Goodbye

This class is now in high school. We wish them the best and hope everyone visits the new blog www.chaloux2009.blogspot.com . The 6th graders are excited to begin.
Thanks,
Chaloux

FL fragipani/plumeria puzzle

fagapani

After the end...

You have grown and prospered. Your business/professional career is doing well. You are not Bill Gates yet, but...You will be forced to leave town for a month on a family matter. Who in the class would you choose to run your business/professional career in your absence and why?

The end...

Please post your thoughts on the use of blogs, emailed reflections and Holt's online essay scoring in your English class 2008-09.
Thanks

And the Oscar goes to...

Belonging a tie for first

Second...

Another tie for third...

Say, Mean, Matter 22

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain

Ms Dares podcasts WWII

Sept 5 WW2 Podcast.mp3 -

Belonging a Photostory

new due date 5/15/09

http://www.webquestdirect.com.au/webquest.asp?id=650

Remember. This is part of the exam grade.

Skits, Plays and Reader's Theater

http://42explore.com/skits&plays.htm

It's a Mystery

http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/webmysteryje.html#resources

Say, Mean, Matter 21

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments. Anne Sullivan

Say, Mean, Matter 20

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)

The Art of Persuasion

http://questgarden.com/12/58/3/090217074741/process.htm
protfolio due 4/29/09

Say, Mean, Matter 19

Zig Ziglar: You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

Say, Mean, Matter 18

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. Bill Gates

Belonging

An exercise in visual storytelling:
http://www.webquestdirect.com.au/webquest.asp?id=650
due Cinco de Mayo

For Austin

SIT
Solve It Together
Resorative Practices
Repairing Behavior
Building Community
Roosevelt Middle School
Jefferon Parish Public Schools

Who is Involved?

Participation in Restorative Circles is strictly voluntary. No one is required to participate. Typically, a conference or a circle will last no more than one hour.

Participants in a Restorative Conference may include the offender(s), the victim(s), the offender(s) and the victim(s), involved school staff, involved other students, and the facilitator.

Participants in a Restorative circle will include the students involved and the facilitator.

Who Benefits?

Restorative Practices teach students skills needed to avoid suspensions and further negative social consequences of misbehavior. Other participants learn how to support students in creating a positive school environment with positive student-student and student teacher relationships.

In schools across the country, participants in Restorative Conferences and Restorative Circles report a high level of satisfaction. Participants report that they feel empowered and supported by bringing positive closure to difficult incidents of harm, that they are able to avert potential incidents of harm, and taht a sense of safety and care was restored to the school community.

Why Use Resorative Practices?

We use Restorative Practices because we are building a positive school environment where respect for all members of the school community is our highest value.
The goals of Resorative practices are
To allow students to take responsibility and make amends for misbehavior

To provide an intervention to correct or eliminate problem behavior and promote a positive learning environment

To provide a learning experience in problem-solving and conflict-resolution

To empower everyone with the opportunity to play a significant role in creating a safe and caring community

To provide a safe opportunity to express genuine feelings, concerns, hurts and apologies

To enhance the dignity of all the people we encounter on a daily basis

To increase awareness and understanding of the interconnectedness of all the people we encounter on a daily basis

Kernal Essay

Where were you?
What was the first thing that happened?
What was the next thing that happened?
What was the last thing that happened?
What did you think at that moment?


Write the five sentence kernel essay.
Write a “ba da bing” to add to the kernel essay.
Write two to three more sentences for each sentence in your kernel essay.
Write a truism for the story’s conclusion.


Show me. Don’t tell me.
Based on Gretchen Bernabei’s Reviving the Essay

My English 8I is a cell phone.

Michael is the loudspeaker;

no one can find the button to turn him off.

Justin is text messaging

he likes to keep it brief.

Zack is doom who signals

when you go over your minutes.

Sandip is the ringtone

that I forget to put on silence.

Dae’ Aja, Jessaymn, and Raven are

constant conversations never on hold.

Austin is the keypad

he working digitally

in an efficient fashion.

Sarah and Kamylia are Verizon

the gang in the background

who keep us connected.

Rolando is the camera jumping to catch a shot of what’s going on.

Philip and Anthony are the screen; you can see that they are working.

Megan and Ariana are the help desk lending tech support when we’re in trouble

Raheem is voice mail with a kind greeting for those who can’t reach us.

And I am the case struggling to keep us all working for the future.

Chaloux 2009

Constuctive Comments

Post the Faces and Facade poem to your blog. Comment on @ least one posting. Comment on images that appeal to the senses, vivid verbs, alliteration, onomatopoeia, dialogue, thoughtshots, snapshots, exploded moments, shrunken centuries... If it is good let them know what part so they can recreate it in future writings. If a part is weak let them know what part so that they can correct it. (Directions @ Chaloux/Poetry/Faces and Facades

Ba Da Bing Sentences

from Revising the Essay by Bernabei

A Ba Da Bing sentence describes where you are, what you saw and what you thought.

eyes from commons.wikimedia.org

Say, Mean, Matter 17

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. Russell Baker

Justin hits a wiinner @ Poetry Slam 09

Say, Mean, Matter 16

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
Voltaire

So You Know Your Figurative Language

http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz2436841be67e8.html

http://www.ibiblio.org/schools/rls/garner/9thgrade/eoc/alliteration.html

Say, Mean, Matter 15

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
Milton Berle

Say, Mean, Matter 14

"The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.”
http://www.joe-ks.com/index.htm

Read to Me

Click http://members.cox.net/humanbeing1/index.htm scroll to Poetry/Read Mine.

Poem and paragraph due February 4. You may sent poem by email or Google Docs, but check with me that they arrived.
Thanks

Poetryquest

http://www2.rccsd.org/RKeim/poetry_webquest_lite.htm

Limerick Fun http://www.channel4learning.net/sites/bookbox/games/limericks/home.htm

Say, Mean, Matter 13

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. Leo Buscaglia

Poetry Day Two

Concrete Poetry
http://www.msrogers.com/English2/poetry/30_days_of_poetryday_1.htm

Poetry Day One

http://www.msrogers.com/English2/poetry/30_days_of_poetryday_21.htm

Say, Mean, Matter 11

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Mitch Albom