WEEK 19 AGENDA: JANUARY 19-23

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Important Announcements:

*2nd Quarter ends January 23rd. All missing work due Wednesday, Jan. 21.

*Book Posts due January 20th.

*Spelling Bee coming up on February 11th. Practice round in Home Base classes next week.

Agenda: This week continues our Belief Project with pARTners. Students are working with their Memento Boxes and drafts of Belief Poems to begin assembling their multi-media portraits. They will also be learning to podcast their poetry online. We are focusing on meaningful form in poetry, including thoughtful line breaks, careful imagery, and sensory details.

Weekly Homework:
By Friday, students need to submit a letter that reflects over their performance in Language Arts over 2nd Quarter. This letter should be addressed to me, as their teacher, and be signed by each student. Length should be approximately three-quarters to a page long. Ideas to touch on are: what goals have students have met, major improvements, best pieces of work, areas of struggle, books that influenced them this quarter, how they are growing as they near the second half of 8th grade, changes they see that they have made or need to make, reflections on overall performance in terms of class participation, and on academic work. ALL LETTERS MUST BE TYPED, DOUBLE-SPACED, SPELL-CHECKED, AND SUBMITTED ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY. HAve fun with this!

MONDAY:
Color Pallette with Molly

TUESDAY:
*Book Post #2 due
Poetry -- revising, cutting and rearranging lines with Kati
*Print and submit a copy of your poem by the end of class.*

WEDNESDAY:
*All missing work due for credit today.*
Podcasting tutorial and demos with Ms. Riley
Begin collecting images in podcasting folders

THURSDAY:
Poetry -- finalizing, thoughtful line breaks, sensory details, decisions on form
*Print and submit a final copy of your poem by the end of class -- 2 copies.*

FRIDAY:End of 2nd Quarter
*2nd Quarter Reflections due!!!* TYPED AND DOUBLE-SPACED!!!
Finalize poems and submit two copies!!!
Quarterly Recognition
Belief Game with Kati and Mrs. Hoelscher's classes coming on Monday