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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

9/8/2023 Friday

It's Friday!,
    Today in class:
-Quiz on Jeans Nation and Rise of the Backpack (if you missed this you'll have to do it when you get back; I do not put quizzes on the website).
-Progress Reports handed out; they need to be signed and returned by next Tuesday 9/12
 
password: lakes80

9/6-7/2023 Wednesday and Thursday

Hello Everyone,
     Wednesday:
-Daily Motivation: Get Along
-Skills Work Week 4 Wednesday
-Finish summaries of Jeans Nation and Rise of the Backpack
-Close Reading Questions and Critical Thinking Questions
 
   Thursday:
-Daily Motivation: Love
-Skills Work Week 4 Thursday
-Finish Critical Thinking Questions
-Practice with Text Evidence in learning packet 

9/5/2023 Tuesday

I hope everyone had a great extended weekend! 
Welcome back, Today in class we:
-had some daily motivation about Family
-worked on skills work week 4 Tuesday
-Read 2 articles from the September 2022 issue of SCOPE called:
    -Jeans Nation and -Rise of the Backpack
-worked on summaries for both articles in the learning packet
 
password: lakes80
 
*REMEMBER! You're looking for the September 2022 issue!

Thursday 8/31/2023

Konnichiwa!,
    Today:
-We continued working on our Hiragana Packets
-We started Lesson C: Self Introductions in class and we learned a few introductory basics.
-We reviewed for the upcoming numbers quiz
-We continued watching My Neighbor Totoro

Wednesday 0830/2023

Konnichiwa!,
    Today in class:
-Practiced Hiragana
-Graded our numbers quizzes from yesterday
-continued with the studio Ghibli movie My Neighbor Totoro

Wednesday and Thursday 08/30-31/2023

Hello, 
    Today and Tomorrow in class:
-We primarily worked on the RISE interim reading test
-If students finished the RISE test they were to continue working on the close reading and critical thinking questions from the SCOPE story Fancy Dancer in the week 3 learning packet.
-The Learning Packet is Due on Friday Sept. 1 everything in it should be complete 
 
 
*REMEMBER! You are looking for the September 2022 issue!

Monday and Tuesday 08/28-29/2023

Hello and welcome back!,
    I was gone on Monday, so I am going to post what we did yesterday in class and for today also:
 
Monday:
-Skills work week 3 Monday
-SCOPE story Fancy Dancer
   +Vocabulary and Practice
   +Read Story
   +Summary
 
Tuesday:
-Daily Motivation
-Skills work week 3 Tuesday
-SCOPE story Fancy Dancer:
   +Video and discussion questions
   +Quiz
   +Work on Close Reading and Critical Thinking Questions
 
password: lakes80
 
*REMEMBER! you are looking for the September 2022 issue!

Friday 08/25/2023

Hello it's Friday!,
    Today in class we:
-had some daily motivation about imagination
-we finished the learning packet 
 
password: lakes80
 
RMEMBER! you're looking for the September 2022 issue

Thursday 8/24/2023

Hello Everyone!,
      Today in class we:
-had some daily motivation about saying "Thank You".
-completed Thursday's Skills work
-worked on and completed our summary paragraphs of The White Death
-we discussed and answered some close reading and critical thinking questions about the article White Death.
 
password:lakes80
 
*REMEMBER! You are looking for the September 2022 issue.

Wednesday 08/23/2023

Konnichiwa!,
    Today in class we:
-Practiced our Hiragana
-Reviewed the numbers 1-10
-Learned numbers up to 100
-Learned ho to form numbers 1-9999
 

Wednesday 08/23/2023

Hello!,
     Today in class we:
-Discussed some daily motivation about loyalty.
-We discussed what an objective summary is and how to write one in my class.
-We watched a short video about the story "White Death in the Cascades" which we read yesterday in class. (You can watch this video on SCOPE's website)
-we practiced writing am objective summary of the White Death story
 
password: lakes80
 
*REMEMBER you are looking for the September 2022 issue*
The video should be contained within the article page.

Tuesday 08/22/2023

Hello Everyone!,
   Today in class we:
-went over some vocabulary and did a practice for the story we are reading in class called "White Death in the Cascades"
-read the story "White Death in the Cascades"
 
password: lakes80
 
remember, we are using the  September 2022 issue

Monday 08/21/2023

Welcome!,
     Today in class:
-Daily Motivation
-Skills work week 2
-SCOPE grammar practice: there, their, they're
 
password: lakes80
 
We are using the September 2022 issue in class right now.

Friday 08/18/2023

Hello IT'S FRIDAY!,
   Today in class we:
-had some daily motivation
-completed some funny Mad Libs as skills practice
-did some marble races

Thursday 08/17/2023

Hello! ,
      Today in class we:
- had some daily motivation
- learned how to do skills practice in Mr. Lakes' class
- went over the disclosure for Mr. Lakes' class