HW from 4/28/11

Due on 5/3/11:
* Reading for Reading Log: 30 minutes daily.
SIGNED READING LOG IS DUE ON TUESDAY.

* Memorize your poem(s) for recitation, if you have not already done so.

* Write in your journal at least once per day.  Use first person.  If you address an audience at all, it should be God.

* Write at least one stanza of your ballad.  Remember to incorporate the theme for your age group and to use the following (see handout for more explanation):

+ Ballads are narrative.  They tell a story.
+ Use either ABCB or ABAB rhyme scheme.
+ Use quatrain (four-line stanzas).
+ Lines 1 & 3 are  iambic tetrameter (four S-L rhythmic feet).
+ Lines 2 & 4 are iambic trimeter (three S-L rhythmic feet).

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Tu:Philip
For this Th: Sam
For next Tu: Rachel
For next Th: Maddy

HW from 4/26/11

Due on 4/28/11:
* Reading for Reading Log: 30 minutes daily. (Reading Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)
* Edit your copy of the story, taking into account the teacher and peer comments that were made.  Turn in a final perfected copy on Thursday.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Tu
For this Th: Ethan
For next Tu: Philip
For next Th: Sam

HW from 4/21/11

Due on 4/26/11:
* Reading for Reading Log: 30 minutes daily. (Reading Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)
* No other homework.  ENJOY YOUR EASTER BREAK!

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Tu: Rachel
For this Th: Ethan
For next Tu: Philip
For next Th: Sam

HW from 4/19/11

Due on 4/21/11
* Reading for Reading Log: 30 minutes daily. (Reading Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)

* Please print and bring your completed first draft of your story to class on Thursday if you didn't turn it in on Tuesday.  (I think this is only Josh and Sarah.)

* Work on memorizing your poems. You should be able to recite one or the other any time I call on you beginning Thursday.

*  Poetry quiz on Thursday.

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

HW from 4/14/11

Due on 4/19/11
* Reading for Reading Log: 30 minutes daily. (Reading Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)

* Work on you story at least 30-60 minutes per day. Complete first draft due Tuesday. Please print and bring to class.

* Work on memorizing your poems.

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Tu: Sam
For this Th: Josh
For next Tu: Rachel
For next Th: Ethan

HW from 4/12/11

Due on 4/14/11:

* Reading for Reading Log: 30 minutes daily. (Reading Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)

* Work on memorizing the poem "Little Lamb"

* Select your own poem to memorize and recite to the class.  It must be at least two stanzas long.  Bring  a copy to class.

* Work on your stories at least 30 minutes.  A completed first draft will be due next Tuesday.



------- OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Tu: (Oops!  We missed it so we'll bump everyone forward...)
For this Th: Sarah
For next Tu: Sam
For next Th: Josh, then Rachel the next Tuesday

HW from 4/7/11

Due on 4/12/11:
* Reading for Reading Log: 30 minutes daily. (Reading Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)

* Work on your stories as follows:

FRIDAY:
1) Spend 30 minutes thinking/planning/taking notes regarding the plot of your story.  What is going to happen?  What will be the main conflict/climax?  How do you plan to wrap it up?  Take notes, which you will turn in on Tuesday.
2) Write your story for 30 minutes.  Use the timer, and add 30 minutes' worth of steady writing to your story.  Email it to me in the correct format.  (12 pt. Arial font, double-spaced, with a header containing your name on the far right and a footer containing a page number at the bottom of the page in the center.)  Send it to me before the weekend, if possible, or as early in the weekend as possible.

MONDAY:
1) Write your story for 30 minutes again.  Use the timer, and add 30 minutes' worth of steady writing to your story.  Email it to me.
2) Write a description in whichever area you did NOT start your story with.  For example, if you started your story with a description of a setting, now write a description of one of your characters.  If you started your story with character, then now write a descriptive setting.  You do not have to work it into your story yet, although you will be doing so later.  This will be a separate sheet you will turn in tomorrow.

TO TURN IN on Tuesday:
1) The notes/planning page from Friday.
2) A copy of your story as it now stands.
3) The description of your setting/character from Monday.

------- OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Tu: Sarah
For this Th: Sam
For next Tu: Josh
For next Th: Rachel

HW from 4/5/11

Due on 4/7/11:
* Reading for Reading Log: 30 minutes daily. (Reading Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.)

* Continue in your story with 30 minutes of time (on the timer), both thinking/planning and also writing.  Correct the things that were marked and continue from where you left off.  Give some thought as to what you might want the main conflict and climax to be.  (It doesn't have to be a big, dramatic deal... just what is the main interesting thing that is going to happen?)

* Write a diamante poem, using the following format:

noun

2 adjectives

3 gerunds (-ing verbs)

2 nouns 2 nouns

3 gerunds

2 adjectives

noun (antonym)

Remember that the first three lines pertain to the first noun, while the last three pertain to the second noun (which is a sort of antonym of the first one).  The middle line contains 2 nouns pertaining to the noun you named in the first line of the poem and another 2 nouns pertaining to the noun you will name in the last line of the poem (the antonym).


Remember also to write it out in the characteristic "diamond" shape of a diamante poem.


Here is an example:

Bird

Beautiful, Red

Flying, Singing, Eating

Clouds, Sky, Paws, Fur

Running, Jumping, Pouncing

Sly, Cautious

Cat

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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For this Tu:
For this Th: Philip
For next Tu: Sarah
For next Th: Sam