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8 th Grade Bell Ringers. 1 st Marking Period. Thursday, August 26 th / Friday, August 27 th. Bell Ringer: Please Fill Out the Technology Survey on your desk. . Agenda: 1. Technology Survey 2. Procedures 3. Syllabus 4. Symbols of Us 5. Name Game. Essential Question: Who are you?.
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8th Grade Bell Ringers 1st Marking Period
Thursday, August 26th/ Friday, August 27th • Bell Ringer: • Please Fill Out the Technology Survey on your desk. • Agenda: • 1. Technology Survey • 2. Procedures • 3. Syllabus • 4. Symbols of Us • 5. Name Game Essential Question: Who are you?
Friday, August 27th/Monday August 30th • Bell Ringer: • AOW – please take an AOW and Nonfiction Notes paper from the supply table, get out a piece of paper, and wait for instruction. • Agenda: • 1. Bell Ringer • 2. Symbols of US • 3. Name Game • 4. “Where I’m From Poetry” Essential Question: Who are you?
Monday, August 30th/ Tuesday August 31st • Bell Ringer: • Vocabulary – Get out your notebooks/paper/notecards • Agenda: • 1. Vocab • 2. “Where I’m From” Poetry Essential Question: Who are you?
Tuesday, August 31st • Bell Ringer: • Vocabulary – Get out your notebooks/paper/notecards • Agenda: • 1. Vocab • 2. “Where I’m From” Poetry Essential Question: Who are you?
Wednesday, September 1st • Bell Ringer: • 1. Gum Worksheet • Agenda: • 1. Bell Ringer • 2. “Where I’m From” Poetry Essential Question: Who are you?
Thursday, September 2nd • Bell Ringer: • Turn in vocab. • Agenda: • Agenda: • 1. Bell Ringer • 2. Turn in Vocab cards • 3. “Where I’m From” Poetry Essential Question: Who are you? How can we use Publisher to enhance our poetry?
Friday, September 3rd • Bell Ringer: • Get out GUM and AOW assignments. • Discuss. • Agenda: • 1. Bell Ringer • 2. Pass Back Vocab • 3. Books • 4. Start Native American Myths, Legends, and Folktales Unit Essential Question:
Tuesday, September 7th • Bell Ringer: • Please take a Vocab practice sheet and get started (only on the vocab side)! • Agenda: • 1. Vocab Review/pass back papers • 2. Native American Unit Essential Question: (see next slide)
Wednesday, September 8th • Bell Ringer: • Please get out the Bell Ringer paper from yesterday and work on the GUM side. • Agenda: • 1. Bell Ringer • 2. finish Notes • 3. Begin reading Sky Woman Essential Question: How do the Senecas feel about nature?
Thursday, September 2nd • Bell Ringer: • 1. Take 5 minutes to look over your vocabulary words. Ready…Go! • Agenda: • 1. Review vocab • 2. Quiz • 3. Notes/Sky Woman Essential Question: What characteristics of a myth does Sky Woman have?
Friday, September 10th • Bell Ringer: • On a slip of yellow paper, tell me your honest opinion of reading and what kinds of things (genre of books, magazines, etc.) that you like to read, and how often you read for fun. • Agenda: • 1. Bell Ringer • 2. Notes • 3. Video/Surprise • 4. Sky Woman Essential Question: (see next slide)
Essential Questions • What’s the difference between myths, legends, and folktales? • Why are the American myths, legends, and folktales different from those found in other parts of the world? • What are the characteristics of an American myth, legend, or folktale? • Why do we tell stories about our origins?
Monday, September 13th • Bell Ringer: • 1. Pick up AOW from the table. • Agenda: • 1. AOW • 2. Sky Woman • 3. Great Medicine Essential Question: What characteristics of a myth do Sky Womanand Great Medicine have?
Tuesday, September 14th • Bell Ringer: • 1. New Vocab list! • Agenda: • 1. Vocab • 2. Finish Sky Woman discussion • 3. Great Medicine Essential Question: What characteristics do Sky Woman and Great Medicine have?
Wednesday, September 15th • Bell Ringer: • 1. Pick up a GUM worksheet on the table • Agenda: • 1. work on Gum • 2. Work on worksheet for Great Medicine • 3. Compare and Contrast Sheet • 4. If done – start reading “The Owl Never Sleeps at Night on page 517. Essential Question: What characteristics of a myth do Sky Woman and Great Medicine have?
Thursday, September 16th • Bell Ringer: • 1. Turn in Vocab • Agenda: • 1. Bell ringer • 2. go over Qs • 3. Notes for Great Medicine • 4. Compare and Contrast Essential Question: What characteristics of a myth do Sky Woman and Great Medicine have?
Friday, September 17th • Bell Ringer: • 1. Get out, go over, and turn in GUM and AOW • Agenda: • 1. Bell Ringer • 2. Questions • 3. Notes • 4. Compare/ Contrast essay Essential Question: How can we organize information in order to write a compare and contrast essay?
Tuesday, September 21st • Bell Ringer: • Password! • Agenda: • 1. Password • 2. C/C essay • 3. When finished with the c/c essay – start reading the 1st How and Why Myth on page 517 Essential Question: How can we organize information in order to write a compare and contrast essay?
Thursday, September 23rd • Bell Ringer: • 5 minutes to look over your vocab! • Agenda: • 1. Bell Ringer • 2. Vocab Quiz • 3. When done, make sure you’ve read the myth on page 517 before tomorrow. Essential Question:
Friday, September 24th • Bell Ringer: • 1. Happy National Punctuation Day! • (video) • Agenda: • 1. Bell Ringer • 2. “Owl” story • 3. QASI • 4. Rainbow Crow Essential Question: How are “How and Why Myths” different from Creation myths?
Tuesday, September 28th • Bell Ringer: • Pick up AOW from the table. • Agenda: • 1. Go over AOW • 2. Read The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog on page 526. **Take a look at the schedule board of the upcoming quiz!** Essential Question: How are “How and Why Myths” different from Creation myths?
Wednesday, September 29th • Bell Ringer: • Vocab • Agenda: • 1. Vocab • 2. Discuss Elk Dog • 3. Review Essential Question: How are “How and Why Myths” different from Creation myths?
Thursday, September 30th • Bell Ringer: • Get out all notes and book • Agenda: • 1. Quiz • 2. GUM Essential Question:
When done with the quiz… • Put it on the table • Take a GUM and start working on it • Start looking at our next story, • The Devil and Daniel Webster p. 534
Friday, October 1st • Bell Ringer: • GUM! • Agenda: • 1. Gum • 2. The Devil and Daniel Webster p. 534 Essential Question: How is exaggeration used in legends?
Friday, October 1st • Bell Ringer: • Writer’s Notebook: • Option 1: How could you be late to your own funeral? • Option 2: What moment in time would you have most liked to witness? • Agenda: • 1. WNB • 2. Collect AOW, hand back cards • 3. The Devil and Daniel Webster Essential Question: How is exaggeration used in legends?
Tuesday, October 5th • Bell Ringer: • -Practice Vocab – pick up paper! • Agenda: • 1. Practice Vocab • 2. Discuss The Devil and Daniel Webster • 3. Creative Writing Essential Question: Is there a moral to The Devil and Daniel Webster?
Wednesday, October 6th • Bell Ringer: • -Practice GUM • Agenda: • 1. GUM • 2. Creative Writing Essential Question:
Thursday, October 7th • Bell Ringer: • Take 5 minutes to review! • Agenda: • 1. Vocab Quiz • 2. When done.. • A. Continue working on creative writing • B. Read The Serpentine Bobsled on page 549 – by Tuesday! Essential Question:
Tuesday, October 12th • Bell Ringer: • Get out essay • Agenda: • 1. Collect essay • 2. AOW • 3. Pass Back Papers • Bobsled story Essential Question: What is a legend?
Wednesday, October 13th • Bell Ringer: Vocab • Agenda: • 1. Vocab • 2. Pass back papers • 3. 8th– Davy Crockett • 4. Start Jumping Frog Essential Question: What is a legend?
Friday, October 15th • Bell Ringer: • Turn in Vocab • Agenda: • 1. Go over Questions • 2. Start The Legend of Sleepy Hallow Essential Question: How is Jumping Froga legend?
Monday, October 18th • Bell Ringer: • WNB – • What are you afraid of? Why? • Agenda: • 1. WNB • 2. Pass back papers • 3. Collect AOW • 4. Sleepy Hallow • P. 580 Essential Question:
Tuesday, October 19th • Bell Ringer: • Take Vocab puzzle • Agenda: • 1. Puzzle • 2. Read Sleepy Hallow • to pg. 588, 2nd column, end of 1st paragraph by Wednesday Essential Question: What kind of a man is Ichabod Crane?
Friday, October 1st • Bell Ringer: • Next slide • Agenda: • 1. pictures • 2. Discuss Sleepy Hallow to pg. 588 • 3. Start filling out chart Essential Question: Why does it take 7 pages before the action begins?
Thursday, October 21st • Bell Ringer: • 5 Minutes to study! • Agenda: • Vocab Quiz • After the Quiz: • Continue Reading to p. 592, 2nd column, end of 2nd full paragraph for Friday Essential Question: How are Crane and Bones different?
Friday, October 22nd • Bell Ringer: • Major Andre’s story • Agenda: • 1. Review reading to p. 592 • 2. continue reading Essential Question: At this point in the story, what is your opinion of Ichabod Crane?
Monday, October 25th • Bell Ringer: • Get out books – • 7th – pg. 596 • 8th-pg. 594 • Agenda: • 1. Finish Sleepy Hallow! • 2. Worksheet • 3. Review
Tuesday, October 26th • Bell Ringer: • Get out your book/any notes you wish to use • Agenda: • 1. Legends quiz • 2. Check out the progress report on my desk when done Page Numbers: The Devil and Daniel Webster – p. 534 Sunrise in His Pocket – p. 546 The Serpentine Bobsled – p. 549 The Celebrated Frog of Calveras County – p. 573 The Legend of Sleepy Hallow – p. 580
Wednesday, October 27th • Bell Ringer: • 1. Row 1 and 3 – tell your partner rows what you know about Edgar Allan Poe • Agenda: • 1. Poe Video Biography • 2. Discussion • 3. Begin The Raven Essential Question: What events in Poe’s life could have had an impact his writing?
Thursday, October 28th • Bell Ringer: • Row 2 and 4 – Tell your partner row what has happened so far in Poe’s life • Agenda: • Finish video • Start The Raven • Analysis of The Raven Essential Question: What are the conflicts in "The Raven"? What types of conflict (physical, moral, intellectual, or emotional) do you read? Does the poem end the way you expected? How? Why?
Friday, October 29th(Happy Halloween!) • Bell Ringer: • What is a parody? • Agenda: • 1. Discuss satire • 2. Watch “Spooky Satire/Parody” videos Essential Question: What is a parody and how could these videos be considered a parody?
Friday, October 1st • Bell Ringer: • Agenda: Essential Question:
Friday, November 1st • Bell Ringer: • Agenda: Essential Question: