Thursday, May 24, 2012

Tuesday-Thursday May 22-24

Tuesday: Finals Periods 3, 5 and 7

Wednesday: 8K Rocket Launch
                    8D Letter to next year's 8th graders

Thursday: Finals Periods 2, 4, 6, and 8

Monday, May 21, 2012

Monday, May 21

8K-
PSA Workshop (LAST DAY)
All PSA's are due at 3:25

8D-
Finish Coffee House
Review for Final

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Thursday, May 17

8K-
PSA Workshop
Due Monday!

8D-
Children's Book Workshop
Last day to work in class!!!
Due at the beginning of class tomorrow.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Wednesday, May 16

8K-
PSA Workshop
Your time in class will be used for recording your PSA,
and working on it using the flip cams and laptops.
*NEW DUE DATE: MONDAY!

8D-
Children's Book Workshop
Your time in class will be used to write and
illustrate your children's book.
DUE FRIDAY!

Friday, May 11, 2012

Friday, May 11

8K-
Meeting in 505 to finish typing final draft of creative writing assignment and begin work on PSA.
REMINDER: PSA Integrated Projects are DUE by Friday, 5/18 at 3:25pm.

8D-
Working on children's books!

G/T-
Full run-through of "The Tempest."

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Wednesday, May 9

8K-
1) Finish RADaR
2) SSR: Free Reading!
Homework: Have your revisions set and ready to go because we will be in 505 tomorrow!

8D-
1) Warm Up: What are you most excited about for high school?
2) Work on Children's Book
No HW

G/T-
Auditorium

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Tuesday, May 8

8K-
1) Warm-Up: What does RADaR stand for? Why do we revise our writing?
2) Hand in final storyboards.
3) Revise rough draft of creative writing piece.

8D-
1) Warm-Up: What is at the beginning of every book? Why are all of these parts included?
2) T-shirt size?
3) Story example.
4) Draw/Design Workshop.

G/T-
MEET IN AUDITORIUM
Hand in your PSA storyboard final drafts.

Friday, May 4, 2012

Friday, May 4

8K-
1) Warm Up: Write a short dialogue between you and President Obama. It must be at least 5 lines long. Please use proper punctuation.
2) Sharing/ Discussion
3) Hand in creative writing drafts.
4) Hand back and work on FINAL storyboard.
Homework: Complete your FINAL STORYBOARD for TUESDAY!

8D-
1) Warm Up: If you were given $1 million and told that you had to spend it on everyone BUT yourself... what would you do with it?
2) Sharing/Discussion
3) Conferences/ Writing Workshop
4) Hand in draft of children's book.
No Homework

G/T-
1) Meet in auditorium.
2) Rehearse "The Tempest" rewrite.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Thursday, May 3

8K-
1) Warm Up: What was the hardest part about completing your storyboard? What are some questions that you have about the project?
2) Hand in your completed storyboard draft.
3) Writing Workshop: Work on your draft of your creative writing piece.
Homework: Draft 1 DUE TOMORROW!

8D-
1) Warm Up: Write a short dialogue that could happen between Justin Bieber and yourself. This should be at least 5 lines long. Be sure to use proper punctuation.
2) Writing Workshop/Conferences
Homework: Draft 1 Due TOMORROW!

G/T-
Hand in Storyboard
Tempest Read Through (ALL SCRIPTS DUE TODAY)
We will meet in the auditorium tomorrow.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Wednesday, May 2

8K-
1) Warm Up: What are some visuals that you will use for your PSA? How are you going to video record it?
2) Discussion
3) Storyboard
Homework: Complete storyboard

8D-
1) Warm Up: What is the hardest part about writing your children's story? How are you doing on your story? What do you need help with?
2) Writing Workshop/ Conferences
Homework: Work on Draft 1!

G/T-
1) Storyboard Work
2) "The Tempest"
HW: ALL SCRIPTS DUE TOMORROW!

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Tuesday, May 1

8K-
1) Warm Up: What is dialogue? What punctuation must you use when including dialogue in your writing? What is creative writing?
2) Discussion/ Creative Writing Assignment
3) Brainstorm
Homework: Begin Draft- Due Friday

8D-
1) Warm Up: What is dialogue? What punctuation must you use when including dialogue in your writing?
2) Discussion
3) Dialogue Workshop/ Writing Workshop
Homework: Work on Draft- Conferences begin tomorrow!

G/T-
1) Warm Up: What is the main idea or moral of "The Tempest?"
2) Discussion
3) Read-Through (cont'd)
Homework: Type up FINAL scripts...