This week I want you to write a simple, compound AND complex sentence about Mr. Rodegerdts. Have fun with this - but don't hurt Mr. Rodegerdts' feelings :)
Remember
• Simple sentences tell us WHO/WHAT it is about and What WHO/WHAT IS DOING?
• Compound sentences are TWO INDEPENDENT CLAUSES joined with a FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)
• Complex sentences have an INDEPENDENT CLAUSE with a DEPENDENT/SUBORDINATE CLAUSE (remember, adverb or adjective clauses)
Examples - You do not need to do the explanation part below each sentence like I did:
• Simple: Mr. Rodegerdts is feeding his flesh eating beetles.
[who: Mr. Rodegerdts; what: feeding flesh eating beetles]
• Compound: Mr. Rodegerdts is feeding his chickens, for he already fed his flesh eating beetles.
[independent clause 1: Mr. Rodegerdts is feeding his chickens; independent clause 2: he already fed his flesh eating beetles; FANBOYS: for]
• Complex: If Dr. Gerson would let him, Mr. Rodegerdts would have a whole zoo at LOJ!
[independent clause: Mr. Rodegerdts would have a whole zoo at LOJ; dependent/subordinate clause: If Dr. Gerson would let him; this is an adverb clause because it starts with the Trigger Word "If"]
Don't forget to sign off with your FIRST AND LAST NAME / PERIOD! Of course, grammar is of particular importance so please carefully proof read your sentences before posting them. This is due no later than Friday, February 17th at 5 p.m.
Enjoy,
Mrs. Allan / B3 and B4
Dear Students,
ReplyDeleteYour responses on "Freedom" were so amazing that I can't wait to read your shared memories of Mr. Rodegerdts. Who knows, maybe we will decide to publish a book based on all your wonderful memories!
I look forward to your thoughts!
Mrs. Allan
I am not sure where to begin, but there have been a few crazy Mr. Rodegerdts memories. After school I went into his room for some help with homework. I asked if I could use "Siri" on his phone, so he let me. I asked Siri a math problem. Mr. Rodegerdts was so surprised that his own phone did that! He even told Siri that he loves her. Siri replied, "I hardly know you!" It was funny the way Siri said it back, trying not to hurt his feelings. That was my one of my favorite Mr. Rodegerdts moments.
ReplyDeleteHedeeyeh Saberian, B3
DeleteOh goodnes. I have too many stories about Mr. Rodegerdts. Here is one of them: my friend Bella Tremaine and I were laughing so hard, we started hugging eachother when suddenly Mr. Rodegerdts yelled: "Stop hugging and sit down!" Bella and I were still laughing REALLY hard and that made us laugh even harder. Then later, I was thinking about mushrooms and accidently said: "Mr. Mushroom? Can I have another copy of this?" Then he said: "Is that my name?" Then EVERYONE was laughing. Oh, that was a VERY funny day. Mr. Rodegerdts likes mushrooms. We all know it.
ReplyDelete~Cheyenne Robles B3 :D
Even though there are so many thing about Mr. Rodegerdts. There are only a few words to describe him...mushrooms and chickens. Every body in Loj knows Mr. Rodegerdts is obsesses with chickens and mushroom. Just look at the picture on his edline page. Its him laying on the dirt ground next to a “special mushroom” has Mr. Rodegerdts has said. And for his chicken obsession just look at Loj. Behind that fence is many chickens and one rooster that is said to attack you. As for me I am in his B2 class. As I recall he has said to every other class “don’t be a B2.” I am hurt and offended and I hope for a apology. I am probably not the only one going to say this but Mr. Rodegerdts needs air freshen his room. When I first walked in I thought that something had died, and it was the smell of death. Which later I found out he had at least three drawers full of skulls he found on the ground from different places. Also I think he should air freshen his room because of the flesh eating beetles and the cockroaches he has is his room. There a lot of stories about Mr. Rodegerdts but I think the one I most remember was when I was going home with Isabel Almer after play practice. Then we pass by this biker. Then Isabel says ”hey I bet that’s Mr. Rodegerdts.” Then I look up at the man and it was. Very soon Isabel and I start screaming out our window “Mr. Rodegerdts.” Isabel and I were laughing so hard. Very soon Isabel noticed that Mr. Rodegerdts had been following as for the last ten block. Isabel got very scared and almost started to cry. That Mr. Rodegerdts lived so close to where she lived. Not that Isabel has anything agents Mr. Rodegerdts. Just that Isabel has been call one of his top three biggest annoyances in his whole teacher career. I think Mr. Rodegerdts is probably they most craziest teachers I have every meant. Which is of course not a bad thing.
ReplyDeleteP.S hope this doesn't affect my grade in science.
Lauren Swart B3
Wow! That is all I can think of when i hear the name Mr. Rodegerdts.He is by far the most...intresting person I have ever met. And thats comming from me! I thought, well everybody will be tellingstories about Mr. R's mushrooms, beetles, room smells, chickens, or how we will all die in an earthquake. So I thought of the time My friend Lauren and I saw Mr Rodegerdts following me hove on his very neon bike. But Lauren already told the story on the comment before mine. BTW, that really did happen and yes i did almost start crying. Anyways, the list of everything Mr. Rodegerdts has done is endless! I could go on for hours! But I really dont think I could choose between all the stories. But long story short, I really dont think I will ever meet anybody like Mr. Rodegerdts! Ill see you in B2 Mr. R! (B2 is his very favorite class!)
ReplyDeleteIsabel Almer
B2 Science
Ah, sorry I ment B4 Language Arts.
ReplyDeleteIsabel Almer
B4 LA
I have lots of story in Mr. rodegerts class. He’s a humorous teacher; lots of times make us laugh. One time we are having a science test, no one is smiling. Only people is smiling is Mr. rodegerts. “We are having a test!” Mr. rodegerts said happily. No one seemed happy. Suddenly the fire alarm rings. Hole class cheers ”hooray”. Then Mr. rodegerts grumbled ”Darnet! Mur—“ now the class seemed happy, but Mr. rodegerts didn’t. I think this story is funny, which because I china’s school haven’t got any teacher that’s humorous. I like this assignment.
ReplyDeleteshawn chang
B4 LA
Oh Mr. Rodegerdts... I have very many things to say about him. First off he always says SIT DOWN right after class starts. The flesh eating beetles tank smells exactly like elephant poop. Today in science he took the animal bones that had been in the flesh eating beetles tank for a very long time into a rectangular plastic bin. Then he had soaked it with 3 bottles of hydrogen peroxide. Ewww. Anyways mushrooms and chickens are very interesting hobbies to have. Earlier in the year he had talked about chickens and mushrooms a lot, but he still talks about it but not as much. My favorite Mr Rodegerdts moment was when I was with two of my friends and I saw him on his bike on my street and I said" Mr Rodegerdts!!!" We were chasing him but he changed his gears and he replied back to us and said "You little children will never catch up to me!!" Then he waved backed to us and he almost fell off his bike while waving to us. I have a picture but it wont fit on the blog.
ReplyDeleteMichael Lee
-__-
B3
Well there are many stories I could tell about Mr. Rodegerdts. One of the funniest one's I could think of happened just last week. We were talking about earthquakes. As we were talking about earthquakes, he decided to show us some fault lines. One of the fault lines runs through a town in Hollister, California. He began explaining that all of the people that wear Hollister t-shirts aren't that cool. Apparently Hollister, California isn't very big. So I asked him if there was a place in New York called Abercrombie. He said no and that it was just two dumb people who had the last names of Abercrombie and Fitch. Then for some reason he flicked his hands and said "Oh my god! I am so cool. I wear Abercrombie and Fitch!" Now normally this would only be half funny. What made it really funny was he said it in a really high-pitched valley girl voice.
ReplyDeleteAlissa Jordan
A4
Mr. Rodegerdts likes animals. He really likes his chickens, but not only does he like animals, he likes mushrooms. Although, Mr. Rodegerts loves his chickens, I am sure he likes his students as well! :)
ReplyDeleteErika Van Leeuwen
B4 language arts
Mr. Rodegerdts loves mushrooms. At the beginning of the year, he always had a story to share about him and his family going mushroom hunting and cooking amazing tasting mushrooms. I always have enjoyed science with Mr. Rodegerdts even though his room smells really bad because of all the mushrooms and dead animals in his room. Mr. Rodegerdts can be really cool and nice, but if you make him mad he’ll make you dig.
ReplyDeleteAndy Soto, B4, Language Arts
Mr. Rodegerdts likes chickens. He also enjoys to learn about mushrooms and he likes to clean animal bones. He puts acid on the animal bones once the come out of the flesh eating beetle cage so that they don't smell up the classroom. (even though it doesn't always work)
ReplyDeleteNikki Mistry, B4
Mr. Rodegerdts loves mushrooms. He also enjoys cleaning off animal bones and place them in a tank thingy. Once he's done with that,he puts in little bettle bugs inside so it doesn't stink up the class.(but to be honest with you, it never really works)
ReplyDeleteChase Vernon,B4
Mr. Rodegerdts is funny. When hes on the computer he says oh pretty pictures and other funny stuff. Although he talks about USGS the most, he also loves chikens and mushrooms. Overall I like Mr. Rodegerdts as a teacher.
ReplyDeleteDominic Allen
L.A B4
Mr. Rodegerdts and I have many interesting stories. One of the stories is when I was sitting next to Mr. Rodegerdts desk he said he had an alarm laser thingy. But I wasnt paying that much attention. So about five minutes later I saw him walk through it and it made a beep. So I said " oh thats a alarm, I thought it was just a light." So he repilied... " yes mollie, it is a alarm," in a slow dum voice. Every one started laughing and I laughed to. Another story is we were talking about DNA and Mutations. So he said people with blue eyes and blonde hair and looked at me. He said " Mollie, your a perfect example why dont you come up here!" So I walked up and stood there as an example. He started to say " Mollie is a Mutation, she has blonde hair and blue eyes. You become a mutation by having two bad copies and no good ones." It was funny because there were other blondes in the class but I was chosen! What can I say I am a class favorite!
ReplyDeleteMollie Jarrett
B4
I cant remember any Mr.Rodegrts moments. Thats wierd because with all the chikens, mushrooms ,and dead rotting things I should have a 1,000 stories about him.I'm sorry I dont have any stories ,and really wish that I did.
ReplyDeleteMy story involves his motion detector alarm, One day Mr. Rodegerdts brought his motion detector to school. He then told us what it was, he said something like "I got this alarm so you can't attack me from the side anymore." This was because he had moved his desk he was having students come from the sides to talk to him. Now that students knew this, Keyshaun especially, they had to go and mess with it by waving their hands through it. Mr. Rodegerdts told them many a time to stop, but none did. This day was the funniest, it was also my favorite. Lastly, MR. RODEGERDTS LIKES 'SHROOMS!!!!!1!!!1!1!!!one!!!11!!!1!!!!!
DeleteFlynn Osmanski
B3
My favorite story is about him and roosters. Every day, his roosters would wake him up at 6:30. One day he decided to fix that, for he was annoyed. He killed the three rooster and put them in pots in his fridge, after that he started to make a fence for his chickens. And right then was when one of the roosters decided to crow for the very first time.
ReplyDeleteMarcus Avery A/B4
My story involves his motion detector alarm, One day Mr. Rodegerdts brought his motion detector to school. He then told us what it was, he said something like "I got this alarm so you can't attack me from the side anymore." This was because he had moved his desk he was having students come from the sides to talk to him. Now that students knew this, Keyshaun especially, they had to go and mess with it by waving their hands through it. Mr. Rodegerdts told them many a time to stop, but none did. This day was the funniest, it was also my favorite. Lastly, MR. RODEGERDTS LIKES 'SHROOMS!!!!!1!!!1!1!!!one!!!11!!!1!!!!!
ReplyDeleteFlynn Osmanski
B3
PS I accidentally replied to someone... WHOOPS
Ohhhhh my gosh, I have MANY stories to tell that happened in Mr. Rodegerdts' room. Although there is a HORRIBLE smell in Mr. Rodegerdts' room, he always seemed never to even smell a thing and told us to stop whining (in a nice way). He also has this MASSIVE habit for wondering off into forests trying to find mushrooms...Yes, I said mushrooms. One time, Mr. Rodegerdts found some guy's iPhone 4 just lying on the ground in Walla Walla, and did the right thing by not trying to open the passcode too many times, and to respect their privacy. He ended up finding the rightful owner. Mr. Rodegerdts also whispers REALLY loud, a lot too, which is one of the things that makes him interesting though. Lastly, Mr. Rodegerdts is one of my favorite teachers and I hope he will continue to teach at LOJ (or LOMS) for a long time.
ReplyDeleteAidan Malagamba LA, B3
One of my absolute favorite memories of Mr. Rodegerdts that I will never forget is when he became a mushroom addict! He was so in love those things that he started to have dreams about them and going mushroom hunting. When he told us this he couldn't help but to tell us about one of those dreams of his... He was mushroom hunting with his kids and the older one went looking for some... And in order to do that he had to go way out of Mr. Rodegerdts's eye sight... He ended up getting eaten and when they left they didn't even notice that he was gone... So in the end Mr. Rodegerdts is a funny guy. Some the things that he says are so funny a fall out of my chair laughing, yet he will yell at you an become a really cranky guy if you piss him off too much. And finally if he wanted to he could turn his room into the 22nd century! Because of that he will probably be the inventor of the time machine. I can't wait until I have him 3 days for science next week!!
ReplyDeleteAndrew Carcamo
B3 LA Mrs. Allan
Besides his fascination with fungi, chickens and dead things, Mr. Rodegerdts is your average science teacher.
ReplyDeleteNope, didn't think you'd believe it either.
While the rest of us think it's gross, Mr. Rodegerdts loves eating and hunting for mushrooms during his weekends. He raises chickens in the schoolyard. His room sure isn't a bottle of Febreeze either, and he apparently seems immune to the deadly fumes rising from his various cages of beetles, skulls, and cockroaches.
One time he was talking about earthquakes, and he was saying how during an earthquake it's impossible to run anywhere because the ground is shaking so much. He also mentioned that being inside a building is the worst place to be during an earthquake. Someone raised their hand and asked: "Can't you just break open a window and jump through it?"
Mr. Rodegerdts just closed his eyes and shook his head. He put two fingers to his temple and massaged it. Then, opening his eyes, he began to explain.
"Child," (He loves to call us this, which is weird, because most teachers address us as 'students' or 'you guys') "That would be a very bad choice."
We all looked at him strangely.
"Because, " he continued. "Think about it. Sharp glass everywhere. The building is moving!" Then he made a sickening re-enactment of someone being stabbed with glass. Of course, he added sound and facial effects. Afterwards we were all looking a bit sick and just dropped the subject.
Mr. Rodegerdts has a wacky way of teaching, but strangely it works. I think, because of his humorous antics, he makes Science a lot more fun (and we all know it's hard to love Science class). I hope he doesn't retire for a long, long time!
Serena Zhang,
L.A B4
Mr. Rodegerdts has many crazy stories. From all of his fossil findings, to his random family trips. If he could, Mr. Rodegerts would bring more animals to the school. Every day we hear a new story about how he built an alarm, or about how he put more bones in the beetle tank. Whenever we leave, we have a new story to tell people about Mr. Rodegerdts.
ReplyDeleteKarsen Daly
B3 LA
There are many awesome things about Mr. Rodegerts. For one, he has flesh-eating beetles in his room that strip the meat off the bones of an unidentified animal. He also makes soap, and he uses ingredients like fermented hops in them! Mr. Rodegerts is the wackiest science teacher ever!
ReplyDeleteMorgan Lloyd B4
I know so many stories that Mr. Rodegerdts has told my class. But occasionally he tells my, very talkative class, to "stop the chatting" (simple). Then once he tells us to stop our chatting, he talks to us about random subjects, while moving around the room, and all of us get off topic. (complex). Finally, we learn a lesson and get down to work, for we have already gone off topic, and been told to be quiet. (compound)
ReplyDelete~Peyton Woolworth B3
All I can say is Mr. Rodegerdts class is very interesting. From the flesh eating beetles to crowing roosters, it was all very bizarre. My favorite memory is when Mr. Rodegerdts told A2 class that we were his lab rats. After hearing this we all thought it was unfair, "Why do we have to be your lab rats Mr. Rodegerdts?" everyone would be saying in a dreadful voice. For complaining Mr. Rodergerdts had ended the discussion and it was final. From then on A2 had to be there lab rats because we were the first class he would get.
ReplyDeleteJimmy Li B4
Mr. Rodegerdts loves bones. He had little bugs eat off everything, and it was so gross. After he hydrogen peroxide the bones it turned white, bones were clean. Now he had an even bigger collection. So more bones will be in his box. Mr. Rodergerdts is so interesting, I can barley hang on. P.S. I love Mr. Rodergerdts!
ReplyDeleteKinley Reed, B3
Mr. Rodegerdts loves mushrooms. I remember when a couple people stopped coming to S.E.E.D and he was so happy, because he likes having smaller classes. Mr. Rodegerdts always yells, "SIT DOWN!" before class, but some people don't listen.
ReplyDeleteI have many stories of Mr. Rodergerdts, it is hard to choose a favorite. One of my favorites is the other day when he decided to talk about soap. Someone in my science class won a bar of soap from Mr. R at the explorer assembly. Mr. Rodergerdts told us all the ingredients in soap. This made my class all come up with questions about soap, soap ingredients, and how it is made. I, of course, had a question of my own. I asked him how soap from pumps (which he said isn't actually soap, but detergent) get all bubbly. He told me, "When the soap goes up the pump the magic fairies spit into the soap and make bubbles". That made me start having a laughing fit. I couldn't stop laughing, even though I didn't think it was super funny. Everywhere I looked was something funny. Eventually I was able to stop laughing and get back to taking notes.
ReplyDeleteOlivia Frankel
B3 Language Arts.
1.) Mr. Rodegurdts is a person.
ReplyDelete2.) Mr. Rodegurdts likes chickens, he likes fossils too.
3.) Although Mr. Rodegurdts likes his flesh-eating cockroaches, he likes his chickens more.
Adam Brumfield
LA, B4
Mr. Rodegerdts likes chickens. He loves mushrooms, and he hates children! If it was legal, he would sell all of his students for special mushrooms!
ReplyDeleteNathan Iwasaki
LA, B4
1. Mr.Rodegerdts likes to eat mushrooms.
ReplyDelete2. Mr Rodegerdts likes to eat mushrooms but he doesn't like to eat squash.
3. Whenever Mr.Rodegerdts feeds his rooster, he has a smile on his face.
Jessica Weis
LA, B3
Mr. Rodegerdts is a crazy teacher![simple] Our class is very noisy, and Mr. Rodegerdts doesn't really like that.[compound] Although, sometimes you'll see Mr. Rodegerdts eating an apple with a worm on it, smiling like nothing's different.[complex]
ReplyDeleteSophie West-Tollefson
LA, B4
Mr. Rodegerdts loves to eat mushrooms. He likes to talk very loudly sometimes but, he always whispers interesting stuff to the class. I believe that if mother nature would, then Mr. Rodegrdts would have his own little place were every twce a week he would make his own earthquakes to see how big they could get.
ReplyDeleteMorgan McKinney
L.A., B3
A few days ago, I walked into Mr. Rodegerdts classroom hoping for a normal day. It did as usual, I was wrong. when I arrived, I saw Mr. Rodegerdts cleaning a new 7 ft fish tank.
ReplyDelete"What's the fish tank for, Mr. Rodegerdts?" I asked.
"I haven't decided yet," he answered, " but Mr. Mylet thinks I could fit one or two of you kids in here. I told him I could fit a lot more if I put them through a blender first"
Suddenly, we all looked at the new fish tank in horror.
Zach Albertson, B4
Mr. Rodegerdts is a very strang person. Sometimes he will be teaching us about earthquakes and some how how he changes the subject to mushrooms. Second of all his room scares me. In one corner he has flesh eating beatles were he puts tons of different types of animals in the cage that are dead. that really makes his room smell of dead things. But to add to the smell he as like 24 cock roachs that are giant.
ReplyDeleteAhhh Mr. Rodegerdts, he’s defiantly the weirdest teacher I have. Every morning at the start of class we hear “SIT DOWN!” don’t you just love the sound of being yelled at in the morning… Then as we sit down and Mr. Rodegerdts is teaching us about earthquakes him and I have a conversation/argument. It wasn’t normal. He was talking about being in your basement during an earthquake or something like that. So he made his house, my house, and Graham Traxtons, house. My house was the biggest, not to brag or anything.
ReplyDelete“So Stephen, let’s say you’re in your basement” Mr. Rodegerdts said.
“Oh... you mean my man crib.” I said clearly.
When something stupid happens us children (something he likes to call us) say or do, he put his face in his hands or occasionally massages his temples.
“Well, I have a man cave.” He said in a little girl sassy tone.
“Cave aren’t good, they’re cold, wet, and have bats.” I said with back sass.
“Cribs are “comfortable” they have nice soft metal bars” he said.
“But cribs have cushions, pillows, and blankets.” I said to him.
“Ok Stephen, just stop this now.” He said with a tired voice
I obviously won the argument; he just didn’t want to admit it. Science was never my favorite subject, but with my class and Mr. Rodegerdts it’s pretty fun. But sometimes it involves being yelled at by You Know Who. Mr. Rodegerdts still loves us though; B2 is his favorite science class… Right? In B2 though there has to be one kid that stand out in front of all the others, that one favorite student Mr. Rodegerdts likes the best, and I think me and Mr. Rodegerdts can agree that I’m his favorite student from the moment he started teaching.
Stephen Lee
LA B4
I have many stories about mr. Rodegerts. He calls us poor children, Noisy children or anoying children. I think he wants to feed half the class to his beetles and the other half to the chickens. His classroom always smells with a unknown stench. But mr. Rodegerts makes science fun.
ReplyDeleteEven when he tells us he will rather all us die in a earthquake over him.
Jackson Johns
B4 Allan
There are so many stories to tell about Mr Rodegerts. One Time he told us he told us if it were legal he would sell all of his classes for mushrooms. Mr Rodegets would sell his children for a pound of chantral mushrooms which we all thought was pretty sad. Mr Rodegerts always tells not to be a B3. He never tells us why though so we always bug him about it. Now the stories must end
ReplyDeleteSpencer Richardson
B4 LA
I have many stories about mr. Rodegerts. He calls us poor children, Noisy children or anoying children. I think he wants to feed half the class to his beetles and the other half to the chickens. His classroom always smells with a unknown stench. But mr. Rodegerts makes science fun.
ReplyDeleteEven when he tells us he will rather all us die in a earthquake over him.
Jackson Johns
B4 Allan