Junior english2013-2014CARMAN

Monday August 19

On your notecard, write the following:1. Your name

2. Something you do when you’re not doing schoolwork

3. A good book you’ve read within the last 12 months

4. Your current song/movie/obsession

Exit ticket:

• Something you’d like to get out of school this year

• Something you are giving back to society this year

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

HOW BELLWORK WORKS• There‘s a prompt almost every day.• Label each entry.• Keep entries together & turn in on Friday (or Monday).•Worth 3 points each.•WRITE THE WHOLE TIME!• If you miss a day, you must make up the bellwork.

Tuesday, August 20 bellwork•What makes for a good learning environment?•What makes for a bad learning environment?

Your answer may be a list or a paragraph.

Wednesday, August 21 Bellwork•What tips and strategies do you have for note-taking?

How many of these questions do your notes help you answer?1. Around 500 B.C.E., English was basically the same language as _________.

2. What made Old English nouns so difficult to learn?

3. What is the Old English plural form of “book”?

4. What is the Old English plural form of “egg”?

5. What is the Old English plural form of “child”?

6. What group of people is responsible for changing the way we pluralize nouns in English?

7. Why did they start pluralizing almost all nouns by adding an “S”?

Which question is most related to the video’s

main idea?1. Around 500 B.C.E., English was

basically the same language as _________.

2. What made Old English nouns so difficult to learn?

3. What is the Old English plural form of “book”?

4. What is the Old English plural form of “egg”?

5. What is the Old English plural form of “child”?

6. What group of people is responsible for changing the way we pluralize nouns in English?

7. Why did they start pluralizing almost all nouns by adding an “S”?

Friday, August 23 Bellwork• Describe yourself as a reader. • You might consider the following:• What kinds of books, magazines, websites,

or articles do you like to read?• What is your least favorite kind of reading?• How do you focus?• When and where do you like to read?• How have you changed as a reader, since

you were younger?• How is reading useful to you?• How would you like to improve as a reader?

You should answer this prompt with complete sentences.

Exit Ticket– reflection (on back of notecard)

•Write 3-5 complete sentences about how using this strategy affected your reading experience.•What did you like or dislike about the strategy?•How do you think this strategy will affect how you remember the story?•What might you use this strategy for in the future?

Tuesday, August 27 Bellwork• Describe the society that Harrison

Bergeron lives in. • Provide 2 quotations that reveal

something important about this society.• What do these quotations reveal?Example:The society is…

Quotation (pg. #) What it shows us about their society

Quotation (pg. #) What it shows us about their society

Wednesday, August 28 Bellwork•Do you think cursive should be taught in school? Why or why not?

• Please write in complete sentences.

Tuesday, September 03 Bellwork•How’s it going?•Write a journal entry about whatever is on your mind. (You will not be asked to share this with the class).

Whether or Weather?

I couldn’t tell ________________ she was serious or not.

They’re, There, or Their?

__________ are too many possible answers to this question.

Whose or Who’s?

_____________ going to help me with this?

Effect or Affect?

Reading that book had a peculiar _____________ on Evelyn.

Uninterested or Disinterested?

I am completely ________________ in this movie.

Loose or Lose?

I’m afraid she’s going to ____________ her grandmother’s wedding band.

Lieing, Laying, or Lying?

My mother has been _______________ in bed all morning.

Accept or Except?

She has apparently found it difficult to ______________ the circumstances.

Its or It’s?

She apparently doesn’t care about _____________ origins in antiquity.

Than or Then?

It’s usually hotter _____________ this in July.

Cite, Sight, or Site?

The politicians can’t seem to find an appropriate ______________ for the new community college.

Quite, Quiet, or Quit?

I’ve never known the library to be __________ this quiet.

How to summarizea text

Wednesday, September 4 Bellwork

•Use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then format to summarize a story you know. • (It may be a fairy tale, novel, movie, etc.)

Thursday, September 05 Bellwork•Where are you on your hero’s journey?

Spend at least 5 minutes writing