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commonly misspelled words      posted 07-30-2008
Commonly Misspelled words

Accident
Accommodations
Acre
Address advice
Advise
All right
Alter
Altogether
Amateur
Answer
Architect
Attendance
Autumn
Balloon
Banana
Beautiful
Beginning
Behavior
Believe
Bicycle
Business
Cemetery
Cereal
Chief
Chocolate
College
Colonel
Committee
Dessert
Doctor
Dyeing
Eighth
Exaggerate
Extraordinary
February
Fourth
Gallon
Grammar
Guarantee
Here/hear
Interrupt
It’s its
Language
Loose
Lose
Marriage
Mathematics
Misspell
Niece
Naïve
Piece/peace
Potatoes
Prairie
Principal/principle
Quiet
Quite
Receipt
Recipe
Restaurant
Rhinoceros
Ridiculous
Role, roll
Separate
Secretary
Sincerely
Soldier
Steal, steel, still
Their, there, they’re
Tomorrow
Truly
Tongue
Tragedy
Tongue
Trouble
Vacuum
Whether/weather
Which/witch
Wednesday





This Week in Language Arts      posted 05-12-2008
7th grade Language Arts Curriculum

Week of May 12-16
We are reviewing for E.O.G's. The students are scheduled to take the Reading and Math EOG's on May 20-May 23. The reading will be on Tuesday. This week we are working on Inferencing, Sequencing, Details, Context Clues, Figurative Language, Analogies, Diagrams, Comparing and Contrasting,and Fact and Opinion. In class we review each skill, and then take a brief quiz on the skill that counts as a quiz grade. In addition, students each have a EOG boot camp folder that has their score for each reading skill so that you can see how they are doing. Also, students have a EOG study guide in their bootcamp folders. This study guide includes terms/skills that they may see on the EOG in some way. Please review these terms/skill with your child on a daily basis. It will not only help them on the EOG, but the familiarity with the terms will help your child in 8th grade Language Arts. Also, I use the terms in an EOG BINGO game that we will play daily until the EOG's.

Have a great week,

L. Walton




Poetry Portfolio Rubrics      posted 04-15-2008
Poetry Portfolio Rubric—Core 3 only
Due on ____April 29__________________
All poems should be original except the ones from your poet, and the one that you will memorize. You must type all of your poems. Poems from your poet can be printed from a website, but your biography must be in your own words. Memorized poems must be at least 10 lines, and no more than 50 lines. All poems should have a common theme

1. Biography of poet (must include birth info including birthplace, family info including kids, and death info if applicable, important contributions to society, and interesting/noteworthy facts.) In the form of a power point presentation 8 frames (100pts) (Due on April 28)

2. 3 well known poems, 1 must be memorized for the poetry tea. (100pts)

3. 3 original Haikus (using personification, metaphor, simile) (25pts) 1 must be illustrated

4. 2 Limericks (25pts)
5. 1 Free Verse (using extended metaphor) (25pts)
6. 1 Ode (25pts)

7. 1 Narrative Poem that includes onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and a consistent rhyme scheme. Must be at least 40 lines long. (100pts)

8. 1 Sonnet (50pts)
9. Make sure your work is Quality Work. 25pts (Neatness counts)
10. Decorative front cover 25pts.

Rubric Core 1 and Core 2


Poetry Portfolio Rubric
Due on ___April 29_______________

All poems should be original except the ones from your poet, and the one that you will memorize. You must type all of your poems. Poems from your poet can be printed from a website, but your biography must be in your own words. All poems must be at least 10 lines, but no more than 50 lines.

1. One page biography about poet (must include birth info including birthplace, family info including kids, and death info if applicable, important contributions to society, and interesting facts.) 100pts

2. 3 well known poems, 1 must be memorized for the poetry tea. 100 pts

3. 3 original Haikus (using personification, metaphor, simile) 25pts. 1 Haiku must be illustrated.

4. 2 Limericks 25pts

5. 1 Free Verse 25pts

6. 1 Ode 25pts

7. 1Narrative Poem that includes onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and a consistent rhyme scheme, must be at least 40 lines long. 100pts


8. Make sure that you turn in Quality Work. 50 pts. (Neatness counts.

9. Decorative front cover 50pts