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English LA 7/8

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This is the page for Mr. Lakes' 7/8 English Language Arts Class.

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Short Story Starter List for 4th Term

This will be a running list of the short story starters (s.s.s) we have in class during 4th term.
 
Week 30
 
Monday 3/18/2024
+You have a friend over one night. You get hungry and decide to make something AMAZING; potatoes.
+Reporters are trained to develop a sixth sense, a nose for when a story smells fishy. And something about this one wasn't right. First of all...
 
Thursday 3/21/2024
+ "You don't have enough points sir."
+ While digging in a cereal box for the toy surprise, a child makes a horrifying discovery."
+ You are the victim of an elaborate scam.
 
Week 31
 
March 25 Monday
 
+“Well if you could accuse anybody of being downright evil, it would be him.”
+During his third night out of town, a traveling businessman discovers a voodoo doll in his room.
+You and a friend set out on a sixth-month adventure, living on their boat while sailing from port city to port city.
 
March 27 Wednesday
 
+Make your own.
+You get stuck on a ski lift with the worst person possible.
+“I knew it was a mistake the moment it was over.”
 
Week 32
 
April 8 Monday
 
+After thirteen years, a missing child is returned to her parents. The weird thing is…she hasn’t aged a day.
+Your computer starts flashing a message on the screen as if it’s trying to communicate.
+Make your own
 
April 10 Wednesday
 
+You become frightened when you notice your younger sibling has started to grow fangs.
+“Gee, let me guess. You’re not authorized to be in here, are you?”
+An ant decides to take his revenge upon the man who stepped on his family.
 
Week 33
 
April 15 Monday
 
+“Tell me what happened right before the crash, ma’am.”
+You wake up to find yourself horribly disfigured after splurging on an expensive face cream that promised “Amazing Results.”
+While walking through a store you see a wanted poster with your best friend’s picture on it.
 
April 17 Wednesday
 
+“Look what I found in the dumpster!”
+Fresh out of college, you roll into a new town to start what you think is your dream job.
+“Why do you have ten cans of Easy Cheese in your cart?”
 
Week 34
 
April 22 Monday
 
+"How am I supposed to go to the bathroom?"
+You are caught cheating when playing a game and the people you are playing with are not happy; not happy at all. In fact, they will probably do something horrible to you.
+"When I took the lid off the shoebox, there was more cash than I had ever seen."
 
April 24 Wednesday
 
+"Well to be honest, I threw it away."
+You get out of bed in the morning and discover that you're a foot shorter than the day before.
+Believing the floating lights in your backyard to be fireflies, you accidentally trap a fairy in a mason jar.
 
Week 35
 
***There are no short story starters this week; instead there is a notebook check!***

Posts

10/16-18/2023 Monday-Wednesday

Welcome back! This week we have Fall Break starting Thursday(10/19) through Monday (10/ 23/2023).
 
This week: 
MONDAY
Daily Motivation: quote from passiton.com
Skills Work Week 10: Monday
SCOPE-When it Rains
   -Vocabulary Practice
   -Read Article
   -Summary
 
TUESDAY
Daily Motivation: quote from passiton.com
Skills Work Week 10: Tuesday
SCOPE- Could Your Old Toys Be Worth a Fortune?
   -Magazine Activity
   -Short Narrative: Write about your favorite toy as a child

WEDNESDAY
I have planned for this day to be a reward day if students work hard on Monday and Tuesday.

10/10-13/2023 Tuesday-Friday

Here's the plan for this week:
 
Tuesday

Daily Motivation: Being There passiton.com

Skills Work Week 9

-Read SCOPE paired texts: Is this mountain cursed? And, Gold Fever

-Summary of paired texts

-Close Reading questions

Wednesday

PT CONFERENCES (scheduled ONLY)

Daily Motivation: Love

Skills Work Week 9

-SCOPE: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

   -Vocabulary

   -Theme anticipation guide

-Read Play

Thursday

PT CONFERENCES (open house style)

Daily Motivation: Making a Difference

Skills Work Week 9

-Finish reading Play

-Summary

Friday

Daily Motivation: Listening

SCOPE-Dr. Jekyll Quiz

 

HERE IS A LINK TO SCOPE!!!!

password is: lakes80

10/2-6/2023 Monday-Friday

Welcome Back! We've got quite the week with the Bryce Canyon trip this week, so...
 
Monday:
-Daily Motivation: Good Examples from passiton.com
 

-Skills Work Week 8

-SCOPE: Are Teens too young to go pro?

-Vocabulary and practice

-Essay Kit

HERE IS A LINK FOR SCOPE!!!!

password: lakes80

Tuesday:

Daily Motivation: Loyalty

Skills Work Week 8

-Essay Debate

-Finish Essay Debate Kit

-Write an Introductory Paragraph

Wednesday:

Daily Motivation: Sportsmanship

Skills Work Week 8

Thursday:

Daily Motivation: Forgiveness

Skills Work Week 8

-SCOPE: Is this mountain cursed?

   -Video about 4:00mins

   -Vocabulary and Practice

   -Do Now Language Practice

Friday:

Daily Motivation: Quote

Finish Essay and Missing Work

 

9/29/2023 Friday

Hello Everyone! It's FRIDAY!!!,
    Parent-Teacher Conferences are coming up! In order to help my students out, we are going to have a makeup-missing-work day. Those with no missing work will be rewarded. Those with missing work, get it done and turned in. 

9/28/2023 Thursday

Hello!,
    Today in class:
-Daily Motivation: Caring 
-Skills Work Week 7: Thursday
-SCOPE-Escape to Hope:
   -Text Structure
   -Text Features
 
password: lakes80

9/27/2023 Wednesday

Hello! Halfway there! Keep going!,
    Today in class:
-Daily Motivation: kindness passiton.com
-Skills Work Week 7 Wednesday
-SCOPE-Escape to Hope (October 2022 issue)
   -Read Article
   -Summarizing
??Mad Lib and Word Search?? (if time...)
 
password: lakes80

9/26/2023 Tuesday

Hello!,
   Today in class:
-Daily Motivation: Confidence from passiton.com
-Skills work week 7 Tuesday
-SCOPE- Escape to Hope (OCTOBER 2022 issue)
   -Video and discussion questions
   -Vocabulary
   -Mad Lib and Word Search
 
password: lakes80

9/21/2023 Thursday

Hello!,
    Today in class it was primarily an independent work day after the skills work and daily motivation.
-Daily motivation on patience passiton.com
-Skills work week 6: Thursday
-Read vocabulary for Space Junk and do the practice
-SCOPE Short Read The problem with Space Junk
-Write 5 sentence summary of the story
-Complete the Space Junk Quiz and the one constructed response question
(three sentences with text evidence)
-Turn in the packet to the Quiz box.
 
password: lakes80 
 
REMEMBER! You are looking for the September 2022 issue of SCOPE!

9/20/2023 Wednesday

Hello Everyone!,
   Today in class:
-Daily Motivation: Encouragement passiton.com
-Skills Work Week 6: Wednesday
-Debate Essay Kit
-SCOPE Short Read Space Junk
-Vocabulary Practice
 
password: lakes80
 
REMEMBER! You are looking for the September 2022 issue!

9/19/2023 Tuesday

Hello,
   Today in class:
-Daily motivation on Confidence from passiton.com
-Skills work Week 6: Tuesday
-Read Debates "Should Andre be a Social Media Star?
-Debate Scavenger Hunt
-Debate Essay Kit
 
password: lakes80
 
*REMEMBER! You are looking for the September 2022 issue!*

9/18/2023 Monday

Welcome back! I hope you had a great weekend. And now, back to it...,
    Today in class:
-Daily Motivation: Achievement. Look on Passiton.com
-Skills Work Week 6 Monday
-Finish Quiz on the Odyssey and turn in the learning packet
-New learning packet 
   -Vocabulary and Vocabulary Practice
   -Read Debates on pg 22-23 in SCOPE
   -Debate Scavenger Hunt
 
password: lakes80
 
*REMEMBER you are looking for the September 2022 issue

09/14-15/2023 Thursday and Friday

Hello Everyone!,
    Thursday in class we:
-Read the play The Odyssey from the September 2022 issue of SCOPE magazine.
-Completed the vocabulary practice in our learning packet
-Completed the theme anticipation guide for The Odyssey
 
   Friday we will:
-Finalize and submit our three-paragraph essays on the phrase-"Necessity is the mother of creation".

9/12/2023 Tuesday and Wednesday

Hello!,
     Today and tomorrow in class:
-We had an essay work day. Students were allowed to use the class period as work time on the 3 paragraph essay that is due Friday. The essay should be written in google docs and then copy and pasted into Utah Compose and submitted.
-We will do both Tuesday and Wednesday's skills work on Thursday in class.
 
password: lakes80 

9/11/2023 Monday

Welcome Back! hope you had a good weekend!,
   Today in class:
-Daily Motivation: Gratitude
-Skills work Week 5 Monday
-Learning Packet: Prepare to Write 
-Got everyone set-up on Utah Compose
*Signed Progress Reports DUE Tomorrow!*
 
password: lakes80