Friday, March 23, 2012

The Sight book trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCELVF6vik0

Students share thoughts on Hunger Games

http://www.freep.com/VideoNetwork/1521238983001/Students-share-thoughts-on-The-Hunger-Games-&odyssey=mod%7Cvideo%7C%7Cumbrella

Assignments 3/26-3/30

Marking Period Ends 4/11! 

Red= Turn it in
Green= in class activity
Blue= type of lesson or other

Monday 3/26   Turn in any missing assignments  Work on Bully Packet, Reading the Bully,

Tuesday 3/27  Turn in Meaning and Roots sheet Reading the Bully Work on the Bully Packet  Group work- Informational charts
Wed 3/28  Reading the Bully work on the bully Packet and Group work- Informational Charts SRI Practice, Bully Reading
Thursday 3/29  Turn in Dollar Store inform. text walk through-Finish the Bully in class work on Bully Packet
Friday 3/30  Turn in the Bully Packet


Monday, March 12, 2012

At home with Jodi Picoult

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=663ZTxWuqqQ

Lone Wolf Synopsis by Jodi Picoult

Lone Wolf

Synopsis:

Edward Warren, 23, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: His dad lies comatose in a NH hospital, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara.
Cara, 17, still holds a grudge against her brother, since his departure led to her parents’ divorce. In the aftermath, she’s lived with her father – an animal conservationist who became famous after living with a wild wolf pack in the Canadian wild. It is impossible for her to reconcile the still, broken man in the hospital bed with her vibrant, dynamic father.
With Luke’s chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father’s organs. Is he motivated by altruism, or revenge? And to what lengths will his sister go to stop him from making an irrevocable decision?
LONE WOLF looks at the intersection between medical science and moral choices. If we can keep people who have no hope for recovery alive artificially, should they also be allowed to die artificially? Does the potential to save someone else’s life with a donated organ balance the act of hastening another’s death? And finally, when a father’s life hangs in the balance, which sibling should get to decide his fate?

Friday, March 9, 2012

Starters

STARTERS


In a world ravaged by war and genocide, becoming someone else is now possible. Sixteen-year-old Callie discovers the Body Bank where teens rent their bodies to seniors who want to be young again. When her neurochip malfunctions, she wakes up in the mansion of her rich renter and finds she is going out with a senator’s grandson. It’s a fairy-tale new life, until she discovers her renter’s deadly plan.

Starters by Lissa Price

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvNUsW1CItY

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Book Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDpBs6kheKg&feature=related

Friday, March 2, 2012

Assingments Week of 3/5

Monday 3/5  Turn in two Hugo Sheets Begin working on Reading log, Fill out more of Patterns of Organization, Reading the Bully
Tuesday 3/6  Turn in Patterns of Organization sheet, Take home handout of the Bully To read (Comprehension quiz Wed).
Wed. 3/7  SRI testing hrs 4, 6 Quiz about the Bully, Turn in Left handed assingment
Thursday 3/8 SRI testing hours 1-3 Take home prefix assignment
Friday 3/9  Reading Log due

* Homework
* Due today