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Junior english

Junior english. 2013-2014 CARMAN. Monday August 19. On your notecard, write the following: Your name Something you do when you’re not doing schoolwork A good book you’ve read within the last 12 months Your current song/movie/obsession. Exit ticket:.

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Junior english

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  1. Junior english 2013-2014 CARMAN

  2. Monday August 19 On your notecard, write the following: • Your name • Something you do when you’re not doing schoolwork • A good book you’ve read within the last 12 months • Your current song/movie/obsession

  3. Exit ticket: • Something you’d like to get out of school this year • Something you are giving back to society this year

  4. Tuesday, August 20, 2013 HOW BELLWORK WORKS • There‘s a prompt almost every day. • Label each entry. • Keep entries together & turn in on Friday (or Monday). • Worth 3 points each. • WRITE THE WHOLE TIME! • If you miss a day, you must make up the bellwork.

  5. Tuesday, August 20 bellwork • What makes for a good learning environment? • What makes for a bad learning environment? Your answer may be a list or a paragraph.

  6. Wednesday, August 21Bellwork • What tips and strategies do you have for note-taking?

  7. How many of these questions do your notes help you answer? • Around 500 B.C.E., English was basically the same language as _________. • What made Old English nouns so difficult to learn? • What is the Old English plural form of “book”? • What is the Old English plural form of “egg”? • What is the Old English plural form of “child”? • What group of people is responsible for changing the way we pluralize nouns in English? • Why did they start pluralizing almost all nouns by adding an “S”?

  8. Which question is mostrelated to the video’s main idea? • Around 500 B.C.E., English was basically the same language as _________. • What made Old English nouns so difficult to learn? • What is the Old English plural form of “book”? • What is the Old English plural form of “egg”? • What is the Old English plural form of “child”? • What group of people is responsible for changing the way we pluralize nouns in English? • Why did they start pluralizing almost all nouns by adding an “S”?

  9. Friday, August 23 Bellwork • Describe yourself as a reader. • You might consider the following: • What kinds of books, magazines, websites, or articles do you like to read? • What is your least favorite kind of reading? • How do you focus? • When and where do you like to read? • How have you changed as a reader, since you were younger? • How is reading useful to you? • How would you like to improve as a reader? You should answer this prompt with complete sentences.

  10. Exit Ticket– reflection (on back of notecard) • Write 3-5 complete sentences about how using this strategy affected your reading experience. • What did you like or dislike about the strategy? • How do you think this strategy will affect how you remember the story? • What might you use this strategy for in the future?

  11. Tuesday, August 27 Bellwork • Describe the society that Harrison Bergeron lives in. • Provide 2 quotations that reveal something important about this society. • What do these quotations reveal? Example:

  12. Wednesday, August 28 Bellwork • Do you think cursive should be taught in school? Why or why not? • Please write in complete sentences.

  13. Tuesday, September 03 Bellwork • How’s it going? • Write a journal entry about whatever is on your mind. (You will not be asked to share this with the class).

  14. Whether or Weather? I couldn’t tell ________________ she was serious or not.

  15. They’re, There, or Their? __________ are too many possible answers to this question.

  16. Whose or Who’s? _____________ going to help me with this?

  17. Effect or Affect? Reading that book had a peculiar _____________ on Evelyn.

  18. Uninterested or Disinterested? I am completely ________________ in this movie.

  19. Loose or Lose? I’m afraid she’s going to ____________ her grandmother’s wedding band.

  20. Lieing, Laying, or Lying? My mother has been _______________ in bed all morning.

  21. Accept or Except? She has apparently found it difficult to ______________ the circumstances.

  22. Its or It’s? She apparently doesn’t care about _____________ origins in antiquity.

  23. Than or Then? It’s usually hotter _____________ this in July.

  24. Cite, Sight, or Site? The politicians can’t seem to find an appropriate ______________ for the new community college.

  25. Quite, Quiet, or Quit? I’ve never known the library to be __________ this quiet.

  26. How to summarize a text

  27. Wednesday, September 4 Bellwork • Use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then format to summarize a story you know. • (It may be a fairy tale, novel, movie, etc.)

  28. Thursday, September 05 Bellwork • Where are you on your hero’s journey? Spend at least 5 minutes writing

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