Team Hines

About Ms. Hines

My name is Stephanie Hines.  I am an 8th Grade Language Arts teacher at Griffin Middle School.  I also currently serve as the Advanced On Level teacher for 8B.  I graduated from Alabama State University and I am currently pursuing my Masters degree from LaGrange College (only one class remaining).  After teaching for three years in Atlanta Public Schools and in Griffin-Spalding County, I moved to Cobb County and began teaching at Griffin MS.  As we transition, I bring experience from an America's Choice School.  Please feel free to contact me  and I welcome you to stop by our 21st Century classroom anytime. Thanks in advance for your support and partnership.

My contact information:

Email: Stephanie.Hines@Cobbk12.org

Office: (678) 842-6917 x613

My name is Stephanie Hines.  I am an 8th Grade Language Arts teacher at Griffin Middle School.  I also currently serve as the Advanced On Level teacher for 8B.  I graduated from Alabama State University and I am currently pursuing my Masters degree from LaGrange College (only one class remaining).  After teaching for three years in Atlanta Public Schools and in Griffin-Spalding County, I moved to Cobb County and began teaching at Griffin MS.  As we transition, I bring experience from an America's Choice School.  Please feel free to contact me  and I welcome you to stop by our 21st Century classroom anytime. Thanks in advance for your support and partnership.

My contact information:

Email: Stephanie.Hines@Cobbk12.org

Office: (678) 842-6917 x613

What if I can not find the definition for some of our terms?

Go to http://dictionary.com and type in the words that you can not find in the glossary.

What if I can not find the definition for some of our terms?

Go to http://dictionary.com and type in the words that you can not find in the glossary.

Reading Practice tests

Today in class, we played musical chairs to review key words found on the Reading section of the CRCT. In addition, please take the following practice tests:

1. Reading Practice Test (FML)
2. Reading Practice Test (IML)
3. Reading Practice Test (Comprehension)
4. Reading Practice Test (RS_VA)

Here's your log on information:

www.georgiaoas.org

User name: GTID #

Password: education

"Take teacher assigned tests"

Good luck!

Welcome back

Welcome back from Spring Break. Now let's focus on preparing for the CRCT. :)

When is the CRCT?

April 2008

23: CRCT Reading
24: CRCT Lang. Arts
25: CRCT Math
28: CRCT Science
29: CRCT Social Studies

**Please be present and on time everyday.**

Georgia Virtual School

Summer Course Offerings
08-09 Course Offerings

CRCT Prep materials for all subjects

Parents and Students,

The Georgia Department of Education has made CRCT test preparation materials available on their website for all content areas; you can download study guides for your grade level to prepare yourself.

Also, here are a few PowerPoint presentations that offer some helpful practice and advice for taking the CRCT:

• Test-taking Strategies PowerPoint
• CRCT PowerPoint
• Practice documents: http://www.hcbe.net/itc/CRCT/crct_8th.html

More online practice sites:

• Guide to Grammar & Writing: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

Parents and Students,

The Georgia Department of Education has made CRCT test preparation materials available on their website for all content areas; you can download study guides for your grade level to prepare yourself.

Also, here are a few PowerPoint presentations that offer some helpful practice and advice for taking the CRCT:

• Test-taking Strategies PowerPoint
• CRCT PowerPoint
• Practice documents: http://www.hcbe.net/itc/CRCT/crct_8th.html

More online practice sites:

• Guide to Grammar & Writing: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

Audio and Music Resources

Copyrights

• Copyrights, Clearences, and Student Filmmaking

Music and Sound Effects

• Creative Commons http://search.creativecommons.org/
• PD Info--Royalty Free Music http://www.pdinfo.com/download.htm
• Partners in Rhyme http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/
• Royalty Free Music Clips http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/clips.html
• SoundEffect.com http://www.sound-effect.com/
• Sound Scalpel http://www.soundscalpel.co.uk/
• A1FreeSoundEffects http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/
• SoundDogs.com http://www.sounddogs.com/
• MetaCrawler.com (click on audio, then type "royalty free sound effects") http://www.metacrawler.com/

Podcasting

• Audacity Tutorial for Podcasting
• Guides and Tutorials: Podcasting
• 60 Second Shakespeare

Student Filmmaking Resources

• StoryCenter.org
• Film Your Issue
• POV Film Archive
• Avid Education Community
• StudentFilms.com

• Copyrights, Clearences, and Student Filmmaking

Music and Sound Effects

• Creative Commons http://search.creativecommons.org/
• PD Info--Royalty Free Music http://www.pdinfo.com/download.htm
• Partners in Rhyme http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/
• Royalty Free Music Clips http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/clips.html
• SoundEffect.com http://www.sound-effect.com/
• Sound Scalpel http://www.soundscalpel.co.uk/
• A1FreeSoundEffects http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/
• SoundDogs.com http://www.sounddogs.com/
• MetaCrawler.com (click on audio, then type "royalty free sound effects") http://www.metacrawler.com/

Podcasting

• Audacity Tutorial for Podcasting
• Guides and Tutorials: Podcasting
• 60 Second Shakespeare

Student Filmmaking Resources

• StoryCenter.org
• Film Your Issue
• POV Film Archive
• Avid Education Community
• StudentFilms.com

Ready, set, score 800+

Online Resources for the CRCT

Words & Word Origins

Words & Word Origins
Learning Games

• Roots and Their Families
• Greek & Latin Roots Skills
• Short Circuit: Stems Practice (Flash Animation Game)
• FunBrain: Word Confusion
• A Feast of Homonyms
• Commonly Misused Words & Phrases
• FunBrain: Rooting Out Words
• Free Rice (uses knowledge of stems for educated guessing)
• Etymologic; the toughest game on the Internet
• WordWorks: Suffix, Prefix Word Game
• Game Ideas (for the classroom)

Assessment

• Printable Quizzes: Houghton Mifflin
• Notorious Confusables
• Homonym Quizzes
• BBC Homophone Quiz
• BlueBook Grammer Quizzes
• Quiz 1: Confusing Words and Homonyms
• Quiz 2: Confusing Words and Homonyms
• Word Pairs (quiz)

Research Links & Printables

• Context Clues: Kids Lab
• Homonyms: Definition/explanation and a list
• BBC Factsheet Homophones
• WordOrigins.org
• Online Etymology Dictionary: http://www.etymonline.com/

Grammar & Punctuation

Grammar & Punctuation
Learning Games

• Eats, Shoots, & Leaves: Punctuation Game
• Rats! (LearningPlanet.com)
• Go Grammar: Basic Skill Practice Games
• Grammar Games: British Council
• FunBrain: Grammar Gorillas
• FunBrain: Parts of Speech (click on any of the Madlibs)
• Alien Word Mine (try the Intermediate level)
• Scholastic: Maggie's Earth Adventures
• FunBrain: Verb Tense Agreement
• Punctuation--Fullstop
• Punctuation Paintball
• Commas Game: BBC Skillswise
• Apostrophes Game 1: BBC Skillswise
• Apostrophes Game 2
• Power Proofreading

Assessment

• @School: Punctuation
• Interactive Quizzes (look under "punctuation," "capitalization," and "basic parts of a sentence")
• Grammar Bytes!
• ElfNet Grammar
• Printable Quizzes: Houghton Mifflin
• Grammar Blast: Punctuation 1
• Grammar Blast: Punctuation 2
• Grammar Blast: Punctuation 3

Research Links & Printables

• Dialogue: Punctuation, Capitalization
• Punctuating Dialogue (page 16-23 only)
• Dialogue & Punctuation Rules---blah, blah, blah
• Grammar Guide: Quotation Marks
• Grammar Guide: Apostrophe
• Grammar Guide: Semicolon
• Grammar Rock (song lyrics)

Net Trekker Research Links (works at school only)

• General Grammar
• Punctuation
• Capitalization
• Subject-Verb Agreement

Sentences & Transitions

Sentences & Transitions

Learning Games

• Sentence Sort: Harcourt
• BBC Compound/Complex Sentences Activity
• BBC Compound/Complex Sentences Revision Bite
• BBC Skillswise: Putting Sentences Together
  
• BBC Language Structure Activity
• Go Grammar: Basic Skill Practice Games
• Power Proofreading: Houghton Mifflin

Assessment

• Quiz 1: Sentence Combining
• Quiz 2: Sentence Combining
• Quiz 3: Combining Sentences
• BBC Skillswise Homepage
• BBC Quiz: Compound/Complex
• BBC Quiz: Language Structure
• BBC Skillswise: Putting Sentences Together
• Quiz A--Compound & Complex Sentences
• Quiz B--Compound & Complex Sentences

Research Links & Printables

• Factsheet: Making Sentences
• Factsheet: Putting Sentences Together
• Net Trekker Research Links--Transition words and phrases (works at school only)
• Compound Sentences--Explanation

Figurative Language & Poetics

Figurative Language & Poetics
Learning Games

• Earobics: Wizards and Pigs
• Idiomania: online practice
• Poetry BBC Activity
• Poetry BBC Revision Bite
• Fling the Teacher
• Drag and Drop Metaphor
• Quia: Flashcards
• Eye on Idioms (RWT)

Assessment

• Quiz Yourself on Figures of Speech
• Poetry BBC Quiz
• Idiom Quizzes
• Quia: Figurative Language Quiz
• Poetry Terminology Quiz
• eLibrary--Fig. Lang. Quiz
• Literature--Determining Meaning
• ThinkQuest--Fig. Lang.

Research Links & Printables

• Features of Poetry BBC
• Quia List of Poetic Terms
• What is Figurative Language?
• Poetry as We See It
• Quia: Definition of Poetic Terms
• Glossary of Poetic Terms
• Poetic Techniques & Figurative Language
• RhymeZone.com
• Figurative Language, examples and definitions (BBC)
• Figurative language, more examples
• Figurative language: Shakespeare Insults (pdf document)
• Figurative language: Shakespeare Compliments (pdf document)
• Figurative language: Graphic Organizer (pdf document)
• Brain Pop: What's the difference between homonyms, antonyms, synonyms

Career Unit BIO POEM

Line 1      First name

Line 2      Four words that describe you

Line 3      Son or Daughter of…

Line 4      Admirer of…

Line 5      Who feels happiest when…

Line 6      Who listens to … (what type of music?)

Line 7      Who spends time… (how do you spend your spare   time?)

Line 8      Whose favorite subject is…

Line 9      Who has a pet ________ named _________

Line 10    Who attends Griffin Middle School

Line 11    Who is interested in … (3 things)

Line 12    Who is skilled at… (3 things you are good at doing)

Line 13    Who values… (3 things that are important to you)

Line 14    Who wants to be a … (when you grow up)

Line 15    Last name

Directions:

1. Write your rough draft. Due: 2/8/2008

2. Final draft must be typed. Save as “biopoem_your first and last name”. Due: At the end of this unit

3. Click on view, header/footer, press the down arrow key, type your name, tab, your class period, tab, click on the page number icon

4. Center each line

5. Use an appropriate font, size, and color (Times New Roman; Size 12; Black)

6. You can right click the adjectives describing yourself and check out synonyms to expand your vocabulary.

7. No pictures