Short Story Packets

A few of you have been absent for the short stories out of our purple Reader's Companion books.  If you've missed a day, here's PDFs of the packets you can print out to make up the points:

The Chase (From an American Childhood) by Annie Dillard by Derek David Rouch

Demeter and Persephone by Anne Terry White by Derek David Rouch

Papa's Parrot by Cynthia Rylant by Derek David Rouch

The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Derek David Rouch

The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers by Derek David Rouch

Trimester 2 Realm of the Four Winds Winners!

Behold the Realm's final standings for Trimester 2!  Congratulations to House Ostro, as their hard work was evidenced in having the highest GPA this trimester, as well as the highest homework completion percentage. 

All the beans have been counted and converted into points, which were then added to the in-class activity awards and blog contest points.

Here's the final standings for Tri 2:

1st:  House Ostro - 1123 points

2nd: House Scirocco - 1097 points

  

3rd: House Ponente - 1021 points

4th: House Tramontane - 1013 points

Keep working hard for our third and final Trimester, champions, and as always...

May the winds be forever at your back!

Don't Sell Your Hair to a Wig Shop

You've probably seen these DirecTV commercials before, but you might not have noticed the cause-and-effect relationships inside of them:

Your task:

• Post a blog entry in the comments section in which you create your own cause-and-effect sequence
• Your sequence should begin with "When you're late to Mr. Rouch's class"
• Your sequence should end with "Don't be late to Mr. Rouch's class"
• Your sequence must have at least 6 causes and 6 effects
• Make sure to include your first name, last initial, and house at the end of your post!

School House Rock - Adjectives

Get ready to unpack those adjectives! Here comes School House's take on those helpful modifiers.  Steer clear of those hairy, scary bears!

School House Rock - Adverbs

Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here!  There are lots of great examples and rules for the use of adverbs in this video!  Follow along in your blue handbooks.

To This Day

We've been looking closely at cause-and-effect relationships.  We started with some fast facts on the Titanic, 9/11, and getting good grades.  From there, we watched this beautiful spoken word poetry video by Shane Koyczan and created a circle map of what we felt were some of the most powerful parts of the video.




Please bring your fast facts and circle map to class on Monday as we continue our hunt.

Modifiers - Adjectives and Adverbs

Hey everyone!
      Here's some basic information to help you with your S.O.L.E. Activity on modifiers.  Each group is required to add one comment telling the rest of the class something from another website they learned about modifiers Good luck and I look forward to seeing your presentations on Wednesday!