Mr. G the date for our Japan project is March 12 or 13.

Thanks

Homework

Social Studies Project
-Make sure you are building a solid persuasive argument for your part of the debate as well as preparing for your Japan topic.

Enjoy your day off school!

Baseball is the Best Team Sport

 

Baseball is the best team sport because everyone has to do their job or else the game won’t flow properly, and everyone uses their own unique talent to contribute their part for the team. For example, if your teammates didn’t work together it would be harder to advance the ball to where you wanted it to go.

In baseball, the players usually specialize in a position and have different qualities that can help the team win.  For example, the pitcher has to throw the ball in different ways to increase his or her chance of getting it passed the batter.

In baseball you have to have 9 players to fill the positions on the field, and if you don’t, you won’t move the ball as fast as you usually would with 9, which would increase your chance of losing.

Basketball, soccer, and hockey are all team sports but in hockey and the other sports I listed you can take the ball/puck the whole way up the field/court. In baseball you can’t run with the ball and chase the other team around, so you have to relay it around to get the ball to the teammate closest to the opponent to get them out. And that’s how I know that baseball is the best team sport.

-Benny

Question for Persuasion Maps

Hi Mr. G,

I was wondering if instead of "baseball is not the best team sport to play" I could do: "Basketball [or any other sport] is better than baseball".

Please answer in the comment box.
PLEASE COMMENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!

From,
Shak

Homework

Hey all,
It's Jonah. I was not here for the afternoon. Can someomne in 6A tell me what I missed in Mr. Gelmon's afternoon class and Mr. Lee afternoon class?

PLEASE COMMENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!!!!!!

Thanks

Jonah

Persuasion maps...

Hey mr.g i was wondering if i can do my map on football instead of baseball please comment soon

-micah

The child that is gone.

Hey everyone this is my first draft on my poem that I worked on this weekend.

I hope you like it. Please comment 

Here is my hand upon the wall

If you stab it blood will fall

As the blood fled 

The child was dead

Now the living know that he is gone

And we know what we have done wrong

Here is my hand upon the wall 

If you stab it blood will fall

As the blood fled the child was

Dead

Homework

1. Spelling Test tomorrow
2. Persuasion Map for: Baseball is the best/not the best team sport to play

The online map is here: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion_map/

P.S.

Also somebody in 6B please tell me what we're doing in class.

Thanks,

Bram

Sick

Hey all,

I'm sick today. I awoke with a slight fever. I'll probably be back tomorrow, or on Wednesday. If somebody could tell me the homework, including stuff from Mr. Lee, please put in the comment box.

Thank you,

Bram

Mr. Lee

sorry Mr.gelmon this isnt about language arts but if anyone knows for the barrel part do we have to find as many or what ever we want.
please comment as soon as possible



thanx sharon

Thank You London Drugs

Me (Jake-ee) and Marc L. were at London Drugs. We saw this prize wheel and span it. Then, an employee came and said, "Come back in five minutes and you can win great chocolate prizes."

Ten Minutes Later...

We came back and they had just opened the wheel. Marc was the first person to go for the day. He spun and won a small, little, hollow, Lindt chocolate bunny. I was second up and since we came early the jackpot prize was still up for grabs. I spun, it twirled around three times and just barely landed on the jackpot winning number.

It was a 1 kilo chocolate bunny worth $65 !!!!!!

Here it is...
All the best, Jake-ee and Marc
Obviously it had to be The Jakester who won!

Homework

• Spelling charts
• Social Studies projects

Mazal Tov to Rachel on her Bat Mitzvah!

Have a great weekend.

Poem Response

By Benny Freedman

 

I found that the medium-fast cadence really highlighted the mental pictures, the one that really stood out to me was “make me feel childish and ashamed of my green flowered suit” because it explained a lot about self-consciousness and embarrassment. I can relate to that because I know how its like to be judged on what you were, and I know it doesn’t feel good.

  What I noticed in the poem is that there was a pattern in the numbers of lines in each stanza, the pattern went 6, 9, 8, 9, 6, 2, and 1. Up until the last 6 there was a pattern, but it wasn’t the pattern that caught my attention, it was why the pattern was there. In my opinion the higher the number of lines the harsher and more detailed it got for example the last 6 lined stanza said “But you must remember, after our separation, the only words you said to me the whole year were I like your shirt.”   Compared to the first nine-lined stanza, which said, “Now, when you see me, you won’t even glance my way. You and your friends with your tiny, stylish bikinis make me feel ashamed of my green flowered sit. I stay under water so you wont laugh at me.” I think that the nine-lined stanza was much more layered, powerful and deep.

  I think that Herz wrote this poem in such a way that I can almost picture the characters in real life. I also think that the way she specified some things gave us an idea of how strong the connection was and how hard the break up is on the speaker, which really made it easier to understand the poem. A key sensory image in the poem which shows the creativity in Herz’ work was “a long and painful surgery” which added to the strong friendship because if she said “a surgery” it wouldn’t show how great friends they were, and would make it seem like the separation wasn’t as hard for them.

  In my opinion there must have been something else than popularity that split up the three “triplets” because if they had such a strong relationship than I don’t think that popularity can split them up, but for some reason Herz didn’t want to say what.

  I think that this poem is extremely accurate (to a real friendship split ups) but a bit exaggerated, and the way the story was told with such accuracy I thought that Herz probably has experienced this before or just had a really good idea of what it would be like.

A FANTASTIC DAY HI GUYS PLEASE COMMENT ON MY POEM

Being with my friends!
Fabulous sun!
Freezing cold!
Wet right through!
Having fun and falling down!
Laughing so hard!
Screaming!
Speeding downhill!
Crashing at the bottom!
Drinking hot chocolate!
Relaxing bus ride back!
Oh yah......skiing!

Cypress Mountain.

100 People

Hey all,

I just wanted to say that I really liked that movie about 100 people, and I think it would be good, now that I know how truly lucky I am, to do a fund raiser of some sort for people and kids who have little to eat in Africa, and other places. Mr. G, if it's O.K. with you please comment. Also anybody who wants to help also comment.

Thanks,

Bram

Who We Are Poem

Basketball MVP
Ya that's me
In my sport
I'm on the court

By: Arieh Leon Dales

HOMEWORK

HEY GUYS DO WE HAVE ANY HOMEWORK FOR TOMORROW. IF U KNOW PLEASE REPLY THANKS

cypress mountain

What an awesome day!
a day of no school
a day with my friends
fabulous sun

a day of having fun and falling down
Freezing cold
Wet right through.

Response from Benny

Hi every one I just wanted to point out that the stanzas had a pattern of numbers of lines. the pattern went: 6, 9, 8, 9, 6 and then 2 and 1 but i thought that up to the last six was a pattern