This is an assignment for groups of two.First, go to this link, and complete the assignment. Copy each paragraph that you wrote on a separate word document (before you check the answer) and email it.Then, take the quiz here and let me know how many incorrect responses you had.

You’ve had two posts already and these are the last two for the quarter (and the year!). These posts are due by Friday, May 16.

3)  Journal Entry #21:  Compare and contrast your life between 6^th grade and now. Why are some things the same and why are some things different? What do the similarities and differences show about your personality? (4 paragraphs, use transitional words, include a picture)

4)  Journal Entry #22:  Examine your school and life goals. Select two of the most important goals and explain how you have worked on or accomplished them. Give specific examples and details. (4 paragraphs, use transitional words, include a picture)

 Good luck! 

Your Comparison and Contrast project (see post below) is due on FRIDAY, MAY 2.  You should be done with your research, VENN Diagram (collected last week), and your bibliography (emailed by 4/28). This week should be spent on peer editing your rough draft, typing your final draft, and completing the final copies of your bibliography, VENN Diagram, and cover page. Make sure you meet all of the requirements mentioned in the previous post. This project is 20% of your final grade. Good luck!

Just as you have done personal narratives in 1st Quarter, Persuasive Essays in 2nd Quarter, and Research Essays in 3rd Quarter, your 4th Quarter writing project will be on another type of writing—Expository Essays. You have written an expository essay so far, which is the comparison and contrast essay on two of your classmates. Now, you will do a more extensive comparison and contrast essay on two topics you will research online.

Here are the steps of your project:
1) Create a VENN Diagram out of the facts that you have researched from your online sources.
2) Create a Bibliography of your online sources (minimum of 3 sources for each topic).
3) Write a rough draft using the 4-paragraph format (Intro, Similarities, Differences, Conclusion).
4) After having your rough draft proofread by two of your classmates, revise your rough draft.
5) Create a cover page with a picture, creative title, your name, class name, and date of submission.
6) Turn in your completed project comprised on your cover page, VENN Diagram, essay, and bibliography.

How your project is graded:
Cover page =5%
VENN Diagram = 20%
Essay (capitalization, punctuation, spelling, transitional words, and details)= 40%
Bibliography = 20%
4-paragraph format followed = 15%

Congratulations to the following students who received A’s on the 3rd Quarter Research Paper:

   

• Jaydylee = 109%  < Giant Pandas: Worthy of Being Adorned>
• Vanalyn = 102% <Sushi, please.>
• Darian = 101% <The Karma Incite>
• Alana = 100% <The Art of Dance>
• Jordan = 99% <NBA Point Guard>
• Colin = 93% <The Scourge of Naruto: Akatsuki!!!>
• Mark = 93%<Lion Facts>
• Daniel = 92% <Warewolves and Their Facts>

Here are pictures of the Creative Writing class using Palm handheld computers. The students’ faces have been blurred for safety and security reasons.  

While the class is in a lab, not all computers are working. The handhelds make the student-computer ratio for the class 1:1.   

   

Handhelds are great for group work. Here the students discuss, beam, and create a quiz on their handhelds.   

    

The students also use the handhelds with desktop computers. Here they are researching on internet-capable computers and writing notes in their handhelds.    

    

I also allow the students to use my MacBook since there are not enough internet-capable desktop computers in the class.     

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For Journal Entry #18, the students assessed their use of the handhelds.  Here are what Jaydylee and Daniel have to say:  

My experience with the handhelds was really cool. I have never seen a handheld in person so the first time I saw it, I was so amaze. The interesting aspects about the handheld is that it has a touch screen. You can also use a keyboard for typing. The keyboard is kinda hard to use because it’s smaller than a regular one. I think using the handhelds is better than writing with a pencil. The handhelds also have games in it that are educational and most importantly fun. The handhelds are very useful.  Read on      

   Using these hand helds is such a privilege. I wish that all the other students could use this wonderful device. It makes L.A. much more fun. This could change the teaching of L.A. as we know it. And make it more enjoyable. Students would actually look forward to learning language arts. I know I do and that is a good thing. Students looking forward to learning is every teacher’s dream. It would make life a lot more pleasant and wonderful. So basically this is a good thing for students to have. It would make education such an activity that students would beg their parents to make them go to school even when they’re sick. This would just make things better for everyone. Too bad we don’t have enough money to get them for at least even half of the student body. Read on

It’s very critical that students check your email and the class blog in the next two weeks. This week, we have Chamorro Months activities and the Final Exam happening at the same time, so we may not have enough class time to go over what you need to study or what assignments you need to finish.  I’ve provided a breakdown of what you should be working on and the due dates:

1)  Homework due Wednesday 11:59 a.m. — Transitional words and sentences handout. This was emailed, and should be emailed back by the due date or turned into class on Thursday morning.

2)  Study for Final Exam (Exam is on Friday March 14) — Handheld terms, 5-paragraph format, bibliography, transitional words, recycling, cyber-bullying 

3)  Complete your blogs  by March 25 

4)  Research your topic for your project due March 26. More info on this through email. 

For the test on Friday, March 7, these are the links to the articles you have read in class.  Study them, along with the quiz questions that were compiled by the class.

• 1) Online bullying compels states to act
• 2) A suicide victim and the town that turned on her cyber-bully
• 3) How parents can help stamp out cyber-bullying
• 4) Cyber-bullying

Download the quiz questions here: Quiz #3 on Cyber-bullying  

 

Requirements to Graduate

   There are many requirements to graduate from high school. The completion of 24 credits guarantees a student a diploma.Some of the requirements are:
1) 3 credits in English
2) 2 credits in Math 
3) 3 credits in Social Studies 
4) 1 credit in a foreign language Go to the GPSS website at www.gdoe.net to get more information. 

All of the Quiz #1 posts have been graded. View the archive here.

The Luis P. Untalan Middle School website is the best. It tells you information about the school. It keeps you updated. It talks about the latest news. For example, they would tell you if there’s no school, or they’ll even tell you when there will be games for sports. I believe you should visit the school website because they have a school calendar that can tell you if we have any holidays, PTCs, or Staff Development days. I think you should visit the school website because it can remind you the school ESLRs and school mission. In my opinion, I think that you should visit the website because it’s very informative, nice, and neat.Here is the link for the UMS website.Here is a picture of students walking between classes.

The Untalan Middle School website. Why should you go there? Why should you even care? Because: If you want to find the bulletin, it’s there for free. It has the latest news as soon as it happens. And all the things you need to know at school, like all the new happenings such as dress-downs, are there if your curious. For example, I needed to know if there would be a dress-down. Lo and behold, in less than a minute I found what I needed. Don’t believe me? Try it for yourself and find out.

   Do you like to dress up on Halloween?  If you haven’t already, you should really try it.  It’s loads of fun!  You get to be someone else for a day.  It’s also pretty fun to look at other people in their costumes.  People can get so creative.  It’s crazy!  There are costumes for almost everything, even bananas and whoopie cushions!      Trick-o-Treating is a whole different story.  If you haven’t been trick-o-treating yet, you have no idea what you’re missing.  You get to go from house to house, and door to door being greeted by some of the friendliest people.  Did I mention they give you candy?  Yeah, tons of it!  Halloween only comes once a year, so make the most of it!

     You should visit Untalan Middle School’s website. This website contains a lot of information that can be very useful for parents who have children going to UMS. It is also a good way for children going to UMS to get an update of what activities are coming up in the current quarter. It is also a good way for children going to this school to find out information about teams and what they do and mean. It is a good way for parents who have children going to this school to have an update of what is going on in their childs school. It introduces some of the teachers who will be teaching your child. It gives you an idea of what events went on in this school. Also, it sommarizes the important activities that happened in this school.

     The UMS website is a good way for kids to get an update of whats happened in the quarter. If you missed a day or two for school, you might miss a lot 0f things that happened in those two days. If your lost, then you should visit the school website because it tells what went on in those days that you missed.This is also a good website to go to if you want to check out who works at this sch00l and what they do to help out. It shows the links of different teams and what those teams do. It also gives information on what you as a student can do to support your team to make that team better for you and your fellow teammates. It als0 tells how you can stop being a teammate and be a team player. The difference is that a team player helps the team in becoming one of the best teams for the current school year.

The Untalan Middle School website has a lot of information. It has bulletins posted there. It has photos from events that happened in school. It has a calendar that shows events like conferences or holidays. It lists all the teams and the teachers in them.UMS school website.

               Our school website, http://www.gdoe.net/ums/index.htm, is a great place to get information about the school. It has our eslr, and it also has our mission statement. It talks about the events that have happened and what is happening now. It also talks about what events will happen in the future. It has some pictures od students walking in the hallway, doing their work, and dancing in the gym. It talks about the sports team like the volleyball game or the basketball game. It also has information for the teachers. It can tell you the bell schedule and other information that you will need. This website is very useful for everyone.

                        This post is about the Untalan Middle School website.This website tells everything you need to know about our school. It shows all the sport events. All the meetings and you can download all the bulletins if you want to know what the staff and other people who work out the school are doing. And what are the upcoming days that the students have off. And you can also view all the pictures that was took on Halloween.

What do you know about Untalan Middle School’s website? Did you know we even had one? Well U. M. S. ’s website is about many things you might not even know about our school. We have had a website since before I came to this school. We have had many events happen that lead to pictures about them. We have recently had a fellow wildcat pass away and we have some desciptions about her and where the rosaries are. We have many random things to do in our website, we have pictures of our boys volley ball team vs. the teachers. There is practically a lot of news about our school. Here is the link to the school.

                                                                                     You should check out our school website because you’ll learn what our school does and how it works. You’ll learn how our grading system works and what our school does to improve students’ average GPA ( grade point average ). You’ll learn about our school lunches and what activities our school is doing. You’ll see who the many students of Untalan are and what they like to do. You’ll learn what has gone on in our school recently. You’ll lean why we are one of the best school’s on Guam.

Here are a few links to websites that I’ll be presenting:

• 1)  Cute Overload - Best Photo Blog
• 2)  Daily Koas: State of the Nation  - Best Education Blog
• 3)  SpunkyHomeSchool - Education blog runner up
• 4)  History is Elementary - Education blog Top 8
• 5)  Blogging 101 - the article from CNET News.
• 6)  Blogging: It’s Elementary - the webquest that helps introduce blogging 
• 7)  Top 100 Education Blogs - from Online Education Database
•  Edublogs.org - one of the best places to get a blog for educators