This is just a reminder that there are TWO new Listenwise.com assignments:
1. Voting Rights Act (requires two MULTI-PARAGRAPH answers)
2. Witches (QUIZ)

Choose a blank slide...upload your slide to replace it.

1. Use your CER Draft from Week 8
2. Copy and paste the sections of CLAIM EVIDENCE and REASONING into the Graphic Organizer.
3. Now look at it with fresh eyes...did you have a strong claim? Do you have ample evidence (quotes and citations)? Do you have explanations (REASONING) that is not just restating the quote?
4. Create a final draft...make all edits, revisions, additions to make your CER awesome!
5. Turn the rough draft, the Graphic Organizer, and the Final Draft in here. (MLA HEADING ON ALL THREE!)

Click the attached link to access the assignment; on the CommonLit login page, click Log In With Google.

This is a reminder to go to your NoRedInk.com account and complete the quiz. Fun fact: doing the practice ahead of time actually makes the quiz a breeze! (Woah...who would have thought that the practice teaches you what is on the test?)

Work on “NRI Week Eight: Commonly Confused Words.”

A recent study tested over 7,800 teenagers on their ability to differentiate fake from real news and sponsored ads from news articles. The results showed that 80-90 percent of high school students had a difficult time judging the credibility of news. This skill is necessary to make choices about what to believe and what to share. Listen to this story to hear more about this study and what can be done to educate people about fake news and then debate with your students, how can students become prepared to spot fake news?

PLEASE upload your google doc with the CER/Constructed Response right here!

1. Go to CommonLit.org
2. Find the assignment titled "What Slaves are Taught to Think of the North"
3. Read carefully and answer the questions.
4. Do not forget to answer the essay questions following a CER format (look at your last example)

1. listenwise.com
2. Use your school login
3. You will be in your classroom for assignments.
4. We worked on "Understanding Systemic Racism" in class.
5. Complete that assignment as well as the "Disinformation Campaigns Foreign and Domestic" assignment

Go to NoRedInk.com for the assignment.

Go to NRI...complete the assignment.
DO NOT CLICK THAT YOU HAVE DONE THIS ASSIGNMENT UNTIL YOU HAVE DONE THIS ASSIGNEMNT!

1. Your complete and amazing brainstorm and structure (you may use the sample structure or design your own)
2. Rough Draft (MLA FORMAT STILL APPLIES)

1. Open the document
2. Put an MLA Heading in the Upper Lefthand cormer
3. Read the Exemplary Response
4. Upload your own response from CommonLit.org
5. Answer the question

Read Chapter 2 and Chapter 3.

Answer the questions along the way.

8C: Liberty & Equality > Sub-unit 1 > Lesson 4 > ACTIVITY 14 EXTRA: Additional Text Writing Prompt
1. Log in via the Amplify link attached
2. Read over & review "Writing Prompt #2" ONLY
3. Review & Use your evidence from the highlighted portions of Chapter 1, and the "What Matters to Douglass"5. 4. Follow ALL directions
5. The CER graphic organizer is in a separate assignment. (Turn the completed Graphic ORGANIZER in that assignment.
5. Open, create, & write a Google Doc titled, "Douglass & Washington C-E-R". (DO NOT FORGET YOUR MLA HEADING) This is where your final draft paragraph will be (NOT in outline format).
6. Turn in completed Google Doc CER in MLA format by the assigned Monday 5 October 2020.
Side Note: Reminder for Your Claim: (5 w’s are the who, what, when, where, and why)

TURN IN YOUR COMPLETED CER HERE when you are done.

Turn your C-E-R Graphic Organizer in here after you are done.

Copy and paste (with proper punctuation for quoting a text) your evidence answering these questions.

1. Personalize the MLA heading
2. Each day that we have time for quick writes, use this form to write
3. Edit, fluff and puff, expand during FLEX time

Go to NoRedInk.com for the Quiz
The grade will go into PowerSchool

Choose Five words.

Click the attached link to access the assignment; on the CommonLit login page, click Log In With Google.

1. Read and understand the Santa Barbara City College Personal Narrative Structure
2. Use the blank chart below to design your structure
3. Use Freytag's triangle if you wish!

Please share your one sentence premise!

1. Watch the "Prom" Podcast video during class time on The Moth By Hasan Minhaj
2. While watching the video, answer questions 1-10 on the attached Google Doc
3. After the video and reflection, answer remaining questions 11-16 completely on the same Google Doc
4. Be prepared to share and discuss your answers as a class! (Make connections to Dahl's "Going Solo")
5. Turn in completed Podcast Questions no later than Monday, September 21st!
*See the Podcast Video attached for review and/or if you had difficulty with your audio during Zoom class

1. Put an MLA heading in the upper LEFT of your document
2. Fill in the MPS we do together in class
3. Complete one for each word
4. Turn in by Monday 21 September 2020

Week Three NRI Practice
Choosing the Appropriate Conjunctions, Building Compound and Complex Sentences

NRI Practice:
Formatting Titles Practice & Formal and Informal Language

For YOU!

1. Read/listen to this chapter from Going Solo
2. Complete the Chart

1. Read the PDF if Amplify isn't working for you.
2. Fill out this Google Form Review Questions.

1. Watch the Book Review Videos the 8th grade teachers made for you
2. Read NYTimes Book Reviews to get ideas of how to write a review (read at least 2 not annotated in the teacher videos)
3. Plan your Book Review: make bullets and notes of what you want to include. Use the Book Review Directions to guide your planning and structure (outline/chart/etc.)
4. You MUST make a structure. You must have a detailed and specific plan for what will be in each of your paragraphs BEFORE you start writing.

1. Talk to your parents about your English Syllabus...discuss it together
2. Chat about the Citizenship Rubric and the Academic Rubric
3. Have your parents fill out the Google Form
4. Turn it in :)

NRI Quiz:
Formatting Titles and Informal & Formal Language

1. Each day we will take the first ten minutes of class to write.
2. Each prompt is listed for this week.
3. You are to write continuously for the whole ten minutes.
4. On Friday afternoon, upload the completed document.

1. Use this form to take notes during my presentation.
2. Retitle it to include your name.
3. Turn it in when complete.
4. Refer back to the document when you are writing your Book Review!

1. Each student at MMS needs to access this ONCE only. (Specifically in your 1st period)
2. I have attached the link here for all of my classes in case you need an extra copy or you want to get set up
before August 31st.
3. You will be able to share your copy with me (whether you designed it in my class or not)

1. Go to the IMPORTANT CLASS LINKS option in Google Classroom
2. Click on the NoRedInk.com link in the Comment
3. Register for NoRedInk.com (Period 3 class code: orange knot 1)
4. Complete the Diagnostic Assessment
5. Click "Completed" in this assignment when the assignment is actually completed.

1. Make a copy of this Graphic Organizer or design a Book Review Structure of your own (the link will probably force the copy...rename it with your name)
2. Fill in the details from your brainstorming (SPECIFIC to your book--do not write the word "title" or "author" in the empty box...write the title of your book and the author of your book's name)
3. THIS ASSIGNMENT IS TO BE COMPLETED AFTER YOU WATCH THE BOOK REVIEW VIDEOS as a way to organize your ideas before you write your Book Review.

1. Pick ONE slide from below to edit (do not edit anyone else's slide!)
2. In the center of the slide put your name & the name you prefer to be called.
3. Fill in the text Boxes.
4. Decorate the slide with pictures, change the font, etc. Make it your own!

1. Pick ONE slide from below to edit (do not edit anyone else's slide!)
2. In the center of the slide put your name & the name you prefer to be called.
3. Fill in the text Boxes.
4. Decorate the slide with pictures, change the font, etc. Make it your own!

1. Look in the Zoom Link section for the Monday and Friday meeting codes.
2. I will post the other codes for Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday on soon
3. Make sure you use your NAME when registering for the Zoom Meetings