Thursday, February 9th 2017

What are we doing today? Bellwork: SILENTLY complete activity Homework Checked: None Classwork: New York Times Picture Grammar Quiz 22: Adjectives and Articles Figurative Language Poems! Homework: READ. Finish anything you didn’t complete in class.

Bellwork Answer this question. Make sure your answer is at least one paragraph (five sentences). If you owned a store, what would you do to discourage people from stealing from you? After you finish writing, silently review for the grammar quiz. Make sure to put the date beside your response and keep all bellwork responses for the week on the same page. They will be due the first day of the following week. Be sure to stay organized and keep up! Make sure to put the date beside your response and keep all bellwork responses for the week on the same page. They will be due the first day of the following week. Be sure to stay organized and keep up!

Clear your desk! Put away everything except for a pencil.

Grammar Quiz 22: Contractions and Negatives Try your best! You can do it! Once you are done, flip it over and read an AR book silently. Answers:

New York Times In the New York Times section of your binder, write what you believe is happening in this picture: Inside Mattel’s sprawling test lab here, scores of technicians are doing their worst: setting Chicken Dance Elmo dolls on fire, wrecking Hot Wheels cars and yanking at the limbs of Dora the Explorer. The lab workers are paid to break toys, pick apart their innards, and analyze the raw materials that go into them. The goal is to protect young children from the serious harm that poor construction or dangerous components can bring. But it is also to protect Mattel, the world’s biggest toy maker, from what is increasingly viewed as the risk of doing business in China. The recent wave of recalls and warnings from China has ignited worldwide concern about the safety of Chinese products, potentially mucking up a global system built, in large part, on outsourced manufacturing. As a result, companies are trying urgently to figure out how to do business here, without risking their reputation, consumer trust, or customers’ lives. Mattel may have some of the answers. In the 1990s, critics charged the company with running sweatshops in Asia. Now, independent analysts, and even watchdog groups, say Mattel may be the best role model for how to operate prudently in China.

Figurative Language Poems! Complete both sheets to the best of your abilities. We will discuss them when everyone is done.

Homework READ YOUR AR BOOKS!!!!! Finish what you didn’t finish in class

Announcements 1/30 – Maniac Magee Part 1 Test 2/3 – halfway point of 3rd 9-weeks 2/8 – Official progress reports go home 2/20 – no school 3/6-10 – Case 21 exams 3/12 – Daylight Savings (spring forward) 3/13-3/17 – Spring Break!

1. PACK UP (and put your backpack in your seat) 2 1. PACK UP (and put your backpack in your seat) 2. CLEAN UP (check for assignments, C Block) 3. LINE UP (if everything is not clean and quiet, you will not be able to leave my room)