basketball players of all time in order to increase their own shooting percentage?

What does authentic service look and sound like to middle school students at Singapore American School?

Driving questions 2016 Database

"If it feels like home work, change your topic." Mrs MCD

TRI Time - Driving Question
Still not sure what to do? Use this chart to brainstorm questions around your 'wonder'

ALL CLASSES - You will receive a summative grade for your driving question Tuesday and another one at the end of the unit. Make sure your work is submitted.

Driving Question Feedback

Important: Driving Questions Link

Everybody has been given formative feedback on your driving question. Everybody needs to go back and try and improve your first draft. Attempt to highlight the complex words and the focused words in your question. This will help you see how you can become more specific and focused. You need to have redrafted your driving question for Tuesday's class. Feel free to get support from your parents or friends.  See example below

You MUST spend quality time developing this Driving Question. It will make your time spent on this unit so much more productive and enjoyable. We will have the Steve Sheinkin in that class and you will NEED to be clear on the question you want to start researching. BE WARNED - your will be given a 'Responsibility' and 'Guiding Question' SUMMATIVE grade on Tuesday.

Lunch with the visiting author: Winners

All winners must see Mr Buxton before next Wednesday. Lunch will be scheduled in the library, mr Riley's room, Friday 19th of February at 1 PM. 

Ryan Nguyen	Mr.Buxton
Michael White	Mr. Buxton
Michelle Zimmermann	Mr. Buxton
Joshua Ford	Ms. Olsen
Claire Yoder	Karen McDowell
Tyler	MCD
Alexandria Mulqueen	RLA--Mrs.McDowell
Aryan Khattar	Karen McDowell
Coby Tan	Russell Buxton
Noah Loi	Mr. Buxton
Maja Christiansen	Russel Buxton
Maya	Mr.Buxton

BOOK WINNER

We received 266 haikus across the middle school for a chance to win Kwame Alexander's new book,Booked.

Congratulations to Elijah Thomas from Ms. Strydhorst-Piers' class for his haiku which was drawn out of a hat.  It reads:

A big fallen tree

laying on a bed of trees

lonely in the woods.

Driving Question

Link for your DQ

Lunch with Authors

Resources to form a DQ

                                     

Tri Time: Day 2

Beginning of unit Questionnaire: Link here

TriTime Journal

H/W - All classes. Come with one or two strong ideas for your guiding question.
Do not forget to finish your parent interview tonight. (optional -but encouraged) Link

Another video below on possible TriTime examples.

Membean - Biweekly Times

Remember - Your test scores can ONLY  be as high as practice times. See Powerschool for more details.

Tri Time: Session 1

Poetry Interpretation G/H -Drop your work here

 Passion Project Digital Notebook

Link: to questionnaire  

Parent Link (complete interview by Thursday 11th Feb)

Be a WINNER!!!! 
It's coming out in April, but Mr. Riley's got an advanced copy, and yes it's amazing!  Want it for your classroom library?  Write a haiku to  Mr. Riley.  He'll take all submissions (make sure the RLA teacher's name is on it), put them in a hat, draw a winner next and deliver the book to your room. What are you waiting for?

Author's Note

Grammar Recap: Compound/Complex Sentences

C/D Poetry File

E/F Poetry File

Poetry Author's Note

H/W

• 10mins of Membean - Test tomorrow (Are your minutes 80+? for the last two weeks?)
• READ

Poet's Revise

Poetry Revision Strategies

Wonderopolis What do you wonder about?

H/W - Finish your Found poem - Due Wed. 

Apology Poem

Lesson Recap

Today we learned a little more on visualizing and were introduced to the structural move of 'enjambment'

Homework... C/D and E/F - DUE TUE