Category: English 8

English 8 – Friday, January 7th

Welcome to the remote pause or whatever. We can do this.

VIDEO: Check out some thoughts on reading with John Green in the video below. Then read for 10 minutes in your book you’ve chosen (Indie Read).

Quickwrite #3: “Why Grades Shouldn’t Exist” – Alfie Kohn – Watch the video below where scholar and writer Alfie Kohn talks about the real impact of grading in the US education system. Then write your own thoughts or connections – 4 minutes.

Quick review of the course syllabus with emphasis on the sections “Almost Gradeless” and “Statement on Language Use.” Check out the details below, on GClassroom (listed as material under classwork), or at the SYLLABI tab above.

TO-DO: Read something awesome. Make it your goal to read 30 minutes this weekend. You got this.

UPCOMING: Next week we’ll do more set-up by creating Dropbox folders, Padlet accounts, and just getting used to a reading-writing routine. See you in Zoom on Monday!

ALL CLASSES – GCHS Bell Schedule (Info about remote-pause learning)

1st hour: 8:30 am – 9:16am

2nd hour: 9:21am – 10:07am

3rd hour: 10:12am – 10:58am

4th hour/Warrior Time: 11:03am – 11:23am

5th hour: 11:28am – 12:14pm

6th hour: 12:19pm – 1:05pm

7th hour: 1:10pm – 1:55pm

8th hour: 2:00pm – 2:45pm

*Check our GClassroom for the Zoom link and join class at the appropriate time.

No school for students Thursday 1/6.

Remote school Friday 1/7 Friday 1/21 (with MLK still off Jan. 17).

English 8 – Wednesday, January 5th

Book Talk & Read Aloud (The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds).

Quickwrite #2: Missing Spoons

One more survey! Find the “Grades Survey” on today’s GClassroom stream and answer the 3 questions there.

Quick tour of the class website (get familiar with it) and the class library procedures (check out the Indie Reads tab above for more info).

TO-DO: Be ready to select a book – you’ll soon need one for independent reading.

English 8 – Tuesday, January 4th

New Survey! Find the reader-writer survey on today’s GClassroom stream and complete it.

Book Pass: a quick “speed-date” of new book titles to generate some for your TBR (page 2 of the upside-down in your notebook).

TO-DO: Be ready to select a book – you’ll soon need one for independent reading.

Friday, May 15th – ALL CLASSES

FINAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

  • Turn in books at school if you haven’t
  • Take the survey!!! (you have to be logged into Google w/ school account or you will get an error)
  • GCHS grades are now final in Skyward
  • SWIC grades will be in soon (if you are transferring credit somewhere, be sure to log in to estorm and send your transcripts wherever they need to go – it’s FREE)
  • YOU DID IT!!! Congratulations.

Thursday, May 14th – ALL CLASSES

VIRTUAL OFFICE HOURS (LAST DAY) –  today from 10a – 12p via zoom (use the May zoom invite – we’ll keep zooming until May 14th).  Stop in if you have questions, want extra feedback, or just want to check in.

END OF SEMESTER WRAP-UP- See yesterday’s post.  If you didn’t turn things in at school earlier this week, make-up day is Friday and the office is still open next week from 7:30 – 11am Monday – Wednesday.

❤ Mrs. C = )

P.S. It’s not too late to submit MG Presentations and/or booktalks on Flipgrid or to take the end-of-semester survey.  Help me plan a better class for next year.

Wednesday, May 13th – ALL CLASSES

Hopefully, this post finds you with your final projects finalized and submitted in Dropbox.  (If not, get to that, I have grades to turn in!)  To those of you that worked and worked despite this stay-at-home, thank you.  You made my job worthwhile.  To those of you that just did the best you could – keep on keepin’ on – I understand.  Maybe we live in a society that stifles this too much – that tells us to bottle up feelings – but know, seniors, I love you all. Really. ❤

 

QW EXTRA CREDIT INFO:  Show me your notebook entries virtually for bonus points. (Check your class Flipgrid).  KEEP YOUR NOTEBOOKS!  (They are yours.  Put them in a drawer or a closet or something.  You won’t believe how interesting they will be in a few years, when you can revisit your 17-year-old self).  Quickwrite evidence due by end of Thursday 5/14.

IT’S NOT TOO LATE  to turn in booktalks and/or MG Presentations.

VIRTUAL OFFICE HOURS: I will STILL hold these tomorrow if you are running behind and still need to catch up on work.  Stop by with questions if needed.

TURN IN BOOKS:  If you have classroom library books, copies of Hamlet,  or book club reads that you missed turning in, please drop them off at the high school office.  This week is turn in with scheduled times, but they will be open next Monday – Wednesday from 7:30 – 11am, too.  KEEP YOUR NOTEBOOKS!

SURVEY: Please fill out the end of course survey.  You can link on Google classroom or through the email you will get later today (I will be recording in Skyward who has completed the survey & I’d love to get them all back by 5/13).

GRADES: Be patient with your teachers where grades are concerned.  First, they aren’t final until Monday morning 5/18.  Second, teachers have had to make all sorts of adaptations to find ways to record in their gradebooks who is completing work and what is missing and how that impacts your grade, while knowing that performance on new work can’t lower the grade you had previous to remote learning, but it can improve your grade.  So, expect a few ups and downs and know that we are/I am taking the time to get this right.

END OF YEAR WRAP-UP:  I made a video that puts together the concepts we learned this year (or some this semester English 8).  I’d love it if you took the time to check it out and see how you will/can use what you learned in college and beyond.

 

Tuesday, May 12th – ALL CLASSES

VIRTUAL OFFICE HOURS today from 10a – 12p via zoom (use the May zoom invite – we’ll keep zooming until May 14th).  Stop in if you have questions, want extra feedback, or just want to check in.

Check yesterday’s class specific posts for details on what’s due and how, exactly, to label it, submit it, etc.  And PLEASE fill out the survey.  (I’ll send it again tomorrow to those who haven’t yet filled it out.)

Last project. Due today.  You got this.

❤ Mrs. C = )

P.S. It’s not too late to submit MG Presentations and/or booktalks on Flipgrid!