8th Grade Poetry Project

CD cover project

Things you need between Nov. 28 and Dec. 16, 2011!

8th Grade homework sheet 8th_1128_1216

7th Grade homework sheet 7th_1128_1216

Review Sheet over The Giver Giver review sheet 2011

Review Sheet over Animal Farm  Animal Farm review sheet

Persuasion Paper planning sheet   Persuasion Planner

Animal Farm movie vs. book planner

No Promises in the Wind Review Sheet

No Promises in the Wind Essay Questions 2011

Harris Burdick illustrations & captions

Harris Burdick images and captions

Burdick pictures 1 through 4

Burdick pictures 5 through 7

Burdick pictures 12 through 14

Burdick pictures 8 through 11

9/11 Photos

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Quotes about Character

Below are quotes about character.  Select one and respond to it for your homework:

• “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”    – Albert Einstein
• “A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.” – Mark Twain
• “If you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”    – Abraham Lincoln
• “Character is higher than intellect.”  – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”  – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.”  John Wooden
• “Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”  – Thomas Paine
• “Character is much easier kept than recovered.”  – Thomas Paine
• “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” – Bruce Lee
• “Character is what a man is in the dark.”  -Dwight L. Moody
• “Character is destiny.”  – Heraclitus
• “Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.”  – Elbert Hubbard
• “Character, not circumstances, makes the man.”  – Booker T. Washington
• “Habits change into character.”  – Ovid

Independent Novel Projects

Each six weeks of the school year, you must read an independent novel and create a project.    Your book project categories, due dates, and rubrics are as follows:

1^st six weeks:  media/technology (due 9/30) independent book report rubric 4 technology

2^nd six weeks:  written (due 11/11) independent book report rubric 2 written
3^rd six weeks:  artistic/visual (due 1/6) independent book report rubric 1 artistic

4^th six weeks: oral “live” (due 2/17) independent book report rubric 3 oral

5^th six weeks: new project from any category (April 13)

Click below to view the project guidelines and choices:
independent book project ideas

 

Internal Documentation for Research Paper

Below are instructions for creating your bibliography.  For the 7th Grade Persuasion Paper, ignore #6.

Bibliography Features of Microsoft Word

Word has marvelous bibliographic features!  Here’s what to do:

1. Click the “References” tab at the top of the page.
2. Under “Style” (in the middle), click the style you wish for Word to follow (MLA, APA, etc.). 
3. To add a source, click “Insert Citation” and select “Add New Source” *
   1. Select the type of source from the drop-down menu at the top (ex. book, interview, periodical, website, etc.)
   2. Fill in the blanks!
   3. Repeat as necessary.
4. To edit a source, click “Manage Sources.”
   1. Select the source you need to edit.
   2. Click “edit.”
   3. Make changes as necessary.
5. To insert your bibliography at the end of a document:
   1. Put your cursor at the end of your document.
   2. Click “Bibliography  (Gugliotta)
   3. Click on either “Bibliography” or “Works Cited,” whichever you prefer.
6. To insert citations within a document:
   1. Click where you want the citation to go, usually at the end of a sentence but before the period.
   2. Click “Insert Citation.”
   3. The items you have added to your bibliography will be there.  Scroll down to the one you’re citing, and select it.
   4. The citation will appear where you put it, in parentheses.

*Warning – sometimes Word will insert parenthetical citations into things when you’re working in the “Insert Citation” area to add new sources.  Just delete these later.

Research Paper Online Encyclopedia

To log into the online encyclopedia:

Go to:  http://web.esc20.net/k12databases/accessk12.html  (Don’t just click this….copy/paste it into your address bar.)

Click “Secondary Resources” on the right hand side of the screen.

To use Brittanica online:
     Type your search term
     When the login screen pops up, enter the following:
                  178808041
                  learn

To enter the EBSCO Research Databases:
       Enter your search term
      When the login screen pops up, type the following:
                 NS077539
                password   (the word password is the actual password)

Speech Paper & Sites

Speech Paper Assignment:   http://shannontrial.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/speech-analysis-assignment.doc

Top 100 speeches of the 20th century  http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html

Famous Speeches http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/speeches/

Great Speeches Collection http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm