HW from 9/29/09

Due on 10/1/09:

* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. The September Reading Log will need to be signed by the parent and turned in during class on Thursday. This is giving you an extra day of "mercy" for getting your signature this month, as I had posted earlier that it would be due on Tuesday (yesterday).

* Quiz Thursday on everything so far. (This includes information on enhancing description, using figurative language, and any other writing or grammar lessons we've had... see the website for more information.)

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For Tuesday:
For Thursday: Kyernan
For Tuesday: Katie B.

HW from 9/24/09

Due on 9/29/09:

* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. The current Reading Log will need to be signed by the parent and turned in during class on Tuesday, 9/29/09.

* Write two sentences (good ones, according to our definition): one containing simile and one containing metaphor. Also give a new example (which we haven't mentioned yet) of idiom in the English language.

* Copywork (poem "Velvet Shoes")

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For Tuesday: Mrs. Sitterding
For Thursday: TBD
For Tuesday: TBD

HW from 9/22/09

Due on 9/24/09:

* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. The current Reading Log will need to be signed by the parent and turned in during class on Tuesday, 9/29/09.

* We will have a quiz (on the things we've studied so far) on Thursday, 9/24.

* Look for and find one of the following (in print):
+ a description you like of a place, OR
+ an example of both a simile and a metaphor.


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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For Tuesday:
For Thursday: Mrs. Sitterding
For Tuesday: TBD

HW from 9/17/09

Due on 9/22/09:

* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. The current Reading Log will need to be signed by the parent and turned in during class on Tuesday, 9/29/09.

* Create your Spelling Errors page, and add all words from your writer's notebook to it.

* Write three different sentences like the ones we did in class using "The man walked," only begin this time with "The child cried." Use all five ways of enhancing description that we discussed in class.

* Do copywork #2.

* You are not required to bring your Writer's Inc book to class until further notice. It should be available to you at home for reference, but you do not need to bring it to class with you unless I tell you to.

* Don't forget to bring your writer's notebook back to class after you make the list of spelling errors.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For Tuesday: Mrs. Sitterding
For Thursday: Mrs. Sitterding
For Tuesday: TBD

HW from 9/15/09

Due on 9/17/09:

* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. The current Reading Log will need to be signed by the parent and turned in during class on Tuesday, 9/29/09.

* Come up with
- 1 boring common noun, and three better, more specific ones
- 1 boring common verb, and five better, more specific ones

HW from 9/10/09

Due on 9/15/09:

* If you have not already, return signed forms and/or fees that are due. (White parental/student form, signed by both parent and student; yellow student information form, completed by student.)

* Sign onto the student website each Wednesday and Friday, after 8:00 a.m., to verify your understanding of the homework. Send me an email from the link on the website if you have not already (Elana, Toluwani, Rey).

* Copywork: Copy, in your best penmanship, the passage from E. B. White's Charlotte's Web. Write down how long it took you to do so.

* Memorize the list of linking verbs that correspond to the five senses. Memorize them using these exact terms in this exact order: Look, smell, taste, sound, feel.

* Look up the difference between a homonym and a homophone. Be prepared to explain the difference to the class, and to identify whether hear/here are homonyms or homophones.

* Begin keeping the Reading Log. It will be graded beginning with the 9/10/09 date. You are expected to read 20 minutes per day, five days a week. See handout entitled "Explanation Regarding Required Reading Log," the HW post from 9/8/09, and/or link in the left sidebar of the student website for more information.

HW from 9/8/09

Due on 9/10/09:

* Together with your parents, select the book you will read for your Reading Log and bring it in for approval. (You will read this book for 20 minutes a day; it is to be "free reading" for no other class and should be high-quality literature at or slightly above your reading level.)

* Return your signature sheet, signed by you and your parents, and your fees. Contact me if paying the fees right now at the beginning of the year is a hardship, and we will work out a payment plan.

* Return your completed Student Information Sheet.

* After you have come to this class website, save the address on your computer (with your parents' permission) and then send me an email using the link below.