Outsider book online!

Here's the link that will take you to The Outsiders on line:
http://theoutsidersbook.blogspot.com/2005/09/whole-book.html

Connecting to The Outsiders - Chapter 1

For a story to be especially enjoyable, it needs to connect to your own life.  I have written a few questions based on quotations from Chapter 1 of The Outsiders to help you connect issues in the book with your own life.
       Please go to the Google Form at this address

http://bit.ly/1sGssIP

and thoughtfully answer the four questions you find there.  Thanks!

Lesson for Tuesday, January 6

Once again, I have a video lesson prepared for you. It will ask you to complete IXL 7th-grade-level exercise O.2 in which you must distinguish between the four sentence types. YOU MUST REACH AT LEAST 90% on the exercise.  On the video I answer most of the problems myself. But before I do, I try to explain the concepts. After you have finished your IXL assignments, you are to go to GOOGLE CLASSROOM and write your own paragraph using the four sentence types.  HINT: on the video I model a paragraph like this for you. As you will see when you go to GOOGLE CLASSROOM, the sentence-writing assignment is due by the end of tomorrow (Wednesday). You should be finished with the IXL assignments by the end of TODAY.
      Now, here's the video:

Lesson for Monday, January 5, 2015

Happy New Year to every student on 8-4!  I am away today at a workshop for Language Arts teachers at Old Berry School (which some of you may know as the location of Crossroads--yikes!). So I have video-ed today's lesson which is designed to make sure you know the four basic sentence types:

simple sentence

compound sentence

complex sentence

compound-complex sentence

The video lesson runs about twenty minutes. During the lesson you will watch me do some of the IXL problems that you will have to do AFTER you watch the video.  Once you've watched it, go to IXL 6th-grade, L.2.   Even if you've done this one before, I want you to do it again. (I will tell you all of this on the video.)  As always you must reach at least 90 percent on IXL.  When or if you get one wrong, be intelligent: figure out WHY you got it wrong before going on to the next one.  When the incorrect screen pops up, read what's below it in order to understand your error.  THIS EXERCISE WILL GO INTO THE GRADE BOOK!  So start your third 9-weeks with a GOOD GRADE!