You were all very sweet the other today when I informed you that we were headed to Singapore. It was very touching! Watch this video to see a glimspe of the country.
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Brown -v- Board of Education Field trip
If you feel that the website might contain a virus, then you do not need to access it.
Watch this as an alternative
http://www.schooltube.com/video/70ed5ce09fdf6e418b4a/AP11-Brown-vs-Board-of-Education
Now what about Plessy-v-Ferguson
Watch this as an alternative
http://www.schooltube.com/video/70ed5ce09fdf6e418b4a/AP11-Brown-vs-Board-of-Education
Now what about Plessy-v-Ferguson
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Gettysburg Address
Watch this powerful version of the Gettysburg Address again
Gettysburg Address from Adam Gault on Vimeo.
Writing - Memories Paper
What will you do tonight to make sure your piece is the most powerful you have written so far this year? Make sure you are focusing on learning. Make sure you have strong verb, adjective, sentence fluency, and colorful descriptive ideas where possible.
Make me laugh...
Make me cry...
Make me smile ...
Make me sigh...
Show me what deeply moved you...
Show me how you truly grew...
How will you create a special theme? - AMAZE ME!!!.. please?
e.g. Survival Guide for Charlotte latin Lower School...
e.g. How to Impress your next teacher...
How will you make your paper 'unique'?
Treasures in a Box by Pamela Harazim
Come, look with me inside this drawer,
In this box I've often seen,
At the pictures, black and white,
Faces proud, still, serene.
I wish I knew the people;
These strangers in the box,
Their names and all their memories
Are lost among my socks.
I wonder what their lives were like.
How did they spend their days?
What about their special times?
I'll never know their ways.
If only someone had taken time
To tell who, what, where, when,
These faces of my heritage
Would come to life again.
Could this become the fate
Of the pictures we take today?
The faces and the memories
Someday to be tossed away?
Make time to save your pictures,
Seize the opportunity when it knocks,
Or someday you and yours could be
The strangers in the box.
What will your memories 'sound' like?
Gettysburg Address from Adam Gault on Vimeo.
Writing - Memories Paper
What will you do tonight to make sure your piece is the most powerful you have written so far this year? Make sure you are focusing on learning. Make sure you have strong verb, adjective, sentence fluency, and colorful descriptive ideas where possible.
Make me laugh...
Make me cry...
Make me smile ...
Make me sigh...
Show me what deeply moved you...
Show me how you truly grew...
How will you create a special theme? - AMAZE ME!!!.. please?
e.g. Survival Guide for Charlotte latin Lower School...
e.g. How to Impress your next teacher...
How will you make your paper 'unique'?
Treasures in a Box by Pamela Harazim
Come, look with me inside this drawer,
In this box I've often seen,
At the pictures, black and white,
Faces proud, still, serene.
I wish I knew the people;
These strangers in the box,
Their names and all their memories
Are lost among my socks.
I wonder what their lives were like.
How did they spend their days?
What about their special times?
I'll never know their ways.
If only someone had taken time
To tell who, what, where, when,
These faces of my heritage
Would come to life again.
Could this become the fate
Of the pictures we take today?
The faces and the memories
Someday to be tossed away?
Make time to save your pictures,
Seize the opportunity when it knocks,
Or someday you and yours could be
The strangers in the box.
What will your memories 'sound' like?
End of Year Grammar Review Test Practice
Use these links to practice for the Grammar Test
Subjects and Predicates
http://www.quia.com/rr/36764.html
http://www.quia.com/rr/36765.html
Fragments and run-ons
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/fragments_quiz.htm
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/run-ons_add2.htm
Just select the subtopics from this link that we have studied
e.g. Commas, Prepositions etc...
http://college.cengage.com/devenglish/resources/writing_ace/students/
Nouns
http://a4esl.org/q/j/ck/mc-plurals.html
http://www.azargrammar.com/assets/beginning/BEGVocabularyWorksheets/BEGVocab6/BEGvoc6-5.pdf
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=WCN1601
To Be
http://a4esl.org/q/j/jb/mc-be.html
General
http://a4esl.org/q/j/jm/ci-e01.html
http://anthonyhalderman.com/english/gramqz.htm
Commas
http://www.towson.edu/ows/exercisecomma4.htm
http://www.towson.edu/ows/exercisecommaINTRO3.htm
http://www.towson.edu/ows/exercisecs-fs5.htm
Adjectives - comapratives and superlatives
http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/comparisons.php
http://anthonyhalderman.com/english/compsup.htm
Check this website to reread some topics that we covered.
http://www.towson.edu/ows/index.htm
Subjects and Predicates
http://www.quia.com/rr/36764.html
http://www.quia.com/rr/36765.html
Fragments and run-ons
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/fragments_quiz.htm
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/run-ons_add2.htm
Just select the subtopics from this link that we have studied
e.g. Commas, Prepositions etc...
http://college.cengage.com/devenglish/resources/writing_ace/students/
Nouns
http://a4esl.org/q/j/ck/mc-plurals.html
http://www.azargrammar.com/assets/beginning/BEGVocabularyWorksheets/BEGVocab6/BEGvoc6-5.pdf
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=WCN1601
To Be
http://a4esl.org/q/j/jb/mc-be.html
General
http://a4esl.org/q/j/jm/ci-e01.html
http://anthonyhalderman.com/english/gramqz.htm
Commas
http://www.towson.edu/ows/exercisecomma4.htm
http://www.towson.edu/ows/exercisecommaINTRO3.htm
http://www.towson.edu/ows/exercisecs-fs5.htm
Adjectives - comapratives and superlatives
http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/comparisons.php
http://anthonyhalderman.com/english/compsup.htm
Check this website to reread some topics that we covered.
http://www.towson.edu/ows/index.htm
Changes to H/W sheet
Daily Editing - Booklets due in this Friday
Chains - Finish reading the whole book - By Next Monday.
Chains - Finish reading the whole book - By Next Monday.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
Updates
- We will work on the 4th Civil War journal entry in class tomorrow. It does NOT need to be finished before tomorrow!
- Memories paper will be due Next Wednesday
- Don't forget that Lesson 8 vocabulary Test is tomorrow
- Make sure you tackle the inference practice exercises on the blog. (You will need to scroll down to find Monday's post)
Thursday, May 12, 2011
H/W Changes
Popplet is now up and working - please complete your assignment using this software. If you have already used a different type of software, then you don't have to redo it. IF YOU STILL EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS WITH POPPLET, then just do the inferences on a sheet of paper
(alternatively, you may use gliffy.com to create your mindmap - thanks Mimi)
PLEASE PRINT YOUR FINISHED WORK AD BRING IT TO CLASS
New
Remember to cut out a title from an age appropriate newspaper article. Try to make the title as big as possible.
(alternatively, you may use gliffy.com to create your mindmap - thanks Mimi)
PLEASE PRINT YOUR FINISHED WORK AD BRING IT TO CLASS
New
Remember to cut out a title from an age appropriate newspaper article. Try to make the title as big as possible.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
H/W change
POPPLET WEBSITE IS DOWN - Popplet H/W cancelled for tonight.
Reading: Use popplet.com to create a mind map. In the center of the mind map, insert a picture. Write 5 inferences about the picture in textboxes. (Due: Wed)
Reading: Use popplet.com to create a mind map. In the center of the mind map, insert a picture. Write 5 inferences about the picture in textboxes. (Due: Wed)
S. Studies: You need 3 entries in your Civil War diary by Wed. (Due: Wed)
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Change to H/W sheet
The work on your Civil War journal is postponed.
Tonight begin your brainstorm for your end of year paper.
Don't forget to do the last studying for the Adjectives Test.
Tonight begin your brainstorm for your end of year paper.
Don't forget to do the last studying for the Adjectives Test.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Adjectives -Test Review
Click Voki for important update to H/W sheet!
Use these links below to practice for your adjectives test
General
http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/literacy/wordclasses/adjectives.asp
Adjectives - comapratives and superlatives
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
Order of Adjectives
http://www.learn4good.com/languages/evrd_grammar/adjective_order.htm
Coordinate and Culminative Adjectivers
http://www.grammarlogues.com/home/quiz.php?do=display_quiz&id=4
Categories are a little different, but this recaps ourr work on QOSAS.com
Use these links below to practice for your adjectives test
General
http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/literacy/wordclasses/adjectives.asp
Adjectives - comapratives and superlatives
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
Order of Adjectives
http://www.learn4good.com/languages/evrd_grammar/adjective_order.htm
Coordinate and Culminative Adjectivers
http://www.grammarlogues.com/home/quiz.php?do=display_quiz&id=4
Categories are a little different, but this recaps ourr work on QOSAS.com
Monday, May 2, 2011
Adjectives -Wall
Click - Add sticky - to communicate back and forth with your partner for tonight's H/W
Don't forget to log in to http://www.bighugelabs.com/ before starting your poster.
rbuxton@charlottelatin.org
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