Time Flying By.....

Busy--Busy---Busy!!!!  That's what happens when you're working, working, working!!!
Time is really flying by.  The 8th graders are delving into the Writing Process.  Next week will start working on the Dewey Co. Soil Conservation Essay.  We've been tweeting and blogging and writing!!  I hear that a Zombie Apocolypse is in the future....
 Here's the gameplan for the next 2 weeks.

Kris Gore  Lesson Plans	Date=Sept. , Sept. 22-26, 2014
8th English	PASS
Journal—Show from website on Prom. Board.   Assign Less. #4 Vocab. Due Friday.     Continue teaching pre-writing by using Buckle Down books M,T, W.   Begin Less. #9 Tip #6 p.123-128 “Planning/Pre-writing” in Buckle Down books.  Discuss and do Pract. Act. #4 p.124-128.	L.4 W.1-3   V.1.1-3 V.3.1-5         W.1-3
Journal—Show from website on Prom. Board.   Continue working on Buckle Down assignment.  Due at end of hr.  Hand in worksheets for me to grade.	L.4 W.1-3   W.1-3
Hand-out the Dewey Co. Essay info and go over the timeline due dates:   *Pre-writing due Thurs=9/25 *Rough Draft due Mon.=9/29 *First Typed Copy due Thurs.=10/2 *Bibliography due end of hour Fri=10/3 *Title Page due Mon. 10/6   Students will receive a grade on each due date.  None of these grades are droppable.	W.1-3
Continue working on Dewey Co. Essays.	W.1-3
Continue working on Dewey Co. Essays.	W.1-3

	Kris Gore  Lesson Plans	Date=Sept. 29- Oct. 3, 2014
	8th English	PASS
Monday	Continue working on Dewey Co. Soil Conservation Essay. Timeline of due dates as follows:   *Pre-writing due Thurs=9/25 *Rough Draft due Mon.=9/29 *First Typed Copy due Thurs.=10/2 *Bibliography due end of hour Fri=10/3 *Title Page due Mon. 10/6   Students will receive a grade on each due date.  None of these grades are droppable.	W.1-3
Tuesday	Continue working on Dewey Co. Soil Conservation Essay.	W.1-3
Wednesday	Continue working on Dewey Co. Soil Conservation Essay.	W.1-3
Thursday	Continue working on Dewey Co. Soil Conservation Essay.	W.1-3
Friday	No School=Prof. Dev. Day

 

Back in the Sadle Again......

Here we are....back at school!!!  Already week three and everyone is trying desperately to get back into the groove.  We have a new school website--same address--www.leedey.k12.ok.us--but a totally different look!!!  Plus each teacher has his/her own website w/in the school's website.  So all of my "cool stuff" will now be posted on my pages on the school website.  I'll probably only use this blog to chit chat and post my daily assignments, via my lesson plans.  Trying to embrace all of the new technology and keep my 8th grade students "plugged in!!"

GO BISON!!!!

Kris Gore  Lesson Plans

8th English  Sept.2-5

No School—Labor Day.

Take their Dr. Seuss Rhyme Tyme poems and copy them on their kid blogs.   Do a 3-2-1 over a Flikr video off of Apple TV.  Hand-in for grade.   Pass out Vocab wksheets from workbook.  Explain how to do.  Less. #1 due Friday.

List different animals from the rain forest (nouns as stuff) and then list creative action verbs ( what stuff does).  Then develop a paragraph from one of the rain forest animals. (We do)   Next have students come up with 2 nouns from their world and create action verbs, then develop a paragraph over one.  Challenge students to find active verbs.Nancy Lilly, co-director of the Greater New Orleans Writing Project, wanted her fourth and fifth grade students to breathe life into their nonfiction writing. She thought the student who wrote this paragraph could do better: The jaguar is the biggest and strongest cat in the rainforest. The jaguar's jaw is strong enough to crush a turtle's shell. Jaguars also have very powerful legs for leaping from branch to branch to chase prey. In a brainstorming session related to the students' study of the rain forest, the class supplied the following assistance to the writer: Stuff/Nouns : What Stuff Does/Verbs jaguar : leaps, pounces jaguar's : legs pump jaguar's : teeth crush jaguar's : mouth devours This was just the help the writer needed to create the following revised paragraph: As the sundisappears from the heart of the forest, the jaguar leaps through the underbrush, pumping its powerful legs. It spies a gharial gliding down the river. The jungle cat pounces, crushing the turtle with his teeth, devouring the reptile with pleasure. Students para due Thurs.

Read aloud some of the paragraphs.   Teach interesting words and use them in a different way.Encourage descriptive writing by focusing on the sounds of words. Begin to train their ears by asking them to make lists of wonderful sounding words. This is strictly a listening game.  Students shouldn't write lunch just because they're hungry.  When the collective list is assembled, asks students to make sentences from some of the words they've collected. They may use their own words, borrow from other contributors, add other words as necessary, and change word forms. Among the words on one student's list: tumble, detergent, sift, bubble, syllable, creep, erupt, and volcano. The student writes: A man loads his laundry into the tumbling washer, the detergent sifting through the bubbling water. The syllables creep through her teeth. The fog erupts like a volcano in the dust. Unexpected words can go together, creating amazing images. Have students write 5 sentences with unexpected, wonderful sounding words.

Grade Vocab wb. Less. #1 Give them a quiz over the words.  Make them write a paragraph using 5-10 list words.   3-2-1 over magazine article. Due Monday.