Tears of a Tiger project

YOU WILL BE WORKING ON THIS WHILE I AM OUT. I WILL TAKE THIS AS YOUR FINAL EXAM GRADE AS LONG AS I RECEIVE A GOOD NOTE FROM THE SUB AND YOUR PRESENTATIONS LOOK LIKE YOU TOOK TIME AND DID THE BEST JOB YOU COULD ON THEM. ANYONE WHO DOES NOT DO THIS, OR THEIR NAME IS LEFT FOR BAD BEHAVIOR, WILL HAVE THE 80 QUESTION FINAL EXAM TO DO ON EXAM DAYS. WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED, YOU MAY PLAY EDUCATIONAL GAMES AS LONG AS YOU STAY QUIET AND RESPECTFUL! BE GOOD--MS. ROTH


Today and tomorrow, you and a partner will be working on a presentation that goes along with Tears of a Tiger. You may pick any topic that goes with the book. For example: teen drinking, depression, teen suicide..or any others you can think of. Since this book deals with teenagers, you can even take it a little further and research current topics like bullying etc. If you aren't sure if it goes, ask me.

Once you have decided what you are researching, you will look up facts and information about that topic. You and your partner will then put the info into a Google Slides project. To get the best grade, you should include pictures, facts, and where you found the info. 

One of you start a slide project and share it with the other person and me. 

There is not a certain number of slides, but I want you to explain your topic fully. You guys did a great job with reading the book, and I'm looking forward to seeing your presentations. We will present them next Tuesday in class. 

TO BE ABLE TO WORK TOGETHER, YOU MUST TALK QUIETLY. IF THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE, WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HAVE GROUPS.

Online Reading Comprehension

Go to the following website:

http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/marketing/sfesl/practicereading.html

Once you are there, pick grade 7 and work through the activity.

Once you have finished, go to where it says "Print Answers." Your answer sheet will pop up, but instead of printing it, copy and paste your answers to a Google Doc and share with me. 

Friday

Today I will be conferencing with you about your Benchmark grade. 

As I call you up one by one, the rest of you will be watching the CNN 10 newscasts from this week. To find them, just google search CNN 10. Start with Monday April 3rd.

In a Google Doc, write full summaries of the stories date by date and share with me.

I am taking this as a MAJOR grade (to be nice), so make sure you give me good summaries with no errors in punctuation or capitalization!

Happy Friday!

Reading between the lines

Today you are going to be watching some videos and making some inferences about what is happening. Making an inference means to "read between the lines." Even though you are not specifically told the answers to these questions, you should be able to answer them from watching the videos.

Create a Google Doc called "Inference" and answer the questions after you watch the short videos. You do not have to write the question, but you must answer in complete sentences. Share with eroth@irvingisd.net



Pixar Short Inference Questions

1. Birds
1. How do the little birds feel about the big bird? How do you know?

2. Does the big bird know how the little birds feel about him? How can you tell?

3. How do the little birds feel at the end of the movie? How do you know?

2. Dug’s Special Mission
1. How do the three dogs feel about Dug? How can you tell?

2. What is Dug’s special mission? Why does Alpha give Dug a special mission?

3. What is the theme of the story?

3. Lifted
1. What is the alien trying to do? Who is the guy watching him?

2. How is the alien feeling throughout the video? How can you tell?

3. What happens at the very end? Why does the big alien let him drive? How can you tell?

IV. Partly Cloudy

1. At the beginning, what is the relationship between the stork and the cloud?

2. What is the conflict of story?

3. What is the climax of the story? How do you know?  

4. Why did you think the stork left? Why did he really leave?

5. How is the conflict resolved?

5. La Luna
1. What are the mens’ jobs?

2. Why does the boy imitate the men?

3. What is the main conflict?

4. How is the conflict resolved?

Monday

Reading Comprehension Session 1

In this essay, Judith Ortiz Cofer recalls how her childhood fantasies and her mother’s dreams intersect. Read the essay “Volar,” which means “to fly” in Spanish, and answer the questions that follow.

1

1 barrio — a Spanish-speaking neighborhood 2 café con leche — coffee with milk

Volar by Judith Ortiz Cofer

At twelve I was an avid consumer of comic books—Supergirl being my favorite. I spent my allowance of a quarter a day on two twelve-cent comic books or a double issue for twenty-five. I had a stack of Legion of Super Heroes and Supergirl comic books in my bedroom closet that was as tall as I. I had a recurring dream in those days: that I had long blond hair and could fly. In my dream I climbed the stairs to the top of our apartment building as myself, but as I went up each flight, changes would be taking place. Step by step I would fill out: my legs would grow long, my arms harden into steel, and my hair would magically go straight and turn a golden color. . . . Supergirl had to be aerodynamic. Sleek and hard as a supersonic missile. Once on the roof, my parents safely asleep in their beds, I would get on tip-toe, arms outstretched in the position for flight and jump out my fifty-story-high window into the black lake of the sky. From up there, over the rooftops, I could see everything, even beyond the few blocks of our barrio;1 with my X-ray vision I could look inside the homes of people who interested me. Once I saw our landlord, whom I knew my parents feared, sitting in a treasure-room dressed in an ermine coat and a large gold crown. He sat on the floor counting his dollar bills. I played a trick on him. Going up to his building’s chimney, I blew a little puff of my super-breath into his fireplace, scattering his stacks of money so that he had to start counting all over again. I could more or less program my Supergirl dreams in those days by focusing on the object of my current obsession. This way I “saw” into the private lives of my neighbors, my teachers, and in the last days of my childish fantasy and the beginning of adolescence, into the secret room of the boys I liked. In the mornings I’d wake up in my tiny bedroom with the incongruous—at least in our tiny apartment—white “princess” furniture my mother had chosen for me, and find myself back in my body: my tight curls still clinging to my head, skinny arms and legs . . . unchanged. 2

In the kitchen my mother and father would be talking softly over a café con leche.2 She would come “wake me” exactly forty-five minutes after they had gotten up. It was their time together at the beginning of each day and even at an early age I could feel their disappointment if I interrupted them by getting up too early. So I would stay in my bed recalling my dreams of flight, perhaps planning my next flight. In the kitchen they would be discussing events in the barrio. Actually, he would be carrying that part of the conversation; when it was her turn to speak she would, more often than not, try shifting the topic toward her desire to see her familia on the Island: How about a vacation in Puerto Rico together this year, Querido?3 We could rent a car, go to the beach. We could . . . And he would answer patiently, gently, Mi amor,4 do you know how much it would cost for the all of us to fly there? It is not possible for me to take the time off . . . Mi vida,5 please understand. . . . And I knew that soon she would rise from the table. Not abruptly. She would light a cigarette and look out the kitchen window. The view was of a dismal alley that was littered with refuse thrown from windows. The space was too narrow for anyone larger than a skinny child to enter safely, so it was never cleaned. My mother would check the time on the clock over her sink, the one with a prayer for patience and grace written in Spanish. A birthday gift. She would see that it was time to wake me. She’d sigh deeply and say the same thing the view from her kitchen window always inspired her to say: Ay, si yo pudiera volar.6

3 Querido — dear
4 Mi amor — my love
5 Mi vida — my life, used as a term of endearment
6 Ay, si yo pudiera volar — Oh, if only I could fly

ID:293044 ●

14 C Common EQ

1.In paragraph 1, which specific action changes the author from a girl into a superhero?

A. turning a page in one of her comic books

B. looking out over the houses in her neighborhood

C. climbing the stairs to the top of her apartment building

D. playing a trick on the landlord of

her apartment building

ID:293864 ●

15 D Common EQ

2. Read the sentence from paragraph 1 in the box below.

. . . I would get on tip-toe, arms outstretched in the position for flight and jump out my fifty-story-high window into the black lake of the sky.

In the sentence, the phrase “black lake of the sky” makes the sky seem

A. playful.

B. relaxing.

C. polluted.

D. boundless.

ID:293052 ●

16 B Common EQ

3. Based on the essay, which characteristic best describes the author’s father?

A. ambitious

B. practical

C. content

D. harsh

ID:293866 ●

17 A Common EQ

4. What is the main effect of the author’s use of Spanish phrases in the essay?

A. It captures the author’s cultural environment. B. It identifies the intended audience for the essay. C. It emphasizes the tension between the author’s parents.

D. It indicates the time period in which

the essay takes place.

6th grade after Achieve

Go to  http://mrnussbaum.com/

From there choose 6th Grade then Language Arts. Make sure when you start a new game, you pick 6th grade.

Friday - 7th Grade

1. Type up your essay in Google Docs. Color code it and share with me (eroth)

2. You are going to make a presentation about your Go-to's. Use Google Slides.
Include information, pictures, and anything else I need to know. 
Share with me!!!

Friday

https://www.vocabulary.co.il/

freerice.com

http://www.uen.org/7-12interactives/lang_arts.shtml

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/readingmachine.shtml 

 PICK GAMES FOR YOUR GRADE LEVEL

Wednesday

After you have entered your answers in AWARE, read the following story 

https://maptia.com/charitywater/stories/the-15-year-old-president

You have been given a pink sheet of paper with 3 multiple choice questions and a writing prompt. 

In a Google Doc, answer the three multiple choice questions. Tell me specifically how you got these answers.

EXAMPLE: 2. I know the answer is ___. The story tells me that __________ and _________. This shows _______.

In that same Google Doc, complete the writing prompt.

Remember to watch your punctuation, capitalization, etc.

When you are finished, share with me (eroth)

Tuesday continued

https://www.vocabulary.co.il/

freerice.com

http://www.uen.org/7-12interactives/lang_arts.shtml

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/readingmachine.shtml 
 PICK GAMES FOR YOUR GRADE LEVEL

Tuesday - Current Events

We need to get back up to date on some Current Events!

Today you are going to watch the CNN Student News segment from today 1/10.

In Google, search for CNN STUDENT NEWS and you will be able to find it.

For the broadcast, you will pick 1 story and do additional research on it. In a Google Doc, give me 3 additional facts and a picture that were not given on the news. 


When you are finished, go to the entry above this.