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.