Author: Mrs. Jernigan

English – Week of May 14th

Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday SHORT CLASS – Students will take the Cycle 6 Test over persuasive techniques and affixes.

Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday LONG CLASS – Students will watch a film, based on a true story, about a 15-year-old boy named Simon Jackson, who uses the power of persuasion to try to convince the government to create a 2,500 square mile protected area for the Spirit Bear.

Friday – Students will learn background information for next week’s field trip.

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Parent Surveys

Please take a moment to complete the following surveys. Your input will help make POMS better next year!

Survey 1: Principal’s School Satisfaction Survey (this one is for Mrs. Graves)

Tell us what we are doing well, and what we need to improve.  Tell us what you think will improve teaching and learning for all our students. You can complete the Principal’s School Satisfaction Survey at:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3Z6NTK8

 

Survey 2: Community Health Needs Assessment (this one helps the District measure the needs of the POMS community)

Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is partnering with the Houston Endowment to conduct a needs assessment of the physical, social, and mental health of children enrolled in the Houston Independent School District.  This partnership will not only determine the health needs of children within HISD, but through voluntary participation allows us to measure the needs within the Pin Oak community.  The Pin Oak community is very diverse, and does not qualify for any Title I funding, although many of our children meet the requirements to qualify for the National Free and Reduced Lunch Program.  This survey will allow us to determine the types of services necessary to improve the health of our entire community.  The ultimate goal of this survey is to develop a strategic plan to address the identified needs of children in Houston. Please take time to complete this survey at:

(English) https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PinOakParents

(Spanish) https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PinOakParentsSpanish

English – Week of May 8th

***Students with one or more missing assignments as of Friday, May 12th at 3:30pm will not be permitted to watch student PSAs next week.

Monday – STAAR Math Testing, 5th and 1st – Students will film their PSAs.

Tuesday – STAAR Reading Testing, 6th and 2nd – Students will film their PSAs.

Wednesday – Cluster rotations (I-Station EOY), 7th and 3rd – Students will film their PSAs.

Thursday – Reading Response #2, IPC Placement Exam, Screenagers viewing, 8th and 4th – Students will film their PSAs.

Friday – Students will edit their PSAs and submit them for a grade.

EXTRA CREDIT – Two options available in my room, due Friday,May 12th. You may do one or both.

English – Week of May 1st

***It’s finally May! Make every assignment count and turn each one in on time!

***STAAR Reading Test is next Tuesday!

Monday/Tuesday – Students will conduct research to support their PSA topics.

Wednesday/Thursday – Students will write scripts for their PSA.

Friday – Students will rehearse the filming of their PSA.

EXTRA CREDIT – There are two extra credit options available. Students may complete one or both to earn up to 20 points of extra credit (10 points each). All extra credit must be turned in to me no later than Friday, May 12th.

English – Week of April 24th

**Progress Reports go home Friday, please get ALL MISSING WORK turned in ASAP!!

Monday/Tuesday – Students will determine the difference between PSAs and commercials. HW: Notice & Note bookmark #4, due 5/1-5/2

Wednesday/Thursday – Students will review how to determine if a print or online source is credible. HW: Notice & Note bookmark #4, due 5/1-5/2

Friday – Students will complete a topic proposal for a PSA. HW: Notice & Note bookmark #4, due 5/1-5/2

***EXTRA CREDIT will be available Friday!

Parent Chaperones Needed!

Parents, we are in need of a few more volunteers to chaperone our field trip on Thursday, May 25th! We will need you at Pin Oak at 8am (with your very own sack lunch and water bottle) to meet your fabulous chaperone group, and we will return before the school day is over by 3:30pm.

What’s in it for you? You will get to experience awesome historical, mathematical, and scientific discoveries throughout the day AND maybe even see a dolphin or two! You will get the opportunity to ride in the air-conditioned comfort of a Coach bus – no bumpy school buses, yay! And if that weren’t incentive enough, your child will get to pick his/her group of 10-11 friends for you to chaperone!

Please, please, please, contact Mrs. Coffman-Fujiwara or Mrs. Jernigan if you are available. We can’t make this trip a success WITHOUT you!!!

English – Week of April 10th

Monday/Tuesday – Students will take a quiz on persuasive techniques in print ads, analyze a persuasive article, and create a book of affixes. HW: Read 30 minutes and complete a Notice & Note bookmark, due 4/18-4/18

Wednesday/Thursday – Students will analyze persuasive techniques in commercials and create a book of affixes (due today). HW: Read 30 minutes and complete a Notice & Note bookmark, due 4/18-4/18

Friday – Student Holiday

English – Week of April 3rd

***Please turn in field trip permission slips and payment ASAP! Students who do not attend the field trip will be expected to complete a packet that addresses the learning objectives for the trip.

Monday/Tuesday – Students will learn persuasive terms and analyze persuasive texts. HW: Notice & Note Bookmark, due 4/10 & 4/11

Wednesday/Thursday – Students will learn about the elements of a print ad, analyze a print ad, and begin creating a print ad. HW: Notice & Note Bookmark, due 4/10 & 4/11

Friday – Students will create a print ad. HW: Notice & Note Bookmark, due 4/10 & 4/11

7C Field Trip Info

7C is taking a field trip to Galveston on the last day of school, Thursday, May 25th!

We will be touring the Elissa, OceanStar Oil Rig Museum, the Galveston Maritime Museum, viewing a historical film, and taking an ecological harbor tour. We will leave POMS at 8:30am, so do NOT be late to school! The cost for the field trip is $30 per student. Permission slips have been sent home with students and should be returned ASAP! We need chaperones!

If you are available, please contact Mrs. Jernigan or Mrs. Coffman-Fujiwara as soon as possible.

English – Week of March 27th

STAAR INFO: Students will take the STAAR Writing Test on Tuesday, March 28th. Students should remember to get a good night’s sleep and eat a protein-filled breakfast. Students may bring non-messy, quiet snacks (NO NUTS! We have several students with nut allergies!). After the test, students may sit quietly or read. NO electronic devices are allowed (tablets, e-readers, phones, smart watches)!

Monday – Students will review information for the STAAR Writing Test and participate in a book talk. HW: none

Tuesday – STAAR Writing Test – HW: none

Wednesday – Alternate Schedule due to 8th grade STAAR testing – Students will rotate through core classes. During the ELA rotation, students will complete Reading Response #2. HW: none

Thursday/Friday – Students will complete the No Red Ink post-test then have the opportunity to complete missing work and/or ReDos. HW: None

English – Week of March 6th

Monday/Tuesday – Students will write 11-minute essays and review comma rules. HW: Read 30 minutes and complete Notice & Note Bookmark, due 3/20-21

Wednesday/Thursday – Students will write an expository draft and review comma rules. HW: Read 30 minutes and complete Notice & Note Bookmark, due 3/20-21

Friday – Students will complete grammar practice using No Red Ink. HW: Read 30 minutes and complete Notice & Note Bookmark, due 3/20-21

EXTRA CREDIT (up to 10 points, due Friday, March 24th) – Have you ever experienced an art museum, ziplining, snowboarding, a waterfall,  eating sushi? If not, use your break to get out of the house and experience something NEW! After completing the NEW experience, write about it!

Paragraph one should explain what you chose to do and why you chose to try it. Paragraph two should explain how you completed the new experience and any problems you may have encountered. Paragraph three should explain what you learned from trying something new and/or why this experience was important to try.

English – Week of February 27th

Monday/Tuesday – Students will practice revising essays and review parallel structure in sentences. HW: Read 30 minutes and complete the Notice & Note bookmark, due March 6th & 7th

Wednesday/Thursday – Students will complete Notice & Note Reading Response #1 and review pronoun-antecent and subject-verb agreement. HW: Read 30 minutes and complete the Notice & Note bookmark, due March 6th & 7th

Friday – Students will complete grammar practice over the skills we have been studying and write a narrative journal entry. HW: Read 30 minutes and complete the Notice & Note bookmark, due March 6th & 7th

English – Week of February 20th

***No tutorials on Monday or Wednesday – I will be available after school TUESDAY this week!

***Do not forget to complete the STAAR Analysis and get it signed!

Monday/Tuesday – Students will brainstorm ideas for essays. HW: Read at least 30 minutes and fill out the Notice&Note bookmark

Wednesday – EARLY RELEASE Schedule

Thursday/Friday – Students will write introductions for essays. HW: Read at least 30 minutes and fill out the Notice&Note bookmark

English – Week of February 6th

***The end of the grading cycle is Friday. Have you turned in all of your missing work?

***Extra Credit is due Friday: theme-poster-extra-credit

Monday/Tuesday – Students will take the Cycle 4 Assessment over poetry and short stories. Students will begin working on a literary critique. HW: Find a book for Friday’s book check – FREE CHOICE FICTION

Wednesday/Thursday – Students will read the teleplay, Monsters are Due on Maple Street and finish the literary critique. HW: Find a book for Friday’s book check – FREE CHOICE FICTION

Friday – Students will have a book check then view the Twilight Zone version of MADOMS to compare and contrast the print and media versions. HW: None

English – Week of January 30th

Monday/Tuesday – Students will use the Notice & Note Signpost strategies to analyze various short stories. HW: Review literary terms for quiz

Wednesday/Thursday – Students will take a literary terms quiz and use the Notice & Note Signpost strategies to analyze various short stories. HW: STAAR practice #5

Friday – Students will use the Notice & Note Signpost strategies to analyze various short stories. HW: None

Extra Credit, up to 10 points available: theme-poster-extra-credit

 

English – Week of January 16th

**Literary Analysis Essay over novel-in-verse should be submitted through Google Docs on or before  Friday – Tuesday, January 24th. Students will have time in class to work on this, but they may work from home as well if they wish. Here is a written version of the requirements: poetry-directions

**Progress Reports go home next week. Please make sure all missing assignments are turned in ASAP!

Monday – Student Holiday

Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday – Students will continue to move through poetry stations to read and respond, write original poetry, and write a literary analysis essay over their novel-in-verse. HW: No Red Ink (preposition and appositive phrases) Quiz, due 1/20

English – Week of January 9th

Monday/Tuesday – Students will complete the IStation MOY then work through poetry stations. HW: No Red Ink Practice, due 1/16

Wednesday/Thursday – Students will work through poetry stations. HW: No Red Ink Practice, due 1/16

Friday – Students will work through poetry stations. HW: No Red Ink Practice, due 1/16

English – Week of January 2nd

Welcome Back! Students will receive an updated Cycle 3 progress report in class on Wednesday/Thursday. If there are any missing assignments or grade discrepancies, they must resolved ASAP.

Monday/Tuesday – Student Holiday

Wednesday/Thursday – Students will review how to find the speaker’s tone in poetry and analyze poetry using SAIDS. HW: Book check (novel-in-verse), due 1/9 & 1/10, and NRI phrases practice, due 1/16

Friday – Students will complete a literary terms pre-test and a STAAR Reading passage (students will be graded on process NOT product). HW: Book check (novel-in-verse), due 1/9 & 1/10, and NRI phrases practice, due 1/16

English – Week of November 14th

Monday/Tuesday – Students will compare and contrast a myth and a poem of the same myth. Students will review AMSND characters. HW: No Red Ink, due 11/18

Wednesday – EARLY RELEASE – ELA Games/missing assignments HW: No Red Ink, due 11/18

Thursday/Friday – Students will read Act II, Sc 1 of AMSND and complete conflict puzzles. HW: No Red Ink, due 11/18

EXTRA CREDIT will be available in class and on the blog November 21st.

English – Week of September 24th

**I have over 50 No-Name papers on my “No-Name Wall of Shame.” If an assignment was recorded as “MISSING” in the grade book, please come check my wall ASAP!

**I will be staying after school on MONDAY until 4:45p to help students with missing/ReDo/absent work. If you would rather come to TEAM time, please write “TEAM Jernigan” in your planner on the day you would like to come to my TEAM time and bring it to me for a signature.

**Progress Reports go home Tuesday. This is a change from what the planner says.

**ReDos for the Expository Final Draft are due no later than Friday, October 28th. Students will receive their Book Club meeting notes and partner “Say/Means/Matter” WS back on M/T this week. ReDos for these assignments need to be completed by 10/31.  Continue reading →

English – Week of October 10th

Monday/Thursday – Students will complete IRR #1, gallery walk expository text structures, and participate in book clubs. HW: Practice the list “POMS7 EXPOSITORY” on vocabulary.com (due 10/16) and read your IRB (IRR #2 is 10/26-10/27)

Tuesday – Color Run – **Alternate schedule and Early Release

Wednesday – Fall Holiday

Friday – Students will type an expository essay draft. HW: Practice the list “POMS7 EXPOSITORY” on vocabulary.com (due 10/16) and read your IRB (IRR #2 is 10/26-10/27)

Science – Week of October 10

Monday and Thursday: The students will be reading more about cell organelles and classification of organisms.  Once the graded assignments are submitted to Mrs. Kilday, the students will read and answer all questions on pages #418-#428.  Any unfinished work will need to be completed as homework that I will grade when I return from the Yellowstone trip on October 17th.

Friday:  The students will create a Cell Diagram booklet.

If you try to email me this week, there may be a delay in response due to limited coverage in Yellowstone National Park.  You may contact Mr. Merz, Mrs. Jernigan, or Ms. Ballard for assistance.

Enjoy your school holiday on Wednesday!

English – Week of October 3rd

Sorry for the late post – I have been trying to get all late/missing/absent/ReDos graded and in the online gradebook. As of 9p on Monday, October 3rd, all late/missing/absent/ReDos are updated in the gradebook EXCEPT for test corrections. Test corrections will be updated tomorrow. Also, I can’t seem to email progress reports from home, so they will be emailed tomorrow as well.

This is a new grading cycle, which means a fresh start. Students will receive a new cycle overview and grade sheet Wednesday/Thursday in class: cycle-two-grade-sheet     cycle-two-overview . This cycle is VERY short, so students need to keep up with assignments and turn them in ON TIME! Continue reading →

How can I raise my ELA grade?

Please accept my apologies as I anticipated entering the IRR grades and ReDos before I left today. However, my child was home sick, and I needed to head home shortly after school was out. Transporting composition books is not really an option, so the grades will be entered no later than 5pm on Monday. I did bring the IRB projects home with me, and they should be entered in the grade book (hopefully) by Sunday evening. Below are some weekend options if you are interested in improving your grade. Continue reading →