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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Contemplating Constellations available now!
Contemplating Constellations is a book of poetry by the students of Carnegie Middle School. 230 different poets write from their heart in this remarkable collection. Buy yours today. All proceeds go to the publishing phase of the writing process--more books, newspapers, magazines, performances, movies, videos, posts, blogs, telecasts, webcasts, podcasts, tracts, fliers, rags, and comics by student authors!
Authors get a free book. Family and friends of the authors will get a discount at the book signing on Saturday, June 14, 2 p.m., at the Carson Library.
Everyone else Click below to enjoy poetry and keep it alive in our schools!
Authors get a free book. Family and friends of the authors will get a discount at the book signing on Saturday, June 14, 2 p.m., at the Carson Library.
Everyone else Click below to enjoy poetry and keep it alive in our schools!
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Read The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and answer the following questions.
1. Copy a sentence from the story with misspelled words. Underline the misspelled words.
2. Why do you think Twain misspelled so many words?
3. Who fooled whom in the story? Explain in a well-written paragraph.
Write a 2-page (at least) story using the dialect of youth culture at Carnegie. When you write dialogue, remember to start a new paragraph every time someone else speaks.
Make a "Works Cited" page using provided resources and working in groups.
1. Copy a sentence from the story with misspelled words. Underline the misspelled words.
2. Why do you think Twain misspelled so many words?
3. Who fooled whom in the story? Explain in a well-written paragraph.
Write a 2-page (at least) story using the dialect of youth culture at Carnegie. When you write dialogue, remember to start a new paragraph every time someone else speaks.
Make a "Works Cited" page using provided resources and working in groups.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Spelling Quiz and Review Outline
Take spelling quiz
Homework: Vocab. Test Friday, Persuasive Report due 5/2, Book Report 5/9, Poetry Reading 5/6 and 5/7.
Homework: Vocab. Test Friday, Persuasive Report due 5/2, Book Report 5/9, Poetry Reading 5/6 and 5/7.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Stations
Station 1: Digital Library
Station 2: Vocabulary Scavenger Hunt
Station 3: Persuasive Research Report Rubric and Outline.
Homework: Spelling Test Thursday, Vocab. Test Friday, Persuasive Report due 5/2, Book Report 5/9, Poetry Reading 5/6 and 5/7.
Station 2: Vocabulary Scavenger Hunt
Station 3: Persuasive Research Report Rubric and Outline.
Homework: Spelling Test Thursday, Vocab. Test Friday, Persuasive Report due 5/2, Book Report 5/9, Poetry Reading 5/6 and 5/7.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Earth Day: Inconvenient Truth
Fold your paper twice so that you have three spaces on each on which to write the following persuasive appeals as subheadings.
Ethical Appeal: right vs. wrong
Emotional Appeal: feelings--hate, love, compassion, etc.
Logical Appeal: reasoning--"common sense"
Fact and data based appeal: numbers, data, research
anecdotal evidence: stories, personal accounts
Fear based appeal: scaring people
Under each heading write Al Gore quotes from An Inconvenient Truth that fit into the particular category.
Homework: Vocabulary test on Friday
Book report due May 9
Ethical Appeal: right vs. wrong
Emotional Appeal: feelings--hate, love, compassion, etc.
Logical Appeal: reasoning--"common sense"
Fact and data based appeal: numbers, data, research
anecdotal evidence: stories, personal accounts
Fear based appeal: scaring people
Under each heading write Al Gore quotes from An Inconvenient Truth that fit into the particular category.
Homework: Vocabulary test on Friday
Book report due May 9
Monday, April 21, 2008
An Inconvenient Truth
Fold your paper twice so that you have three spaces on each on which to write the following persuasive appeals as subheadings.
Ethical Appeal: right vs. wrong
Emotional Appeal: feelings--hate, love, compassion, etc.
Logical Appeal: reasoning--"common sense"
Fact and data based appeal: numbers, data, research
anecdotal evidence: stories, personal accounts
Fear based appeal: scaring people
Under each heading write Al Gore quotes from An Inconvenient Truth that fit into the particular category.
Homework: Vocabulary test on Friday
Book report due May 9
Ethical Appeal: right vs. wrong
Emotional Appeal: feelings--hate, love, compassion, etc.
Logical Appeal: reasoning--"common sense"
Fact and data based appeal: numbers, data, research
anecdotal evidence: stories, personal accounts
Fear based appeal: scaring people
Under each heading write Al Gore quotes from An Inconvenient Truth that fit into the particular category.
Homework: Vocabulary test on Friday
Book report due May 9
Friday, April 18, 2008
Opposing views
Quick Write: Anticipate the arguments of people who oppose your view. Write about the arguments they may have against your position.
View video on death penalty:
Read LA Times Editorial
on recent Supreme Court decision upholding lethal injection.
From the context of the article what does anachronistic mean?
From the context of the article what does capriciously mean?
Is the LA Times for or against the death penalty? Explain your answer with examples from the editorial.
Homework: Research your topic, read, and study vocab.
View video on death penalty:
Read LA Times Editorial
on recent Supreme Court decision upholding lethal injection.
From the context of the article what does anachronistic mean?
From the context of the article what does capriciously mean?
Is the LA Times for or against the death penalty? Explain your answer with examples from the editorial.
Homework: Research your topic, read, and study vocab.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Anecdotes and Arguments
1. Correct vocabulary matching quiz.
Answer and discuss: What's the difference between an argument and an argument?
Quick write: One of the best ways to introduce a topic in a persuasive essay is with an anecdote. Think of how you are connected to your topic and tell the story.
Interview three students about their topics and stories with this form.
Homework:Read, research, and study
Answer and discuss: What's the difference between an argument and an argument?
Quick write: One of the best ways to introduce a topic in a persuasive essay is with an anecdote. Think of how you are connected to your topic and tell the story.
Interview three students about their topics and stories with this form.
Homework:Read, research, and study
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Digital Library
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
"The Bet" by Anton Chekhov
Friday, April 11, 2008
Thursday, April 10, 2008
appeal, emotional, logical
Quick write: List as many controversial issues as you can. Pick one you feel strongly about and write about how you feel about the issue.
Read opinion article about immigration and answer Immigration Article Study Questions
Homework: Flash Cards
Vocab. Test 4/25
Book Report 5/9
Read opinion article about immigration and answer Immigration Article Study Questions
Homework: Flash Cards
Vocab. Test 4/25
Book Report 5/9
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Persuasion
What makes you angry? Is it something that is unfair? Is it something you can change? Write about something that makes you angry.
Flash Cards
Read "School-wide bans teach exactly the wrong lessons" and highlight reasons against school-wide bans and underline reasons for school-wide bans.
Homework: Flash Cards
Study questions for article
Vocab. Test 4/25
Book Report 5/9
Flash Cards
Read "School-wide bans teach exactly the wrong lessons" and highlight reasons against school-wide bans and underline reasons for school-wide bans.
Homework: Flash Cards
Study questions for article
Vocab. Test 4/25
Book Report 5/9
Monday, April 07, 2008
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Friday, April 04, 2008
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Back to School Night
Practice Recitations
Homework: Book report was due Monday.
Recitation due Thursday
Test on Friday
Homework: Book report was due Monday.
Recitation due Thursday
Test on Friday
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Flip-Flap Bingo
Vocabulary Bingo
Homework: Book report was due Monday.
Recitation due Thursday
Test on Friday
Homework: Book report was due Monday.
Recitation due Thursday
Test on Friday
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
Make the following singular nouns plurals:
day
donkey
baby
family
What rule did you did you apply when you decided whether or not to add an "s" our change the "Y" to "i" and add "es"?
Read "Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" in LOL on pages 647-653.
Work in groups according to unfinished assignments.
Homework: Book report was due Monday.
Recitation due Thursday
Test on Friday
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Son,” said my mother,
When I was knee-high,
“You’ve need of clothes to cover you,
And not a rag have I.
“There’s nothing in the house
To make a boy breeches,
Nor shears to cut a cloth with,
Nor thread to take stitches.
“There’s nothing in the house
But a loaf-end of rye,
And a harp with a woman’s head
Nobody will buy,”
And she began to cry.
That was in the early fall.
When came the late fall,
“Son,” she said, “the sight of you
Makes your mother’s blood crawl,—
“Little skinny shoulder blades
Sticking through your clothes!
And where you’ll get a jacket from
God above knows.
“It’s lucky for me, lad,
Your daddy’s in the ground,
And can’t see the way I let
His son go around!”
And she made a queer sound.
That was in the late fall.
When the winter came,
I’d not a pair of breeches
Nor a shirt to my name.
I couldn’t go to school,
Or out of doors to play.
And all the other little boys
Passed our way.
“Son,” said my mother,
“Come, climb into my lap,
And I’ll chafe your little bones
While you take a nap.”
And, oh, but we were silly
For half an hour or more,
Me with my long legs
Dragging on the floor,
A-rock-rock-rocking
To a Mother Goose rhyme!
Oh, but we were happy
For half an hour’s time!
But there was I, a great boy,
And what would folks say
To hear my mother singing me
To sleep all day,
In such a daft way?
Men say the winter
Was bad that year;
Fuel was scarce,
And food was dear.
A wind with a wolf’s head
Howled about our door,
And we burned up the chairs
And sat upon the floor.
All that was left us
Was a chair we couldn’t break,
And the harp with a woman’s head
Nobody would take,
For song or pity’s sake.
The night before Christmas
I cried with the cold,
I cried myself to sleep
Like a two-year-old.
And in the deep night
I felt my mother rise,
And stare down upon me
With love in her eyes.
I saw my mother sitting
On the one good chair,
A light falling on her
From I couldn’t tell where,
Looking nineteen,
And not a day older,
And the harp with a woman’s head
Leaned against her shoulder.
Her thin fingers, moving
In the thin, tall strings,
Were weav-weav-weaving
Wonderful things.
Many bright threads,
From where I couldn’t see,
Were running through the harp strings
Rapidly,
And gold threads whistling
Through my mother’s hand.
I saw the web grow,
And the pattern expand.
She wove a child’s jacket,
And when it was done
She laid it on the floor
And wove another one.
She wove a red cloak
So regal to see,
“She’s made it for a king’s son,”
I said, “and not for me.”
But I knew it was for me.
She wove a pair of breeches
Quicker than that!
She wove a pair of boots
And a little cocked hat.
She wove a pair of mittens,
She wove a little blouse,
She wove all night
In the still, cold house.
She sang as she worked,
And the harp strings spoke;
Her voice never faltered,
And the thread never broke.
And when I awoke,—
There sat my mother
With the harp against her shoulder,
Looking nineteen,
And not a day older,
A smile about her lips,
And a light about her head,
And her hands in the harp strings
Frozen dead.
And piled up beside her
And toppling to the skies,
Were the clothes of a king’s son,
Just my size.
day
donkey
baby
family
What rule did you did you apply when you decided whether or not to add an "s" our change the "Y" to "i" and add "es"?
Read "Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" in LOL on pages 647-653.
Work in groups according to unfinished assignments.
Homework: Book report was due Monday.
Recitation due Thursday
Test on Friday
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Son,” said my mother,
When I was knee-high,
“You’ve need of clothes to cover you,
And not a rag have I.
“There’s nothing in the house
To make a boy breeches,
Nor shears to cut a cloth with,
Nor thread to take stitches.
“There’s nothing in the house
But a loaf-end of rye,
And a harp with a woman’s head
Nobody will buy,”
And she began to cry.
That was in the early fall.
When came the late fall,
“Son,” she said, “the sight of you
Makes your mother’s blood crawl,—
“Little skinny shoulder blades
Sticking through your clothes!
And where you’ll get a jacket from
God above knows.
“It’s lucky for me, lad,
Your daddy’s in the ground,
And can’t see the way I let
His son go around!”
And she made a queer sound.
That was in the late fall.
When the winter came,
I’d not a pair of breeches
Nor a shirt to my name.
I couldn’t go to school,
Or out of doors to play.
And all the other little boys
Passed our way.
“Son,” said my mother,
“Come, climb into my lap,
And I’ll chafe your little bones
While you take a nap.”
And, oh, but we were silly
For half an hour or more,
Me with my long legs
Dragging on the floor,
A-rock-rock-rocking
To a Mother Goose rhyme!
Oh, but we were happy
For half an hour’s time!
But there was I, a great boy,
And what would folks say
To hear my mother singing me
To sleep all day,
In such a daft way?
Men say the winter
Was bad that year;
Fuel was scarce,
And food was dear.
A wind with a wolf’s head
Howled about our door,
And we burned up the chairs
And sat upon the floor.
All that was left us
Was a chair we couldn’t break,
And the harp with a woman’s head
Nobody would take,
For song or pity’s sake.
The night before Christmas
I cried with the cold,
I cried myself to sleep
Like a two-year-old.
And in the deep night
I felt my mother rise,
And stare down upon me
With love in her eyes.
I saw my mother sitting
On the one good chair,
A light falling on her
From I couldn’t tell where,
Looking nineteen,
And not a day older,
And the harp with a woman’s head
Leaned against her shoulder.
Her thin fingers, moving
In the thin, tall strings,
Were weav-weav-weaving
Wonderful things.
Many bright threads,
From where I couldn’t see,
Were running through the harp strings
Rapidly,
And gold threads whistling
Through my mother’s hand.
I saw the web grow,
And the pattern expand.
She wove a child’s jacket,
And when it was done
She laid it on the floor
And wove another one.
She wove a red cloak
So regal to see,
“She’s made it for a king’s son,”
I said, “and not for me.”
But I knew it was for me.
She wove a pair of breeches
Quicker than that!
She wove a pair of boots
And a little cocked hat.
She wove a pair of mittens,
She wove a little blouse,
She wove all night
In the still, cold house.
She sang as she worked,
And the harp strings spoke;
Her voice never faltered,
And the thread never broke.
And when I awoke,—
There sat my mother
With the harp against her shoulder,
Looking nineteen,
And not a day older,
A smile about her lips,
And a light about her head,
And her hands in the harp strings
Frozen dead.
And piled up beside her
And toppling to the skies,
Were the clothes of a king’s son,
Just my size.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Test on Friday
Review possessive nouns in an exercise on page 302 in Writing and Skills.
Review for Friday's test.
Discuss progress reports.
Read "Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" in LOL.
Homework:
All make up work due by Friday
Test on Friday
Recitation due 4/7/08
A farmer got pulled over by a state trooper for speeding, and the trooper started to lecture the farmer about his speed and, in general, began to throw his weight around to try to make the farmer uncomfortable.
Finally, the trooper got around to writing out the ticket, and as he was doing that he kept swatting at some flies that were buzzing around his head.
The farmer said, "Having some problems with circle flies there, are ya?"
The trooper stopped writing the ticket and said—"Well yeah, if that's what they are—I never heard of circle flies."
So the farmer says, "Well, circle flies are common on farms. See, they're called circle flies because they're almost always found circling around the back end of a horse."
The trooper says, "Oh," and goes back to writing the ticket. Then after a minute he stops and says, "Hey… wait a minute, are you trying to call me a horse's ---?"
The farmer says, "Oh no, Officer. I have too much respect for law enforcement and police officers to even think about calling you a horse's ---."
The trooper says, "Well, that's a good thing," and goes back to writing the ticket.
After a long pause, the farmer says, "Hard to fool them flies though."
Review for Friday's test.
Discuss progress reports.
Read "Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" in LOL.
Homework:
All make up work due by Friday
Test on Friday
Recitation due 4/7/08
A farmer got pulled over by a state trooper for speeding, and the trooper started to lecture the farmer about his speed and, in general, began to throw his weight around to try to make the farmer uncomfortable.
Finally, the trooper got around to writing out the ticket, and as he was doing that he kept swatting at some flies that were buzzing around his head.
The farmer said, "Having some problems with circle flies there, are ya?"
The trooper stopped writing the ticket and said—"Well yeah, if that's what they are—I never heard of circle flies."
So the farmer says, "Well, circle flies are common on farms. See, they're called circle flies because they're almost always found circling around the back end of a horse."
The trooper says, "Oh," and goes back to writing the ticket. Then after a minute he stops and says, "Hey… wait a minute, are you trying to call me a horse's ---?"
The farmer says, "Oh no, Officer. I have too much respect for law enforcement and police officers to even think about calling you a horse's ---."
The trooper says, "Well, that's a good thing," and goes back to writing the ticket.
After a long pause, the farmer says, "Hard to fool them flies though."
Friday, March 28, 2008
Apostrophes
Do Exercise 8 on page 561 in Writing and Skills.
Write the following sentences. Place apostrophes wherever they are needed.
1. We cant afford a car, so my dad rides his bike to work.
2. Theres and excellent chance that Yolie will make the team this year.
3. The foreign students speech has really improved; she is already using slang words.
4. Theres nothing to do in a tornado but take cover in ones basement.
5. Walt Disneys first cartoon was released in 1928.
6. In 1940 womens nylon stockings were marketed for the first time.
7. Auto graph experts value Julius Ceasars signature at about $2 million.
8. If you dont keep up with your homework, youre certainly not going to keep your A average.
9. All businesses support will be necessary if the city Street Festival is to be a success.
10. The girls gymnasium will be closed next week.
After you finish the assignment, you may complete unfinished assignments and practice your recitation.
Exit Q: How could running a race be used as a metaphor.
Homework: Memorize recitation poem and share it with a mentor or parent.
Book report due March 31.
Recitation due April 4.
Write the following sentences. Place apostrophes wherever they are needed.
1. We cant afford a car, so my dad rides his bike to work.
2. Theres and excellent chance that Yolie will make the team this year.
3. The foreign students speech has really improved; she is already using slang words.
4. Theres nothing to do in a tornado but take cover in ones basement.
5. Walt Disneys first cartoon was released in 1928.
6. In 1940 womens nylon stockings were marketed for the first time.
7. Auto graph experts value Julius Ceasars signature at about $2 million.
8. If you dont keep up with your homework, youre certainly not going to keep your A average.
9. All businesses support will be necessary if the city Street Festival is to be a success.
10. The girls gymnasium will be closed next week.
After you finish the assignment, you may complete unfinished assignments and practice your recitation.
Exit Q: How could running a race be used as a metaphor.
Homework: Memorize recitation poem and share it with a mentor or parent.
Book report due March 31.
Recitation due April 4.
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