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SideBar 8th Grade Page

This is the place for your Language Arts assignments and resources.

My goal is to use less paper this year. At times you'll be using this Wiki to submit assignments!

Here's how to contact me 646-5142 x3326 or egoodwinATwocsdDOTorg

 

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What do you do for fun?

 

Go here for the Arrrgh! Pirates at WJHS wiki

 

Go to Wordle and create a Summer 2008 Word Cloud, a Treasure Island Word Cloud

 

LEXILE BOOK FINDER

Find the right book for you

 

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

Make your comic here

In response to the novel When Zachary Beaver Came to Town use Make Beliefs Comix to:

Make a 3-panel comic

Featuring Toby, Cal, and Zachary that recreates a scene from Chapter 7

 

These are some of the novels you'll read this year

 

Titanic by Robert Ballard

Passenger list

Listen to the Titanic's horn

Titanic interactive timeline from The History Channel

More video from the History Channel

 

NEW!

How to add Titanic Passenger Biographies (Due 3/25)

1. Log into the Wiki page

2. Scroll down the Side Bar

3. Click on 'Edit the Side Bar'

4. Paste in your Passenger Biography

5. Click 'Save'

 

 

Tangerine

by Edward Bloor

 

Holes

By Loius Sachar

Go here for the Holes Oral Presentation rubric

 

The Pigman

By Paul Zindel

After reading the novel, do these activities:

Take The Pigman Quiz

Write a haiku poem about The Pigman

Respond to this: "Our life would be what we made of it- nothing more, nothing less."

Make a list of at least 15 things that you have learned in your life.

Crispin

By Avi

 

Life in medeival England (about 1377 AD- give or take a year)

Castles

Castle Life

Feudal System

Serf

The Plague

Guild Halls

Religion

Weapons

 

Vocabulary

Chapters 1 & 2  steward 2, pauper 2, contempt 3, transgression 3, gallows 3, forfeit 3, manor house 4, tunic 4, bracken 5, entombed 5, cloying 5, minions 6, kin 8, brambles 9, engulfed 10

Chapters 3 & 4  impoverished 11, plight 12, serfs 12, decree 12, ford 17, mystic 17, trestle table 17, stock 18, croft 19, baptize 19

Chapters 5-9   apprehension 21, bailiff 22, league 24, tyrant 25, moat 25, treason 25, plight 26, alb 27, wizen 27, sanctuary 28, patron saint 29, genuflect 29, Christian 33, abbey 33, revelation 36, siege 36

Chapters 10-14  ponder 37, resolved 38, midwife 39, crone 39, hag 39, foreboding 40, forage 49, liberties 53, beseiged 53, fate 55, blighted 56, pillaged 56

Chapters 15-20   sustenance 57, dell 57, hamlet 57, trepidation 58, ghastly 58, pestilence 59, blight 59, raucously 63, jest 62

 

Crispin Research

Choose a topic from above (or one of your own choice that I ok) and phrase it as a question (What was a serf?, What was The Plague? What weapons were used in Medieval times? What was life in a Medival castle like?) Create an 8-10 page Keynote with pictures and captions that answer your question.

 

Treasure Island

What is your pirate name?

New Pirates

Dirty Ethel Bonney, Mad Tom Rackham, Black Scar Nick, Black Jack Roberts, and Dirty Bess Rackham

 

Talk like a pirate instructional video

Pirate vocabulary

Sea Chantys and Pirate Songs, Irish Pirate Balads for St. Patty's Day

Pirate Challenges  put on your eye patch and test your depth perception !

 

Pirate Research Project (due at the beginning of class Monday March 30th)

Keynote with 8-10 slides of one of these pirates. 

Sir Francis Drake, Henry Morgan, Captain Kidd, Long Ben (Henry Avery), Black Bart (Bartholomew Roberts), Calico Jack (Johh Rackham), Anne Bonney, Mary Read, Blackbeard (Edward Teach)

Nick L-  Blackbeard

Kyle- Calico Jack

Nick M- Long Ben

Use the Rubric for self assessment.  I will use the rubric for your grade.

 

Jack Sparrow- paint video

 

A WJHS Pirate Conversation

Library of Congress

An aweome collection of information and photos

 

Whirlygig

By Paul Fleischman

 

MyAccess

Log in here

 

Lexile Lookup

Find a book in your Lexile or find the Lexile of your book

 

Wreaths Across America

How can people understand the horrors of war without going to war?

Click on this blog about visual literacy

 

Don't sweat the writing stuff!

Use these tools-

Brainstorm with a Wordle

Organize your ideas with thought bubbles

Pump up your word choice with this thesaurus

You'll like this spell checker

Text-to-Speech!!!

Make your own editing checklist

 

 

Comments (9)

Beth Goodwin said

at 5:42 pm on Mar 25, 2009

Claire, Denzel, Morgan and Shaun. Congratulations! You are the first to meet the due date.
Everyone else keep working. You have until 11:59:59 tonight to submit for full credit.
-Mrs. Goodwin

Beth Goodwin said

at 5:43 pm on Mar 25, 2009

...and Kali. You too made the due date!

Denzel said

at 10:50 am on Mar 27, 2009

thank you Ms. Goodwin

Denzel said

at 1:02 pm on Mar 27, 2009

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Shaun said

at 1:04 pm on Mar 27, 2009

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at 1:04 pm on Mar 27, 2009

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at 1:05 pm on Mar 27, 2009

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at 1:05 pm on Mar 27, 2009

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Claire said

at 1:06 pm on Mar 27, 2009

hey Kali.

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