Daily Warm Up for Tuesday, 3/1

Careers

In Chapter 1, the students graduating from the "Highest Class" choose a job by drawing slips of paper with job openings from a little cloth bag. Is this the best way to choose a career? Go to Job Predictor:

http://www.jobpredictor.com/index.asp

Type your name in the Job Predictor form, and choose any of the countries (there's no option for the US). Do you receive a good job? Is there a better way of determining careers for students?

Now look at the websites below. These sites can help students choose a career that suits their talents and personality traits.

The Princeton Review Career Quiz
http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/quiz/career_quiz1.asp

Get Tech.org - Go to GetTech Careers to learn about jobs in the math and science fields.
http://www.gettech.org/default2.asp

Career Exploration from eThemes
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000325.shtml

HW for Monday, 2/28

Now that you've chosen the two poems that you're going to submit to the poetry festival, print out a clean copy of each of them.

Both of your entries must be typed and include:

Your name

Your grade

Parkmont School

Teacher: Nijole Gedutis

Daily Warm-Up for Monday, 2/28

Complete the Analogies worksheet.

Daily Warm Up for Thursday, 2/17

Are you up for the challenge?

Write a poem using all of the following words:

Ubiquitous

Shining

Robot

Glue

Affable

Now, try with these:

Sojourn

Red

Earth

Blanket

Egypt

Daily Warm Up for Monday, 2/14

Write a poem using all of the words below:

Calamity

Boring

Song

Incursion

Goonch

Now, try these:

Art

Chase

Cantaloupe

Silver

Pug

Homework for Tuesday, 2/8

IRP 6

Type, label and date your response to the following question:

What is your (detailed) plan for your independent reading project? How is it interactive? (200+ words)

Daily Warm Up for Tuesday, 2/8

Go to this website again:

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/games/

and choose a word game to play.

Daily Warm Up for Monday, February 7

Write a poem using all of the words below:

• mirror
• hazardous
• dandelion
• famine
• brave

Once you finish that, try writing one with these words:

• slippery
• fantasy
• Vivaldi
• chameleon
• lives

HW for Monday, 2/7

Bio Poem 5. Please read and follow the instructions!

Daily Warm Up for Friday, 2/4

Go to this website again:

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/games/

and choose a word game to play.

HW for Friday, 2/4

Bio Poem 4! Please follow the directions!

HW for Thursday, 2/3

Bio Poem 3 -- read the directions!

Daily Warm Up for Thursday, 2/3

Choose one of the prompts below and write a poem!

• Write a poem that starts with a one word title, two words in the first line, three in the next, and continues by adding one word per line.

• Write a poem that describes a walk through a house from the perspective of a child.

• Write a poem about a chain-link fence.

• Write a poem using, "how to...". For example, "how to write a poem", "how to break my heart"," how to distinguish a flower from a frog".

• Write a poem about things that are transparent.

HW for Tuesday, 2/1

IRP 5

Please type your answer. Include your name, the date, and the title of the assignment.

Week 5 Question: What morals or lessons do you think the author intends his/her reader to find in this book? (200 words)

Daily Warm Up for Tuesday, 2/1

Today is the birthday of Langston Hughes! To celebrate one of my favorite poets, go to this site and watch the video:

http://www1.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=52822

Once you've finished with that, go to this site:

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83

and read some of the Hughes's poems.