Current homework from Mr. Bergen
Yes, you are responsible for HW assignments when absent!
Those of you who do not get your HW done will no longer have laptop privileges.
this page last updated: 5/15/08 ... REFRESH often!
Haiku Assignment given out 5/8 (Thursday) to Grade 8 due 5/15
You need to write a Haiku and post it on your Web page for next week 5/1
A haiku has 17 syllables in the pattern of 5 - 7 - 5 for each of the 3 lines
For extra credit, use this color chart
(click here) of "funky color names" and make each of the 17 syllables a different color!
Microsoft Word Assignment given out 5/7 (Wednesday) to Grade 8 due 5/14
You are to write a paper about your favorite musician or favorite music group or favorite song (later in May, we will be using garage band to post your text and a 30 second clip on the Web)
Here are the SPECS which you must follow
The paper must be "more than one page" ... this means it is fine if it is one page and even one or two lines
You should use quotes around every piece of information that you take from a Web site and must cite your source by including the URL ("the Web address") ... you MUST have at least 2 short quotes and MUST obey the rule of CAPIQ (commas and periods are inside quotes) ... you MUST have at least 2 long quotes (3 lines or more that are indented one inch on each side and single spaced
The paper must be double spaced using Arial 12 point as the font for both the text and the title
You must have two pictures, each to have a width and length that does not exceed 1 inch
You must use a header with your name centered and a footer with the page number centered
The file must be saved on your file server folder in HOME FOLDERS using our standard name agreement of May13JaneDoeMSpaper.doc or May12JohnDoeMSpaper.doc
Here are some guidelines you might find useful
You can write one pargraph about why you like this person
You can write another paragraph about what kind of music this person or group write
You can write another pargagraph about this person's life
Make sure you have two short and two long quotes. For example, a short quote would be:
I spoke to a friend who said "Bayje is cool." Notice that I have obeyed CAPIQ.
Microsoft Word Assignment given out 5/6 (Tuesday) to Grade 5 and 6 due 5/13
You are to write a paper about MS (multiple sclerosis) and the Boston Home
One paragraph might be about "what is multiple sclerosis? who gets it? what causes it? what does it result?
Another paragraph might be about The Boston Home and when it began? how many people there? who are some of the people? how physically challenged are they in terms of physical ability?
Another paragraph might be about MS around the world or the USA and what people are doing to solve the problem
Link to the Boston Home MS Web site ... click here
Link to pictures from the marathon walk that Miss Monica and I took in November 2007 to raise money for the Boston Home and The Children's Storefront ... click
here
Link to the Web pages of many of the Boston Home residents ... click here
Link to my personal page about MS and the various marathons I have been in ...
click here ... Mr. Bergen
You should use quotes around every piece of information that you take from a Web site and must cite your source by including the URL ("the Web address")
You must have two pictures, each to have a width and length that does not exceed 1 inch
You must make sure you obey the rule of CAPIQ with commas and periods are inside quotes
You must use a header with your name centered and a footer with the page number centered
The paper must be double spaced using Arial 12 point as the font for both the text and the title
The paper must be "more than one page" ... this means it is fine if it is one page and even one or two lines
The file must be saved on your file server folder in HOME FOLDERS using our standard name agreement of May13JaneDoeMSpaper.doc or May12JohnDoeMSpaper.doc
Web Assignment given out 5/1 (Thursday) to Grade 7 due by 5/8
Continue working on Typing Pal, completing at least 5 Apples more than previously (you should be at least at 10 by 5/8
Write a thoughtful meaningful comment for each poem written and posted by Bill Ivey's students
Microsoft Word Assignment given out 4/29 (Tuesday) to Grade 5 and 6 and on 5/15 (Thursday) to be completed by 5/22 (Thursday>
Click here for what it will look like when done, but you do not have to make it look like two pages the way you see here
How to follow the rule of CAPIQ? (make sure commas and periods are inside the
quotes)
How to create the pargraphs? (use the RETURN/ENTER button and then push TAB just once if needed to bump the first line over)
How to add a header and footer? (under the VIEW menu, the feature called HEADER and FOOTER will allow you to put your name centered in the HEADER and put the page number -- looks like # -- in the FOOTER)
How to change all instances of two spaces to one? (using FIND or REPLACE under the EDIT menu will allow you to changes all occurrences of "two spaces" to be "one space")
How to add graphics and make sure they do not exceed one inch? (by going to GOOGLE them IMAGES you can easily find your picture and then "drag it" from the Web into your Microsoft Word document; then you click on the picture and choose under the FORMAT menu to format the picture using SIZE to make either the width or length be 1")
How to make text wrap around graphics? (again, choose to FORMAT the PICTURE and then choose LAYOUT to make a TIGHT fit) ... this same skill is need to FORMAT a TEXT BOX (below)
How to include a caption in a TEXT BOX in 6 point for your Web site? (make sure you COPY the URL of where you got the graphic; then in Microsoft Word, choose INSERT then TEXTBOX and now click the cursor and you can type, pasting in the URL of where you got the graphic) ... yes the TEXT BOX must be in 6 point font size
The file name needs to be in the standard format, e.g. if you do it on April 29th and your name is Hulk Hogan, then it will be April29HulkHoganPaper.doc ... or if you do it on May 2nd and your name is Jane Doe, then it will be May2JaneDoePaper.doc
Microsoft Word Assignment given out 4/30 Wed to Grade 8 and to Grade 7 on Thursday
Click here for the text for grade 7 and 8 that contains the two long quotes that need to be indented one inch on each side
Well, six white horses that you did promise Were fin'ly delivered down to the penitentiary But to live outside the law, you must be honest I know you always say that you agree But where are you tonight, sweet Marie ?
If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first."
You may find the tips above to be useful, but you do not have to make it look like two pages the way you see here
Web Assignment for Grade 7 given out 4/17 and due by 4/24 (Thursday)
Each of the three words in your tritina poem that you did for last week needs to now be an interesting color using the wonderful collection of color names posted at this Web site or color codes posted
here
For example: either <font color=salmon>this</font>
or <font color=#FA8072>perhaps this</font>
will get you this salmon color for one of your tritina words
Mr. Ivey's students' poems (which you heard on video conferencing) will soon be online
You need to write a new poem on any topic you wish with 8 lines or more that you post on the bottom of your Web page ... you will be reading this NEW poem on video conferencing to the girls at Stoneleigh Burnham school ... it does need to be a cinquain poem or acrostic poem
Spreadsheet Assignment for Grades 5 & 6 given out 4/15 and due by 4/22 (Tuesday)
Spreadsheet Assignment for Grade 8 given out 4/16 and due by 4/23 (Tuesday)
Pick any data from one of your current Storefront classes
Type it onto an Excel spreadsheet the way we did with the one of "teams and wins" -- all you need is about 5 categories and 5 numbers
Make sure you do not skip rows or columns ... all the data must be contiguous which means no gaps and no blank rows or blank columns
Make sure you have titles at the top, the way we did with "teams and wins"
Make sure you do not put words in the second column, i.e. do not write any words when putting in the numbers; Excel knows when you type numbers and flushes them to the right
You need to have one cell contain a mini-paragraph of your writing in which you explain to the reader where the data is from, what it means, why you chose it and what the graph shows. This mini-paragraph (several sentences) needs to use the WRAP feature that we learned in class! You type the 1 or 2 sentences into one cell and then after pushing RETURN or ENTER you choose FORMAT then CELLS then ALIGNMENT then WRAP TEXT ... click here for menu steps
Click here for a sample
by Hulk Hogan; make sure you save this in your HOME FOLDER on the file server using the standard Storefront file name!
OLD HOMEWORK BELOW
Poetry Assignment for Grade 7 given out 4/10 and due by 4/17 (Thursday)
You will be writing a 10 line poem called a TRITINA which was used by Marie Ponsot in her book The Bird Catcher
You can find a link to seeing a sample by clicking here
Your poem needs to be on your IVEY Web page
You can choose your 3 words that you want
The first 3 lines of your poem will end with each of those 3 words
The second 3 lines will do the same but in a different order
The third 3 lines will do the same but in a different order
Your tenth line will be one sentence that uses all three words
Here are two samples from a previous year ... click here or ... click here
Save your file in your file server folder using the format of April1LarryPhotoshop.jpg or April3HulkPhotohsop.jpg using your name and the current date with no spaces
List of common writing mistakes
alot should be a lot
colums should be columns
Complacated should be Complicated
dinasours should be dinosoars
her and her twin sister were born in Germany. should be she and her twin sister were born in Germany
jelousy should be jealousy
jumpping should be Jumping
make shore should be make sure
she is none as the lady of soul should be she is known as the lady of soul
your already living alone should be you're already living alone
Sample Text used for teaching the week of 4/28-5/1 ... click here for use with Microsoft Word practice skills
Copy and paste it into Microsoft Word
Make it into 5 paragraphs using aaa, bbb, etc. as the start of each paragraph
Center the title
Make the paper be double spaced
Change the font to Arial 12 point
Put your name centered into the header
Put the page number centered into the footer
Change every occurrence of "two spaces" into "one space"
Add a graphic and change its size so that it does not exceed 1 inch height or 1 inch width
Configure the text so that words wrap around it
Change the document to be two columns with a vertical line down the middle of each page
