Hamilton 8th Language Arts

Today we did one of our most challenging activities of the year.   Students selected a passage from either their library book or from an alternate text I provided (poem or informational article) and analyzed the tone of the author.  This activity built on our group work yesterday.  We posted our work in Seesaw–please see the photo gallery below.

Students who finished early either worked on the assignment from Friday 12/6 or moved ahead to Quickwrite 4.

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1.  Warm-Up:  Membean
2.  Review Tone and Mood (notes provided as well as a sheet protector)
3.  Tone practice (task cards)
4.  Table Talk on Tone with excerpt of “I Have a Dream Speech”
5.  1st period only:  Gimkit review game on tone.  All other classes will begin with the game tomorrow as our warm-up.

 

Today we:

• Monday, December 9:
  • SRI/Lexile Test
  • Work on assignments from  Friday work
  • Finish Quickwrite 3, Cycle 3 if needed
  • Membean (if you finish early and are ahead)

 

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Coming Up This Week

• Tuesday, December 10:  Mini-lesson on tone
  • Table work on tone
  • Gimkit game on tone
  • Begin Quickwrite 4, Cycle 3 on analyzing tone in a piece of informational text
• Wednesday, December 11:
  • Complete Quickwrite 4, Cycle 3
  • Seesaw activity on tone with independent reading
• Thursday, December 12:
  • Complete Seesaw activity if needed
  • Strategies for tackling informational essay on upcoming Benchmark District CBA Test 2 (December 16-17)
• Friday, December 13: 
  • Complete strategies for tackling informational essay
  • Membean practice
  • Reading time with library book if time permits