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journals and vocab hw for the week of 11/1

10/29/2010

39 Example Poems

Locate TWO poems or songs (since they are poems set to music). Attach or copy them into your journal. Write about what you like about them. Try to explain what makes them a good poem.

40 Sight and feeling imagery

Write about the sight of two of these: lit windows in a house when you're standing outside at night, someone you love when he or she doesn't know you're watching, a dying plant, shadows on snow
Write about the feeling of two of these: grass under bare feet, a really bad kiss, the headrush when you stand up too fast, sore muscles, falling asleep in the back seat of a moving car.

41 Taste and smell imagery

Write about the taste of two of these: an egg, an orange, medicine, cinnamon, chocolate, ice cream
Write about the smell of two of these: burning food, melting snow, the ocean, your grandparents' home, the inside of a bus, pavement after the rain

Vocabulary Workbook due dates

Unit 1-3 review pgs 45-46 11/5

How to save your work on JCPS online.

10/22/2010

All students must save all of their final typed writing pieces on JCPS online to receive full credit. This is to make it easier to edit their work at the end of the year and to make sure no pieces go MIA.

1. JCPS homepage.
2. Select Student
3. Put your pointer over Login. Select JCPS ONLINE
4. Login using your JCPS username and password
*If it isn't your first time on my course skip to 9
5. Click Find a Course
6. keyword search Kasper
7. Click enroll (my course will now show up on your homepage under courses)
8 Click Ms Kasper's LA
9. Follow directions in the announcements box for how to save.
10. Click Lessons
11. Select your pieces' file
12. Submit it under last, first name (piece type).
13. Attach the file DO NOT copy and paste.
14. Submit
15. You should see the piece and the date/time that you submitted it.
16. You can now go back and reopen this piece at any time. If you change something make sure you resubmit it.

*You can also save your work on your homepage there is a tools box. You click files and you can upload anything you need. You are then able to get to this work from home!!!

Martin Luther King Jr Essay Contest

10/21/2010

Students are expected to write a piece for the Martin Luther King Jr Essay contest. This is a 500 word essay that connects to MLK's vision. It needs to typed and turned in Nov 3rd. On my links page I am attaching the contest guidelines.

For extra credit students may compete in the visual arts contest as well. This is a video, painting, etc. These guidelines are also posted on the links page.

Hopefully more of our students will opt to participate in this contest than the few who did the PTSA Together We Can contest. Thanks to our STAR students who did!

journal and vocab hw for the week of 10/25

10/21/2010

Ms Kasper’s Journal Entries for 10/25-10/29 DUE Fri 10/29

35 A dark and stormy night

A cliche is a cliche because it resonates and has become trite with overuse. So why not? Just for fun, write a story beginning with the following: It was a dark and stormy night . .

At least 7 sentences.

36 Deepest Fear

What is your deepest fear? Is it death? Being buried alive? Stalked by a serial killer? Write a story with a narrator who is confronted by his or her deepest fear – if you dare.
At least 7 sentences.

37 Haunted house

As you now know, the haunted house story is an ancient genre. Write your own haunted house story. Include the three following words: candle, floorboards and fireplace.
At least 7 sentences.

38 Vampire

"A rag a bone and a hank of hair, but the fool he called her his lady fair" is a haunting line from Rudyard Kipling's "The Vampire." Use it as the first line in a story.
At least 7 sentences.

*If you get stuck on these, write about anything so you fill 7 sentences.

Vocabulary Workbook due dates

Unit 3 Quiz 10/26

Review Units 1-3 pgs 42-44 10/28

extra credit opportunites

10/14/2010

1. best books form (located in red hanging folder in the last slot). May do 1.
2. free rice. (earn 1,000 grains and then print off the page). Max 3,000
3. type your pieces at home and then --email or bring in a copy of the file. along with 2 hard copies. save under last, first name(twc) and last, first name(ondemand1)
4. do a word web for a vocabulary word from your workbook. Max 2.
5. turn in book report early
6. make your book report a website
7. turn in interesting articles that can be used in class.
8. make a wordle about a book you have read or yourself and post on the blog.
9. download comiclife and create one for a book you have read or about yourself.
10. post your pieces

book report due BY Nov 1st

10/14/2010

There is a book report poster due by Nov 1st. It should be of a fiction book that is appropriate for your reading level. If you read a page or so and you don't know 5 of the words then it may be too difficult. If there are no words that you don't know it is probably too easy.

If it is turned in early, extra credit. If it is turned in with rubric, extra credit. If it is a website that I can post here, extra credit.

You can find the rubric on my links page. Click on the folder and it is there for you to download.

journals and vocab week of 10/18

10/14/2010

31 TV and violence

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs. Alfred Hitchcock

Many people think TV shows display too much violence. Explain if you agree with this. Are there certain shows you aren’t allowed to watch; why do your parents do this? Are there certain things you won’t allow a younger sibling to watch, why? At least 7 sentences.

32 Wasting time

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin

How well do you use your time? Do you think time that is “wasted” on TV and internet is bad? Do you agree with this quote? What do you think it means; what is Darwin trying to say? At least 7 sentences.

33 Change

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.   Ellen Glasgow

What does this quote mean? What might Ms Glasgow be saying? Do you think all your decisions have been best for you? Do you agree with this quote? At least 7 sentences.

34 Life’s speed

There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi

What does this quote say about life? What should you do with your own? Is always focusing on the next thing best for you?

At least 7 sentences.

*If you get stuck on these, write about anything so you fill 7 sentences.

Vocabulary Workbook due dates

Unit 3 choosing the right word pg 40          10/19

Unit 3 vocabulary in context pg 41           10/21

journals and vocab for the week of 10/11

10/11/2010

Monday 10/11          27 My culture

Tell about who you are: What is your ethnic heritage? What are your spiritual beliefs? What are do you value in life? What possessions are most important to you? Do you speak more then one language? Entry is at least 7 sentences

Tuesday 10/12         28 Family traditions

What are your family’s traditions? What do you always do as a family for holidays, birthdays, weekends, meals, vacations? Do you enjoy these, why or why not?   Entry is at least 7 sentences!

Wednesday 10/13    29 My core beliefs

What are the most important values to you? Do you think you live up to these beliefs in your daily life, explain why. What is difficult to live up to, why? At least 7 sentences.

Thursday 10/14        30 Who I am

Who are you? What is your personality, what matters most to you, and where do you see yourself in the future? What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses? At least 7 sentences.

Vocabulary Workbook due dates

Unit 3 completing the sentences pg 38-39     10/12

Unit 3 synonyms and antonyms pg 39    10/14

journals and vocab hw for the week of 11/1

How to save your work on JCPS online.

Martin Luther King Jr Essay Contest

journal and vocab hw for the week of 10/25

extra credit opportunites

book report due BY Nov 1st

journals and vocab week of 10/18

journals and vocab for the week of 10/11

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