Character/Personality Traits for Writers 

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“The study of grammar has as its goal the creation of a clear, persuasive, fully-equipped speaker and writer.”   -Wise, Jessie and Bauer, Susan Wise, A Well Trained Mind

 

 

Weeks 1 to 25 for Reference

 

 

 

 "The Verb Song" (to be verbs) Sung to the Tune of "Its a Small World"  

 Learning EnglishVideos: http://www.engvid.com/

 

 

 

 

 

a) Instructions to use Apple's AirPrint with your iPad (print to Room 19), and iMovie Help with Projects

b) "Find Your Strengths" Many Kinds of SMARTSAssessment Tool 

c)  Holstee Manifesto (values)

d) Click here to see a video about how to access your images on a google slide on the iPad. It is certainly ungainly but appears to WORK! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNAYgqxFk9Q

e) Blank PowerPoint to Import into GoogleSlides

How to add pictures to google slides on an iPad  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNAYgqxFk9Q

f) Bill Gates "Eleven Things You Did Not Learn in High School"

(founder of the technology company "Microsoft" and the operating system called "Windows") 

g) Brain Breaks 

h) What is the "Internet"? TedTalk with Andrew Blum

i) When using GarageBand on the iPad, remember to turn OFF the metronome, and then click on the + symbol in the upper right hand corner to turn ON "Automatic" (otherwise your recording will be truncated after 8 measures) 

j) Make a Touchdown with Google Earth

 

k) Comic John Branyon retells "The Three Little Pigs" story using the Queen's English (YouTube) demonstrating the richness of language in a hilarious manner.

Text:"Three Three Little Pigs" 

L) Steve Job's Stanford Address in 2005

 

 

 

 

 

n. Thanksgiving Poems NOVEMBER  (copy and share with the class!) You may find your own poem of thanks instead. "A" quality poems are in the neighborhood of 120 or more words, "B" poems are near 9 0 to 100 words and "C" poems are closer to 50 or 60 words. Check with Mr. Hunt if you are sharing a poem from another source- bring in to share! You will need to have your poem copied to give to Mr. Hunt the week of the poetry recital (Dates TBD, though reciting of poems will commense/begin on Wednesday the 15th). You will receive extra credit for handwriting and decorating your poem on 8.5x12 POSTER paper or for recording  your recitation of your poem (e-mail the file or bring in on a USB flash/thumb drive). Even better would be a video of you sharing your poem with a loved-one!  

 

 

 

o. File Naming Scheme for papers and projects submitted electronically:

example: PM.4.April.2016.Smith_Jimmy.BudNotes.23 

 

p. Holidays Around the World 

q  iMovie- Generic Rubric for Projects    Generic Project Rubric (not iMovie)

r.  Storyboarding for People Who Can't Draw

s. Template for Storyboarding 

 

w. Sitting is the New Smoking: Ways a Sedentary Life is Killing You

x. Test Practice: Josh's Mistake 

y. "Look Up" Video about the pernicious nature of screens- a powerful message! 

z. http://www.caaspp.org/practice-and-training/index.html

 

a'. Edgar Allen Poe: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

b'. Why did Hallowe'en sometimes have an Apostrophe?

c' On weeks when we have spelling, students will take a pretest at the start of the week and complete a "Contract" (worksheet) to practice the spelling words. Students will also be studying an additional ten words taken from page 144 of the student's Agenda, Frequently Misspelled Words