In your journal, answer these questions:
1. What is going on in this picture?
2. Why do you say that?
3.  What else do you see?
4. Count your words, fill in your table of contents.
Turn and talk to a neighbor about your perceptions.
Click LEAVE A COMMENT:  Reply to this post by writing your journal entry here, including any comments from other students that may have added to your opinion.

Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see.

In your journal, answer these questions:
1. What is going on in this picture?
2. Why do you say that?
3.  What else do you see?
4. Count your words, fill in your table of contents.
Turn and talk to a neighbor about your perceptions.
Click LEAVE A COMMENT:  Reply to this post by writing your journal entry here, including any comments from other students that may have added to your opinion.

Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see.

Focus:  “Avoid hurting the spirit and body of yourself and others.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Describe a time when you hurt someone’s spirit.  What did you say or do to hurt them? Describe a time when someone hurt your spirit.  What did they do to hurt your spirit?

Use the critical lens method to analyze the following passage:

“I pledge to always demonstrate respect for my teachers.”

~ P[E]ACE students.

1. Write the quotation and the author’s name. [10 points]
2. Paraphrase the quotation. (Put into your own words.) [15 points]
3. Interpret the quotation. (State what the author means) [25 points]
4. Agree or disagree with the author. [5 points]
5. Explain why you agree or disagree with the author. [45 points]

Read the short story, and write a summary, similar to a book report.  In your summary, include the following elements in your summary of the short story:  plot, setting, character, conflict, and resolution.

Write your summary in Google Docs, then copy and paste here to the class blog.

AFTER you have typed and reviewed  your letter to the next president, upload your letter here.  Copy and paste your work by adding a comment.

Review your journal’s table of contents.  Find the entry where you wrote a description of your journey to school.  In Google Docs, transcribe (type) your description.  Make sure your description of your journey to school is rich in imagery:  sights, smells, feelings, tastes, etc.

Check over your work for grammar, punctuation and spelling.  Notice the word count, and add that to the end of your description.  For example, in parentheses: [(200 words)].

Then copy your typewritten description and paste it into the comments section.  Enter your identifiation.

Review your journal’s table of contents.  Find your introductory paragraph on “Reality TV.”  The introduction contains the claim; three reasons or three sets of evidence, or two reasons and a counterclaim; and a conclusion.

In Google Docs, type the class header at the top of the page, then type your Reality TV paragraph.

(The class header has your first and last name at the left side of line 1, and  your Class at the right side of line 1.  On line two, at the left margin, type the date, and at the right margin, the assignment:  Introductory Paragraph.)

Check your paragraph for spelling, grammar and typing errors.  Color your text:  Red=intro paragraph; green=reason/evidence 1; blue=reason/evidence 2; orange=reason/evidence 3; red=conclusion.  Save your document [your name, your class, and a title like reality intro:  for example, dudley 707 realitytvintro

Copy and paste your paragraph into the comments section of this post.  Upload.

Before we say farewell, and before you forget me and all the activities, such as the “ball game,” or the play that you wrote and performed, Genius Hour that was a failure, and the other fun and not so fun work we did this year, take the time to give some advice to the next students who will have me as their English teacher next year.