http://www.powertyping.com/qwerty/lessonsq.html     Play this one first!

http://www.powertyping.com/baracuda/baracudaS.htm Play this one 2nd!
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ED MODO 01/23/2012
 
Dear 7th and 8th grade students,
Please join edmodo (edmodo.com) this week.  Below are the pass codes for both grades.  Feel free to personalize your edmodo as you feel, but remember school appropriate is necessary.  This is a tool for you to help each other remember/work on assignments, as well as for me to communicate and post reminders/hw for you.
Ed Modo password for:
7th spvi82
8th l68ec4

Ms. Cordero
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This information was taken directly from the LMU family of schools newsletter.  Congratulations to Lauryn, Heather, Brandon and Nicholas for having their Haiku poems chosen for the concert.


Tania Fleischer, a professor of music at LMU, and Mike Willis, a School of Education graduate student, taught haiku lessons to four seventh and eighth grade classes at St. Anastasia, Visitation and St. Jerome schools last fall. An exciting collaboration between education graduate students and music faculty created a lesson that mixed rich content knowledge with cutting edge pedagogical techniques. Students created and performed this Japanese style of poetry while learning its background, history and structure.

Students were invited to submit their poems for an upcoming performance – 32 students (out of 400 entrants) were selected to present their poems during the Concerts of Music for Children at LMU. Students will recite their poems accompanied by Baroque-era music from LMU’s music students.

Please join us at Murphy Recital Hall on Sunday, Jan. 22 for two performances (1 p.m. and 3 p.m.) for the concert, which is free and open to the community with reservations required. Please call 310.568.6141 for reservations.

 
 
Here are the instructions for printing out these sheets. 1)Use this online die .  Go online and enter the number 7 in the first box, 1 in the second box, and 1 in the third box.  2)Roll the dice and that is the number of the page you should print of the Bingo Card document.  3)Do NOT print the whole document.  You will end up printing 7 bingo pages (14 cards).  You will waste ink.  You should only print one out of the seven pages (based on your roll), and your page will have two bingo cards on it.  

CLICK THIS LINK FOR THE ONLINE DICE

CLICK THIS LINK FOR THE ADJECTIVE BINGO PAGE

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Play Auditions 11/18/2011
 
Audition Form

Click the link to submit your choices for Wonderland Auditions
 
 
The 7th and 8th grade classes are working on research projects in their Social Studies class.  Here is a very useful link to the Perdue OWL MLA style guidelines.  I encourage you to become comfortable with these guidelines as they will be necessary in papers that you complete this year, in high school and in college!
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In the 7th Grade class we have been learning about the Greek Gods and Goddesses.  There will be a test on the Pantheon of Gods next Friday (Nov. 4th).  The study guide has already been passed out, but for those of you who would like to view the video again, please click on the link below!

History Channel Video 
 
 

After watching these 3 videos try to explain why the commercial or brand might find it beneficial to find a way to fit their product commercial alongside the likeness, name or idea of a Greek God/Goddess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45mMioJ5szc&feature=player_embedded

http://www.ftd.com/ftd-flowers-video-ctg/occasion-mothersday-flowersvideo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1BgR2xlbdM&feature=player_embedded


After answering the above question for each video, please submit your response via e-mail at corderosjs@gmail.com.

Then visit this site http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/advertisingtricks/whatsinanad.html
Watch the video's and discover how different advertisers try to convince you to purchase their products.  In your notes, comment on how you agree or disagree with the experts commentary after each commercial.

After you watch the examples and listen to the experts commentary, visit this page : 
http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/buyingsmart/question.html

After you read the examples of questions you should ask yourself about advertisements, watch the three commercials from earlier that use the likeness of the Greek Gods.  Choose one and answer the questions mentioned in the article about asking smart questions before you buy something.
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HW Packets 10/18/2011
 
The file for your homework packet will not upload.  Please e-mail me ( corderosjs@gmail.com) in order to receive the packet.  I will not be able to respond past 9pm.  The packet was handed out last week, and you should all make an effort to keep track of your assignments.  Please make sure that from now on you keep the packet you receive in class.

Ms. Cordero
 
IRB Project List 10/11/2011
 
Attention 7th and 8th grades!  The Trimester ends on November 18th.  Your Independent Reading Book Project list is now posted under your grade level.  Please make sure you have these projects turned into me by the 10th of November.  I will post a general scoring rubric for the projects soon!  Be Creative and have fun!