Monthly Archives: February 2017

Wednesday February 22nd, 2017

Good Morning,

We will continue to read our novel “If I Should Die Before I Wake”….we are now on chapter 14, page 151.

TWENTY ONE PILOTS LYRICS

“Stressed Out”

I wish I found some better sounds no one’s ever heard,
I wish I had a better voice that sang some better words,
I wish I found some chords in an order that is new,
I wish I didn’t have to rhyme every time I sang,I was told when I get older all my fears would shrink,
But now I’m insecure and I care what people think.My name’s ‘Blurryface’ and I care what you think.
My name’s ‘Blurryface’ and I care what you think.Wish we could turn back time, to the good ol’ days,
When our momma sang us to sleep but now we’re stressed out (oh).
Wish we could turn back time (oh), to the good ol’ days (oh),
When our momma sang us to sleep but now we’re stressed out.We’re stressed out.

Sometimes a certain smell will take me back to when I was young,
How come I’m never able to identify where it’s coming from,
I’d make a candle out of it if I ever found it,
Try to sell it, never sell out of it, I’d probably only sell one,

It’d be to my brother, ’cause we have the same nose,
Same clothes homegrown a stone’s throw from a creek we used to roam,
But it would remind us of when nothing really mattered,
Out of student loans and treehouse homes we all would take the latter.

My name’s ‘Blurryface’ and I care what you think.
My name’s ‘Blurryface’ and I care what you think.

Wish we could turn back time, to the good ol’ days,
When our momma sang us to sleep but now we’re stressed out (oh).
Wish we could turn back time (oh), to the good ol’ days (oh),
When our momma sang us to sleep but now we’re stressed out.

We used to play pretend, give each other different names,
We would build a rocket ship and then we’d fly it far away,
Used to dream of outer space but now they’re laughing at our face,
Saying, “Wake up, you need to make money.”
Yo.

We used to play pretend, give each other different names,
We would build a rocket ship and then we’d fly it far away,
Used to dream of outer space but now they’re laughing at our face,
Saying, “Wake up, you need to make money.”
Yo.

Wish we could turn back time, to the good ol’ days,
When our momma sang us to sleep but now we’re stressed out (oh)
Wish we could turn back time (oh), to the good ol’ days (oh),
When our momma sang us to sleep but now we’re stressed out.

Used to play pretend, used to play pretend, bunny
We used to play pretend, wake up, you need the money
Used to play pretend, used to play pretend, bunny
We used to play pretend, wake up, you need the money
We used to play pretend, give each other different names,
We would build a rocket ship and then we’d fly it far away,
Used to dream of outer space but now they’re laughing at our face,
Saying, “Wake up, you need to make money.”
Yo.

5 Tips for Helping Teens Cope With Stress

-We will go over the questions for “The Monkey’s Paw”.

Short story summary…we will do as a class

Short Story Summary Sheet-1125p28

Monday February 20th, 2017

Good Morning,

We will continue to read another chapter of “If I Shall Die Before I Wake”.  We are now on chapter 11.

Stress and High School Why Teems Feel Stress About High School

Bill Gates Foundation Annual Letter 2017

-We  started to read “The Monkey’s Paw” last week.

  1. If you could make three wishes, what would they be?
  2. Once you have made your wishes…how could you see your wishes go “wrong”?
  3. We will finish reading the short story
  4. We will work on the work pack attached to the story…

Wednesday February 15th, 2017

Good Morning,

We will continue to read our novel “If I Should Wake Before I Die”.  We are now on Chapter 10.

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Anxiety or Aggression? When Anxiety in Children Looks Like Anger, Tantrums, or Meltdowns

-We will go over our short story summary for “Long Long After School”.

-We will start to read “The Monkey’s Paw”….

The Monkey’s Paw

 

 

Friday February 10th, 2017

Good Morning!

-We will continue to read our novel “If I Should Wake Before I Die”.  We are now on chapter 8

I want to share a link to you…connected to our discussions on what is means to be human….

It Seems to Me: What young women may not know

 

-We are continuing with our work on the short story “Long Long After School”.  Yesterday we read the short story….and started to work on Questions pertaining to this story.

Long Long After School

Long Long After School content and literary questions

Short Story Summary Sheet

*I would like you to continue to work on the short story summary sheet.  This is applying the short story terms we have learned to the short story.

*We should have time to go over the questions on the story.