Homework related to our current reading in class
5/14/2014 - Finish the book by Monday, 5/19/2014. Be prepared to discuss the questions with your group.
5/8/2014 - No Homework :-)
5/6/2014 - In paragraph form, write up your conclusion to the mystery. Who killed Mr. Rachett and how did they do it. Include the motive the killer might have. Remember to mention the "Red Herrings".
4/28/2014 Read through chapter 9 (The Naming of the Crew) in The Mysterious Benedict Society by Wednesday.
4/10/2014 - In your ISN, write a 5 sentence description of the problem or mystery the Hardy boys or Nancy Drew need to solve in the book you are reading. Remember this is your "ticket" to PAT tomorrow :-).
3/26/2014 Complete the Lit Web for both stories. Remember, the margin notes in each story are your evidence for the various parts of the Lit Web. If you didn't make notes during your original reading, go back and make the notes as you do the Lit Web.
3/25/2014 Homework - Read both stories, All Summer in a Day & Charles. You are responsible for completing the Lit Web for your primary story (Odd student number - All Summer In a Day, Even student numbers - Charles). Be ready to discuss both stories.
/12/2014 - Continue our in class investigation of the murder of Abraham Lincoln using actual police reports eyewitness accounts.
2/24/2014 - Notecards with general information (starred significant incidents & listed sources), written "personal stories (2 - 3), and a ready story for your class presentation. Remember your name could be pulled on the first day. Be ready!!
2/12/2014 - Bring the materials you are using for your research and we will set the dates for the project plan, write, and class presentation.
2/6/2014 - Read about the person you will "become" during our Living History presentations. Takes notes, remembering the criteria for the presentation listed below.
Biography Project Description
General information – place and date of birth, family, occupations, places he/she lived, formal titles, nicknames, etc. Significant incidents in his/her life
Most Important – At least two stories about this person that illustrate the kind of person he/she was or what made him/her famous/infamous?
The setting in history when we meet your person.
Costume
In order to become the person I have studied, I will need a costume and props.
____ I have a picture of my person.
____ I have a picture of the kind of clothes appropriate for my person.
1/31/2014 - Your final written reponse to the book you read is due. You must turn in the Thinking Maps you used to plan the writing.
1/29/2014 Complete your plan (Thinking Maps) for the writing assignment for your assigned book. Remember to include the sections we discussed in class. We will begin the writing of the Literature responses for Homer P Figg and Assassin, in class tomorrow.
Use the definitions and examples of figurative language from your ISN to support your choices for figurative language.
1/23/2014 Complete the reading your group assigned for Assassin or Homer P Figg by the start of class Thursday. Be sure to review the assignment requirements for your book.
1/17/2014 - Come to Class having completed the reading of your assigned book, ready to discuss and write the character sketch or summary of your assigned book. The written assignment is due at the beginning of class Tuesday morning.
1/16/2014 Continue reading your assigned book and take notes that will help you complete the writing assignment for you received today.
1/15/2014 - In your ISN, in the reference section, write the grammar rules you discovered or used in editing the writing piece on page 115 in your A & M workbook.
Due: Discussion of Stave 2 in The Christmas Carol and Ghost of Christmas Past/Present.
12/5/2013 - -Finish The Ravenmaster's Secret
12/2/2013 - Complete the first four questions on page 107 - 108 in Autobiographies & Memoirs.
11/22/13 - In your ISN complete a Flee Map on the first 18 chapters of The Ravenmaster's Secret. Use the Narrative Story Arc as the structure for your map. The map will only have Exposition and Rising Action at this time. Remember Rising Actions are events in the story that move the plot forward. Not everything that happens is Rising Action.
Read the Gettysburg Address to your parents. Explain to them what makes this speech so special from a language perspective. Talk about how Lincoln used a few words to make a very important point.
Catch up on reading The Ravenmaster's Secret. Read through Chapter XVIII The Go-Between.
11/19/13 - Read "Literary Lesson" from Little Women on pages 78 - 84. REVISE the Literature Webs on page 85 (Telephonic Conversation) and page 86 (Literary Lessons) based on the conversations we have had in class.
Wednesday 11/13/13 - Answer the following question after reading "A Telephonic Conversation;
Who is the "applicant" and what did the conversation tell you about the "applicant". Remember to use the question format - Your answer, what I mean by that, and for example.
Tuesday-11/5/13 -
* Read Chapter XVI --- Promises.
* The written plan for your veterans letters. Remember to include an Introduction which has your general reason for writing and who you are, at least two specific reasons with details (personal experiences, examples or clarifications) and a closing.
Thursday 10/31/2013 - Page 69 in A & M - Examples of Interesting Words (10) and Vivid Images (2).
Wednesday 10/30/2013 - Read through Chapter XVI ( page 97), The Fourth Shadow in the book The Ravenmaster's Secret.
10/11/2013 - Take one of your "rising action" boxes and develop it into a paragraph or two. Use the "River" excerpt as an example. "Show don't tell" the rising action. :-) Revise if necessary.
Wednesday 10/9/3013 - Complete a "half" multiflow map of an event that might occur after the lightning strike in the excerpt from River which we read in class. Do the "Causes" side. You need at least
3 pieces of raising action.
Wednesday 10/2/2013 - Finish reading Gregor the Overlander.
Friday 9/27/2013 - Complete the Literature Web on page 59 (cross out The Platoon System) in your A & M workbook. Remember to page numbers next the Unfamilar words in Key Words section. Choose one word from your Key Words section (must be a word with which you are unfamilar) and use that word to complete the Vocabulary Web on page 60 (cross out Perjure).
Good discussion today regarding Word Stems and Word Families. Remember Cayden's definition and Camryn's clarification. Think of the Word Stem section as a tree. The Base word (a word that can stand alone after the affixes are removed) is the trunk and Word Roots (Greek/Latin word parts) and affixes are the branches. For example, in magician, magic is the Base word and ian is the suffix. In agriculture, culture is the Base word and agri is the Greek part. Some words are made up of just word roots and affixes. For example, the word fraction is made up of fract (a Greek word meaning "to break") and the suffix ion.
Word Families come from the Word Stems. They can be variations of the Base word (person, personally, personal, personality, etc.) or of the word parts/affixes (logical, quizzical, geographical )
Read through Chapter 20 in The RAT in Gregor the Overlander.
Tuesday, 9/24/2013 - Plan a persuasive essay using a Flee Map (Flow/Tree). Pick either Should students receive rewards for good grades? or Should uniforms be required at Las Brisas? Remember the introduction box should have at least two sentences. You need at least two reasons and three elaborations for each reason (use the strategies we talk about for elaboration - personal experience, examples or clarification). Include a concluding sentence or two.
Monday 9/23/2013 - Read through Chapter 15 in Gregor the Overlander (stop at chapter 16). Reorder the sentences on page 55 of your A & M workbook. Cut the sentences apart and glue them in the appropriate order on page 54. Page 54 has nothing to do with the assignment. It is only the place to glue your sententce.
Due 9/19/2013 - Backward map the paragraph about Drugs on page 53 of your A&M book.
Monday 9/16/2013 - Read Chapters 1 - 5 (stop at the beginning of Chapter 6) in Gregor the Overlander . - Complete the first two boxes in "Change chart" on pages 40 & 41 of the
A & M book and the timeline of major events in your life using the events in your My Life tree map.
Thursday 9/12/2013 - Complete Flow Map on "Favorite Day".
Wednesday, 9/11/2013 - Complete a tree map using the categories on Page 42 of your A & M workbook. On the backside of the Tree Map page, complete the chart on Page 44 regarding Major Life Changes.
Tuesday, 9/10/2013 - Finish reading Fever 1793 and complete four questions of your choice from the Literature Circle Questions 7 - 14 at the back of the book.
7.Authors somtimes subject their characters to difficult tasks. What are two tasks Matilda accomplishes?
8.What evidence is there in the story that Grandfather enjoyed his early years as a soldier?
9.Matilda changes a great deal from the beginning of the novel to the end. Give three specific examples of those changes.
10.During the story, the people of Philadephia face many dangers, including the risks of disease,
starvation, robbery and assault. Describe a dramatic incident in which Matilda faces one
of these dangers and point out the personal quatlities that help her survive.
11.Based on what you know of Matilda's character and experiences throughout the story, what,
to Matilda, would make a perfect day.
12.How would Matilda's life have changed if Mrs Cook had stayed healthy and remained with her
daughter at all times during the story?
13.Do you think it is fair of the town council of Pembroke to prevent fever victims from escaping the city of Philadephia and entering their town?
14.What is your opinion of Matilda's decision to make Eliza a partner in the Cook Coffeehouse?
Remember the answers to the questions you choose must be complete answers (You will get a reading grade and a writing grade for these answers). By this I mean, the reader (me) should have no difficulty figuring out the question and how you feel about the answer.
For example, if the question was "Toward the beginning of the story Matilda wants to go to the market place in town, Why does she want to go there?" The answer might sound like this... Matilda has a couple of reasons for wanting to go to the market place when the opportunity presents itself. First, since the death of Polly, Matilda had been working very hard in the Coffee Shop. "My first chance for escape came eight days after Polly died, as Mother and Grandfather discussed their plans for the day." Those plans included a trip to the Market Place. Second, Matilda has a "crush' on Nathaniel Benson, boy working as an apprentice for Charles Peale, the famous painter. She might have a chance to see him if she goes to the Market Place. "And do not let me hear of you loitering shamelessly in front of the Peale house."
Wednesday, 9/3/2013 - Revise your Lit. Web
Tuesday, 9/3/2013:
1. Complete the Identifying Parts of Speech paper for the underlined words in I Am Cherry Alive.
2. Read Ghost Cat which starts on page 31 of your Autobiographies and Memoirs workbook. Complete the Literature Web on the back of the I Am Cherry Alive paper.
3. In Fever 1793, read through Chapter 16.
Thursday 8/30/2013 - Read through Chapter 12. Finish the Parts of Speech exercise in your notebook.
Wednesday, 8/28/2013 - Read through Chapter 10 and be prepared to discuss the Rising Action.
Remember Rising Action moves the storyline forward toward the Climax.
Friday, 8/23/2013 - In your ISN, Label the first available page passed your Table of Contents,
"Fever 1793". On that page, write a short paragraph describing the Exposition of
Fever 1793. This is not a summary of the first four chapters. It is a description
of the writer's technique for "pulling" us into the story.
Read Chapters 1 - 6.
Wednesday, 8/21/2013 - Complete labeling the Tree Map for the Narrative Story Arc
reference page in your notebook. Read the first four chapters of
Fever 1793 and be ready to discuss the Exposition.
Tuesday, 8/20/2913 - Read the first four chapters of Fever 1793 and be ready to discuss the
Exposition. Number the pages in your student notebook and finish
numbering the Table of Contents lines. Add to the Thinking Maps in your
notebook if necessary.
Friday, 8/16/2013 - A completed Student Notebook cover. Cover criteria:
1. Your First and Last name and your student number for our class.
2. Your Homeroom teacher's name
3. ELA Sage - Your Grade Level and school year
4. Decorate the cover with pictures/words related to your favorite Literature/Personal
Interest