Roots, prefixes and suffixes Everyday

Students,

watch this video that show examples from everyday life and start collecting to bring words into class from the outside.  Let's see how many you can collect and be ready to share where and in what context did you hear it or see it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAU2BIw0b-0

More review of Prefixes and suffixes and roots

Second video on prefixes and suffixes and latin roots.  Take notes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zk4MnMJ-vE

Prefixes and Suffixes

Students

Watch the video on prefixes and suffixes and take notes. Then start thinking of words that have prefixes and suffixes from the readings in your other classes and start making a collection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zk4MnMJ-vE

SAT vocabulary Games to practice

Students,

Go to this link to pratice some sat terms online and let's see how many you get right.  Have fun with vocabulary.

In the notebook record the site you went to and the date and your results.

Link:
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/sat-games/

Online analogies practice

Dear Students,

Go to this link and try some analogies on line. Let's see how many you will answer right.

Link:
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/analogies/middle-school/middle-school-analogy-match/

Analogies Intro/Review

Students,

Watch this video about analogies to know how to tackle them when you work on them. Then go to the post titled online analogies practice and try some.

Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts-K4PrGydQ

Language arts skills practices Menu Sites

Dear Students,

Go to the link below and select one ELA site to practice some skills. As you work them record your progress by writing the following:

Site:
Date:
Results:

Link:
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skill_builders/analogies_language_arts_eighth_8th_grade.htm

SAT/GRE vocabulary

Students,

Watch this clip to learn to these sets of words that are common but can be used in assessment type work or testing.   Take notes as needed because you might come across them in one of your other classes.  

Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K2NDRaL4G0

The 6 most important decisions Site

Explore the book's website and record some of the finding you discover in your journal.  What did you find?

Here is the link:
http://www.seancovey.com/teens.html

Exploring Study Skills Websites

Students,

Visit this link to see all the sources to practice and discover tools to access and make studying better besides approaching it from a different lens.

Here is the link:
https://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/Study+skills+tools

Record in your journals the sites you think would help you the most and explore it then write a little blurb about what you do on that site.

Research Scanvenger hunt Practice

Students,

Do this task and record your answers in your journals to practice basic research skills needed when finding specific information.

Link:
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/TM/WS_hunt3.shtml

Literary devices in poetry: extended metaphors

Students,

Review extended metaphors by watching this video then take out your poems you are working in class as reference and try to create 2 or 3 of your own.  Here is the link:

http://www.powtoon.com/show/e2F1o5v0TUX/simile-metaphor-extended-metaphor/

Solving Equations with Variables on both sides Review

Watch this video and review your class notes.  Try to rework the ones you missed in class.  Here is the link:

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-eighth-grade-math/cc-8th-solving-equations/cc-8th-linear-equations/e/linear_equations_3

Math Proportional Relationships Review

Students,

if you are struggling with this math concept, watch this and take notes to help yourself.  Then review your notes from class and rework some of the problems you have missed in class.

Here is the link:
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-seventh-grade-math/cc-7th-ratio-proportion/cc-7th-proportional-rel/v/analyzing-and-identifying-proportional-relationships-ex1

SQ3R reading stratgey

Students,

Watch this video on this strategy to help yourself as a reader.  This strategy can be applied to the texts you read in all your classes. Take notes and here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dhcSP_Myjg

After this go this link that contains a short text to see how you can apply this strategy to this digital article:

https://newsela.com/articles/ebola-patient/id/5439/

Self Control Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOi4FR2UruA

Watch the clip and then respond to this writing prompt in your journal: Write about a time you used or lost self control with others.

Give as much details as possible and it needs to be at least 1 page and half long. Remember, me the audience was not present so I need to visualize that moment.

Decisions!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4UOvtPcl6I

after hearing and watching the video, write a reflection sharing your opinions about what you heard.