typing

http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games/typing-course.html

http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games.html

https://www.typing.com/student/start

http://www.dancemattypingguide.com/dance-mat-typing-level-1/

http://www.hwtears.com/kwt

Friday, 8/28/2015

Chpt 18-19  Weekend homework: 20-23

       

Thurs. 8/27

Chpts 16-17

       
                                       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkvMimRKMfA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t2BZYWR59E

                                         

Wed., 8/26

Chpts 14-15


Vocab:

formidable, gamut, impregnable, 

inadvertent, incapacitate, infinitesimal     

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhEw2PGHWfU

                                         


                                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfKkm2LG3Mk

  

               

                                         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJXIvWC3fzA                   

     

Tues., 8/25

Chpt 12-13

                                         new google definitions:  bulwark, cogent, commodious

                                          new google definitions:  decrepit, dilapidated, enervate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWyqlooKh8Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PZ4GrWGcIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PHLLS3dVnE

Mon., 8/24

Chpt 10-11

         

white camellia bush

source: http://www.yorknotes.com/gcse/to-kill-a-mockingbird/study/plot-action/01000300_plot-summary-what-happens-in-to-kill-a-mockingbird

8/20

Chpt 7-8

Tues. 8/18/2015

Vocab:

accede, accord, altercation

antagonize, apprise, avowal

Chpts 6-7

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking/characters.html

Writing stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcbs6DyVKbI&index=3&list=PLPS8GkIUM8UdFw7JAK1gHxd32NAwWN954

         

Monday, 8/17/2015

*Take Vocabulary Quiz #7. Grade it by using the answer key. Show results to teacher

Record these words and their definitions in your notes. Click on each term and summarize its definition so you have a clear understanding of its meaning: 

1. fortitude,                      4. maladroit, 

2. indomitable,                5.trepidation, 

3. lavish                        6. versatile 

Chpt 4 audiobook options

from last time:https://youtu.be/Ocs71dDUFz0

*Note:

This reader smokes.

               

From:  http://allinonehighschool.com/american-literature/

• 1. How does Scout feel about school?

• 2. What characteristics of the children do you learn about through the Boo Radley game?

• 3. Who do you think is putting the gum and pennies in the tree? Do you think this is revealing something about their character?
• 4 Who do you think is laughing when Scout bumped into the Radley house with the tire?

Read the summary of 4:

                             

      

            

Friday, 8/14/2015 ELA today

Our Story: To Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Reading from these weeks:8/12-14, 8/17-21, 8/24- 28, 8/31-9/3

into vid:

Vocabulary Book Writing:
                 

1.  adroit,
2. affluent, 
3. apprehensive, 
4. bildungsroman, 
5. aptitude, 
6. audacity, 
7. avarice, 
8. dauntless, 
9. destitute, 
10. dexterity

Chapter 3 Audiobook    options
                                                                           (25:17)
                                                     
                                                                                    18:33

                                  

                  21 min.

                                 

Questions from: http://allinonehighschool.com/american-literature/

1. What is Calpurnia’s role in the Finch household?
2. Think about the interaction between Walter Cunningham and Atticus. What does this interaction reveal about each of these characters? What about the different ways Jem and Scout treat Walter? What does this reveal about the differences between Jem and Scout?
3. Atticus says that you never really understand a person “until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”. What does this mean? Is this an easy thing for Scout to learn? Has this been an easy thing for you to learn?
4. What do you learn in this chapter about the Ewell family?

Read the chpt 3 Summary: 2:54

May use links:

                                         

Thurs. 8/13/2015

Setting:

http://ces1353surveyofproseformsandpoetry.wikispaces.com/To+Kill+A+Mockingbird+(Map+of+Maycomb)

60 Sec Recap Playlist for "To Kill a Mockingbird"

http://www.stlcc.edu/Student_Resources/Academic_Resources/Writing_Resources/Grammar_Handouts/commonly_confused_words.pdf

Wednesday, August 12, 2015 or 8/12/2015

ELA Reading:
                                              What is Literature for? @ 5 min.

Let's read for the rest of the hour then we'll look at writing.

Turn on CC/ Subtitles

ELA Writing and writing skills:

                      Why write? @4 min.

       Warning: says "Heck" and I think that's it.

            

                      Grammar Why?

                                  3 1/2 min.

       

                 

                    Spelling why? @3 min.

      

                               

             

Dec.-Feb Winter reading list

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Spelling and Vocab

Spelling and Vocab:
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/vocabulary/iwords.cfm?sp=student&level=E
 http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/vocabulary/iwords/Level_E/Unit_1/Vocabulary_LevelE_Unit1.mp3

Grammar

http://archive.org/stream/grammarlandorgr00nesbgoog#page/n18/mode/2up
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzzN8m85gyPnbkIwTUl3ZmxpdGM/edit


http://cms.gavirtualschool.org/Shared/Language%20Arts/9thLitComp/Grammar%20One/index.html

Nouns and Pronouns: 

Verbs:

Adverbs:

Adjectives:

Prepositions:

Conjunctions:

Subject Verb:

Subjects and Verbs from Grammar Book

subjectVerb

Clauses:

The Clause

Clauses

The Appositive

Appositives (Owl @ Purdue)

The Preposition

Phrases:

The Infinitive Phrase

The Gerund Phrase

Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives

Reading List

Reading Lists:

Books: Grammar Land, Nesbit; historic autobiography of your choosing;
Pilgrim’s Progress, Bunyan;
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Verne

Plays:
The Tempest, Shakespeare;
The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde
Antigone, Sophocles; 
Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare
Hamlet; 
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Trifles (Glaspell)

Short stories:

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Irving),

Navajo Origin Legend,

The Fall of the House of Usher (Poe),

The Gift of the Magi,

The Ransom of Red Chief, O’Henry;

The Cask of Amontillado (partial), Poe;

The Necklace, Maupassant; other excerpts

 The Machine that Won the War, Asimov; 

The Story of an Hour, Chopin; 

The Interlopers, Saki; 

Two Kinds, Tan; 

Lamb to the Slaughter, Dahl; 

The Hunger Artist, Kafka

The Earth on Turtle’s Back (Onondaga),

When Grizzlies Walked Upright (Modoc),

Young Goodman Brown (Hawthorne),

Rip Van Winkle (Irving),

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCkQFjABahUKEwjopr-whPLGAhVJkx4KHdutBaI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.enotes.com%2Ftopics%2Frip-van-winkle&ei=xEaxVei0DsmmetvblpAK&usg=AFQjCNE2jfSZu2q3QE2uMOhRXIQbJ7dzSw&sig2=Sp-bNO8XVIyqA_Hnwtj2qg&bvm=bv.98476267,d.dmo

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Twain), 

How to Tell A Story (Twain),

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Bierce),

To Build A Fire (London),

The Open Boat (Crane),

The Story of An Hour (Chopin),

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Fitzgerald),

Old Man At The Bridge (Hemingway),

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (Porter)

Poetry:
  CCPoems/playlists

The Raven (Poe), 

The Tell-Tale Heart (Poe), 

Annabel Lee (Poe),

The Odyssey, Homer; Emily Dickinson and others

Caedmon’s Hymn;

 The Dream of the Rood; 

The Wanderer; 

The Seafarer;

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight; 

One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand; 

Amoretti XV; 

Death Be Not Proud (Holy Sonnet 10); 

Hymn to God, 

my God, 

in My Sickness; 

Sonnet XVIII;  

Sonnet XXIX; 

 Sonnet 30;  

Sonnet CXVI; 

Easter Wings; 

An Hymn On The Nativity Of My Savior; 

On My First Son; 

An Essay on Criticism; 

The Lamb; 

Holy Thursday; 

The Tyger; 

Augeries of Innocence;

There is a Pleasure in the Pathless Woods; 

She Walks in Beauty; 

To Autumn; 

Ode on A Grecian Urn; 

When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be; 

Daffodils; 

The World Is Too Much With Us; 

She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways; 

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; 

Lift not the painted veil which those who live; 

The Cloud; 

The Lady of Shalott; 

The Charge of the Light Brigade; 

The Pied Piper of Hamelin; 

If thou must love me… (Sonnet 14);  

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43);

Dover Beach; When You Are Old; 

A Prayer for my daughter; 

Sailing to Byzantium; 

Do not go gentle into that good night

To My Dear and Loving Husband (Bradstreet), 

Prologue (Bradstreet),

 Huswifery (Taylor), 

Thanatopsis (Bryant), 

Old Ironsides (Holmes), 

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls (Longfellow), 

A Psalm of Life (Longfellow), 

Stanzas on Freedom (Lowell),

 I Hear America Singing (Whitman),  

A Noiseless Patient Spider (Whitman),

I heard a Fly buzz – when I died (Dickinson), 

The Soul selects her own Society (Dickinson), 

Hope is the thing with feathers (Dickinson),

 I measure every Grief I meet (Dickinson), 

Learning to Read (Harper),  

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind (Crane), 

The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter (Pound), 

Birches (Frost), 

The Road Not Taken (Frost), 

Mending Wall (Frost), 

Any Human to Another (Cullen),

Traveling through the Dark (Stafford), 

Morning Song (Plath), 

Blackberrying (Plath), 

The Writer (Wilbur), 

Boy at the Window (Wilbur), 

We Real Cool (Brooks), 

Still I Rise (Angelou)

novels: 

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain; 

Emma, Austen; 

Watership Down, Adams

nonfiction:  speeches, news articles from The New York Times, The Washington Times and Worldmagazine; excerpts from each of the following: African Game Trails, Roosevelt; The Way to Rainy Mountain, Momaday; A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, Edwards

Books: Robinson Crusoe; The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne; Sense and Sensibility

Selected Readings from: Beowulf; The Canterbury Tales; Le Morte D’Arthur; Tyndale’s New Testament; Utopia; Paradise Lost; Frankenstein; Ivanhoe; Oliver Twist; Mere Christianity

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee will start on Day 98. This book will need to be obtained by a Kindle purchase, the local library, or used bookstore. This Mass Market Paperback version is inexpensive.

Students will have a few novels assigned for outside class reading. Chapters will be selected and assignments given with a deadline of the end of the week. This will help students practice meeting deadlines and it will help us move through more of the literature available to us.

Letters/Essays/Speeches: To The Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth (Wheatley), Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Edwards), Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (Henry), Gettysburg Address (Lincoln), I am alone (I am the last of my family) (Cochise), I Will Fight No More Forever(Chief Joseph), Ain’t I A Woman? (Truth), Solitude of Self (Stanton), Is it a Crime For A Citizen of the United States to Vote? (Anthony), The Negro Artist and The Racial Mountain (Hughes), I Have A Dream (King), Letter from a Birmingham Jail (King)

Novels: The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne), The Red Badge of Courage (Crane), My Antonia (Cather), To Kill A Mockingbird (Lee)

Selected Readings: Of Plymouth Plantation(Bradford), A Model of Christian Charity (Winthrop), The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Franklin), The Crisis (Paine), Nature (Emerson), Self-Reliance (Emerson), Solitude (Thoreau), Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)

Moby Dick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIDbQiIYpyA

Quiz and Game List

Quiz list:

http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/finding_subjects_verbs_1.asp

http://www.quia.com/rr/36765.html

ELA

ELA:

Vids:
   For reading:
      60 Sec Recap

      Video Spark Notes

  For Grammar:
 https://students.ga.desire2learn.com/d2l/lor/viewer/viewFile.d2lfile/1798/6446,-1/SubjectVerbPres.swf

Free curriculum and resources:
    english-8

    literature-and-composition

    british-literature

    american-literature


http://www.funenglishgames.com/writinggames.html