Koolteecha's Virtual Classroom

Greetings & Salutations, my fellow Middle Earthlings! 

While your fellow classmates are slaving away in their other classes, you will be embarking on an incredible adventure – a Hobbit adventure, that is.

Over the next two days, your quest will be to fulfill four Hobbit tasks.  I’ve even set up a special place at which to begin your journey:

There and Back Again…A Hobbit Adventure Edublog

We will start reading The Hobbit on FRIDAY if all goes well, so if you don’t have your copy with you in class, please be sure to have it then.  Our class copies are very, very limited, which means that if you’re lucky to secure a class copy, you may not be able to take it home each night. 

By the time you leave the lab today, you should have finished AT LEAST Adventure 1 & 2. 

Viva la ADVENTURE!!!

There and Back Again…A Hobbit Adventure Edublog

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I hope you all had a restful three-day-weekend!  Don’t you wish EVERY weekend was a three-day weekend?

I’ve got your first offical Edmodo online assignment details!  We’ll complete one or two of these every six weeks!

 

Q1. What is the assignment?

Your assignment is to write a narrative (a story, fiction or non-fiction) inspired by one of three photos I provide to you. 

 

Q2. How long does my story need to be?

I’d like your narrative to be at least 5 paragraphs in length

 

Q3. What, specifically, must it contain?

Your narrative must include the following:

1. A clear beginning/middle/end
2. At least 1 – 2 main characters
3. A recognizable setting
4. An identifiable conflict/resolution

 

Q4. How do I turn this in, exactly?

You may turn your assignment in two different ways:

1. Type your narrative directly into Edmodo using the Assignment Alert that was sent to you

2. Type your narrative into a Word document, save it to your computer, and upload it into the Edmodo Assignment Alert.

 

Q5. How will I be graded?

Your assignment will be graded based on:

            A. Story Structure (does your narrative have a beginning/middle/end?)

            B. Story Elements (plot, setting, character, conflict, resolution)

            C. Conventions (spelling, punctuation, grammar)

 

 

 

Q6. So…what do I write about exactly?

I’ve selected three different photographs to inspire you.  Choose one, and write a creative story about the photograph that you chose.  It can be based on something that’s really happened in your experience, or it can be completely and entirely from your imagination.  Just be sure to stick with your criteria (see Q3)!

Want to see your photo options?

Photo Option #1

Photo Option #2

Photo Option #3

Upload the entire assignment with the photos by clicking the link below:

Edmodo Writing Assignment #1

 As always, please let me know if you have questions about the assignment.  DO NOT wait until the last minute to find access to a computer if you don’t have one at home!  The library is open every morning at 8:15, as is MY CLASSROOM.  

See ya’ on the flip side,

 

 

 Mrs. S

 

 

 

 

 

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Howdy Lions!  Welcome to 8th Grade Language Arts and welcome to my website!  

I always feel a delirious combination of exhilaration and exhaustion at the beginning of a school year.   I have been working hard to get things ready for you all, and yet it’s only just the beginning!  So many possibilities!!  

I hope you will take advantage of the information you’ll find here on my website.  I encourage you to take a look at some advice from last year’s 8th graders – they created some videos just for you!   Click HERE to see them!

Another valuable link here on my website is our class calendar.  See over there to the right?  There’s a heading titled “PAGES”.  One of those links will take you to our class calendar, so you’ll always know what’s up.  CLICK HERE to see it!  Check it often as it changes often!

Yet another VERY HELPFUL  place to look will be the Virtual Classroom File Cabinet.  It’s exactly what it sounds like – a “file cabinet” full of our class assignments.  So if you happen to misplace a handout or your dog/cat/hamster/sister eats an assignemnt, most of the time you can download and print out a shiny new copy by visiting the Virtual Classroom File Cabinet!

Lastly, you can subscribe to my website by entering your (or your parent/guardian’s) email address into the form in the top right-hand corner of this page.  Then you’ll get an email every time I post a new entry to the website. 

I know that I threw a ton of stuff at you today, and combined with all the other stuff that your Lions’ teachers threw at you, I imagine that your brain is pretty much fried.  (Mine is too, truth be told!) 

SOOOOOO to help you out, here’s a list of what I’ll be expecting you to turn in to me by Friday:

1. The Survival Guide Parent/Student signature page on the back of your Survival Guide.  

2. Your Internet Permission form and the Lions’ Adventures in Technology Handout – both with your parent/guardian’s signature.  (You can find both in the Virtual File Cabinet if you’ve misplaced them!)

3. Your parents’ homework assignment titled “In a Million Words or Less” (also available on the Virtual File Cabinet).

I’d love it if you’d go ahead and drop me a comment – say hello so that I know you were here!  (Don’t worry if your comments don’t show up right away – I must approve them first…)

**BTW – a special howdy to all of you leaving comments here tonight!  I feel so verrrrry popular!  (ok so I bribed you but still…)   I should have mentioned this in class, but please please please leave ONLY your first name and last INITIAL in your comment, guys!  Kthnxbuhbye, 

 TTFN!

Mrs. S

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Welcome back, Lions! 

Today you have two tasks to complete:

1. Finish the assignment from yesterday.

2. Fill out 4 charts on 4 colleges of your choice, using the links & information you’ll find HERE.

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