HW from Thursday, 11/3/16

Due on and before Tuesday, 11/8/16

1) I have emailed you a copy of a chart I'd like you to download and complete. Use it to type out a copy of your KEYS schedule for me, telling me where you are during each block on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This way, if I need to find you at some point during the day for some reason, I can. Once you've filled in the chart, save it and email it to me as an attachment at my regular email address by Monday at noon.

2) Get your notebook in perfect order. Make sure that all of your papers are filed correctly—in the proper section, in chronological order. (There should be no unfiled papers stuffing the side pockets of your binder!!) Also, refill your stash of blank notebook paper so you have plenty. Make sure everything is ready to go for the start of Quarter 2 next week. I will give you your first homework grade by looking at your beautifully organized notebook in class on Tuesday.

3) Slowly and carefully read over the handout I gave you entitled Working with Point of View (1st & 3rd Person – Verses). This will help you with the next assignment.

4) Complete the handout I emailed you entitled Practice with Point of View – Bible Verses. Follow the directions carefully. You will turn this in on Tuesday.

Also, daily:

+ Read your (approved) book for pleasure, aiming for at least 30 minutes daily. Mark the number of minutes on your Reading Log (in multiples of five, rounded down) as you go along. 

+ Write in your Gratitude Journal, aiming for three things but listing at least one thing you are thankful for daily. When you have done so, place a check mark in the top corner of your Reading Log calendar for that day.

The November Reading Log is due, signed by a parent, on Thursday, 12/1/16.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):

For Tu, 11/8: Zach (CWA); Katie (CWB)

For Th, 11/10: John (CWA); Josiah (CWB)

For Tu, 11/15: Chase (CWA); Leena (CWB)

For Th, 11/17: Zayden (CWA); Haddon (CWB)

Happy Thanksgiving! No KEYS on 11/22, 11/24

For Tu, 11/29: Caelie (CWA); Caleb (CWB)

For Th, 12/1: Victoria (CWA); Gabrielle (CWB)

For Tu, 12/6: Logan (CWA); Luke (CWB)

For Th, 12/8: Joshua (CWA); Michael (CWB)

For Tu, 12/13: John (CWA); Katie (CWB)

For Th, 12/15: Zach (CWA); Josiah (CWB)

Merry Christmas! No KEYS on 12/20, 12/22, 12/27, 12/29

For Tu, 1/3: Zayden (CWA); Nicholas (CWB)

For Th, 1/5: Chase (CWA); Leena (CWB)

HW from Tuesday, 11/1/16

Due on Thursday, 11/3/16

1) Print a copy of the beautiful, single-spaced final draft of your descriptive setting, which you emailed to me last weekend and which I posted on the Student Writing Samples blog. Staple it to the top of all your Descriptive Setting drafts; you will turn in the entire paper (all the drafts of your descriptive setting, stapled together) on Thursday. Get it ready and put it in your notebook now so you don't forget it!

2) Finish the handout we did in class—the one using the story Put Me in the Zoo and which began, "Below are some sentences adapted from the text..."—by translating the bottom section (below the dotted line) from first-person to third-person point of view. Follow the directions on the handout carefully, and call the assignment Translate POV when you prepare it hot dog-bun style to turn it in.)

[NOTE: I have emailed you a copy of the handout so that, if you choose, you may cut and paste the paragraph into your own Word document and easily make the changes right there. If you choose this option, please give your paper a proper heading (in a header) and make your paper double-spaced, for ease of grading. You will then just print it out and turn it in on Thursday. Do not email it to me.]

3) If you are in CWA, I neglected to get your October Reading Log from you, and I didn't give you a November Reading Log. Be prepared to turn in your signed October Reading Log on Thursday, and keep track of today's and Wednesday's reading (and the gratitude journal checks) on your own paper until you can get a new Reading Log on Thursday.

4) Study for a final Quarter 1 quiz on everything we've studied so far. Use the study guide I gave you today (entitled Creative Writing – First Quarter Review) to make sure you're prepared. We will take the quiz in class on Thursday; be sure you know it backwards and forwards and are prepared to work quickly!

Also, daily:

+ Read your (approved) book for pleasure, aiming for at least 30 minutes daily. Mark the number of minutes on your Reading Log (in multiples of five, rounded down) as you go along. 

+ Write in your Gratitude Journal, aiming for three things but listing at least one thing you are thankful for daily. When you have done so, place a check mark in the top corner of your Reading Log calendar for that day.

The November Reading Log is due, signed by a parent, on Thursday, 12/1/16.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):

For Tu, 11/1: Joshua (CWA); Nicholas (CWB)

For Th, 11/3: Logan (CWA); Daniel (CWB)

For Tu, 11/8: Zach (CWA); Katie (CWB)

For Th, 11/10: John (CWA); Josiah (CWB)

For Tu, 11/15: Chase (CWA); Leena (CWB)

For Th, 11/17: Zayden (CWA); Haddon (CWB)

Happy Thanksgiving! No KEYS on 11/22, 11/24

For Tu, 11/29: Caelie (CWA); Caleb (CWB)

For Th, 12/1: Victoria (CWA); Gabrielle (CWB)

For Tu, 12/6: Logan (CWA); Luke (CWB)

For Th, 12/8: Joshua (CWA); Michael (CWB)

For Tu, 12/13: John (CWA); Daniel (CWB)

For Th, 12/15: Zach (CWA); Katie (CWB)

Merry Christmas! No KEYS on 12/20, 12/22, 12/27, 12/29

For Tu, 1/3: Zayden (CWA); Nicholas (CWB)

For Th, 1/5: Chase (CWA); Josiah (CWB)

HW from Thursday, 10/27/16

Due before Tuesday, 11/1/16

1) Make all final corrections to your descriptive setting. Save a new version,  which is single-spaced and labeled "Descriptive Setting – Final Draft." 

(Notice that en dash there! It serves as a graphic separator and has spaces around it.)

2) Give your paper a creative title and center it on the line between your header and start of your paper. The top of your paper will look something like this—with this student having chosen "Whispering Pines" as her creative title for the final published copy.

(Notice that em dash there! It serves as an interrupter within the sentence, and does not have any spaces around it.)

___________________________________________________________

Mary Jones, CWA

11/1/16

Descriptive Setting, Final Draft

Whispering Pines

     The fragrant boughs reached out their mangled fingers and brushed...

___________________________________________________________

3) Email that single-spaced final draft to my regular email before Saturday afternoon,10/29, at 3 p.m. (If there are extenuating family circumstances that would prevent you from keeping this deadline, please contact me ASAP to let me know. I need the time to get the posts up so that you will be able to read all of them and do your additional work on Monday.)

(Notice that hyphen there! The word single-spaced needs a hyphen, which is smaller than both an en dash and an em dash, and which has no spaces around it within the word.)

4) Visit the Student Writing Samples blog and read your classmates' descriptive settings. (I will be posting them just as soon as I receive them, but it may take awhile for all of them to appear there. If they're not all there, check back often, especially after Saturday's 3 p.m. deadline.) As you read each one, write down the title, and give at least one example of figurative language found in it. Write down the example of personification, simile, or metaphor, then label it as such. You will make a list, with each entry having three lines, like this: 

______________________________________________________________________

Your Name, CWA (or B)

11/1/16

Homework – Figurative Language in Classmates' Descriptive Settings

1. "Whispering Pines" by M.J.

"The fragrant boughs reached out their mangled fingers..." 

Personification

2. 

___________________________________________________________

Continue your list, numbering each in the order that the paragraphs are posted on the blog. There will be 18 of them. 

Also, daily:

+ Read your (approved) book for pleasure, aiming for at least 30 minutes daily. Mark the number of minutes on your Reading Log (in multiples of five, rounded down) as you go along. 

+ Write in your Gratitude Journal, aiming for three things but listing at least one thing you are thankful for daily. When you have done so, place a check mark in the top corner of your Reading Log calendar for that day.

The October Reading Log is due, signed by a parent, THIS Tuesday, November 1.
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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):

For Tu, 11/1: Joshua (CWA); Nicholas (CWB)

For Th, 11/3: Logan (CWA); Daniel (CWB)

For Tu, 11/8: Zach (CWA); Katie (CWB)

For Th, 11/10: John (CWA); Josiah (CWB)

For Tu, 11/15: Chase (CWA); Leena (CWB)

For Th, 11/17: Zayden (CWA); Haddon (CWB)

Happy Thanksgiving! No KEYS on 11/22, 11/24

For Tu, 11/29: Caelie (CWA); Caleb (CWB)

For Th, 12/1: Victoria (CWA); Gabrielle (CWB)

For Tu, 12/6: Logan (CWA); Luke (CWB)

For Th, 12/8: Joshua (CWA); Michael (CWB)

For Tu, 12/13: John (CWA); Daniel (CWB)

For Th, 12/15: Zach (CWA); Katie (CWB)

Merry Christmas! No KEYS on 12/20, 12/22, 12/27, 12/29

For Tu, 1/3: Zayden (CWA); Nicholas (CWB)

For Th, 1/5: Chase (CWA); Josiah (CWB)

HW from Thursday, 10/27/16

Due on and before Tuesday, 11/1/16

1) Make all final corrections to your descriptive setting. Save a new version,  which is single-spaced and labeled "Descriptive Setting – Final Draft." 

(Notice that en dash there! It serves as a graphic separator and has spaces around it.)

2) Give your paper a creative title and center it on the line between your header and start of your paper. The top of your paper will look something like this—with this student having chosen "Whispering Pines" as her creative title for the final published copy.

(Notice that em dash there! It serves as an interrupter within the sentence, and does not have any spaces around it.)

___________________________________________________________

Mary Jones, CWA

11/1/16

Descriptive Setting, Final Draft

Whispering Pines

     The fragrant boughs reached out their mangled fingers and brushed...

___________________________________________________________

3) Email that single-spaced final draft to my regular email before Saturday afternoon,10/29, at 3 p.m. (If there are extenuating family circumstances that would prevent you from keeping this deadline, please contact me ASAP to let me know. I need the time to get the posts up so that you will be able to read all of them and do your additional work on Monday.)

(Notice that hyphen there! The word single-spaced needs a hyphen, which is smaller than both an en dash and an em dash, and which has no spaces around it within the word.)

4) Visit the Student Writing Samples blog and read your classmates' descriptive settings. (I will be posting them just as soon as I receive them, but it may take awhile for all of them to appear there. If they're not all there, check back often, especially after Saturday's 3 p.m. deadline.) As you read each one, write down the title, and give at least one example of figurative language found in it. Write down the example of personification, simile, or metaphor, then label it as such. You will make a list, with each entry having three lines, like this: 

______________________________________________________________________

Your Name, CWA (or B)

11/1/16

Homework – Figurative Language in Classmates' Descriptive Settings

1. "Whispering Pines" by M.J.

"The fragrant boughs reached out their mangled fingers..." 

Personification

2. 

___________________________________________________________

Continue your list, numbering each in the order that the paragraphs are posted on the blog. There will be 18 of them. 

Also, daily:

+ Read your (approved) book for pleasure, aiming for at least 30 minutes daily. Mark the number of minutes on your Reading Log (in multiples of five, rounded down) as you go along. 

+ Write in your Gratitude Journal, aiming for three things but listing at least one thing you are thankful for daily. When you have done so, place a check mark in the top corner of your Reading Log calendar for that day.

The October Reading Log is due, signed by a parent, THIS Tuesday, November 1.
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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):

For Tu, 11/1: Joshua (CWA); Nicholas (CWB)

For Th, 11/3: Logan (CWA); Daniel (CWB)

For Tu, 11/8: Zach (CWA); Katie (CWB)

For Th, 11/10: John (CWA); Josiah (CWB)

For Tu, 11/15: Chase (CWA); Leena (CWB)

For Th, 11/17: Zayden (CWA); Haddon (CWB)

Happy Thanksgiving! No KEYS on 11/22, 11/24

For Tu, 11/29: Caelie (CWA); Caleb (CWB)

For Th, 12/1: Victoria (CWA); Gabrielle (CWB)

For Tu, 12/6: Logan (CWA); Luke (CWB)

For Th, 12/8: Joshua (CWA); Michael (CWB)

For Tu, 12/13: John (CWA); Daniel (CWB)

For Th, 12/15: Zach (CWA); Katie (CWB)

Merry Christmas! No KEYS on 12/20, 12/22, 12/27, 12/29

For Tu, 1/3: Zayden (CWA); Nicholas (CWB)

For Th, 1/5: Chase (CWA); Josiah (CWB)

HW from Thursday, 10/27/16

Due on Tuesday, 11/1/16

1) Make all final corrections to your descriptive setting. Save a new version,  which is single-spaced and labeled "Descriptive Setting – Final Draft." 

(Notice that en dash there! It serves as a graphic separator and has spaces around it.)

2) Give your paper a creative title and center it on the line between your header and start of your paper. The top of your paper will look something like this—with this student having chosen "Whispering Pines" as her creative title for the final published copy.

(Notice that em dash there! It serves as an interrupter within the sentence, and does not have any spaces around it.)

___________________________________________________________

Mary Jones, CWA

11/1/16

Descriptive Setting, Final Draft

Whispering Pines

     The fragrant boughs reached out their mangled fingers and brushed...

___________________________________________________________

3) Email that single-spaced final draft to my regular email before Saturday afternoon,10/29, at 3 p.m. (If there are extenuating family circumstances that would prevent you from keeping this deadline, please contact me ASAP to let me know. I need the time to get the posts up so that you will be able to read all of them and do your additional work on Monday.)

(Notice that hyphen there! The word single-spaced needs a hyphen, which is smaller than both an en dash and an em dash, and which has no spaces around it within the word.)

4) Visit the Student Writing Samples blog and read your classmates' descriptive settings. (I will be posting them just as soon as I receive them, but it may take awhile for all of them to appear there. If they're not all there, check back often, especially after Saturday's 3 p.m. deadline.) As you read each one, write down the title, and give at least one example of figurative language found in it. Write down the example of personification, simile, or metaphor, then label it as such. You will make a list, with each entry having three lines, like this: 

______________________________________________________________________

Your Name, CWA (or B)

11/1/16

Homework – Figurative Language in Classmates' Descriptive Settings

1. "Whispering Pines" by M.J.

"The fragrant boughs reached out their mangled fingers..." 

Personification

2. 

___________________________________________________________

Continue your list, numbering each in the order that the paragraphs are posted on the blog. There will be 18 of them. 

Also, daily:

+ Read your (approved) book for pleasure, aiming for at least 30 minutes daily. Mark the number of minutes on your Reading Log (in multiples of five, rounded down) as you go along. 

+ Write in your Gratitude Journal, aiming for three things but listing at least one thing you are thankful for daily. When you have done so, place a check mark in the top corner of your Reading Log calendar for that day.

The October Reading Log is due, signed by a parent, THIS Tuesday, November 1.
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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):

For Tu, 11/1: Joshua (CWA); Nicholas (CWB)

For Th, 11/3: Logan (CWA); Daniel (CWB)

For Tu, 11/8: Zach (CWA); Katie (CWB)

For Th, 11/10: John (CWA); Josiah (CWB)

For Tu, 11/15: Chase (CWA); Leena (CWB)

For Th, 11/17: Zayden (CWA); Haddon (CWB)

Happy Thanksgiving! No KEYS on 11/22, 11/24

For Tu, 11/29: Caelie (CWA); Caleb (CWB)

For Th, 12/1: Victoria (CWA); Gabrielle (CWB)

For Tu, 12/6: Logan (CWA); Luke (CWB)

For Th, 12/8: Joshua (CWA); Michael (CWB)

For Tu, 12/13: John (CWA); Daniel (CWB)

For Th, 12/15: Zach (CWA); Katie (CWB)

Merry Christmas! No KEYS on 12/20, 12/22, 12/27, 12/29

For Tu, 1/3: Zayden (CWA); Nicholas (CWB)

For Th, 1/5: Chase (CWA); Josiah (CWB)

HW from Tuesday, 10/25/16 (I was absent and you had a substitute.)

Due on Thursday, 10/27/16

1) Complete Copywork #7.  

NOTE: The handout has been emailed to you. Please print it, follow the instructions on the handout, then complete the copywork as usual.

Also, daily:

+ Read your (approved) book for pleasure, aiming for at least 30 minutes daily. Mark the number of minutes on your Reading Log (in multiples of five, rounded down) as you go along. 

+ Write in your Gratitude Journal, aiming for three things but listing at least one thing you are thankful for daily. When you have done so, place a check mark in the top corner of your Reading Log calendar for that day.

The October Reading Log is due, signed by a parent, on Tuesday, November 1.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):

For Tu, 10/25: Victoria (CWA); Leena (CWB)
For Th, 10/27: Caelie (CWA);  Gabrielle (CWB)

For Tu, 11/1: Joshua (CWA); Nicholas (CWB)

For Th, 11/3: Logan (CWA); Daniel (CWB)

For Tu, 11/8: Zach (CWA); Katie (CWB)

For Th, 11/10: John (CWA); Josiah (CWB)

For Tu, 11/15: Chase (CWA); Leena (CWB)

For Th, 11/17: Zayden (CWA); Haddon (CWB)

Happy Thanksgiving! No KEYS on 11/22, 11/24

For Tu, 11/29: Caelie (CWA); Caleb (CWB)

For Th, 12/1: Victoria (CWA); Gabrielle (CWB)

For Tu, 12/6: Logan (CWA); Luke (CWB)

For Th, 12/8: Joshua (CWA); Michael (CWB)

For Tu, 12/13: John (CWA); Daniel (CWB)

For Th, 12/15: Zach (CWA); Katie (CWB)

Merry Christmas! No KEYS on 12/20, 12/22, 12/27, 12/29

For Tu, 1/3: Zayden (CWA); Nicholas (CWB)

For Th, 1/5: Chase (CWA); Josiah (CWB)

HW from Thursday, 10/20/16

Due on Tuesday, 10/25/16

Please read this post entirely before writing your paper! 

(I would suggest printing a copy of this post. There's a lot of information here!)

Content Requirements:
* Your character sketch is a description of a real person you know. Do not tell a story! You are writing a description, using all the ways you've learned to enhance description in your writing. 

(These seven ways to enhance description should be becoming second nature to you by now: think of your five senses... add adjectives and adverbs... use more descriptive nouns and exciting verbs... add phrases... use figurative language...)

* Your character sketch must have at least two examples of figurative language. In your first typed draft, underline and highlight your examples of figurative language, and identify whether they are simile, metaphor, and/or personification.

* Your character sketch must also have at least one correctly punctuated line of dialogue (or monologue) in it. Be creative with how you work this in. Underline and highlight the line of dialogue in your first typed draft as well.

Procedure:

1) Complete your character sketch. Your initial draft may be typed or handwritten—it is up to you. Either way, be sure it is double-spaced so that you will have room to make corrections as you proofread.

NOTE: Your character sketch should contain at least 250 words, but no more than 300 words.

2) YOU proofread your paper, circling any errors you find. Go back and make any corrections or changes, then type your paper according to the guidelines for typed compositions that appear on the right sidebar of this blog. Save this first draft after you've proofread it.

3) Hand a clean, printed, double-spaced copy of the paper you fixed and typed to a parent or other adult. Have them mark their suggestions for improvement directly on your typed draft, then have them sign the paper to indicate they proofread it. Save this proofread draft as well.

4) Make the corrections suggested by your proofreader if you agree with their assessment. If not, explain why you didn't use the suggestions by writing an explanation directly on the typed, proofread draft.

5) Print your beautiful, corrected draft. Staple it on top of the other two, with the very first draft on the bottom. You will turn this stack of papers in on Tuesday.

6) Also email your paper to me as an attachment to my regular email address (not MarkUp). 

Formatting Requirements: 

* Make sure the header is correctly formatted to automatically repeat on each page of your document. You should only need to type it once, if it is a true header. 

The header format is as follows:

Laurie Sitterding (Use your name!)

10/25/16 (This is the due date.)

Character Sketch, D1 (This is the assignment title.)

Word Count: 263 (Use your actual word count!)

* DO NOT count your words! Word (and any other word processing program) will keep track of the number for you. [If you look in the bottom left corner of your Word document, it will tell you how many words your document is. If you are using a different word processing program, search your help files for how to find this information.]

* Make sure the footer is correctly formatted to automatically number the pages, and place a page number on the bottom center of each page past the first one. (Your first page won't have a page number.)  

* All other formatting requirements are listed in the right sidebar of this blog, including margins, font size, etc. See Guidelines for Typed Compositions.

If you have any questions about how to do any of these things and your family members have not been able to help you, call or text me. I am happy to help.

Also, daily:

+ Read your (approved) book for pleasure, aiming for at least 30 minutes daily. Mark the number of minutes on your Reading Log (in multiples of five, rounded down) as you go along. 

+ Write in your Gratitude Journal, aiming for three things but listing at least one thing you are thankful for daily. When you have done so, place a check mark in the top corner of your Reading Log calendar for that day.

The October Reading Log is due, signed by a parent, on Tuesday, November 1.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):

For Th, 10/27: Caelie (CWA);  Gabrielle (CWB)
For Tu, 10/25: Victoria (CWA); Leena (CWB)
For Th, 11/3: TBD (CWA); Daniel (CWB)

For Tu, 11/1: TBD (CWA); TBD (CWB)

For Tu, 11/8: TBD (CWA); Nicholas (CWB)