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  • ( ) Yes, I understand that I am responsible for HW assignments when absent.
  • ( ) Yes, I understand that if do not get my HW done I will no longer have laptop privileges and will need to schedule an assigned recess time slot from that point on to complete HW before due.
  • ( ) Yes, I understand that this year I need to bring my planner to class each week and if not, I may not be allowed to use a computer during class.
  • ( ) Yes, I understand that there is no "recreational use" of computers except with explicit permission.
  • ( ) Yes, I understand that I need to ask a teacher before I print.
  • ( ) Yes, I understand that "character is what you do when no one is watching" and that these same rules apply when I take a laptop to the porch.

2009-2010 Homework

8

Grade 8 due Wednesday 9/23 ... create your Google DOC account using the format of 10ABC and your "special word" ... Miss Jamie and I have a list of the special words .. your Google DOC must be informative and give info about the 3 words (CAPTCHA, ASCII and BINARY) ... use the GOOGLE feature to SHARE this document with me ... Mr. Bergen
Grade 8 due Wednesday 9/30 ... improve your Google Docs Web site that is based on one of your academic courses so that it has homework assignments, information from your teachers and at least 2 links and 2 pictures
Grade 8 due Wednesday 10/7 ... improve your Google Docs Web site that is based on one of your academic courses so that it has at least 3 links, 3 pictures and 3 paragraphs
Grade 8 due Wednesday 10/14 ... Smartboard notebook file to be saved in your HOME FOLDER
Grade 8 due Wednesday 10/28 ... start working with the teacher you have chosen and show him/her how to a) use Google Docs ... I will create a gstorefront.org account for the chosen teacher and the password will be 12345 until you instruct him/her how to change it
b) use 1 of the Smartboard Notebook gallery activities (middle column) on www.summercore.com/smartboard/
Maintain a journal on your Google Doc Website with one paragraph entry for each time you meet with your teacher
Grade 8 due Wednesday 11/4 ... add at least 1 paragraph and 1 digital picture to your Google Web site ... add a section called "Webly Wise" that contains a list of all the typos and writing mistakes you have found
Grade 8 due Wednesday 11/11
Grade 8 HW due 12/9: fix the Photoshop graphic you created so that it is good quality and satisfies specs (attribution, you and the famous person together) and also fix the bugs on your Web site as identied by the handout that we marked up

Grade 8 HW due 12/16: create a Photoshop graphic based on the Harlem Renaissance and your designated 7th grader. Specs are posted on the FAMOUS PEOPLE Web page at http://www.cstorefront.org/famous/
Grade 8 HW due 1//6/10: Create four paragraphs on your Google Web site for theblue benefit bookin Spring 2010 that answers these four questions

  1. Paragraph one: tell about your storefront career and your history here.
  2. Paragraph two: what was great about the experience? what was difficult? what did you learn? what was your biggest challenge here?
  3. Paragraph three: what you are looking forward to in high school and beyond? what are some of the goals you have for the next 5-10-15 years?
  4. Paragraph four: closing paragraph; what you want to wish to younger classmates and to students who will become graduates over the next 5-10 years
Below are samples from some graduates of the past

BJW* | BMW* | CAC* | DMD | DRA* | ELR* | HBJ | IAB* | JMM* | KCS | KDB | KEK | LDL | SAB* | SEW | TEJ


Blue Book Pages
  1. ATB
  2. CMH
  3. DEW
  4. DQR
  5. DMC
  6. EAJ
  7. EST
  8. JCR
  9. JJM
  10. JRS
  11. KIG
  12. MKH
  13. MOK
  14. NSHR
  15. SAM
  16. TLS
  17. TJS

    due Wed Jan 13th, 2010: Study for test. We reviewed test questions in class. Here is a link to the sample test questions. Click here
    Click here for the grade 8 answer sheet
    Grade 8 HW due Wed 2/3 ... Using the Web site of WORDLE which is now linked on our main site, create a graphic using vocabulary words for the one subject that your Google Web site is based on. The way that WORDLE works is that you can type in any long list of vocabulary words and it creates a graphic for you. The most important words can be entered 2 or 3 or 4 times each so that they stand out since WORDLE uses a bigger font size to indiciate how often the word appeared. You are required to create TWO wordle graphics and to add them to your Google Web site ... one is to be the actual paragraphs (via COPY and PASTE) of your blue book ... the other is based on vocabulary for your Google Web site course. Good luck! You will need to use APPLE-SHIFT-4 on a Mac or PRINT SCREEN on a PC in order to make the two jpegs before you upload to your Google Web site.
    Click here for a WORDLE sample.

    Grade 8 HW due Wed 2/10 ... Read the first chapter of the book INITIATION by Susan Fine which is on line here .... your HW for Wed 2/10 is to write a paragraph about this first chapter and connect it to your life in 3 specific ways.

    Grade 8 HW due Wed Feb 17 ... join the NING ... add your picture, answer the profile questions ... to access our NING, click
    here ... the URL is http://transitions2010.ning.com
    Grade 8 HW due Wed 3/3
    • a) find someone to interview (family member, friend, Storefront faculty member) who has gone through a significant transition in his/her life and who is willing to make an interview (speaking nice and loud and close to the camera please)
    • b) make a video of that person that is between 1 and 2 minutes long (yes you can borrow one of the flip cameras overnight) ... I will post it on the NING within 24 hours
    • c) type up a transcript of what the person says word for word after the video is made
    • d) post the transcript on your NING page and send it to me on email (both things must be done)
    A THIN LINE connects to the theme of transitions

    Regarding our Ning with Barker College

    SKYPE with the two English teachers from Australia, click here

    Homework March & April

    1) Read the entire book by May 1, reading at least 2 chapters per week
    2) Create ONE forum discussion question that is thoughtful and intelligent and bound to attract responses ... how to create a forum discussion question? look on the right side where it says QUICK ADD and choose DISCUSSION
    3) Choose TEN forum discussion questions and respond to them
    4) Send me (Mr. Bergen) one email by Friday 3/18 when we go on school vacation in which you tell me:
    a) "what one forum discussion question you created"
    b) what TEN forum discussion questions you chose to respond to and you copy/paste your exact response
    c) what page on the book you are up to in your reading ("please be honest")

    In Class on Wed March 17

    • Watch as a class on the smartboard the 4 video segments from our Australian friends: 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... this was attended by 3 boys and 1 girl from grade 8 so the majority of you have not met these students
    • write meaningful quality mini-paragraphs on the NING pages of EACH of the Australian boys ... at least 3 sentences on each one in which you do a little research on something they mention in their profile by GOOGLING in and getting smarter about the item
    • write a response to EACH of Ms. Fine's responses to EACH of the Storefront grade 8 video questions ... in other words, there are about 5-10 videos by grade 8 students asking Ms. Fine questions .. you need to read what she wrote and write at least ONE sentence of what you find interesting in her comment
    • make sure you have your HW done which is due by Friday (see above)
    • only after you tell Ms. Jamie you have completed everything can you have any free Web time ... Mr. Bergen (from jury duty)

    7

    Grade 7 due Thursday 9/17 ... twitter .. typing pal
    Grade 7 due Thursday 10/1 ... you need to improve your BINARY POWERPOINT on GOOGLE DOCS with your partner ... you should have at least 1 graphic, some text and a YouTube video from EACH person
    Grade 7 due Thursday 10/8 ... 5 Apples
    Grade 7 due Thursday 10/15 ... 5 more apples making 10
    Grade 7 due Thursday 10/22 ... 5 more apples making 15
    Grade 7 due Thursday 10/29 ... 5 more apples making 20
    Grade 7 due Thursday 11/5 .. no more typing pal for this week ... instead you need to create a VOICETHREAD project based on ONE of your academic courses ... www.voicethread.com

    Grade 7 due Thursday 11/12 ... pick one famous person from the Harlem Renaissance and create a Google Docs Presentation on him or her ... you must have exactly 3 pictures with attribution as to where the pictures are from ... you must have one YouTube video .. you may not have more than 3 pictures or more than 1 YouTube video

    Grade 7 due Thursday 11/19 : Add a fifth slide to your Google Presentation (first 4 slides involve 3 graphics and 1 video, all with attribution) ... the fifth slide needs to be text only telling the reader where

    • when he/she was born
    • where he/she was born
    • when he/she moved to Harlem
    • exactly where he/she lived in Harlem
    • when he/she died
    Practice attribution and indicate what Web site each fact came from!
    Grade 7: Due Thursday 12/10 ... do the research and answer the questions in your Wiki including using noodlebib for your bibliography
    Grade 7 Due Thursday 1/7 .... write polite and meaningful comments on the wiki pages of the students from Stoneleigh Burnham and Cathedral School
    Grade 7 Due Thursday 1/14 ... study for the test .. practice ...
    Grade 7 Due Thursday 1/28 ... VOICETHREAD ... boys only ... add 2 graphics ... 2 identities ... 2 audio recordings
    Click here for the grade 7 answer sheet
    Grade 7 Due Thursday 2/4 ... VOICETHREAD ... boys only ...add the following to your voicethread account:
    3 images of your famous person
    2 identities (one is you, the other is your famous person)
    3 voice recordings (one of which you are yourself asking questions to your partner's famous person)

    Grade 7 HW due Thurs Feb 18 ... HW is changed as I told you on the trip ... your new HW is to send an email to me (Mr. Bergen) in which you have TWO parts ... part one involves thanking Ms. Baru and Mr. Turner for hosting us and feeding us and for a wonderful day ... part two involves thanking Professor Turner and Ms. Davidson for their lectures on the Second Harlem Renaissance and including 3 specific things you found interesting from their talks ... click here to listen to the 30 minute talk

    Grade 7 HW due Thurs Feb 25 ... your HW is to send an email to me (Mr. Bergen) in which you have TWO parts ... part one involves thanking Ms. Jamie, Mr. Tymiek, Ms. Alison and Mr. Ryan for helping us with the BUILD project ... part two involves telling next year's 7th graders what you learned in the BUILD project, what each component does and what you liked about the 3 weeks

    Grade 7 HW due Thurs Mar 4 ... your HW is to get your Voicethread certified .. you must have at least 3 graphics on your voicethread and 3 voices including 1 using your Storefront identity icon which is spoken about and to the Harlem Renaissance person of your partner

    due March 9 and March 16 through Friday March 20 when we have Spring vacation ...The March Typing Olympics due by Spring vacation ... do as many Apples as you can ... the more you do the better your grade will be ... and if you practice with a napkin or cloth over your fingers, you will get M&Ms after lunch for that day!


    6

    Grade 6 due Tuesday 10/6 ... at least 10 Apples done
    Grade 6 due Tuesday 10/13 ... at least 15 Apples done
    Grade 6 due Tuesday 10/20 ... at least 20 Apples done
    Grade 6 due Tuesday 10/27 ... at least 25 Apples done
    From now on, use proper fingers or you will get caught by the Typing police
    Grade 6 due Tuesday 11/3 ... at least 35 Apples done
    Grade 6 due Tuesday 11/10 ... at least 40 Apples done
    Grade 6 due Tuesday 11/17 ... at least 45 Apples done
    Grade 6 due Tuesday 11/24 ... all Apples done
    x due Tuesday 12/8 (one day after Larry Bird's birthday) ... find a picture based on any item below and put it on your desktop using the RIGHT MOUSE (or control click trick) ... now make sure you get the URL and COPY it ... make sure you have the URL of the REAL PICTURE not the thumbnail ... now send an email to the CONFERENCE on First Class called GRADE6 PICTURES in which you
    • use the TOPIC for the SUBJECT
    • include the URL in the message
    • write one sentence as to what you find interesting about the picture
    • attach the picture (by dragging from the desktop to the top inch where your name is)
    Candace Cardwell on December 1, 2009 at 2:07 PM -0500 wrote: The 6th graders can find pictures of their Ancient Egyptian god or goddesses.

    Ms. Kuper on December 1, 2009 at 7:38 PM wrote: In Grade 6 LE, we recently read about the Statue of Liberty. We are going to read about the famous soccer player, Pele.

    Grade 6 due Tues 12/15 ... 15 Apples
    Grade 6 due Tuesday Jan 5th, 2010 ... do 10 more apples making at least 25 apples
    Grade 6 due Tuesday Jan 19th, 2010 ... do 5 more apples making 30 apples
    Grade 6 due Tuesday Jan 26th, 2010 ... do 5 more apples making 35 apples     Grade 6 due Tuesday Feb Feb 2, 2010 ... create a model of 1 of the 3 Storefront buildings or create something else that we could put onto 129th street using SKETCHUP which rhymes with KETCHUP ... you can do this with any 1 or 2 partners and show it to me so that I can check you off

    Grade 6 due Tues Feb 23 ... Google Presentaton on African diaspora due with 5 slides ... all text, pictures must include attribution which means you include the URL (Web address) on the slide whenever you take text, picture or video from a Web site

    Grade 6 due Tues Mar 2 ... Create a 5 slide Google Presentaton on PI ... all text, pictures must include attribution which means you include the URL (Web address) on the slide whenever you take text, picture or video from a Web site

    due March 9 and March 16 through Friday March 20 when we have Spring vacation ...The March Typing Olympics due by Spring vacation ... do as many Apples as you can ... the more you do the better your grade will be ... and if you practice with a napkin or cloth over your fingers, you will get M&Ms after lunch for that day!

    5

    Grade 5 due Tuesday 10/6 ... at least 15 Apples done
    Grade 5 due Tuesday 10/13 ... at least 20 Apples done and 5 benchmarks click here!
    Grade 5 due Tuesday 10/20 ... at least 25 Apples done
    Grade 5 due Tuesday 10/27 ... at least 30 Apples done
    From now on, use proper fingers or you will get caught by the Typing police
     Grade 5 due Tuesday 11/10 ... at least 35 Apples done
    Grade 5 due Tuesday 11/17 ... at least 45 Apples done
    Grade 5 due Tuesday 11/24 ... all Apples done
    Grade 5 due Tuesday 12/8 (one day after Larry Bird's birthday) ... find a picture based on any item below and put it on your desktop using the RIGHT MOUSE (or control click trick) ... now make sure you get the URL and COPY it ... make sure you have the URL of the REAL PICTURE not the thumbnail ... now send an email to the CONFERENCE on First Class called GRADE5 PICTURES in which you
    • use the TOPIC for the SUBJECT
    • include the URL in the message
    • write one sentence as to what you find interesting about the picture
    • attach the picture (by dragging from the desktop to the top inch where your name is) 
    Mr. Brown on December 1, 2009 at 9:03 AM  wrote:
Anything having to do with Central America for history. 
We also just read a story about Rosa Parks in English.

Ms. Kuper on December 1, 2009 at 7:38 PM wrote:
In 5th math, we are working on decimals and multiplication.

In Grade 5 LE, we recently read about the Statue of Liberty. 
We are going to read about the famous soccer player, Pele.

    Grade 5 due Tues 12/15 ... 15 Apples
    Grade 5 due Tuesday Jan 5th, 2010 ... do 10 more apples making at least 25 apples
    Grade 5 due Tuesday Jan 19th, 2010 ... do 5 more apples making 30 apples
    Grade 5 due Tuesday Jan 26th, 2010 ... do 5 more apples making 35 apples
     Grade 5 due Tuesday Feb 2 ... create a Web page the way we have demonstrated in class by opening your Web publishing folder and then creating a new document that you will eventually call INDEX.HTML ... it needs to have your initials (not name) and a sentence that says that you understand that your Web page can contain only information specified by your computer teacher ... you need to include 5 commands that you see below

    • <H1> and </H1> for the biggest size
    • <H6> and </H6> for the smallest size
    • <HR> for a horizontal line
    • <i> and </i> for italics
    • <font color=red> and </font> for changing color text (hundreds of colors to choose from) ... click here for a list of color names
    Grade 5 due Tuesday Feb 9 ... enhance your Web page a Web page so that you have an ORDERED LIST and an UNORDERED LIST ... the ordered list needs to contain your 5 favorite musicians (or famous people) in order ... the unordered list needs to contain 4 favorite foods
    • <UL> to begin an UNORDERED LIST
    • <OL> to begin an ORDERED LIST
    • </OL> to end an UNORDERED LIST
    • </OL> to end an UNORDERED LIST
    • <LI> for each item in the list regardless of ordered or unordered

    Grade 5 page Web pages

    13AMB | 13HAN | 13ANS | 13DTR | 13FTR | 13GZV | 13HJT | 13ISI | 13IKDJB | 13KLP | 13LKR | 13MEH | 13MAC | 13NAJW | 13RNP | 13TDM | 13TWT

    Grade 5 due Tues Feb 23 ... HTML on African diaspora .... 5 or more facts in an ordered or unordered list with attribution of what Web site each fact came from

    Grade 5 due March 2 ... create a GOOGLE DOC word processing document on what your class is doing for the Black History presentation. The paragraph must have at least 6 sentences with standard English. Use the spelling check and avoid typos. Make sure you use the SHARE feature to share with sbergen@gstorefront.org

    due March 9 and March 16 through Friday March 20 when we have Spring vacation ...The March Typing Olympics due by Spring vacation ... do as many Apples as you can ... the more you do the better your grade will be ... and if you practice with a napkin or cloth over your fingers, you will get M&Ms after lunch for that day!


    Click here to learn more about rubrics which are "guidelines for rating student performance."

    List of common writing mistakes

    1. alot should be a lot
    2. colums should be columns
    3. Complacated should be Complicated
    4. dinasours should be dinosoars
    5. her and her twin sister were born in Germany. should be she and her twin sister were born in Germany
    6. injoy should be enjoy
    7. jelousy should be jealousy
    8. jumpping should be Jumping
    9. knew should be new
    10. ment should be meant
    11. make shore should be make sure
    12. mine friends should be my friends
    13. she is none as the lady of soul should be she is known as the lady of soul
    14. your already living alone should be you're already living alone