HW from 12/2/10

Due on 12/7/10:
* Continue reading for Reading Log: 20 minutes per day. (Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)
* Write your 3-paragraph essay, in first person, about parental appreciation.  Type it up and email it to me.  (Use 12 point Arial font, double-spaced.)
* Review for cumulative quiz (using handouts we went over today) at any point between now and Christmas break.

* ------- OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Tu: Rachel
For this Th: Maddy

HW from 11/30/10

Due on 12/2/10:
* Continue reading for Reading Log: 20 minutes per day. (Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)
* Those who didn't finish the second draft (D#2) of the "helpful" essay should do so.  Either email it to me or bring it with you to class on Thursday.

* ------- OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Tu: Ethan
For this Th: Rachel

HW from 11/18/10

Due on 11/30/10:
* Reading for Reading Log: 20 minutes daily. (Reading Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)  You will need to bring your signed reading log on the Tuesday after break!
* Revise/correct your "helpful" essay using the paper I returned to you, then email it to me.  If you complete it on Friday, 11/19, you have no homework over the break week except to read!
* Enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday with your family!



------- OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Tu: Josh
For this Th: Ethan
For next Tu: TBD
For next Th: TBD

HW from 11/16/10

Due on 11/18/10:
* Continue reading for Reading Log: 20 minutes per day. (Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)
* Draft 1 of "helpful" essay due.  Type and email it to me by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday.

HW from 11/11/10

Due on 11/16/10: 
* Continue reading for Reading Log: 20 minutes per day. (Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)
* Do the handout translating the Bible verse from past tense to present tense, to be turned in on Tuesday.

HW from 11/9/10

Due on 11/11/10:
* Continue reading for Reading Log: 20 minutes per day. (Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)

* Bring your signed grade card and signed parent sheet back to me tomorrow.  You will keep the parent sheet for your parents; I just want to see that they saw it.

* Revise and correct your season essay.  Bring a typed copy to class or email it to me.  If you get an email back saying I printed it, you don't have to print another copy.  If you don't, please bring a copy to class.

* CW #8

HW from 11/4/10

Due on 11/9/10:
* Continue reading for Reading Log: 20 minutes per day. (Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)
* Organize your notebook in preparation for a new quarter.  Make sure all of your notes, papers, and work from Quarter 1 (including graded work which was returned to you) are organized and accessible.
* Do a final revision of your D2 for your descriptive setting and/or your character sketch, if you want a higher grade and if the offer was to you.  Email me these new revisions before the weekend for them to factor into your Quarter 1 grade.
* Write your essay.  You will need to turn in:
- your notes (handwritten points for each paragraph)
- a draft, D1
- a typed copy (email it to me by Monday afternoon at 3:00, and I will print it)

The essay is as was assigned in class.  If you need more details, send me an email.

HW from 11/2/10

Due on 11/4/10:
* Continue reading for Reading Log: 20 minutes per day. (Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)
* Copywork:
- Follow the directions at the bottom of the handout using colored pencils.  You will turn in both the completed handout and the copywork on Thursday.

HW from 10/28/10

Due on 11/2/10:
* Continue reading for Reading Log: 20 minutes per day. (The October Reading Log is due, signed by a parent.)
* Complete the bottom part of the handout (the part in the box) changing from first person to third person point of view.

HW from 10/26/10

Due on 10/28/10:
* Reading for Reading Log: 20 minutes daily. (I will give you a November Reading Log tomorrow, and you will turn in your signed October Reading Log next Tuesday, 11/2.)
* Please revise both your descriptive setting and your character sketch, according to the notes I made on your paper.  Once you have it fully typed and revised, email it to me.  If you receive an email back from me, saying I printed it, you needn't do so.  If you do not, please print and bring a copy of your revised copies to class tomorrow.

HW from 10/21/10

Due on 10/26/10:
* Continue reading for Reading Log: 20 minutes per day. (Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)
* Be ready for your Quarter 1 Test on Tuesday.  This will cover everything we've studied so far.

HW from 10/19/10

Due on 10/21/10:
* Continue reading for Reading Log: 20 minutes per day. (Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)

* CW #6

* I will email you a copy of your paragraph, correctly formatted for your paper.  (Standard 1-in. margins, double-spaced, 12-pt. font.)  Once you get it, write a complete (rough) draft of your character sketch.

[Remember to utilize all three ways we talked about for enhancing character: physical description, dialogue (either by or about the character), and action involving the character.  Again, do not write a story!  Just write a one page character sketch of the person you have chosen, using all three methods for enhancing character.]

* Email it to me once you're finished.

HW from 10/14/10

Due on 10/19/10:
* Continue reading for Reading Log: 20 minutes per day. (Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)
* Copywork #5.
* Decide who you want to do your character sketch on.  Write a good descriptive paragraph to describe his or her physical appearance.  It should be several sentences long, giving a thorough physical description of the person.  Make it interesting!

HW from 10/12/10

Due on 10/14/10:
* Continue reading for Reading Log: 20 minutes per day. (Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)
* Correct your dialogue.  Type it on the computer.  Punctuate it correctly.  Either email it to me or bring a printed copy to class.
* Make a list of 25 attributions ("said replacements").  You may use the first 18 we listed in class if you'd like.

HW from 10/7/10

Due on 10/12/10:
*Continue reading for Reading Log: 20 minutes per day. (Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)
* Make final revisions/corrections to your descriptive setting, and email it back to me in the format I emailed to you.
* Write a dialogue between two people.  Each person must speak at least four times, and there must be at least two instances of "interrupting prose" in the dialogue.  Please be sure to use good sentences and to punctuate the dialogue correctly.

HW from 10/5/10

Due on 10/7/10:
* Continue reading for Reading Log: 20 minutes per day. (Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)
* Do final revisions for descriptive setting.  Email it to me.
* Copywork #4.

HW from 9/30/10

Due on 10/5/10:
* Continue reading for Reading Log: 20 minutes per day. (Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)
* Choose the place you'd like to write your descriptive paper about.  Make a chart again (like you did for Tuesday's homework) with your five senses across the top.  Put three descriptive phrases about the place under each heading, focusing on describing the place using that sense. 
* After you've done this, write a good, descriptive introductory sentence for this setting.  Then write for fifteen minutes (use a timer), using the techniques we discussed for enhancing your descriptive writing.  DO NOT tell me a story!  You are just writing a description.  Look again at E. B. White's barn description for a model. 
* Email it to me, as an attachment, when you're finished.

HW from 9/28/10

Due on 9/30/10:
* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. You are aiming for 20 minutes daily. Your current Reading Log is due next class period!  Be sure it is signed daily by your parent!
* Quiz Thursday on methods for enhancing descriptive writing and using figurative language.
* Make a chart (like we did in class, using the example "school room") with your five senses across the top.  Choose a place you would like to write about, and put three descriptive phrases about that place under each heading, focusing on describing the place using that sense.  Then write one good, descriptive introductory sentence for this setting.

HW from 9/23/10

Due on 9/28/10:
* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. You are aiming for 20 minutes daily. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed daily by your parent, on the last class period of this month, 9/30/10.
* Complete the handout identifying examples of similes, metaphors, and personification.

HW from 9/21/10

Due on 9/23/10:
* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. You are aiming for 20 minutes daily. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed daily by your parent, on the last class period of this month, 9/30/10.
* Copywork #3.
* Make a list of any figurative language you can identify in the poem.  Tell what two items are being compared,a and which kind of figurative language is being used (simile or metaphor).

HW from 9/16/10

Due on 9/21/10:
* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. You are aiming for 20 minutes daily. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed daily by your parent, on the last class period of this month, 9/30/10.
* Copywork #2.
* Find one (or create three) examples of a plural, possessive, or contraction error.
* Recite the list of five senses (linking verbs) in one second or less.

HW from 9/14/10

Due on 9/16/10:

* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. You are aiming for 20 minutes daily.  Your current Reading Log will be due, signed daily by your parent, on the last class period of this month, 9/30/10.

* Do your copywork.  Remember to write down how long it took you.

* Memorize the list of linking verbs that represents your five senses, using these exact words in this exact order:
        LOOK
        SMELL
        TASTE
        SOUND
        FEEL

HW from 9/9/10

Due on 9/14/10:

* Return your signed paper, along with a check made out to Laurie Sitterding for the $20 library fee and $5 book rental (if applicable).

* Go to the class website and send me an email from within it, using the "Contact Mrs. Sitterding" link.

* Together with your parents, choose a book for your Reading Log reading. Mark your Reading Log for any reading you have done since last class. Remember that you are aiming for 20 minutes daily. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed daily by your parent, on the last class period of this month (Thursday, 9/30).

HW from 4/29

Due on 5/4/10:

* Have the part of your story you've written so far proofread by someone, then consider their suggestions and fix any errors they've pointed out.

* After it is revised, come back to your paper "fresh" at another time and read it from start to the end. Look for ANY mistakes in it as you read. Fix them.

* Continue in your story. Try to finish it. I would like a completed rough draft by next Thursday, 5/6.

HW from 4/22

Due on 4/27/10:

* Try to complete a rough draft of your story. Write as much as you can. Work diligently both Friday and Monday. Send me an email every page or two.

* 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. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the last class period of this month.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this T:
For next Tu:
For next Th:

HW from 4/20

Due on 4/22/10:

* Give thought to and plan a rough outline of your story plot. Write it out.

* Scan "Kitten at Play." (Write out the rhyme scheme as we did in class.)

* 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. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the last class period of this month.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Th: Sarah
For next T:
For next T:

HW from 4/15

Due on 4/20/10:

* Do all suggested corrections/revisions on your story. Email it to me as soon as you've completed that, then you may continue on from where you left off. Be prepared to turn in a printed copy on Tuesday.

* 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. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the last class period of this month.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this T:
For next Tu: Olivia
For next Th: Sarah

HW from 4/13

Due on 4/15/10:

* Try your hand at writing a limerick. Use the rhythmic pattern we talked about in class on Tuesday. "There once was a..." Don't get too worked up over this... just give it a shot. We will talk more about it on Thursday.

* 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. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the last class period of this month.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Th: Katie A.
For next Tu: Olivia
For next Th: Sarah

HW from 4/8

Due on 4/13/10:

* Begin your short story according to the instructions on the handout I gave you. Choose whether you want to begin with a focus on the setting or the characters. Decide which point of view you will use: first or third person, past or present tense? Write at the top of your paper a sentence or two which indicate which choices you made. For example: I chose to start with the setting, and I am writing in third person point of view, past tense.

* Beneath that, skip and line or two and begin your story by writing 2-3 paragraphs (shoot for around 1 page) focused either on setting or characters. Remember to include descriptive language to make it interesting.

* You do not have to type it by Tuesday, but try to if you can. I will send you a template to use. Either way, the paper you turn in must be double-spaced. Skip a line after each line of writing if you're writing it by hand. If you are typing it, type it all out, then tell the computer to double-space it for you. Let me know if you have trouble with that, and I'll help you over the phone or via email.

* 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. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the last class period of this month.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Tu: Elana
For this Th: Katie A.
For next Tu: Olivia
For next Th: Sarah

HW from 4/6

Due on 4/8/10:

* Write a cinquain poem. Be sure to follow the syllabication pattern for the five lines...
2, 4, 6, 8, 2.

Also, you must use the same four enhancements the author used in the sample poem: (1) adjectives, (2) a metaphor (or simile would be fine), (3) personification, and (4) blending from one line to another at least once.

Here is the sample cinquain from class, for your reference:

A lake
Beside an oak
A sad and silver face
That cries with yellow, yellow leaves
Autumn

* 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. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the last class period of the month.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Th: Elana
For next Tu: Katie A.
For next Th: Kyernan

HW from 3/25

Due on 4/6/10

* Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the first class period of next month. MARCH'S READING LOG IS DUE THE DAY WE GET BACK FROM SPRING BREAK!!

* No homework over Spring Break! Rest, relax, read, play, go outside, sleep... do all sorts of rejuvenating, restful things, then come back ready to work hard for the last quarter!

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this T:
For next T:
For next T:

HW from 3/23

Due on 3/25/10:

* Do revisions on your mystery, if you have not turned in a complete draft or if you have received your draft back, with suggested corrections. Turn in your full/best completed draft before break.

* Find a simple children's song that has a simple rhyme scheme, as in A A B B or A B A B. Bring it to class.

* 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. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the first class period of next month.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Th: Katie A.
For next T:
For next T:

HW from 3/18

Due on 3/23/10:

* 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. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the first class period of next month.

* Illustrate one of your Haiku poems on unlined paper with colored pencils. Include your Haiku on the illustration. Turn in this illustrated poem, and the sheet I returned to you today with your three Haiku poems on it, next Tuesday.

* Revise your mystery story if it was returned to you. Email a copy of your final draft to me, or bring a printed copy to class on Tuesday. Make it as perfect as you can!

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this T:
For next Tues: Katie A.
For next Thurs: Kyernan

HW from 3/16

Due on 3/18/10:

* 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. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the first class period of next month.

* Write two more Haiku poems like the ones we wrote in class today. Put all three on the same sheet of paper to be turned in Thursday.

* You will be illustrating one of your Haiku poems to be turned in next Tuesday. Be thinking and planning what you'd like to do for that. It will be in colored pencil on unlined paper. You may begin if you like.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Thurs: Katie B.
For next Tues: Katie A.
For next Thurs: TBD

HW from 3/11

Due on 3/16/10:

* 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. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the first class period of next month.

* You have no other homework to do for class on Tuesday! Congratulations on completing your mystery stories. Enjoy the break.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this T:
For next Tues: Elana
For next Thurs: Katie B.

HW from 3/9

Due on 3/11/10:

* HOORAY! We have a new computer set up, and so I'm back up and running with Internet possibilities. Check out the Student Writing Samples blog to see some of your work! (Link is on the left sidebar of this homework blog.)

* Your rough draft of your completed mystery story is due on Thursday. Please print and be prepared to turn in a complete draft if you have not already done so.

* 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. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the first class period of next month.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Th: Rey
For next Tu: Elana
For next Th: Katie B

HW from 2/16/10

Due on 2/18/10:

* 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. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed daily or weekly by your parent, on the last class period of the month.

* Turn in at least two more pages of your Mystery Story each class period from now until it is done. In other words, between each class periods, you will revise and correct what you can, and add at least two full pages to your story. (You are no longer counting by scenarios, but by pages.) Please email it to me when you're finished. Two more pages past your D5 line will be due on Thursday.

* Bring your D3 & D4 drafts back to me if you didn't turn them in today, and be sure to return your D5 draft (the one you took home with you today) when you come to class on Thursday.

* Return your signed report card if you have not done so yet.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Th: Toluwani
For next Tu: TBD

HW from 2/11/10

Due on 2/16/10:

* 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. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the last class period of the month.

* Please do all revisions for the D4 I returned to you in class Thursday, and email that to me as soon as possible on Friday.

* Each time you add a couple of scenarios (or a page or two of text), please email the paper to me as well. For homework, you need to do all revisions and add several scenarios to your story. Please complete as many as you can on Friday and email your paper to me before the weekend. I will email you back and you can continue with more of your story over the weekend or on Monday.

* I am excited to read what you come up with! Your stories are really getting exciting.

* Please feel free to email me with any questions you have about how your story is proceeding, how to format your paper on the computer, etc.

NOTE:
When you email me your newest, most complete draft of your paper, I will check the formatting and make sure the margins, line spacing, header (student name) and footer (automatic page numbering) are properly formatted.

It is becoming clear to me that some of you are double-spacing your paper by actually hitting return twice at the end of each line. This is not true double-spacing, and will make it difficult whenever you try to do revisions, since the changes you make in your lines of text will throw off the rest of the lines. Once your paper is formatted to double-space, it will do it automatically and you can just type and type without paying attention to the end of the lines.

I will be happy to help you with this formatting.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For next Tu: Rey
For next Th: Katie A.

HW from 2/9/10

Due on 2/11/10:

* 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. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the last class period of the month.

* Please choose either a setting or character so far presented in your story and write a good descriptive paragraph about that place or person. Use the sample paragraph by J.R.R. Tolkien that you had for copywork as a model. You should not try to advance the plot at all. Just break into your storyline - smoothly, of course - with a good, enhancing paragraph.

(1) Write our your paragraph to turn into me during class on Thursday.

(2) Type your paragraph into your newest, most complete draft of your story. Email it to me, and print out a copy to bring to class.

(3) Be sure to bring your manilla envelope of drafts of your story (Toluwani and Rey, you do not have one of these yet, as we made them while you were absent) and that you have all drafts of your story that have been graded by me so far. Bring them all to class Thursday.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Th: Toluwani
For next Tu: Rey
For next Th: Katie A.

HW from 2/4/10

Due on 2/9/10:

* 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. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the last class period of the month.

* You do not need to complete any more of your story. (Of course, this does not apply to Toluwani and Rey, who need to send me their revised drafts as soon as possible via email. You are getting behind!)

* Please complete copywork, using the following quotation from Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien, for class on Tuesday. I will also email it to you as an attachment.

And so they came suddenly to a sheer precipice, not very high, but dark and polished like jet. Looking over, Roverandom saw below a garden in twilight; and as he looked it changed to the soft glow of an afternoon sun, though he could not see where the soft light came from that lit all that sheltered place and never strayed beyond. Grey fountains were there, and long lawns; and children everywhere, dancing sleepily, walking dreamily, and talking to themselves. Some stirred as if just waking from deep sleep; some were already running, wide awake and laughing: they were digging, gathering flowers, building tents and houses, chasing butterflies, kicking balls, climbing trees; and all were singing.

"Where do they all come from?" asked Roverandom, bewildered and delighted.

"From their homes and beds, of course," said the Man.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Tu: Kyernan
For this Th: TBA
For next T: TBA

HW from 1/28/10

Due on 2/2/10:

* Signed Reading Log for January due. Bring it on Tuesday.

* Please work on your story in whatever way I indicated on your returned paper. This varies from student to student:

- Some of you have been asked to revise/correct your paper and send the revised part to me via email as soon as possible. I will email you back with further instructions after I have read your revisions. I don't want you to get behind, so please do this as soon as you can. Don't write another scenario until we have the ones you've already written in good shape, but do send me your revised ones as soon as possible!

- Some of you have been asked to revise/correct your paper, write one more scenario, and then email it to me for input. Please do this sooner rather than later, so that you won't get behind.

- Some of you have been told to continue on, writing a scenario or two. Please understand that you are always to revise/correct before continuing on, and please don't write more than one or two scenarios without sending it to me.

We are leaving this morning (Friday) for Vermont, and will be in the car all day today and Sunday. Tomorrow (Saturday) is the funeral, so I'm not sure how available I'll be this weekend. There is Internet access at the place where we're staying, however, so I will try to check in whenever I have a chance.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Tu: Sarah
For this Th: Kyernan

HW from 1/26/10

Due on 1/28/10:

* 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. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the last class period of the month.

* The last class period of the month would be this next class period, Thursday, 1/28/10. Be sure to get your reading log signed and bring it with you next class period.

* Be sure that your list of "unanswered questions" in the Mystery story is complete and ready to be turned in Thursday.

* Also bring all other parts of your story, if you have left any of them at home... this includes the list of things in his pocket, the list of characters and scenario changes, and all previous drafts you've written so far.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Th: Katie B.
For next Tu: Sarah
For next Th: Kyernan

HW from 1/21/10

Due on 1/26/10:

* 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. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the last class period of the month.

* Make the revisions to your paper (up to D2) on your typed copy:

--> If you need to make significant writing revisions (as indicated by my comments), please do make those revisions, then send the corrected paper back to me via email. Don't write any more until you hear back from me.

--> If you got a "good - keep going" message from me, make the grammatical revisions indicated, then write another scenario (or two, but no more than two) before sending it to me via email.

* Again, the work on the paper indicated above is due by sending it to me via email before Monday at 3:00 p.m.

* In class on Tuesday, you will turn in to me your written list of every "unanswered question" that has been raised in the first four pages of the Mystery Story. The examples we discussed include:

- What is David afraid is going to happen to him?
- What is in the letter to his mom?
- Why does he call the men “creatures”?
- What are the men/"creatures" up to?
- Etc.

Write down every one you can think of, to be turned in on Tuesday.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For Tu: Katie A.
For Th: TBA

HW from 1/19/10

Due on 1/21/10:

* 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. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the last class period of the month.

* As we talked about in class on Tuesday, please type the parts of your story you have already written (finishing Cathy's perspective and doing one more) into the MS Word document I emailed to you. This document is in 12 point font, double-spaced, with adjusted margins. I would like for you to type the part of the story you showed me in class yesterday into this document and email it back to me. Remember, we decided you would email it to me by noon, and then check back after 3:00 for a response from me.



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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For Th: Katie A.
For Tu: Katie B.

HW from 1/17/10

Due on 1/19/10:

* 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.

* Your current Reading Log will be due, signed by your parent, on the last class of the month.

* For Tuesday:
1) write out the list of perspective changes (character names) and settings for each scene change
2) write out the list of possibilities of what might be in David's pocket... at least 5-7; be specific
3) finish Cathy's scenario (either by ending it with a line right away or continuing it and then ending it with a line); decide which perspective you're going to switch to from there, and begin that one as well

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For Tu: Elana
For Th: Katie A.