Bell-ringer and Instructions

Bell-ringer: Rewrite the following sentences, correcting any grammatical, mechanical, or spelling errors. Do not change the meaning of the sentences.

1.      Sorry I dunno if Ima wanna do that tommorow.

2.      When I was 3-years-old I can tie my shoes.

3.      He does’nt feel good so we isn’t gonna go the party.

4.      She looked at him, and said “I will return in 10 minutes”!

5.      I recieved two hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-three cents from the cashere.

Block-6th Directions
1. Finish the essential questions from Monday if you have not finished that. Make sure to add the questions that I provided you yesterday.
2. Continue working on your annotated bibliography. Follow the directions from Monday's post. The document is hyperlinked.
3. When you finish your annotated bibliography, continue compiling notes for your research project.
4. I must have your article questions in the tray in our classroom by the end of the day.

7th Directions
1. When Mr. Spivy asks, bring him your g-mail information. No one will be able to access your documents until I have your g-mail information.
2. Finish the guiding document if it is not done. Work on your current issues/problem documents. You should do a fair amount of research before writing. You should be the expert on these topics by the end of the process.

Bell-ringer and Directions

Bell-ringer:
Using the five underlined words from yesterday, write five original sentences. If you could not find the definitions for the five words yesterday, you may look them up today. Your sentences must consist of at least ten words each.

Block-6th Directions
1. Add these questions to your list of questions yesterday if they are already not part of your questions.

History:
1. How was this country founded?
2. What are some significant events from the country's past?
3. Has your country been involved with any wars?

Geography:
1. What is the land mass of your country?
2. What are the major geographic formations?
3. What does this country border?
4. What are the important natural resources?

Society:
1. What is the population?
2. What is the ethnicity of the population?
3. What religion do they belong to?

Government:
1. What type of government does the country have?
2. What is the definition of that type of government?
3. Who is the leader of the government?

Current Events:
1. What is currently in the news domestically?
2. Is the country involved with anything overseas?

2. Continue working on your annotated bibliography. Follow the directions from yesterday to complete this task.

3. If you finish your essential questions and your annotated bibliography, compile some notes while researching your topic. Use the questions you have created to guide your research.

7th Directions
1. Continue working on the tasks from yesterday.
2. I have added space in the guide document to complete your write-ups on the current issues in your countries.

Bell-ringer and Directions

Bell-ringer:

Write the following sentences and define the underlined words using context clues and prior knowledge.Do not look these words up.

1.      Your story of the twelve-headed squirrel is completely implausible.

2.      Though practice was cancelled, we decided to have an impromptu scrimmage.

3.      The chemicals you added made the water impure and unfit for drinking.

4.      My mother inadvertently nicked my ear when she cut my hair.

5.      Although the textbook was understandable, the professor was inapprehensible.

 Block-6th
Directions:
1. Create a new document on Word.
2. In this new document, write down the five sections your research project must include.
3. Under each section, write the essential questions that you will be answering in the section. You should have at least three questions under each section.
4. When you are finished with this document, open the document that instructs you on how to make your annotated bibliography that is due later this week. You will add your annotated bibliography to the document you just created.

Annotated Bibliography Instructions

7th
1. Finish the guiding document from Friday. The links are still live. I made one alteration to the document. This document is due at the end of class today.
2.  When you are finished with this, split the group into three smaller groups.
3. Each group needs to focus on an issue that is afflicting your country. For example, if your country was Honduars, you would research the problems with drug trafficking, extreme poverty, or government corruption.
4. Each group needs to write a one page write-up each of the issues. This needs to include any resources you use. A good resource to use would be a newspaper or other new source from your country. You can translate it using translate.google.com
5. By the end of this assignment, your country should have research three different topics from your country. 

Bell-ringer and Research Project

Bell-ringer:

Jesse has a coupon to her favorite store for $50 off her total price. When she arrives to the store, she discovers the store will take 30% all items in the store. At the end of her shopping extravaganza, Jesse has selected seven items that add up to $200 even (with tax). She may not use her coupon and receive the discounted price. Which will she choose—her coupon or the 30% off? Explain your answer at the end.

Block-6th
Directions:
1. Click on Research Project Prompt
2. Tell Mr. Spivy your topic (when he calls your name)
3. Read this source about credible/reliable sources here. (Hint: .org and .edu are the best--no Wikipedia!)
4. Think about the questions you will have to answer for each section of the paper.
5. Start searching for credible sources for your project.

7th
Directions:
1. The contract needs to be finished as soon as possible. Print off the contract and give it to Mr. Spivy today.
2. Click on the link that corresponds with each country. Each member of the group should be able to add to the document individually. After deciding who will play which leadership role in the group, divvy up each part of the document so each person has a portion to work on.
USA-here 
Russia-here
UK-here
China-here
France-here

Bell-ringer and Activity

Bell-ringer:
For today's bell-ringer, you will read the article below and answer the questions that follow.

"I am the Person You Hurt When You Use the R-Word"
by John Franklin Stephens

Sometimes I feel like Professor Van Helsing, or maybe Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I keep trying to kill this thing and it just won't die. Of course, my nemesis is the "r-word," not a vampire.

Like Dracula, the r-word just sucks the life out of those of us who fall in its path. It spreads like an infection from person to person. It seems as though perfectly nice people who "mean no harm" get bitten by hearing others using the term while "meaning no harm." And so it goes, from person to person, until it becomes so common that even Presidential Chiefs of Staff, radio talk show hosts, movie characters and famous political pundits use the nasty slur -- then say they "meant no harm."
To all of you who use it, let me say it one more time, THE R-WORD HURTS. You don't have to aim the word directly at me to hurt me and millions of others like me who live with an intellectual disability. Every time a person uses the r-word, no matter who it is aimed at, it says to those who hear it that it is okay to use it. That's how a slur becomes more and more common. That's how people like me get to hear it over and over, even when you think we aren't listening.

So, why am I hurt when I hear "retard." Let's face it, nobody uses the word as a term of praise. At best, it is used as another way of saying "stupid" or "loser." At worst, it is aimed directly at me as a way to label me as an outcast -- a thing, not a person. I am not stupid. I am not a loser. I am not a thing. I am a person.

It hurts me to think that people assume that I am less than a whole person. That is what is so awful about slurs. They are intended to make their target seem smaller, less of a person. People who live with an intellectual disability do not have an easy life. We have to fight to understand what the rest of you take for granted. We fight for education. We fight to live among the rest of you. We struggle to make friends. We often are ignored, even when we have something to say. We fight so hard to be seen as whole people. It hurts so much, after all that struggle, to hear you casually use a term that means that you assume we are less than whole.

How shall we respond to those of you who still use the r-word? Well, like Van Helsing and Buffy, we are going to aim at your heart. The only difference is that we are determined to drive a smile, not a stake, through your heart. Come join me on the side of the good guys. I promise you will feel better about yourself -- and no other people will have to feel bad about themselves.

1. When you say "retarded," are you truly meaning any harm by it?
2.  How could it be harmful towards someone?

Block-6th Period
Finish the activity from yesterday (or activities for block--you had TWO!).
When you are finished, look for countries that you would like to do a research project on. After selecting your countries, it would be good to start looking for credible websites that you could use for your project. Wikipedia and Google will not work. Tomorrow, you will be telling me which country you will be doing your project on. Two students cannot have the same country.

7th Period--
Today, you were supposed to have your groups formed for the next project. While I am not going to give you the prompt yet, I will tell you that it deals with international relationships and issues.
You are going to create the group contract today. Unlike last time, you will not have to write out your contract. As a group, you will type your contract using the provided template. When you are finished, you will print out your contract, sign it, and give it to Mr. Spivy. Let me know if/when you finish.
Template  click on the Collaborative Contract

Bell-ringer and Activity

Today, you will have two bell-ringers (to help make up for all the days that we have not had any).

Bell-ringer #1
Directions: Write the following and sentences and then define the underlined words using context clues and prior knowledge.

1.      The fallen trees hindered our journey to the beach.

2.      Horace, the criminal mastermind, hoodwinked the cops using a creative story and disguise.

3.      Because of all of the pollen in the air, my eyes are extremely hydrous today.

4.      My teacher is hypercritical and can find fault in anything.

5.      My sister is so comfortable in the water that she has been called ichthyic. 

  Bell-ringer #2
  Using the underlined words above, write five original sentences. Your sentences must be at least ten words long. If they are not at least ten words long, then you will not receive credit for this bell-ringer. Use an online resource to help you define the words if you cannot figure out the meaning using context clues. 

  Activity:
 Click on the hyperlink below and follow the directions. You will not be able to print out the article. Make sure to read all of the information before answering the questions (even the information after the questions). Your answers must be complete sentences. Write on your own sheet of paper.
Also, answer question #1 in the resource section at the bottom of the page.

  Kerry Warns Russia

Homework: This week, we will be starting a research project on a country of your choosing. Tomorrow, I will ask you which country you would like to do your project on. When you finish the activity today, you may start looking for the country. I will not allow two people in the same class to research the same country, so have a back-up plan.

If you finish everything: you may either do activities at chompchomp.com, freerice.com, or you may read. Those are your only options. 

Block:
Read the article below and answer the questions with complete sentences after you have done the activity above. You will be required to finish both articles today. 
  US Scales Back

Poetry Notes Quiz

You may use your notes for this quiz. Write the answers to each question on your own sheet of paper. This must be given to Mr. Spivy by the end of the day Friday (February 2/21/2014)

Poetry Notes Quiz

Directions: Answer the allowing questions using your notes. For the first section, your answers will be one or two words.

1. Poetry is  a type of writing that uses what to create strong emotion?

2. What one word definition defines rhythm?

3. What word means “words used in a way to suggest more than the dictionary meanings”?

4. Rhyme is the repetition of what?

5. Meter is a length of a line of poetry, based on what type of ________ is used.

6. What is a group of lines of poetry called?

7. What is it called when rhyming occurs within the same line?

For this section, write down the figurative language or literary device being used in each example.

8. My grandmother will not start the car unless she hears all seatbelts click.

9. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”

10. “The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,

The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.”

11. “. . . impressions poured in upon her of those two men, and to follow her thought was like following a voice which speaks too quickly to be taken down by one’s pencil . . .”

12. “Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.” (the answer is not simile)

13. “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.”

14. I am trying to solve a million issues today.

15. “Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn…”

For this section, write down what type of poem each example is.

16. An old pond in view!

A frog jumps in the water–

the sound of splashing.

17. Knights

Armor ,shields

Fighting, charging, slaughtering

Worried, delighted, brave, fearsome

Crusaders

18. Wildly glaring at each other 

In their faces stern defiance,

In their hearts the feuds of ages.

The hereditary hatred,

The ancestral thirst of vengeance.

(This is part of a much larger poem that tell has characters, plot, and setting.)

19.

There was a small boy of Quebec

Who was buried in snow to his neck

When they said, "Are you friz?"

He replied, " Yes, I is —

But we don't call this cold in Quebec."

For this section, you need to write down the rhyme scheme of the poem. Example: AABBAA, ABCABCABC, ABBACDDC

20.

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:

England hath need of thee: she is a fen

Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,

Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,

Have forfeited their ancient English dower

Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;

Oh! raise us up, return to us again;

And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.