November 20, 2009

East House!(: Helloo.(: Amy here with the sitch in Edwards’s class:

Game Plan:

• SSR
• Work on Gawain Project
• A word about library

Homework:

• Blog Assignment #10
• ———-> Peer Review #2 Due Today 8 p.m.!!!!! <———-
• Polished Piece Due December 4th

Once we were finished with SSR and before Edwards let us work on our projects, we had some announcements first.  Mrs. Edwards reminded us of all the work we have:

• Documentary Due November 30th
• Science Model Check
• Gawain Project Due December 2nd
• History Notebook
• History and Science Test
• W.W. Peer Review and Polished Piece
• Aleks
• Blog Assignment

She knows it is a lot of work to do, but this shouldn’t discourage anyone.  We should all have a plan on what we are going to do to get it all done. Don’t give up East House! Stay on task, we can do it!(:

Edwards is working on getting a big book shelf for the back of her class. This way she can get rid of all the little shelves she has and have a real library.  DON’T BE SO LACKADAISICAL WHEN IT COMES TO HER BOOKS! Meaning, show respect and don’t just leave books under the desks or take off with it.  If you do accidentally take it, then just bring it back.  She doesn’t care if you barrow it, she just wants to know where they’re going.  All of the books belong to Edwards so be kind to them.  It’s painful and makes her sad when you just don’t care. :’(

After these short announcements we had the rest of the time to work on the Gawain Project, or anything else we needed to do.

That’s all for today East House(: A pretty simple day(: It has been a nice week as your scribe! Bye bye for now!!(:

 

November 18, 2009

Hello again East House!(: Here’s the sitch for for Edwards’s class:

Game Plan:

• SSR
• A word about Writter’s Workshop
• More Samples
• Work of Gawain Project

Homework:

• Blog Assignment #10
• Peer Review #2 Due Friday 8 pm

Reminder: AGAIN! If you take a book return it to the bins and shelves.  If you want to continue reading it, TELL MRS. EDWARDS BEFORE!

Rainbow High is missing! It’s a book a part of a trilogy so if you see it, let Edwards know because she wants it back.

I-Poly is going to have their first Career Day on January 22nd.  The school will “shut-down”, but it is required that we attend.

For the Rap perody and the music video, we can combine them but she thinks it will be a lot more work.  All three projects are Due December 2nd.  The presentations will be December 2nd and December 4th.

After these announcements Edwards gave us the rest of the time to work on our projects with our partners.

Happy Birthday Heather, J.P, and Laura!:D

That’s all for now!(: Bye bye for now(:

 

November 17, 2009th

Helloo East House!(: Amy here as this weeks scribe.(:  Here’s the sitch in Edward’s class:

Game Plan:

• SSR + Welcome Scribes!
• Scribe sign-ups
• Essay Contest?/ Blog Assignment
• Intro Gawain Project

Homework:

• Blog Assignment #10
• Peer Review #2 due Friday at 8 pm

New December scribes are Cynthia, Deanna and Gail.

Interested in writing an essay? You could win a prize!!(: Here’s what you need to know:

• Sponsored by Samsung
• It’s for students, parents and teachers
• You could win $1 million technology grant for I-Poly (WOW!:D)
• Due December 1st!!
• Need to write 100-word essay which should include:

1. How consumer electronic, computer equipment and software can enhance the                                    education process.

2. How access to these technologies and the use of social networking can change the                            way that students learn.

3. The unique and innovative teaching methods that are enabled by computer and                                  consumer electronics.

• There are 2 rounds

Mrs. Edwards said if you make it to the first round she will wave one Writers Workshop Rotations. If you make it to the second round she will take the waved rotation and give you an AE!:D If your interested, information is available in Edwards class.

In order to improve your reviews, make your paper like a letter and write specific questions and comments you want answered.  For more peer reviews, check out the Writers Club Wednesday’s at lunch in Edwards’s room.

This weeks blog assignment came from Facebook.(: Its not really academic, but we can say it tests our Effective User of Technology ESLR.  All you have to do is follow the directions and create your Album cover, but don’t cheat! One step you may need to include is to save your picture, so you can add the album title and band name. You have to upload your finished Album to somewhere like Photobucket, and then post the link.

Edwards thought it was time we have a group project, because after all this is I-Poly.  She introduced to us the Gawain Project.  We first got to pick our own partners.  (Sorry Graham, there’s 28 people in East House, so pick a partner!) For all of you absent: Andrew claimed Sarah, Edmond claimed Heather, and Graham claimed Jimmy.  Don’t let Edwards regret letting us choose our partners.  This way if we mess up, we can only blame ourselves.  The first thing we did was write our names out on a sheet of paper and put both partners names on it with a number between 123-987. There couldn’t be zeros or repeated numerals. She drew a 3×3 grid numbered 1-9 that corresponded with the numbers we picked and the handout she gave us. On the hand out, each number represented a different project we had to do. This is a Presentation Project Due December 2nd. The 3 numbers are the projects that you have to do, but one December 2nd, you are only going to present one and that is the one Edwards is going to grade.

Projects #1-9 (Numbers based on # grid)

1. Reader’s Theater- you have to memorize the passage that you choose. It can be live or recorded.
2. Create a board game-should include trivia
3. Create a comic book-Careful! Not a children’s book.
4. Create own song or rap-could be live or recorded. Its a Parody, which takes a song and makes fun of it by only changing the words.
5. Tabloid Article-Use imagination and story’s are exaggerated
6. Create a Mask-Needs to be symbolic, with dramatic monologue
7. Music Video-Must be your own visuals. If you have 4 also, you can combine them.
8. Create a poem-30 line for EACH person.
9. Powerpoint tour-Great map of Gawain’s journey

Reminders!

• Peer Review Due November 20th
• Polished Piece Due December 4th
• If you want to check out a book let Edwards know, if not then return them to the shelves and bins!
• The Pohlman only goes into effect if you don’t do the peer review, NOT the drafts.  If a draft is late you can only get half credit. (25/50)

Well that’s all for today East House(: Sorry it’s a little long, I wanted you to feel like you were there!:D Bye bye for now(:

 

BLOG ASSIGNMENT #10

What is your album cover?  Just follow the steps below to find out and post your results here.  (Yeah, yeah, it’s not academic, but it sure is fun and it’ll test the ‘Effective User of Technology’ ESLR for Team 11 just in time for report cards.  )

1 – Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 – Click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 – Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 – Use Photoshop or something similar to put it all together.
Maybe even use the lolcat builder if you have to:
http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/

5 – Upload your completed masterpiece to a free image hosting site like imageshack then post the link for it here.

 

November 13,2009

Hey, it’s Isamar and this is my last scribe for the week :/. Today we got to see all our teachers  and didn’t really have a break, it was pretty crazy. Today in Edward’s we went in and got ready to take the test. The whole block was basically spent on testing and that’s about it.

GAME PLAN:

• Book Orders?
• Middle Ages Exam/Quiz
• Collect Homework

HOMEWORK:

• Blog Assignment #9 due at 8pm
• Draft #2 due on Monday at 8pm
• Price Analysis Due Monday at 8am

Well there isn’t much more to say guys. So that’s it. Goodbye!

 

November 12,2009

          Hey guys i’m sorry for posting late :/. I just got home from taking care of some family things.So basically in Edward’s we did SSR as usual and then we did harkness It was our first harkness in a cool while so it was nice to do it again:D This time we had anew person join us and she did good for her first harkness Some observations that i made were that some of us need to step up and some need to step back, so we might have to use the pig

GAMEPLAN:

• SSR + Stamp Homework
• Harkness

HOMEWORK:

• Study for quiz tomorrow
• Blog Assignment #9 due at 8pm Tomorrow
• Finish reading Sir Gawain (pg. 216-221) + blue questions
• Work on draft 2 due on the 16 at 8pm

Tomorrow’s Schedule

1. Fisrt block
2. Second Block
3. Third block
4. Fourth block
5. Elective
6. House

We may not have break and just go through all 4 blocks but i’m pretty sure that we start with Hedman tomorrow. Well guys that’s all i got for today. I shall see you all tomorrow take care.

ADIOS:)

 

 

 

 

November 10,2009

             Hey everybody! It’s Isamar and i’m this week’s scribe. Thank you guys for the warm welcoming applause in class,it was very nice of you :) Today in Mrs. Edwards’ class  was pretty chill. We went through the Literary Response lesson in which many people were laughing at Mrs. Edwards’ attempt at circling words on the  The lesson showed us how to create a prompt not an essay for our next writing workshop; literary response. I suggest that you follow the writing workshop plan and leave the extra fiction for the end when you are all exhausted of writing and frying your brain trying to come up with ideas on what to write. Mrs. Edwards suggests that we write something happy because were were all “emo” on the subjects that we wrote about in our last writing workshop  and it made her cry haha

GAME PLAN:

• SSR + Welcome Scribes
• Literary Response Lesson

HOMEWORK:

• Blog Assignment #9 Due at 8pm on Friday.
• Begin reading Sir Gawain in your text-book (pg. 210-216)
• Answer the 5 blue margin questions, you can’t miss them, It is due on Thursday!
• Prep for the Harkness we are having in class on Thursday. Let’s make it a good Harkness
• Peer Review Due at 8pm

Explanation of Homework:

• For the blog assignment you could basically just plug-in words to the formula she gave us, but put some thought into it. You can write the response on anything you want like a song,movie, or a book you have been reading. To complete the blog assignment you would need to understand the lesson she gave us today…Which I will write in a bit.
• Sir Gawain is a poem about the guy that accused the queen in the Excalibur movie. It talks  about Gawain’s quest during the Golden Age of Camelot. An age where the knights would rescue the damsels in distress. Stop on the page where it begins summarizing the poem.
• There is no reason for you not to do the blue margin questions. The book tells you where the answer is, so in a way they are practically answering it for you
• If you need further understanding for our Harkness on thursday you can read page 209 in you text-book. Be prepared and write down good questions because we are going to be graded on what we say and how profound it is. Not on how many times we talk. To help you with this you can also look at your study guide sheets and highlight questions that we can talk about. (Though I’m not sure if we got our study sheets back :o)
• I really hope you guys turned in your peer review that was due on Monday at 8pm because the poleman is going into effect this time. Ah! and it would suck because she will grade our first draft. :O

HERE ARE THE NOTES: 

LITERARY RESPONSE-HOW TO CREATE A PROMPT  WORTH WRITING FOR

(This is entry number 10 in your note-book.)

You do not have to do a response on an assigned text. but it does have to be academic. A prompt is not a review on what you wrote. In order to create a prompt you need 4 elements.

THINKING SKILLS :                                                                                                                                                       

- Judge     -Evaluate      -Analyze      -Synthesize      -Interpret      -Compare/Contrast     -Explain   

 -Determine Cause and Effect      (these are some words that will help you start your prompt)

*Judge and Evaluate- Decide whether it is good or bad support.

*Analyze- Break apart and look at. *Syhnthesize-bring back together.

*Interpret- What we think the text means

*Explain- Tell us what happened, but be carefull! DO NOT SUMMARIZE (automatic AP or CR :O)

*Cause/Effect-If this happens…then this happens

DEPTH:

*Patterns- Re-occuring things in stories (ex. Beowulf would always be fighting)

*Details- The color or symbolism

*Ethics/Ethical Issues- Moral beliefs/values/customs

*Language of the Discipline* – Realize the discipline and the language they use

 (ex. Language that we speak in…

1. Math= Variable, Slope, Fractions, product
2. Science= Ionic bonds, atomic mass, Carbon Hydroxide
3. English=Litarary devises like metaphor,Symbolism(there is more in the back of the book)

*Rules

*Trends and Patterns- Patterns occur naturally, trends - external force that make them happen

*Unanswered Questions- Things you ask the author that they never answer.

*Generalizations/Big Ideas- Universal truth

COMPLEXITY:

You want your paper to be like you are going underwater in an ocean; deep and across.Depth and breath.

*Overtime-Patterns that occur overtime

*Mathematical Perspective

*Science Perspective (ex. In Beowulf the dragon’s skin dissintigrated because of the chemical  reaction of….) 

*English-Symbolism

*Psychological Perspective

*Historical Perspective

*Male/Female perspective

*Majority/Minority- Political,does not really deal with race.

RESOURCE:

You can pull support from many resources.

*Video/Audio recordings

*News/Media

*Books/Magazine

*Internet-website,blog

*Experiment- real experiments to explain why things happen

*Textbook Novel

*Class Disscusions

THE FORMULA:

Thinking Skills+Depth+Complexity+Resource=Prompt

Do not stick to the formula too much, it is transitive.

(ex. of the formula being used)

-Analyze(TS)  the ethical issues(D)  in Macbeth(R) from a female perspective(C). = Beautiful Prompt

-Interpret(TS)  the use of alliteration(D)  over time(C)  in Beowulf(R).= Beautiful Prompt.

 

IN CLASS WE CREATED AN EGG/WHEEL where each layer represented the 4 different elements. This egg will help you write your prompt. Here are the layers, the colors and where to cut.

*2nd line-white=Thinking Skills

*3rd line-blue=Depth

*4th line-green=Complexity

*5th line-gold=Resource

And that was today’s scribe sorry for it being to long. Hopefully it helped you and hopefully it wasn’t too boring

 

BLOG ASSIGNMENT #9

Create at least 3 prompts for a possible literary response piece using the wheel of learning.

 

November 6, 2009

Well, today was the same as yesterday. Mrs. Edwards was letting us watch the remainder of Excalibur, and I seemed to like the movie overall. Despite we have’nt finished it though, still makes me want to know what else happens. And remember to turn in your first draft for writing workshop 2, for it’s due today before 8 p.m. All right, that’s all I got to say, and have a nice weekeend.

Gameplan

• Excalibur

Homework

• Blog assignment #8
• W.W. 2 First Draft due before 8 p.m.

 

November 4, 2009

All right, today was just an easy day in Mrs. Edwards class, for she wanted us to watch a movie called Excalibur. It happens to be about a sword that was put into a rock for many years, until the chosen one was able to get the sword out of the stone. Even though Mrs. Edwards told us there were some parts where it felt like the actors where too dramatic or fake, it was still an ok movie. And don’t forget, the first draft for writing workshop 2 is due on Friday before 8 p.m. Ok, that’s pretty much how it went down in Mrs. Edwards class, and have a nice day.

Game Plan

• Excalibur

Homework

• Blog Assignment #8
• W.W 2 First Draft