Bell-ringer and Instructions

 Bell-ringer:

Bobby bought a new aquarium for his recently purchased turtle, Myrtle. The aquarium has a height of 14 inches, a length of 20 inches, and width of 10 inches. Because Myrtle only needs a fourth of it to be filled, what is the volume of the aquarium of the tank that will be filled with water? No calculator. Show work. 

You need to follow the directions from yesterday and Wednesday. 

When you are completely finished, put your essay on Mr. Spivy's thumb drive. 
If you do not finish today, you will need to finish at home and bring your final copy to school on Monday.

Bell-ringer and Instructions

Write the quote and then answer the questions that follow.

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”  Albert Einstein

1. Do you agree that the world is dangerous because of the people who do nothing about evil? Why/why not?

2. Einstein left Germany because of Hitler and the Nazi party; what do you think he was referring to in this quote?

Different classes have different directions; only follow the directions for your class.

Block:

1. Before you type, you must complete the three grammar exercises below. Show Mr. Spivy your score at the end of each exercise for credit. 

Sub.-Verb Agreement  

Commas

Apostrophes

Review the rubric for your narrative essay here.  

2. If you have shown Mr. Spivy your completed rough draft, you need to resume typing your narrative essay. Your essay should be double-spaced (with no extra space between paragraphs).

3. When you are finished, type your title at the top of the first page. Put your heading (name, Mr. Spivy, date) in the top left above the title. 

4. Your essay should include many descriptive details. Refer to your dialogue notes to make sure you are formatting your dialogue correctly.  Incorrect formatting of dialogue will cause you to lose points. 

5. We will be having silent reading at the end of class. 

6. Do not print your essay! Due tomorrow at the end of class!

4th, 5th, 6th Period:

 Review the rubric for your narrative essay here. 

1. If you have shown Mr. Spivy your completed rough draft, you need to resume typing your narrative essay. Your essay should be double-spaced (with no extra space between paragraphs).

2. When you are finished, type your title at the top of the first page. Put your heading (name, Mr. Spivy, date) in the top left above the title. 

3. Your essay should include many descriptive details. Refer to your dialogue notes to make sure you are formatting your dialogue correctly.  Incorrect formatting of dialogue will cause you to lose points. 

4. Do not print your essay! Due tomorrow at the end of class!

7th Period:
The rubric for the letter is here.

1. Continue typing your letter. Make sure to format your letter correctly. An example of a correctly formatted letter is hyper-linked in yesterday's post.

2. When you are finished, copy and paste the body of your letter into WV Writes. If there is not a prompt specified for this assignment, put it into another prompt. Take the suggestions from WV Writes and revise your letter.

3. DO NOT PRINT YOUR LETTER TODAY!

4. If you finish all of these steps, complete the three grammar exercises below. These are not easy exercises. Show Mr. Spivy the score at the end of each exercise for credit. 

Parallel Structure

Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

Subject-Verb Agreement

Bell-ringer and Instructions

Bell-ringer: Re-write the following sentences, correcting any grammatical, mechanical, and spelling errors.

    1.      three mile island PA was the cite of the worst neuclear accident in us history.

    2.      On march 28 2013 at 4 am a valve got stuck open in a reacter.

    3.      Because of this the reactor were not able to be cooled down.

    4.      The workers of the plant was not trained proper for the situation.

    5.      A small amount of chemicals were release in the air. 

    Once you have finished your bell-ringer, you need to type your essay. 

    The narrative essay needs to be double-spaced throughout. 

    If you do not know how to double-space your essay, please ask Mr. Spivy. 

    For the letter to the author(7th period) follow the formatting that you were shown yesterday.

   12-point font--Times New Roman, Calibri, or Arial
   Rubrics will be given tomorrow. 

     Do not use these words:
     amazing, awesome, bad, beautiful, big, boring, easy, fast, good, great, happy, hard, enormous, angry, pretty, smart, get, got, stupid, dumb, weird, tiny, little, tall, short, huge, mean, nice, old, perfect, quick, really, small , see, very, ugly, sad, scary, cool, loud, said

Bell-ringer and Objectives

Bell-ringer: Rewrite the following sentences, adding the necessary punctuation and using proper capitalization.

1. my sister and her friends monica and jimmy went to canada

2. because of his lack of knowledge george was fired from petes pizza place

3. when no one knows where todds grandma is its a problem

4. sit down and be quiet its time to start

5. shes sick cause she ate grandma lindas two week old meatloaf

 Objectives:

1. You should be at least halfway done with the components of your campaign. Be sure to refer to the descriptions and rubrics when you have questions or concerns.

2. Your informative presentation should be close to finished by the end of the day. Figure out how you will present your presentation to the class. Who will be speaking? What will they be saying? The presenters should look to the presentation for all of the information. 

3. Your PSA script should be nearly complete by the end of the day. Practice saying the lines. Time your practices to see if you are falling within the time parameters. You should not have to hold a script for the PSA. That may mean memorizing your lines.

4. If you have not already received a poster from Mr. Spivy, that needs to happen soon. Remember that the predominate color of the poster should not be white. Be creative with your poster. It should be eye-catching. 

5. Group leaders: I need your participation report by the end of class. 

You have four days left. 

Bell-ringer and Objectives

Bell-ringer: Create an original sentence using the five words below. Your sentences should be at least ten words long.

1. Dauntless- adj. fearless; intrepid

2. Debut- noun first appearance on stage, television, etc…

3. Decapitate- verb to behead

4. Deceive- verb to mislead by a false appearance or statement

5. Decimate- verb to destroy a great number or proportion of

Objectives:

1. Review again the requirements and rubrics for each component to ensure that you are meetings all requirements. 

2. At the end of the day today, you will only have two more work days to work on this project in class. 

3. You should have at least six slides completed for the informative presentation. Remember, when you present to the class, you should not be reading all of your information off of your slides. 

4. Update the work cited information. 

5. The PSA script should be completed by the end of today. Tomorrow you will be working on refining the script and adding blocking (movement) and effects.

6. You should have a rough sketch of your advertisement on the poster by the end of the day. Make sure that your advertisement is eye-catching, colorful, includes at least one fact. 

7. Leaders, I will need your participation reports at the end of class today. 

This is due in five days.