Track Santa!!

Hello Boys and Girls,

I'm sure that all of you will be diligently checking in to Mr. P's Blog over X-mas break (ahem . . . ), and for those who do, you may want to check on Santa's progress on Christmas Eve!

NORAD is the bi-national U.S.-Canadian military organization responsible for the aerospace and maritime defense of the United States and Canada. As part of their responsibilities to our nation, NORAD tracks Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. You may visit NORAD's link which follows to do so.

Here it is: http://www.noradsanta.org/

Have a wonderful holiday!

-Mr. P

school

im not going to school tomorrow, i threw up after i left school today.. it was pretty gay...

Hi Mr.P I hope you like the snow today. I do because i play with the snow the only thing that i don't like is when its cold.

i hate how i gatta watch the same movies i did last year and i have to do all the same work that i also did last year basically i have repeated 7th grade all over again even though im in 8th grade aint that lame

$am$ blogg3r

http://califas2m3xico.blogspot.com/

demarcus blog link

http://l-townallday-westside.blogspot.com/

christmas

Mr.P i hope you have a nice Christmas with your family. I m going to see my aunt in this Christmas because she is coming from North Carolina. Is like 4 years i haven't see her. Have a nice Christmas.

Yesterday

at the end of the day alot of things happen but justin didnt get writin up im surprise because his review to go back to his home school today i think he is goin back but i dout it though

Today

in the gym was talkin to my friends and then i forgot my id at home so i had to buy another one other i forgot my yesterday but whatever i think today is goin to be a good day

today we didn't watch the movie because. The high school are watching it

aye why do you have a WALKING FROG on your page hahahahahahahahahahahaha

you should hand out more extra credit in class cause some people need to get up their grades expecially me

we havent been getting alot of free time we should have more to get out some energy or something

YOU HAVE BEEN GIVING TO MUCH WORK AND IT HAS BEEN GETTING HARDER TO DO LATLEY YOU SHOULD CUT DOWN ON THE WORK OR ATLEAST MAKE IT EASIER

aYE WHEN ITS COLD IN THE ROOM YOU SHOULD LET US WEAROUR SWEATERS CUZ ITS ALWAYS COLD IN YOUR ROOM AND IN MRS GLEISMENS CLASS

aye u listed basicly all your favorite books as dr seus hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahqhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahzahaha hey count this one

AYE THIS BLOGGER THING IS ACUALLY PRETTY COOL AND I AINT JUST SAYIN STUFF JUST TO GET POINT WAIT I AM HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

YOUR A COOL TACHER

i dont like our dress code we have this year its lame we shu atleast be able to wear jeans or have our shirts untucked

your class is really cool ill miss it if i can go back on my review

its cool how we can use blogger as extra credit it helps alot with my grades

i like how we can play board games on our free time thats cool

aye i think that is cool how we can talk and some times mess around in class
its real fun and your cool for joining in some times

i like how were able to use the computers sometimes it realy helps out with our grades

i like how we get some free time during the day it helps calm everyone down afterwards

i dont like all the christmas music we have been listening to their anoying

i dont like all the christmas packets that we have been doing in class

School

In School i was laughin hard as h e double hockey sticks it was funny in class and im leavin this school in january and im goin to miss the good times i had when i was here but justin burde is one crAZY person i swear to god and dARBY to.

Gym

we did relay races and then we played basketball

Advisory

we went up to the computer lab to make our own blogs

Math

in math we had to do a test. most of the people didnt do it though

DUUUDEE!!

What race (races) r u from?

i dont know...

we is be loggin off now

डर्बी

http://darby1995.blogspot.com/

Whats up mr. p?

brian's blog

http://brianwenis.blogspot.com/

diana
http://diany12345.blogspot.com/

jake's blog

http://jake-gordon.blogspot.com/

mikes blog

http://stoptakingmyurlstupidppl.blogspot.com/ do i get extra credit?

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bored

yay extra credit

work

today I'm going to finish my work in mr. p's class

yesterday i was playing with the snow outside my house because it was boring inside doing nothing

MR.P i dont like to blog cause most of the time i dont know what to write

blogging

i think that the blogging is cool and is very helpful to gain extra credit thanks for it.

Florida

Today i'm going to florida for my aunt's graudation from college and im soooooooooooooo happy to go so i can get some time outta school but its gonna be fun

chairs

i thimk that the chair schedule u nhave made up is really cool and it works and prevents alot of argueing and fighting in the class room .

govener arested

ok i thimk we are doing cool papers on the govener getting arestsed .

heyyyyy!=] lol yeaa yesterday me;demacrus,and my friend and his girlfriend lupita were on the phone talking for about an hour.lupita was unpacking her stuff from boxes since she just moved.demarcus was watching the dark night and eating m&m's. i was just straighting my hair watching a double shot of love with the ikki twins.we were talking about school and about ather stuff.then lupita metioned cristina,brandy,caroline lol i intruduced them to her but i didnt remember hahaha but anyways thats what i did yesterday and a whole lot of other days.but its fun talking to them =]

i like to play soccer because im good on it. Also when i was yonger i played soccer with my friends. Soccer is my favorite sport

Advisory

we went to the computer lab

Yesterday When My Mom Came Home

My mom walk through the door and she was holding a Wendy's bag and a Best Buy bag so I'm wondering did she already get my christmas gifts i wanted so when i look in the bag it was DARK KNIGHT i was so happy cause everybody told me that the moive was good so i wanted for christmas so i watched.

Math

in math we had to do a study guide for our test in a few days i finished it in class though

today i finish all my work and my grades went up

English

today in english we played connect 4 =P

With Ms.Freeman

I was with Ms.Freeman and we was talking about if I go back to promise to come back and see her and that i have to be good till i my review on january 6 good luck to me

Math

In math we did a crossword puzzle it was hard but i still got it done then we was study for our test on friday.

Reading

In Reading we did a paper on our governer that just got arrested for stealing and threatening peoople

T0day I'm going to do all my missing work for all my classes

Today in math

today in math we had a big picture of a mansion and we had to find stuff in it. after that, we were talking about mean median mode and range.

Reading

today in reading we had to write an essay about domestic abuse. one classmate tried to turn in a bunch of scribbles on a piece of paper, the teacher didnt accept it and the student got mad. he was sent upstairs to work on it. i turned my essay in on friday though so i got to play games =]

Social Studies

In SS we were reading about Hitler and one of my classmates didnt know who he was but she did but she just knew he was a bad guy so we explained it to her she was like "he is so mean for killing all those people because they didnt look like him".

With Ms.Freeman

When i was with Ms.Freeman we were talking about how i been good for 2 months with no write ups and then my cousin will came down to her office cause he was mad and when he was leaning back in his he fell it was so funny.

Math

In math we were learning about mean range mode all that stuff and i know that stuff very well i know it by memory.

Advisory

In advisory Mr.P was tellin us about how he went to the bears game and son gave a homeless kid some gloves

Gym

In gym today we played volleyball and today was are last day playing volleyball cause its the last day of the quater for volleyball and it was so funny playing today.

Today

In Social Studies we took a test on the Chapter 22 review and I know I did very well on it.

i tok a test

the test was 2 hard Mr.p think i didn't pas this test

Today In Advisory

Mr.P let us play games in advisory and i did a puzzle of the U.S

Today in Social Studies

In Social Studies there was a disagreement with two classmates. But both of them said sorry and now were back to normal.

Today in Lunch

In Lunch Kevin got mad cause somebody took his chips and he got mad and had to sit in the front of the lunchroom.

In Gym

Today I taught Samuel Cruz how to shoot the ball correctly in basketball.

In Science Today

In science today we were doing bar graphs for our rocket launchers from last week.

Today in Math Class

Up in Math class today we were talking about stock market about putting money in the stock.I was thinking about working for Nike the company when I get out of College.

December 4, 2008

Today in class my classmates and I had to write a poem on angry and I think we did very well today in class no writes up or nothing we did good today.

I'm Passing All My Classes

I bring up all my grades in all my classes and I'm leaving Partners 4 success in January

Drangonball Z Burst Limit

Today we are talking about relationship and how we can have a healthy relationship.

AJF 20

Its these raw jordans thats coming out in 2weeks im going to get them

I like this class because we have to draw pictures.And I like to draw.

ILLINOIS INDIANS ARE VERY INTERESTING!

turtleeeeeeeee!

i did i rock in school that i painted in class it is a turtle with blue eyes and blonde hair!

advortisment

i did my addvertisment on muscle cars and i have three pictures of muscle cars.... 2 1967 gto's and a hemi baracuda.

obama

obamaaaaaaaaaa is the president thats cool lkdbfbwd blah blah blah im bored ..

Planned Assignments for This Week

Hi all. Here are the planned assignments for this week. I will try to get through everything on the days indicated; however, as usual, I typically "overplan," so we don't follow the schedule exactly. Thanks for reading this!

Monday

§ Collect poetry graphic organizers
§ Collect two current events worksheets
§ Discuss Emily Dickinson biographical information
§ Read and Discuss these Emily Dickinson Poems: Dying( I heard a fly buzz when I died); Because I could not stop for Death; I hide myself within my flower
§ Distribute and work on Dickinson graphic organizer
§ Study vocabulary words/create flashcards

Tuesday

§ Vocabulary Quiz
§ Collect Dickinson graphic organizer
§ Review Dickinson
§ Discuss Walt Whitman biographical information
§ Read and discuss these Whitman poems: A Noiseless, Patient Spider; Beat! Beat! Drums!; In Paths UntroddenDistribute and work on Whitman graphic organizer

Wednesday

§ Whitman & Dickinson Classroom Learning Centers (Listening & responding, interpretive art, reading and interpreting, writing poetry)

Thursday

§ Whitman & Dickinson Classroom Learning Centers (Listening & responding, interpretive art, reading and interpreting, writing poetry)

Friday

§ Whitman & Dickinson Classroom Learning Centers (Listening & responding, interpretive art, reading and interpreting, writing poetry)

Barback Obama

Yeah Barack won the election and he bout to change the world forever. Barack is the first African American president and i hope he make this country proud.

I think we should go to a field trip to like going camping for the weekend. I think it would be fun if we go as a class or the whole middle school.

obama

I think he is a good president for our country. He will do some changes for us because he is the first African American president. He also want to lower the taxes. I like him because he likes Mexicans and black people. Also, he is not racist.

Parent-Teacher Conferences

Thank you to all parents and students who have come to parent-teacher conferences. This is an extremely important event to support our kids. Remember that anytime you want to know what is going on at school, you may log onto this weblog, call Mr. Poignant, or send an e-mail. Thank you!

Sincerely,

Dean Poignant

Clarification on Incident Report Policies

Dear Students and Parents,

After school today there was a meeting among Mr. Bibbs, Dean Daniels, Ms. Freeman, Mrs. Morrow, Mrs. Gliesmann, and me. At this meeting we discussed many things, including discipline and the fact that students are often asked to change their behavior several times, and these reasonable requests often are ignored. Therefore, this is our policy:

If a teacher asks a student to change his/her behavior or to stop certain behavior and the teacher has to repeat the request one or more times, the teacher will be writing an incident report for insubordination, and this will be forwarded to Dean Daniels.

In other words, if students have to be asked twice to do something or to stop a behavior, you will be written up. I am hopeful that teachers will not have to be writing up many kids, especially since we have all had such a great couple of weeks. If you have any questions, please ask.

Also, we will be discussing this in class tomorrow.

Sincerely,

Mr. Poignant

Language Arts Assignments for November 3 through 7

Hello everybody! I hope you had a great Halloween weekend. I took my kids back "home" to trick-or-treat Friday after school; saw a high school playoff game in Metamora on Saturday; had we had a bonfire at myparents' house. Then we came back to Chi Town on Saturday night. On Sunday my kids had a playoff football game which we lost. Booh! Oh well, this is what we will cover this week in language arts:

Monday

We will:

§ Discuss Tone, Mood and Setting
§ Watch Tell Tale Heart video on YouTube
§ Read Poe’s Tell Tale Heart aloud in class

Tuesday

We will:

§ Finish reading Tell Tale Heart aloud in class and discuss
§ Continue Whitman and Dickinson poetry discussion from last week.
§ Read and discuss these Whitman poems: A Noiseless, Patient Spider; Beat! Beat! Drums!; In Paths Untrodden

Wednesday

We will:
§ Discuss Whitman poetry from Tuesday
§ Read and Discuss these Emily Dickinson Poems: Dying( I heard a fly buzz when I died); Because I could not stop for Death; I hide myself within my flower

§ Discuss the styles of Whitman and Dickinson

Thursday

We will:

§ Revisit Whitman and Dickinson poems, and tie into music
§ Discuss music and poetry
§ Distribute bio information on Maya Angelou, Queen Latifah, and Lauryn Hill, and discuss
§ Read and discuss Angelou’s essay “They Came to Stay
§ Read and discuss Angelou’s “Still I Rise”

Friday

We Will:

§ Play Latifah’s Come Into My House” two or three times, and distribute lyrics
§ Discuss image of black women found in Queen Latifah’s song. Can students identify the similarity of theme with that of the poem? Can they find an example of sampling? Of call and response? Can the rhythm be clapped

§ Play “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” and distribute the lyrics. Have students discuss thematic similarities.

Social Studies Assignments for October 27-31

Class, here is my plan for the week. Of course, it may change, depending upon what we get covered. As you know, I tend to over plan!

Monday

§ Show Obama You Tube debate videos
§ Look at current presidential news off Internet
§ Discuss Obama ads off You Tube videos, and compare to McCain ads that we saw last week
§ Discuss Election, based upon on-line news

Tuesday

§ Look at current presidential news off Internet (continued)
§ Discuss Election progress, based upon on-line news (continued)
§ Distribute worksheet on presidential campaign/election process

Wednesday

§ Discuss voting qualifications in Illinois and election process
§ Electoral College

Thursday

§ Discuss voting qualifications in Illinois and election process (continued)
§ Electoral College
§ Discuss 2004 election – popular vote vs. electoral college
§ Introduce campaign slogans and slurs

Friday

§ Happy Halloween!!!!
§ Campaign slogans and slurs (continued)
§ Look at current presidential news off Internet
§ Presidents with Illinois connections
§ Lincoln Grant, Reagan
§ Chicago Politics

Language Arts Assignments for October 27-31

Class, here is my plan for the week. Of course, it may change, depending upon what we get covered. As you know, I tend to over plan!

Monday

§ Adverb PowerPoint Writing Activity
§ Poetry PowerPoint in class
§ Introduce poetry terms of end rhyme, assonance, alliteration, symbolism, and metaphor
§ Work on Autumn leaf poems
§ Assign students to write two more poems utilizing poetry terms learned in class

Tuesday

§ Introduce Walt Whitman & Emily Dickinson
§ Assign students to read poems by Whitman & Dickinson as homework
§ Read in class

Wednesday

§ Discuss Whitman & Dickinson poems, including poetry devices
§ Introduce Maya Angelou, Queen Latifah and Lauryn Hill.

Thursday

§ Research biographies of Maya Angelou, Queen Latifah and Lauryn Hill in computer lab

Friday

§ Happy Halloween!!!!
§ Distribute additional handouts on Maya Angelou, Queen Latifah, and Lauryn Hill
§ Discuss Maya Angelou, Queen Latifah and Lauryn Hill
§ Encourage discussion of rap music and its lyrics to set guidelines for what will be acceptable o share in the classroom
§ Distribute copies of Angelou’s essay “They Came to Stay.” Read the essay together and discuss the images of black women that Angelou presents. What negative images is she trying to counter? From where do these negative stereotypes come?

Remember That Your Two Poems Are Due Monday

Remember that your two autumn poems are due Monday!

- Mr. Poignant

Sam is here!

Hi,

Have a great weekend everybody!!

hey

Friday, October 17 Assignments

6th Grade Language Arts – Bellringer Powerpoint #22. Read Frindle in class. No homework.

7th Grade Language Arts – Bellringer Powerpoint #22. Finish cartoons. Work on Cartoons in class. Vocabulary worksheets. Complete one page on graphic novel/cartoon assignment as homework. Due Monday.

8th Grade Language Arts – Bellringer Powerpoint #22. Vocabulary worksheets. In class.

8h Grade Social Studies – Current events worksheets. In class. Finish PowerPoint at library if needed.

Thursday October 16 Assignments

6th Grade Language Arts – Bellringer Powerpoint #21 - in class. Frindle “new” vocabulary words - in class. No homework.

7th Grade Language Arts - Bellringer Powerpoint #21. Finish reading Iron West and work on cartoon using plot graphic organizer. To be done in class. No homework.

8th Grade Language Arts – Bellringer Powerpoint #21 - in class. Collect outline on “Why go to School.” Nouns Packet - will work on in class.

8h Grade Social Studies – Finish PowerPoints - in class. No homework.