6th+Period

=5/25/10= 1) Make Up Work--8th Grade---**ALL MAKE UP WORK MUST BE DONE TODAY!!** 2) Early Finisher Websites

= = =5/24/10= The only person that did their Flyer Assignment is Aliyah. Aliyah will receive 10 bonus points on this assignment!!! **I will subtract 20 points from everyone else's assignment for it being late. It must be turned in today!!!** 1) Flyer Assignment-- 2) Make Up Work--8th Grade---**ALL MAKE UP WORK MUST BE DONE TODAY!!**

=5/21/10= 1) Review Assignment-- 2) Make Up Work--8th Grade 3) Early Finisher Websites

= = =5/20/10= 1) Flyer Assignment-- 2) Make Up Work--8th Grade

= = =5/19/10= 1) This is the FINAL DAY for the Weather Assignment. 2) Flyer Assignment-- 3) Make Up Work--8th Grade 4) Create your own WIKI page!! 5) Early Finisher Websites

= = =5/18/10= 1) Weather Assignment- 2) Early Finisher Websites

=5/17/10= 1) Click on [] and download **//Google Earth 5.//** Google Earth Assignment: 2) Watch the following PowerPoint about GPS. 3) GPS Experimentation

=Thursday, 5/13/10 & Friday, 5/14/10= PLEASE DO NOT LET ME RECEIVE A BAD REPORT!!!! 1) Bonus Points PowerPoint Opporunity (//last day--5/13/10//) 2) Weather Assignment-

=5/12/10= Today is the final day for the brochure. Make sure you included all of the headings that were on your worksheet. The project description tells you how to save it. BONUS POINTS OPPORUNITY: Create a 6 slide PowerPoint presentation about your assigned park. The presentation must be in the following order: · Title Page · Admission Info · Map · Rides & Attractions · Park News · Park Events It must also contain background, slide design, slide transition (slide must move on its own but not too fast), and at least 10 pictures and/or clipart. Then, you must save it and load it on to the class wiki under 8th Grade Parks. Since this is a bonus opporunity, I can only help you with loading it on wiki. If you are successful, you get to replace 1 of your low grades with a 100!!!!!

Sneak Peek at Thursday & Friday's Project Weather Assignment-

=5/10/10=

Amusement Park Brochure--This project is due on Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Read the project description very carefully before getting started.
Project Description Brochure Template ==

=5/7/10= Today you may go to Early Finisher Websites. However, if you get too loud, constantly talking, or go on a website that you are not suppose to; you will be given an assignment.

=5/6/10=
 * TODAY IS THE FINAL DAY FOR OUR PROJECT. EVERYTHING MUST BE TURNED IN TODAY!! Which includes:**
 * NutritionFirstnamespreadsheet & charts
 * Nutrition2Firstname---1 page report---this report must be in your own words
 * Nutrition3Firstname---spreadsheets & charts handout[[file:Spreadsheets and Charts Handout.doc]]
 * Nutrition4Firstname---USDA questions & answers---[[file:USDA worksheet.doc]]

=5/5/10= Save this as Nutrition3Firstname and send it to me through Classjump.

1) Continue to work on your Excel Project. Make sure you complete all parts of the assignment. There is a written part that goes along with this project but you may type this part and save it as Nutrition2Firstname and send it to me through Classjump. Save your Excel assignment as NutritionFirstname and send it to me through Classjump. 2) Early Finisher Websites

** This project is due on tomorrow!! **

=5/3/10= 1) Here's how you cite your sources. Everyone should have at least 5 sources cited for pictures and information together. Author's name. "Name of Picture or Article." Photo, Article, etc. Name of Website Date Information was Published. Date that you got the information. Website Address = = Suzuki, Lea. "Mick Jaggar." Photo. // SFGate.com // 14 Nov. 2005. 14 Nov. 2005 [|http://www.sfgate.com].

Get graded papers signed!! **
 * Brochures are due on today!!! Save this assignment as BrochureFirstname.**

2) Look on the discussion post to make sure that you have completed your individual post and responded to everyone else's posts. 3) Take a look at your next project: [] This project is due at the end of 6th period on Thursday. If you have Internet access at home, you may work on this project at home or at the technology center.

=4/30/10= 1) Continue to work on Brochure Research Project.

=4/29/10= Laderricka, Juneykwa, & Cedrick let me know if you were absent yesterday. The following students received a "0" on the following assignments:
 * WordArt Assignment: Laderricka, Juneykwa, Antonio, & Cedrick
 * Noun 3 Assignment: Laderricka, Juneykwa, Reginald, Asia, Lawson, Aliyah, Cedrick & James

PROJECT DESCRIPTION** == ==
 * Today you will begin a Brochure Research Project. Read the following information very carefully!
 * EXAMPLE OF COMPLETED PROJECT**
 * BROCHURE TEMPLATE**

=4/28/10= 1) Clipart Assignment---

2) Noun Worksheet--- 3) The following students need to click on the discussion post and start a new post: Gredrick & Anyone Else that has not done a "New Post" 4) Everyone must click on the Discussion Tab and comment on the posts from: **Amber, Chrystal, Imonie, Marcus, Cedrick & Kris.** Make sure you are kind with your words or you will not receive credit for this part of the assignment. You must type at least 3 sentences.
 * Guidelines: Your post must have a 1 to 3 word title; then you must type at least 3 statements about an issue. This issue may be something that happened at school, at home, in your community, in the music industry, sports, and so on. It can simply be you expressing your feelings about something. Make sure you check your spelling, capitalization, & grammar.**

ALL ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE GRADED; THIS INCLUDES THE DISCUSSION POSTS!!!

=4/27/10= 1) Go to Classjump and open your Excel 3 Assignment. Then wait for further instructions. 2) Excel Quiz 3) The following students need to click on the discussion post and start a new post: **Amber, Chrystal, Imonie, Marcus, Cedrick & Kris Guidelines: Your post must have a 1 to 3 word title; then you must type at least 3 statements about an issue. This issue may be something that happened at school, at home, in your community, in the music industry, sports, and so on. It can simply be you expressing your feelings about something. Make sure you check your spelling, capitalization, & grammar.** 4) Everyone must click on the Discussion Tab and comment on the posts from: **James, Asia, & Dedrick.** Make sure you are kind with your words or you will not receive credit for this part of the assignment. You must type at least 3 sentences. = = = = =4/26/10= 1) Go to Classjump and open your Excel 2 Assignment. Then wait for further instructions. 2) Excel Assignmentfollow the directions on the sheet 3) The following students need to click on the discussion post and start a new post: **Kaneisha, James, Asia, Reginald, & Dedrick** 4) Everyone must click on the Discussion Tab and comment on the posts from: Marquise, Makayla, & Antonio. Make sure you are kind with your words or you will not receive credit for this part of the assignment. You must type at least 3 sentences.
 * Guidelines: Your post must have a 1 to 3 word title; then you must type at least 3 statements about an issue. This issue may be something that happened at school, at home, in your community, in the music industry, sports, and so on. It can simply be you expressing your feelings about something. Make sure you check your spelling, capitalization, & grammar.**

=4/23/10= I need the Excel 2 Assignment from the following people: Imonie (resend yours); Laderricka, Kaneisha, Antonio, Marcus, Dontreyle, Cedrick, & Makayla 1) The following students need to click on the discussion post and start a new post: Corderius, Marquise Miller, Antonio, & Makayla 2) Apprentice Project- [|Business Guidelines & Template.ppt] Each group must have 1 person send me slides 1-6 today. This assignment will be graded.
 * Guidelines: Your post must have a 1 to 3 word title; then you must type at least 3 statements about an issue. This issue may be something that happened at school, at home, in your community, in the music industry, sports, and so on. It can simply be you expressing your feelings about something. Make sure you check your spelling, capitalization, & grammar.**

=4/22/10= 1) Apprentice Project- 2) WE WILL PRACTICE SHOOTING OUR COMMERCIALS TODAY! = = =4/21/10= 1) School Survey-click on the link and take the [|survey] 2) Business Letter Template-follow the directions on the page

= = =4/20/10= The following students need to look on Wiki for the date(s) they were absent and complete their make up work: Laderricka, Kaneisha, & Makayla 1) Click on the Millionaire Discussion Post & wait until you receive further instructions. 2) Apprentice Project-

=4/19/10= 1) Excel Assignment--follow the directions on the sheet 2) Apprentice Project

=4/16/10= I expect you to be on your best behavior while I am out. 1) Million Dollar Discussion Post--make sure you check your post to see if you have 3 paragraphs and correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar 2) Study the parts of the [|Friendly Letter Example] for a quiz TOMORROW!! 3) Write a friendly letter on a clean sheet of paper to a friend explaining what type of car you want for your first car. Make sure you include all of the parts of the letter. If you do not know your address, use the school's address, which is 620 Carver Street Greensboro, AL 36744 and learn your address for tomorrow. Turn it in when you are finished. 3) Early Finisher Websites

=4/15/10= 1) Click on the Island Discussion Post and wait quietly for further instructions. 2) Go to Classjump and open your Excel document from Monday. You should have saved it as ExcelFirstname. Then, wait for further instructions. 3) Open your Excel assignment from yesterday and complete a graph like we just did. 4) Apprentice Project
 * Project Guidelines & Presentation Example-[[file:Business Guidelines & Template.ppt]]
 * Today you are going to work on your commercial & PowerPoint presentation

=4/14/10= 1) Excel Assignment
 * AutoShapes Test--Kaneisha Banks & Juneykwa Bright--You need to send this to me today!!
 * Island Discussion Post--If you did not post this yesterday or you did it incorrectly -10 points will be taken from your grade. The students that completed this assignment is: James, Aliyah, Kris, & Gredrick---YOU RECEIVE 10 BONUS POINTS ON THIS ASSIGNMENT. GOOD JOB!!!

=4/13/10= Congratulations to Group C for winning the story contest!! 1) April Fool Scavenger Hunt- Write your answers in complete sentences. Complete the "Something to Think About Question" on the back of your sheet. You must write at least 3 sentences for this question. Turn it in when you are finished. 2) Island Discussion Post 3) Early Finisher Websites

=4/12/10= 1) Clipart Quiz---READ THE DIRECTIONS ON THE PAGE VERY CAREFULLY!! 2) Go to Microsoft Excel & wait for further instructions 3) Apprentice Project 4) GROUP STORY WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

=4/8/10= 1) Turn in your graded papers (I gave you an extra day). 2) Go to Classjump and check your messages. You should have a message from me if you are missing an assignment or made a "0" on an assignment. You need to complete these assignments today and post them or send them to me.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS WHO DID NOT HAVE ANY MISSING ASSIGNMENTS OR ZEROS: Gredrick Collins, Chrystal Thomas, Antonio Herrod, & James Tubbs

You will receive a COMPUTER PASS!! This entitles you to 1 free period of early finisher websites!!

3) FINAL DAY FOR GROUP STORYRead over your group's story and make changes as needed. Remember it has to be in the correct order. THE JUDGE IS READING THEM TOMORROW! This is what you will be graded on: Story completed in order: 20 points All group members typed at least 2 paragraphs: 30 points Less than 5 capitalization, spelling, or punctuation errors in the story: 20 points Story relates to the prompt I gave you: 30 points TOTAL: 100 points

4) Apprentice Project-Work on your commercial & putting all of your information together in a PowerPoint show

4/7/10 1) Turn in your graded papers. 2) Go to Classjump and check your messages. You should have a message from me if you are missing an assignment from yesterday or missed problems on your Clipart Assignment. 3) Open up the Clipart Assignment and correct the ones that you missed. Then, save it as ClipartFirstName and send it to me through your Classjump account. 4) FINAL DAY FOR GROUP STORYRead over your group's story and make changes as needed. Remember it has to be in the correct order. This is what you will be graded on: Story completed in order: 20 points All group members typed at least 2 paragraphs: 30 points Less than 5 capitalization, spelling, or punctuation errors in the story: 20 points Story relates to the prompt I gave you: 30 points TOTAL: 100 points

5) Apprentience Project

=4/6/10= 1) Turn in your graded papers. 2) Group Story: If it's your turn to get started, start your story on the discussion post. Then quietly notify the next person on the list when you are done. **If it's not your turn or you have already gone-start on #3.**

Examples of Dialogue: "That is my car," stated Jamie. "Are you going to the football game?" questioned Emily. Keisha said, "Let's go to the mall after school."

3) Clipart, Wordart, & Autoshapes Assignment: 4) Microsoft Excel Assignment: 4) Apprentice Project

4/5/10 1) Cut & Paste Assignment (READ THE DIRECTIONS AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE): 2) Story Discussion Post: Each group must type a story. However, each person in the group is only typing 2 paragraphs of the story then the next person on the list must continue the story. I am going to read them and have someone else to read them to see who has the BEST story!!! I have started the story for you. Also, in order to receive credit, your group must post the story in the correct order by name. Make sure your story makes sense, has correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. BE CREATIVE & HAVE FUN!!! 3) Work on Group Project:
 * Your group should have the following things completed: business name, logo, business card, packaging, and label
 * Work on steps 7 & 8
 * Monday you will be given video cameras to record your commercial so come prepared.
 * The following project is due Thursday, April 8th--You will have to compile all of your steps into 1 PowerPoint Show.

=4/1/10= If you have your graded papers, bring them to me. 1) Copy & Paste Assignment--Make sure you read the directions, they are on the 2nd page: 2) Work on Group Project:
 * Your group should have the following things completed: business name, logo, business card, packaging, and label
 * Work on steps 7 & 8
 * Monday you will be given video cameras to record your commercial so come prepared.
 * The following project is due Thursday, April 8th--You will have to compile all of your steps into 1 PowerPoint Show.
 * Chrystal will be in Kris's group.

=3/31/10= First of all, I will not be in class today because I am doing make up testing. 1) Graded Papers: I do not have graded papers from the following students: Laderricka, Kaneisha, Juneykwa, Dedrick, Reginald, Antonio, Asia, Kris, Amber, Imonie, Marquise, Aliyah, & Corderius 2) Discussion Posts are good ways to boost your grade. Click on the Charity Discussion Post for today. 3) The following students did not complete their discussion post from yesterday (3 paragraphs): Makayla, Juneykwa, Reginald, Asia, Marquis Lawson, Marquise Miller, Corderius. **You MUST complete this today.** The following students COMPLETED their post but have some ERRORS. You will need to make corrections on your post. These students are: Laderricka (last sentence & other errors), Kris (1st sentence & other errors), Kaneisha (misspelled words), and EVERYONE THAT POSTED NEEDS TO CHECK THEIR SPELLING. SOME OF YOU DID NOT CAPITALIZE THE LETTER "I". //If you did not post anything yesterday, I am taking 20 points off of your grade for it being late. This goes for today's discussion post also.//
 * If you brought them today, please give them to the sub. If you did not bring them, you will see me tomorrow during p.e.**

=3/30/10= Take out your graded papers. 1) Answer the following question on a __sheet of paper and turn it in when you are finished__: "What do you think cyberbullying is?" (3 sentences) 2) Class Discussion 3) Read the following article and answer the discussion post. 4) Early Finisher Websites

=3/29/10= Take out your graded papers. If you do not have them signed TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY!! Math Bellringer: Show your work on your paper and answer the problems on the answer grid. 1) -52 + -147 2) 502 x 61 3) 8/9 - 2/6 4) $398.06 - $145.29 5) 985 - (-298)

2) Finish your Role Model Discussion Post from Friday if you have not finished already. It will be graded today. 3) Early Finisher Websites

=3/25/10= Math Bellringer: Show your work on your paper and answer the problems on the answer grid. 1) 345 x 47 2) 11/12 - 3/5 3) -585 - 96 4) $297.01 - $78.35 5) 7_2/3 + 1_1/9 (mixed number)

2) **LAST DAY TO COMPLETE PATRICK'S HOMEWORK DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENT** Read the [|online story] for today and complete the discussion post. Make sure you read over it before you post it. 3) Role Model Discussion Post 4) Early Finisher Websites

=3/23/10= This week we will work hard to prepare for the ARMT and SAT 10 tests that are approaching. Please do not show up for class if you do not have paper and a pencil. NO FOOD MAY BE BROUGHT INTO THE LAB!! 1) Bellringer: Math Worksheet 2) Read the [|online story] for today and complete the discussion post. 3) Early Finisher Websites

=3/22/10= This week we will work hard to prepare for the ARMT and SAT 10 tests that are approaching. Please do not show up for class if you do not have paper and a pencil. NO FOOD MAY BE BROUGHT INTO THE LAB!! 1) Bellringer: 2) Read the [|online story] and complete the discussion post from 3/11/10. You need to read your post and see what you need to correct. Then, you need to retype it. I will delete the incorrect posts and everyone will receive a grade on it tomorrow. /20 __ Answered the question: _____/40__ __ Posted in the correct location: ____/5__ __ TOTAL: __/100
 * GREAT JOB MELVIN!! YOU WERE THE ONLY STUDENT THAT TYPED 2 PARAGRAPHS! YOU WILL RECEIVE 15 BONUS POINTS ON ANY ASSIGNMENT!!**
 * This is how you will be graded:**

3) Read the [|online story] for today and complete the discussion post. 4) Early Finisher Websites

= = =3/11/10= 1) Read the information about [|Exponents] 2) Complete the on your own paper. The worksheet is numbered going across. Turn in your papers when you are finished. 3) Read the [|online story] and complete the discussion post. Make sure you read over your post before you send it. 4) Work on project
 * Task 7--write down the lyrics for your company's song

= = = = =3/10/10= 1) ARMT QUIZ-- 2) [|Human Body Rap] 3) Work on project = = =3/9/10= 1) Open-ended Question: 2) Lil Wayne Discussion Post 3) Work on project
 * Task 6--one person from the group email me your business card []
 * Task 7--write down the lyrics for your company's song
 * Read article: [[file:Lil Wayne.doc]]
 * Next, click on discussion post and follow the directions.
 * Then, comment on at least 2 of your classmates' posts. Write at least 3 sentences for each.
 * Task 6--one person from the group email me your business card []
 * Task 7--write down the lyrics for your company's song