Why do you think zombies are a current and popular trend right now in our world today? Explain your answer and then give examples of "all things zombie" that you know.
Monday, October 19, 2015
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Teach Like A Pirate!!!
After attending a professional day here at Leedey, where Dave Burgess, the pirate guy spoke, I've been inspired to teach and think "outside of the box!" Some might say I'm being so crazy that I'm walking the plank! Aaargh. :). But I seriously think it's working, as my students are now more engaged and excited about class. Time will tell-- the state writing test is in 3 weeks, Feb. 25 & 26. Here's a look at my antics. Enjoy. https://animoto.com/play/8tI30KZUfTVDaTW9Y7K8Qg
Monday, October 6, 2014
Zombie Apocalypse Strikes Leedey!!!!
Run for your lives!!!! The Zombie Apocalypse has struck in the lil' ole' town of Leedey!! It is up to my 8th graders to save themselves and as many other survivors as possible!!
First they will partner up and brainstorm all that they know about zombie so that they can create an evacuation plan and a survival guide. Then after all of that planning, they will organize the key points that they want to stress in their 5 paragraph informative/explanatory essays. We are also collaberating with Mr. McClendon's history class. The 8th graders have been studying the 13 colonies with him. He is going to encorporate some type of zombie survival lesson that encompasses what they've learned with the 13 colonies. Finally the students will do a media presentation for the both of us, and they will be scored on it accordingly. Sounds fun!! But we've got to stay focused and stay alive to finish the task by Fall Break. Wish us Luck!!!
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Kris Gore Lesson
Plans
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Date=Oct. 6-15, 2014
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8th English
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PASS
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Monday
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Finish all worksheets of the Zombie Apocalypse. Must include pictures off internet to
insert onto the survival guide pages.
Each student will be scored individually for his/her worksheet. Due at beginning of class tomo.
When/If finished, begin actually writing the evacuation
plan and survival guide:
**Evacuation Plan must be a Informative/Explanatory 5
paragraph essay w/ your 3 best ideas for evacuation as the body paragraphs.
**Survival Guide must be an Informative/Explanatory 5
paragraph essay using the 3 most important survival tips from pg. 8 of your
hand-out as your body paragraph.
Each partner does one essay. Must be hand-written, double spaced, with a
creative cover sheet.
Essays will be graded and both partners will receive an
avg. from the 2 essays.
Essays due Wed.
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W.1-3
LA.5.1&2
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Tuesday
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Work on Evacuation Plan & Survival Guide essays.
Also must create a zombie face of themselves using the
zombie app on iPads. They may want to
use these picts in their media presentation.
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W.1-3
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Wednesday
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Begin work on the Zombie Collaborative Media
presentation for mine and Mr. McClendon’s class: Power Point; Prezi; Paper
Flip Video; or Telagami. Media
presentations due Oct. 15th.
Mr. Mac is giving the students our rubric/score sheet
for how they will be scored for my class and his. We will score them together next Wed. Winning group will receive a packet pass
for his class, while the runners-up will receive a Vocab pass for mine.
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W.1-3
LA.5.1&2
VL.1-3
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Thursday
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Work on zombie media presentations and/or zombie picture
app.
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W.1-3
LA.5.1&2
VL.1-3
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Friday
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No
School=Prof. Dev. Day
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Kris Gore Lesson
Plans
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Date=Oct. 6-15, 2014
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8th English
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PASS
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Monday=Oct.13
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Work on zombie media presentations
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W.1-3
LA.5.1&2
VL.1-3
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Tuesday=Oct.14
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Work on zombie media presentations.
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W.1-3
LA.5.1&2
VL.1-3
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Wednesday=Oct. 15
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Make final touches on zombie media presentations.
Present during Mr. McClendon’s hour, boys and girls.
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W.1-3
LA.5.1&2
VL.1-3
OL.1&2
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Thursday
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No
School=Fall Break
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Friday
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No
School=Fall Break
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Thursday, September 18, 2014
Time Flying By.....
Busy--Busy---Busy!!!! That's what happens when you're working, working, working!!!
Time is really flying by. The 8th graders are delving into the Writing Process. Next week will start working on the Dewey Co. Soil Conservation Essay. We've been tweeting and blogging and writing!! I hear that a Zombie Apocolypse is in the future....
Here's the gameplan for the next 2 weeks.
Time is really flying by. The 8th graders are delving into the Writing Process. Next week will start working on the Dewey Co. Soil Conservation Essay. We've been tweeting and blogging and writing!! I hear that a Zombie Apocolypse is in the future....
Here's the gameplan for the next 2 weeks.
Kris Gore Lesson
Plans
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Date=Sept. , Sept. 22-26, 2014
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8th English
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PASS
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Journal—Show from website on Prom. Board.
Assign Less. #4 Vocab. Due Friday.
Continue teaching pre-writing by using Buckle Down books
M,T, W.
Begin Less. #9 Tip #6 p.123-128 “Planning/Pre-writing” in
Buckle Down books. Discuss and do
Pract. Act. #4 p.124-128.
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L.4
W.1-3
V.1.1-3
V.3.1-5
W.1-3
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Journal—Show from website on Prom. Board.
Continue working on Buckle Down assignment. Due at end of hr. Hand in worksheets for me to grade.
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L.4
W.1-3
W.1-3
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Hand-out the Dewey Co. Essay info and go over the
timeline due dates:
*Pre-writing due Thurs=9/25
*Rough Draft due Mon.=9/29
*First Typed Copy due Thurs.=10/2
*Bibliography due end of hour Fri=10/3
*Title Page due Mon. 10/6
Students will receive a grade on each due date. None of these grades are droppable.
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W.1-3
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Continue working on Dewey Co. Essays.
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W.1-3
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Continue working on Dewey Co. Essays.
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W.1-3
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Kris Gore Lesson
Plans
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Date=Sept.
29- Oct. 3, 2014
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8th English
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PASS
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Monday
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Continue working on Dewey Co. Soil Conservation Essay.
Timeline of due dates as follows:
*Pre-writing due Thurs=9/25
*Rough Draft due Mon.=9/29
*First Typed Copy due Thurs.=10/2
*Bibliography due end of hour Fri=10/3
*Title Page due Mon. 10/6
Students will receive a grade on each due date. None of these grades are droppable.
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W.1-3
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Tuesday
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Continue working on Dewey Co. Soil Conservation Essay.
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W.1-3
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Wednesday
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Continue working on Dewey Co. Soil Conservation Essay.
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W.1-3
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Thursday
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Continue working on Dewey Co. Soil Conservation Essay.
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W.1-3
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Friday
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No
School=Prof. Dev. Day
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Back in the Sadle Again......
Here we are....back at school!!! Already week three and everyone is trying desperately to get back into the groove. We have a new school website--same address--www.leedey.k12.ok.us--but a totally different look!!! Plus each teacher has his/her own website w/in the school's website. So all of my "cool stuff" will now be posted on my pages on the school website. I'll probably only use this blog to chit chat and post my daily assignments, via my lesson plans. Trying to embrace all of the new technology and keep my 8th grade students "plugged in!!"
GO BISON!!!!
GO BISON!!!!
Kris Gore Lesson
Plans
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8th English Sept.2-5
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No School—Labor Day.
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Take their Dr. Seuss Rhyme Tyme poems and copy them on
their kid blogs.
Do a 3-2-1 over a Flikr video off of Apple TV. Hand-in for grade.
Pass out Vocab wksheets from workbook. Explain how to do. Less. #1 due Friday.
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List different animals from the rain forest (nouns as
stuff) and then list creative action verbs ( what stuff does). Then develop a paragraph from one of the
rain forest animals. (We do)
Next have students come up with 2 nouns from their world
and create action verbs, then develop a paragraph over one.
Challenge students to find active verbs.Nancy Lilly, co-director of
the Greater New
Orleans Writing Project, wanted her fourth and fifth grade
students to breathe life into their nonfiction writing. She thought the
student who wrote this paragraph could do better:
The jaguar is the biggest and strongest cat in the
rainforest. The jaguar's jaw is strong enough to crush a turtle's shell.
Jaguars also have very powerful legs for leaping from branch to branch to
chase prey.
In a brainstorming session related to the students'
study of the rain forest, the class supplied the following assistance to the
writer:
Stuff/Nouns : What Stuff Does/Verbs
jaguar : leaps, pounces jaguar's : legs pump jaguar's : teeth crush jaguar's : mouth devours
This was just the help the writer needed to create the following revised
paragraph:
As the sundisappears from the heart of the forest, the
jaguar leaps through the underbrush, pumping its powerful legs. It spies a
gharial gliding down the river. The jungle cat pounces, crushing the turtle
with his teeth, devouring the reptile with pleasure.
Students para due Thurs.
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Read aloud some of the paragraphs.
Teach interesting words and
use them in a different way.Encourage descriptive writing by focusing on the
sounds of words.
Begin to train their ears by asking them to make lists
of wonderful sounding words. This is strictly a listening game. Students shouldn't write lunch just
because they're hungry. When the collective
list is assembled, asks students to make sentences from some of the words
they've collected. They may use their own words, borrow from other
contributors, add other words as necessary, and change word forms.
Among the words on one student's list: tumble,
detergent, sift, bubble, syllable, creep, erupt, and volcano. The student
writes:
A man loads his laundry into the tumbling washer, the
detergent sifting through the bubbling water.
The syllables creep through her teeth.
The fog erupts like a volcano in the dust.
Unexpected words can go together, creating amazing
images.
Have students write 5 sentences with unexpected, wonderful
sounding words.
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Grade Vocab wb. Less. #1
Give them a quiz over the words. Make them write a paragraph using 5-10 list
words.
3-2-1 over magazine article.
Due Monday.
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
"The Diary of Anne Frank"
On Monday, March 17th, we are starting the Unit over Anne Frank and the Holocaust. For the next 3 weeks (approx.) I will be following the lesson plans from the link listed below, for the most part. I will occassionally, though, encorporate some other additional info I've found on the Internet as well, and I will make those additions/changes a few days prior, letting the students know in advance. I allow myself the freedom to do this bc sometimes, after evaluating the material being covered with the students ability to grasp the concepts being taught, I determine what, if any, adjustments to the Unit lesson plans need to occur.
Kris Gore Lesson
Plans
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Date=March 17-April 10, 2014
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8th English
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Common Core
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Monday
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Begin the Unit over “The Diary of Anne Frank—the play”
found in students Literature book p.
Follow the lesson plans on the link
laurieint/franklesson/lessonplans.html
for the next 3 weeks.
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W.8.1-10
RL.8.1-10
SL.8.1-6
L.8.1-6
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Tuesday
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Follow the lesson plans on the link
laurieint/franklesson/lessonplans.html
for the next 3 weeks.
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W.8.1-10
RL.8.1-10
SL.8.1-6
L.8.1-6
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Wednesday
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Follow the lesson plans on the link
laurieint/franklesson/lessonplans.html
for the next 3 weeks.
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W.8.1-10
RL.8.1-10
SL.8.1-6
L.8.1-6
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Thursday
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No School
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Friday
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No School
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