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Websites

Pre-Reading

 

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

I wish you all a safe, relaxing, and fantastic Christmas holiday!  You have no homework...unless we have made a special arrangement.  I want you to enjoy the time you get to spend with your friends and family this holiday season.  See you in January!

Bibliography

To avoid plagiarism and create a bibliography, use the following link to help you cite your sources:

http://www.easybib.com/cite/view

Follow these steps:

1. Select the "website", "book", "newspaper", or "all 59 options" tab depending on where you found your information.

2. Enter keywords, and select the green "cite this".  If you do not get a citation, then select the "manual entry" tab.

 

3.  Enter all of the required information, and select the blue "create citation" at the bottom of the page.

4.  Copy and paste the citation into a Microsoft Word document.

5.  Make sure the title of your Microsoft Word document is "Bibliography" in size 12 Times New Roman font, centred at the top of the page.

6.  Save and print your work!

 

Here is an example:

Bibliography

Field, Rachel. "And the Place Thereof." Poem Hunter. Poem Hunter, 7 Sept. 2010. Web. 13 Nov.  2013.

Silverstein, Shel. A Light in the Attic. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1981. Print.

"Welcome to Maya Angelou’s Official Site." Maya Angelou. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2013.

 

Timelines

We began to explore the history of human civilizations, and we created timelines to represent what we have learned.

Cell Theory Newspaper Articles

We wrote newspaper articles to describe how different scientists and technologies have contributed to the discovery of cells and the cell theory.  The scientists we have been studying are:  Robert Hooke, Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, Theodor Schwann, Matthias Schleiden, and Rudolf Virchow. 

Poetry

Websites

Teen Ink
Poets.org
Poem Hunter
Poetry.com

We updated our bulletin board throughout our poetry unit with poems we love.  Some are poems we found at the library or online, and others are poems we wrote.

8MF Classroom Belief Statement

 

8MF worked as a class to brainstorm ideas of what we believe is important in order to have a successful class this year.  Together we put together our belief statement (as shown above).  We all signed this belief statement to say that we agree to do our best to follow these beliefs throughout the school year.

 

8MF believes:

• in treating everyone with respect, including them in activities, and being a friend.
• in the importance of being responsible, organized, and participating in activities.
• in being happy and having fun!

 

We also made character building posters, which we will keep in our classroom all year long to remind us of the qualities it takes to have good character.