L. Nabulsi NOTE: No work accepted fter this Friday. Vocabulary notebook due next Tuesday.

○ The entire WMS community strives to provide a positive school climate through which all students can mature socially, academically, and physically, while developing a lifelong love of learning.

○ The entire WMS community will provide a positive school climate through which all students can mature academically, socially, emotionally, and physically while developing a lifelong love of learning.

○ #1 All students will increase reading comprehension scores in analyzing text and reading/writing strategies. ○ #2 All students will increase scores in math computation, word problems, and problem solving. ○

○ 7E1a.1: Identify and understand idioms and comparison (such as analogies, metaphors, and similes) in prose and poetry ○ 7E1b.1: Understand and analyze the differences in structure and purpose between various categories of informational materials such as textbooks, newspapers, and instructional or technical manuals ○ 7E1b.3: Analyze text that uses the cause-and-effect organizational pattern. For example: Use a comparison chart, such as a T-chart, to illustrate cause and effect in a newspaper article.

Correct this sentence: They choosed they’re own work and they developed independence and self-confidence. Edit –it – #85-87 Vocabulary – week 17 Grammar : Diagramming Compound and complex sentences Idiom “Pushing up daisies” Analogy: Bridge Type: Definition (Antonyms) 8) ACTIVE : IDLE A) challenging : difficult B) dramatic : tragic C) brief : lengthy D) scholarly : studious In-class: Complete summaries and Africa worksheets. Journal - How to Write a Summary More January 5 - Read "South Africa" and write a summary January 7 - Read "Africa" and write a summary January 9 - Read "What is Islam?" and write a summary How to Write a SummaryMore"South AfricaAfrica"What is Islam?",

LANGUAGE ARTS MATHSOCIAL STUDIES SCIENCE 1. Description1.diameter1.delta1.hot spot 2. Cause 2.sum 2.divide 2.hybrid 3. effect3.quotient3. downstream3.hypothesis

○ Take roll  Correct this sentence: : They choosed they’re own work and they developed independence and self-confidence ○ Vocabulary 17 : Go to google aps to do this. ○ Remind students Reading log 8 due day after MLK holiday. ○ Grammar: Compound and complex sentencesCompound and complex sentences ○ Do Edit It: 85 ○ In Class: omplete summaries and Africa worksheets. Journal - How to Write a Summary More January 5 - Read "South Africa" and write a summary How to Write a SummaryMore"South Africa

○ Take roll. ○ Do Edit It - #86 Idiom “Pushing up daisies”  Analogy: Bridge Type: Definition (Antonyms)  8) ACTIVE : IDLE  A) challenging : difficult  B) dramatic : tragic  C) brief : lengthy  D) scholarly : studious ○ Read: January 7 - Read "Africa" and write a summary; Do paired learning. Africa

 Do vocabulary  January 9 - Read "What is Islam?" and write a summary. Do individually."What is Islam?"

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 : They chooosed they’re own work and they developed independence and self- confidence  The teens chose their own work and developed independence and self-confidence.

 Idiom “Pushing up daisies” Said of someone who is dead and buried  Another similar idiom is “u nder the strawberries.”

 Analogy: Bridge Type: Definition (Antonyms)  8) ACTIVE : IDLE  A) challenging : difficult  B) dramatic : tragic  C) brief : lengthy  D) scholarly : studious

○ Write compound/complex sentences ○ Use the following coordinating conjunctions for compound sentences: FANBOYS, ○ And ○ But ○ For ○ Nor ○ Yet ○ Or ○ So

after although as because before even if even though if in order that once provided that rather than since so that than that though unless until when whenever where whereas wherever whether while why Some sentences are complex. Such sentences have two clauses, one main [or independent] and one subordinate [or dependent].mainsubordinate The essential ingredient in a complex sentence is the subordinate conjunction:

L. Nabulsi COPY THE FOLLOWING NOTES IN YOUR NOTEBOOK.

Each class period, students will use the little white boards to 1)write the sentence 2) label each part of speech 3) put () around prepositional phrases 4) draw one line under the subject 5)draw two lines under the predicate verb 6) circle the DO 7) put a wavy line under the predicate noun 8) put // lines under predicate adjectives 9) diagram each word in the sentence 10) Write the correct information in the last pages of your vocabulary notebook working backwards

○ Tom runs. Try to diagram on your own.. Know the part of speech of every word. ○ The boys run fast. ○ The boy hit the ball. ○ That tall boy drove the new red car. ○ The girl in the blue dress wore a diamond necklace at the dance. ○ The team gave the coach flowers. ○ The sailor is my father. ○ The nurse is intelligent ○ The farmer painted his barn red,

S V Tom – noun – proper noun is the subject Runs – predicate verb – action verb run s Tom

○ Reading Log 7 – Due Dec 1 ○ Read, write and organize news, editorial and feature articles. Continue to do these. Information is on Weebly (mrsnabulsi.weebly.com) and Google Aps. ○ News – international, national, local -pictures ○ Editorial – political cartoon, syndicated column, two letters to the editor, your own editorial about topic of choice, mast head ○ Features – puzzles, cartoons, articles about movies, movie stars, arts and crafts - pictures ○ Sports – news, stats, article about a player, sports editorial. Pictures ○ Read about the newspaper on Brain Pop and do all activities. ○ Examine editorials or editorial issues and write your own opinions.

○ SENTENCE PATTERNS ○ S – V Subject - Verb ○ S – V – DO Subject – (action) Verb – Direct Object ○ S – V –I – DO Subject – (action) Verb – Indirect Obj – Direct Obj. ○ S – V – N Subject – (linking) Verb – Predicate noun (Nominative) ○ S – V -A Subject – (linking) Verb – Predicate Adjective ○ S –V–DO-C Subject – (action) Verb – DO – Complement-Modifier ○ Patrick sleeps in class. S – V (prepositional phrase) ○ Arthur talks constantly. S- V (adverb) ○ S AV DO S AV DO ○ Patrick plays soccer. Arthur goes camping. ○ S LV N LV A ○ Arthur is a scout and is awesome. ○ Patrick is a soccer player and is awesome. ○ Patrick kicked the soccer ball high.

○ Take index cards and begin taking notes on articles that took place on the day and year you were born. Find ○ 1 international story ○ 2 national stories (the country in which you were born) ○ 1 local (state, province, prefecture) ○ Take notes by putting ideas in your own words. ○ Look for who, what, when, where, how and why. See later slides for details.

○ First or Lead Sentence: Put who, what, when, where, how, why in one sentence. ○ Second sentence: Give more details about the who and what. ○ Third sentence: Give more details about the when and the where. ○ Fourth sentence: Give more details about the why and the how ○ Make a headline and subhead ○ Make a byline and dateline

○ Use nouns and verbs primarily ○ Avoid a, an, the ○ Use the skeleton of the sentence ○ Sharks Beat Snakes ○ Make verbs interesting; use shift F7 to get synonyms ○ Sharks Defeat/Stomp/Drill/Bite/Devour/Attack/Swamp/ ○ Snakes ○ Williams Wins Oscar ○ Williams Awarded/Tops/Triumphs/Covets/Takes ○ Use alliteration whenever possible: ○ Kennedy Cans Candidates ○ Stewart Slams Southerland

When you read an editorial written by another person, highlight it and copy and paste it to a WORD document. Make sure you have the name of the newspaper, title of the article, author, date, and url. Follow the rules for writing a summary and write a summary of the article. Look at each paragraph and highlight the who, what, when, where, how, and why. Then write a sentence summary for each paragraph. Remember the first sentence mentions the author, title and source of the article and a general sentence summarizing the main thesis of the article. Indicate if this person is for or against the topic.

○ Click on INSERT. ○ A little more than halfway to the right, click on TEXT BOX. ○ You will have a choice: ○ For a calendar pick the ‘SIDEBAR” which is the third one. ○ For just highlighting an event, select the first one. ○ Click on the one you want and it will appear on your document with the text highlighted ○ Now a new toolbar appears for the textbox. You can ○ Change the color ○ Change the border ○ Create effects ○ As you start to type your information in the box, the information originally there will disappear. ○ Get the information in first ○ Remember to SAVE (featurespecificlast2)

○ Open a blank WORD document ○ Go to INSERT ○ Click on SMART ART ○ A new window appears: click on PROCESS ○ New window: go to last item in the second line- basic timeline. Click ○ The template appears on your document. Begin to fill it in with information. ○ Try to place information with the date close to line, not on outside. ○ Save in your H-drive, ESL folder with page numberslastblock#

1. Go to GOOGLE CHROME 2. Use the URL – google.com/a/student.dodea.edu ○ 3. Log in with username: ○ 3. Each day: check the calendar (alert Mrs. N of any new assignments or tests) NOTE: THE DUE DATES FOR ALL FOUR READING LOGS THIS QUARTER ARE ON THE CALENDAR. Find them and place them in your planner. ○ 4. Each day check the drive and ESL7 for help with your projects and PowerPoint for weekly lesson plans. ○ 5. Do not use this time to change the background on your site or to other students or even chat. This time is for you to work collaboratively on assignments. ○ 6. Go to DRIVE/SHARED WTH ME/ ESL7/ Reading log Q2; Print this and keep it. ○ Work on it every night and have parents sign it. PUT YOUR NAME of it.

○ Download the MLA template in Google aps OR go to the student’s H-drive/ESL folder/MLA template ○ Open the template ○ Immediately save as to the H-drive, ESL folder naming the file with the name of the assignment and last and period. DO THIS. FOLLOW DIRECTIONS. For example, editorial1last You will need four so give each a new number. ○ On the document, change the date and the title. ○ Begin on the line under the title, but make sure that this line is aligned left, not centered, and indented. ○ Center the Chapter # ○ Write the summary telling who, what, when, where, how, and why. Save in the google aps and share with one student to grade and Mrs. Nabulsi..

○ 1. Open SMART Notebook ○ 2. Go to VIEW/Gallery ○ 3. Click on Lesson Activity Toolkit ○ 4. Look down and click on INTERACTIVE AND MULTIMEDIA ○ 5. Scroll through selections and pick a game on which you can put at least six items, one for each of your words. ○ At the game, click on EDIT and place your information on the template ○ SAVE AS Q#W#voc#esl8last into your ESL folder and then in GALLERY ○ Open gaggle.net and place in Assignment Drop Box that correlates with the assignment.

○ Open a blank WORD document ○ Go to INSERT ○ Click on SMART ART ○ A new window appears: click on PROCESS ○ New window: go to last item in the second line- basic timeline. Click ○ The template appears on your document. Begin to fill it in with information. ○ Try to place information with the date close to line, not on outside. ○ Save in your H-drive, ESL folder with page numberslastblock# ○ Save in the ADB in the appropriately named folder.

 Go to Prezi.com  Create an account using you google student . This is free  Save to your h-drive but share with me at