(notes by Gaelen)
Jordan collected everybody's parents email
Mr. Salsich read Alexander's homework
Andrew found alliteration in a sentence
Jake read one of his sentences
Cassie read a sentence which was very good
Kiona's sentence and Jordan's sentence e both had Sally as the person in there sentences
Jenn knew that assonance was the repetition of vowel sounds anywhere in a sentence
Andrew collected all the homework in 13 seconds
The Server is Chris, the teacher assistant is Andrew, people sitting in the comfy chairs are Jenn, Kiona
and Jordan. The person taking video is Jake and Kara is taking pictures. I'm the note taker
We will start reading TKAM next week
Jake will start to take 5 to 10 minutes of video
When we are in English Class we will follow SLANTS
Everyone took down the meaning of paraphrase
How to setup your blog
www.blogger.com follow directions
Topics that we covered today are paraphrase, slants,and your blog
Homework is set up your blog www.blogger.com send web address to hesalsich@gmail.com
Every Tuesday we will have a free reading period
The teachers assistant will give a book talk everyday and will find a vocab word from TKAM also they will choose a song that goes with TKAM Iron Thunder by Avi, The Uglies all books the teachers assistant can review
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
(notes by Gaelen)
Chris collects all the cups
Mr.Salsich talks about when we start reading TKAM the TA finds a vocabulary word in TKAM
The vocab word from the other class is monumental
Kara returns the HW
We view Kiona's blog
We also look at Chris's blog
Kara's blog has bird's shadows in the background
We can't look at Andrew's blog
We listen to a song on pandora
The song is called Riddle By Five For Fighting
Freestyle is from the heart
Freestyle writing has no rules
Mr.Salsich reads our first freestyle writing while we all keep a poker face so that no one will know who's writing is who's
Most of the writing's are about the outside and the birds eating birdseed
While Mr. Salsich is reading we can hear the music as it plays
Some of the writings are very different
HW is to freestyle write for 20 min
Harry asked how to do a Post
We looked at Jordan's Blog
Tuesday September, 14
Everyone sits down
Mr. Salsich tells tells us about the sunrise he saw this morning
We view the picture sideshow then the video. Both made by Mr. Salsich
We look at Jordan's blog and find a metaphor in it
Alex answers Mr.Salsich's question right
We add elaborate to our word list
We look for unity in Jenn's FSW
We learn how to edit your post if you didn't know
Mr Salsich tells Andrew to bring in a vocabulary word in for tomorrow
Wednesday September,15
Andrew's word is propinquity
We are taking an open note quiz
Emanuel collects the quiz
Kiona knows a joke that she will tell us
Andrew will call on someone to tell a joke during the class
Jenn made some food without a recipe and so did Chris
Mr.Salsich tells us about the paragraph recipe
Emanuel tells us there are 11 sentences in the paragraph recipe
Heading
Name Essay #
English Class
Date
Titles of poems and short stories are in quotations
Kara read her paragraph on Yesterday was a rather windy day
Cassie, Kiona and Chris all read their chunks
Post the body paragraph on your blog
The bell rings and we start class
Serious reader book mark is our next topic we are talking about today
Maybe reads everyday
Reads for fun
Someone who reads with care
Someone who wants to challenge themselves
Mr. Salsich has Cassie pass out the serious reader bookmarks
Harry passes out TKAM
Kara, Jenn, Harry, Andrew, Alexander and Chris answer questions about the cover of TKAM
Mr. Salsich Reads out of TKAM
Chris and Alexander both get questions right from TKAM
Mr.Salsich reads the first paragraph of TKAM
Thursday September, 16
Andrew's word is dismay
Andrew's book he chose is Messenger
Commenting on our classmates first drafts
Adams comment has one specific compliment and 2 specific/helpful suggestions
Post 2 comments on your partners blog by tonight
We look at Harry's, Alexander's, Kara's and Emanuel's Blogs which were all had very good layouts
Get proper punctuation in your FSW
We can do a puppet show or a skit
Jordan Jenn and Kiona give a fantastic puppet show
Monday September 20, 2010
Andrew's word is: Fret
Mr. Salsich: One Thought About Peace: Be a little nutty.
8th grade English video
Review for English reading blog
Assignment for Tonight: Entries for reading blog. Polish your blog according to your partners comments. Add opening and closing paragraph, short 3 to 4 sentences. Short assessment, Heading, Course, Date, Title, and Subtitle.
1. One writing issue I a continuing to work on.
2. One strong point I see in this piece of writing.
3. One possible weak point I see.
4. The grade I would give myself.
Put at bottom of Essay.
Following Blogs
Lesson for Today :
Rubricks
Unity: everything should be under one topic
Coherence: Everything is in order
Clarity: You can understand everything.
Style, Flair, and Funkiness: Putting your own personality into your writing.
Correctness
Wednesday September 22, 2010
Chris's book is Cheaper By the Dozen
Homework:
1st lesson:
Concluding Sentences: Make the concluding sentence something that the reader will remember.
Strange
Appearance
Note: Sometimes strange isn't bad.
2nd Lesson :
One annotation for each page.
- Star in margin: interesting sentence.
- Question mark in the margin: don't understand
- Exclamation mark in the margin: cool sentence
- Highlight
- 1st sticky note: summary.
- 2nd sticky note: reflection (see book mark).
- 3rd sticky note: write out one sentence you really liked.
Jake-9/29/10 (davids birthday)-Serious listening in a socratic seminar
1. Be like someone in your life that really listens to you
2. Look or track the speaker when there talking
3. You only listen you don't fiddle with other things
4. Nod when someone is speaking
Lesson 2 (stil david's birthday)- Circling unfamiliar words and making personal questions
1. When reading TKAM circle one unfamiliar word on every page (not an annotation)
2. think about similairities in the book and your life (have you ever had a mean teacher like Ms. Caroline from TKAM)
3.
10/4/10 notes by Jordan-the 4-sentence recipes, An impressive way to present your writing, self assessments
1.think about a time you made a good impression. Make good impression
2. presentation of your writing proper heading
3.4-sentence recipe
4.4 sentence recipe on 8A blog
10/5/10notes by Jordan
1.Using participles-ing,participles are adj., participles lengthen sentences
2. E's book talk vocab condescension to show feeling of superiority.book Moonshadow.
10/6/10 notes by Jordan
1.Using a character Bookmark
-connect characters to people you know-Kara.
-each time something really new about a character is revealed write page number and brief note about it.
-E, Kiona, Alexander, Jenn got stickers
2. 5 second page summary-at bottom of each page
10/12/10 Notes by Jenn- Transitions & TKAM
1. To access lesson go to " Writing Textbook" at top of the homepage
2. Transitions are like bridges between parts of your paper
3. Use transitions to smooth over sentences, carry thoughts and ideas over to other sentences and paragraphs and link your paper together
4. Transitions Mr. Salsich thinks we will use most often : Transitions to Show Examples
5. Try to understand why, at the end of Chp. 7, Jem was crying and write Essay #5 on crying
10/13/10 Notes by Jenn-Mini Lesson 1: Things to Consider After Reading a Text: What Does it Say, What Does it Mean, What Does it Matter? Also, Chapter 8 Reading
1. What does it say?- Cassie- Understanding the words written
2. What does it mean?- Cassie and Gaelen- Explaining the text and understanding what it means to you
3. What does it matter?- Alexander- Connecting the book to you and connecting paragraphs to the rest of the story
4. Sticky Notes- Andrew- What Does it Matter- Every opportunity you get for fun you should take advantage of, like when it snows for the first time in Scouts life but there wasn't enough for a full snowman. They found a way around it and had a lot of fun still.
5. Annotation- Cassie- Sentence- "Beautiful my hind foot! It freezes tonight, and it'll carry off my plants!"
10/13/10 Notes by Jenn- Mini Lesson 2- Using a Multi-Layered Timeline to Keep Track of a Novel & Reading TKAM
1. First Layer-What happened?
2. Second Layer- What Ideas do I have?
3. Third Layer- What Predictions Can I Make?
4. TKAM Chris- Ideas- Maybe Miss Maudie actually she did set her house on fire because she said that she would've set on fire herself before if she wouldn't be locked up for it.
5. TKAM Gaelen- Mr. Salsich praised his apititude as a Teacher Assitant
4.
Monday, October 18
Notes by Andrew
"Find more peace by making fun of yourself."
Kara, Jordan, and Harry opened their notebooks right away
Inpyo is doing a great job at tracking the speaker today
Make sure to check out the homework assignment for tonight!
Harry, Kara, and Cassie made great comments for how to re-read your work by stepping away for a little bit, and then coming back later and looking it over again.
We looked at Chris's, Harry's and Kiona's reading blogs
We looked at Jenn's VERY long reading blog
Jordan made a great free-style writing post about Leaves.
Impyo had a very detailed poem posted on his blog.
Chris made a nice post on his blog that included a great simally.
Kara is very proud about her free style writings that were "beautiful" said by Mr. Salsich.
Cassie had a very interesting free-write post on her blog.
Harry wrote piece about our field trip on Friday and Halloween.
Mr. Salsich talked about his numerous mistakes he made today, and asked Jenn, Kiona and Kara what they would do about this problem.
*Remember to check your Homework for tonight!
Tuesday, October 19
Notes by Andrew
"Find ore peace by watching leaves fall."
Kara gave a book talk about The Fall by Robert Muchamore
Vocab word of the day: Vehemently- characterize by anger
There is no homework for tonight!
Harry is doing a fine job tracking the speaker.
We looks at Alexander's superve Crying essay
Next we looked at Jenn's nice opening paragraph in her ssay
We looked at Emmanuel's detailed paragraph- he deserved 2 jumps!
We went over how to keep pushing to get people to express their true feelings for TKAM
E was curious about page 95 and Chris and Harry helped E out.
Jenn helped Gealen out for who Mr. Nathan Radley really was.
We are going outside to have our descution about TKAM
Wednesday, October 20
Notes by Andrew
"Find more peace by celebrating anything."
Reviewed lessons from the past week
Homework for tonight: "Chillax"!
Kiona did a great job at comparing Boo Radley to Tim Johnson
Kiona and Harry will be the teachers for TKAM today
Jenn made a great annotation on pg.91
Jordan made an annotation on pg.116 on that kids react faster than adults
I have notest that Chris has been doing a fine job tracking the speaker
We talked about why Uncle Jack was trying to avoid what Scout was saying on pg. 116
We had a joke by Kiona from 777 Great Clean Jokes
Alexander made a great connection on pg. 101 to his Sister
We added finding out, and curiosity to our list of themes in the back of the book
Gealen discussed his thoughts about pg. 128
Kiona and Cassie made connections with their fathers and how they discover new things about them
We went outside to talk about TKAM
Thursday, October 21
Notes by Andrew
Book of the day by Kara: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
* Make Sure to check out the Home work assignment!
Today's Lesson: Graphic outliner
Main point or Thesis of Essay ____________________
Bell word_________________
Paragraph one-- opening:
Hook__________________
Comment on the Hook________________
Comment on the Hook________________
Thesis (with bell word)________________
Paragraph 2-- body
TS (main idea, topic, or thesis)_________________
2 Echo words to be used ___________ ___________
SD_____________
CM_____________
CM_____________
SD_____________
CM_____________
CM_____________
CS______________
Paragraph 3-- body (same format at paragraph 2)
Paragraph 4-- Conclusion
Hook (the same as paragraph 1, or different) ___________
Echo word (could be bell) ___________________
Comment on Hook__________________
Comment on Hook__________________
Re-statement, in slightly different words, of the thesis_______________
Monday, October 25th, 2010
Notes by Kiona
Read Alex and Andrew's letter to Mr. Salsich
Next Monday there will be warm water for hot chocolate or tea
Book talk: The Wednesday Wars
Slide back in chairs so farthest people can see projector
Special treatment for visitor(s) comfy chair people spring up to offer chair
Went over homework assignment
*Don't forget to use a brief uote!
Looked at Jenn's graphic organizer. Good work Jenn!
Looked at Harry's graphic organizer. Awesome!
Review lessons of last week
Mr. Geise came to visit
Inpyo explained something furthur saying "Inpyo is kind."
Lesson for today: Developing a chunk by explaining it
Definition: Developing - adding info to SD
A chunk is like a tiny paragraph. SD - topic CM - explain SD
Looked at Austin Rosenburg's essay
Reminder pop-up made Mr. Salsich confused, but we figured it out.
Mr. Salsich told us his middle name: Enos
Looked at Marion Phillipe's essay
Could use bell word OR synonyms for bell word and echos
Wrote first body paragraph in class to practice
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
Notes by Kiona
Book Talk: Wolf Brother
Vocab Word: Antagonize- to be the opponent of, or to bother someone.
We talked about people who haven't had jobs yet
Took a look at our homework assignment-Read chapter 11
***Don't forget your stickies, outes, and 10 second summary (three key uestons)
1.What does it say? 2. What does it mean? 3. What does it matter?
Reminder: Make sure you update your reading blog!
Special treatment for visitors!!
Went over past lessons like "bringing something to the table"
Looked for something important in chapters 8-10 that was important to us
Harry, Jenn, Inpyo, Jordan, Chris, Alexander, and Kiona made remarks about Scout being like Atticus.
Emmanuel asked a uestion about Atticus defending a negro
Inpyo had a uestion about Scout speaking of Dill on Christmas
**Nodd when listening
Kiona made a remark of why Atticus was defending a negro.
Jenn and Kiona spoke of Dill's family ways
Read a couple jokes and Harry, Kiona, and Gaelen had kept their pokerface on
Looked at Blogs of Gaelen, and Kiona
Gave whole class a weird hand movement that Jenn made up (of appreciation)
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
Vocab word: Pepressive-
Book Talk: The Haunting of Freddie
New blog for both classes: pinepoint8thgradeenglish.blogspot.com
"Bring something to the table day"-reading from book
looked at homework assignment
Talked bout reading blog
Lessons from past days of Engish
Today's lesson: Islands of Books
**Scoot chairs!!
We read a paragraph titled: Beautiful Islands, Beautiful Books that Mr. Salsich wrote many years ago.
Turned off projector to discuss book.
Read a joke from one of the joke books
Went over a sheet of uestions for the teachers assistant
Jenn told the definition of "paraphrase" which is : to say in your own words
we read Andrew's annotaion for page 133
Chirs, Jenn, and Jordan spoke about morphine.
Gaelen did too
Inpyo and Harry spoke of Mrs. Dubose expecting too much of people
Harry thinks the most important part of the chaper was when Mrs. Dubose died
Harry, Kiona, and Chris talked about morphine and Mrs. Dubose
We spoke of Mrs. Dubose dying and Jem's feelings of it
added Courage to back of book
Passed books to the right and looked at eachother's comment of each page
Passed out stickers to everyone
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
Book Talk: Revenge of the Shadow King
Vocabulary Word: Melancholy- sadness
**slide back in chairs
Turned the projector on to go over the homework and class lesson
Took a video of Jordan serving his classmates
Harry and Cassie passed out their classmates' books
Looked at Harry, Gaelen, and Kara's blog to see if the comments worked.
Today's Lesson: Serious Reader Bookmars
Chris and Alexander spoke about a mindful reader
Kara, Alexander, Harry, and Cassie spoke about comprehension in your reading
Kiona, Jordan, and Inpyo spoke of reading and not paying attention to what you just read
****If you lose track of the plot, you can look back at your summary.****
looked through book for words for our character book mark
Inpyo, Alexander, Gaelen, and Chris spoke of excellent words for our bookmarks
Joke
Stickers
Friday, October 29th, 2010
Vocab Word:Contemptuously- Put them down
Book Talk: Swindle
Talked about how when your sick, you can always see what we did in class on the website.
Looked at homework-Don't worry, just CHILLAX
Lessons from the past- multi-layered time line
4 sentence recipe for conclusion and introduction
Finish essay next week and possibly do some work on it over the weekend if you like.
We looked at Jordan's comments for his essay
We looked at Jenn's essay comments
We looked at Inpyo's comments also
And Chris' comment is a great helpful hint from Kara
We called Jenn because we miss her from English class
We also called Andrew to make sure he was doing okay, but there was no answer.
We talked about TKAM( To Kill a Mockingbird)
Gaelen, Kiona, Alexander, Harry, and Chris Spoke of the chapter the class read last night.
Chris and Alexander spoke of Tom Robinson and his wife
Five jumps for Jake
Waited for puppet show/skit
