English LA 7/8 Assignments
- Instructor
- Mr. Lakes
- Term
- 2023-2024 School Year
- Department
- 7th & 8th Grade
- Description
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This is the page for Mr. Lakes' 7/8 English Language Arts Class.
Files
Upcoming Assignments
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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!***
Past Assignments
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Week 35 Learning Packet and Assignments
There is no skills work packet this week; because of testing I have decided not to do daily motivation this week and opted for just one packet with the assignments and grammar workouts for the week.
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Week 34 Assignments
These are the assignments for week 34: April 22-26, 2024
Learning Packet contains all in-class assignments and homework assignments.
Grammar Workouts contains all beginning of class daily motivations and grammar practices.
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Week 33 Assignments
Here is the Learning packet for week 33 which contains all in-class assignments during the week.
Here is also the Skills Packet which contains the Daily Motivation and Grammar workouts.
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Week 32 Week of California Trip- Packet
This is the packet for 8th graders who went on the California Trip.
There is also the packet for 7th grade and those who stayed behind.
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Week 31 Learning materials and Grammar Workouts
Here are the packets for Week 31:
-Learning packet with in-class assignments and homework
-Skills packet with daily motivation sheet and grammar workouts that we do in class each day.
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Week 30 Assignments: Learning Packet and Grammar Workouts
Here are the learning materials for week 30:
-Learning Packet
-Grammar Workouts
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Week 28: Learning Materials
Here are the learning materials for this week. The Daily Motivation/ Grammar Workouts. The Learning Packet for in-class assignments.
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Week 27 Learning Materials
Here are the learning materials for Week 27. They include:
-Learning Packet Week 27- all in class assignments for the week
-Daily Motivation and Grammar Workouts
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Week 26 Learning Materials and Skills Work
Here's the learning materials for Week 26:
-Learning packet
-Daily Motivation and Grammar Workouts
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Week 25 Learning Materials
Here are all the learning materials we will use this week in class:
-Learning packet for treasure Island chapters 25-28
-Grammar Workouts and practices
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Week 24 Learning Materials
Here are:
-The Learning Packet for Week 24-all assignments for Treasure Island and in-class work
-Daily Motivation and Grammar Workouts for week 24
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Week 23 Learning materials
These are:
-The learning materials we need for class each day
-The daily motivation and grammar workouts
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Week 22: Learning Materials and Grammar Workouts
The following files contain all in class work for this week in the Learning Packet (LP).
The copier is broken so there are no Grammar workouts this week...yet. I will update this if it gets fixed. ***UPDATE*** Copier fixed and grammar workouts copied! They are included below.
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Week 21 Assignments: Learning Packet and Grammar Workouts
Here are the materials we will use in class for this week:
-The Learning Packet
-Grammar Workouts and Daily Motivations
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Week 20 Learning Materials and Grammar Work
Here all all the materials you will need for Week 20; the learning packet and grammar workouts.
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Week 19 Grammar Workouts and Learning Packet
These are the learning materials we use throughout the week in class; along with the daily motivation and grammar workouts.
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Week 18 Learning Packet and Grammar Workout Packet
This is the Daily Motivation/Grammar Workout Packet we do at the beginning of every class along with Learning Packet 18 which has all the learning materials you will need for the week.
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Week 17 Learning Packet and Grammar Workout Packet
These are the materials we are going to use in class for Week 17.
Also, the Activity #3 quote assignment.
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Week 16 Learning Materials and Grammar Workouts
Here is the learning packet with the pirate research project and grammar workouts that we do at the beginning of class each day.
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Week 15 Nacho Libre Assignment
Here's the Nacho Libre assignment we did in class
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Grammar Workout Week 14 and Lesson Packet Week 14
These are:
-The Grammar workouts we do at the beginning of each class period during the week.
-The Learning materials for the week
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Week 13 Grammar Workout and Learning packet
Here is the daily motivation and grammar workout for week 13 (Nov. 6-10, 2023) as well as the learning materials we will be using in class this week.
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Skills Work and Learning Packet for Week 12
This is the skills work we do at the beginning of each class M-Th. The Learning Packet is all the learning materials we use in class throughout the week. This is for Week 12: 10/30-11/3/2023.
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Skills Work and Learning Packet for Week 11
This is the skills work we do at the beginning of each class and learning materials for this week. 10/24/2023
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Skills Work Week 10 and Learning Packet
This is the skills work we do at the beginning of class and the learning materials you will need for class this week.
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Week 9 Skills Work and Learning Packet
This is the Skills work for this week 10/10-13/2023 as well as the learning materials for class.
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Week 8 Skills Work and Lesson Packet
this is the skills work we do each day in class Monday thru Thursday, and the learning materials for all the lessons this week. October 2- 6, 2023.
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Skills Work and Learning Packet for Week 7
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Learning Packet and Skills Work for Week 6 9/18-22
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Learning Packet Week 5 September 11-15
This is all the materials and work we are going over this week in class. Everything is turned in on Friday.
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3 Paragraph Essay Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Students have a three paragraph essay due on Friday and submitted on Utah Compose. The prompt is on Utah Compose titled, "Necessity is the Mother of Invention". Consult Learning packet for materials to help you plan your essay.
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Progress Report signed and returned
Progress reports were handed out in class. Have them signed by a parent or guardian and then return it by next Tuesday 9/12.
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Skills Works Week 4
We skipped Monday's skills work because we did not have school Monday. Tuesday through Thursday's skills work will be collected on Friday
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Learning Packet Week 4
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7/8 ELA Class Disclosure Assignment
This assignment is so that you, the student, know the policies in my class and how to conduct yourself. The assignment is also given so that I know that you know how to reach the class website and find information and assignments that I will post for class.