HW from 11/19/09

Due on 12/1/09:

* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. You are aiming for 20 minutes daily. Be sure to keep marking the list of books, and let me know when you need a new one. The current log for November will be due the day we get back!

* Go to the website and read the information on the "singular they" that appears there.

* Have a wonderful Thanksgiving full of worship and family and feasting.

* For extra credit, you may watch "It's a Wonderful Life" and write me about your favorite part. Indicate what message you think the writer of that film was trying to get across to his audience.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For Tuesday:
For Thursday:
For Tuesday:

HW for 11/17/09

Due on 11/19/09:

* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. You are aiming for 20 minutes daily. Be sure to keep marking the list of books, and let me know when you need a new one.

* Return your signed grade card.

* Transfer spelling errors from your writer's notebook and returned homework to your Spelling Error Log.

* Character paper due on Thursday. You will turn in both a rough first draft and a nicer second draft, which will be double-spaced, whether handwritten or typed.

Character Paper:
- approximately 200 words (no fewer than 150 and no more than 250)
- 12 point font (if typed). double-spaced (either way)
- use both description and dialogue to let us know about your character
- write your description in third-person point of view
- you may write in either past or present tense, but stay consistent with one or the other
- your character does not have to be a real person, but he or she must be human
(no elves, aliens, dogs, superheroes, etc.)
- due Thursday - both drafts

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For Tuesday:
For Thursday: Toluwani
For Tuesday:

HW from 11/10/09

Due on 11/12/09:

* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. You are aiming for 20 minutes daily. Be sure to keep marking the list of books, and let me know when you need a new one. The current Reading Log will be due, signed by the parent, on Tuesday, 12/1/09.

* Return your signed grade reports.

* Translate the passage I gave you from past tense to present tense. It is due on Thursday.

* Copy any words from your Writer's Notebook that need to go onto your Spelling Error List.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For Tuesday: Kyernan
For Thursday: Rey (or Toluwani if Rey is still sick)
For Tuesday: Elana

HW from 11/5/09

Due on 11/10/09:

* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. You are aiming for 20 minutes daily. Be sure to keep marking the list of books, and let me know when you need a new one.

* Complete the handout I gave you. Do the colored underlining on the handout itself (used colored pencils or highlighter to underline, rather than thick markers or crayons). Write out the copywork on your own paper. Do NOT do the underlining on your handwritten copy of the paper.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For Tuesday: Kyernan
For Thursday: Rey
For Tuesday:

HW from 11/3/09

Due on 11/5/09:

* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. You are aiming for 20 minutes daily. Be sure to keep marking the list of books, and let me know when you need a new one.

* Translate the rest of your handout from first person to third person point of view.

* Those of you who need to, don't forget to email me your paper!

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