May 26 -- Yearbook Day

Bring a good pen for signing, and plan ahead how you will sign. 

• Don't write anything you will regret later. 
• Don't cross out or draw on anyone's photo.  You would regret that later, too. 

Modified Schedule for May 26th
Yearbook day

A1 8:15-9:45 Hand out yearbooks and watch Norm Lyde’s movie in the auditorium.  We will be called down. 
   We will see the movie before handing out the yearbooks.

A2 9:50-10:10

A3 10:15-10:35

A4 10:40-11:00

B1 11:05-11:25

B2 11:30-11:50

B3  11:55-12:15

B4 12:20-12:45

12:45-1:15 Lunch: Pizza and J-Dawgs

1:15-2:45 Outside yearbook signing

Hints for yearbook signing: .
http://www.wikihow.com/Sign-a-Yearbook

Monday, May 23, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                            All late and revised work was due by last Friday, May 20. You may hand in unused hall passes today or next time.  Bring treats if you wish next time.  Come prepared to duel.

Targets for Today: We will do some sustained reading for enjoyment. We will write and talk about what we have read.  We will read from The Rithmatist.

Today’s  Agenda: Read The Rithmatist.  If you are done, read your own choice of books.  Rithmatist Book Group Discussion Discuss and write about  The Rithmatist. Work in your assigned groups.  Gather in a circle so everyone in your group can hear and contribute. Write the names of all group members on the paper you are given.  Assign a scribe, or take turns acting as scribe. All group members should participate in the discussion.   More reading if time. Futuristic or Alternate Reality? NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY AND RESTORATION OF MRS. MARY ROWLANDSON http://www.gutenberg.org/files/851/851-h/851-h.htm

If You Were Absent: See above.

Discussion Teams

Anderson Chrisman Hainsworth Nelson, S Wilson

Ashcraft Christiansen Hammond Nelson, D Wisner

Bird Harris L Jensen Nerdin Woodhouse

Bracamontes Fryer Cornell Salazar

Browning Fuqua Hughes Schmuhl

Chase Goodwin Harris J. Taylor

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                            All late and revised work is due by this Friday, May 20.

Targets for Today: We will do some sustained reading for enjoyment. We will write and talk about what we have read.  We will read from The Rithmatist.

Today’s  Agenda: Read The Rithmatist.  If you are done, read your own choice of books. Write in Response.  Check your composition book. More reading.

If You Were Absent: See above.

Discussion Teams

Anderson Chrisman Hainsworth Nelson, S Wilson

Ashcraft Christiansen Hammond Nelson, D Wisner

Bird Harris L Jensen Nerdin Woodhouse

Bracamontes Fryer Cornell Salazar

Browning Fuqua Hughes Schmuhl

Chase Goodwin Harris J. Taylor

Handy Quotes from The Rithmatist

"Not having ice cream is the culmination of all disasters!"  -- Melody,  page 178

"Chocolate is the greatest invention of all time."   -- Melody, age 189

"Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn.  If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a hard time in life. . . . "  Professor Fitch, pg. 214

“... everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist

“The most dangerous kind of man is not the one who spent his youth shoving others around. That kind of man gets lazy, and is often too content with his life to be truly dangerous. The man who spent his youth being shoved around, however … When that man gets a little power and authority, he often uses it to become a tyrant on par with the worst warlords in history.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist

“That was terribly thoughtless of you. What good is having friends if they don’t put you in mortal peril every once in a while?” 
― Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist

“Librarians seemed to have a sixth sense for noticing when students were doing things they weren't supposed to.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist

“I'm like that," she said. "Wild mood swings. It makes me more interesting.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist

“So much about life was disappointment. He often wondered how humankind endured so long, and if the few moments when things went right really made up for all the rest.” 
― Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Please turn in all books checked out from our classroom 
by Wednesday, May 18 -- this Wednesday. 

Don't forget to consider who you would cast in a movie of The Rithmatist.

Today -- Shall we go outside?

Bring your Rithmatist books and composition books.

How many days do we have left? 4 days
We are on page 175 of the book.
Let's read The Rithmatist at 50 or so pages a day.

Go ahead and read it during individual reading time and the rest of class.

Write your responses  -- another 1/4 page response -- to The Rithmatist.

When you have finished, read your choice of book!

Let's leave enough time for treats and  rithmatic duels on May 25.

The next book in the series -- 

The Aztlanian (Rithmatist #2)

by Brandon Sanderson 

will most likely be coming out in 2017.

Anderson Chrisman Hainsworth Nelson, S Wilson

Ashcraft Christiansen Hammond Nelson, D Wisner

Bird Harris L Jensen Nerdin Woodhouse

Bracamontes Fryer Cornell Salazar

Browning Fuqua Hughes Schmuhl

Chase Goodwin Harris J. Taylor

Friday, May 13, 2016

Assignment:  Consider who you would cast in a movie of The Rithmatist.

This Week: American Fork Junior High Presents

by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

The Strength of Our Spirit
By Cynthia Mercati

May 12 & 13 - 7:00PM
Recommended Donation: $1
AFJH Small Theatre

Announcements and Reminders: If you haven't finished and handed in your blackout poem, do that.                                                                  If you didn't collect pictures and information about your assigned place from Walk Two Moons, please do that as soon as possible, and send it or share it with Ms. D. Missing that assignment is affecting your grade. If you didn't complete your composition book check, also do that as soon as possible.

Targets for Today: We will do some sustained reading for enjoyment. We will write and talk about what we have read.  We will read from The Rithmatist.

Today’s  Agenda:  1. Today -- something different!  We'll watch part of a show with 3 giants of YA lit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1edOXhnoCxY To minute 18:41      2. Write and share. (Write at least a Quarter Page.)  Notes:  The marketing people decide where a book goes -- in adult or YA. The YA section a safe haven for teen readers    intimidated by the big thick books Sanderson was a reluctant reader.    He feels that a  YA section is a safe haven for teens, and that it would have helped him if they had had such a section in the library when he was growing up. Dashner's favorite: Stephen King Sanderson:  Robert Jordan Recommended: Starman Jones Heinlein Gormanghast  McCaffrey (I'd add The Blue Sword and others by Robin McKinley.)  Sanderson architects his plots  Sanderson's penny arcade? The main character in Steelheart makes terrible metaphors.   _________________________ Another author Ms. Dorsey recommends: Greg Park (a teacher at a local high school). http://www.gregpark.net/ author of the Earthsoul Prophecies Series -- beginning with Veil of Darkness Paolini:  http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Ow-Sh/Paolini-Christopher.html Dasher:  http://www.gradesaver.com/author/james-dashner Sanderson:  http://www.writingexcuses.com/about-2/brandons-bio/ 3.  Individual Reading -- finish chapter 11 of The Rithmatist or read your own book. 4.   We read from The Rithmatist page 162 to  top of page 175. Assignment:  Consider who you would cast in a movie of The Rithmatist. http://rithmatistthegame.webs.com/for-those-who-have read the book ______________ http://thebooksmugglers.com/2013/05/the-rithmatist-a-chat-with-brandon-sanderson.html Review:  http://thebooksmugglers.com/2013/05/book-review-the-rithmatist-by-brandon-sanderson.html Brandon Sanderson's Website:http://brandonsanderson.com/books/the-rithmatist/the-rithmatist/

If You Were Absent: See above.