Grade 8B: EXPLORE chart– choose 5 lines for “L”

Grade 8C: PART 1: Read “Poets to Come” and “The Road Not Taken.”  Choose ONE to respond to in your journal/notebook.    PART 2: Write your own short poem (completely free choice)- at least 7 lines.

Grade 7: No Homework today! Vocab Lesson 1 due Friday.

Grade 7: Books We Love sheet.  Please spend time on the synopsis (summary) in particular.  Drawings should be colored and neat (but do not have to be artistically brilliant!)

Grade 8C: EXPLORE chart for the book that you will do your trailer on. If you choose a book that is not on the list, you will have to get it approved by me IN PERSON first.

Grade 8: Books We Love worksheet.  Be sure to color your picture!

Grade 7: Reading and Writing Survey

Have a nice weekend!

The details of your essay question are here.

For an outline for your essay, click here.

No homework because of Bismarck exercise.

For Monday, 05.16 — All of you be highlight your parts and mark the answers for the study questions.
7A — Read Act 2 of Inherit the Wind.
7M — Read Act 1, scene 2 and Act 2, scene 1 of Inherit the Wind.

– For Inherit the Wind. — Be sure to highlight your character through I, i.  We’ll be reading in class, and you want to be prepared.

To read ahead, complete Act 1 for Monday.

– Also, Vocab. 4B due tomorrow.

7A– Read Act I, scene 2 of Inherit the Wind.  Answer any questions that you have to that point.

7M — Bring Inherit the Wind to class.

Everyone — Vocab, p. 25, ex. 4A is due on Wednesday.

– Be ready for your essay test tomorrow.  E-mail me your outline by 7:30 tomorrow morning or bring it in on a thumbdrive.

– For Monday, 5.10 — Be sure to bring your copy of Inherit the Wind to class. 

Tuesday, 5.04 — TKM objective test

Wednesday, 5.05 — TKM essay test.  E-mail me your outline by 7:30 Wednesday morning, so I can create a file for you on the server.

PLEASE NOTE WHAT’S DUE FOR YOUR CLASS.

Be sure to work on your objective review sheet.  You can’t use it for your test.

4.30 — 7A — Vocab Quiz

– TKM Essay Outline

5.03 — 7M — Vocab Quiz

– TKM Essay Outline

5.04 — All — TKM Objective Test

5.05 — All — TKM Essay Test

Mea culpa. I’ve repaired the permissions on yesterday’s homework, so you can access the outlines. Do so. Work on your outline for Friday. I’ll be going over your outline in class with you.
For Thursday (4.29)– Bring your shoe picture and paper with you to class.
For Friday (4.30) — Outline of essay question due. You can send it to me digitally or bring it in on your thumb drive if you want. See details below for what to do.
Also, for Friday — Vocab 3 quiz.
For Tuesday, (5.3) — Objective portion of TKM test.
For Wednesday, (5.4) — Essay portion of TKM test will be typed in class. You’ll need to have your outline ready to go (see below for details).

• See yesterday’s entry about the Chinese Exposition.
• 4.30 — Friday — Lesson 3 Vocab Quiz
• — Outline of essay question for TKM due.  See below.
• You can e-mail me your outline, so I can begin a file for your essay answer.
• 5.04 — Tuesday — Objective TKM test.
• 5.05 — Wednesday — Essay TKM test.  Be sure to e-mail me your outline by 7:30, so I can create a file for you.  You can also bring it in on a thumb drive.  Whatever you do, it must be a .pages, .docx, .doc, or .rtf file.  You may not insert it in an e-mail or send a .pdf file.

To Kill a Mockingbird
Essay Test Questions

You will need to select one of the questions below to answer.

I want to see your outline for these questions on Friday, April 30.  I will be going over your outline with you.
Wednesday, May 5 to take your test, you will need to have this in digital format. You may put this on a flash drive for class or you may send it to me as a .pages (easiest and 1st choice for me) .doc, .docx, or .rtf file.  If you are e-mailing me the file, you must do so by 7:30 Wednesday morning.  Send the file to medwards@smcds.org.  In the subject heading put your name and TKM essay.

1.  We said earlier in class that a person with integrity is one who adheres to a code of moral values .  Using this definition, decide whether or not Atticus is a person of integrity.  In a well-written essay, use Atticus’s words and actions to show me what you believe.  If you want to see a potential outline for this, click here.

2.  Scout and Jem learn that one must have respect for individuals.  Explain how they learned about respect for the individual from three of the following characters:  Boo Radley, Mrs. Dubose, Atticus, Mr. Raymond, Cal, Aunt Alexandra or Tom Robinson.  In a well-written essay tell what Scout and Jem learn from each of the three other characters whom you have chosen and how they learn it.  In conclusion, explain what they have learned tells us about the two children.  For a potential outline, click here.

3. Several times Atticus tells Jem and Scout that in order to understand a person you need to walk in his or her shoes or be in his or her skin.  Using Boo Radley, Mayella Ewell, and Tom Robinson as examples, explain why this is a valuable lesson for the children.  For a potential outline, click here.

For Tuesday (04.27) — Explore the pavilions at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai.  How many different zones are there?  What are the three periods of Cambodian history that Cambodia’s pavilion reflects?  Select another pavilion.  Tell me the name of the pavilion and something that you found interesting there.

TKM books to class.

For Wednesday (04.28) — Vocab. 3 quiz

• If you didn’t bring in a picture of  a worn pair of shoes (see below), do so tomorrow.
• 7M — Complete the front of the worksheet on shoes.
• Chapters 26-31 questions due on Monday (4.26) for TKM.  See below.
• Vocab. quiz 3 moved to Tuesday (4.27).

4.22 — Thursday –3C Vocab due.

– Search Google Images for a worn pair of shoes.  Your search term will be “worn shoes.”  When you have your images, look through them, and select one pair of shoes.  No feet or people can be in the picture. Print out your picture and bring it to class.

4.26 — Monday — Vocab Lesson 3 Quiz

— TKM,  chapters 26-31 questions due.

Chapter 26

• In her lesson on Hitler, Miss Gates says that “we (American people) don’t believe in persecuting anyone”. What seems odd to the reader about this claim?
• Why is Scout puzzled by Miss Gates’ disapproval of Hitler?
• Why does Scout’s question upset Jem? Is there a simple answer, or any answer, to the question (“How can you hate Hitler an’ then turn around an be ugly about folks right at home?”)

Chapter 27

• What three things does Bob Ewell do that alarm Aunt Alexandra?
• Why, according to Atticus, does Bob Ewell bear a grudge? Which people does Ewell see as his enemies, and why?
• What was the purpose of the Halloween pageant? What practical joke had persuaded the grown ups to have an organized event?

Chapter 28

• Comment on the way this chapter reminds the reader of earlier events in the novel.
• Why does Jem say that Boo Radley must not be at home? What is ironic about this? (Is it true? Does he really mean it? Why might it be important for him and Scout that Boo should not be at home?)
• Scout decides to keep her costume on while walking home. How does this affect her understanding of what happens on the way?
• Why had Atticus not brought a chair for the man in the corner? Who might this stranger be?

Chapter 29

• What causes the “shiny clean line” on the otherwise “dull wire” of Scout’s costume?
• What explanation does Atticus give for Bob Ewell’s attack?
• What does Heck Tate give as the reason for the attack?
• Do you think the sheriff’s explanation or Atticus’s is the more likely to be true?

Chapter 30

• Who does Atticus think caused Bob Ewell’s death?
• Why does Heck Tate insist that Bob Ewell’s death was self-inflicted? In what way is this partly true?
• Is Heck Tate right to spare Boo then publicity of an inquest? Give reasons for your answer.
• How does the writer handle the appearance, at the end of the story, of Boo Radley?

Chapter 31

• How do the events of the final chapters explain the first sentence in the whole novel?
• Comment on the way the writer summarizes earlier events to show their siginificance.
• How does Scout make sense of an earlier remark of Atticus’s as she stands on the Radley porch?
• How much of a surprise is it fo find what Boo Radley is really like? Has the story before this point prepared the reader for this discovery?
• At the end of the novel, Atticus reads to Scout. Comment on his choice of story. Does it have any connection with themes earlier in the novel and in its ending?

BE SURE TO BRING YOUR COUPON BOOKS OR MONEY BACK ASAP.

For Tuesday, April 20th.  Read TKM, chapters 22-25 and answer the questions below.

Chapter 22

• Although Atticus did not want his children in court, he defends Jem’s right to know what has happened. Explain, in your own words, Atticus’s reasons for this. (Look at the speech beginning, “This is their home, sister”.
• Miss Maudie tells Jem that “things are never as bad as they seem”. What reasons does she give for this view?
• Why does Dill say that he will be a clown when he grows up? Do you think he would keep this ambition for long?
• This story is set in the 1930s but was published in 1960. Have attitudes to racism remained the same (in the USA and the UK) or have there been any changes (for the better or worse) since then, in your view?
• Why does Bob Ewell feel so angry with Atticus? Do you think his threat is a real one, and how might he try to “get” Atticus?

Chapter 23

• What do you think of Atticus’s reaction to Bob Ewell’s challenge? Should he have ignored Bob, retaliated or done something else?
• What is “circumstantial evidence”? What has it got to do with Tom’s conviction?
• What does Atticus tell Scout about why the jury took so long to convict Tom?
• Why does Aunt Alexandra accept that the Cunninghams may be good but are not “our kind of folks”? Do you think that people should mix only with others of the same social class? Are class-divisions good or bad for societies?
• At the end of this chapter, Jem forms a new theory about why Boo Radley has never left his house in years. What is this? How likely is it to be true, in your opinion?

Chapter 24

• Do you think the missionary ladies are sincere in worrying about the “Mrunas” (a tribe in Africa)? Give reasons for your answer.
• Compare the reactions of Miss Maudie and the other ladies when Scout says she is wearing her “britches” under her dress.
• What is your opinion of the Maycomb ladies, as depicted in this chapter?
• Explain briefly how Tom was killed. What is Atticus’s explanation for Tom’s attempted escape. Do you think agree with Atticus?
• How, in this chapter, do we see Aunt Alexandra in a new light? How does Miss Maudie support her?

Chapter 25

• How does Maycomb react to the news of Tom’s death?
• Comment on the idea that Tom’s death was “typical”?
• Explain the contrast Scout draws between the court where Tom was tried and “the secret courts of men’s hearts”. In what way are hearts like courts?
• Why did Jem not want Scout to tell Atticus about Bob Ewell’s comment? Was this a wise thing to ask her to do?

1.  TKM, chapters 19-22 questions due.

2.  Vocab ex. 2A due on Thursday.

4.13.10 — Bring vocabulary books to class.

4.14.10 — 7M — TKM, Chapters 19-21 questions due.  See below.

1. Read through chapter 21 of TKM.
2. Answer the  questions.  Click here for the questions.

All –

Read through chapter 18 of TKM.

1.  Make the revisions on your stock market essay.

2.  In your journal, write about the following topic.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, the story line begins with Boo Radley.  Now, we’ve seen a switch from Boo to Tom Robinson.  Why do you think Harper Lee does this?  What affect does this have on the book?

If I don’t have a draft of your stock market essay, I need one by 7:30 tomorrow — that is if you haven’t already e-mailed one to me or put it in the folder for your class.  We will be in the LS Lab on Wednesday for class.

No homework.  Just bring TKM to class tomorrow.

All –

1.  On Wednesday, bring TKM and questions to class. We’ll be in the computer lab, and you can work on your reading when you’re done with your essay.

2.  Your stock market essay will be due at 3:00 on Wednesday.  Put it in your class’ Stock Market Essay folder on the subweb.

3.  Questions for chapters 15-17 due.

03.30 — Tuesday — 7:30 — Digital file of any work that you’ve done on your SMG essay should be e-mailed to me or brought in on your thumb drive.  You may put the file in one of the following formats — .doc, .docx, pages.  DO NOT PUT IT IN .pdf FORMAT OR IN THE BODY OF ANY E-MAIL.  Send it as an attachment.

04.01 — Thursday — Chapters 15-17 of TKM due.  Questions need to be turned in.

1.  Be sure to read TKM, through chapter 14.  Answer the questions for those chapters and actively read.  You will be quizzed on this when you return.  If you need a copy of the questions, click here.

2.  Your Stock Market essay draft will be due on Wednesday, March 31.  If you have time, you’d do well to work on it over vacation and to have your draft on Monday, March 29 when we return.  Click here for the prompt.

3.  Have a good vacation!

1.  Do your wiki vocabulary.

2.  Read TKM, chapter 4.  Answer the questions for it.

3.  In your journal, reflect on the following advice that Atticus gives Scout,  “‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.’”  What does Atticus mean when he tells Scout this?  Have you ever “climb[ed] into [someone else's] skin”?  How did this help you better understand that person?

4.  A draft of your stock market essay is due on Wednesday, March 31.  This will give you only  the following  weekend for revisions.  If you turn it in before vacation, the draft will be ready on Monday when we return, and you’ll have more time to make changes.  This is your choice how you want to use your time.

1. Open your Bull Run file that has Rev in the name.  If you don’t have that, then open the Draft paper.
2. Immediately save that file as <Your Name>_BRP_Final.
3. Begin making edits and changes.
4. Be sure that your paper is double-spaced.  Your name, the date (today’s), and your class need to be in the top right corner.
5. The whole paper (including the Works Consulted page) need to be in Times New Roman, 12 pt.
6. The final copy must be in the Bull Run paper file for your class by 3:00 on Thursday.
7. The final will be graded over vacation.

All –

1. Complete your oral history reading and journal.
2. Chap. 2 & 3 TKM due with questions.
3. Vocabulary due for 3/3 on the wiki.  It will not be up until later this weekend. Check back on Sunday.

All –

1.  Complete reading TKM, chapter 1.

2.  Answer questions to chapter 1.

All –

1.  Respond to wiki if you haven’t already done so.

2.  Once you’re in the wiki, go to the tab — Understanding Setting through Photographs.

3.  Select a 2nd photograph, print it out, and complete a second worksheet on that photograph.

4.  Also, do the journal entry for that photograph.

5.  Complete the sheet for the oral history and do the journal for “Aunt Amy’s Funeral.”

1. Check your e-mail and accept your invitation to the To Kill a Mockingbird wiki.

2. Notice the due date for your vocabulary words.

3. Do the journal entry for the photograph that we looked at in class.

4. In the wiki, follow the directions for finding another photograph to look at (under 1).

5. Printout your photograph as well as another Visual Literacy Guide. Bring all of that to class with you tomorrow (Tuesday).

All –

1.  To Kill a Mockingbird.  Bring book to class.

NB — You will have an extension of your mask paper until 3.05.  All will be due to me by 7:30 am on Friday.

For 3.01 — All — Masks and papers (unless not returned to you sooner) due.  MASKS WILL BE DUE REGARDLESS.

– 8E — Essay test on TFA in the lab.  Remember your outline on your thumb drive, your book, the essay or poem (if you need it), and a printed copy of your outline.  If you want to e-mail me your outline, do so by 7:30 am Monday.

For 3.08 — All — Good first draft of Stock Market essay due.  MAKE TWO COPIES.

Today, you are going to revise the draft of the Bull Run paper that you’ve been working on.

You need to do the following –

1.  Make the revisions that have been pointed out to you.

2.  Use Noodletools to create your Works Consulted page.  Add the books that you consulted to this page.

3.  Format your paper correctly — Times Roman, 12 pt., double-spaced, Name, Date, Class (top right corner).

4.  Save it to your class folder –  as   <Your Name>_BRPaper_Rev.

All–

In your journals, if you didn’t, please answer the following about “The Gold Cadillac” in a good, solid paragraph.

Do you think that it was a good idea to sell the Cadillac?  Why or why not?

1. Complete “The Gold Cadillac” by Mildred Taylor if you haven’t done so.
2. Bring vocab book to class.

Have a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird for Monday.

All –

1. Complete reading “Thank You, M’am” by Langston Hughes.  If you were absent and don’t have a copy of it, click here.
2. If you haven’t put your BR paper in the class’s folder, you need to by 3:00 today (Friday).
3. If you were absent, you need to take the following notes from class

Integrity — 1) the quality of being whole, unbroken

2) having sound moral principles

3) having the courage to do what is right, even if it is difficult

4) being honest, fair, and trustworthy.

3.  You also need to do the following journal entry –

Is it natural to have integrity, or more natural not to have integrity?  What might cause people to have integrity or to lose their integrity?

All —
1. Finish your journal entry if you haven’t done so.
2. We will be in the computer lab tomorrow, so go directly there. Bring your thumb drive with you.
3. All papers on the Civil War need to be in the folder for your class by 3:00 this afternoon.

All –

1.  BR poster in 2011 English folder for your class by 3:00 today (2.16).

2.  Draft of BR paper due in 2011 English folder for your class by 3:00 tomorrow (2.17).

3.  Vocabulary test on lessons 1 and 2 tomorrow (2.17).

Today, in class, you will begin your draft of your paper for your Bull Run poster.  You can click here to see what the expectations are.  You will need to open your poster, so you can see what you are writing about.

Remember that you can organize this several ways — from least important to most important or spatially (how the images are arranged on the poster).

When you have completed your draft, save it as follows — <Your Name>_BRP_Draft — to the 2011 folder for your class that is named Bull Run.

In light of no school tomorrow (2.10), you will have your vocabulary test on Tuesday when we return.  Your poster will be due at 3:00 on Tuesday afternoon.

All –

1. Vocab test on lessons 1 and 2 tomorrow.
2. Poster due in .pdf or .pages format in class folder by 3:00.
3. Bring a pleasure reading book to class.

All –

2.09 — Tuesday — Bring thumb drive to class.

– Work on your bibliography for your images as much as possible at home.  Click here for guidance on using NoodleTools.

2.09 — Wednesday — Poster due in your class’s English folder by 3:00.  You can put it in yourself, e-mail it to me, or bring it to me on a thumbdrive.   It can either be in .pdf or Pages format.  The file name must be –  <Your Name>_BR_Poster

– We are not spending more classtime on the posters, so you need to do this work yourself.

– Vocabulary test on lesson 1 and 2.

All –

Bring thumb drive to class.

Meet in the lab.

Looking ahead –

2.10 — Wed. — Poster due (both digital format .pdf or .pages) in the 2011 — Your Class English — Bull Run Poster

File name:  <Your Name>_BR_Poster

– Vocabulary Test on Lessons 1 and 2

See below (02.02).

All — If you need to rewrite your vocabulary paragraph (and you know who you are), it is due on Thursday.  Otherwise, your grade will stand as given.

7A–

2.3 –Wed.– No class.

2.4 — Thurs. — No class.

2.5 — Friday — Journal entry on Freedman and Lincoln due.

Bring thumb drive to class.  Meet in lab.

2.10 — Wednesday — Vocab test for lessons 1 and 2.

7M –

2.3 — Wed. — Bring thumb drive to class.  Meet in lab.

2.4 — Thurs. — Journal entry on Freedman and Lincoln due.

2.5 — Fri. — 10 images and web addresses due.

2.10 — Wed. — Vocab test for lessons 1 and 2.

All –

2.1 — Mon — Vocab Review due, p. 15

2.5 — Fri — Vocab test

7A –
2.2 — Tues — 10 images and web addresses

7M —
2.1 — Mon — Thumb drive to class

All –

1.29 — Friday

1. See below for Bull Run (Phase 1) journal entry.  This is due tomorrow (1.29).
2. Bring a thumb drive to class for Friday.
3. Cut and paste the linked document into a .txt, .doc, or .pages document.  You will need this for your web sources.  This is due on Friday too.

2.01 — Monday

1.  Vocab, pg. 15, Lessons 1 & 2 Review due

2.05 — Friday

1.  Vocab test on Lessons 1 & 2.

1.  For Friday, 1.29 bring the following journal entry to class with you.

Tell me what you’re going to do for your virtual poster and why you’ve chosen to do it.  List artifacts  that you can put on your poster to represent your topic.  Include at least 12 items on your list.  Jot down by each item why you’d like to include it on your poster.

2.  The following websites have good examples of artifacts that you can include on your poster.

1. CivilWar.com – If you choose search, you can look through thousands of photos in the photo gallery.
2. Library of Congress - put in keywords such as Civil War buildings and then pull up the images. It takes some digging to find things.
3. Photos from the National Archives – in addition to a list of photos, there are links to other sites.
4. The American Civil War Gallery – this is a good site for people and generic scenes.
5. Civil War Literature – links to Harper’s Weekly, the magazine that let people know what was going on during the war.  Includes illustrations and articles.
6. Smithsonian –  provides links to lots of resources about the Civil War.
7. Documenting the American South:  The Southern Homefront 1861-1865 –  primary documents on a variety of topics — medical care, life on the home front, religion — in the Confederacy.
8. Civil War@Smithosonian — artifacts of the Civil War.

2.  Whenever you take an image — whether it is a document, a poster, a song, etc. — you must record the web link.  If not, you will be stealing someone else’s work.

All –

1.28 — Meet in computer lab.

1.29 — All BR questions due.

Meet in computer lab.

2.1 — Vocab, p. 15 lessons 1 and 2 due.

2.3 — Vocab. test

1.27 — Wed. — Bring vocab book to class.

1.29 — Fri. — All BR questions due.

8E —

1.26 — Wed. — Bring vocab. book to class.

– Do prepositional phrase work here.  It’ll take some thinking, but you’ll feel pleased with yourself when you’re done.

1.28 — Fri. — TFA to class.  Read to page 167.

8C –

1.27 — Wed. — Vocab. book to class.

– LN to class.

1.29 — Fri. — TFA to class.  Read to page 167.

1.26 — Tues. — IO/DO Quiz

– BR research list due.

1.27 — Wed. — Vocab book to class.

1.29 — Fri. — All BR questions due.

See the 20th for assignments.  Be sure to bring Bull Run to class.

1.21 — Thursday — Lesson 2 vocab quiz.

Complete reading Bull Run.  Bring Bull Run to class.

1.22 — Friday — LN, p.616, #2.  Just label the IO and the DO in each sentence.  Write “none” if no IO/DO

1.26 — Tuesday — IO/DO quiz.

1.27 — Vocab Test — Lessons 1 and 2

All –

1.10 — Wed. — Bring LN to class.

Complete writing in journal about the following quotation.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the the broader concerns of all humanity.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1.21 — Thurs. — Vocab. quiz for lesson 2.

– End of BR due.

– Bring BR to class.

All –

1.19 — For Tuesday

1.  Complete story that begins with

After the seventy-foot tall wave crashed into me, I was pulled into its swirling vortex.

Use all of the vocabulary words that you had to look up for today. See below for the list.

2.  Type up the story.  Put in paragraphs where needed.  Use 12 pt. Times New Roman and put your name, date, and class in the top right corner.  Be sure to double-space your paper.  You’ll receive a grade for the formatting alone.

3.  Vocab 2A -2C due.

4.  Bring LN to class.

1.20 — Thursday

1.  Vocab quiz.

2.  Bring pleasure book or Bull Run to class.

1.21 — Friday

1.  Be ready to read your part for Bull Run to the end of the book.

And to see that 70-feet wave, click here.

All –

1.  Bull Run questions 1-32 due.

2.  Extra vocabulary words due (see below).

For Tuesday, 1.19 — A designated journal.

7A –

For Thursday, 1.14

1.  Complete the journal entry below.  In your journal, label it as Bull Run, Entry 1.

List what you know about your character so far (up to page 52). Use the following format to enter this in your journal –

I know these things about _________________ so far.

1.

2.

3.

etc.

2.  Bring Bull Run to class.

3.  LN, p. 97, 3A — Find the IO due.

For Friday, 1.15

1.  Look up the following vocabulary words –

subdue, submit, suburb, subterfuge, succumb, torment, extort, divert, invert, revert, extroversion, vertigo, vortex

2.  Questions 1-32 for Bull Run due.

For Tuesday, 1.19

1.  Vocab. pp. 12-14, ex. 2A-2C due.

All –

1.  Vocab quiz tomorrow (1.13).  Bring vocab book to class.

2.  Bull Run questions 1-32 due on Friday.

3.  For other ongoing assignments, see below.

All –

1.  Vocab due on Monday, 1.11.

2.  Bring LN to class on Monday, 1.11.

2.  Practice reading your portion of Bull Run through p. 52.  Answer the questions for your part and unassigned parts.  Due Tuesday, 1.12.

Unassigned parts —

7A — Judah Jenkins, A.B. Tilbury, General Irvin McDowell

7M — Virgil Peavey, Dr. William Rye, Dietrich Herz, General Irvin McDowell, A. B. Tilbury, Edmund Upwing

3.  Vocab quiz on Wednesday, 1.13.

All –

For Friday –

1. DO quiz.  For a review, click here.  On this quiz, more than one word can be the direct object in each sentence.

2.  Bring Bull Run to class.

For Monday –

Vocab due.  See below

For Wednesday –

Vocab quiz.

All

For Thursday –

1.  Journal entry on quotation due.  See below.

2.  Direct object worksheet due.

3.  Vocabulary due.  Click here for your respective classes — 7A and 7M.

For Friday –

1.  Direct object quiz.

2.  Bring Bull Run to class.

For Monday –

1.  Vocab, pp, 6-9, ex. 1A-1C.

For Wednesday –

1.  Vocab quiz on Lesson 1.

For Wednesday:

1.  Bring your vocab books to class.

For Thursday:

1.  Reflect on the following quotation by Benjamin Franklin.  Copy it in your notebook. Put it in your own words.  Write about how you can follow the advice in your own life.  Write for a solid 15 minutes about this.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

2.  Direct Object worksheet due.

For Friday:

1.  Bring Bull Run to class.

2. Direct object quiz.

IMPORTANT: When we return from Winter Break, we will be reading Bull Run by Paul Fleischman.  You will need to get it before we return.

To order it, go to

The Rose Canepari Online Bookstore

Amazon

You’ll want the paperback version with the following ISBN number(s) –

All –

1. GUM, pp. 160-161. A and B on both pages.
2. 1 1/2 hours of free reading logged.

Both classes –

1. Log in 30 minutes of free reading.
2. Bring you LN, journal, and “Rip Van Winkle” to class tomorrow (Friday).

All –

1.  Complete the “Rip Van Winkle” assignment below (from 12/08).

2.  LN, p. 193, P&A.  Do all sentences.

3. Test on clauses (dependent and independent) and sentences (simple, compound, complex) on Tuesday, 12/15.

All –

For Wednesday

1. Bring LN, notebook, journal to class.

For Thursday

1. Read “Rip Van Winkle.”
2. Highlight as you read.
3. On page 157, answer in complete sentences — 1) Comprehension, 1-5 and 2) Interpret 1-5.  For number 4 under Interpret, just jot down your answers.

All –

1. Complete your Thomas Jefferson quotation in your journal if haven’t already done so.
2. Read “Independence Hall.”
3. As you read, which speaker do you admire the most? Why do you admire him the most?

Both Classes –

1.  Be sure to have your pizza and lasagna paragraph on Monday.

7M –

1.  1 1/2 hours of free reading for the weekend.  Be sure to log it on your reading log.

7A–

1.  LN, p. 190, Practice and Apply, A and B.

7M

1. LN, p. 188, Correct the sentence fragments by writing the sentence.

2. Using your notes from today and the outline, write a paragraph comparing pizza and lasagna.

1. LN, Sentence Fragments, p. 188
2. Complete deposition.  Read actively.
3. On Grolier.com, search for Paul Revere.  When you get your choices, select the NBK article on him.  Print it out and read it.  As you read the encyclopedia article, consider the following — How does the article differ from the other  accounts?  How is it like them?  Look at facts, details, and mood.  Be ready to discuss these questions in class tomorrow.

All —

The following are due on Wednesday, 12/2.

1. Your Witch Child concluding paragraph is due on Wednesday, 12/2.
2. Read pp. 186-87 in Language Network.
3. If you didn’t finish it in class, complete a 7-8 sentence paragraph that answers the question, “What is a hero?”

Write an introductory paragraph for Witch Child. Be sure that it is on a separate sheet of paper.

7A and 7M –

1.  Complete your plant research paper.  See the directions below for completing your project.

2.  See the directions below for saving from the Plant Research Completion in Lab.

3.  Next, in  the 2011 — English 7A — Witch Child folder, open the WC_Essay_Outline document.

1.  Open a new Pages document.

2.  Cut and paste the outline into your new document.

3.  Save the document as <Your Name>_Witch_Child.  Note:  Do not put the <> in your file name.

4.  Using your notes and outline, write your thesis statement at the top.

5.  Write your two body paragraphs where they belong.

6.  Save the file to the English 7A — Witch Child folder.

Be sure to finish your revisions (from today) of your concrete details and explanations and elaborations for your Witch Child outline.

7A and 7M

Complete 4-10 on sentence variety sentences.  Be sure to do this on notebook paper to turn in.

Do the following –

1. Open your file found in the 2011 – English <Your Class> – Plant Research – Plant Research with Comments <Your Name>.
2. Make the corrections that I have pointed out.
3. Check your bibliography.  I’ll be counting the bibliographic information as a quiz grade.

Use noodlebib to create your bibliography.  At the bottom of the page, select “Noodlebib Express.”  Once you’re on noodlebib, use MLA format.

Make sure that –

1) It has the complete information for each source.

2) It is in alphabetical order by the first letter of the entry except for “a, an, the, etc.”

3) You  have a source for your .jpg / tracing.

4.  Create a new document that has the following name —

<Your name>_PR_Final

5.  Cut and paste your paragraph and bibliography into this document.

6.  Open the .jpg file with your name on it.

7.  Crop the .jpg to show just the plant.

8.  Insert the crop at the top of the document.

9.  Put your name, date (month spelled out), and class in the top left corner.

10.  Center the name of your plant under the .jpg.

11.  Select all and put the paper in 12 pt. Apple Chancery font.

12.  Save and close the document to the 2011 — English <Your Class>– Plant Research folder.

7A and 7M–

On a separate sheet of paper –

1. Revise or improve your concrete details for each of your body paragraphs.
2. Revise or improve the commentary for each concrete detail.

Complete your journal entry if you haven’t.

7A and 7M

• Use your outline for the Witch Child test to do the following.  Click here if you need the prompt and outline.

• Write the topic sentences for your body paragraphs.  Make sure that they refer back to the thesis.
• For each of your body paragraphs, write at least 3 concrete details or examples from the book that support your topic sentence.  Elaborate and explain each of these details.

You will need to write a bibliography for your herb report.  Use NoodleBib to write your bibliography.

Be prepared to type your quick paragraph about your herb.  Have all of your information and bibliographic information available.

Actively read to page 240 in Witch Child.

My apologies, this posting went to 8th grade last night (10/29) for some inexplicable cyber-reason.  However, it’s here now, so please do this work if you haven’t already done so.

• Continue reading Witch Child.  See the assignment that was given yesterday.
• Work on your herbal report.

1.  Complete looking for the information that you have not found on your plant.  Take notes from the

Internet as well as from any books that might be of help.

2.  Bring in an up to 11×9 color .jpg of your plant.  You will need the bibliographic information for this

too.

• The following websites might be useful to you –

Medicinal Herb Garden: University of Washington

This has good photographs for you to use.

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Provides information on whether or not a herb is scientifically proven to heal.

For those absent for today –

We began working on a herbal report based on the herbs and plants in Witch Child. The assignment and notetaking materials are available can be downloaded for you to work at home.  For the assignment, click here. For the notetaking materials, click here.  To be assigned a plant, e-mail me at medwards@scmds.org.

For tomorrow –

• Bring colored pencils if you have them.
• Bring a picture of your plant.

Looking ahead –

For Monday,

• have the reading done in WC to page 240.  Be sure to read actively.
• have all the information for your herbal report gathered.  DO NOT WRITE YOUR REPORT.

7A and 7M

1.   WC — actively read to p. 173.  Highlight examples of your group’s theme.
2. Post to the wiki examples of your group’s theme for the pages assigned to you.

7M  – Complete your re-reading of pp. 61-90 and looking for your theme in Witch Child.

   Lucy’s Group — Tension between free expression and conformity

   Zach’s Group — Tension between science and superstition.

As you read on to p. 148 for Monday, continue to highlight your theme in your book.

7M

1.  Complete reading Witch Child to page 90 for Thursday.

2.  By next Monday you need to have pp. 100-148.

3.  Continue to read for the theme that you were assigned either –

• free expression versus conformity or 
• science versus superstition.

7A

1.   Due Friday : Read  pp. 100-148 in Witch Child.  As you read, continue to actively read for examples of science versus superstition or of conformity versus freedom of expression.  Read for whichever of the two themes you were working on in class.

For Witch Child —

1. Read the story of Job.
2. Write about the following in your journal:

• Why does Celia Rees compare Rev. Cornwell to Job?

3.  Continue reading to p. 61 (20).

Witch Child 

Vocabulary 

1. In the wiki, put the definitions for the words on the pages up to page 9 on the vocabulary chart for your class.
2. Also, do the words on the wiki that are due on the 7th.
3. You will have more words due on the 14th.  These must be done by class on the 14th.

1. Reading — for tomorrow, skim read pp. 13-32.  
   1. As you read, pay attention to Mary.  What do you learn about her from your reading?

    2.  For Wednesday, October 14, read pp. 33-40.

1.  For Witch Child –

• Reread the Forward.  This Alison Ellman is, presumably, another historian.  Go along with the idea that this is a “real” journal.
• Now, as historians, read the book from this perspective.  Imagine that you are looking into a fascinating pieces of primary source data — a journal, apparently by a teenage girl.
• Reread ‘beginning’ (pp. 3-9).  Jot down notes on the following points.  Be ready to discuss with your group tomorrow, what you learn about the following –
•             i.  the customs and beliefs of the time;
•            ii.  what the narrator ‘Mary’ thinks of these customs.
• Look closely at Obadiah Wilson during the hanging.  (You will need to come back to this moment later in the novel.

1.  Answer the three questions on “Upon the Burning of our House” by Anne Bradstreet.

2.  Read for 1 1/2 hours total this weekend and record it on your reading log.  Bring your reading log to class.

3.  Bring Witch Child to class.

4.  We’re going to wait on our virtual Plimoth Plantation tour.  DON’T  DO IT.

Read for pleasure for 1/2 hour.  Be sure to record this in your log.

In LN, do ex. B on page 15.  Also read p. 356.

7A and 7M

1.  Vocabulary:  Write the definition of the familiar words, p. 5.  Create a sentence that uses the word correctly.

2.  Read for pleasure for 1/2 hour.

7A Only:

1.  In LN, p. 15, ex. 3, 1-10.

1.  Bring in a thumb drive on Monday.  You’ll be needing one the rest of the year.

2.  Do pleasure reading for 1 1/2 hours this weekend.

7A

1.  Read 1/2 hour in your pleasure reading book tonight.

2.  Bring your vocabulary book to class tomorrow.

3.  If you have decided to completely rewrite your autobiographical incident, work on a draft tonight and bring that to class tomorrow.

7M

1.  Read “The Drive-In Movies.”  As you read, keep in mind the elements of an autobiographical incident.  Highlight, as you read, when the incident, the people involved, and the setting are introduced.  Circle vivid verbs and underline descriptive phrases.  Finally, highlight the outcome and the importance of the incident as well as Soto’s feelings about the experience.

   If you were absent and don’t have a copy of “The Drive-In Movies,” e-mail me, and I’ll send you a copy.  medwards@smcds.org

2.  Read 1/2 hour of your pleasure reading tonight.

3.  Bring your vocabulary book to class tomorrow.

1.  Read the attached autobiographical incident, and complete the rubric for it.

2.  And the reading log file has been repaired, so you can download it here.

7th Grade –

1.  Read your pleasure book for 1/2 on hour. Print out the Reading Log and  record your reading.

 2.  Be prepared to evaluate your autobiographical incident in class tomorrow.

7A:  Complete your draft of your autobiographical incident.  Bring it to class on Monday.  Read 1.5 hours in your pleasure reading book.  Bring your log to class on Monday.

7B:   Read 1.5 hours in your pleasure reading book.  Bring your log to class on Monday.

Everyone — Have your story map completed for your autobiographical incident, and be ready to start writing.

7A:  1.  Do prewriting for your autobiographical incident (LN, p. 427).

        2.  Look over pp. 14-23 in LN.

7M:  1.  Do prewriting for your autobiographical incident.  Talk to your family and friends to find an incident that you can write about.

         2.  Make a list of 3-4 incidents to write about.

7M: In Language Network,

• read pp. 6-7.
• do p. 7, ex. 3, 1-10.

7A: 1.  Complete adding descriptions to the paragraph from Before we were Free.

       2.  Bring Language Network and vocabulary book to class.

7A :  1.  Complete your journal assignment.

7M:  No homework tonight.

7M and 7A

1.  Use Grolier Online to complete the democracy part of your worksheet.

• Link to Grolier above or use the link through The Rose Canepari Library.
• Once you’re in Grolier, search for “democracy.”
• Select one of the 1st two articles to help you complete your worksheet.

Complete your e-mail to me telling me about how you feel about English and about yourself.

-Draft outline of concluding paragraph.
-Draft Works Cited page.
-Finish Out of the Dust.

-Read until page 149 in Out of the Dust.
-Ouline for conclusion due Monday.

-Draft outline for 3rd body paragraph.
-Read next section in Out of the Dust (87-95).

-Draft outline for 2nd body paragraph. Remember your outline must begin with the focus/main idea of your paragraph.
Read pages 55-84 in Out of the Dust

-Draft an outline for your introductory praragraph and your first body paragraph. Organize your piles of cards for your introduction and your first body paragraph. These cards should be in the order you present the information in your paragraph.
-Read pages 37-51.

-Take notes from Source C (third source) on index cards. Bring all three sources and three stacks of index cards to class tomorrow.

-Find third source and label it Source C. Actively read it for Thursday.
-Put information from source on index cards for Friday. Make sure you label each card with the letter C and record page numbers for information if it was taken from a book.

-Take information from source B and put on index cards. One piece of information on each card. Label each card with the letter B. Due Wednesday.
-Find your third source. Label it Source C and actively read it. Due Thursday.
-Take information from source C and put on index cards. One piece of information on each card. Label each card with the letter C. Due Friday.

-Do index cards for Source A (one piece of information per card). Due Monday.
-Find 2nd source, label it Source B, and actively read it. Due Tuesday.

-Find 1st source, copy it, label it Source A, and actively read it. Bring in a stack of index cards (3 x 5).

-Select topic for research essay.
-Find 1st source, copy it, label it Source A, and actively read it by Friday. Please

-Finish reading TKAM.
-Select possible topics for research essay (historical allusion in TKAM).

-Finish actively reading TKAM. You should be finished reading this novel by Monday.

For Friday, actively read chapters 22, 23, 24, and 25 in TKAM.

-Actively read chapters 19, 20 and 21 in TKAM.

-Actively read chapters 15, 16, 17, and 18 in TKAM. Make sure you highlight important information about plot action, character development, theme, and historical allusions.

-Actively read chapters 8 and 9 in TKAM.

-Actively read chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7 in TKAM. Review your study guide questions when you finish the reading. Due Friday.

-Revise Stock Market Essay.

-Finish Book II in Miss Jane Pittman by Thursday. Actively read.
-Draft of Stock Market essay due by Wednesday at 2:45.
-Read pages 81-85 in hard cover grammar text. Do exercises 73A and B, 74A, 76A and B, and 77A in grammar workbook.
-Grammar quiz on Thursday (unit on pronouns).

-Actively read until p. 111 in Miss Jane Pittman.

-Write a detailed outline for your stock market essay.
-Read up to page 95 in Miss Jane Pittman.

-Actively read pages 67-79. Highlight important information you learn about Jane.

-Actively read the rest of Book I in Miss Jane Pittman. Continue to complete acitve reading handout.

-Actively read pages 26-43 in Miss Jane Pittman and complete handout.
-Read pages 70-71 in hard cover grammar text and do pages 64 A and B and 65A in workbook.

-Read chapters 3 and 4 (Heading North and The Massacre) in The Autobiography of Misss Jane Pittman.

-Make sure you have actively read handouts from class and completed your journal entry on your definition of freedom.
-Read for 1/2 in pleasure reading book and bring book and log to class.

-Read pages 65-66 in the hard cover grammar text. Complete pages 58 and 59A in grammar workbook.

-Voc. quiz on Unit 4 tomorrow. The quiz will also include the root definitions from Unit 3. Please bring pleasure reading log and book to class.

-Revise essay using the coherence handout. Work on coherence within body paragraphs and between paragraphs. Bring drafts plus revisions to class tomorrow (along with pleasure reading book and reading log).

-Revise essay based on peer editing workshop. Write your revisions on draft or attach extra paper. For example, if you need a new topic sentence for 2nd body paragraph, then draw a line through the old one and write a new one on a separate piece of paper. We will then make corrections in writing lab this week.

-Read for 1/2 hour in pleasure reading book. Update log and bring it and book to class tomorrow. Remember to bring draft of essay and source to class.

Revise outline for 3rd body paragraph and draft outline for conclusion.

-Draft outline for 3rd body paragraph. Please type.
-Read for 1 hour in pleasure reading book. Bring book and reading log to class.

-Find a source for your 3rd body paragraph (famous person/trait). Copy and label it #1. Actively read it by highlighting evidence that illustrates trait. Paraphrase information and record on index cards (3 x 5). Put #1 at the top of each index card. Refer to handout or call me if you have any questions.

-Revise outline of introductory paragraph and 1st body paragraph if necessary. See my comments on graded outline. Draft outline for 2nd body paragraph (person from your own life).

8W:
-Do vocabulary exercises 1 and 2 on pages 29 and 30 in voc. book.
-Read pages 152-153 and 155-156 in hard cover grammar text and do pages 127A, 128A, 130, and 131A in grammar workbook.

7M: Select topic for essay and draft outline of introductory paragraph.
7A: Revise outline for introduction and draft outline for 1st body paragraph (character from Dragon’s Gate)

7A: Select topic for essay (3 individuals and the heroic or admirable quality he or she exhibits) and draft outline for introduction.

-Read pages 277-311 in Dragon’s Gate.

-Read pages 246-276 in Dragon’s Gate,

-Read pages 218-246 in Dragon’s Gate.

-Read pages 142-166 in Dragon’s Gate.
-Bring pleasure reading book and reading log to class tomorrow.
-Find one interesting fact about the building of the transcontinental railroad.

-Read pages 58-59, 61, and 63 in hard cover grammar text. Do pages 49, 52, and 55 in grammar workbook.

-Read pages 107-141 in Dragon’s Gate.

-Voc. quiz on Unit 3.
-Read pages 67-106 in Dragon’s Gate.

-Study for grammar test on Friday.
-Read for 45 minutes in pleasure reading book. Update reading log.

All these exercises in your grammar book must be completed by this Thursday:
Kinds of Nouns: 31A, B, and C; 32A and B; 33A
Singular and Plural Nouns:34A and B; 35A, B, and C; 36A and C.
Compound Nouns: 40A and B; 41A and B; 42A.

All these exercises in your grammar book must be completed by this Thursday:
Kinds of Nouns: 31A, B, and C; 32A and B; 33A
Singular and Plural Nouns:34A and B; 35A, B, and C; 36A and C.
Compound Nouns: 40A and B; 41A and B; 42A.

-Do exercises in grammar workbook according to your group:
Kinds of Nouns: 31A, B, and C; 32A and B; 33A
Singular and Plural Nouns:34A and B; 35A, B, and C; 36A and C.
Compound Nouns: 40A and B; 41A and B; 42A.
-Be ready to present your lesson tomorrow.

1. Revise “Where I’m From” Poem
2. Complete 2 Sheets for Pigs
3. Vocabulary Quiz Thursday

-Read pages 115-135 in Stone Heart. Highlight any important information you learn about Sacajawea.

-Actively read Stone Heart until page 94. Highlight information you learn about Sacajawea.
-Use voc. book to check answers on worksheet.

-Actively read pages 14-48 in Stone Heart. Highlight any information that you learn about Sacajawea.

-Read pages 474-478 in hardcover grammar text.
-Start collecting materials to submit with your final draft on Thursday: prewriting (brainstorming, freewriting), outline, 1st draft, workshop sheet, revision checklist, 2nd draft with editing corrections, final draft, and postscript.

-Find 3 facts about the Red Scare (McCarthyism) in the 1950’s in the Unites States.

7A: Edit essay. 1) Read essay aloud and make editing changes. 2) Read essay silently from last sentence to the first sentence. Make editing changes on draft. Bring edited draft to class tomorrow and submit to me.

7A:
-Work on creating a specific revision checklist for your essay for Tuesday.
-Begin to make the revisions on your printed draft for Tuesday.
-Look up 3 interesting facts about Sacajawea on the internet for Wednesday.

7M:
-Look up 3 interesting facts about Sacajawea on the internet for Tuesday.
-Work on creating a specific revision checklist for your essay for Wednesday.
-Begin to make the revisions on your printed draft for Wednesday.

-Create a very specific revision checklist for your outsider essay. What do you need to do to revise your essay? What do you need to do to get an A on this essay? You must be specific. Listed below is a sample revision checklist:
1) Need a better title to grab reader’s attention.
2) Opening sentence in essay is boring. Delete and begin essay with 2nd sentence. Add dialogue at end of first body paragraph when I tell reader what my mom said to me. Show reader with actual quotes.
3) Describe the slamming of my door in the 2nd paragraph with more sensory details.
4) Add another paragraph between 2nd and 3rd parargraphs about thoughts going through my head as I thought about not being allowed to go to the party.

-Read up to page 183 in Witch Child. Highlight the most important piece of information in each diary entry.

-Read pages 93-117 in Witch Child. Highlight the most important piece of information in each of Mary’s diary entries.
-Bring your outline and first 2 body paragraphs for your Outsider Essay to class tomorrow,

-Complete handout for Alien Contact presentation.
-Read 13-40 in Witch Child. Bring a pocket dictionary to class tomorrow.
-Draft an outline for the rest of your Outsider Essay. Due Wednesday.

-Complete handout fpr Alien Contact Game entitled Aliens and Astronomy.

-Complete Alien Dictionary handout if you have not already done so.
-Complete short story handout (one page typed).

-Select topic for outsider essay (a specific time when you felt like an outsider).
-Brainstorm on this topic. List as many details as you recall about this memory!

-Study for grammar test on Chapter 1 (Parts of a Sentence).

-Study for grammar test on Chapter 4 (Verbs).

-Read pages 23-31 in hard cover grammar text. Do pages 23A, 25, 26A, and 28 in grammar workbook. Review Chapter 1 for grammar concepts you want to go over in class for test on Friday.
-Study for grammar test on Friday.
-Topic proposals for your Outsider Essay are due Monday.

-Select a time when you felt like an outsider and freewrite on this topic for 15 minutes in your journal. You must time yourself and you cannot stop writing for 15 minutes!!!!!

-Read pages 16-22 in your hard cover grammar text.
-Do pages 16, 19, and 22 in your grammar workbook.

-Read pages 10-15 in hard cover grammar text.
-Do pages 7, 10, and 13 in grammar workbook.
-Voc. test on Friday (Lesson 1)

-Read pages 6-9 in the hard cover grammar text. Do pages 1 and 4 in the grammar workbook.
-Voc. quiz scheduled for Friday.

-Finish vocabulary handout and grammar handout on subjects and verbs.

-Do vocabulary exercises (1A, 1B, and 1C) on pages 7-9 in your vocabulary book.
-Summer reading/assignments are due Monday. You must have finished your reading and your projects. Please bring The Outsiders and your projects to class on Monday.
-I will be checking your class supplies on Monday. You must have a writing utensil and a highlighter along with an English notebook, a journal, and a place to keep your handouts. You can use a binder for all 3 if you want. You can also use the same notebook for your class notes and journal, but you must have 2 separate sections: one for your notes and one for your journal.

-Update quote worksheet for Part One of TKAM (Complete for homework if you do not finish this in class today).